Chew Away Diabetes

Filed in archive Treatment on May 31, 2006

Hate needles? Dread swallowing pills? Well, okay...how about fighting diabetes with chewing gum?

In yet another awe-inspiring breakthrough, diabetics--and those suffering from obesity--can chew their way to better health with this new method of dispensing the diabetes drug metformin.

The collaboration will seek to combine Generex's proprietary buccal drug delivery platform technologies with Fertin's know-how related to gum base formulations, solubilization systems, and taste masking/modification to create a metformin medicinal chewing gum that will deliver metformin into the body via the buccal mucosa (the inner lining of the mouth) rather than in its current tablet form.

I wonder if you can blow bubbles with it?

(Photo Source: Esanda)