Reversing Type 2 diabetes? Yes, it can be done

Type 2 diabetes affects one in 10 Canadians. It is a serious metabolic disorder that can result in stroke, kidney failure, blindness, amputations and premature death. Right now doctors try to manage the disease using drugs to control a patient's blood glucose levels. Some of those drugs have serious side-effects.

"If you're on drugs it's not really remission, it's just controlling the disease," Gerstein said.