More about the pancreas again. Harvard University has just announced that it will carry out stem cell research with Tokyo University. One aim is to restore damaged pancreases. This has been done in Brazil. Bottom line: some kinds of diabetes may be fully curable in the not-distant future. Whether Americans will have to go overseas for treatment remains to be seen.

JBB



On Tuesday, Jun 14, 2005, at 06:44 Asia/Tokyo, FRANK CUNS-RIAL wrote:

The effects of Gymmema in the hypoglycemicare a complex issue.
Gymmena works in more than one way. In addition to stimulating the pancreas to elicit more insulin (probably by increasing membrane permeability) It is therefore important to control the amounts taken so not to overdue this production.