As a birthday present to myself, I decided to have my genome done and find out about my heritage. I know that both of my parents’ families had immigrated from Minsk, in what is now Belarus, and was once part of the USSR. I was hoping to find out how …

Over the years I’ve found the best teacher for people who have diabetes is their numbers. Without teaching the patient targets, they don’t learn much. This patient is just one example of many. A man, 57 years of age, visits a community diabetes education course. He tells me he has type 2 diabetes, hypertension hyperlipidemia. He said his doctor told him his numbers were fine about 9 months ago. When he came to the course, he was losing weight, was thirsty and was very tired.

In part 1 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Karl Nadolsky talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas about why obesity should be classified as a disease and how it is diagnosed as such.

In this week's Homerun Slides, genetics 101 for diabetes mellitus and the implications of the new beta-cell construct.

Oral glucose: At any point in time, the glycemic response to exogenous glucose is the balance between the rate at which glucose appears in the systemic circulation (from oral as well as endogenous sources) and the rate at which glucose is disposed of. Oral glucose appearance in the peripheral circulation depends on: (a) the rate at which the gastric contents are passed on to the small intestine; (b) the rate of intestinal glucose absorption; (c) the extent of gut glucose utilization; (d) the degree of hepatic glucose trapping; and (e) the dynamics of glucose transfer through gut, liver, and posthepatic circulation on to the right heart.