Posted on 12/15/2006 8:44:37 AM PST by kellynla
Actually types 1 and 2. Originally found working on mice with type 1.
Anybody have an opinion on the truth of this? When our daughter was diagnosed, we were told proper blood suger management would prevent almost all of the nasty effects. Many of the problems like blindness, bad limbs and heart problems were mostly associated with type 2 patients that went around with 500 blood sugar for 10 years.
Me too, I was diagnosed with Type 2 about a year and a half ago and thought the only promising thing out there was Byetta. This gives some hope. Although I'll be surprised if it hits any market within the next 20 years, there's just too much money to be made by big pharma by treating the symptoms, not curing the disease. You ever notice we don't cure diseases anymore, they just find ways to deal with the symptoms and sell you bottles of pills every month. Very lucrative.
Thanks for the post! I just informed a friend with Type2.
It would be nice if they would speed this up a bit, just can't wait around.
Get a grip! No one is saying they can't go get a black-market baby and have a good, old-fashioned, Carthaginian, Baal-worshipping human sacrifice.
*shrug* You can always volunteer to be a guinea pig...
How wonderful! My dear husband was diagnosed with this disease a year ago and it has been awful. He takes care to follow the diet because his grandmother lost both legs to it and he remembers that all too well. What hopeful news!
Hmmmmmm, I'm gonna have to have a long talk with my doctor. He's been telling me I have diabetes for years, yet I now find out it only afflicts Canooks!
This would be a wonderful christmas present to many, prayers that this is cured.
"injecting capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot chili peppers,"
I wonder what the band members thought of having all their capsaicin extracted.
Good treatment can minimize damage. Still, even under the best control you are not going to have normal sugar levels. There will be some complications, although hopefully not severe. I get checked out every year (blood tests, eye capillaries, check for nerve damage, etc.). So far, so good. But one day they will find something. That's just the way it is. I've had Type 1 for 13 years.
I'd like to believe this story is true. But I don't. probably just angling for a grant. We'll see.
That's how I felt when they told me I had sickle-cell anemia.
Eh, I'm just edgy to see results. Not diabetic but I think a cure would be amazing.
Ping.
My mother was diagnosed at age 18 with Type 1 diabetes, and died a few years ago at age 59 from the effects of the disease. By the end, her entire metabolism was way out of whack, her sugar nearly uncontrollable, her digestion dysfunctional, and she was suffering from hypertension.
The good news for you is 1) Mom still had her feet and toes, 2) Mom could still see as well as ever (she was awfully nearsighted from youth), and 3) Mom was a drinker and smoker who didn't eat right, didn't control her weight, and didn't exercise.
Your daughter ought to be able to do far better than my mother did, if she even gives it half an attempt.
Wow, hope it is true. My sister had to have the lower part of her leg amputated last year due to diabetes. I wonder if consuming foods high in capsacin could have similar effect?
If you could actually cure diabetes you would slice a BIG chunk out of the nation's health care cost.
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