This week we have part 3 of our Exclusive Interview from the AACE meeting in Austin. Dr. Karl Nadolsky talks about the value of managing exercise and diet for diabetes care. There is a direct correlation between control and athletic success in patients with diabetes. So this week in Disasters …

Team Novo Nordisk’s Sam Brand is making his men’s professional team debut at this year’s Tour of Utah. The Isle of Man native has been called up to race as a stagiaire, which stands for intern in cycling lingo, for the remainder of the 2017 season with the ultimate goal of earning a pro contract for next year.

In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Dr. Karl Nadolsky talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed during the AACE 2017 convention in Austin, Texas. Dr. Nadolsky compares the importance of fitness and diet in the management of diabetes.

In this week's Homerun Slides, the former principles of diabetes complications.

The glucose clamp: Rather than using exogenous agents that suppress beta-cell insulin secretion, the glucose clamp uses external feedback control to “open the loop” between insulin secretion and sensitivity. The glucose clamp is a powerful and widely used method to attain a quantitative measure of insulin sensitivity, and has been applied in many hundreds of experimental studies.