As I write this blog post, I am furiously devouring white chocolate covered pretzels in order to bring myself up after a post-workout low.
I was explaining…
I have one word for you: microbiome.
There has been a lot written about it lately, including a good article in the October 22, 2012, New Yorker …
A few days ago, after months of high blood sugar and a blood test to confirm it, I decided to increase my basal insulin levels to try and bring it down.…
I was in Italy last month for the Milano City Marathon. As you might imagine, there were tempting high carb foods everywhere I looked. There were plenty of foods I had no problem resisting, but on my last evening there I gave into myself and ordered risotto in a lovely little restaurant.
This quick, simple vegetable broth recipe is a great substitute for meat and chicken based broth. Other than washing and chopping vegetables,…
Insulet Corporation, the company behind the OmniPod tubeless Insulin Management System, announced it has entered into an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company according to which Insulet will develop a new version of the OmniPod insulin pump specifically designed to deliver Eli Lilly's Humulin R U-500 insulin,
I lurked during the recent conversations surrounding the petition to change the name of type 1 diabetes, but I refrained from commenting for several…
I was a total mess when I got home from the Mountain to Valley 215 kilometer, (133.5 miles) off road, relay race (M2V) on Friday morning. After…
A few days ago, I found myself telling a colleague that I couldn’t attend a conference, as I try not to travel much any more. “I have two…
Dr. Doug Melton's group at Harvard, which has made many advances in our understanding of stem cell and beta cell biology over the years, has identified a new hormone, which they called betatrophin, that, when produced by the liver, induces beta cell growth in the islets of the pancreas.