In a current study it was found that two nutrients known to participate in the body processes that control blood sugar levels are biotin (one of the B-group vitamins) and chromium (a trace mineral), were able to drop blood sugars and A1c by 1.76 percent.
Read More »Testosterone Deficiency Common in Men with Type 1 Diabetes
The findings suggest that there is a direct link between insulin resistance and reduced testosterone levels in men.
Read More »New FDA Rules for New Diabetes Drugs
Because of all the news about Avandia increasing cardiovascular deaths, Rezulin causing more deaths from liver failure, and things like discontinuation of the intensive arm of the the ACCORD study, etc, Late-stage diabetes drug trials will be longer and costlier with new FDA guidelines aimed at boosting drug safety, and some …
Read More »How To Detect True Gestational Diabetes
The study showed that 7% of women diagnosed with gestational diabetes were already diabetic at the time of first visit and were misdiagnosed with gestational diabetes, when they had diabetes. They also found that, a HBA1C level at the first visit of less than 5.3 would not develop gestational diabetes …
Read More »New Findings Show How Diabetes Drives Atherosclerosis
Researchers have discovered how diabetes, by driving inflammation and slowing blood flow, dramatically accelerates atherosclerosis. It is the bodies reaction to the fatty build-up causing inflammation then the fat itself that causes heart attacks.
Read More »Bitter Melon Helps To Regulate Glucose for Type 2’s
Four bioactive components have been extracted from bitter melon and they appear to activate the enzyme AMPK which is one of the compounds that effects fuel metabolism and glucose uptake.
Read More »Grape Skin Compound Fights the Complications of Diabetes
Research has found that resveratrol, a compound present naturally in grape skin, can protect against the cellular damage to blood vessels caused by high production of glucose in diabetes.
Read More »First U.S. Patent Issued For New Class of Drugs To Treat Diabetes
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has been issued a patent for a new class of drugs called SIRT1 Activators (resveratrol), which lower glucose and improve insulin sensitivity In preclinical models of type 2 diabetes.
Read More »Parents With High Blood Pressure Pass It On to Their Children
Individuals who have one or two parents with hypertension appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing elevated blood pressure throughout their adult lives.
Read More »Weight Loss More Effective & Safer Than Intensive Insulin Therapy for
Weight-loss and major lifestyle changes may be more effective than intensive insulin therapy for overweight patients with poorly controlled, insulin-resistant type 2 diabetes, according to a diabetes researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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