This is fascinating to me. Hopefully it will be to someone else as well. I love "ScienceDaily."
QuoteBiologists at UC San Diego have discovered a chemical that offers a completely new and promising direction for the development of drugs to treat metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes -- a major public health concern in the United States due to the current obesity epidemic.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120712144749.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120712144749.htm)
Me, too - I'm a type 2 diabetic.
Quote from: OldGit on July 14, 2012, 03:56:11 PM
Me, too - I'm a type 2 diabetic.
Hopefully this will open a new avenue to treatment...
Tinkering with our circadean clock is scary. On the other hand this kind of discovery may eventually be able to fix our personal clocks so that we are not wiped out by jet lag. It may also repair many biologicals that suffer from diabetes and other maladies.. A salute to those brilliant lab folks.
I wish I could write advanced Japanese. I could then find the link (though wouldn't be much help as it would still be in Japanese) to the studies the Japanese have been doing linking particular cells in muscles to type 2 diabetes, it's an extensive study on how to prevent it from occurring in those at risk and minimise the impact through certain exercises for those suffering, it also happened to highlight the primary cause of obesity in western culture.
That sounds hopeful. :)
As a diabetic I am defiantly interested.
Soory to hear that, Mark. Are you type 1 or 2?
Quote from: OldGit on August 04, 2012, 10:12:31 AM
Soory to hear that, Mark. Are you type 1 or 2?
Type 2. Its why I lost my legs.
Quote from: markmcdaniel on August 05, 2012, 06:40:35 AM
Quote from: OldGit on August 04, 2012, 10:12:31 AM
Soory to hear that, Mark. Are you type 1 or 2?
Type 2. Its why I lost my legs.
I remember you telling us about that. I take much more care of my feet now as a result of your experiences!
Yes, I remember too. Sorry I forgot.