Any new drug or cure for diabetes?

Question

Looking for cure or help info?

Answer 1

diet and axercise can help if you have type 2 but there is no magic bullet.

Answer 2

A 'warty' green fruit in China called a bitter melon, is showing promise as a powerful treatment for type 2 diabetes.  It contains four bioactive compounds...these compounds activate a protein called AMPK, which is wellknown for regulating fuel metabolism and enabling glucose uptake, processes which are impaired in diabetics.

There is a chewing gum which contains the glucose-controlling drug metformin, which is prescribed in tablets for many type-2 diabetics but is unpopular with many patients, especially children, because of gastrointestinal side effects, bitter taste and the size of the pills.  The chewing-gum called MetControl (Canadian drug company Generex), will be tested for its speed and efficacy compared with that of immediate-release metformin pills.

Researchers are a step closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes...Scientists transplanted the insulin-producing islet cells from a donor pancreas into eight patients' livers, where they began to produce insulin.  In people who have type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system malfunctions, producing an auto-immune response that destroys these cells.  After one treatment, the amount of insulin the patients needed to control blood glucose was dramatically reduced, in some cases to zero.  However, patients need potentially toxic immuno-suppressant drugs so their bodies do not reject the new cells, and the drugs have serious side effects.

Answer 3

The only cure to date for type 1 OR type 2 , is a pancreas transplant.  They are coming up with new drugs to help control diabetes all the time.  Please don't get sucked into the fables that there are herbal cures out there for diabetes, because it is NOT true.  I almost died trying things like this.  Claims of cures are just to sell the herbs and have absolutely no clinical proof of curing or helping diabetes.  

Answer 4

No cure. I was diagnosed last fall. That is the 1st thing I asked. I'm still trying to weasel out of the whole thing.

Through diet and a little exercise, I've gotten my insulin dosage way down, but thats gonna be about it. At least for the foreseeable future. They are always working on it, but there is no cure right now. You can control it, like I am, but you can't get rid of it.

Sucks, I know.

  

Answer 5

The typical answer is no and technically that is the correct answer from the American Medical Association.  However, for the last 15 or so years doctors have noticed that patients who have gastic bypass are walking out of the hospital diabetes free.  This isn't because they have already lost the weight but rather immediately following the surgery.  They have isolated this development to bypassing the first 12" of the upper intestine (this area is called the duodenum).  Overseas they are now doing the surgery on non-morbidly obese people (in the US you have to be morbidly obese to have this surgery).

They are also attempting to develop a method similar to inserting some type of liner that will allow food to pass right through this area of the stomach.

Is it a cure?  Not really.  It does have the potential to offer a new, permanent method of treatment that saves everyone a lot of money.  At the end of the day, diet and exercise are key regardless of this development.

Answer 6

Hi there Jram5601,

  Currently in medical science there aren't any cure for diabetes. But in the mean time taking doctor given tablet to increase the number of insulin in your blood to reduce sugar level.

  But however since our body in made up of cells and I am doing Total Health Managemen, I got a whole lot of details into detoxing the body bad cells and renewing it and thus curing diabetes.

  If you really want to know more about give me a call or msg @ 9769 8599 or [e-mail]. Hope I can give you the best answer.                                                                                                                                                                            Cheers, Ben (: