A Whirlwind Tour: TEDxDelMar on a Type 1 Diabetes Cure, Part 2
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What a fantastic summary of hope for the cure of Type 1 diabetes. Any of these choices are a huge step towards freedom from diabetes. My thinking is that when a few of these studies converge, the cure will truly be upon us.
Karmel,
This article is amazing. I am so grateful for you for summarizing the work of these researchers so eloquently and comprehensibly. I am also deeply moved by the idea that there are people out there who are working so hard to try to find a way to improve the lives of people with diabetes. It’s wonderful to know that even on days when I’m frustrated and can’t imagine that this disease will ever be cured, there are people working on ways to do just that.
Thank you so much for this.
C
Thank You for your support of TEDxDelMar 2011. We will be rebroadcasting the entire day’s events in a few days as well as have all 17 individual talks uploaded onto our website and YouTube channel shortly. Stay tuned and visit us at TEDxDelMar.com for regular updates. Thank you again for all of the support!
Liz Eddy and Mike Eddy, TEDxDelMar organizers
Great summary. Thank you Karmel!
It appears that Beta cells are regenerated from alpha cells but are immediately killed by the immune system in Type 1 diabetics. There is a procedure called Ultrvilet Blood Irradiation (UBI). It has been used successfully for 75 years to treat viral conditions and auto-immiune diseases such as lupus. It has no known serious side-effects. It went out of fashion in the US in the 1950s when that crook, Morris Fishbein at JAMA and the AMA, drove it underground to protect the antibiotic industry. Thousands of Integrative doctors use it in Europe and a few hundred in the USA. See DrsUBI.com
UBI energises the immune system with UV-C light to kill any virus or bacterium and moderates it to stop auto-immune with UV-A.
Moreover, when islet cells are trasplanted, could it be that they don’t do the job? Rather the immuno-suppressive drugs, given to prevent rejection, stop the immune system from killing the beta cells as they are regenerated from alpha cells.
What’s my interest in this? My son acquired type 1 diabetes at age 35 so i’m motivated and I’m one of the few people who also understand UBI.