In brief:
- Patrice Cani (UCLouvain) and Claude Knauf (INSERM) have discovered a ’jammer’ that blocks communication between the gut and the brain, thus preventing proper regulation of sugar and causing insulin resistance in people with diabetes
- They also discovered that a lipid produced by our body helps prevent this dysfunction and regulate sugar level, thus mitigating diabetes and intestinal inflammation.
- These discoveries, published in the scientific journal GUT, are major, because today one in two Europeans is overweight and one in ten has diabetes.
Very quickly, they understood that the gut-brain axis plays a preponderant role in the regulation of sugar in the blood. ...
