The Silent Epidemic: Insulin Resistance and Diabetes Part 1
Diabetes is a disease on the rise in North America. There are 21 million people 20 or over and over 2 million children with diabetes in the United States, with 1.5 million new cases being diagnosed each year. Diabetes is an insidious disease, meaning that it makes its presence very gradually and at a rate […]
Diabetes and Gut Flora
There have been a large number of research papers of late dealing with the relationship between disease and the flora of the gut. There was a recent study from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Biology and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research which found that that people who have diabetes type 2 […]
Cholesterol, Blessing or Curse?
There is a quite a bit of attention paid to cholesterol with regards to health these days and for good reason. Poor cholesterol metabolism can be a good indicator of heart or coronary artery disease. It can also be a predictor of aging as I will explain later. Basically, there are two main components of […]