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AmyT on
September 16, 2009
Back in 2006, nitric oxide (NO) was all the buzz. I’ve since discovered that it’s been utilized to treat everything from vascular eye disease to erectile dysfunction (yes, it’s the stuff in Viagra!). Today, a look back at my original post discovering this wonder substance, derived from ancient Chinese herbs.
What Nitric Oxide Can Do For You (or Say Yes to NO)
Further to my query on natural substances that help diabetes, have you…
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AmyT on
September 15, 2009
Up until now it’s been all about me and my #$%@ chronic illness. That wasn’t so bad, for me. Far tougher is the realization that someone you love — someone who’s been the rock of your existence — may not be so invincible after all. Although nothing truly catastrophic has happened, a little piece of my heart is breaking…
It happened while we were in Germany. My husband came home one day saying he thought…
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AmyT on
September 14, 2009
Today I am in Rochester, MN, at the world-famous Mayo Clinic, taking in part in a “collaborative symposium” on health care called Transform.
David Rosenman, a physician who runs the Mayo’s new Center for Innovation, had the idea to gather a bunch of smart, engaged people to exchange ideas on “new models of health care.” This is not just about the relative merits of Obama’s proposal for universal coverage. Rather, it’s about the role of…
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AmyT on
September 11, 2009
Browsing through the latest issue of Wired magazine (my favorite print pub!), I stumbled upon a “reader rant” that stopped me in my tracks. A guy named Edward Aboufadel from Ada, Michigan, was responding to a recent article titled Living by Numbers, about our new data-driven lifestyles. He writes:
People who are really ‘living by numbers’ are type 1 diabetics, who struggle every day to keep their blood glucose in range with carbohydrate counts, insulin…
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