News article on research to reverse type 1

I went in to that thinking "Daily Mail, must be nonsense" but wow that looks quite hopeful.

Would it only be for quite recently diagnosed though?

Well if it is a commoly used hypertension treatment, the why can't GP's just change patients prescriptions now? I mght ask mine soon. Always thought that if the Beta cells were destroyed then they wouldn't recover. I think it is more likely to work for newly diagnosed patients due to the 'honeymoon' effect.

I might go and try and get some for my migrains! Surely if it were that easy to cure we would know?

It sounds like a chance discovery, so we probably wouldn't have known earlier. Also "big pharma" would need to curtail any research to prevent their diabetes profits being reduced. There are other examples of commonly used drugs that have beneficial effects for different diseases, perhaps the most notorious being Thalidomide, that is now used to treat skin lesions and multiple myeloma.

Speaking as a T2, I am confused as to why this is seen as a T1 drug.

Unless the TXNIP raised levels are found only in T1s, of course.

http://www.livescience.com/39157-diabetes-protein-txnip-possible-treatment.html appears to say that it is common between T1 and T2.

So, granted that it could have a much bigger impact on T1s it still seems relevant to all diabetics.
Wouldn't it be nice to find that there was a drug (with no major side effects) which could reverse all diabetes?