A Cure for Diabetes May be Close!
In the search for a cure for diabetes, a recent development has stunned even the experts involved. Scientists at a Toronto medical center claim that they have proof the the nerve system is responsible for triggering diabetes, a fact which may well lead to the possibility of a cure for the diabetes, an illness which causes problems for many millions in the affluent world.
Mice that had been given diabetes became healthy within 24 hours after medical experts introduced a compound to circumvent the effect of reduced neurons in the pancreas.
"I couldn't believe it," reported Dr. Michael Salter, an expert in pain at the Hospital for Sick Children and one of the researchers involved in the discovery. "Mice with diabetes suddenly didn't have diabetes any more." In essence, it appeared that this was a cure for their diabetes.
The specialists urge caution, warning that they still have to prove their study in humans, but say they expect results from human studies within a year or two. Any possible cure for diabetes that may develop is most likely to be years away from hitting the general public..
Having said that, the team from Sick Children, who published their research today in the well known journal 'Cell', are still immensely excited, and hope that this is a major step towards the cure for diabetes that the medical world has been seeking..
"I've never seen anything like it," stated Dr. Hans Michael Dosch, an expert in immunology the hospital and a leader of the studies.
Their research may overthrow the current view that Type 1 diabetes, the most serious form of the disorder that often occurs when the sufferer is still a child, was wholly brought on by auto-immune reactions, in other words, the patient's immune system working against itself.
Their study also suggests that there is far more in common than previously thought between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and that our nerves likely play a role in other irreversible inflammatory sicknesses, such as asthma and Crohn's disease.
This impressive study opens "a novel, exciting door to address one of the diseases with large societal impact," said Doctor Christian Stohler, chair of the University of Maryland Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and a well respected pain specialist, who has reviewed the 'cure for diabetes' claims.
Many millions have diabetes mellitus, with 10% having Type-one and 90% Type-two. The condition is the 6th most significant cause of death reported on U.S. death certificates, and many experts believe that it is even higher due to 'under reporting'.
Diabetes is a disease in which the sufferers body doesn't create or make correct use of insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is essential to transform glucose into energy needed for life. The causes of diabetes mellitus continues to be unknown, although both genetics and lifestyle factors such as obesity and absence of physical exercise are believed to play a role. At the present time, there is no known cure for diabetes.
The symptoms of diabetes are:
* The initial symptom of diabetes mellitus might be unusual thirst (unrelated to physical exercise, warm weather, or temporary ill health)
* Excessive hunger; (you are sure that you have consumed enough, however you still want more)
* Frequent urination, (commonly noticed because you have to wake repeatedly during the night)
* Feeling tired and feeling fatigued (often sudden enough to make you fall asleep unexpectedly after eating). This is one of the most frequently observed symptoms of diabetes).
* Sudden and unusual weight loss (any dramatic change in body weight is a message that you should visit your doctor)
Insulin injection is the only method of treating Type one diabetes, and even this doesn't prevent many of the negative consequences, from heart attacks to kidney failure. It is not a cure for diabetes, merely a way of reducing some of the consequences and aiding longevity of the patient.
In the new research the team injected capsaicin, (the main active compound in chili peppers), into the pancreas in order to kill the pancreatic sensory nerves in lab mice that had Type one diabetes mellitus. The astonishing outcome was that the islets immediately began producing insulin at normal levels - in other words, it looked awfully like it was a cure for diabetes !
It turns out the nerves secrete neuropeptides that are a key factor in the correct functioning of the islets. Later research by the medical researchers, which involved the University of Calgary and the Jackson Laboratory in Maine, proved that the nerves in mice that had been given diabetes were secreting too few of the neuropeptides, causing a cycle of stress on the islets.
The researchers then injected a neuropeptide referred to as "substance p" in to the pancreas cells of diabetic rodents. the result was that the inflammation disappeared and the diabetes appeared to be cured. Some mice have remained in that state for 4 months or more, after only one dose.
The experts also found that this procedure reduced the insulin resistance that is the main distinguishing feature of Type-2 diabetes. This also seems to imply that insulin resistance is also a component part in Type-1 diabetes, which further suggests that the two types of diabetes are far more similar than previously thought.
The medical researchers are now trying to confirm that the connection between our nerves and diabetes holds true for people. If it does, they will see if their procedure has identically the same effect on humans as it did on laboratory mice.
Again, caution is urged - it is very early days and even if the research holds true any cure for diabetes will be years away. The best advice for all diabetics is to carry on with you diabetic care regimes exactly as normal.
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I have no idea what the scientific reasons are, but one year after I became diabetic-I became 'normal' again. I needed no insulin and felt wonderful. My Doctors were not unusually surprised-they called it "a honeymoon phases". Apo pos of the article on nerves, I went thru a stressful time and the diabetes resurfaced. I was in bed and everything was working in my system, humming along and then something just stopped. It was like some part of a car breaking down but still functioning-mainly. I started using insulin again a few weeks later.
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The musings of a Diabetic.
I don't know a lot about diabetes but a family member was diagnosed with full blown diabetes at the age of 76 and then one year later after taking insulin is fully cured of the disease. How is that possible?
I recently came across a person in India who teaches yoga & breathing exercises. if you go to you tube and type (Baba Ramdev -Yoga for Diabetes) it seems far fetched to what he is teaching but no harm in trying. Some exercises are easy some are difficult again no harm in trying. Also he is teaching acupressure which can be helpful in regulating diabetes. I will do anything to get rid of this damned disease and I hope it will help you too.
It has been almost four years since this article was published. Surely there has been something done to verify this treatment in humans. I have two small children with diabetes who use the pump system. Although I am grateful there are medicines that treat their symptoms, it would be an answer from God to see them healed. If anyone has an update, please post it on this site or send me at dhouse@scisys.net.
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I had a anxiety and nervousness in my childhood and i am now diabetic . i guess most people whom i have seen and had problem with nervous system end up being diabetic. also my diabetes is under control if i regularly do yoga that have benificial effect on the nervous sytem or if i swim regularly.
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I'd love to see a cure for diabetes i have so many friends and family who are either type one or two. To find a cure would be amazing. I help out at a drug addiction treatment center and met patients who are diabetic and have that under control but just addicted to opiates and other drugs.
Since I suffer from type 1 Diabetes I always watch closely for people's research on a cure. Is there any information I could get to contact these people. I'd gladly submit myself for human testing.
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I have read the above article and I have had diabetes since 2001 and my sugar levels are all over the map now. I have had a very stressful life and at the age of 60 I am willing and able to be tested by the aforementioned possible cure. I would follow instructions to the letter. I am a retired Air Force MSGT and I am a member of the vietnam group with the highest rate of diabetes. I am very interested and hope that this is read and taken to heart. I believe that we need to spend our money on medical research long before we spend it to go to Mars.
Thank you very much Timothy M. Miller MSGT USAF, Rtired.
Yes, it would be great to hear of any more developments for the cure of diabetes has occured. A lot of people depend on this information. We all want to be free from diabetes.
Also, using cinnamon a few times a day (without sugar of course) on foods you eat will have a positive effect on helping you with your diabetes. It won't cure it, but it will certainly help level off your glucose levels. AND IT'S ALL NATURAL, SO IT CANNOT HURT YOU!
I was told that a cure for diabetes is already used on millions in all country's except for the United States. It is something about islet transplants from a healthy person, into the pancreas of the diabetic. It seems that a cure for diabetis in the United States would cause the drug company's, along with the medical professions, to lose too much money. It's all about money, hense the glimmers of hope, and long long years of delays. No diabetic today will ever see a cure unless they seek it in a different country.
that looks promising coz at the age of 24 and living with diabetes i would also do anything to be free of diabetes.there some herbs ive been hearing about that they cure though to me i dont beleive in them would you extend your research to them.there's some onion type i dont know the real name but ive seen it in many food suppliments
I'm not cynical or anything, but as with any real cure for any real disease that makes the medical and insurance communities billions of dollars to treat, it's not likely the cure will ever reach the public, unless it will make them even more money to treat than the contemporary way. The medical community is more about money than about cures - esp about established treatments that involve billions of dollars to maintain, such as cancer. If a multi-billion segment of treatment was in danger of being completely shut down, putting millions of cancer specialists out of work, and eliminating the need for expensive tests and equipment, the cure would be bought up and suppressed via every possible test and retest possible, in the same way the automobile and oil companies have suppressed inventions that would "cure" our vast hunger for oil. But I'm not cynical.
I also stumbled accros this article and see that it is from 2006. Has there been any more advances in this and if so I am a type 1 diabetic that would like to volunteer myself as a research subject. Living with diabetes is very difficult and I would do anything to further the research twords a cure whether or not it resulted in a cure for myself. Feel free to wright me at ddotson02@yahoo.com if you like.
I just found this (slightly old) post on the research into a cure for diabetes. Have you heard any more on the research, it looked quite promising?
Wal