A promising diabetes breakthrough
A couple days ago, I was browsing through some of the diabetes web sites that I visit now and then. There was an announcement of a “dramatic diabetes breakthrough”. For some reason, titles like that catch my attention.
The announcement described a surprising discovery by scientists at a Toronto hospital. They injected diabetic mice with a neuropeptide substance and capsaicin (the active ingredient in hot chili peppers) and this caused a reversal in the symptoms of diabetes.
There’s much work still to be done, the scientists admit, but the reason this is such an important announcement is that it represents a whole new way of looking at diabetes. The traditional way of thinking of diabetes is as an autoimmune disease. This new approach looks at it as a disease of the nervous system.
You can read more about this on the following web sites:
- Diabetes Daily: Dramatic Diabetes Breakthrough
- Diabetes Mine: Diabetes Breakthrough Today
- National Post: Diabetes Breakthrough
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