'Medicinal food' diet counters onset of type 1 diabetes
Monash College researchers, Dr. Eliana Mariño and Professor Charles Mackay. Credit score: Monash College Monash College's Biomedicine Discovery Institute researchers have led a global examine that discovered -- for the primary time -- food regimen yielding excessive quantities of the short-chain fatty acids acetate and butyrate supplied a useful impact on the immune system and guarded in opposition to kind 1 or juvenile diabetes . Autoimmune kind 1 diabetes happens when immune cells referred to as autoreactive T cells assault and destroy the cells that produce insulin -- the hormone that regulates our blood sugar ranges. The specialised food regimen developed by CSIRO and Monash College researchers makes use of starches -- discovered in lots of meals together with fruit and greens -- that resist digestion and move by means of to the colon or massive bowel the place they're damaged down by microbiota (intestine micro organ...