'Beiging' White Fat Cells to Reduce Blood Sugar Levels and Fight Diabetes
Researchers are getting closer to learning how to turn white fat cells into brown fat cells, in a process called 'beiging', to bring down blood sugar levels.
Researchers are getting closer to learning how to turn white fat cells into brown fat cells, in a process called 'beiging', to bring down blood sugar levels.
‘If sugar replaces metal as a contrast agent in the body, it can also have a positive psychological effect and make cancer patients calmer.’
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"If sugar replaces metal as a contrast agent in the body, it can also have a positive psychological effect and make patients calmer," said Linda Knutsson, lecturer at the Lund University in Sweden. Further, sugar-based contrast agents are cheaper than metal-based agents, leading to a reduction in medical care costs. However, sugar-based contrast agents cannot be used in examinations of diabetic patients who may have cancer, the researchers explained in the study published in the journal Tomography. The tests were carried out on three people with a brain tumor and four healthy people.
Scientists found that a tumor's properties can be examined by injecting a small amount of sugar into it, and then measuring how much sugar the tumor consumes. The more sugar the tumor consumes, the more malignant it is, they noticed.
Sugar in Leafy Vegetables Could Hold Key to Healthy Gut
Leafy green vegetables such as spinach produce the sugar on an enormous scale globally, comparable to the world's total annual iron ore production.
Leafy green vegetables such as spinach produce the sugar on an enormous scale globally, comparable to the world's total annual iron ore production.
Barley Helps Reduce Blood Sugar Level and Cut the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Dietary fibers in barley kernel stimulate the release of important hormones and increase the number of good bacteria. It decreases blood sugar level and controls appetite.
Dietary fibers in barley kernel stimulate the release of important hormones and increase the number of good bacteria. It decreases blood sugar level and controls appetite.
Encapsulated Human Islet Cells can Normalize Blood Sugar
Islet cells can treat type 1 diabetes, but those patients must take immunosuppressant drugs to keep their immune system from destroying the transplanted cells.
Islet cells can treat type 1 diabetes, but those patients must take immunosuppressant drugs to keep their immune system from destroying the transplanted cells.
