What is Type One Diabetes?
This has always been considered to be a life-long disease, caused by the immune system destroying beta cells in the pancreas and thus not allowing the body to produce insulin.
Scientists have generally been united in their belief that there was no cure for this disease.
As the number of children diagnosed with Type One Diabetes worryingly grows, it is somewhat encouraging to read about a relatively new study conducted by scientists at the University of Toronto, in Canada.
Thanks to the Internet, this has found its way to almost all parts of the globe with amazing ease!
Enter - hot peppers!
It would seem that diabetic mice that were injected with capsaicin (the hotness chemical found in hot peppers) became healthy, and were cured no less than twenty-four hours later!
The scientists injected a substance that served to counteract the effect of faulty pain neurons in the pancreas.
Traditionally experts have held the belief that Type One Diabetes was caused by the failure of the immune system to protect, but Doctor H. M. Dosch and his colleague Doctor M. Salter, at the forefront of the experiment, now believe that the cause may well be the blame of malfunctioning pancreatic nerve neurons.
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