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Can insulin shots cause any remaining beta cells to atrophy?

  • If a person is newly diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, and there is a chance that there are still some beta cells in the pancreas, would the insulin shots they are now required to take on a regular basis cause the remaining beta cells to atrophy? Has anyone tried to "cure" type 1 naturally by reviving or encouraging remaining beta cells to produce insulin before administering insulin externally?

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    unfortunately yes,,,,,, because the old attitude of the internal clinicians was to give the diabetic subcutanous insulin after complete b-cell failure, so failure will occur no where, but recently like 10 years ago, the attitude was to give insulin from the first day of discovery of diabetes as a kind of decreasing exhaustion of b-cells, but found also to fail soon or later.

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No! It's your body's own immune system that's destroying the beta cells. Unless your name is God, you can't revive something that's effectively dead, though scientists are currently working on the use of stem cells to produce new beta cells. (Stem cells have the ability, apparently, to become any type of cell.)

I don't know if the insulin is causing the cells to atrophy, but I do know that eventually the cells kick the can. However, I am a Type 1 diabetic who has had this for almost three years, and I still have some cells still producing insulin.

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