Thursday, July 10, 2014

After it is Approved


Is when they find out how it really works.

Scientists discover clues why weight-loss surgery cures diabetes
Study team leader, Dr Craig Smith, a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Cell Physiology, said: “Our research centred on enteroendocrine cells that ‘taste’ what we eat and in response release a cocktail of hormones that communicate with the pancreas, to control insulin release to the brain, to convey the sense of being full and to optimize and maximize digestion and absorption of nutrients.”
“Under normal circumstances these are all important factors in keeping us healthy and nourished. But these cells may malfunction and result in under or over eating.”
75% of people suffering from obesity who also have diabetes are cured of diabetes after receiving a gastric bypass and Dr Smith says that understanding how bypass surgery cures diabetes is the crux of his team’s research.
Dr Smith: “This is where things start to get really interesting because the most common type of gastric bypass actually also bypasses a proportion of the gut hormone cells. It is thought that this causes the gut hormone cells to change and be reprogrammed. For us, understanding how these cells change in response to surgery is likely to hold the key to a cure for diabetes.”
It has nothing to do with portion control or feeling full.
They bypass the cells that regulate insulin metabolism.

Good data.  But it's still what I call "taking the long way home".