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Can You Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?

Can You Reverse Type 2 Diabetes? (1:02)

Some patients with type 2 diabetes can reverse the disease, especially if they are overweight and lose extra pounds. In this video, Ronald Tamler, MD, clinical director of the Mount Sinai Diabetes Center, explains who can reverse type 2 diabetes.

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You can, it takes a lot of willpower to turn your life around, to make those changes. Many of us especially if we're overweight or obese can turn around the clock and can turn back the clock, and can turn this thing around. Not everybody can turn around the clock. Some kinds of type 2 diabetes are on a certain track where you just require medications.

Some kinds of type 2 diabetes are so far along that you've depleted the cells that make insulin because they just, if I can use a scientific term they poop out after a while. Best thing of all is to prevent it from happening in the first place.