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Healing Wounds With Diamonds
A team at Northwestern University, led by Dean Ho, has discovered that nanodiamonds are a wound's best friend. Insulin is very attracted to nanodiamonds and in addition to regulating blood sugar, insulin can accelerate the healing process and stave off infection in wound sites. Since the tiny diamond can be easily placed in a wound without causing further damage, this is an excellent way to get an increased amount of insulin there as well. From the article, "A substantial amount of insulin can be loaded onto the nanodiamonds, which have a high surface area. The nanodiamond-insulin clusters, by releasing insulin in alkaline wound areas, could accelerate the healing process and decrease the incidence of infection. Ho says this ability to release therapeutics from the nanodiamonds on demand represents an exciting strategy towards enhancing the specificity of wound treatment."
The article leaves a lot to be desired. Can anyone explain why it is that insulin's attracted to diamonds, or more specifically, nanodiamonds?
Apart from the "insulin = women" comments we're sure to get, I'm seriously wondering why.
In other news...Debeers has just entered the Health care industry.
Yay! Now when your GF wants a diamond all she has to is fall and scrape a knee...
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Diamonds often help to heal love's wounds as well.
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Your body already has the right balance of insulin. Periodically injecting it is an incredibly stupid if it's for the sake of vanity. You could end up in the hospital for hypoglycemia. In the long term, you could develop insulin resistance followed by Type II Diabetes.
How easy is it to make nano-diamonds anyways? I'm wondering if there's a cheap way to make graphite on the small scale to order themselves like a diamond for at least a short period of time.
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Imagine what kind of Health insurance you would have to get for diamond treatment. You would have premiums of 10,000.00 a month.
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Of course when we all have to go to Government run health care like Canada, we will have to wait in line for 3months for wound treatment and instead of nano-diamonds, we will have to make do with cubic zirconium dust covered in aspirin.
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Thanks you scientists! It will end up being more effective to pray to Jesus to heal your wounds.
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Yeah but that's not really important for those of us that live on that small island you may have heard of called "the rest of the world" (you may have seen our flag... it's like yours, but on fire) ... that said, Obama's plans for your health service really don't sound as doom and gloom as your local press makes out, just as our politions plans for us and our health service don't seem as doom and gloom as our local press makes out. So chill out, I'm sure they go through the cost/benefit calculations with a lot more rigour than your gut instinct has.
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They don't use it to lower body fat. Insulin does one simple thing which is open your cells, both fat and muscle, to glucose. It does this by binding to the cell at the insulin receptor, which causes the cell's internal GLUT-4 protein to come from deep in the cell up to the surface. GLUT-4 opens the gateway for glucose to the cell which will often pull in other things(nutrients, water) along with it. Injecting insulin is not a good thing long term unless you are diabetic. Some body builders end up insulin resistant or diabetic by abusing it. Now the reason that they actually do it is because it's extremely good at what it does which is draw energy into your cells. Insulin is what we call an anabolic hormone and if combined with huge amounts of carbs(usually while on anabolic androgenic steroids as well), your muscles get a lot of glucose which gives you lots of energy, but also enhances growth and recovery if you are training the muscle.
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HMO is "health maintenance organization". Remember, we do not have national medicine in the USA, we instead have medical insurance companies. There are two primary types of plans one can get, an HMO or a PPO (Preferred Provider Organization), the difference is in which doctors you can see, how much you pay, and the process through which you must visit specialists.
Almost - until you realize that the vampires in Twilight ARE diamonds. They're tough to break They sparkle They're cold And the emotionally unstable lead female in the "story" will do anything for them.