Welcome to our latest podcast post-show! In this conversation, we reflect on our latest cure series and the complicated emotions behind decades of promises about a cure. Justin and Diabetech’s producer revisit past podcast episodes with Katie Beth Hand and Patti Colombe, two clinical trial participants who received islet cell transplants and are now living free from insulin injections. They also dig into part-one and part-two of our episodes with diabetes researchers where we challenged the idea of what a cure could be rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.

The conversation explores the hope and skepticism surrounding current research, and the difficult trade-offs involved with treatments like islet cell transplants and ongoing immunosuppression. From learning to trust your body again to questioning who will ultimately have access to these therapies, we share our honest reactions to a rapidly evolving area of type 1 diabetes research.

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