(© Image: Dreamstime) Regular exercise may protect pancreatic beta cells from stresses that contribute to diabetes. Researchers from the ULB Center for Diabete Research observed this in a study published in Diabetologia . Diabetes is characterized by a progressive loss of pancreatic beta cells, the same cells that produce insulin and thus maintain the right level of sugar in the blood. None of the medications used to treat diabetes stop this process. Preventing the progressive loss of beta cells and the onset of diabetes remains a priority today. Researchers from the ULB Center for Diabetes Research, Faculty of Medicine - Alexandra Coomans de Brachene, Miriam Cnop and Decio L. Eizirik - in collaboration with the Laboratory of Biometry and Nutrition Applied to Exercise, Faculty of Motor Sciences and other colleagues from the ULB, evaluated the protective effect or not of physical exercise on beta cells. They conducted a study on 82 people, with various profiles, invited to perform different types of exercises and followed for 8 to 12 weeks.
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