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Digital Diabetes Coaching: Why an App Alone Isn’t Enough

Person with type 2 diabetes using a digital health app while receiving virtual diabetes coaching and tracking healthy lifestyle goals.

A diabetes app can track meals, count steps, log glucose, and deliver reminders. However, can an app actually help someone turn all that information into lasting daily habits? A recent randomized controlled trial suggests that digital diabetes coaching, with technology supported by ongoing human guidance, may help bridge that gap. …

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The Exercise Hormones That Could Become Tomorrow’s Diabetes Drugs

Exercise-induced myokines signaling between skeletal muscle and metabolic organs involved in diabetes and insulin sensitivity.

What if scientists could capture some of the metabolic benefits of exercise in a medicine? Research into the connection between myokines and diabetes is bringing that possibility closer to serious scientific discussion. When skeletal muscles contract, they do more than move the body. They release signaling molecules called myokines that …

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