Diabetes Medications May Control Alzheimer's

 

 

Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have found that adding an oral medication, such as Metformin or Glyburide , makes insulin more effective and lowers the risk for Alzheimer's," This  finding may help some people with Diabetes lower their risk of developing dementia.

New Chewing Gum to Treat Diabetes

So you don't like taking those big Metformin tablets because they're hard to swallow, taste awful, and what's more, they really do major damage to your stomach. Well, there may be an alternative sometime in the near future. Now in the testing phase, a chewing-gum product, called MetControl, will be given to 36 volunteer patients to test its speed and efficacy compared with that of immediate-release metformin pills according to the manufacturer, Generex Biotechnology Corporation of Toronto, Canada. Generex believes that metformin in good-tasting chewing gum would make it more acceptable to  patients and thereby increase adherence with diabetes therapy.