"What a wonderful book! Diabetes can feel confusing and overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be — especially thanks to books like this."
— Dr. William Polonsky
author of Diabetes Burnout
Please welcome, today at DiabetesMine, a new community category I’m calling Diabetes Lifeline. Maybe not the most original name, but if the shoe fits… The idea is that I get quite a few emails from people all over asking for help with various diabetes-related predicaments, in many cases how to stage an intervention for [...]
Anyone familiar with the “hygiene hypothesis“? This theory proposes that by living in an ever-more-sterile environment, we have forced our immune systems to “look for something else to do,” like causing asthma and an array of allergies, or attacking our islet cells, for example.
The theory goes that children who grow up exposed to multiple [...]
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Jay Hewitt doesn’t really want anyone to think of him as a superhero. But can we help it? Here’s a mere mortal man — who’s had Type 1 diabetes for 16 years — who’s a champion competitor in Ironman triathlons. That’s a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run, all in one [...]
Speaking of survivorship… read this:
Shortly after my diagnosis, a friend in my book club said enthusiastically, “You HAVE to talk with my mom. She’s got diabetes AND breast cancer!” Aaaaaccccckkk! I’m just getting my head around one chronic disease, so why in the world would I want to rendezvous with someone who’ll remind me that [...]
My new column this month at dLife is not exactly a book review, but something more akin to a “book encounter.”
I recently received an advance copy of medical writer Jill Sklar’s The Five Gifts of Illness. Sklar was diagnosed herself with Crohn’s Disease in 2002.
What she’s done is explore the whole concept of “survivorship” from [...]
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