Making Human Foie Gras – T2D 20
Fatty liver is a duck or goose is known as Foie Gras. But humans get it too. Here it's known as fatty liver disease or non alcoholic steatohepatitis (…
Tag: diabetes-science
Diabesity – T2D 18
The term diabesity is the unification of the words ‘diabetes’, referring to type 2, and ‘obesity’. It is a wonderful word because it is at onc…
End Organ Damage – T2D 17
Hyperglycemia may be the hallmark of diabetes, but does not cause most of the morbidity. Blood glucose is fairly easily controlled by medication, but …
Failure of the Blood Glucose paradigm T2D 16
The current treatment paradigm of type 2 diabetes is the blood glucose paradigm. Under this paradigm, most of the toxicity of T2DÂ is done by the hype…
Futility of Blood Sugar Lowering by Medications in T2D – T2D 15
The UKPDS (United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study) was a huge study undertaken in the UK to see if intensive blood glucose lowering in T2D would pr…
Obesity is protective? – T2D 14
Obesity is not widely considered a protective mechanism. Quite the opposite. It's usually considered one of the causal factors of the metabolic syndro…
The Diabetes Economy – T2D 12
Insulin, first discovered in 1921, revolutionized the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Dr. Banting licensed insulin to pharmaceutical companies without a…
The Diabetes Mantra – Glucotoxicity – T2D 11
For as many years as I've been in medicine, the mantra of diabetic care could be summarized by tight glycemic control. The head endocrinologist would …
How Diabetes became an Epidemic – T2D 10
The World Health Organizations earlier this week released new statistics on the global epidemic of diabetes. Diabetes mellitus has been recognized as …
The Dawn Phenomenon – T2D 8
The occurrence of high blood sugars after a period of fasting is often puzzling to those not familiar with the Dawn Phenomenon. Why are blood sugars e…
