> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carrie Coineandubh
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:41 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Type 1 Diabetes
> 
> ... I don't
> know all that much about humans, but I've seen
> insulin-dependent animals 
> reduce or eliminate their need for insulin injections when 
> placed on a paleo 
> diet appropriate for the species. Don't know why it couldn't 
> happen for 
> humans as well.
> 
> --Carrie
> 

So you think those animals had type 1? How do you think the Paleo diet
worked for them--did they still have working islet cells or do you think
it's possible to recover from type 1 despite all the islet cells being
"shot" (perhaps new islet cells were generated)?

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: Type 1 Diabetes
> 
> ...
> Interesting tidbit on pancreatic cells.  Oliva 
> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/482697?src=mp
> 

Here is an excerpt, for those who don't aren't subscribed to Medscape:

Two Big Stem-Cell Surprises
Posted 07/14/2004 
Journal Watch (General), June 18, 2004
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/482697?src=mp
 
Summary
Adult stem cells in the skin, blood, and intestine create new differentiated
cells to replace differentiated cells that die. A Harvard team examined
whether pancreatic ß-cells were replaced in the same way. The team developed
a method to "tag" adult ß-cells in mice and to identify newly produced
ß-cells that subsequently developed in those mice. ...

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I saw a similar report some time ago, and I may have mentioned this to one
or two of my diabetic relatives, but so far generation of new pancreatic
cells has only been shown in mice, not humans.