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Prediabetic exercise improves insulin secretion
Health & Fitness
November 3, 2009
Exercise improves insulin resistance. We’ve known this for some time. Somehow, exercise strengthens the connection between the insulin...
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Prediabetes and the maintenance of beta cell mass
Health & Fitness
November 1, 2009
Insulin resistance is the hallmark of prediabetes. The disease has not yet set in because the pancreas can compensate for this by increasing the...
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Research on insulin resistance points to the mitochondria
Health & Fitness
October 30, 2009
Prediabetes is almost always associated with a decreased ability to respond to insulin: a state we call insulin resistance. What causes insulin...
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Type 1 diabetes is antigen driven
Health & Fitness
October 28, 2009
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. If a doctor takes a biopsy of pancreatic tissue from a child who has been identified as having type 1...
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Discovery of a master switch for obesity may lead to new weight loss therapies
Health & Fitness
September 4, 2009
We have known for quite some time that obesity and type 2 diabetes is associated with a state of chronic inflammation. One of the ways we study...
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Carnitine therapy for insulin resistance and diabetes (part 2)
Health & Fitness
August 17, 2009
Carnitine has been of interest to diabetes doctors and researchers for some time. Indeed a search of the National Library of Medicine using the...
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Carnitine therapy for insulin resistance and diabetes
Health & Fitness
August 15, 2009
We are focused these days on decreasing our environmental carbon footprint as a means to stabilize our planetary ecosystem. Similarly, our cells...
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The trajectory of pre-diabetes comes into focus
Health & Fitness
June 28, 2009
Over a decade before the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, changes in blood sugar and insulin resistance can be detected in at risk individuals.This...
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Understanding diabetes: the T cell receptor (part II)
Health & Fitness
June 8, 2009
To start at the beginning of this article click here.For those of you who play the lottery, think about how many numbers you pick and the chances...
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Understanding diabetes: the T cell receptor (part I)
Health & Fitness
June 8, 2009
Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease. To understand it, one must understand how the immune system “sees” the world. Military...
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