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Four Possible Paths Towards Freedom From Diabetes
By Robert L Brown
Over the past decades, much research has been made on type 1 and type 2 diabetes. This research has brought fascinating advances that have made a great impact on the way the disease is understood. Now, it also gives more insight and real progress towards the methods by which it can be cured.
With so much exciting information on these advances, it is sad that only a few people know about it. What is important to note is that although there is no known cure (as yet) that will completely rid one of diabetes, there have been breakthroughs on how both types can be regulated and effectively treated. What's more exciting is that type 1 researchers have discovered treatment methods that hold great promise in keeping the disease in check and tightly under control.
By performing pancreas transplants on patients with type 1 diabetes, some patients have been able to remain free of the need for routine insulin injections although in many cases these patients still require the use of immunosuppressive medications.
Another potential cure is the use of exogenous beta cells to treat diabetes. However, in most cases a side effect of the patient's immune system attacking these cells has occurred causing the need for long term use of immunosuppressive medications. A similar method of tissue transplant to treat both type 1 and type 2 has been used involving stem cells. While this method has a lot of potential as a cure for diabetes, the problem of the immune system attacking transplanted cells also applies to stem cells.
There is another promising potential cure associated with the use of nanotechnology. By using microscopic implants to inject insulin into the blood stream and monitor blood
glucose levels consistently, could potentially be fully cured without the need for medication or surgery. This method is still mostly theory. Scientists are still performing research in this area and further advancements in technology are required.
A more recent finding in the area of type 1 cures has been made. In trials that have been performed, anti-CD3 antibodies and proinsulin peptides have been used together as therapy. This combination has been to reverse type 1 in animal tests that were performed and plans are being made to perform human clinical trials using this method. In animal testing trials, this combination has been successful in producing a long lasting reversal of type 1 of over a year's length.
What makes this last treatment the most promising as a potential cure is that it teaches the body's immune system to tolerate beta cells in the pancreas rather than attacking them.
Much research still needs to be done in the area of cures. However, at the rate treatments are currently progressing, it seems likely that a cure for is not so far down the road. Discover the current ideas around a potential type 1 cure plus arguments about the reality of a natural cure - just visit the links for more details
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