Preserving Your Beta Cells: Peter Butler, M.D. at TEDxDelMar

Our theme for TEDxDelMar 2011 was "A Search For A Cure". In this video, Dr. Butler gives us his talk entitled "Preserving Your Beta Cells".
Peter Butler is Chief Director, Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center at UCLA and professor of medicine at UCLA where his research interests include arresting loss of beta cell mass and promoting beta cell formation.
After obtaining his MD at the University of Birmingham, UK in 1980, Dr. Butler underwent training in internal medicine in Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He then underwent training in Endocrinology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and then at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN where he was also a research fellow. He was then appointed to a clinical faculty position at Mayo Clinic in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. He was also the Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center and led an NIH funded research program. After six years on the faculty at the Mayo Clinic he was appointed to the Chair of Diabetes at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he established the first Clinical Research Center in the UK. He returned to the USA in 1999 when he was appointed to Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at the University of Southern California moving to the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002. At UCLA he has established the Larry Hillblom Islet Research Center, a free standing building that houses investigators with a wide range of skills focused on revealing the mechanisms of beta cell loss and potential regeneration in people with type 1 and 2 diabetes. He is director of the LHIRC islet isolation and physiology core. He is the Editor in Chief of the journal Diabetes. He is also the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension. His clinical practice at UCLA focuses on care of patients with diabetes.
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[@wimm1392]

I'm new to this, but really love the young people doing research on this topic which will bring good results.

[@marylee2732]

Thanks for helping me understand. My husband has T2 and my son was recently diagnosed with T1 & I couldn’t wrap my head around it. This makes it so much easier.

[@0patience4flz]

This is a good man.

[@ianamacleod]

Great lecture!

[@medicalpanorama]

If an 82 yo type 1 pancreas still makes new beta cells, it is encouraging news for all ppl who loves carbohydrates (not just for type 1 DM : ) , but it also tells us his inflammation against beta cell never was controlled. It seems that anti-inflammation therapy should play a role in diabetic management. Thanks for your information.

[@henryquenin6580]

Very interesting talk about beta cells still being made, even into old age, but I didn't hear anything about a process for preserving beta cells.

[@EngineeringEIdeas]

Thanks. This is 11 years old video. But nobody paid attention.

[@keanongee2032]

Stopped my steroid script meds that stuffed up my lining (gut). Then healed my tummy with suitable diet (over month). Result, Inflammation down Gradual weight loss. Pre diabetes level to nil

[@christineglenn319]

yes why not research on beta cells instead of diabetic treatment kidney etc

[@OrasSelection]

I have not given up. My Pancreas is making some Insulin but not enough. I keep thinking is they grew when I was young... why can't they regrow again? Nothing is impossible.

[@rodsitvideos]

I would think it not so very hard to find out why the beta cells are being attacked and where new beta cells come form. How can that be so very hard to find out?

[@silasbakos4047]

herbalist like you are rare to find Dr Ogie thank you for being there for me doc. Keep up the good work sir ✅✅

[@jorgecarrejo7562]

Someone give him some water!

[@mattn2470]

are the gymnema formulations of any use?

[@dawnedwards2627]

Doesn't blood type matter in diabetes...everyone is different,yet ALL circumstances are not being addressed properly in the first place.EX.pregnant women versing a male,the male versing the female in general.LETS NOT FORGET...THE DESTRUCTION OF THE IMMUNIZATIONS BEING GIVEN TO CHILDREN IN THEIR FIRST YEAR OF LIFE ,DIRECTLY TARGETING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM.

[@cat-yz2ew]

What is a good utube video that demonstrates how to increase beta cells?

[@raveetsql4803]

How to create beta cell?

[@Bill23799]

Do you know the Latitude and Longitude of the Islets of Langerhans?

[@SuperRandomrap]

Beta cells regenerate