Some fascinating news coming out of the medical community about a potential cure for type 2 diabetes, involving gastric bypass surgery.Researchers have discovered the procedure cures the disease in obese patients who also suffer from diabetes. The success rate is between 80 and 90%.
Astonishingly, most patients are cured of diabetes long before they lose any weight. In fact, a third of the patients are cured of diabetes when they leave the hospital (only 3 days after surgery), and the remainder are cured of diabetes within a week of two.
Dr. Francesco Rubino of Cornell Medical College performed the procedure on diabetic mice, and he discovered that the diabetes remission seems to be linked to the removal of the duodenum.
The hitch of all this is you have to be really fat to qualify for the surgery. Having diabetes alone does not qualify you, even though the surgery has an 80-90% success rate at curing diabetes.
I think that's crazy. They should start immediate tests to see how this procedure works at curing diabetes in patients who are not obese.
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