If you enjoy a low-carbohydrate or ketogenic diet, you should be aware of the phenomenon I call temporary carbohydrate intolerance. You already…
Every time fall comes around I hear people debating:
“Should I get the flu shot?”
“Should I vaccinate my kids?”
I’m always surprised to hear just…
On the occasion of World Diabetes Day 2020, I propose we reconsider the official definition of Type 1 diabetes, which says almost nothing about…
One of the unforeseen lessons of the coronavirus pandemic is how vulnerable our poor metabolic health makes us. Even from the early days in Wuhan…
On June 1, the New York Times published two articles, exploring what we do know and what we don’t know about the coronavirus and the disease that it…
Nutrition is the biggest coronavirus (COVID-19) risk factor that nobody is talking about. It has been widely understood for months now that cardiovascular…
As an endocrinologist, I am very familiar with the type of people who are most at risk from COVID-19. They’re usually older, usually overweight,…
Treating type 2 diabetes with insulin leads to weight gain and worsens risk factors for heart disease. Should we still be doing it?
Next year will…
When Dr. Mariela Glandt, an endocrinologist, volunteered to treat African refugees in Tel Aviv, she had no idea she would meet a type 1 diabetic like Samuel Agant, 28, from South Sudan. Below, Dr. Glandt shares Samuel’s story of living on the streets of Tel Aviv with type 1 diabetes, without a work permit, without food, and without a constant supply of insulin.
The association between diabetes and cancer was first noted over 100 years ago, but physicians have become increasingly aware of this association only in the last few years as recent studies have demonstrated that having diabetes increases the risk of almost all types of cancer. The risk of pancreatic, liver, and endometrial cancer is approximately twice that of the non-diabetic population. Some studies have reported a similar increase in the risk of bladder cancer and in cancers of the oral cavity.