{"id":124745,"date":"2021-07-09T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/type-2-diabetes-could-targeting-the-liver-help"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:22:41","slug":"type-2-diabetes-could-targeting-the-liver-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/type-2-diabetes-could-targeting-the-liver-help","title":{"rendered":"Type 2 diabetes: Could targeting the liver help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/type-2-diabetes-could-targeting-the-liver-help.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They found that insulin sensitivity can be restored within days of reducing excess production of the neurotransmitter GABA in the liver and that long-term treatment may lead to decreased appetite and weight loss.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New research suggests that reducing the production of a neurotransmitter in the liver could help normalize blood sugar and treat type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They found that insulin sensitivity can be restored within days of reducing excess production of the neurotransmitter GABA in the liver and that long-term treatment may lead to decreased appetite and weight loss. New research suggests that reducing the production of a neurotransmitter in the liver could help normalize blood sugar and treat type 2 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}