Diabetes, Weight Loss, Remission or Cure

Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson · May 28, 2026 · 17m

Type 2 Diabetes, Bariatric Surgery, Fasting, and GLP-1s: What We Finally Learned About a Disease We Thought We Understood

For years, I watched something happen in bariatric surgery that made very little sense, according to the medical textbooks of the time.

Patients with type 2 diabetes would undergo surgery, and within days, their blood sugars would improve dramatically. Some would leave needing far less insulin. Others would stop insulin entirely. Many of them would eventually remain off diabetes medications for years.

Now here is the important part:

They had not yet lost significant…