Diabetes has become an epidemic. Too many people worldwide are struggling with diabetes and with many serious side effects. These side effects include high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, blindness, kidney disease, amputation and more.
Recently there have been new treatments; new medication and other inventions to help individuals with diabetes control their symptoms. Researchers have been looking for ways to control diabetes and limit the ways that the disease ravages the body.
There is a new treatment which does not require surgery and has been found to reduce the blood glucose levels quickly in individuals with diabetes. If this is not enough there is a bonus to this procedure as well – substantial weight loss.
Basically, the procedure produces results similar to bariatric surgery which is used to help people lose weight. The main – and very important – difference is that bariatric surgery is major surgery.
The other exciting information regarding this new procedure is that it involves no surgery. The procedure provides an implantable and removable intestinal liner which can control blood sugar and weight. The liner is inserted into an individual through the mouth in a procedure called an endoscopy. No cutting, no scalpels, no stitches.
The implantable intestinal liner has been tested on patients and all of them experienced substantial blood glucose level drops as well as weight loss. In fact, an extremely promising result was that blood glucose levels in many patients returned to normal in about one week. These results are exciting because they point to the possibility of using the procedure on a more widespread basis to help many of the nearly 24 million individuals with diabetes in the United States.
There is more research is still being conducted regarding the intestinal liner and the procedure to install it. Harvard University Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Loss Center in Boston are leading the research involving this exciting innovation that could very well become the best and most widely used way to control diabetes and keep people battling the disease living healthier and longer lives with a great deal less complications.
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