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Lessons learned from the development of the diabetic supplement Gymnemosupium. There have been copious amounts of clinical studies clearly demonstrating the astounding benefits of supplement therapy, however, the few studies that fail seem to receive most of the attention. It would appear that these few studies have helped to hindered …

Lessons learned from the development of the diabetic supplement Gymnemosupium. Part 2 As we learned in Part 1 there have been copious amounts of clinical studies clearly demonstrating the astounding benefits of supplement therapy, however, the few studies that fail seem to receive most of the attention. It would appear …

Although hypoglycemia affects both types of diabetics, episodes are much more common and frequent in Type I diabetics. Hypoglycemia causes the body to respond with number of counterregulatory hormones.[i] [ii] Their most likely sequence of hormonal activation are glucagon, epinephrine and then if hypoglycemia is severe or prolonged cortisol and …

Glycosylation refers to the covalent bonding of blood glucose to the red blood cells. Normally, only a small percentage of blood glucose, usually between 4.5%- 6%, is covalently linked to the red blood cells in hemoglobin of the non diabetes population. This value is commonly referred to as glycosylated hemoglobin …

Diabetic nephropathy is the dysfunction of the kidneys that is seen in both types of diabetes, but seems to be more common in Type I patients. It is a vascular complication that affects the tiny glomerular capillaries of the kidney thus reducing the kidney’s filtration ability. This is first indicated …

Not a week goes by where I don’t get calls from patients, friends and colleagues about how to deal with Health Insurance companies and Medicare about some aspect of their diabetes care. I have decided, in an effort to reach many more people to share the advice here that I …

Each person responds differently when given the news that they have diabetes. You now have a person who has been told they have a chronic disease that they will have to manage and live with for the rest of their lives. They may have had a family member who had …

This morning I was sitting on the back of my boat watching the sunrise and thinking how very fortunate I am, and how much I have to be grateful for this Thanksgiving morning, when it occurred to me how many others did not feel quite so good today. For people …

The other day I met a man in a Nursing Home in New York. He is a department head in the facility and my class there has nothing to do with diabetes. We were just talking about the course I would be teaching and he asked me about my background …

As the end of the year approached each Network News Channel conducted their own review of 2001. Many started with the confusion of the election but all of them spent a great deal of time of the changes in our country since the attack of September 11th. I just heard …