Obesity is the main culprit in the worldwide avalanche of type 2 diabetes. But how excess weight drives insulin resistan…
Insulin Resistance
Enzyme Linked to Insulin Resistance May Lead to New Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified an enzyme called PKC-delta as an important molecular modifier for …
Cashew Seed Extract Shown To Stimulate Blood Sugar Absorption
According to a new study from the University of Montreal (Canada) and the Université de Yaoundé (Cameroun) cashew seed e…
Insulin Resistance Found in Healthy People After One Sleepless Night
The findings of a new study led by Esther Donga, MD of the Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands show a sh…
How Much Exercise is Enough? An Interview with Dr. Bryan Bergman
Believe it or not, our bodies were made to move. We all need exercise. Dr. Bryan Bergman, explains just how much exerci…
Exercise and beta cell function
Insulin resistance, the hallmark of prediabetes, is compensated for by an increase in insulin output. Since the pancreas…
Pancreatic Karoshi
Japan is one of the few countries that actually publishes the number of people who die suddenly on the job. Their name f…
Insulin Resistance Starts In The Mitochondria
Often diabetes is associated with the loss of insulin, however, long before the onset of type 2 diabetes the person at r…
Insulin Resistance
We think of diabetes as a lack of insulin. The strange thing, however, about the pre-diabetic state is that it is almos…