When our youngest was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, I remembered this interesting research on camel milk and diabetes, before we discovered donkey milk.
"Clinical research on the use of camel milk by patients with type 1 diabetes has indicated that drinking camel milk daily decreases the blood glucose level and reduces insulin requirement by 30% [18]. It appears that camel milk provides an insulin-like protein in a different form than in other mammals and/or delivers some other therapeutic compounds that boosts the health of diabetic patients. However, the mechanism is not yet fully understood. Mucosal surfaces are a common and suitable route for delivering drugs such as peptides and proteins to the body. However, the oral administration of insulin is incapable of overcoming mucosal barriers and is degraded by digestive enzymes before it enters the bloodstream [19]. As a unique feature of camel milk, the insulin-like protein could be protected in the stomach and absorbed efficiently into blood stream to reach the target."
