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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BigRedSwitch" data-source="post: 780425" data-attributes="member: 86237">Good on you Mike - really. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />But medicines treat illnesses, and we don't have an illness. We have a condition. Whilst it sounds pedantic, it's incredibly important to know the difference. They will eventually cure every disease. Because that involves treating something that *shouldn't be on your body*, and hence can be 'taken away'. They'll eventually cure cancer - as its a malfunction of cells (latest research, ironically, is based on essentially what they consider to be the root cause of diabetes - autoimmune response - which will be 'reprogrammed' to attack cancer cells). But diabetes is *something missing*. The only cells (on a cellular level) which are programmed to regrow are liver cells. But you have to have some of them to begin with! We don't have any islets, and they don't regrow. The only way to get them back is to reintroduce them - transplant them - so until they can grow islets which don't get killed by your immune system as a foreign body ('rejection'), the only option is to grow them for individuals, which is a MASSIVE and prohibitively expensive undertaking. In fact - I'm pretty sure they could do it already, if it was cost effective. In other words it ain't happening. That makes me sad, but the medical facts speak for themselves. I just choose to be a realist, I guess. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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