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Complications
The Beginning of Diabetic Retinopathy
I went to the eye doctor this morning for my annual check up. I didn’t go to my usual doctor, but to a doctor at the dia…
A Diabetic Chef in the Sweetest Place on Earth: An interview with Charlie Gipe
Why wasn't I told to use insulin before? Everyone said, "You're a type 2, you don't need it." It's not true.…
Dangers from Without and Within
“I’ve always understood that the job of insulin was to move glucose from the blood into the cell, which is why in the ab…
The Sorbitol Blues
Whether type 1 or type 2, the number one obsession for the diabetic individual is blood glucose. There is good reason fo…
Unfettered RAGE
Glucose, that innocuous sweet molecule, is reactive. Chemically, what happens is that glucose has a slight reducing capa…
