Researchers from Australia and Canada found that brain cells that do not function properly can lead to diseases such as obesity and diabetes of the second type, encouraging people to consume too much food.
In a study published in Nature, scientists from the Medical Research Institute of St. Vincent, Monash universities, McCoori and Melbourne in Australia and the University of Kalgary in Canada analyzed the brain cells suffering from obesity.
As a result, the researchers found that the brain cells of patients with obesity and diabetes of the second type “can get stuck in a dense and sticky extracellular matrix (ECM)” and develop insulin resistance.
Scientists said that the ability of brain cells to control blood sugar, hunger and body weight is limited due to the compression problem, which they called “neurofibrosis”, and that this condition can also cause problems in the heart.
Researchers also noted that they developed “neurofibrosis inhibitors” aimed at ECM, and that they can correct the state of insulin resistance, which causes an uncontrolled blood sugar level.