Want to help cure type I and type II diabetes?
Want to help cure type I and type II diabetes?
I've known Ron Evans at the Salk Institute for many many years. His artificial islet cells can eradicate type I and type II diabetes permanently with one injection. Here's why I need your help.
Executive summary
Ron Evans is a highly credible diabetes researcher at the Salk Institute who invented an “artificial islet cell” that produces insulin when glucose is elevated.
Due to the pandemic, the VC-funded company created to follow through on this great technology folded.
I want to get this company restarted. This will help impact the lives of millions of people, including me. Had this venture not been impacted by COVID, his technology might have saved my vision.
Background
Ron’s team at Salk developed an “artificial islet” cell that can be injected into the body in a one time operation to supplement/replace the beta cells in the pancreas that make insulin in response to an increase in blood sugar. They know how to “cloak it” so the body doesn’t reject it. They don’t inject it into the pancreas because that’s too risky, but the islet cells can be injected in other organs.
This has been tested in animals and it works.
They got VC funding for a private venture, Diagon Therapeutics, in 2020. The company was founded by Lou Tartaglia. The company no longer exists.
See this article from 2022 where Kris Elverum, the CEO is quoted:
A 2020 study from molecular biologist Ronald Evans of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, for example, showed that inducing epigenetic changes including upregulation of the checkpoint protein programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) prevented killing of human stem-cell-derived islets in immunocompetent mice. According to Elverum, Diagon, which counts Evans among its scientific cofounders, plans to build on that finding that a complex epigenetic network is critical to immune evasion, but he declined to discuss specifics of the company’s gene-editing strategy.
Because everything was shut down during COVID, they had to abandon ship. Elverum subsequently transitioned to AIRNA as the CEO, where he raised a $30 million initial financing led by ARCH Venture Partners.
Evan’s work was approved for NIH grant, but the money was never paid out due to lack of funding from Congress.
So this technology has been gathering dust instead of saving lives.
I called him a few days ago just to check in and learned all this.
Ron is confident it will work and clearly the VC investors did too; the venture was not abandoned due to any issues with the science.
With your help, we can pool our funds and get the venture restarted again with a new team.
Take action here
If you are a VC and this looks interesting, or you are a private investor who invests in startups, this should be a very good investment. Please fill out the interest form and I’ll send you the pitch deck.
If you are in biotech and think this would be an exciting venture to help launch, please let me know as well by filling out the interest form and I’ll send you the pitch deck.
Or if you have diabetes and want to participate in the human clinical trials, you can also fill out the form.
If things go as expected, you’ll help save lives and get a good return on your investment.
NOTE: Diabetes for many people results from the death of beta cells that secrete insulin. Unlike “diabetes treatments/cures,” this therapy replenishes these cells and can “reset” you back to your earlier state. It does not affect your insulin resistance. It dramatically impacts your ability to produce insulin because it injects new cells that can make insulin.
Steve, I applied to get the deck as soon as the article came out, still no response. I did not pledge any amount (I'm just an individual, and the lowest amount is a bit too steep for me) -- is that an immediate disqualifier?
(Spoiler: There already is)
Hi Steve,
I hope you are well and healing.
Without any malice or sarcasm whatsoever, the enthusiasm for this technology is analogous to espousing the technology for an artificial leg or arm. The default setting for our body is to heal: lifestyle choices and environmental toxicity impact our body's ability to build, repair, and maintain itself. Type 2 is a flat out choice except in the rarest theoretical circumstance. Type 1 can be reversed, but generally not by accident, and especially not if one is in the care of an MD or pharmaceutical medicine. Infections are druggable. Lifestyle chronic degenerative diseases are not. They require lifestyle protocols different from what got one into the degenerative health predicament that got them there in the first place.
I know this is not palatable to most ears, especially those that want a lazy quick fix with no effort on one's own part.
As with the diabetic eyes, start by fasting. It is the quickest way to recruit and engage the body's endogenous mechanisms for healing sugar and rancid omega-6 toxicities. LEARN AUTOPHAGY, otherwise one runs the risk of always seeking but never finding the elusive cure. Body parts are not optional, and human engineered replacements for them and the chemical processes are at best poor substitutes often lacking the fullness of the reality of good health.
Reversing type 2 can be as quick as 10 days or less to six weeks. Type 1, depending on why, is much longer and only possible if irreversible organ damage has not already occurred. Another unpalatable point is that it most likely will require a very strict keto carnivore diet mixed with serious (meaning what most people would consider Not-In-This-Lifetime) fasting to heal the organs and pancreas to kickstart the pancreas back into functioning as it should.
Yes, a simple pill or drug would be much easier if they is existed, but they do not, and they almost all do not address the causative factors of disease. It is advisable to stop stepping on landmines before trying to sew the leg back on to the body.
Please contact me to discuss about preserving the health of your other eye.
God bless and protect you,
Mike Ayala