Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Diabetes
Maggie B. Covington The Chinese language includes two terms for diabetes. The traditional name, Xiao-ke, correlates closely with diabetes in most instances. Xiao-ke syndrome means “wasting and thirsting.” The more modern term, Tang-niao-bing, means “sugar urine illness.” Diabetes is classically divided into three types: upper, middle, and lower Xiao-ke. Each has characteristic symptoms. The upper […]
Type 3 Diabetes: Metabolic Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease
Amy Berger Some researchers believe the connection between impaired glucose metabolism, insulin signaling and AD is so strong that they refer to AD as “type 3 diabetes.” In fact, type 2 diabetes (T2D)—a condition stemming from broken glucose metabolism and insulin signaling—has been identified as an additional risk factor for developing AD. Moreover, the pathological […]
Treating Diabetes: Practical Advice for Combatting a Modern Epidemic
Tom Cowan Diabetes is characterized by abnormally high levels of sugar or glucose in the blood, which spills into the urine, causing it to be sweet … Originally, doctors thought that diabetes was simply a disease of insulin deficiency, a disease in which the pancreas was unable to produce enough insulin to meet the body’s […]
I-CARE Insulin Resistance Treatment
FLCCC Alliance Metabolic syndrome includes conditions like high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal triglyceride and cholesterol levels. More than 30% of adults in the United States meet the diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome. This condition increases a person’s risk for type II diabetes, heart attack, and stroke, […]
Fat and Diabetes: Bad Press, Good Paper, and the Reemergence of Our Good Friend Glutathione
Christopher Masterjohn When mitochondria are overloaded with more energy than they can handle, they begin making increasing amounts of the free radical superoxide. Superoxide carries out important signaling roles. Among them, it directs excess energy into fat synthesis. But it can also wreak havoc on the cell by forming oxidants that can damage vulnerable proteins, […]
Fruit and Vegetable Peels: Paving the Way Towards the Development of New Generation Therapeutics
Hamendra S. Parmar et al. Interestingly, the last few years have seen an increase in the number of available reports on fruits and vegetable peels, and particularly on their biological activity, their content of different bioactive compounds, their chemical characterization, understanding of their structure-activity relationships, isolation and purification of commercially important chemicals without using high […]
Artificial Sweeteners Linked to Obesity, Diabetes
Joseph Mercola Artificial sweeteners promote metabolic dysfunction by interfering with learned responses that contribute to glucose control and energy homeostasis. They also destroy gut microbiota, induce glucose intolerance and interact with sweet-taste receptors expressed throughout your digestive system that play a role in glucose absorption and trigger insulin secretion.
Severe Diabetic Ketoacidosis After the Second Dose of mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccine
Mihail Zilbermint, Andrew P. Demidowich Administration of mRNA-1273 messenger RNA (Moderna) COVID-19 vaccine is known to be associated with side effects, including myocarditis and pericarditis. We report a rapid onset of severe diabetic ketoacidosis and transient profound insulin resistance in a 24-year-old female with type 1 diabetes after administration of the second dose of the […]
