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Why Insulin Never Reaches the Liver · CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.

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So I, I, mentioned my dad.
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But your father's actually a much bigger part of on that the rest of the field had clearly missed?
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in the body of a rat.
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And so he published this paper where he showed this tracer on it, peripherally into a group of rats, laboratory rats, then they sectioned the animals and So why is that important?
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It can store a lot of glucose, which it does in response to insulin during a meal.
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in, well, how do we to fix the This just happened to be, this just happened I wasn't thinking or wasn't aware of it.
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But no, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes But it also really changed my career focus.