Intestinal bacteria are able to protect against type 1 diabetes, which occurs when the immune system fails, according to American biologists from Yale and Texas universities, according to an online edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net Scientists associate the emergence of type 1 diabetes with the fact that the body's own immune system attacks pancreatic cells, thereby leading to a breakdown in the synthesis of insulin. If the disease is not treated, then it will be fatal, experts said..

As is known, the main method of diabetes treatment are insulin injections, normalizing metabolism. However, US scientists have conducted a new study to find other ways to protect themselves from diabetes.

For the experiment, scientists derived mice with a genetic predisposition for the onset of diabetes, in which the disease could occur after reproduction. Specialists noted that if the animals grew under normal conditions, the disease was relatively rare, and if the conditions were sterile with a lack of bacteria that are normal in the intestine, then diabetes appeared much more often.

According to scientists, intestinal bacteria are able to influence the immune system of the body and protect against its failures. This discovery confirms the previously stated hypothesis that the lack of useful bacteria and viruses in the body increases the risk of diseases associated with immune system disorders, experts stressed..

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