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New Treatments for Managing Type 2 Diabetes Hold Promise

Managing Type 2 Diabetes with a diabetic diet, exercise and diabetes medicine is essential to avoid the serious complications that result from high glucose levels in the blood (hyperglycemia) and progression into Type 1 Diabetes. Since Type 2 Diabetes often goes undiagnosed for many years, some of the complications of hyperglycemia are already apparent and in need of immediate treatment. In fact, the diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes is often made after symptoms of hyperglycemia force a person to visit a physician, who then connects the dots between the symptoms and hyperglycemia.

The conditions most often associated with long-term exposure to high blood glucose levels are blurred vision, kidney dysfunction, high blood pressure and depression. Type 2 Diabetes, while seemingly less serious than Type 1 Diabetes, is actually more dangerous because the diabetic often does not seek medical help until the complications from the disease have gone untreated for many years.

In the worst cases, the diabetic can suffer from blindness, renal failure, pancreatic failure, heart attack, stroke and nerve damage. While each of these conditions can usually be treated effectively apart from the diabetes, it is imperative that the diabetic condition be treated immediately to minimize further damage.

Managing Type 2 Diabetes with Diet and Exercise
For most people, keeping Type 2 Diabetes in check involves nothing more than implementing a new diet and exercise regimen in order to lose a certain amount of weight. Type 2 Diabetes usually affects the overweight and the obese, so the weight loss associated with a diabetic diet and daily exercise is usually enough to bring blood glucose levels down into the normal range and stop tissue damage.

Diabetic diet is beneficial because it revolves around a low sugar and low carbohydrate diet, reducing the amount of sugars for which the pancreas needs to produce. In turn, the body can reduce its fat content, thereby reducing the amount of adipokines in the blood, which increase insulin resistance in tissues.

Exercise is an important component of Type 2 Diabetes treatment because it:

  • reduces the amount of body fat and adipokines (proteins produced by fat cells that create insulin resistance within the body)
  • removes glucose from the blood to use as fuel
  • reduces insulin resistance in tissues.
Diabetics can also take a number of prescription medications that work in different ways to alleviate the high levels of glucose in the blood. Some stimulate insulin production in the pancreas, some slow the breakdown of starches and sugars in the digestive tract and others lower the resistance to insulin in the muscles and liver.

Potential Cures For Type 2 Diabetes
A number of potential cures lie on the horizon for Type 2 Diabetes, due to recent scientific breakthroughs. Some of the most familiar treatments relate to transplantation of insulin-producing cells into the pancreas, spleen and liver.

One promising new treatment is the implantation of insulin-producing cells derived from porcine primordial cells, the cells that are specific to certain types of tissues. In studies, the insulin-producing islet cells from a pig's primordial tissues successfully replaced the subject's insulin-producing tissues without requiring a lifetime dependency on anti-rejection drugs. The procedure has shown tremendous promise in mice and is currently being tested on primates. Once this testing is finished, human trials will begin. Since this is a one-time, permanent fix, there is great optimism that Type 2 diabetics will soon be able to free themselves from the constant monitoring of blood glucose levels.

Until these cures are brought to market, Type 2 diabetics are urged to diligently monitor their blood glucose levels, take any prescribed medications and keep a disciplined diet and exercise program. This will keep your eyes, hearts, vessels, kidneys and nervous systems in top-notch condition until a cure is found.

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