Diabetes could soon be treated orally say Scientists at the University of Tokyo
- NOVEMBER 01, 2013 telegraph
Scientists say diabetes could soon be treated orally. Source: Supplied
JAPANESE researchers say they are a step closer to an oral treatment for diabetes, offering hope of a breakthrough for a disease racking the world.
Comment:“Doctors advise people with Type 2 diabetes to eat healthily and exercise, but the researchers said that sometimes proves too much of a challenge.” To only way to life is to apply natural law and be real about what is nutrient based and what is not.
Scientists at the University of Tokyo said on Thursday they have created a compound that helps the body to control glucose in the bloodstream.
Glucose is a fuel that is vital to the functioning of organs but too much can lead to Type 2 diabetes, a condition that can cause heart disease, strokes and kidney failure.
Doctors say the incidence of Type 2 diabetes has rocketed over the last few decades, something they blame largely on the growing number of overweight people.
Studies have shown that obese people tend to have lower levels of adiponectin, a hormone that regulates glucose and increases the effectiveness of insulin.
Now researchers in Japan have developed a compound they named AdipoRon that mimics the effects of the hormone. Crucially, unlike adiponectin, AdipoRon is not broken down as it passes through the gut.
AdipoRon could be “a lead compound” in a possible oral treatment for diabetes, according to Toshimasa Yamauchi, a member of the research team and lecturer at the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo.
“We aim to launch clinical tests in a few years,” he said.
Doctors advise people with Type 2 diabetes to eat healthily and exercise, but the researchers said that sometimes proves too much of a challenge.
“Dietary therapy is not easy even for healthy people, no matter whether or not they are obese or have disease,” they said in a press release.
“The opportunities for exercise have inevitably reduced drastically as society has become more automated.”
The team’s work was published in the online version of Nature.