News Medical : declared in Feast and famine diet may restore insulin production in diabetes

These findings warrant a larger FDA trial on the use of the Fasting Mimicking Diet to treat diabetes patients. These exciting findings suggest that a Fasting Mimicking Diet could provide an alternative, or at least augment, insulin injection in patients with diabetes. Mouse diabetes models (both type 1 and type 2) were placed on the fasting mimicking diet for 4 days of each week. Blood sugar levels consequently increase to dangerously high levels that lead to a range of life-threatening conditions. Currently, diabetes is treated by injecting the insulin needed to stabilize blood sugar levels.

A fasting diet may help reduce symptoms of diabetes: Study

New York: A new study has showed that a fasting diet may help in treating diabetes. A type of fasting diet may reprogramme pancreas cells, promote the growth of new insulin-producing pancreatic cells and reduce symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. For the study led by researchers from the University of Southern California, mice were placed on fasting mimicking diet (FMD) for four days each week which showed remarkable reversal of diabetes. "These findings warrant a larger FDA trial on the use of the Fasting Mimicking Diet to treat diabetes patients," said Valter Longo from the University of Southern California. Researchers also examined pancreatic cell cultures from human donors and found that, in cells from Type 1 diabetes patients, nutrients mimicking fasting also increased expression of the Ngn3 protein and insulin production.


What works in mice doesn't always work in humans"The pancreas can be triggered to regenerate itself through a type of fasting diet, say US researchers," BBC News reports. The researchers wanted to see whether prolonged fasting and refeeding could regenerate pancreatic cells. If you have either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, you shouldn't attempt a fasting diet without first seeking medical advice. Research in mice found a low-calorie diet may help in cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The blood samples from these people were applied to the cultured pancreatic human cells.



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