Promising Research for Diabetic Neuropathy - Growing new Nerve Fibers

I just listened to this podcast yesterday as well. Any new research is encouraging! They mostly talked about how it would lead to pain relief for diabetic neuropathy. I would like to hear more about nerve regeneration restoring functionality. Hopefully this research will lead to that as well. They did mention regaining temperature sensation. They referenced idiopathic neuropathy, but there are other neuropathies with a known cause and issues other than pain. Each discovery gets us one step closer to the next one! Thanks for posting.

I was pretty hopeful back in 2018 when I first heard stem cell treatments for nerve regeneration. I took notes at a Minnesota Neuropathy Association meeting on the topic with several guest speakers in the field and added links to some of the different research projects. While I'm still hopeful, I doubt that it will happen in my lifetime. I attached my notes below if you want to view some of the different research and topics.

What I learned from the podcast is that the PN research in the past was very challenging with many ups and downs. At one point there was a movement to look at the pain caused by PN and it was found that gabapentin and gabapentinoids help with the pain. Treating the pain instead of treating PN itself was as major shift in academic research and in the pharmaceutical industry. With the FDA approved drug Gabapentin they had a "route to market" and that's what they followed.

Thank you for posting your notes @johnbishop - I will check them out.

We can be hopeful with all this new research and promises but it’s always weighed down by greedy evil people in the pharmaceutical and medical professions including your health providers that can distort or down data.
There once was a guy who built a car that runs on water but once it was known he mysteriously died; it was said before his last breath that he uttered they murdered him.
It’s not an accident people are getting metabolic syndrome type diseases.
As long as you’re chronically sick but not dead, that’s the perfect business model for pharmaceutical companies and the health profession.
Why aren’t society implementing proper diet that that is the way to combat diabetes instead of insulin and other meds etc.?
There’s no money to be made from acknowledging proper diet such as low to no sugar to prevent metabolic diseases. Hence, most doctors will go to pharmaceuticals than proper diet to find the root cause.

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.