Chemical That Affects Biological Clock Offers New Diabetes Treatment 156
First time accepted submitter rosy rohangi writes "Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered a chemical that provides a completely new direction and promise for the development of drugs to treat metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes – a key concern of public health in the U.S. due to the current obesity epidemic. From the article: '...Scientists have long suspected that diabetes and obesity could be related to problems of the biological clock. Laboratory mice with altered biological clocks, for example, often become obese and develop diabetes. Two years ago, a team led by Steve Kay, dean of the Division of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego, discovered the first biochemical link between the biological clock and diabetes. He found that a key protein, cryptochrome, which regulates the biological clocks of plants, insects and mammals also regulates glucose production in the liver and that changes in levels of this protein could improve the health of diabetic mice.'"
Cryptochrome (Score:2, Insightful)
is like the coolest word ever.
Re:Sorry folks... (Score:5, Insightful)
Just commenting to undo a bad mod. Pity about the good mods, but dems da breaks.
You need to stop doing that. Here on slashdot we have +1, Insightful (I agree with your political statement), -1, Flamebait (You said something bad about [religion]... Die Heathen!), +1, Funny (You said something obvious, but in a novel way), +1 Underrated (A lot of people are going to downmod you for this in meta, but I love you in secret), and -1, Overrated (I'm too cowardly to delurk and tell you why I disagree).
Your post clearly indicates you are unaware of this and are attempting to moderate based on a novel concept known as 'merit'. I hope they mod you into oblivion, you community-destroying monster! You corrupt everything /. moderation is about. It's a debasement of our esteemed institution of knee-jerk moderation. :)
P.S. Thanks.
not the solution (Score:3, Insightful)
The answer is simple; carbohydrates.
Most of our carbs come from plants more closely related to grass [msu.edu](corn, wheat), than to a vegetable
Solution: eat grass fed animals [npr.org], eat lots of root and leafy green vegetables and some fruit
Re:Treatmen woo! (Score:4, Insightful)
I have never eaten too much. I got T2 Diabetes all the same - because it can be genetic it seems.