Very interesting this eight-year study in which a group of researchers treated patients with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease that affects the pancreas and limits its ability to secrete insulin, would have had a reduction in blood sugar from 10 to 18% thanks to the tuberculosis vaccine , given in a single dose plus a booster after 4 weeks.

Patients had normal blood glucose levels within three years of treatment, and the effect would last for the next five years of monitoring. Therefore, for a total of eight years, a single vaccine administration can lead to normal blood glucose levels.

Dr Denise Faustman of Massacchussets General Hospital who conducted the study explained that the tuberculosis vaccine using Calmette and Guerin’s bacillus or BCG would keep blood glucose values ​​below the dangerous threshold. Furthermore, it would have a positive effect on the immune system, strengthening and regulating it permanently.
This would explain why it would make patients with type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease, return to normal.
Although the results are very promising, the patients studied were only 52. ​​Therefore, new studies are expected to be able to use the BCG vaccine as a therapy against type 1 diabetes.