Chemical That Affects Biological Clock Offers New Diabetes Treatment

[Guest guest]

Chemical That Affects Biological Clock Offers New Diabetes Treatment

on Sunday July 15, @08:21PM

from the better-healing dept.

rosy rohangi

writes " Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered a chemical that provides a

completely new direction and promise for the

development of drugs to treat metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes

- a key concern of public health in the U.S. due to the current obesity

epidemic. From the article: '...Scientists have long suspected that diabetes and

obesity could be related to problems of the biological clock. Laboratory mice

with altered biological clocks, for example, often become obese and develop

diabetes. Two years ago, a team led by Steve Kay, dean of the Division of

Biological Sciences at UC San Diego, discovered the first biochemical link

between

the biological clock and diabetes. He found that a key protein, cryptochrome,

which regulates the biological clocks of plants, insects and mammals also

regulates glucose production in the liver and that changes in levels of this

protein could improve the health of diabetic mice.' "

[Guest guest]

Hello, and all,

This makes sense, especially in connection to the book " Lights Out:

Sleep, Sugar, and Survival, " by T. S. Wiley, which is on the Bookshare

site. Its thesis is that our long days made possible by electric light

are disturbing our hormonal and metabolic system and causing diabetes,

cardiovascular problems and other killers. Wiley will be glad to have

this study to support his claim. Also, there have been other recent

articles linking late nights to diabetes, but they hypothesized that

the link was due to late-night eating. By the way, Wiley is definitely

a follower of Atkens.

Dotty