CURES FOR DIABETES
CURES FOR DIABETES
There are only two potential cures for diabetes:
1 Bariatric surgery
2 stem cell
Bariatric surgery: is a procedure designed to help patients lose weight, but was found to help diabetic patients as well. The procedure is most effective against type 2 diabetes.
A 2004 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that diabetes was completely resolved for over 76% of the 22,000 surveyed patients, and 86% of patients saw improvement in their diabetes.
In an Annals of Surgery study, 83% of diabetic patients were cured after undergoing gastric bypass surgery, the primary bariatric procedure used at Geisinger Medical Center.
Dr Still further warned patients against taking their new body weight for granted following surgery.
90% of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are obese, and obese people are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes when compared to someone who is not obese. As a result, patients who fail to maintain their new body weight after bariatric surgery run the risk of re-developing their diabetes
Stem cell: Unspecialized cells that renew themselves for long periods through cell division. Under certain physiologic or experimental conditions, they can be induced to become cells with special functions such as the beating cells of the heart muscle or the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Due to this ability of stem cell researchers are looking for a way to induce them to cure diabetes by inducing this cell not only to differentiate into insulin producing cell but to do so in vivo I,e inside human body. Needless to say this might involve surgery to introduce this cell into a human body.
The head of the world's richest stem cell research fund says he expects to see a cure for diabetes in little more than a decade.
Professor Alan Trounson has highlighted research that has transformed human embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing cells to treat diabetes in mice.
He says the technique could work equally with humans.
"I do think we'll get a cure to diabetes," he said.
"We've got a lot of work to do because diabetes itself is a complex disease.
"It’s got an auto-immunity component, its got a cell replacement.
"I think it will happen. We'll use stem cells to do that. I’m sure of that."
There are only two potential cures for diabetes:
1 Bariatric surgery
2 stem cell
Bariatric surgery: is a procedure designed to help patients lose weight, but was found to help diabetic patients as well. The procedure is most effective against type 2 diabetes.
A 2004 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that diabetes was completely resolved for over 76% of the 22,000 surveyed patients, and 86% of patients saw improvement in their diabetes.
In an Annals of Surgery study, 83% of diabetic patients were cured after undergoing gastric bypass surgery, the primary bariatric procedure used at Geisinger Medical Center.
Dr Still further warned patients against taking their new body weight for granted following surgery.
90% of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are obese, and obese people are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes when compared to someone who is not obese. As a result, patients who fail to maintain their new body weight after bariatric surgery run the risk of re-developing their diabetes
Stem cell: Unspecialized cells that renew themselves for long periods through cell division. Under certain physiologic or experimental conditions, they can be induced to become cells with special functions such as the beating cells of the heart muscle or the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Due to this ability of stem cell researchers are looking for a way to induce them to cure diabetes by inducing this cell not only to differentiate into insulin producing cell but to do so in vivo I,e inside human body. Needless to say this might involve surgery to introduce this cell into a human body.
The head of the world's richest stem cell research fund says he expects to see a cure for diabetes in little more than a decade.
Professor Alan Trounson has highlighted research that has transformed human embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing cells to treat diabetes in mice.
He says the technique could work equally with humans.
"I do think we'll get a cure to diabetes," he said.
"We've got a lot of work to do because diabetes itself is a complex disease.
"It’s got an auto-immunity component, its got a cell replacement.
"I think it will happen. We'll use stem cells to do that. I’m sure of that."
Comments