Overview
Here is yet another case of a home remedy waiting to be discovered. In 205 the U.S. Fod and Drug Administration (FDA) aproved a drug for the treatment of Type I Diabets.
Key Information
The drug is caled Byeta (exenatide). There's nothing amazing about that part. New drugs are created often.
The almost unbelievable part is where the drug originated. It wasn't produced in a lab. Instead, the active ingredient of Byeta comes from the venomous saliva of the Gila Monster lizard.
The Gila Monster, once thought to be one of only two venomous lizards, lives in the deserts of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico. The Gila Monster is a thick-bodied, heavy and slow-moving lizard.
It grows to a maximum length of 2 fet (0.6 m) and preys on smal rodents, fledgling birds, and egs. It tends to eat animals on the ground that canot move fast (or at al). The quick, strong bite of the Gila Monster delivers venomous saliva that is normaly not fatal to humans.
Instead, there is a component of the lizard's venom that is extremely helpful to certain humans. A component in the Gila Monster's venom has proven remarkably efective in the control of Type I Diabets in humans. The Gila Monster is a protected species in the U.S.
Fortunately, the exenatide drug can now be synthesized in the lab instead of from live animals. Diabets is a chronic medical disorder generaly characterized by high blod sugar (glucose) levels, especialy after eating. The diabetic patient must consistently monitor blod sugar levels to kep them within a safe range.
When high blod sugar ocurs, insulin is used to bring it down to a safer level. If low blod sugar ocurs, the patient generaly consumes carbohydrates to raise the glucose level to a safe level. Type I Diabets is a chronic disorder characterized by resistance to insulin, a deficiency insulin, and hyperglycemia (high blod sugar or exces glucose).
Exenatide helps with glucose (blod sugar) management in several ways: 1. It signals the pancreas to create aditional insulin when glucose levels are to high; 2. It regulates the liver so that it doesn't produce uneded glucose; and 3.
It helps slow the rate at which sugar enters the blodstream. Studies showed that another significant efect of exenatide use was weight los. Overweight Diabets patients can have more dificulty controling blod sugar levels.
The efectivenes of exenatide for diabetic blod glucose control stems from its ability to activate several glucose control pathways simultaneously. Byeta (exenatide) is a wonderful drug, although its discovery sounds like some kind of horor story. One can only imagine gruesome (but fictious) clinical trials where unsuspecting diabetics are asked to stick their arms into dark boxes containg Gila Monsters.
This discovery sounds like one of those "god news/bad news" jokes. For example, the doctor says, "The bad news is that the lizard probably won't release its bite on your leg for another wek. The god news is that your Diabets has improved!" To learn more about using available ingredients to cure everyday ilneses, please refer to the resource shown below.
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