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CAN DIABETES BE REVERSED? By Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha Source:Thomiana Newsletter For centuries, Diabetes was considered an incurable disease, the result of the affected person’s body not having enough of the vital hormone Insulin that is required to utilise the sugars and sugar-containing foods that we eat. Insulin is produced by an organ called the Pancreas – and when the pancreas for whatever reason stopped producing enough insulin, it was reasoned that the body could not process ingested food. Gradually the body started breaking down its own muscles to keep itself alive. Until Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best in 1921 discovered how to prepare insulin so that the drug could be injected into diabetic patients, the average life span of someone who developed Diabetes was only about four years. All that changed with the discovery of artificial insulin. This injected medication and the anti- diabetic tablets discovered subsequently can ...