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A pilot test was encouraging results on the use of autologous stem cells combined with oxygen. It was made ??together with American researchers Growing diabetes epidemic in the United States has deemed crucial for scientists seeking new treatments for the disease and its many complications. A new study published by researchers at the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) University of Miami, in conjunction with Stem Cell Argentina, Buenos Aires, showed that a recent protocol that includes stem cells and oxygen therapy in the treatment of diabetes was very successful in its pilot.

These were published in Cell Transplantation – The Regenerative Medicine Journal on 11 March, and played by the portal News Medical. During the investigation, 25 patients with type 2 diabetes received autologous stem cells, which were implanted in blood vessels that go to pancreas. Before and after this practice, they were given oxygen treatment. In type 2 diabetes, the insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells is tough, acts improperly or reduced. In type 1 diabetes, beta cells are destroyed and in general virtually no insulin is produced.

The aim of the study is to determine whether the use of the patient’s own stem cells with oxygen may help rebuild damaged beta cells. “Preliminary results indicate that the combination of autologous stem cells delivered to the pancreas and oxygen therapy significantly increased the production of insulin, glucose levels, improved metabolic control and greatly reduced the requirements for external insulin injections,” said Camilo Ricordi, director of the Cell Transplant Center and the Diabetes Research Institute.

Researchers Diabetes Research Institute in Miami (USA) have joined the Malaga group that studies the development of a cell therapy for diabetes, thanks to a collaboration agreement signed with the Foundation IMABIS (Mediterranean Institute for the Advancement of Biotechnology and Health Research) as part of the researchers from the Center for the Study of Diseases of the pancreatic beta cells, group run from Malaga by Antonio Luis Cuesta Muñoz. With this agreement, the group of researchers working in the Malaga study of a genetic mutation that produces highly efficient islet is part and represents the American Institute in Malaga. At the same time, it goes IMABIS represent the Foundation in the United States.

The progress made ??by the research group of professionals from IMABIS, in particular the Regional Hospital of Malaga, along with researchers from the U.S., Israel and Belgium, have served collateral for the Diabetes Research Institute Miami-Diabetes Federation-Research Institute, the largest diabetes cell therapy in the U.S., were interested and signed the agreement. Scientists Miami This will allow the exchange of researchers between the Miami centers and Malaga and the possibility of requesting funding assistance to U.S. National Institutes of Health through the Diabetes Research Institute in Miami.

The Center for the Study of Diseases of the pancreatic beta cells has been working since 2004 in the development of human pancreatic islet large size, high metabolic efficiency and ability to proliferate, using genetic engineering techniques. The research is based on the finding in two patients, one outside the family in a different country and race, affected by a rare condition known as hypoglycemia monogenic and described by Luis Cuesta, a genetic mutation that activates the glucokinase enzyme and producing islet cells with the characteristics mentioned . Glucokinase regulates insulin secretion by pancreatic beta cells and is responsible for maintain blood glucose levels normal. The severe hypoglycemia-low or critical levels of blood sugar, occurs when the enzyme is active over normal levels, producing a sustained secretion of insulin. Monogenic People with hypoglycemia due to severe activating mutations of glucokinase, have extremely low levels of blood glucose.

Whether to try to prevent diabetes can follow several paths. However, without a lifestyle that is tailored to the disease is not possible to assess progress, and changes in the type of diet and activities are necessary for our body will not succumb to the disease.

In the field of herbal medicine , herbs of Chinese medicine have been managed on several occasions as an effective treatment to cure diabetes , or at least prevent it. This time, researchers at the University of Sydney have conducted a survey of previous studies that associated with Chinese medicine and diabetes , to see if it is effective to treat the disease.

The researchers analyzed the results of previously conducted 16 investigations involving cases of 1391 patients with diabetes , those who had started treatment in Chinese medicine to combat diabetes . In some cases, patients simply asking them to change their lifestyle , while in other cases this is added the use of medicinal herbs .

Suzanne J. Grant , who led the research, found that in cases where changes in lifestyle were accompanied by regular consumption of herbal medicines the patients perceived symptoms score closer to normal levels in cases in which There were only a change in lifestyle.

The findings are published in the journal Cochrane Library , and to demonstrate the effectiveness of herbal medicine as a treatment for diabetes.

Running, jogging, jog “or” running “as you want to call it, is an endurance sport that wins more fans every day, besides being very healthy, pleasant and excellent natural soothing for stress, is one of the most complete out there and one of the most inexpensive and easy to Exercising, get fit and stay.

When you run you use every muscle in the body, allowing you to burn more calories than any other sport (300 to 450 calories per half hour).

Running helps you burn fat and is probably the most effective way to lose weight, though of course it requires diligence and discipline.

Running is one of the sport more accessible, requires no specialized equipment or facilities for practice, you only need good sneakers and comfortable clothing and light.

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A few days ago took out a new edition of World Kidney Day, a date which seeks, among other things, that people fail to capture the importance of the kidneys for the proper functioning of the body and promote prevention behaviors. The following are mentioned more details about this international celebration this year had the theme “Protect your kidneys, to control diabetes.”

While all human body organs are desperately needed and each one fulfills a function, the kidneys are vital for human beings because they eliminate waste and toxins from the blood through urine, as reported in this blog.

Such is the importance of these bodies since 2006 has set a day in the year to inform and educate about its function and prevention.

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Put honey on the wounds of the foot, is an alternative to avoid the occurrence of amputation in diabetic patients. This is evidenced by a doctor from the University of Wisconsin, USA, which has helped his patients avoid amputation. Now he plans to spread the honey therapy.

According to Professor Jennifer Eddy of the University School of Medicine and Public Health, honey can kill bacteria because of the nature of acid, but that honey is also effective to avoid bacterial resistant properties due to the use of antibiotics. “This is an important thing in the health world,” he said. In this honey therapy, part of the new wounds can be oiled after cleaning dead skin.

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It turned out to have the hunger signal levels, ranging from very hungry, hungry, until a little hungry. This all became the benchmark for controlling the excessive appetite. But if we are still difficult to distinguish hunger, do not worry, use the clock as a measure.

Health experts say, usually to an empty stomach 4 hours after the last time we ate. It means, we are permitted to eat food every 4 hours. This method is even safe to apply to the middle of our diet.

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With the program “Obeldicks” there has long been an age-Weightloss program for obese children. First study results when tested with 60 children who were on average 11 years old, showed that the success rate 6 months after study entry was 86%.

Obeldicks to help obese children to reduce their long-term weight and have more fun in motion. Unlike weight loss programs for adults, to be achieved in Obeldicks weight loss by the natural growth of children. So the goal is only once a Gewichtsstabilisation, so that the extra pounds to grow gradually. More than 400 children and young people have now participated in Obeldicks and most managed to maintain their weight long term. “The success rate at the end of the training is 71 percent,” says Dr. Thomas Reinher, the initiator of the project. However, the success is measured primarily by whether the participants can apply the long term at home what they have learned in the training: Three years after the training were currently at least 67 percent of all children maintain their weight.

How does Obeldicks?
In Obeldicks meet children aged 4 to 16 years, 6 months of time on dates once or twice a week in the pediatric ward. Meet girls and boys separately in the same age groups at the clinic for half a year together practicing exercise, eating habits, frustration control and nutrition. The parents and families of participating children can get at parents’ evenings and individual advice and tips to help their children. Moreover, there are also parents meetings where stands of experience with cooking recipes, weighing and sport motivation in the foreground. At the beginning of each Obeldicks-course is a thorough medical examination of the child. This possible diseases to be detected lead to obesity. Sometimes seen in this investigation that the cause of obesity is a psychological problem, such as a trauma from violence or abuse experience. In this case, the child is hospitalized before Obeldicks program on the station of the psychosomatic Child and Adolescent Clinic. Obeldicks also the program itself is designed so that the children only for the duration of the training unit must say a few hours of one to two days per week in the hospital. Read the rest of this entry »

The fans turned out to coffee and tea have a lower risk of disease type 2 diabetes, the diabetes is not dependent on insulin and the type of diabetes is more common.

But the efficacy of coffee and tea to protect the body does not come from the caffeine contained in them. Proved that the non-coffee caffeine (decaf) have the best effect to ward off diabetes. Thus published in Archives of Internal Medicine, a medical journal published bi-monthly by the American Medical Association.

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People with diabetes should avoid foods made from raw flour such as bread and noodles during the month of fasting, and should eat when breaking the fast in small amounts but more often.

According to nutrition experts, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Prof. Dr. H. Hardinsyah MS, type of food consumed with diabetes do not differ essentially when fasting or not fasting. It’s just that, eat only small amounts and more often.

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