Research from Spanish scientists released in the journal Diabetes has shown, for the first time ever in an animal of its size, that Type 1 diabetes can be cured. This study gives great hope that soon type 1 diabetes can be cured in humans and may help fight the battle against type 2 diabetes as well.

While the exact mechanism of the gene therapy that was used for the canines might not work as well in humans, as the study authors note, it does bring them one step closer to a cure for what has always been regarded as incurable for humans.

Using viruses that were carrying genes for insulin and glucokinase (both critical in metabolizing glucose), the viruses were injected into the skeletal muscles of the dogs. After a period of time, and even after exercise, researchers found no evidence of trouble regulating blood sugar or suffering bouts of hypoglycemia.

The scientists acknowledge that attempting the same process in humans may not work, but it definitely gives them a place to start when researching new treatments to replace insulin supplement therapy. According to a recent study, a specific type of tea not only helps people lose weight, but it can also drastically assist in improving type 2 diabetes.

This same tea has been proven to help lower blood pressure, improve allover cardiovascular health and improve overall health. Researchers from the Keimyung University School of Medicine conducted a study, which has been published in the Naunyn-Schmedebergs Archives of Pharmacology, to find out whether green tea was able to help people lose weight, as well as regulate the glucose levels of type 2 diabetes.

The results revealed specific ingredients within green tea called gallated catechins that work to inhibit the glucose uptake in the intestines.The study itself began with the presumption that people could ingest enough of the gallated catechins to lower the blood glucose levels within the body from one cup of green tea, which could be consumed daily, but it turns out that this isnt necessarily correct.

You see, as helpful as gallated catechins are in the gut, it increases insulin resistance when entering the bloodstream, which is very bad for diabetic or obese patients.

To conduct the study, the researchers fed both diabetic and healthy mice a high-fat diet and then supplemented this with extracts of green tea. As a preventative measure for the potential harmful effect of gallated catechins, they bound the gallated catechins with polyethylene glycol, a non-toxic resin, so that the former wouldnt leak into the blood stream.

The results of the study were quite clear: the mice that were fed high doses green tea extract with the polyethylene glycol addition not only lost weight, but also experienced a great reduction in glucose intolerance and insulin resistance.

The mice, however, who only received the extract but no polyethylene glycol reaped almost no benefits from the green tea. As long as the green tea extract is combined with polyethylene glycol, drinking a couple of cups of green tea should provide enough gallated catechins to drastically inhabit glucose uptake in the gut and therefore improve both obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Another interesting result of the study was that the effects of drinking the tea (with polyethylene glycol) were the same as taking two types of medications that are being recommended to non-insulin dependent diabetics in order to control their condition.

This study is, of course, very limited. Many other studies have revealed numerous benefits from consuming green tea without combining it with polyethylene glycol. However, tea is a natural diuretic and drinking too much can cause you to become dehydrated, especially if you are replacing recommended water intake with tea. As well, too much caffeine can contribute to headaches.

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