The new discoveries bile acids' diabetes action could potentially mean new treatment for the disease, which is one of the leading causes of death in the United States of America.
Researchers from both Italy and the Netherlands, according to Medical Daily, have studied the discoveries regarding bile acids and diabetes, publishing their work on the scientific magazine The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
The new bile acids and diabetes study has discovered that, in fact, these acids found in the stomach can activate a receptor that helps overcome the loss of sensitivity to insulin. This could potentially mean the basis of the development of new medication to fight against type-2 diabetes.
As Science Daily reminded readers, diabetes will develop when the patient's body starts having trouble processing insulin, which is the hormone mainly responsible for the regulation of sugar in the blood; as such, the two types of diabetes form either when the body stops producing this hormone altogether (type 1) or, more commonly, when it cannot process insulin (type 2).
Type 2 diabetes is most commonly associated with obesity, and it is said to be the 7th leading cause of death in the United States, according to the American Diabetes Association. Because of this, the new bile acids and diabetes research could be a major breakthrough for the treatment of the disease and the reduction of the obesity epidemic that has worryingly grown over the past years.
"Of course, we don't want to use bile acids for treatment of diabetes," said Alessia Perino, according to BioScienceTechnology.com. Perino is the lead author of the bile acids and diabetes study. "We are very interested in finding molecules that can mimic the effects of bile acids, and we have already discovered several small molecules that can do that."
It seems that there is new medication on its way to being created, right when other measures are being taken against obesity - such as the news of the new Berkeley soda tax law, approved in the California city last Tuesday.
