Here’s How to Cure Diabetes and Not Get Fat
Diabetes is becoming a major problem in the world and it is growing which is forcing the diabetes community to make some quick judgements:
- Prevent diabetes from ever occuring.
- Develop the cure to diabetes.
- Or take care of the people who have it in order to prevent complications.
All three approaches are actively being pursued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the CDC, or Center for Disease Control. The National Institutes of Health is involved especially in doing research of methods to cure both type 1 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes, but they are focusing on type 1 diabetes. The Center for Disease Control on the other hand, is focusing most of the programs that it runs on ensuring that all proven science is put into daily practice for those who are dealing with diabetes. The general idea is that if every piece of important research and science is made meaningful in the day-to-day lives of people who are dealing with diabetes, then the research is not wasted. These are the approaches for a cure that are currently being pursued:
• Transplantation of Islet cells which produce insulin.
• Development of an artificial Pancreas.
• Genetic Manipulation, which will create pseudo islet cells by inserting the human insulin gene into fat or muscle cells which do not normally make their own insulin.
These approaches are still facing challenges, like preventing rejection by the immune system, finding enough adequate insulin cells, keeping transplanted cells alive, etc. Progress is being made fairly consistently however, in all of these areas.
Is insulin a cure for diabetes? No, insulin is not a cure for diabetes, and neither is injecting it. Insulin can allow a diabetic to survive, but many devastating consequences can be caused by the disease when the blood sugar level is crudely controlled. The insulin injections a diabetic takes cannot be as precisely or as continuously adjusted to maintain sugar levels that are safe, in the way that blood sugar and insulin levels match normally.
The diabetic can risk a dramatic injection of insulin when blood sugar levels are too low. These reactions can include loss of consciousness, confusion, coma and even possibly death if not handled properly. When the injected insulin is below the amount that is required, the diabetic’s blood sugar can rise to cause damage to the diabetic’s eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys and blood vessels. Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, because it does not restore the diabetic’s ability to adjust their production of insulin every minute, which is a normal part of living.
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I agree that taking insulin is not a “cure” in any way shape or form. I have recently launched a new site called D-solve at http://www.dsolve.com which is dedicated to describing what I consider to be a “solution” to diabetes while we wait for a cure. By solution I mean a method to having normal blood sugars with insulin injections (no small achievement). This applies to both Type 1 and Type 2. Swing by and let me know what you think.
I would have thought if scientists were on to a cure for diabetes they would have said something by now.