Hormone blocker could reverse diabetes

A new study published in the American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism (ANI) reveals that a hormone blocker could help to achieve weight loss, improve levels of insulin resistance and perhaps even reverse diabetes .
GIP (Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide) is one type of peptide hormone that secretes in response to eating food . It is also involved in the release of insulin as part of the digestive process, and therefore plays a role in metabolising fat .
The research team studies an eight week old male mice model, with obesity problems similar to that found in humans. The mice were divided and fed on different diets, one containing GIP.
Those fed GIP were able to counter many of the usual problems associated with eating a high fat diet . In the future, this discovery could alter how diabetes is treated and influence the way in which obesity and metabolic disorders are handled.