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Chinese herbs could help fight against diabetes
Thu, 19 Aug 2010
New research has revealed that emodin, which can be extracted from a variety of Chinese herbs, such as Rheum palmatum and Polygonum cuspidatum, has shown potential as an agent that could reduce the impact of type 2 diabetes. A study that gave emodin to mice that had diet-induced obesity found it lowered blood glucose and serum insulin, helped insulin resistance and brought healthier levels of lipid to the blood. It also had the effect of lowering both body weight and central fat mass.
Dr Ying Leng, the lead author of the research, which was published in the said British Journal of Pharmacology, "If repeated in humans, all of these changes would be beneficial for people affected by type 2 diabetes or other metabolic diseases associated with insulin resistance ."
The research showed that that emodin is a potent selective inhibitor of 11Ã-HSD1, an enzyme that is involved in the body's response to sugar contained in a person's diet. The enzyme increases glucocorticoids' ability to act, so inhibiting it could limit its effects and improve diabetes and insulin resistance.
Leng added "Our work showed that this natural extract from Chinese herbs could point the way to a new way of helping people with type 2 diabetes as well as other metabolic disorders . To develop it further, researchers would need to develop chemicals that have similar effects as emodin, and see which if any of these could be used as a therapeutic drug ."
Thu, 19 Aug 2010
New research has revealed that emodin, which can be extracted from a variety of Chinese herbs, such as Rheum palmatum and Polygonum cuspidatum, has shown potential as an agent that could reduce the impact of type 2 diabetes. A study that gave emodin to mice that had diet-induced obesity found it lowered blood glucose and serum insulin, helped insulin resistance and brought healthier levels of lipid to the blood. It also had the effect of lowering both body weight and central fat mass.
Dr Ying Leng, the lead author of the research, which was published in the said British Journal of Pharmacology, "If repeated in humans, all of these changes would be beneficial for people affected by type 2 diabetes or other metabolic diseases associated with insulin resistance ."
The research showed that that emodin is a potent selective inhibitor of 11Ã-HSD1, an enzyme that is involved in the body's response to sugar contained in a person's diet. The enzyme increases glucocorticoids' ability to act, so inhibiting it could limit its effects and improve diabetes and insulin resistance.
Leng added "Our work showed that this natural extract from Chinese herbs could point the way to a new way of helping people with type 2 diabetes as well as other metabolic disorders . To develop it further, researchers would need to develop chemicals that have similar effects as emodin, and see which if any of these could be used as a therapeutic drug ."
You need to avoid the MSG its a bad one
Also I am wary of just going into one of these Chinese herbalists as you cannot really be sure of the quality control
you may end up taking a herb with say ragwort or some other liver damaging herb mixed in
If the baby milk can be contaminated in China then I don't suppose they are likely to be too fussy about the Herbs + there are not checks in the UK they just seem to scoop it into a jar and write a strange sounding name on it and charge about $25 a throw
I love bacon and Ham but it just Don;t go with a low salt diet
My favorite Sunday breakfast was some fresh baked bread with loads of rashers of well cooked bacon
and just a drizzle of Canadian Maple syrup for good measure. I always had this in bed while reading the Sunday newspapers with a large pot of tea.
The most civilized way to prepare for a pint in the local before embarking on Sunday Lunch