What is it about?
The brain is a neural regulator which maintains optimum stability of the autonomic nervous system and the organ networks (commonly referred to as the Physiological Systems). Blood Glucose is one of these physiological systems. Instability in this physiological system are manifest as pathological changes, in particular of genotype (type 1 diabetes) and phenotype (type 2 diabetes).
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Why is it important?
This article is important because it highlights the inadequacies and/or limitations of the current ways by which diabetes is diagnosed or treated. It explains why current tests such as HbA1c are circa 40% irreproducible after one month, why the numbers being diagnosed with diabetes continues to increase, and why the drugs being used to treat diabetes are relatively ineffective. The biological paradigm is limited and needs to be complemented by an understanding of how the brain neutrally regulates control of system function; in particular control of blood glucose levels; which will reestablish normal levels/feelings of hunger and satedness.
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This page is a summary of: Further Perspectives on Diabetes: NeuroRegulation of Blood Glucose, Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, August 2016, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/2213385204666160510105701.
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