EMFs and Diabetes

 "Remote control of blood sugar: Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) treat diabetes in animal models" When I saw that headline, I thought, "Oh wow! Remote control of blood sugar. My doctor could sit in her office and dial up a good blood sugar level and send it, and I'd be cured."

Unfortunately, that's not what the story is about.

Rather, exposing diabetic mice to a combination of static electric and magnetic fields for a few hours per day normalizes blood sugar and insulin resistance. The fields used were approximately 100 times that of the Earth, and the researchers said they reversed the diabetes within three days of treatment.

Note that the study was done in mice, and human studies often don't replicate rodent studies. However, the researchers also treated human liver cells with EMFs for six hours and showed that a surrogate marker for insulin sensitivity improved significantly. So the EMFs might also work in humans.

Here is a link to the full article, which notes that "attempts to investigate the potential effects of EMFs on glucose metabolism have yielded conflicting findings with some studies demonstrating that EMFs raise fasting blood glucose and others suggesting that EMFs have no effect." But the authors criticize the methods of the earlier studies.

One researcher, Magda Havas, thinks that EMFs from electrical wiring (dirty electricity) may may elevate blood glucose and contribute to "brittle" diabetes.

Clearly, we have a lot to learn about EMFs and diabetes, but the current study is certainly interesting. Stay tuned for more developments.