<story><title>New pill can deliver insulin</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2019/pill-deliver-insulin-orally-0207</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpatru</author><text>I just watched a lecture on diabetes by Dr John McDougall last night. He described type 2 diabetes as the body&amp;#x27;s natural way to limit weight gain. He points out that morbidly obese people are often not diabetic: lack of insulin resistance is what enabled them to keep growing. Viewed this way, diabetes is a sign that a person has reached maximum weight. Giving a person additional insulin at this point is like trying to override the body&amp;#x27;s defense mechanism and forcing it to gain even more weight.&lt;p&gt;McDougall has lots of other interesting insights in the lecture and discusses how he treats diabetics. He goes into some detail  about how he decides how to adjust medications and why he recommends his diet.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m posting this here because it may be of use to people who may not have heard this information from their own doctors.&lt;p&gt;The lecture is found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;UgE2IdL6tMw?t=1103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;UgE2IdL6tMw?t=1103&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The link starts the video at the point where McDougall starts discussing type 2 diabetes specifically. Before this he talks about insulin and type 1 diabetes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geoelectric</author><text>&lt;i&gt;and why he recommends his diet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;...which is the key. McDougall&amp;#x27;s claim to fame is fad diets and prepackaged food for the same since the 80s, and anything where his bottom line is involved is suspect. He&amp;#x27;s the vegan equivalent of Robert Atkins, basically.&lt;p&gt;McDougall is not who I look to for nutritional (or really any) advice. I&amp;#x27;m sure he&amp;#x27;s right sometimes, but his credibility is so compromised by his business that I&amp;#x27;d need to hear it from someone else first with their data proving it before I&amp;#x27;d ever believe it. If he told me the sky is blue, I&amp;#x27;d get a second opinion.</text></comment>
<story><title>New pill can deliver insulin</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2019/pill-deliver-insulin-orally-0207</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dpatru</author><text>I just watched a lecture on diabetes by Dr John McDougall last night. He described type 2 diabetes as the body&amp;#x27;s natural way to limit weight gain. He points out that morbidly obese people are often not diabetic: lack of insulin resistance is what enabled them to keep growing. Viewed this way, diabetes is a sign that a person has reached maximum weight. Giving a person additional insulin at this point is like trying to override the body&amp;#x27;s defense mechanism and forcing it to gain even more weight.&lt;p&gt;McDougall has lots of other interesting insights in the lecture and discusses how he treats diabetics. He goes into some detail  about how he decides how to adjust medications and why he recommends his diet.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m posting this here because it may be of use to people who may not have heard this information from their own doctors.&lt;p&gt;The lecture is found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;UgE2IdL6tMw?t=1103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;UgE2IdL6tMw?t=1103&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The link starts the video at the point where McDougall starts discussing type 2 diabetes specifically. Before this he talks about insulin and type 1 diabetes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dotuser</author><text>I think there&amp;#x27;s a lot of confusion&amp;#x2F;ignorance with Type 1 and Type 2 and most people just lump them both under the same diabetes umbrella. Diet and exercise will never be enough for Type 1&amp;#x27;s since the disease is an autoimmune disorder where the pancreas is attacked to the point where it makes little or no insulin (thus the need for external insulin). Type 2, as I understand it, is a progressive disease where the cell&amp;#x27;s insulin receptors become nonreceptive. I think, in some cases, though, Type 2&amp;#x27;s can become Type 1&amp;#x27;s due to their pancreas being overworked to the point where they need insulin. And on the flip side, Type 1&amp;#x27;s can become Type 2&amp;#x27;s as a result of eating poorly and overusing insulin. But I wish each disease had it&amp;#x27;s own name to avoid confusion over how each one should be treated.</text></comment>