Every month, I’ll be highlighting Diabetes research that is going on RIGHT NOW! Harvested from different websites, journals and podcasts, I’ll translate them into understandable English and share them with you. Today: STARTING with an article from the August 22, 2023 post at Science Digest where they ask the question: Queen’s “We Will Rock You” or “The Avengers” Soundtrack?
I’m actually not even kidding!
But that's only PART of the question! The REAL question is how loud does your music have to be and WHAT kind of music is the best to play when you've got tiny packets of insulin in your blood that you may need to help you digest your meal and not go into a sugar coma or fall over from a sugar LOW???
Researchers working on novel ways to deliver insulin to the bloodstream of diabetics utilized a new technology. “…enclosing insulin-producing designer cells in capsules that can be implanted in the body. To be able to control from the outside when and how much insulin the cells release into the blood, researchers have studied and applied different triggers in recent years: light, temperature and electric fields…[They] have now developed another, novel stimulation method: they use music to trigger the cells to release insulin within minutes. This works especially well with “We Will Rock You,” a global hit by British rock band, Queen. (One of the members, is also a scientist himself. “Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Sir Brian aided the mission by helping to identify where Osiris-Rex could grab a sample from the asteroid.” (The recent NASA mission that dropped a reentry vehicle carrying 250 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, then continued on to its NEXT mission…)
Researchers working on novel ways to deliver insulin to the bloodstream of diabetics utilized a new technology. “…enclosing insulin-producing designer cells in capsules that can be implanted in the body. To be able to control from the outside when and how much insulin the cells release into the blood, researchers have studied and applied different triggers in recent years: light, temperature and electric fields…[They] have now developed another, novel stimulation method: they use music to trigger the cells to release insulin within minutes. This works especially well with “We Will Rock You,” a global hit by British rock band, Queen. (One of the members, is also a scientist himself. “Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Sir Brian aided the mission by helping to identify where Osiris-Rex could grab a sample from the asteroid.” (The recent NASA mission that dropped a reentry vehicle carrying 250 grams of material from asteroid Bennu, then continued on to its NEXT mission…)
"...researchers looked into which music genres caused the strongest insulin response at a volume of 85 dB. Rock music with booming bass like the song "We Will Rock You," from Queen, came out on top, followed by the soundtrack to the action movie The Avengers. The insulin response to classical music and guitar music was rather weak by comparison."
That a rock star and astrophysicist wrote and played music that “just happens” to be ideal for releasing insulin into a patient’s bloodstream is just one of the cool things about Sir Brian May, lead guitarist for the world-famous British band, Queen. (You know..."Bohemian Rhapsody"? Yes? No? (WHAT ROCK HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING UNDER! EVEN I KNOW WHO QUEEN IS! (Haven't you ever pounded on a nearby pop machine in the rhythm for "We Will Rock You" and then sing at the top of your lungs, "We will, we will, ROCK YOU!" Really? Wow...sad...)
The cells stimulated by the soundwaves are not, themselves a new thing: The scientists altered “human embryonic kidney cells [that were changed]…so that when they were exposed to high concentrations of glucose (as in a “sugar rush”), they responded by releasing insulin [IN RESPONSE TO THE SOUND AND FREQUENCY LEVEL found in the Queen song and Alan Silvestri’s sound track for The Avengers] when glucose levels reached dangerous levels. The insulin attaches itself to glucose molecules, transporting them to the liver for change into glucagon and storage, bringing blood sugars back to normal levels. This didn’t ONLY work for type 1 diabetes! “ the system was used to express glucagon-like peptide 1 in Type 2 Diabetes in mice, resulting in improved insulin secretion and post-meal glucose metabolism.”
I’d have volunteered for that study! Scientists don’t know if this will ever be turned into an actual treatment, “depends on whether a pharmaceutical company is interested in doing so. It could, after all, be applied broadly: the system works not only with insulin, but with any protein that lends itself to therapeutic use.”
But there you go! As my four-year-old grandson is wont to say when confronted by some amazing fact (of course, ALL facts are amazing at that age!): “Whaaaat???”
Links: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230822193045.htm
Queen’s “We Will Rock You” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk, AVENGERS ( mix from all the movies) soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3JHA2fTiI Image: https://asploro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Diabetes-Research_Open-Access.jpg
The cells stimulated by the soundwaves are not, themselves a new thing: The scientists altered “human embryonic kidney cells [that were changed]…so that when they were exposed to high concentrations of glucose (as in a “sugar rush”), they responded by releasing insulin [IN RESPONSE TO THE SOUND AND FREQUENCY LEVEL found in the Queen song and Alan Silvestri’s sound track for The Avengers] when glucose levels reached dangerous levels. The insulin attaches itself to glucose molecules, transporting them to the liver for change into glucagon and storage, bringing blood sugars back to normal levels. This didn’t ONLY work for type 1 diabetes! “ the system was used to express glucagon-like peptide 1 in Type 2 Diabetes in mice, resulting in improved insulin secretion and post-meal glucose metabolism.”
I’d have volunteered for that study! Scientists don’t know if this will ever be turned into an actual treatment, “depends on whether a pharmaceutical company is interested in doing so. It could, after all, be applied broadly: the system works not only with insulin, but with any protein that lends itself to therapeutic use.”
But there you go! As my four-year-old grandson is wont to say when confronted by some amazing fact (of course, ALL facts are amazing at that age!): “Whaaaat???”
Links: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230822193045.htm
Queen’s “We Will Rock You” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJYN-eG1zk, AVENGERS ( mix from all the movies) soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3JHA2fTiI Image: https://asploro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Diabetes-Research_Open-Access.jpg
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