{"id":3006,"date":"2005-03-10T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T16:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/cure-for-type-1\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T16:34:20","slug":"cure-for-type-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/cure-for-type-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cure? for Type 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This won&#8217;t help Type 2&#8217;s, but it might help Type 1&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The question that need to be answered though is <\/p>\n<p>a) does it solve the problem that started diabetes in the first place?  Since we don&#8217;t know why Type 1 diabetics develop it in the first place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>b)  Are anti-rejection drugs better than taking insulin?  Since I&#8217;m fairly stable on insulin, I&#8217;d pass, but then I&#8217;m not a Type 1 either.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting development though.  Other countries are also on this path.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a title=\"Health News - Islet Cell Transplants 'Cure' British Diabetic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcentral.com\/news\/NewsFullText.cfm?id=1505899\">Health News &#8211; Islet Cell Transplants &#8216;Cure&#8217; British Diabetic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first fully successful islet cell transplantation in the United Kingdom has &#8220;cured&#8221; a 61-year-old man who has had type 1 diabetes for about 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This won&#8217;t help Type 2&#8217;s, but it might help Type 1&#8217;s. The question that need to be answered though is a) does it solve the problem that started diabetes in the first place? Since we don&#8217;t know why Type 1 diabetics develop it in the first place&#8230; b) Are anti-rejection drugs better than taking insulin? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}