DURHAM — The tapered cone shell is popular among seashell collectors for its colorful patterns, but the smooth mottled shells are also home to the cone snail which is capable of spewing a potent insulin-like venom that can paralyze its prey. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found that variants of this venom, known as cone snail insulin (Con-Ins), could offer future possibilities for developing new fast-acting drugs to help treat diabetics.
“Diabetes is rising at an alarming rate and it’s become increasingly important to find new alternatives for developing effective and budget-friendly drugs for patients suffering with the disease,” said Harish Vashisth, associate professor of chemical engineering.
Of course a diet-related disease will be treated over prevented. It's the American way to treat the results of the Standard American Diet with the further exploitation of other living beings. When the true cause of diabetes is , according to the lifestyle doctors reversing diabetes and getting people OFF insulin, using whole food plant-based nutrition, is animal fat surrounding cells and making them impervious to proper insulin absorption, using snake venom as another treatment is as insane as the $60 billion annual NIH budget wasted on finding "cures" for what are largely diseases caused by the SAD, standard American animal-based diet! Freedom is not giving your organs over as lab experiments but taking back your individual health with the health care we ALL have at the end of our fork! "How To Prevent and Reverse Diabetes" by Dr. Neal Barnard, is a good place to begin. UNH promotes the diet of disease as it consumes grant after grant for the faulty research it does and its own dairy program. Look to Occams Razor, the simplest answer is the correct one. WE ARE EATING disease, and treating the symptoms.
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Of course a diet-related disease will be treated over prevented. It's the American way to treat the results of the Standard American Diet with the further exploitation of other living beings. When the true cause of diabetes is , according to the lifestyle doctors reversing diabetes and getting people OFF insulin, using whole food plant-based nutrition, is animal fat surrounding cells and making them impervious to proper insulin absorption, using snake venom as another treatment is as insane as the $60 billion annual NIH budget wasted on finding "cures" for what are largely diseases caused by the SAD, standard American animal-based diet! Freedom is not giving your organs over as lab experiments but taking back your individual health with the health care we ALL have at the end of our fork! "How To Prevent and Reverse Diabetes" by Dr. Neal Barnard, is a good place to begin. UNH promotes the diet of disease as it consumes grant after grant for the faulty research it does and its own dairy program. Look to Occams Razor, the simplest answer is the correct one. WE ARE EATING disease, and treating the symptoms.
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