Who would have thought it? The Gila Monster has a feature that helps us diabetics?

The drug is the first incretin memetic to be approved and works by mimicking the action of naturally occurring human incretin hormone, glucagons-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).

Byetta has been shown to stimulate insulin secretion only when blood sugar is high, and can even restore the 'first-phase' insulin response, an activity of the pancreas' insulin-producing cells that is lost in patients with type II diabetes.

Now is that bloody magic or what? Of course now I am worried that they are going to have to trap and kill a load of lizards just to help me.