A Potential Cure for Diabetes
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For years, scientists have looked for good ways to treat Type I diabetes, a serious disease that reduces or eliminates the body’s ability to process sugars. (See Wikipedia for more.) For more than 85 years, the best way to manage diabetes has been through carefully monitored injections of insulin hormone. Now, however, researchers at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva have a radical treatment that could free diabetics from these injections and might lead to a virtual cure. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, the Israeli team transplanted the necessary cells into diabetic mice and treated them with anti-inflammatory drugs to stop organ rejection. They hope to move on to human trials shortly. Of course, these techniques may have broader applications in helping avoid organ rejection in other types of organ transplants
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Radical treatments like injections could be better for diabetes. For more information about Juvenile Diabetes http://dailystrength.org/people/330632/journal.
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You can always manage Diabetes by proper diet and nutrition. Food supplements also help slow down some of the side effects of high blood sugar.
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Diabetes can be prevented by just having a physically active lifestyle. Just exercise everyday and avoid eating too much. Avoid sweets and high carb foods too.
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Great article, I drop by often to check the updates and comments.
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there is a rising incidence of Diabetes these days and you can blame high sugar diet and a lifestyle that is low on physical activities.
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With current advances in stem cell research, it won’t be long before we can find a permanent cure for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. ~
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how about changing our lifestyle, doing more sport and eating good (raw) food instead of developing new drugs?
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