This is the reality of diabetes.

I have diabetes.

There are words that we're truly afraid of.

This is what happened to the children of the Dutch Hunger Winter.

Our comedy act was called The 2 Fat Guys .

What I thought about was, what caused the diabetes?

Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes, even some forms of cancer.

The second one, as you can imagine, if this up here is Type 1 , this down here is Type 2 diabetes.

And although it's good to laugh before we look at this.

No kidding.

Now, diabetes is one of the big ones.

So, in wrapping up, what I want to tell you about is,

So if you put these physiological processes to work,

Each of these has a sensor.

Think of it in terms of diabetes, for instance.

You see, unlike the woman the night before, this woman had type 2 diabetes.

Because we all know that we should defy cancer and asterosclerosis and

That's what you're looking at here in the top image.

He was watchful for any sign of diabetes.

(Laughter)

And this is a great example of how we haven't learned that lesson at all.

World Diabetes Day is on the 14th November.

These things have already been done in animals.

Tom got diabetes from drinking too many sports drinks.

They have higher blood pressure, poorer cholesterol profiles and reduced glucose tolerance a precursor of diabetes.

This is actually the cause of type I diabetes, juvenile diabetes or auto immune diabetes, it has several names.

Two thirds of adults are overweight or obese, and diabetes in kids and 30 year olds has increased 70 percent in the last 10 years.

I got a daughter with diabetes, And three grandbabies I gotta take care of.

So I'm going to put the slide up now. It won't be up for long.

I've put a bunch of examples up here.

What if you could make the genetic changes to eliminate diabetes or Alzheimer's or reduce the risk of cancer or eliminate stroke?

I found one that read,

In this case, this patient is slightly at risk of diabetes because of their glucose level.

We discussed, in the prior film, some of the old things that we did,

They put tens of thousands of these in the blood cell they tried this in rats it lets insulin out in a controlled fashion, and actually cures type 1 diabetes.

Yet when it came to a disease like diabetes that kills Americans eight times more frequently than melanoma,

She's on the faculty, tenure track in psychiatry, Ph.D. in neuroscience.

Fifty percent of the population over the age of 40 suffers from diabetes.

But, imagine a world without cancer.

My wife's got diabetes,mr.Frobisher.I've got a mortgage,medical bills.

She ate too much. She got unlucky.

But if I take that same data, upload it to deCODEme,

So, this will reshape how we think of medicine.

And that comes back to the diabetes story I was telling you.

My friend Red Maxwell has spent the last 10 years fighting against juvenile diabetes.