DeFronzo Dethrones ADA Protocol for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. DeFronzo amazed an audience of more than 6,000 with the science behind his recommendations for dramatically changing current practice guidelines for type 2 diabetes during the Banting Lecture at the 68th Annual Scientific Sessions of the ADA in San Francisco, California. He nicely recapped the ‘triumvirate’ triad of type 2 diabetes, with beta cell failure (pancreas isn’t able to make enough insulin), increased liver production of glucose, and decreased glucose uptake from muscles. These three issues associated with type 2 diabetes are common knowledge in the diabetes community, and something he researched in the 1970s.

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