Probiotics may be used in the treatment of diabetes

researchers are about to develop a probiotic that lowers blood sugar levels, one of the measures of diabetes, according to a study published today in the journal Diabetes.researchers are about to develop a probiotic that lowers blood sugar levels, one of the measures of diabetes, according to a study published today in the journal Diabetes. Researchers at Cornell University have constructed a strain of Lactobacillus
-1
(
GLP-1
), a common probiotic in the human gut. The researchers asked rats with diabetes to take the probiotic orally for
90,
days, and found that rats had reduced their high blood sugar by as much as
30 percent after ingesting the genetically engineered probiotic

March
, senior author of the study and professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University, said the study is a validation of principle and that future work will test whether the increased dose can cure the disease.researchers found that the epithelocytes in the small intestines of diabetic rats change, acting much like pancreas β cells, which monitor blood sugar levels in healthy humans β and secrete insulin as needed to keep blood sugar levels in balance. However, although these cells replaced insulin function in diabetic rats, the researchers found no change in blood sugar levels after oral probiotics in healthy rats.believe that human patients may be controlled for their diabetes by taking a capsule or so early in the morning.