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Type 2 diabetes benefits from traditional Chinese medicine’s bitter melon
Type 2 Diabetes has been known to respond well to a vegetable that is used in traditional Chinese medicine–bitter melon. Bitter melon is bitter in taste, non-toxic, and thought to expel evil heat and relieve fatigue…according to the famous Compendium of Materia Medican, by Li Shizhen (1518-1593). Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica [...]
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1 Comment » Connecting the dots between type 2 diabetes and antidepressants
A researcher at the University of Alberta was analyzing data from a Saskatchewan health database when she started to connect the dots between antidepressants and type 2 diabetes. Lauren Brown, researcher, University of Alberta, studied the medical history of 2,400 people diagnosed with depression. She divided the people who were using antidepressants into one of [...]
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Diabetes Diabetes complications reduced by compound found in grape skins
Diabetes patients have a high production of glucose, which can cause cellular damage to blood vessels. Matt Whiteman, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, South West of England has found that resveratrol, a compound naturally found in grape skin, can protect against cellular damage to blood vessels caused by [...]
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Diabetes may be related to upper GI issue
Often Type 2 diabetes is related to excess weight in the belly. Researchers recognized that obese individuals with Type 2 diabetes who had their stomach size restricted (i.e. gastric banding) also had an improvement of their diabetes. Francesco Rubino, MD, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, decided to see what effect gastrointestinal bypass [...]
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Diabetes Contradiction between 2 diabetes treatment trials
Individuals with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease–the leading cause of death in people with diabetes. Previous studies suggest that reducing blood sugar levels of type 2 diabetes to comparable levels found in non-diabetic adults may reduce the rate of cardio vascular disease of diabetic patients. Two studies were developed to test [...]
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Diabetes The Alzheimer’s and diabetes link
Ireland researchers, Dr Christian Holscher and Dr Calum Sutherland, believe that there may be a connection between Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Their research centers around the protein GLP1, which is currently being investigated as a new treatment for diabetes. They already know that GLP1 has an effect on the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. If the Alzheimer’s [...]
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Lyrica (pregabalin) treatment for fibromyalgia and diabetic pain
University of Kentucky reports that professor of rheumatology, Dr. Leslie Crofford, and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Health, Gloria W. Singletary, wrote the first prospective study of Lyrica’s (pregabalin) effectiveness for the relief of fibromyalgia pain and sleep problems. In a double blind study patients were given either Lyrica or a [...]
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Diabetes and pain
Diabetes can cause numbness in your legs and toes, arms and hands. It can also cause shooting pain deep in the soles of your feet. It is the type of pain that keeps you awake at night. Diabetic pain is caused by nerve damage called neuropathic pain and is common in diabetes patients. It is [...]
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