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<blockquote data-quote="TypeZero." data-source="post: 2302642" data-attributes="member: 525950"><p>Currently two methods of curing/ending Type 1 Diabetes:</p><p>-Encapsulated beta cell implants</p><p>-Immunotherapy</p><p></p><p>1st option does cure diabetes for mice but doesn’t work for humans. The material used to protect the cells from immune attack has seen to also prevent adequate oxygen from reaching the cells thus causing cell death. Please don’t ask for sources I read this months ago.</p><p></p><p>2nd option is just so complicated because they don’t even understand why T1D happens in the first place so can’t identify the thing they need to target. </p><p></p><p>Traditional pancreas transplants are only a temporary cure, you will just have another honeymoon period before your immune system destroys that pancreas too, that’s why they make you take immunosuppressants but these increase your risk of cancer greatly and have lots of nasty side effects and guess what the pancreas is killed off in the end anyways on average 10-12 years of use before it goes away.</p><p></p><p>I have an alternative idea. The fact that we have a honeymoon period and it takes several months to destroy your beta cells can be used to an advantage. It also shows that you have some mechanism to inhibit the destruction of your beta cells. A biotech company could mass produce beta cells in the lab and offer injectables, type 1 diabetics could go to the doctor once a month and get new beta cells which isn’t a total cure but better than 12 injections a day, who knows maybe being continuously exposed to beta cells our immune system may start to tolerate it and that could be a cure itself?</p><p></p><p>I have so many ideas— I work for a pharmaceutical company and I study biology— a toxic drug can be attached to a protein with a similar shape to our antibodies e.g. GAD, this would circulate in the blood attach to anti-GAD antibodies and destroy them</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TypeZero., post: 2302642, member: 525950"] Currently two methods of curing/ending Type 1 Diabetes: -Encapsulated beta cell implants -Immunotherapy 1st option does cure diabetes for mice but doesn’t work for humans. The material used to protect the cells from immune attack has seen to also prevent adequate oxygen from reaching the cells thus causing cell death. Please don’t ask for sources I read this months ago. 2nd option is just so complicated because they don’t even understand why T1D happens in the first place so can’t identify the thing they need to target. Traditional pancreas transplants are only a temporary cure, you will just have another honeymoon period before your immune system destroys that pancreas too, that’s why they make you take immunosuppressants but these increase your risk of cancer greatly and have lots of nasty side effects and guess what the pancreas is killed off in the end anyways on average 10-12 years of use before it goes away. I have an alternative idea. The fact that we have a honeymoon period and it takes several months to destroy your beta cells can be used to an advantage. It also shows that you have some mechanism to inhibit the destruction of your beta cells. A biotech company could mass produce beta cells in the lab and offer injectables, type 1 diabetics could go to the doctor once a month and get new beta cells which isn’t a total cure but better than 12 injections a day, who knows maybe being continuously exposed to beta cells our immune system may start to tolerate it and that could be a cure itself? I have so many ideas— I work for a pharmaceutical company and I study biology— a toxic drug can be attached to a protein with a similar shape to our antibodies e.g. GAD, this would circulate in the blood attach to anti-GAD antibodies and destroy them [/QUOTE]
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