Comments on: Unexpected https://blog.speculist.com/life_extension/unexpected.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: triticale https://blog.speculist.com/life_extension/unexpected.html#comment-1001 triticale Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:01:59 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=506#comment-1001 Treatable is still a valid term even when far short of cureable. My wee wifey is Type 2, and gets by with Glucophage and some care in diet, my ex-daughter-in-law is Type 1, and both have lived far longer than the 1 year which was the average life expectancy before the discovery of insulin. Both of them work as aides in a nursing home; I’m sure they’ll find this interesting.

If this research means that with daily action by a caregiver we can slow the onset of Alzheimers enough to give people a couple more good years before they can hide their own Easter eggs then it amounts to meaningful progress.

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… but it’s treatable.

Actually, it’s not. Not really. A healthy human body adjusts the level of insulin (and related factors) on an almost continuous basis. None of the current treatments (that I know of) even come close, and all of those blood sugar swings take a cumulative toll on the body.

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