Type Two Diabetes
topic on 7 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
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11 statements about Type Two Diabetes, every show
Anderson: Most type 2 diabetes patients lose half their beta cells before diagnosis
“And why that's so important is today, at the time of somebody being diagnosed with type two diabetes, in most cases, half of their beta cells are already gone.”
Type 2 diabetes cases quadrupled globally between 1980 and 2016
“And just to put some numbers on that, the number of type two diabetes patients quadruples from 1980 to 2016.”
Pande: Biological aging is the primary driver of major diseases
“When we think about disease, we think of disease as something bad happening to us, but a lot of that stuff is exacerbated with age, and that age itself is like so much of the challenge that we get Cancer and Alzheimer's and type two diabetes with such greater …”
Attia: US type 2 diabetes rate rose from 1–2% to 12% in 50 years
“Less than two percent of people in the United States had type two diabetes. It was closer to one percent. That number is about 12% today.”
Sean Sherman: Food access correlates with 60% tribal diabetes rates
“Now that I do a lot of work in food sovereignty and health and nutrition, I just look back, and I see a lot of those issues as a direct, you know, correlation of why we have upwards to 60% type two diabetes in some tribal communities because of that food acces…”
Sinclair: Diabetics on Metformin Outlive Healthy Non-Diabetics
“By looking at type two diabetics, and there's a stunning, stunning fact, that type two diabetics that would normally have a short lifespan, when they take metformin, typically at two grams a day, I'm on one gram a day, by the way, they actually have less disea…”
Gimenez: Type 2 diabetes represents multiple distinct diseases based on underlying causes
“Type two diabetes is so many different diseases if we think about on a causal spectrum, as opposed to on a symptomatic endpoint spectrum.”
Pande: Digital therapeutics will majorly impact behavioral health conditions
“You know, when we think about this space, there are some things that I really imagine digital therapeutics making a huge impact in. Anything that's behavioral in nature. That when you talk about PTSD depression, anxiety, sleeping issues, and especially somethi…”
Type 2 Diabetes Is Reversible Without Drugs via Low-Carb Diets
“Even type two diabetes was irreversible. Once on insulin, always on insulin, basically, until you get taken down by the side effects. And now people are showing that on these diets, and maybe others as well, but they're showing that this is a reversible diseas…”
Inkinen: Type 2 diabetes can actually be cured
“I actually have to admit that after Truly IPO, I thought I'd be just advising and investing in other entrepreneurs, but completely accidentally around 2012, 13, through personal health problems that I had, I discovered that this Quite horrible and irreversible…”
Pande: Type 2 diabetes and PTSD are behavioral problems needing non-pill solutions
“So the area of digital therapeutics lies in the fact that for many areas, such as type two diabetes, anxiety, depression, PTSD, I think our go-to for cures for this is a pill, but actually these are behavioral problems, and it's much more natural to have a beh…”