Did you read about it? Apparently there is a relationship between dolphins and diabetes. It turns out dolphins utilize the diabetic state to survive famine. Not famine literally, but long periods without food. It’s all new so there are no answers yet.
The discovery that dolphins can turn on a diabetic state at will when it needs to, and turn it off when it is unuseful has prompted scientists to investigate how the dolphin does it. Obviously access to an on and off switch, be it biochemical or genetic, would be invaluable to clinicians.
How could you not be filled with hope when scientists uncover such a potentially powerful treatment for a such a damaging disease? The likelyhood of it actually turning into something is very small.
Why throw cold water on a potential find of this value? There is no need to denegrate hope unless of course it is false hope. Here are two things that could make it a false hope.
If you are more mature you can see the point here. Hope blooms eternal around every so called breakthrough in sicience. Most by far, quickly end up in the graveyard of hopes. Over fourty years ago a chemical was discovered in astronaut blood which could aid weight loss almost effortlessly. Hope filled the hearts of the weighed challanged crowd. So, as you look around you and see no overweight people anymore, you know how well that turned out.
A large number of scientists count on grant money to continue their research. Trends and hot topics tend to be the driving force for grant distribution. If you have a potentially hot topic you need to get the word out – right?
Scientist who work for corporations know they are just as responsible for generating excietment around a new product idea as they are inventing or discoving them.
I don’t know if anyone has actually counted the number of newstories about breqkthrough ideas appearing in the press each month, it has to be enormous. When the dolphin and diabetes story hit the news, the same day, there were two stories about breakthrough drugs and diabetes, and the hope they held.
The message here is that hope stories should not weaken your resolve to do what you can do about your present problem with pre-diabetes or diabetes. Weight loss and exercising may seem just too simplistic to bother with compared to a future drug or treatment – still, it is a proven treatment and the other is not.
How about some old fashioned straight talk about prediabetes anddiabetic news #1
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