A Speculation on Diabetes Mellitus

نویسنده

  • T. H. Foulkes
چکیده

A brief review of the physiological beliefs relative to diabetes is necessary, as it is on those beliefs that the hypothesis is based. It is taught by the majority of physiologists that all working cells require dextrose for the output of energy, which dextrose is taken from the blood. A cell cannot immediately burn off the dextrose received, but incorporates it first as glycogen, in which state it is fixed in the cells and may be stored for a long period. During work this incorporated glycogen is used for energy. Yon Noorden says, " For the natural fuel of the cells is not glucose but glycogen." (1 ) The glycogen used is then replaced from the dextrose

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 46  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016