Many people exercise and take medicine in order to delay or treat type 2 diabetes. However in most cases these interventions in one’s lifestyle fails and the person regain weight and retain their increasing blood glucose levels. Controlling one’s appetite seems to be the key, which is one of the aspects we’ll discuss in this presentation. Furthermore we’ll discuss how gastric bypass surgery helps people with diabetes type 2 controlling their appetite and make their diabetes disappear. Finally we’ll discuss how hormones such as GLP1 can help diabetics’ control their appetite, and lose weight. Participants: Professor Jens Juul Holst, Professor Steven Bloom & Dr Tricia Tan. Narrator: Richard Steed. Instructors: Assistant professor Nicolai J. Wewer Albrechtsen, Professor Signe Sørensen Torekov and professor Jens Juul Holst.