Reversing diabetes is not an impossible feat as long as you have the real motivation for it, and how much effort you are willing to put in. The article is all about reversing the degenerative illness that should otherwise have been avoided. Diabetes is so common and familiar that we all know someone who has it – be it a family member or a friend or a colleague. It is one of the disease where the medical governing authority seems no to have any interest in curing it. Diabetes has caused more than 45% of deaths around the globe as this disease is one that effectively restraints population growth in first world countries. At the dawn of the 20th century, diabetes was even considered a medical curiosity given its rare nature and impossibility to cure.

To date, there is nothing yet discovered that will cure diabetes though current treatments exist to alleviate the damaging effects and help patients try to live their lives a bit more comfortably. There are cases where treatments do not do well, while there are others that rely on insulin dependence. There are also other forms of treatment with somehow alleviating the symptoms and damages on the kidney, liver, vision, and on the nervous system, apart from insulin dependence.

There are those diabetic patients who cannot produce their own insulin where insulin injection is very necessary for survival. Type 1diabetes denotes that the body destroys whatever insulin is produced, and a lot of people die prematurely if not provided an insulin injection in hours.

There are tiny cells that carry insulin which are called islets, and there are on going studies on verifying if donor islets may finally cure this long-dreaded disease that has perplexed medical minds for the longest time. There are studies in New Zealand that has evaluated only 2 patients. The test did not conclude a real cure to end diabetes, though the limitation of this study was that, transplanted islets were lesser than what was required – therefore presenting the possibility that islet transplantation might actually serve a cure.

Though in September 2006, studies that were published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested a more detailed research on islet transplantation. The test was conducted in such a way that islets came from deceased human donors, and that these tests were conducted in a lot of locations all over the world on 36 people. The result, more than 40% lived independently of insulin, while 28% had a little number of functioning islets, but were able to reduce their insulin dependence. Five people were able to live successfully independent of insulin two years after the study was conducted. This may not be a milestone, but it can be concluded that islet transplantation can significantly reduce a patient’s dependence on insulin. The research, however, has not been administered to patients with Type 2 diabetes.

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