Free Radicals and Diabetes

From the National Institutes of Health/ PubMed.gov

• Oberley LW.

Radiation Research Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.

The role of active oxygen species in diabetes is discussed in this review. Type I diabetes is caused by destruction of the pancreatic beta cells responsible for producing insulin. In humans, the diabetogenic process appears to be caused by immune destruction of the beta cells... Not only are oxygen radicals involved in the cause of diabetes, they also appear to play a role in some of the complications seen in long-term treatment of diabetes. Read More.

Toxicity Connection in Diabetes

From Oxford Journals/ Toxicological Sciences
Nicole Burns ¹ and Barry Gold ^{1 *}


Type 1 diabetes in humans arises from the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic -cells and typically presents in childhood. Genetic susceptibility is an underlying cause, but environmental agents, i.e., toxins and viruses, are postulated to be initiating factors. Read More

Inflammation: The Root of all Evil in Diabetes and the Dysmetabolic Syndrome

From Medscape.com
Aaron I. Vinik, MD, PhD, FCP, FACP

At this year's EASD Meeting, the Camillo Golgi lecture was given by Professor Antonio Ceriello, Chair of Internal Medicine, University of Udine, Italy. Professor Ceriello has systematically studied the role of oxidative stress as a contributor to insulin resistance, as well as a possible factor affecting pancreatic islet dysfunction.^[1] He proposed that free radicals were generated in excess, causing inflammation damaging to the endothelium of muscle, fat, and pancreatic islets. This concept thus implicates inflammation in both sides of the equation leading to the dysmetabolic syndrome and culminating in type 2 diabetes -- notably insulin resistance and impaired beta-cell function. Read more (free site, but requires registration)

The Science of Mangosteen

From LoveMangosteen.net
by Less Berenson, M.D., F.A.C.P. Rev 10-19-2006
The Mangosteen fruit and its rind (or "pericarp") represent an extremely powerful, natural antinflammatory. Inflammation is a key link to Cancer, Alzheimer's, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Allergies, Arthritis, and Autoimmune Disease. Dr Berensen provides in laymans language how Mangosteen can be successfully used both in addition to, and as a substitute to traditional medicine. Read more. http://www.lovemangosteen.net/files/scienceofmangosteen.pdf