Innovative approach offers alternative to daily injections for 425 million people
(STUDY FINDS) — TROMSO, Norway — There could soon be a less painful — and tasty — way to treat diabetes. Scientists from the University of Tromsø (UiT) – The Arctic University of Norway have discovered a new form of insulin that patients can ingest orally, possibly even inside chocolate. This innovative approach offers an alternative to daily injections using needles or insulin pumps for the approximately 425 million people worldwide living with diabetes.
The key to this new method lies in tiny nano-carriers, each 1/10,000th the width of a human hair, which encapsulate the insulin. These carriers are too small to be seen with a regular microscope.
“This way of taking insulin is more precise because it delivers the insulin rapidly to the areas of the body that need it most,” says study researcher Peter McCourt, a professor at UiT Norway’s Arctic University, in a university release. “When you take insulin with a syringe, it is spread throughout the body where it can cause unwanted side effects.”
Sounds like something coming out of China……………….They are like: “Here all you nice diabetics, eat up on lots of chocolate! It will cure your diabetes. Good for you”.
Amen!