On day 1 of my undergrad anatomy class, my professor told us about a cure he developed for Parkinson’s. He showed us footage of debilitated patients that were fully functioning after a year of his treatment. He thought it would be his ticket into the history books, but when he courted the pharma companies to commercialize his research, nobody wanted it because according to him, treating Parkinson’s was more profitable than curing it. He was so bitter that he spent every first lecture of every class he taught telling his story and showing the videos of his research.

I say all of this because I hope a functional cure for diabetes is found and sticks around because what pharma companies are doing to insulin-dependent people (among many others) is just criminal. It makes me wonder why we don’t hear about cures more often.