Sometimes, diabetes science confuses me.
Let’s take the news of an emerging class of diabetes drugs (type 2-focused) that apparently do something we’ve always thought was bad… but it’s actually not.
Sodium-glucose transporter (SGLT-2) inhibitors increase insulin production and effectiveness and stop the liver from producing too much glucose. Basically, they work by spilling glucose over into the urine which leads to less sugar in your bloodstream. The effect: lower BGs and A1Cs.
Sure, it…
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“Can’t you just take a pill?” is a question most of us have heard again and again whenever we take an injection or show off our insulin pump to family, friends, or strangers. Taking insulin orally has been a wish of PWDs for many years, but the “non-invasive dream” goes about as far as the stomach acid destroying the hormone before it reaches your blood stream.
Injecting insulin subcutaneously has been the only option considered…
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Welcome to another edition of our weekly Ask D’Mine column! But before we get started, we want to wish Amy a very Happy Birthday today!
We hope Amy has a fabulous and relaxing day with her family and friends. She deserves it!
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…
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Too much insulin, too little insulin… Goldilocks had nothing on PWDs! This week, our host Wil Dubois, diabetes author and community educator and also…
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Since we tend to be pretty America-centric over here, we wanted to shine a spotlight on the annual conference for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), which is Europe’s equivalent to the American Diabetes Association. EASD is a huge professional org for doctors, researchers, nurses, students, and so on, with 7,000 members — from 110 different countries!
In addition to the annual conference, the EASD also produces their own trade publication, Diabetologia,…
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WilD on
September 10, 2011
Meds, meds, meds. What’s a PWD to do? They can be confusing and scary, and leave you wondering if the benefits outweigh the risks. We’re no doctors, but we can talk about known side effects and the trade-off’s many patients have to make.
Join us this week for a pill-popping edition of our diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
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