Most discussions and treatment strategies about Type 2 diabetes focus on blood sugar. Patients are encouraged to monitor glucose levels, count carbohydrates, take medications, and watch laboratory results, along with diet and exercise. While these strategies can be useful, they often overlook an important factor that contributes to the disease: the brain. Many individuals with…
For decades, physicians have treated obesity and diabetes as diseases of excess — excess calories, excess sugar, excess weight. Yet despite increasingly aggressive guidelines, medications, and public health campaigns, rates of these metabolic conditions continue to rise worldwide. The question is not whether we are trying hard enough. The question is whether we are asking…
Currently, $1 in every $4 in health care costs is spent on treating diabetes and its complications. Despite the US government spending over $250 billion each year for insulin and other Type 2 diabetes drugs and diabetic care, are you aware that 60% of Type 2 diabetes patients suffer nerve damage, 50% suffer kidney damage,…
Cancer has been present in the human history since time immemorial. Our 21st century science has come a long way in understanding cancer: how some cancers (but not all) are caused, how some cancers (but not all) may be successfully treated, and how some cancers (but not all) can be prevented from occurring or recurring…
Experts suggest that sedentary lifestyle and dietary habits are the major factors for the rising incidence of Type 2 diabetes. I believe there is a connection but it is not the whole story. What is the connection between a sedentary lifestyle and diabetes? A study carried out for a period of six years among more…
Let me explain why I suggest that our modern diet high in grains and grain flour products is the most likely trigger for the development of prediabetes and eventually Type 2 diabetes. It is because the typical diet – composed of more than 50% of the daily caloric intake being in the form of complex…