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Priscilla Ballou

In article >,
wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:48:11 -0500, Susan >
> wrote:
>
> >x-no-achive: yes
> >
> >Alan Moorman wrote:
> >
> >> And, there is a question about this:
> >>
> >> is a fast, high spike which comes and goes quickly better or
> >> worse for you than...
> >>
> >> a long, slow rise in your bG?
> >>
> >> Does ANYONE really know if 45 minutes of high is worse for
> >> you than 3 hours of medium?
> >>
> >> I doubt it.
> >>
> >> Someone, undoubtedly will respond saying something like: "It
> >> stands to reason that......"
> >>
> >> Or: "Common sense says.........."
> >>
> >> But, has ANYONE ever researched this?????
> >>
> >>
> >> Alan Moorman
> >
> >
> > From phlaunt.com/diabetes
> >
> >Prolonged Exposure to Blood Sugars Over 140 mg/dl (7.8 mmol/L) Kills
> >Human Beta Cells
> >Another series of experiments on beta cells grown in culture showed that
> >there is a threshold over which the damage to beta cells caused by
> >exposure to elevated blood sugars becomes irreversible. It found that
> >amount of damage cells sustained in genes that produced insulin depended
> >on the concentration of glucose they were exposed to. The effect was
> >continuous, not a threshold effect--meaning that the more glucose the
> >cell was grown in, the more function it lost.
> >
> >In a second experiment, the same researchers took cells damaged by
> >exposure to high blood sugars and moved them to media that had a lower
> >concentration of blood sugar. They found the cells could survive and
> >recover after being moved to a growth medium containing a much lower
> >concentration of glucose, but only if the switch was made before a
> >certain amount of time had passed. Once the cells had been exposed to
> >glucose for that fatal time period, they could no longer be revived.
> >
> >
> >In an email to me, R. Paul Robertson, one of authors of this study
> >wrote, "I think the glucose toxic effects begin when blood glucose gets
> >above 140 and probably earlier." However, he also explained that while
> >studies with diabetic rats could better quantify the blood sugar levels
> >at which this irreversible damage occurs, these rats cost $200 apiece
> >and a lot of rats would be required. So such a project is not planned
> >for any time soon.
>
> $200 Lab Rats? Are they getting these creatures from the same
> supplier the US Govt uses to procure toilet seats? Yipes. In all
> seriousness. Why would a lab rat cost so much? Someone please
> educate me on this one.
>
>
> <snip - see original post for credits>

They're probably carefully bred so their genetic makeup doesn't cause
erroneous results in studies.

Priscilla