{"id":16176,"date":"2021-06-10T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=16176"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:00:51","slug":"a-diabetes-vaccine-is-in-the-works-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/diabetes\/a-diabetes-vaccine-is-in-the-works-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diabetes Vaccine Is In The Works: Here’s What To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small, early study holds promise that there is a<\/span> vaccine<\/span><\/a> for type 1 diabetes that could help preserve the natural production of insulin in the body. <\/span><\/p>\n

Patients that suffer from type 1 diabetes experience the body immune system attacking the beta cells that lie in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone necessary for cells to absorb glucose directly from the bloodstream. <\/span><\/p>\n

Typically, these patients require insulin injections for the duration of their lives. <\/span><\/p>\n

With so many factors affecting how much insulin per a day a person needs, those that are insulin-dependent often report high and low blood sugar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Breaking Down Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia<\/b><\/h3>\n

Low blood sugar, also referred to as hypoglycemia, is a form of diabetes that can cause seizures or death in the short-term, while hyperglycemia, high blood sugar, can damage the organs over extended periods of time. <\/span><\/p>\n

Current research studies are testing whether a vaccine has the ability to stop or slow the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells. <\/span><\/p>\n

Studies have already shown how beneficial even a small production of insulin is for overall patient health. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those with diabetes who produce a certain amount of insulin naturally are not likely to develop hypoglycemia as easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

Research Findings Reveal New Information<\/b><\/h3>\n

Participants were divided into two groups, where one half received three shots of the vaccine into their lymph nodes while the other half were administered placebos. <\/span><\/p>\n

Natural insulin production, changes to long-term blood sugar levels, and the amount of supplementary insulin needed daily were taken into account, and the findings demonstrate that treatment with GAD-alum holds promise for those that have the right types of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes. <\/span><\/p>\n

The insightful data released from the study has now led to researchers looking to carry out larger studies in order to find a drug that can alter the progress of type 1 diabetes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A small, early study holds promise that there is a vaccine for type 1 diabetes that could help preserve the natural production of insulin in the body. Patients that suffer from type 1 diabetes experience the body immune system attacking the beta cells that lie in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone necessary for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753],"tags":[714,982],"class_list":["post-16176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-diabetes","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}