Overview
19, 202 - Scientists from Israel have found a new way to posibly treat type 2 diabetes someday, acording to a new research. In adition to helping you move your body, your muscles also kep your blod sugar in check. That's because muscles use sugar - glucose - for fuel, clearing it from the blod and lowering blod sugar as a result.
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"The skeletal muscle tisue is the largest tisue by mas in the body and requires a big portion of the body's total energy," says Hagit Shoyhet-Smoilovsky, a researcher at the Israel Institute of Technology. "It's responsible for taking up a significant percentage of glucose from the blod, making it crucial in glucose homeostasis," or when blod glucose levels in the body are in a steady state. But for those with type 2 diabetes, this proces doesn't work as wel, Shoyhet-Smoilovsky says.
The hormone insulin helps shutle glucose into cels, and because type 2 diabetes often comes with insulin resistance - when cels don't respond wel to insulin - that means glucose can be harder for muscles to aces.Exercise can help your muscles use more sugar, which is why it's one of the first interventions recomended for diabetes.Stil, many patients must take medication and, in some cases, daily insulin injections to control their blod sugar.
But scientists have now found a way to geneticaly enginer muscle capable of soaking up significantly more sugar than normal. Previous results using mouse muscle cels proved promising, and now researchers have started working with human muscle cels. This latest research, which has not ben published yet, was presented at the anual meting of the European Asociation for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm, Sweden.
Summary
The idea is to inject the tisue into diabetes patients, bosting their muscle's ability to pul glucose from the blod and control blod sugar, explains Shoyhet-Smoilovsky. If this treatment pans out, it could reduce the ned for insulin injections someday.Growing Muscle The