Category Archives: Genetics

Liver & Pancreas Precursor Cells Created Using New Stem Cell Production Method for Type 1 Diabetes

Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem cells. Continue reading

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Consumption of White Food & Flour Products Linked to Diabetes

For many people the emphasis seems to be on eating foods which look appealing. Unfortunately, these snow white and visually appealing foods come with a hefty price tag when measured in terms of your health and wellbeing Continue reading

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Predisposition Does Not Equal Predestination

We have been led to believe that diabetes is a genetic disorder. What is usually left unsaid is that our genes are affected by our environment. Our genetic code itself may not change, but the way those genes are expressed is highly influenced by the world around us. Continue reading

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Feed Your Genes: How Our Genes Respond to the Foods We Eat

What should we eat? What if you could answer this question at a molecular level? What if you could find out how our genes respond to the foods we eat, and what this does to the cellular processes that make us healthy — or not? Continue reading

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Prevent and Treat Type I Diabetes with Healthy Lifestyle

There are many environmental factors that have contributed to the rapid growth of [type 1 diabetes]. Most experts are now looking to environmental factors that are causing toxic and deficient states in these individuals. Continue reading

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Potential Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes with GM Lettuce

A research team successfully genetically engineered lettuce plants with the insulin gene and then administered freeze-dried plant cells to five-week-old diabetic mice as a powder for eight weeks. Continue reading

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Diabetes Susceptibility Gene Identified: Tomosyn-2 Regulates Insulin Secretion

Genetic analyses and comparisons of obese diabetes-resistant and diabetes-susceptible mouse strains revealed a single amino acid difference that effectively releases the brake on insulin secretion and avoids diabetes. Continue reading

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Life is a Do-Over – Research Summary

Many health conditions are preventable by living a healthy lifestyle. You cannot control your genetic makeup, age, or gender. But by controlling your health, you can lower your risk of future disease & help manage & fight already formed disease Continue reading

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Discovery of Insulin Switches in Pancreas Could Lead to New Diabetes Drugs

Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how a hormone turns on a series of molecular switches inside the pancreas that increases production of insulin. Continue reading

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Root Causes of Autoimmune Illness, Natural Ways to Prevent & Reverse Them

With type one diabetes It is great and necessary to focus on managing symptoms. However, we believe it is also important to address root causes of autoimmune disease and eliminate what caused insult to the body’s delicate but resilient balance. Continue reading

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Type 1 Diabetes May Result From Good Genes Behaving Badly

Research from Stanford University scientists suggests that type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease that develops in children and young adults, may not be due to bad genes but rather to good genes behaving badly. Continue reading

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“Recovering” Diabetics (Part 2)

One question we get asked often is “If the boys (Gabriel and Nathan) have regenerated beta cells, why don’t they eat other healthy foods that have a higher carbohydrate count since they should have enough insulin to cover foods like this?” Continue reading

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50% of Type 1 Diabetics Show Adverse Immune Response to Wheat

A research team led by Dr. Fraser Scott recently screened 42 patients with type 1 diabetes and found that nearly half showed an abnormal immune response to wheat proteins. Continue reading

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