THIS BLIND FISH COULD HAVE THE KEY TO CURE THE DIABETES

Despite having a high amount of blood sugar and being resistant to insulin, he has no health problems

The Mexican tetra fish, whose scientific name is Astyanax mexicanus, lives inside caves in tropical waters, so it has no eyes. Scientists explain that blindness is the result of an evolutionary mechanism. Since this animal does not need the sense of sight to look for food or escape from predators, evolution has made his eyes disappear to save him the energetic expenditure that would suppose maintaining those organs.

But now, a study by Harvard University has discovered that this fish could also hide the secret that would lead to a possible cure for diabetes. And is that this creature has a high amount of sugar in the blood and your body is resistant to insulin. But, despite this, his health does not suffer.

What happens is that in the body of these fish does not happen the same as in that of diabetics, where the sugar molecules adhere to the proteins preventing them from functioning normally. The researchers believe that the study of this mechanism of the tetra fish could serve to develop better treatments against this disease.

Source: ScienceAlert.