Introduction To Type I Diabetes
Three Articles On Type I Diabetes: Article #1: Introduction to Type I Diabetes (This Article) Article #2: Possible Causes of Type I Diabetes Article #3: The Treatment of Type I Diabetes Introduction to Type I Diabetes Did you know that there are two products that have cured advanced Type I diabetes cases? Both of them will be discussed in this article. But more importantly, one of these products can reverse cumulative severe side-effects of Type I or Type 2 diabetes. Type I diabetes is actually a set of symptoms, meaning it can be caused by several different things. The symptoms are that the blood lacks insulin. There are actually several things that can cause an abnormally low level of insulin in the blood. Type I diabetes is a very severe disease. The average lifespan of Type I diabetic is 5-8 years shorter than an average person. But death is not the worst thing about Type I diabetes. Here is a list of some of the health problems it can lead to: Amputation of limbs Blindness (retinopathy) – diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in America — 12,000 to 24,000 case annually Kidney failure (nephropathy) – frequently leading to dialysis or a kidney/pancreas transplant Liver disease Arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) Heart disease Stroke (e.g. paralysis) High blood pressure Nerve damage (neuropathy) Dementia Urinary tract infection (mostly in women) Depression – Note: Aspartame (e.g. Equal, NutraSweet, etc.) and sugar are the leading causes of depression in non-diabetics. However, because the average diabetic consumes more aspartame than the average person, it is highly possible that aspartame is by far the REAL cause of depression in diabetics!! A diabetic should absolutely avoid aspartame and all other artificial sweeteners! Bone quali Continue reading >>
Can Type 2 Diabetes Be Reversed Or Cured?
There’s a lot of misleading language out there regarding type 2 diabetes – language that is generally used in order to generate the power of hope in whoever comes across it. Sometimes, this language comes through well-meaning folks; sometimes, through products and all-around health industry peddlers; and sometimes through the promise of medical procedures such as gastric bypass. Unfortunately, many of these folks feed on the ignorance of the general public and the general type 2 diabetes population who aches for a cure and the desire to be free from their medications and often, cumbersome medical routines. But can type 2 diabetes be reversed? Is there a cure for type 2 diabetes? The simple answer to this question is no. There is currently no cure for type 2 diabetes1 and type 2 diabetes itself may not currently be reversed. The more complex answer is that unless a person is in the earliest of stages of pre-diabetes (which is extremely rare, considering a person generally goes undiagnosed for several years), type 2 diabetes is a permanent condition. But everyone talks about reversing type 2 diabetes — what do they mean by this? When someone refers to ‘reversing’ type 2 diabetes, they are – in general – referring to the reversal of the symptoms of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, not to reversing the type 2 diabetes itself.2 When our glucose levels are out of control for extended periods of time, we may have many unpleasant symptoms such as blurry vision, fatigue, slow healing wounds, urinary tract and yeast infections, excessive thirst and urination, moodiness, etc. Some persons may even develop the beginnings of peripheral neuropathy. When we take control of our glucose levels, most of these symptoms may go away in their entirety, and some nerve damage may ev Continue reading >>
Eight Ugly Truths About Pharma And Type 1 Diabetes
When we get past the conspiracy theories about Big Pharma, we can focus on the market forces that hamper cure research. This post was originally titled “No One is Hiding a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes.” “BS More pharma empire lies.” This comment, posted in response to a Type 1 research effort, is not uncommon in diabetes forums on Facebook. The pharmaceutical industry may provide the medicine that keeps people with Type 1 diabetes alive, and sponsor many conferences and diabetes-related websites (including, through advertising, this one), but it is also the biggest villain of the diabetes community. In my role as Insulin Nation’s editor, I’ve had the chance to hear many conspiracy theories about the pharmaceutical industry, and to see some of the industry’s inner workings. What I’ve found is that while the conspiracy theories don’t match up with facts, the truth about Big Pharma often isn’t pretty. With this in mind, I’ve provided eight observations about how the pharmaceutical industry treats the diabetes community. There is no diabetes cure hidden in a Big Pharma bunker. Many of the cure research efforts are being done by outside researchers with little to no affiliation with pharma companies. There is an overwhelming public interest to stop diabetes, and the government would come down hard on someone withholding a cure. But…. Pharma seems more interested in treating diabetes than curing it. Look at the amount of money allocated to developing new insulin formulations versus the amount researchers manage to scrape together for Type 1 diabetes cure research. The pharmaceutical industry is in the business of making pharmaceuticals. Pharma companies raise insulin prices to keep themselves in the black. If you get a chance, listen in on some earnings ca Continue reading >>
Why There Will Never Be A Cure
This is a conversation that I had today at lunched. Now, some of you may agree and some of you will disagree, strongly. The discussion was brought up about the $100 million Obama is going to send to the care of Haiti. The question was posed to me, “Doesn’t that piss you off that they send $100 million to another country, and that money could be spent on diabetes research?” Now, I didn’t know how to answer this question at first. Of course I don’t want to see anybody have to suffer, but I also see the side that my tax money could go to something like research instead. So, my answer was, “well, there will never be a cure.” And then the conversation went on with my explaining why, which I will here as well. And it can be summed it very easily. You think we are in a recession now? Find a cure to diabetes and see what kind of recession we hit. How would scientists that spent their whole life searching for a cure and doing studies about diabetes get a paycheck if there was a cure? How would they pay their bills. How would the stores they shop at be affected. How would the people that work for diabetes companies and products make a living? It would hit our economy harder than just about anything. Do I hope for a cure, of course! Do I still donate funds and do volunteer work, of course. But realistically, no, I don’t think it is likely. There will be advancements in the management of it and there will be tools that may make it easier to live with diabetes and maybe even ways to rid yourself of all complications, but never a cure. Companies can still make money off of advancements, but not off of a cure. But like I said before, this thought will not stop me from doing what I can to help find one. Do any of you share this same feeling? Continue reading >>
Type 2 Diabetes Is A Fully Curable Disease
Type 2 diabetes is a fully curable disease. And still conventional medicine treat it as the opposite – as a chronic and progressive disease. We try to mask the symptoms and slow down the complications, instead of curing it! It’s quite easy to prove that type 2 diabetes is a curable disease. Have a look at this chart of the number of required drugs for treating the disease, over 12 months on three different treatments in a 2012 study: The top graph is conventional treatment. Everyone starts out on three different medications and they keep having to take the drugs. This is what we normally do. It simply does not work as a cure and may even make the diabetes worse. The bottom two graphs are common variants of obesity surgery, where a large (healthy) part of the stomach is removed. Many patients suddenly don’t need drugs anymore, their diabetes completely goes away! The point is not to recommend surgery that removes healthy organs – I don’t recommend that. The point it that type 2 diabetes is a fully curable disease. Luckily it’s not even necessary to remove healthy organs to do so, it’s also possible by just changing your lifestyle. Here’s a longer post on the subject by the great Dr. Jason Fung: IDM: Surgery Reverses Diabetes – T2D3 I just spent a few days with Dr. Fung and we have some really interesting plans. If you’re at all interested in this topic I think you’ll love what we have coming up soon. More Continue reading >>
New Goal For Type 1 Diabetes Cure
Diabetes affects over 422 million people worldwide according to the World Health Organization, but no two patients are alike. So in 2017 and beyond, treatments will increasingly make use of precision medicine to personalize treatment options. At City of Hope, researchers are using a transformative gift to speed these treatments to patients. On January 16, the Wanek family bestowed City of Hope’s Diabetes and Metabolism Research Institute with a significant contribution to support the institution’s goal of curing type 1 diabetes (T1D) in six years and create The Wanek Family Project for Type 1 Diabetes. The gift follows on the heels of an alliance between City of Hope and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an organization that applies genomic analysis and bioinformatics in the development of personalized approach to therapies for diseases like cancer and diabetes. “One of the lessons we’ve had recently is that every patient is different,” said Bart Roep, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Wanek Family Project. “So you really have to do a fine diagnosis, like we do in cancer, to offer the best type of therapy to the individual patient — something we call personalized medicine, or precision medicine.” But for that, he says, researchers first need to understand what makes one T1D patient different from another. They also need to understand the mechanisms behind how the immune system mistakenly destroys beta cells — the cells that make insulin — to cause T1D. “That is what the Wanek Family Program entails, and we’re taking it from different angles,” said Roep, who is also the Chan Soon-Shiong Shapiro Distinguished Chair in Diabetes and Professor and founding Chair, Department of Diabetes Immunology at City of Hope. We have people here t Continue reading >>
Targeting A Cure For Type 1 Diabetes
How Long Will We Have To Wait? about the book Every person touched by diabetes wants to know when there will be a cure. A lot of work is going on, but what are the chances of a breakthrough? Targeting a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes is diaTribe's comprehensive overview of where we are and where we're headed in that search. Rich in detail and written for patients and their families, the report features the latest information on the most promising approaches for curing diabetes. These include immune therapeutics, islet and pancreas transplantation, beta cell regeneration and survival agents, and the artificial pancreas. With an introduction by Dr. Aaron Kowalski of the JDRF, and with concluding remarks by our Editor in Chief, Kelly Close, Targeting a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes is essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about what a cure might look like or when it will be available. Although a cure may not be right around the corner, this book lays bare the possibilities of all the exciting research now underway. To buy a copy of Targeting a Cure, visit the ADA's store. critical acclaim "Targeting a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes will give you hope that someday struggling with the management of type 1 diabetes will only be a memory."- Richard M. Bergenstal, MD (Executive Director, International Diabetes Center, Minneapolis, MN) “After reading about Kelly Close and her teams’ incredible journey of discovery, we cannot only continue to dream, but we can open our eyes each morning to a reality that brings us closer, inch by inch, discovery by discovery, to a day when glucose control will be automatic and people with type 1 diabetes will be ‘cured.’”- Francine R. Kaufman, MD (Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Global Medical, Clinical & Health Affairs, Medtroni Continue reading >>
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Diabetes Could Be Cured As Scientists Find Cause Of Disease
Diabetes could be cured after scientists discovered that toxic clumps of a hormone stop cells producing insulin. Scientists at Manchester University have found that both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are driven by the same underlying mechanism. The findings suggest that both forms occur when the hormone amylin begins to clump together, surrounding cells, and preventing them from producing insulin. Insulin is essential for moving sugar from the blood stream into muscles and fatty tissue to provide energy. But too little insulin allows dangerous levels of glucose to build up in the blood, causing damage to the heart kidneys, eyes and nerves. However the new finding could pave the way for drugs which stop the amylin build-up in the first place or dissolve clumps which are already present. Related Articles Full fat milk and cheese reduce the risk of diabetes: study 16 Sep 2014 What are stem cells? 09 Oct 2014 I never thought I was the type who would develop diabetes 11 Jun 2014 One in three adults have borderline diabetes, study finds 10 Jun 2014 Women with diabetes at greater heart risk than men: study 23 May 2014 The NHS is collapsing under the weight of demand 11 Jun 2014 More than three million people in Britain have been diagnosed with diabetes, with that figure expected to five million by 2025. The vast majority of sufferers (85 per cent) have Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity, poor diet and sedentary lifestyles. More than 70,000 deaths a year occur among those suffering from the condition - one in seven of all deaths. The pancreas produces both insulin and amylin which usually work together to regulate the body’s response to food. However, some of the amylin that is produced can get deposited around cells in the pancreas as toxic clumps, which then, in turn, Continue reading >>
Stay Well & Sparkle: Can Diabetes Be Cured?
“Mama, how come your mout’ so long?” Little Pig asked innocently. “Just wait till you grow up,” Mama Pig answered, “and you’ll find out!” Diabetes is like that. It may be a nuisance to keep up with and it doesn’t really hurt in the present. Not until the disease ‘grows up’ in a patient over the years do we find out the harvest of ill effects. Every now and again, we are shocked to hear of some young person having to go on dialysis, or of some dear middle-aged person getting a stroke or amputated. Instead of ‘acts of God’ coming out of nowhere, these are largely the direct consequences the things we do and don’t do. Readers of the diabetes article a couple weeks aback know how deceitful and deadly it is. So much so, Dr. Max Pemberton is a British AIDS specialist compared exploding ravages of diabetes to advances made in his own field. He went as far as to declare: “I’d rather have HIV than Diabetes.” Our gut reaction is “What nonsense mister talking there, nuh!” But if you read the article, you have no choice but see where he is coming from. You see; if diabetes were a contagious disease, health officials would be way more freaked out about it than Ebola. Yet long after that lethal virus has disappeared from the headlines, the specter of diabetes will continue to stalk the world at exponential speed. And Dominica is right up there, in the thick of things. That is why it was so gratifying to see all the people who came to check their HbA1C – the best indicator of whether we have diabetes or about to. Did you? Some people have Type 1 diabetes where the pancreas, which produces insulin, is destroyed by some weird autoimmune condition. That’s a done deal over which we have little or no control other than taking insulin shots or pump Continue reading >>
Can You Cure Yourself Of Type 2 Diabetes? Meet Three People Who Have
Type 2 diabetes is a modern-day epidemic, affecting more than 3 million people – with five million more at risk. But while it brings serious health complications, a diagnosis doesn’t mean a life-sentence. Fiona Duffy meets three former patients who reversed the condition and have never felt better. I cut out sugar and ate more fish Dad-of-four Courtenay Hitchcock, 49, is a lifestyle photographer from Sturminster Newton, Dorset. He is married to Laura 41. “My job involves lots of driving, unsocial hours and eating late but I was shocked to realised I’d gone from ‘a big chap’ to ‘clinically obese’ in a few years. “For months I’d felt lethargic but, over Christmas 2013, I began to feel fluey – with a raging thirst. "My GP suspected Type 2 diabetes and I was horrified to discover that complications include limb loss, blindness and kidney failure. “I was even more aghast when I stood on the scales and reached 19 stone 8lb. "Blood tests also revealed dangerously high blood sugar levels – anything of 6.5 and above is classified as Type 2 diabetes. Mine were 23. “I was put on medication and referred to a diabetes nurse. "Meanwhile, I researched it – reading about people who had improved, and even reversed, their diabetes through diet and exercise. “But the nurse was dismissive when I suggested I try to do the same. ‘That’s not very likely,’ she said. Her attitude was like a red rag to a bull. “I cut out sugar and used Stevia – a natural sweetener. I also adopted a Mediterranean diet with more fish. “I was too ashamed to join a gym. Instead, I started really walking Blue, our rottweiler, and I abandoned the car – if we needed milk, I’d walk briskly into town. I bought a stationary bike too. “By September, just six months later, I Continue reading >>
Is There A Diabetes Cure?
With all the research on diabetes and advances in diabetes treatments, it's tempting to think someone has surely found a diabetes cure by now. But the reality is that there is no cure for diabetes -- neither type 1 diabetes nor type 2 diabetes. (Although lifestyle changes can achieve remission in type 2 diabetes in some cases.) However, there are treatments, including simple things you can do daily, that make a big difference. No. Natural therapies such as deep abdominal breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, and biofeedback can help relieve stress. And emotional stress affects your blood sugar levels. So learning to relax is important in managing your diabetes. Supplements don't cure diabetes, either. Some natural supplements may interact dangerously with your diabetes medication. Others have been shown to help improve your diabetes, but always check with your doctor before taking any supplement. Be skeptical about claims of a diabetes cure. A genuine cure will have been tested repeatedly in clinical trials with clear success. Even though there's no diabetes cure, diabetes can be treated and controlled, and some people may go into remission. To manage diabetes effectively, you need to do the following: Manage your blood sugar levels. Know what to do to help keep them as near to normal as possible every day: Check your glucose levels frequently. Take your diabetes medicine regularly. And balance your food intake with medication, exercise, stress management, and good sleep habits. Plan what you eat at each meal. Stick to your diabetes eating plan as often as possible. Bring healthy snacks with you. You’ll be less likely to snack on empty calories. Exercise regularly. Exercise helps you keep you fit, burns calories, and helps normalize your blood gluc Continue reading >>
Researchers May Have Found A Way To Reverse Type 1 Diabetes
Image Point Fr/Shutterstock A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes means a lifetime of constant diligence. Unlike type 2 diabetes, type 1 usually develops early in life. Those diagnosed have to check blood sugar several times a day and take insulin as needed; the process is difficult, expensive, and potentially dangerous. That helps explain the excitement about a potential cure for type 1 diabetes using an already approved treatment. Doctors diagnose more than 18,000 children and teens with type 1 diabetes every year, according to the CDC. These kids lack the ability to make enough insulin, the hormone that processes blood sugar. Using insulin injections to control blood sugar with insulin is tricky because diet, exercise, and stress can quickly alter levels. Without enough insulin, kidney, heart, and nerve damage can be the result. Get too much, and blood sugar levels will plummet dangerously low. (This is the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes.) Researchers in Israel have tried treating type 1 diabetics with an immune system protein called alpha-1 antitrypsin (alpha-1)—it helps target germs. Normally, insulin gets lower and lower over time in diabetics, but extra alpha-1 seems to help the body produce more. Researchers gave 12 recently diagnosed type 1 diabetics an alpha-1 drip once a week for eight weeks in a study in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. For a year and counting following treatment, two of the participants have been making more of their own insulin. Another three saw only minor decreases—which is a good sign. “Compared to the natural course of the disease, which is downhill, even a flat line is considered success,” says study co-author Eli C. Lewis, PhD, biochemical and pharmacology professor at Ben-Gurion University of the N Continue reading >>
Will There Ever Be A Cure For Diabetes? Why Or Why Not?
For More tips,read more about diabetes Diabetes Full Control- Live a Better Life What is type 1 diabetes? Around 400,000 people in Germany are producing cells of the pancreas and destroys them. As a result, it comes within a few days to weeks for lack of insulin production. Type 1 diabetes often occurs as early as childhood and adolescence. The hormone insulin is responsible for the locks of dietary sugar from the blood into the cells that need it for energy. In insulin deficiency, the glucose in the blood accumulates - the blood sugar level rises. This can damage permanently the blood vessels, nerves and numerous organs. Patients with type 1 diabetes need throughout their lives several times daily insulin injections to prevent acute metabolic disorders and related diseases due to high blood sugar levels. What is the difference between Type 1 diabetes and Type 2? In contrast to type 1 diabetes is the type 2 diabetes, below the estimated about seven million people in Germany suffer, not the consequence of a lack of insulin, but an insulin resistance. This means that the cells no longer speak adequately to insulin, so that the hormone can not smuggle the sugar into the cells. The blood sugar level rises. To compensate, the pancreas initially produces larger amounts of insulin. Also no longer sufficient to overcome the insulin resistance, a type 2 diabetes develops. The main causes of type 2 diabetes are genetic predisposition, obesity and lack of exercise. While the type 1 diabetes is more likely in recent years, a type 2 diabetes often develops at an advanced age in patients. Training: What to know patients Typically, a person with Type 1 diabetes leads his therapy in everyday life through their own, as long as no problems or complaints arise. In children take parents th Continue reading >>
A Team Cured Diabetes In Mice Without Side Effects
A Cure for Diabetes A potential cure for Type 1 diabetes looms on the horizon in San Antonio, and the novel approach would also allow Type 2 diabetics to stop insulin shots. The discovery, made at The University of Texas Health Science Center, now called UT Health San Antonio, increases the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin. UT Health San Antonio researchers have a goal to reach human clinical trials in three years, but to do so they must first test the strategy in large-animal studies, which will cost an estimated $5 million. Those studies will precede application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Investigational New Drug (IND) approval, Bruno Doiron, Ph.D., a co-inventor, said. The scientists received a U.S. patent in January, and UT Health San Antonio is spinning out a company to begin commercialization. The strategy has cured diabetes in mice. “It worked perfectly,” Dr. Doiron, assistant professor of medicine at UT Health, said. “We cured mice for one year without any side effects. That’s never been seen. But it’s a mouse model, so caution is needed. We want to bring this to large animals that are closer to humans in physiology of the endocrine system.” Ralph DeFronzo, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Diabetes at UT Health, is co-inventor on the patent. He described the therapy: “The pancreas has many other cell types besides beta cells, and our approach is to alter these cells so that they start to secrete insulin, but only in response to glucose [sugar],” he said. “This is basically just like beta cells.” Insulin, which lowers blood sugar, is only made by beta cells. In Type 1 diabetes, beta cells are destroyed by the immune system and the person has no insulin. In Type 2 diabetes, beta cells fail Continue reading >>
Can Synthetic Biology Finally Cure The Autoimmune Disease?
Lev Dolgachov/Thinkstock Type 1 diabetes is a discouraging disease. Despite the availability of synthetic insulin and increasingly sophisticated monitoring technology, it’s still a condition that requires incessant vigilance: Diabetics must constantly track their blood sugar levels and carefully use that information to calibrate drug doses. Even if you manage to do all of that well, bad days remain almost inevitable. Take too much insulin, and you can spiral into a hypoglycemic delirium. Take too little, and your glucose levels will rise, filling the body with dangerous levels of ketones. Less immediately frustrating—but no less familiar for diabetics—is the state of diabetes research. Possible cures routinely pop up only to fade from view, their benefits never quite surpassing the simple efficacy of an insulin injection. More recently, though, the field of synthetic biology—a hybrid discipline that aims to construct or redesign biological components and systems—has shown the potential to produce a novel set of treatments. The solutions remain speculative, but they do offer cautious reasons for hope. “Type 1 diabetes, in theory, should be relatively easy to solve. That has been the mantra of researchers for the last 30 years. And I still take insulin every day.” John Glass, a researcher working on one such new effort, knows how maddening false hope can be, having lived with the disease for decades. “Type 1 diabetes, in theory, should be relatively easy to solve,” he told me over the phone. “That has been the mantra of type 1 diabetes researchers for the last 30 years. And I still take insulin every day.” I had originally called Glass, a synthetic biologist with the J. Craig Venter Institute, in the hopes of better understanding how his burgeoning f Continue reading >>
