If you live with type 1 diabetes, you have to constantly keep track of your blood sugar levels and give yourself just the right amount of insulin. It’s arduous, and more than a little frightening when you know that the wrong dose could have serious consequences. However, researchers might have a way to let diabetics […]
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Cure for type 2 diabetes: THIS diet could REVERSE condition by boosting pancreas
Dr Chris Steele, who joined Holly and Phil on This Morning to discuss the breakthrough, said the findings were ‘very exciting’. He said: “This is interesting. The first step was done on mice which had type 1 and type 2 diabetes. When they went on the normal diet it kick-started cells in the pancreas. They […]
A fasting-diet may trigger regeneration of a diabetic pancreas
Enlarge / These mice are about to have issues. (credit: Getty | Portland Press Herald ) In mice with either type I or type 2 diabetes, an intense, four-day fasting diet seemed to regenerate pancreas cells and restore insulin production. Researchers reported this finding on Thursday in Cell. In Petri dish experiments, human pancreas cells […]