Stem cell therapy is an advanced and beneficial treatment for diabetes, numerous patients with diabetes have shown noticeable improvement, long-time remission and were able to enjoy a high quality of life after the therapy in SQ1 stem cell medical center.
Diabetes-Related Diseases That Stem Cell Therapy Can Treat
Stem cell therapy for diabetes type 1
Type 2 diabetes
Stem cell therapy also can treat complications of diabetes including:
Diabetic foot: foot infections, ulcers, and deep layer tissue damage.
Diabetic retinopathy: it can cause blurred vision, decreased vision, and even blindness.
Diabetic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: it can cause a cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, vascular dementia, etc.
Diabetic neuropathy: it can cause numbness and tingle in hands and feet, orthostatic hypotension, vomiting, urinary, and fecal incontinence, etc.
Diabetic nephropathy(chronic renal failure): it can cause foamy urine, edema, and renal failure.
Capillary and macrovascular complications: diabetes can lead to narrowing of lower extremity arteries, coronary heart disease, stroke, etc.
Diabetes-Related Diseases That Stem Cell Therapy Can Treat
In 2019, the famous US news magazine “TIME” listed diabetes treatment with stem cell therapy as one of the top 10 innovative medical inventions that will change the future. In the year 2021, Mass General Brigham selected the ground-breaking “stem cell therapies for Diabetes” as one of the Top 12 “Disruptive gene and cell therapy technologies”.
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Risk Factors For Type 2 Diabetes
Stem cell therapy type 2 diabetes is believed to have a strong genetic link, meaning that it tends to run in families. If you have a parent, brother, or sister who has it, your chances rise.
You should ask your doctor about a diabetes test when you have any of the following risk factors:
High blood pressure.
High blood triglyceride (fat) levels. It's too high if it's over 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL).
Low "good" cholesterol level. It's too low if it's less than 40 mg/dL.
Gestational diabetes or giving birth to a baby weighing more than 9 pounds.
Prediabetes. That means your blood sugar level is above normal, but you don't have the disease yet.
Heart disease.
High-fat and carbohydrate diet. This can sometimes be the result of food insecurity when you don’t have access to enough healthy food.
High alcohol intake.
Sedentary lifestyle.
Obesity or being overweight.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Being of ethnicity that’s at higher risk: African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans are more likely to get type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic whites.
You're over 45 years of age. Older age is a significant risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The risk of type 2 diabetes begins to rise significantly around age 45 and rises considerably after age 65.
You’ve had an organ transplant. After an organ transplant, you need to take drugs for the rest of your life so your body doesn’t reject the donor. organ. These drugs help organ transplants succeed, but many of them, such as tacrolimus (Astagraf, Prograf) or steroids, can cause diabetes or make it worse.
Clinical Symptoms Of Diabetes
Polyuia
Dry mouth and increased thirst
Strong appetite
Unexplained Weight loss
Fatigue
Obesity
Presence of glucose in urine
Presence of ketones in urine
Abnormal high amount of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in serum
Glycated serum protein abnormality
Abnormal amount of insulin and c-peptide in serum
Dyslipidemia(unhealthy level of blood fat)
Advantages Of Stem Cell Treatment For Diabetes
Traditional therapeutic methods, such as daily medication or injections of exogenous insulin, are the most common diabetes treatment, but their use is frequently associated with failure of glucose metabolism control, which leads to hyperglycemia episodes.
Stem cell therapy is a promising strategy for avoiding the problems associated with daily insulin injections. To maintain glucose homeostasis, this therapeutic method is expected to produce, store, and supply insulin. To completely cure diabetes, cell-based therapies aim to produce functional insulin-secreting cells.
Advantages Of Stem Cell Treatment For Diabetes
Stem cell therapy
Conventional treatment
Curative Treatment or diseases management
The stem cell is a curative treatment for diabetes. Stem cell therapy is designed to rejuvenate the pancreas which helps the body to produce insulin naturally.
If given in the early stages, the dependency on medication and insulin can be reversed.
Insulin and medicine are used to control the amount of glucose in your blood. It is not a cure treatment it is used to control diabetes.
Slowly and gradually, people on medication move to insulin dependency.
Dosage
Stem cell therapy reduces the dosages of medication and insulin as the body starts producing insulin naturally.
If given in the early stages, the dependency on medication and insulin can be reversed.
Stem cell experts based on your current level of disease and other comorbidities will design a customized protocol and decide, the number of stem cells, source of stem cells, and cycles of stem cell therapy.
Patients who are on medication will observe a slow and gradual increase in dosages of medication.
At a certain point in time when medication is not able to manage the sugar levels, external insulin support will be required.
Patients who are on insulin support need to take insulin daily before consumption of food. The doses of insulin also increase with time.
Side-effects
No Side-effects as stem cells are our cells that are used to treat the disease and regenerate the pancreas to regain proper functioning.
Some of the common side-effects that medication and insulin can develop are upset stomach, skin rash or itching, weight gain, tiredness, and if not taken properly can even low blood sugar extremely.
How Can Stem Cell Therapy For Diabetes Work
Stem cells were able to lower blood sugar levels and restore islet function in the following three ways:
Improvement of insulin resistance: stem cells will secret a variety of cytokines to improve the insulin resistance conditions in peripheral tissues and promote sugar intake by cells, thus reversing the hyperglycemia status in the body.
Promotion of regeneration of pancreatic islet β cells: Stem cells can reduce the progressive lesion to pancreatic islets from metabolic disorders in diabetes, at the same time can regenerate pancreatic β cells. In addition, stem cells can secret various cytokines to improve the microenvironment and induce the transformation of islet α cells to β cells. This process enables the in-situ regeneration of β cells and leads to the stabilization of blood sugar level.
Immunomodulation effect: stem cells can inhibit the T cell-mediated immune response against newly generated β cells and promote the repair and regeneration of pancreatic islets.
SQ1 Stem Cell Services
During the whole treatment process, we’ll provide complete and first-class medical services to you. And to ensure your treatment effect, you can consult your doctor any time after the treatment.
