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I’m sorry about the ignorant comment that led to you posting it, but what a great graph. 💙 I’ve lived through a lot of those advancements (dxd as a child in 1983.) I hope US science can recover after the current terrible time and we keep making rapid progress. Wishing all the best to your daughter.

Fundamental confusion between Type I and Type II going on here, it’s the latter that’s (to some extent) related to lifestyle (and has been increasing parallel with increasing obesity). Type I absolutely requires insulin and Type I diabetics will die without it.

I know. I'm in the same boat as you are.

Not the head of food services? Not teaching home-ec? My type-1, 73 yr old husband learned to cook defensively, but his first doctor told him he’d be lucky to make it to age 40. New insulin formulations and cgms have completely changed the landscape for t-1 patients.

No, it's much worse than that. I just saw the interview and the précis of the report he's defending. He knows perfectly well. He is just happy to throw away his medical credibility to lend support to RFK's "wellness" program. Which, by the way, smells a lot like eugenics to me.

and I remember a post that described the diabetic ward where they were starving the pts and when they got insulin it saved their lives

Makary’s an embarrassment. He’s RFK Jr with an MD

I'm not diabetic but due to a different genetic abnormality in my DNA I was on Kidney Dialysis for the past 8 years. I hope that being on dialysis is not a current thing for your family.

There's no cure for Kennedy's malice. He fuck off to the moon.

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My mother had a brother and sister diagnosed in the late 1930s. One died at 12, the other at 14. When my nephew was diagnosed in the late '90s, Mom fully expected he would die within the year. He's 33 now. It's a recessive gene, and type 1 diabetics can have kids now.

As a T1D in Australia, I was so incredibly angry at this thought bubble from HHS. Ridiculous. Ill-informed. Dangerous.

So, yay for insulin! 💉

I am the daughter and sister of Type 1 diabetics and I share your rage at this ignorant nonsense.

What? You mean medicine and science work? Surely you are part of a woke global conspiracy.

People are already dying under the Trump Regime, but the deaths aren't being reported in the media. Sorry. Cause of death 'Political Stupidity & Governmental Corruption'. Bankruptcies will also go through the roof. Families on the poverty line will dramatically increase.

They already are, from hitherto eradicated diseases like measles to a massive surge in aeroplane disasters.

In droves

That’s the idea.

I know this bc it was a Heritage Minute when I was a kid, and I took extra note since 2/3 grandmas had a form of diabetes www.youtube.com/watch?v=amCe...

You’re right! And some of us do know! 😊

ah but Acapella Science does the story musical justice m.youtube.com/watch?v=He7X...

This is the problem with calling type 2 simply "diabetes". A lot of people don't know the difference. As the mom of a t1d kid, I really wish they were called something different

(also someone tell the authors the two largest crops by acre in the US and the effect of those crops on our dietary health, I'll be over here)

Gee, I wonder if there might be other reasons why the US spends more on healthcare than other wealthy countries. Could it possibly be related to the fact that insurance companies need to turn a profit in the US, and not in any comparable country?

So Grok will figure out how to save us from diseases.

Yes, we'll make the children ruined by "industrialization" "healthy" by taking away their "sick care" so they can work in a factory &/or die in a war, as is their duty as citizens! But the farmers who vote for us will be rich because of tariffs that we will bail them out of! But it's great no vaxx!

Oh, I have no doubt this next decade will bring a revolution in American standards of living.

The American healthcare system thrives when disease is prevented, not just managed. Like RFK's solution for managing Measles, with drugs and therapeutics, rather than preventing it with a vaccine. Rank hypocrisy.

That's what will put the "super" in superhuman AGI!

Putting farmers at the center of how we think about heath??? By defunding them and rotting food… how about we get the crap out of the food.

Wow. Great point. 💔💔💔

This is like how vaccines cause masturbation.

They tried ketotic diets. I think they added a few years of life. For some it got them to insulin after it was discovered …

Downright "final"....

Exactly. MAHA doesn’t want to cure chronic disease; they want to eradicate chronically ill people. It’s eugenics.

The Conchords had it right, in the year 2000, the distant future "There is no more unethical treatment of the elephants," "Well there's no more elephants"

My great aunt died of type 1 diabetes as a young woman.

I don't think that's correct. www.health.harvard.edu/blog/people-...

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and they wonder why American standards of health are poor compared to other countries.🙄

That was just unreal. But if this is what it takes, then do it. I will say though, taking money away from school lunches and then changing the requirements is going to fail.

We need to put American farmers first, 30% of them plant corn, which is primarily used for high fructose corn syrup, which... oh nevermind.

Cost is not what is actually spent. Our insurance and payments system artificially inflates the numbers and not having universal healthcare inflates the number of deaths. They are looking in totally the wrong place!

China has done it. This is huge but because it was China it is being ignored. UW Clinical Trials Institute | Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first

Yep. My great aunt died of type-1 in her early teens.

Steel Magnolias came out in 1989 and a huge plot point was that it was dangerous for Julia Roberts’ character to be pregnant because she was diabetic. Like… we’ve come a long fucking way and it’s maddening that we’re going backwards.

(as opposed to urine testing before then) and pumps didn't really emerge as useful for most patients until around the turn of this century.

And not only did Banting assign the patent for insulin to the public realm, he also later discovered that the Hudson's Bay Company was inadvertently spreading influenza amongst First Nations communities via one of its transport boats (they threatened to sue him of course; he won in the end).

if i eat salads will i live forever?

Your welcome. 🇨🇦

Just a mess that is just one more data point for why we need universal health care. Not some bozo telling us that if we're sick, it's because it's our fault.

This advice would have left my nephew with irreversible tissue damage and condemned him to premature death. I am more qualified to be FDA commissioner (as a lay person who respects established science) than Marty Fucking Makary.

And discovery of newer drugs and monitoring.

we currently have people who can't afford insulin. and probably can't buy food or can't buy better food, anyway. its eugenics.

Type 2 may need insulin, not cooking classes.

That’s not hard to believe at all lol. I still think they should’ve indicated it was sarcasm, I just think it’s generally more productive to at least give people a chance to see how/where communication may have broken down when there’s a plausible explanation before I assume they’re just awful. And

That hardly makes it okay.

That would be bad enough, but you don't usually take insulin for Type 2. My guess is this idiot doesn't know the difference, which means we're living in the worst-case scenario: well-informed psychopaths employing well-meaning morons.

Do you really think the idiots who want to treat diabetics with cooking classes instead of insulin actually understand the difference between types of diabetes? Or would care if they did?

People really love pretending that type 2 diabetes is some kind of moral failing when one of the better predictors for it is a poor sleep. Oh and I guess all the people who have developed type 2 as part of post Covid also just deserve this for some reason 🙄

What in the actual fuck?