Can Gummies Cure Diabetes?

John Whyte, MD
3 min readMar 6, 2022

Lately, there’s been news trending on CBD gummies for reversing diabetes. I’m sorry to disappoint you but chewing gummies –whether or not they have CBD — is not going to cure diabetes. Yet, reversing diabetes, and especially prediabetes may be possible with the right lifestyle changes.

This is big news because we used to think that by the time you were diagnosed with diabetes, the beta cells in the pancreas (which are responsible for insulin production) had already burned out and lost function. But we now have evidence that these critical cells may indeed be able to regenerate and…

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John Whyte, MD

Physician, Author, Chief Medical Officer @ WebMD. I am passionate about changing how we think about #Health. Views my own.