Garlic Chemical Tablet Treats Diabetes I And II, Study Suggests

Science Daily ^ | Nov. 19, 2008 | Science Daily

[FocusNexus]

A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics say.

When Hiromu Sakurai and colleagues from the Suzuka University of Medical Science, Japan, gave the drug orally to type I diabetic mice, they found it reduced blood glucose levels.

The drug is based on vanadium and allixin, a compound found in garlic, and its action described in an Advance Article from Metallomics available free online from today. The first issue of the new journal will be published in 2009.

In previous work they had discovered the vanadium-allixin compound treated both diabetes types when injected, but this new study shows the drug has promise as an oral treatment for the disease.

[FocusNexus]

I did find it, but can’t get to it.

http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/cgi/reprint/3/1/159

When I tried to read it, it takes me a page that prompts sign in and it’s not free.

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[neverdem]

It’s just an editorial. That’s why there is no abstract.

[FocusNexus]

But what does it say?

Can you summarize, please?

Thanks.

[neverdem]

I can’t access it either.

[Pining_4_TX]

Ah, I wish I could, but I have been unable to get to it now.

If you go to abcnews.com and search for Nortin Hadler, you will come up with several articles he wrote on the subject of diabetes treatment, as well as some eye-opening articles about other health issues.

Also, he has 2 books out, the most recent being Worried Sick. I recommend it, but you have to have an open mind, because he lays out a convincing argument against much of what passes for conventional wisdom.

Freegards,
Pining