No kidding.

There are words that we're truly afraid of.

I have diabetes.

This is the reality of diabetes.

Our comedy act was called The 2 Fat Guys .

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

What I thought about was, what caused the diabetes?

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

Now, diabetes is one of the big ones.

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

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

Think of it in terms of diabetes, for instance.

World Diabetes Day is on the 14th November.

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

So if you put these physiological processes to work,

I've put a bunch of examples up here.

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

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

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

I found one that read,

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

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.

These things have already been done in animals.

But, imagine a world without cancer.

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

Tom got diabetes from drinking too many sports drinks.

He was watchful for any sign of diabetes.

Each of these has a sensor.

And something festered inside me after this happened.

I got two words for you, sugar, Zip disc.

And in one generation, for example,

She ate too much. She got unlucky.

I, uh I'm a diabetic.

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

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

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

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

So we hope this year to prototype each of these devices.

like who knows where that is going to lead.

I can look at my risk for sample type 2 diabetes.

If it's battling hypothermia, its organs can't develop normally, resulting in a range of health problems from diabetes, to heart disease, to low I.Q.

Once you're insulin resistant, you're on your way to getting diabetes, which is what happens when your pancreas can't keep up with the resistance and make enough insulin.