Insulin producing cells die off in type 2 after years of being bombarded with sugar in the US diet.

Rate of diabetes in China “explosive”

China has the world's largest diabetes population, with over 118 million adults (approx. 11–12% prevalence) living with the disease as of late 2024–2025, driven by rapid urbanization, obesity, and an aging population. The epidemic has shifted dramatically from less than 1% prevalence in 1980 to a major public health challenge, with type 2 diabetes accounting for over 90% of cases

This is a consistent pattern in Chinese domestic politics. What a western nation would pick out as a profit center, the Chinese state addresses as a social cost. So the state plows a small fortune into cost-effective medical solutions, rather than squeezing the existing health care system out for therapeutic remedies that never resolve the root problem.

I believe you may conflating type 1, and type 2. Type 1 does not have a causal relationship with food consumption. The article also might be conflating the two as it mentions curing type 2, but by using the methodology everyone has been looking into to treat the autoimmune issues of type 1s.

This was one test in one patient. We didn't hear about the patients where this didn't work. Very shitty article.

Yep, I tracked it back to that correspondence too. Key word there is “correspondence.” It’s not a complete research article, just a single report.

That's not any more reliable. Maybe a scientific paper or something?

Is it really an achievement if it fizzles out?

A real groundbreaking achievement may travel slow, but it will stay steady since it actively improves lives. People will keep talking about it.

Unlike, lets say, propaganda. That goes fast and fizzles out faster.

We should be able to check if the amount of diabetes in China falls down rapidly.

It's not communist, it's socialist with Chinese characteristics! (The characteristics are oligarchs)

Not for the 400m Chinese earning $40 USD a month.

It's work till you die with no health care or social security.

Not to mention the tens of millions of unregistered (citizenless) girls who are enslaved to work the world's biggest sex markets

Oh yeah I don't doubt that you folks will get fucked over by your oligarchy, one way or another

The question wasn't about the US though.

How about normal patients?

Yeah I'd sorta assume that'd be the case with this treatment too, but I'm also an idiot with absolutely zero medical training

lactose intolerance is a very very different thing from diabetes.
Insulin is a fundamental part of keeping you alive, and if you fuck up the balance you can die which is why diabetes is such a big deal.

Lactose intolerance is just the inability to digest a specific kind of sugar, which means bacteria in your digestive system can gorge themselves and give you an absurd amount of gas and other very unpleasant but ultimately not particularly dangerous consequences.

Who said anything about how it looks?

Shanghai is a global financial center, ranking third in Asia and eighth globally on the Global Financial Centres Index.[139] Shanghai is also a large hub of the Chinese and global technology industry and home to a large startup ecosystem. As of 2021, the city was ranked as the 2nd Fintech powerhouse in the world after New York City.[140]

As of 2019, the Shanghai Stock Exchange had a market capitalization of US$4.02 trillion, making it the largest stock exchange in China and the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world.[141] In 2009, the trading volume of six key commodities—including rubber, copper, and zinc—on the Shanghai Futures Exchange all ranked first globally.[142] By the end of 2017, Shanghai had 1,491 financial institutions, of which 251 were foreign-invested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai

Shanghai is about as communist as Wall Street. It should look nice, they certainly have the money for it.

They could have run a non-profit organization that leases out access to the patent, with conditions on pricing and availability. IMO, the pair thought that a for-profit health industry would do the right thing, and were betrayed by the rich bastards of society.