Autotransplantation

She's like the only female micro surgeon at UCLA.

Autologous is where they take your own flesh from other parts of your body and reconstruct you so you don't need an implant.

It's amazing if you can do it.

She was like, you're not a candidate.

And so for patients that have type one diabetes or type two diabetes that has progressed so significantly that their pancreas has now not been able to make any of the beta islet cells, which is where insulin production comes from, there is a new transplant that is very exciting.

A study that was done in two, twenty twenty-five and recently published shows what we call autologous transplant is now possible.

Well, well, what does autologous mean? Autologous basically means that it's from your own body.

It's from your own cells.

And so what they are doing is they are taking stem cells, differentiating those specifically to the beta islet cells of the pancreas that produce insulin and putting them back into your body.