Are we close to a cure for diabetes? It seems that there is some success towards a cure to diabetes in a whole new direction. Till now much research has been done with the premise that diabetes is an auto-immune disorder, but new research suggests that diabetes is a neuropathic disorder. In a study performed with mice, the introduction of a "compound designed to circumvent the effect of reduced neurons in the pancreas" appeared to cure the diabetes in these mice.
Wow! I pray this proves out in further scientific research. It seems more promising than even the stem cell transplantation that I had previously read and written about. The use of adult stem cells is also coming along. It is offered now to some in the USA and Canada according to some sites I have recently been doing research on.
Islet transplantation is also showing some good results in combatting diabetes as well.
But a cure? None of these has been perfected to the point of making that claim yet. I pray that one of them will. I hate taking 4-5 needles a day and poking my fingers that many times or more.
Being a neuropathic disorder makes some sense to me too. I have had many things through my life that have been neuropathic, including epilepsy. If I am prone to neuropathic problems, and if diabetes proves to be a neuropathic disorder, my development of diabetes would not then be such a mystery.
There is no genetic indication of diabetes in my family. My doctors have said I am not that overweight as to be a cause of my diabetes. Nonetheless, I am an insulin dependent diabetic. I look forward to a cure.
For more information on these research areas follow the links below or google them under diabetes treatments, stem cells and diabetes, or many other combinations of key words.
http://www.informationaboutdiabetes.com/cure-diabetes-58.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18040485/ns/health-diabetes/t/stem-cell-experiment-lets-diabetics-forgo-insulin/
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891122,00.html
Monday, November 21, 2011
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