Commonly when a person is diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, the focus turns to managing the disease – for a lifetime. And typically that's exactly the course it takes; once an individual develops diabetes, that person has the chronic condition – in which the body isn't able to use insulin produced by the body to bring blood sugar levels into a normal range.

However, increasingly research finds that in some instances diabetes may be reversed, or – to use the parlance more commonly associated with cancer – a person may be able to achieve remission. That is, in some people previously diagnosed with diabetes, their blood sugar is now back in a non-diabetic range without medication.

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