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Healthy Living: Fishing for Clues

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When it comes to diabetes, diet, exercise and medication can help some people avoid dangerous complications, but experts say there’s still a lot to learn.

In Healthy Living, see how researchers at Harvard Medical School are looking in a very unlikely place to improve human health.

Riddle says the cavefish in her lab have normal life expectancies, despite having high glucose levels and insulin resistance. 

Many of the fish have been in the lab for up to 15 years.

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