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2006-12-16 Science & Technology

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Posted by .com 2006-12-16 00:08|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Everyone ready to go down and get your pancreas shots? :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-12-16 01:52|| 2006-12-16 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Gorb: as a type-1 diabetic for 30 years, I'd say yes - I'm ready!!

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-12-16 03:28|| 2006-12-16 03:28|| Front Page Top

#3 I've been there for about 20. I'm ready too. Still makes me queasy, though! I wonder if they'd give me a general first.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-16 03:56|| 2006-12-16 03:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting how they managed to cure it overnight but quickly developed a treatment that will require constant maintenance. Good news in either case though.

Posted by AzCat 2006-12-16 04:31|| 2006-12-16 04:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't get overoptimistic. The history of biomedical research is full of "breakthroughs" that came to nothing (except to yield the researchers some serious grant money).

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-16 06:21|| 2006-12-16 06:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I have a friend in ill health, he's developed diabetes AFTER taking cortisone, each cortisone injection creates a spike in blood sugar.
Interesting, no?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-12-16 08:55|| 2006-12-16 08:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Capsaicin is in arthritis creams to reduce inflammation locally. The inflammatory response is accredited for other stress-induced auto-immune diseases as well as heart disease and arterial plaque formation, and even gum disease. My Mom took cortisone for her arthritis, before her diabetes diagnosis and heart attack. Cortisone is also a standard treatment for inflammation and used to treat other auto-immune diseases. I think it is the inflammation at the core of the problem.
Does this mean eating chili peppers and laying off the carbs will reverse our obesity and health care crisis? This is really interesting. Maybe raising chili peppers will give our southern friends a new incentive to stay with families and improve their own homelands. I'm having Mexican tonight!

Posted by Danielle 2006-12-16 13:23|| 2006-12-16 13:23|| Front Page Top

#8 each cortisone injection creates a spike in blood sugar

He was probably on the edge already, and this may have just caused it to be revealed a little sooner than otherwise.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-16 16:03|| 2006-12-16 16:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Does this mean eating chili peppers and laying off the carbs will reverse our obesity and health care crisis?

Hell I got some stuff in a tiny little pimento jar from DB than can reverse time as we know it.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-16 16:50|| 2006-12-16 16:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Hell I got some stuff in a tiny little pimento jar from DB than can reverse time as we know it.

Sounds like those Guatemalan insanity peppers, the "merciless peppers of Quetzlzacatenango, grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum".

And that whole time reversal thingy is just how you wish you could go back in time and not eat those peppers come morning.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-16 18:38|| 2006-12-16 18:38|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL!

Posted by RD 2006-12-16 19:57|| 2006-12-16 19:57|| Front Page Top

#12 DB sounds like my kinda' guy then! I love the hot stuff. Some has put me over the edge though....feel sorry for all those lil' bacterium in my digestive tract, lol!

Posted by BA 2006-12-16 20:44|| 2006-12-16 20:44|| Front Page Top

#13 There are certain Central American peppers so hot that you do not need to brush your teeth after eating them. All the bacteria in your mouth are dead already.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-16 21:02|| 2006-12-16 21:02|| Front Page Top

#14 And your teeth dissolved down to nubs anyway.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-16 22:09|| 2006-12-16 22:09|| Front Page Top

#15 good reason for the SoCal diet: Machaca burritos in the AM, cheese enchiladas/taco salad at lunch, and a #4 Combo plate from Los Nachos Taco Shop in Santee in the evening...you'll be regular, and happy with all the endorphins

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-16 23:37|| 2006-12-16 23:37|| Front Page Top

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