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Communist China Just Cured Diabetes and America's Insulin Industry is Not Happy About it
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big if true
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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It's a nice story and all but it's clearly AI generated and I'm not a fan of that
What's AI generated? The story is hallucinations? Or a fake post created by a prompt to it? Real story but written by AI? AI graphics?
On the thread there are some links to studies doing the same or similar, so I wouldn't just assume its a lie. The article makes my skepticism go on high alert though
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Yeah clearly AI
Diabetes isn't only caused by a lack of insulin; it can also be caused by faulty insulin receptors. I wonder if this helps with that
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If aliens came to trade cheap stuff with USA, oligarchist supremacism would declare war on them no matter how badly we'd lose
Wow, I love this. The whole damn American meds industry is more rotten than Surströmming Thank you, China!
Just because China got there first doesn't mean American companies aren't trying.
Curing patients is not a sustainable business model.
.. Even after the gutting of the funding?
Look at their share prices
Your link actually demonstrates that the US may get there first. You linked a large scale clinical study in the US, whereas OP's article is a single case study. Also, OP's case study treated type 2 DM and explicitly noted that Type 1 will be more difficult to treat, while the study you linked is already targeting Type 1. Interested to see how the study you linked turns out!
Ah, that'll teach me for not reading the OP link
Sure...
for a long time, different insulin types were only produced by a triopoly in the states, otherwise they would lose to cheaper generics, or competition if they were aggresively using competition, i think it changed now.
NOVO nordisk, ELLY lily, and sanofi were the primary producers.