Type 1 Diabetes Cure

Ellen

There are several methods that have been used to cure diabetes and detect early diabetes warning signs. Each has their own set of difficulty because of issues like immune rejection, getting more insulin cells and keeping them alive and so on.
Some of the most popular methods to cure diabetes include:

• Pancreas transplantation
The greatest challenge when it comes to performing surgery for pancreas transplant is for the surgeons to figure out where and how certain digestive juices from the pancreas are being drained. This problem is nowadays solved when surgeons decided to connect pancreatic duct direct to bladder. There is a side effect for this though because the pancreas transplant recipient will have to continue visiting hospital regularly first year after undergoing operation. They can suffer bladder pain, urinary infection and also hemorrhage. Most of them will find it to be a fair trade because at least they will not have to constantly worry about their blood sugar levels. This will help them from continuously balancing their diet, insulin dosage and also exercising which proves to be a daunting routine.

• Artificial pancreas development
People with type 1 diabetes have always hope for scientists to create artificial pancreas that can help to monitor their glucose level and release the right amount of insulin to stabilize the patient’s blood glucose level.
This will soon become a reality when researchers from Sansum Diabetes Research Institute and University of California were demonstrating how their automated artificial pancreas are able to function without the patient pumping insulin manually.

• Manipulating genetic
Human insulin gene will be inserted into fat or muscle cells that do not usually produce insulin into the person who suffer type 1 diabetes. The results will be noticed instantly. The transplanted cell will continue to develop and will not be destroyed by the immune system. Diabetes patients find it a miracle because they are no longer controlled by their diabetes.

• Exogenous beta cells
Another form of treatment that is being tested is known as exogenous beta cells where it has been tested on mice and humans. It was not as successful because of strong immune system reaction attacking the tissue being transplanted.

• Stem cell research
Some of the more advanced treatment being analyzed includes stem cell research as a way to look for the cure for diabetes. Most of the experiments were reported as failure because of the same situation where immune system is attacking stem cells.

• Nanotechnology
Nanotechnological spectrum is identified as another form of treatment that has potential to cure diabetes. This requires tiny insulin implants to release the right amount of insulin matching blood glucose level when needed. The research conducted has been proving good results and this method is being developed from time to time in order to perfect it for human usage.

Diagnosing Type 2 Diabetes in Older People

Ellen

The type 2 of diabetes is common among older people. Type 2 is general among people but it is common among obese or overweight.

We are going to look on the diabetes type 2 among older people. Older people tend to have weight variation than younger ones.

Diabetes does not come in a magic, it has reasons behind it. Older people do not have the resistance to insulin. This comes with the aging process. Moreover, older people are leaving the active lifestyle to a different one- a life that is not that active. Another reason is the pancreas starts to fall out as age becomes bigger. The pancreas this time will start to work irregularly causing the insulin to fail also.

The condition worsens because of the unawareness of older people of the different medical symptoms guide of diabetes. Older people don’t like to eat which make people to associate weight loss than obesity to diabetes. One of the symptoms of diabetes is the urination problem but other people would link that to prostate function problem.

Another unawareness of older people concerns with the thirst that cannot be controlled. However, older people do not voice that out to younger ones.

Moreover, the problem of diagnosing diabetes among older people is the aging problem that also comes in. To be sure that diabetes symptoms will be acknowledged is to readily agree to assumptions that you have because a family member has. The symptoms you may observe with your family member to wit are the following:

1. skin injuries will not heal on proper time

2. some small pains in your feet and in your hands

3. lost of good cholesterol

4. high pressure of the blood

Knowledge of any of the symptoms is good but it is necessary that you will ask a health officer in your place to check you thoroughly.

Low Blood Sugar Symptoms Can Have Serious Consequences

Ellen

Type 1 Diabetes is a condition that causes your blood sugar level to drop below 70mg. This is very dangerous because Glucose is essentially the fuel your body runs on and if it gets to low your blood sugar can drop and the person can need rapid medical treatments.

Diagnosing diabetes early on is critical to keep many of the low blood sugar symptoms from becoming worse. Some of the symptoms include sweating, shaking, rapid heartbeat, anxiety and possibly hunger pangs. Low blood sugar symptoms can also include blurred vision, a sudden feeling of weakness or fatigue, dizziness, irritability and headaches. In some severe cases the person may even lose consciousness.

Low blood sugar symptoms can be caused by poor nutritional habits such as missing meals or not eating at set times. Diabetes can also be causes from the overuse of particular diabetic medications, exercising too much or drinking a lot of alcohol.

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or feel you are experiencing low blood sugar symptoms you will need to continually have your blood sugar tested. There are many glucose tests you can do at home. You will need to keep fruit juice, regular pop or milk with you to counteract the effects.

Once you have been diagnosed with diabetes and you wish to prevent further episodes you need to keep a diary of the pattern of these events. What were you doing? When what the time it occurred?

If you want to prevent low blood sugar symptoms you will need to limit your intake of sugar laden foods such as chocolates, cakes, candies etc. Many of these foods contain a fat which makes it more difficult for your body to absorb. Once you have been diagnosed with diabetes you will be assigned a nutritionist who will help you manage your diet.
It is important to let your family know what to do if you are experiencing the symptoms of low blood sugar.

Information About Type 1 Diabetes

Ellen

Type I diabetes is a disease that occurs when the body’s immune system attacks the beta cells. These cells that are found in the pancreas are responsible for producing insulin. Our immune system is responsible of fighting bacteria and viruses that cause sickness. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks cells causing deficiency of the insulin producing hormones. Insulin is essential in moving nutrients in our body for a source of energy. This can enable us to function well. The amount of sugar entering the cells is usually controlled but with type 1 diabetes things can go out of hand.

For people who are suffering from type 1 diabetes, sugar are not transported that can starve the cells causing to lose body functions. Aside from high sugar level, there are things that could happen like dehydration. Build up of sugar can cause us to urinate frequently because kidneys lose glucose. People who have diabetes type 1 undergo tremendous amount of weight loss because amount of calories that were lost. Ketoacidosis can also develop that is life threatening in nature. It is a combination of excess sugar, dehydration and acid build up. After awhile, high sugar levels can damage the body. It can harden large arteries that may lead to heart attack.

Everyone no matter what their age is can suffer from type 1 diabetes. Fortunately only small percentage of the population is affected. The factors that can lead to diabetes are unknown and it is inherited. The environment plays a huge role in triggering this disease. There could be a virus that can attack the pancreas therefore destroying the beta cells that produce insulin. Autoantibodies are often seen in people with type 1 diabetes. There are other autoimmune diseases like hyperthyroidism that can occur at the same time.

The symptoms of type 1 diabetes can be severe at times. It include heightened thirst, increased hunger, dry mouth, nausea, pain in the abdomen, sudden weight loss, tired feeling, blurred vision and hard time to breathe. After knowing the symptoms and if you think of having type 1 diabetes, it is best to seek the help of a health care provider. You would undergo tests that can check for abnormalities in the blood or have urine exam to look for glucose. The bad news is that there are no tests that can prevent type 1 diabetes.

People who are affected with this condition may have a healthy and long life. Monitoring and keeping your blood sugar in normal level can be a way to prevent type 1 diabetes. This could be done by watching your diet, exercise and insulin therapy. Insulin injections are one way to control blood sugar. There are a lot of things that could happen if type 1 diabetes isn’t cured. Retinopathy is an eye problem that occurs while having type 1 diabetes. The risk for kidney damage also increases because of this problem. It could get worst that can lead complete failure of kidney and heart disease. Type 1 diabetes can also damage the nerves in the feet. People with this condition are advised to avoid wounds, sores and injury in this area.

The Diabetic Brain – Alzheimer’s

Ellen

This article is primarily for diabetics especially type 2 but if you have a type 1 you can read as well. We’re talking about the diabetic brain there’s some interesting things that you need to know.

Number one, the brain uses 20% of all the energy generator in the body yet it only makes up 2% of the tissues, so it’s an energy hog so that’s the first thing.

There’s a thing called diabetes type 3 which is Alzheimer. So, in reality Alzheimer’s is diabetes of your brain because the effects of high blood sugar cause atrophy of certain parts of the brain. This part called hippocampus in the frontal lobe and there’s also other

parts too like the temporal lobe and that’s going to cause a loss of memory, a loss of your brain GPS the ability to locate yourself in space so you’re walking outside looking for your car you can’t quite find that.

The problem is Alzheimer starts way back over here like 20 to 30 years before you start developing the major symptoms, so it starts small and it’s brewing in the oven and then it gets worse and worse and worse.

Now the other thing I want to bring up is that when you destroy this part of the brain you lose your memory but there’s a treatment called nasal insulin delivery which you basically blow insulin up to your sinuses it gets right up to the brain and that has been shown to enhance your memory. Now you can see that insulin is involved with blood sugars, but insulin also has some other purposes of the brain that go beyond regulation of blood sugars as well, but I don’t want to get sidetracked on that.

Another interesting point is a healthy brain has 4 times as much insulin and 10 times as many insulin receptors which means that when you have diabetes obviously you have an insulin deficiency as in insulin resistance. Okay however they still haven’t figured out where this is in the blood-brain barrier, is it insert the brain they don’t there’s a lot of unknowns with this but all we know is that we need the right amount of insulin in the brain for it to work correctly. The other very interesting thing about the brain is that it does not store glycogen like your liver does and your muscles do, so it doesn’t have a glycogen reserve.

Glycogen is this storage of glucose. The brain doesn’t store glycogen, so it’s dependent on glucose from your blood. Now the glucose in your blood could be coming from glycogen in other parts of your body but the point is we don’t have this glycogen reserve like the muscles do which the muscles can grab glycogen fast. Your brain can’t, it’s totally dependent on what’s happening with glucose.

Let me take it one step further, your fat breaks down into fatty acids which can be used for fuel except the brain. The brain can’t use fatty acids, and guess what, 60% of that fat turns into fatty acids the heart can use this, the muscles can use it, but not the brain.

Thank goodness we have the 40% ketones your brain can run on ketones, in fact it loves ketones better than glucose, in fact if you have glucose and ketones together in your blood the brain will always pick ketones first over glucose.

Ketones can act as an antioxidant in the brain has anti-inflammatory properties it increases oxygen and bypass some of the damaged neurons and feed the brain directly. The brain has only two fuel choices: glucose and ketones. Obviously, you want to probably run on ketones right well, the problem is you’ll never do it unless you bring your carbs down below 50 grams and the average person in America is consuming almost 300 grams of carbs. That is the problem, a lot of times diabetics are consuming even more that’s why they have diabetes.

Diabetes is a disease of high blood sugar so why would you want to add more carbs to this this problem. In order to run your body on ketones and this is what I’m recommending you want to get your carbs down at least below 50 grams.

I hope you understand why you should be driving your body on ketones because the more you’re dependent on this glucose you’re constantly going to need food every 3 hours, you’re getting a snacks, your blood sugars come up and down and up and down, and then you start losing more and more insulin the brain then start getting clacking in the brain, and atrophy other than that you’re going to be perfectly fine.

The Alzheimer’s Brain

Ellen
Alzheimer Disease

What is the essence of Alzheimer’s? The brain is composed of neurons and there are these little synapse or gap between these neurons which the communication travels through here.

The interesting thing about the brain is it only represents 2% of all the tissues but it takes up 20% of all the fuel so it’s a fuel hog. It’s not like pumping like the heart is or the muscles. It’s not contracting, it’s just sitting there it’s not like the kidney where it’s filtering blood or the liver that’s doing all these metabolic things so really what it’s doing it’s taking chemistry and converting it into electrical energy and send signals and information throughout different parts of the brain to create different effects throughout the entire body so it’s an electrical organ.

The essence of Alzheimer’s is basically atrophy shrinkage of the neuron. The brain is losing the synapses so if we look a little bit further, we find out the reason why is because they’re starving to death of low glucose which is their fuel so basically, so that’s what Alzheimer’s is.

There are other things going on: some plaquing going on, it’s a protein plaque, we have glycation which is another type of sticky protein that’s plugging things up, and we also have a loss of oxygen. The oxygen your brain is mostly used for the oxidation of glucose and this is mainly why we need a lot of oxygen there.

There are certain tests that can be done to measure the brains consumption of oxygen and the consumption of glucose. If we wanted to check the metabolism of glucose, we would want to just check the cerebral metabolic rate.

Alzheimer’s starts in 20s or 30s and it starts out completely asymptomatic, there are no symptoms at all. The person has a problem with the metabolic rate of glucose and oxygen and there are certain parts of the brain that are affected more than others. The most common area of the brain that’s affected is the hippocampus. If we have damage in the hippocampus, we are going to have a problem with memory and learning.

Another interesting thing about the brain of Alzheimer’s is that in the brain has low insulin but outside the brain in the periphery we have high insulin so obviously we also have high blood glucose that’s outside the brain but inside the brain specifically in the neurons it’s going to be low, so everything is opposite.

The scientists talk about diabetes being associated with Alzheimer’s like their cousin diseases and they both seem to share things in common like insulin resistance.

Before we speak how to prevent Alzheimer’s there are very important things we need to know, and that is this if your insulin is high outside your body which most of the time it’s going to be, if we are consuming the regular diet that most people consume. We are not going to be able to run the brain on the alternative fuel that your brain loves, that actually will increase the oxygen that will improve the neurogenesis or the generation of neurons that will improve the antioxidants which will also lessen the inflammation and improve the cognition,

We can’t run on ketones as an alternative feel if the insulin is too high and if the glucose is too high. So this is the problem.

We are stuck with glucose, but the problem is we can’t absorb it because the whole mechanism is broken. So, this is what we need to do to prevent it and to lessen the symptoms. We need to start running the brain on ketones.

Ketones have the ability to bypass this damage absorptive mechanism and feed the neurons directly and start to improve this area right here the other thing that’s pretty dramatic if we are starting to get dementia or we have Alzheimer’s is to actually start taking ketones directly.  and we can take them as exhaustion as ketones or MCT oil in addition to doing intermittent fasting. We need to really focus on to really start to undo some of this damage.

Now there is a point of no return, and nothing can be done to revert it.

If we do research on the associations for Alzheimer’s there’s no known cause, there’s no known cure. We can’t do anything. The scientists are still doing research.