Tag: insulin resistance

ScienceDaily (June 9, 2011) — In a mouse study, scientists at Mayo Clinic Florida have demonstrated the feasibility of a promising new strategy for treating human type 2 diabetes, which affects more than 200 million people worldwide. In type 2 diabetes, the body stops responding efficiently to insulin, a hormone that controls blood sugar. To compensate ...

Researchers reporting in the June issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, have what they say is some of the first solid proof that insulin has direct effects on the reward circuitry of the brain. Mice whose reward centers can no longer respond to insulin eat more and become obese, they show. The findings suggest ...

Remember that your training sessions are the time to practice what you will do on race day. Written by: Lewis G. Maharam, MD Type II diabetes (sometimes called adult-onset diabetes; it’s where the body either doesn’t produce enough insulin or becomes resistant to the effects of insulin) is common and usually runs in families. Historically, it has ...

OBJECTIVE Bile acids (BA) participate in the maintenance of metabolic homeostasis acting through different signaling pathways. The nuclear BA receptor farnesoid X receptor (FXR) regulates pathways in BA, lipid, glucose, and energy metabolism, which become dysregulated in obesity. However, the role of FXR in obesity and associated complications, such as dyslipidemia and insulin resistance, has not ...

The road to type 2 diabetes is paved with insulin resistance, a condition often associated with obesity in which the hormone begins to fail at its job helping to convert sugars to energy. Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have now identified an enzyme called PKC-delta as an important molecular modifier for development of insulin resistance, ...

Humans with rare genetic mutation point diabetes researchers in the right direction The cells in the body of an individual with type 2 diabetes are resistant to the effects of the hormone insulin. A few individuals are born resistant to the effects of insulin as a result of mutations in their INSR gene, which templates the ...

ScienceDaily (May 2, 2011) — In the largest study of it kind to establish a link between sleep and diabetes, researchers found that people with diabetes who sleep poorly have higher insulin resistance, and a harder time controlling the disease. The findings, published in the June issue of Diabetes Care, suggest that poor sleep may contribute ...

Research may shed light on obesity's link to disease Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times Los Angeles— Type 2 diabetes, like Type 1, may be an autoimmune disease, but the immune system's target cells are different, Stanford researchers said this week. The discovery sheds new light on how obesity contributes to Type 2 diabetes and could ...

By Marissa Cevallos, HealthKey 12:35 p.m.|April 19, 2011 Sugar is toxic, argues a recent incendiary article that, as could be expected, has drawn attention from health experts, journalists and the people who really count – those who eat. Not only does ordinary sugar (technically a glucose-fructose combo) add extra calories to our diet, writes Gary Taubes in the ...

Type 2 diabetes is in the process of being redefined as an autoimmune disease rather than just a metabolic disorder, said an author of a new study published in Nature Medicine this week, the findings of which may lead to new diabetes treatments that target the immune system instead of trying to control blood sugar. As ...