If you have diabetes: NO low blood sugars!
Wheat elimination starts you powerfully on the path to reversing diabetes. We’ve seen it many times and it continues to develop in people who kiss their bagels, pretzels, and processed foods booby-trapped with wheat goodbye.
But, as diabetics become less diabetic–a process that can occur VERY quickly, often within days of removing all wheat products from their diet–but they are taking insulin or certain diabetes drugs, there is potential for hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. Low blood sugar from diabetes drugs can be dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. (Imagine if a non-diabetic started administ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar diabetes gluten grains hypoglycemia Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 44-year-old man with a family history of diabetes
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 44-year-old man is evaluated during a routine examination. He is concerned about his general health and risk of diabetes mellitus. He has no medical problems. Both parents and his sister have type 2 diabetes mellitus.
On physical examination, temperature is normal, blood pressure is 130/79 mm Hg, pulse rate is 66/min, and respiration rate is 14/min. BMI is 28. The remainder of the physical examination is normal.
Laboratory studies show fasting glucose 104 mg/dL (5.8 mmol/L), total cholesterol 247 mg/dL (6.40 m...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 28, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Liver ATF4 Upregulation Common to Many of the Reliable Means of Slowing Aging in Mice
There are a score or more ways to reliably slow aging in mice, methods that include a few classes of drug, various single gene alterations, and calorie restriction. The most exceptional of these methods extends life by 60% or so, but most are in the much more modest 10-20% range at best. It is suspected that many of these approaches operate on a smaller overlapping set of underlying processes, but at different entry points: metabolism is a very, very complex system of interactions and feedback loops, and it is near impossible to make any change in isolation. Any given portion of our biochemistry distinct enough to be given...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 27, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Good Acid, Bad Acid?
By Quinn Phillips
Acetic acid, also known as vinegar, has long been a folk remedy for ailments ranging from infections to stomachaches to poison ivy. More recently, its benefits for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes have been discovered. As DiabetesSelfManagement.com's David Spero wrote in a 2011 blog post, vinegar may act similarly to many different types of diabetes drugs, slowing the breakdown of starches like acarbose (brand name Precose), increasing insulin sensitivity like metformin, and promoting insulin production like nateglinide (Starlix). A 2004 study published in the journal Diabetes Care found that when accompan...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - December 4, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Quinn Phillips Source Type: blogs
Acarbose May Equal Metformin for Diabetes Control
This study is the first head-to-head comparison of metformin and acarbose as initial therapy for Type 2 diabetes after failure of therapeutic lifestyle modification," according to the researchers. "Metformin should remain as first-line treatment for patients with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes, while patients with exaggerated postprandial excursion [high after-meal glucose levels] can be treated with an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor as an alternative therapy before cardiovascular benefits of acarbose are validated and confirmed in ongoing studies."
Limitations of the study include the absence of a placebo (inactive treatm...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - October 25, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Diane Fennell Source Type: blogs
Berberine Works But May Very Well Be Harmful
I have been getting a lot of email of late about the supplement Berberine, which appears to be the latest miracle cure being sold to those people with diabetes who believe that completely unregulated herbs imported from countries with long histories of food and drug adulteration are somehow safer and "more natural" than the tightly regulated pharamceuticals.Berberine does appear to work to lower blood sugar. The problem is that we really know very little about how it does it or what its long term effects are on the body. I see many mentions on sites promoting berberine supplements of the fact that berberine has a lon...
Source: Diabetes Update - August 14, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jenny Source Type: blogs
Zero tolerance for hypoglycemia
Wheat elimination starts you powerfully on the path to reversing diabetes. We’ve seen it many times and it continues to develop in people who kiss their bagels, pretzels, and processed foods booby-trapped with wheat goodbye.
But, as diabetics become less diabetic–a process that can occur VERY quickly, often within days of removing all wheat products from their diet–but they are taking insulin or certain diabetes drugs, there is potential for hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. Low blood sugar from diabetes drugs can be dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. (Imagine if a non-diabetic started administ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 20, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
