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Exposure to Static Magnetic and Electric Fields Treats Type 2 Diabetes

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The juxtaposition of the traditionally “woo” topic and the high impact journal is a bit mind-bending.

Like reading a Nature article about crystals and auras or something.

More seriously, those field strengths seem pretty damn low. 3mT is way lower than the fields you need to polarise spins for something like EPR. Taking Zeeman splitting as an example of a magnetic field interacting with a paramagnetic spin: that will have an effect on the order of like 10^-7 eV, which is minuscule. Particularly in a human-shaped heat bath at 310K where kT is 10^-2 eV.

To put it another way: It’s surprising to me that a magnetic field would have significant biological effects at 3mT, yet cause no obvious acute effects in a high-field MRI at more than 3000 times that field strength (try taking 3000 times the therapeutic dose of aspirin, or a radiation therapy).

I’m perplexed. Interesting! I’m happy this was posted.

It raises significant questions on mechanism, to be sure.

Dr. McCoy's medical tricorder is one step closer to reality.

So you mean the 'alternative medicine' people who wear magnetic wristbands and collars might have been onto something...

Type 2 diabetes cured in mice in 3 days! Can someone more knowledgeable than me (i.e. anybody) comment on this study?

Type 2 diabetes in most cases can be cured by diet, so such a treatment would be expensive and unnecessary.

It can be prevented by diet and exercise, it can be managed by different means including diet, but IMO there is still no cure for Type 2 Diabetes.

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/guide/is-there-a-diabetes-cur...

There are many people that have completely reversed T2D with fasting and a combination of healthy keto/paleo, metformine or berberine and in some cases, 5DFMD (5 day fast minicing diet) done every month for a year. There are numerous doctors and nutritionists that have youtube videos covering the science behind reversing the insulin resistance, then clearing the fat out of the pancreas and liver, then restoring pancreas functionality. The biggest challenge for people is sticking to those plans. 5DFMD is not easy and some people are not in a condition to do it.

Well I suppose it depends on what one assume to be a reliable source.

It is indeed astonishing to find so many claims by doctors that they can heal people from dreadful diseases with simple life style tips and natural products. I think specifically of extraordinary claims that are contrary to the medical consensus: heal people of metastatic cancer, reverse diabetes, reverse ALS, etc..

Personally I do not trust such doctors, there are too many of those who had later died from cancer themselves!

But ultimately it is a personal choice to find which criterias could be used to evaluate risks.

Also it's one thing to say something is preventable/curable with exercise and another to say what's your plan that will cause a significant number of people to start exercising.

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