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Many of you have never heard the name Dr. Rosalyn Yalow, and few of us would have known her as the “Mother of Endocrinology.” This scientist, who made the possibility of measuring such things as insulin and thyroid levels a reality, passed away a couple of months ago and my friends at the IJEM wrote an editorial that tells the story of her impact on the things we do every day. Be sure that you take a look at The Other Insulin Story of 1921.
During Dr. Yalow’s time at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center in New York she mentored a young endocrinologist by the name of John Eng….
Dr. Eng, who treated patients as an endocrinologist, was also an avid scientific researcher and Dr. Yalow encouraged the gentle and soft-spoken Eng to work hard and think big. She stoked the Harvard College-educated man’s desire to search for something that might benefit society in a sweeping way.
Dr. Eng’s special area of research, like his mentor’s, was peptide hormones. In the late 1980s, he began trying to advance Yalow’s research by creating a new and more sensitive test that would help identify hormones with potentially untested benefits. His unrelenting efforts led to the discovery of “lizard spit” for treating diabetes. To get the whole story check out Research Found that the Saliva of the Gila Monster.
When we discuss the development of type 2 diabetes we often talk about insulin resistance as the first step in the diabetes cascade. Now we can see this is true by reading this week’s Item #1 on how more muscle mass can protect against insulin resistance and prediabetes, no matter overall body size.
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