Posted on 03/24/2009 12:24:38 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
About 5 years ago I was diagnosed with Diabetes. At first I took pills but those proved ineffective after a few years and I moved on to daily (multiple times a day) insulin injections. While I'm grateful that its relatively simple to stay alive, it really sucks. I mean REALLY REALLY SUCKS. Then along comes some professor down in Florida who bioengineers lettuce to solve my problem:
University of Central Florida professor Henry Daniell has come up with a way to train the body’s immune system to make its own insulin using genetically engineered lettuce that includes the insulin gene. Instead of injections, which deliver insulin to the bloodstream, Daniell uses the freeze-dried lettuce in powder or capsule form. The lettuce cells protect the insulin as it goes through the digestive system. Once in the intestines, the lettuce cells break down, and the remaining insulin triggers an immune response that results in the body making its own insulin cells.
Diabetic mice treated with Daniell’s therapy showed normal blood and urine sugar levels after eight weeks. “These animals pretty much got cured,” he says. They are looking for $20 million to start human trials. I think that Messiah Obama should fund this. I mean, hell, we are paying to control pig smell in Iowa. This would help about 25 million Americans. Me included.
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This sounds like a commercially viable product. Why would it need government funding?
There seems to be A LOT of progress on this diseas (type one and type two). I wouldn’t be surprised that in 5-10 years that both types become curable. And the monetary benefits to the health system would be immense.
My cat has been diabetic since 2002, he’s doing just fine.
In a truly free country it would be on the market by now!
Try 600 mg of alpha-lipoic acid plus 200mcg trivalent chromium daily. You probably don’t need any more insulin. You just need the insulin you already have to work effectively.
When will they figure out why the body has turned on itself, as in type 1? That is the key. The pancreas keep making new beta cells but the autoimmune attacks keep on killing them. If you have any knowledge of promising type 1 progress, please tell me. (I have two type 1 children)
Oh, you meant to write "diabetes-curing lettuce".
But then I suppose English as dead a language as Latin.
If this is true, the FDA will slap this guy down hard, and destroy him soon.
Diabetes is one of quack medicine’s biggest cash cows, and they will not tolerate any interferance.
They need to find a cure for this soon. This, cancer, MS, Alzhimer, and some others that have been studied and money spent for years and years. Stem Cells have been used by adults and have shown some strides but we need more.
This assumes insulin resistant (Type 2) vs. insulin deficient (Type 1).
Some have no endogenous insulin to “work effectively”.
“This assumes insulin resistant (Type 2) vs. insulin deficient (Type 1).”
“About 5 years ago I was diagnosed with Diabetes.”
Could be a child freeper, but I assumed not.
lipoic acid is a natural “wonder drug” for type-2 diabetes.
Diabetes is one of quack medicine’s biggest cash cows, and they will not tolerate any interferance.
Amen, brother. I'm on lizard spit (Byetta) which runs my insurance about $230 mo. The stuff works (A1c 10.5 a year and a half ago when I started, down to 6.2 two months ago) but what a cost. Cash cow, indeed...
There was an American doctor who did some trials by using the diabetic subjects own stem cells and managed to have the subjects diabetes free after the trials. Unfortunately, his research was done in Brazil, I think. But his research seems promising too.
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