Can insulin produced in lettuce cure type 1 diabetes some day? Possibly. In mice, it seems to modulate the immune attack on the beta cells that is the hallmark of type 1 diabetes. But the pathway is complex.
Therapeutic insulin is usually injected. This is for two reasons. First, most proteins are partically digested in the stomach. The very acid stomach first denatures the proteins. This means that the very specific folding of a protein that gives it specificity is destroyed, and the...
Lots of people write books about diabetes (myself included). Few have made diabetes movies. But only Gabriel Cousens, M.D., did both this... Read more »
Neuropathy is such a common and painful complication of diabetes that I watch out for all research reports about it, no matter now... Read more »
Obstructive sleep apnea is one of the most common complications of diabetes, especially among people who are overweight. A recent study of... Read more »
Reprinted with permission from Amy Tenderich of www.diabetesmine.com. As an alternative to transplanting islets into the liver, which has... Read more »
In our family we like to confront diabetes with an element of nonchalance. Not about treatment, which we're fastidious about, but in... Read more »
Canadian researchers have cured Type 1 diabetes in mice using an experimental vaccine. The vaccine works by boosting the body's own immune cells,... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Fighting diabetes could start in our fat cells. Researchers found killing off certain immune cells in fat and muscle can... Read more »
An analysis of 621 studies on more than 135,000 patients has confirmed weight-loss surgery's ability to reverse Type 2 diabetes. Researchers say that... Read more »
A small new study suggests that even one exercise session may be able to reverse some of the harm caused by overeating. Researchers studied five... Read more »
Researchers working with mice have found that two commonly used cancer drugs were shown to prevent and reverse Type 1 diabetes in a new study. The... Read more »
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