Viagra Breakthrough Research On Diabetes
12 01 2008
In a followup to Pfizer’s Viagra (Sildenafil citrate) Proves Useful for Diabetes Patients which explains how Viagra aids diabetics by allowing an increase of blood to their stomach, breakthrough research has shown that diabetics that are not able to exercise might get extended help.
Diabetics need to exercise because it improves blood sugar metabolism. Exercise contracts the muscles, stimulating nitric oxide to carry glucose from the blood to be burnt up by the muscles, but many diabetics have other physical or health complications that keep them from exercising.
A diabetes treatment that uses drugs including Viagra to mimic the effects of physical exercise may be just three years away. Scientists from the Alfred Baker Medical Unit and Monash University believe they have found a way to reduce dangerously high blood sugar levels in diabetes sufferers by artificially boosting a chemical produced by the body during exercise. - theage.com
This new drug which includes Sildenafil citrate (the active ingredient in Viagra) tricks the body into thinking that it is exercising and therefore it produces increased amounts of nitric oxide which the diabetic needs.
