Reversing Diabetes: Fact or Fiction?

Join the debate around weight loss and type 2 diabetes remission

There is a growing prevalence of diseases which can be directly linked to our modern lifestyle and diet. Research into preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes is now heavily focused on obesity and weight loss.

On this course, you will explore the physiological effects of weight gain and weight loss. You will consider what is meant by type 2 diabetes prevention, remission, reversal and cure.

You will also examine how those living with type 2 diabetes can help themselves, as well as the role of healthcare professionals in supporting self-management.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals with a general interest in diabetes who are looking to upskill themselves or eventually take a full diabetes postgraduate qualification.

The course will also be of interest to people looking to manage their own type 2 diabetes or those keen to prevent it from developing.

• Defining what we mean by prevention, remission, reversal and cure.
• Introduction to the course
• What is Type 2 diabetes?
• Risk factors for Type 2 diabetes
• Introduction to Type 2 diabetes remission
• Personal and public perspectives
• Review of week 1
• A look at the pathophysiology of excess body weight.
• Introduction to week 2
• Pathophysiology of obesity
• Evidence for type 2 diabetes remission
• Remission for everyone?
• Personal and public perspectives
• Review of week 2
• Remission in the real world: Improving and supporting self-management.
• Introduction to week 3
• Remission in clinical practice
• Remission applied to the real world
• What is self-management?
• Personal and public perspectives
• Review of week 3