A Knockout Cure for Diabetes
Posted Apr 11th 2007 3:29PM by Allie Beatty
Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Drugs, Research, Daily News, Events, Services
Hold on to your seats, folks. This story is pretty controversial but fascinating enough to make an appearance on Prime Time television 2x tonight on the evening news! A treatment involving the annihilation of the immune system, followed by a period of rebuilding the immune system is being tested in Brazil as a cure for type 1 diabetes.
The patients involved were newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and between the ages of 14 to 31 years old. The 15 diabetics were treated at a bone marrow center at the University of Sao Paulo. Timing is key in this method of therapy because if you wait too long - the window of opportunity where the body's ability to repair itself closes. The procedure involves stimulating the body to produce new stem cells and harvesting them from the patient's blood. Next comes several days of high-dose chemotherapy, which shuts down the patient's immune system. This also stops destruction of the few remaining insulin-producing cells in the body. This requires hospitalization and potent drugs to fend off infection. The harvested stem cells, when injected back into the body, build a new healthier immune system that does not attack the insulin-producing cells. Patients were hospitalized for about three weeks. Many had side effects including nausea, vomiting and hair loss.
For the record (and the Freedom of Information Act) the study was partly funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Genzyme Corp. and a maker of blood sugar monitoring products.
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1. Hi Allie,
Newly diagnosed … is the key term here … “newly diagnosed” Children who have ‘remission’ from ‘high blood sugar’ … WITHOUT the need for insulin … in a process called the “honeymoon period” [which occurs whether Many like it or not in more than approx 50% of all ‘newly diagnosed’ Children] … read all about it … read all about it ... read ALL about it … if You’ve been diagnosed with type 1 ‘high bs’ it’s the most important research You may ever do … and when You understand what’s reAllie going on with the “honeymoon period” and this ‘technillogical stem cell breakthrough’ … thank your lucky stars for the occasional ‘bs’ that looks a bit high. And NEVER let AnyOne mess with your “Honeymoon Period”. Period/s(?) …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6541887.stm
OR stem cell ‘Scientists’ [seeking lots of money from ?] use high-dose chemotherapy on healthy Children, with high blood glucose readings, to create type 1 Diabetics and deliberately [or do diabetes Scientists now commonly withhold ‘a control Group’ by chance ?] withhold monitoring and/or data of an UNdrugTREATED control Group [or even 1 Child] which was far more likely, in each such UNdrugTREATED case, to result in the total remission “Honeymoon Period” ie CURE [subject to proof any “newly diagnosed” Child was other than healthy in the first place] as compared with the partial remission “Honeymoon Period” [results] allegedly ‘discovered’, in Brazil, by the stem cell ‘Scientists’ [and if those UNdrugTREATED results were published the research grant for stem cell ‘Scientists’ would amount to ? … approx ??] …
http://www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/04/03/the-honeymoon-period/
… the “Honeymoon Period” which is extremely common [and capable of being extended indefinitely] provided JDRF advice on treating the “Honeymoon Period” with insulin is questioned and questioned and questioned…
http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=106137
JDRF says…
“Even though you may not need insulin, some doctors prefer that you take small doses of insulin daily throughout the honeymoon period.”
“some doctors”?
JDRF says…
“This may decrease the stress on the pancreas.”
“may”?
JDRF says…
“It may also help prevent your child with diabetes from thinking that the disease is gone.”
“help”? "from thinking that the disease is gone.”??
Warm thanks, Nicholas Dynes Gracey, BSc(Hons) Medical Biochemistry, Birmingham University, UK c/o www.TheDiabetesBlog.com @ 22:27hrs WED.11.APR.2007.
Posted at 5:35PM on Apr 11th 2007 by Nicholas Dynes Gracey