If you haven't learned in these past few articles just how important your gut health is, you have one more chance to listen closely.

This kat is once again as frantic as a feline in a rocking chair store. In combing through my numerous top-secret resources, I’ve become aware of some very interesting new developments in diabetes research.

And yes, I've been on a diabetes jag lately, but not without reason. After all, it is one of the fastest growing diseases in America. And, as we've been learning, it stems from the things we here at the Co-op care about most -- a healthy diet, exercise, and the gut. So sit down, hush up, buckle up, and hang on. Here's the scoop.

It seems scientists up Canada way at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute have discovered a unique signaling pathway between three rather disparate organs – the gut, the brain, and the liver.

This discovery is particularly important to you diabetics and those of you heading down the road of metabolic syndrome.

More to the point, this stuff applies to just about everyone. Diabetes has now exploded into a worldwide pandemic, so we should all pay attention to new research.

Here’s what’s going on: a team of Canucks, lead by Dr. Tony Lam, found that certain lipids when ingested activate a subset of nerves in the intestine, which signal the brain and then the liver to lower glucose or sugar production in as few as fifteen minutes.

Yes, wow.

If that wasn’t amazing enough, there’s more: eating a high-fat diet for just three days prior to the experiment disabled this nerve signal so the other organs could not work in concert to lower blood glucose levels.

Wow, again.

Here’s what Dr. Lam had to say,

“We already knew that the brain and liver can regulate blood glucose levels, but the question has been, how do you therapeutically target either of these two organs without incurring side effects? We may have found a way around this problem by suggesting that the gut can be the initial target instead.

Much like a remote control device, the gut is able to relay a signal to the brain which in turn signals the liver to lower glucose production. If new medicines can be developed that stimulate this sensing mechanism in the gut, we may have an effective way of slowing down the body’s production of sugar, thereby lowering blood sugar levels in diabetes.”

This has potentially wide-reaching implications for treating diabetes, because for many years only oral pharmaceuticals and injected insulin kept diabetic’s blood sugars under control. Well, that and regular exercise and a healthy diet. But unfortunately, not enough diabetics watch what they eat or exercise regularly enough.

Now the downside: Dr. Lam admits it may take a few years of research to determine how to implement this approach and potentially control diabetes. The upside to this downside is Dr. Lam and his colleagues have some pretty big brains and they’re very well funded.

So this kat is guessing finding a way to consistently trigger this “gut, brain, liver” interaction is going to happen sooner then later.

Now remember what Dr. Lam said about halfway through his quote above: “We may have found a way around this problem by suggesting that the gut can be the initial target instead.”

If this sounds vaguely familiar to you, it’s because our own Dr. Hugo Rodier has been espousing the importance of a healthy gut for years. It doesn’t surprise anyone here at Kat central that other researchers are finally getting behind such a basic, sound way of optimizing health.

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