Precision Point Diagnostics: March Newsletter

Gut Health and Diagetes

by Dr. Cheryl Burdette

Type 2 Diabetes has long been associated with diet and obesity, but there have been hints for more than a century that it may stem from inflammation. In the later part of the 19th century, as salicylates were more effectively extracted from natural sources like willows, manufacturers were able to create readily usable forms of compounds like aspirin. Natural sources of salicylates had been used for millennia as a way to decrease fever and inflammation, and aspirin was just a more convenient and potent way to administer these compounds. Researchers in the 1870s investigated salicylic acid (aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid ) in the treatment of various diseases, including Type 2 Diabetes (Rena and Sakamoto, 2014). They found that salicylic acid is antihyperglycemic, meaning it helps reduce and control blood sugar. This research largely lay dormant until the 1950s, when further research also showed both its effects on hyperglycemia and demonstrated how it was an inflammation mediator. Again, the dots weren’t connected until quite recently: “Over a hundred years ago, high doses of salicylates were shown to lower glucose levels in diabetic patients. This should have been an important clue to link inflammation to the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but the antihyperglycemic and antiinflammatory effects of salicylates were not connected to the pathogenesis of insulin resistance until recently.” (Shoelson, et al, 2006) READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

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