Researchers have long tied type 2 diabetes to chronic inflammation, caused by a ramping-up of immune system activity that ultimately damages insulin receptor signalling and leads to insulin resistance. But in September, Umut Ozcan, an obesity researcher at Children’s Hospital Boston, reported that a key inflammatory protein actually reduces insulin resistance in obese diabetic mice, curing them of diabetes. The protein, called XBP-1s, turns on genes that direct the assembly of other proteins that keep insulin function working correctly in the cells. Could be promising. Side note: I can’t help but think those donuts in the stock photo look delicious.
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Researchers have long tied type 2 diabetes to chronic inflammation, caused by a ramping-up of immune system activity that ultimately damages insulin receptor signalling and leads to insulin resistance. But in September, Umut Ozcan, an obesity researcher at Children’s Hospital Boston, reported that a key inflammatory protein actually reduces insulin resistance in obese diabetic mice, curing them of diabetes. The protein, called XBP-1s, turns on genes that direct the assembly of other proteins that keep insulin function working correctly in the cells.

Could be promising.

Side note: I can’t help but think those donuts in the stock photo look delicious.

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