[ad_1] Oatmeal is often hailed as a great breakfast option, and you might have been told that oatmeal is especially good for people living with diabetes. But is that really true? Is oatmeal a good choice when it comes to diabetes management, or will it wreak havoc on your blood sugars? In this article, we’ll … Read more
[ad_1] The hippocampus in the brain is vital to cognitive functions involving learning and memory. In today’s open access paper, researchers review the evidence for the hippocampus to be particularly vulnerable to damaging mechanisms, including those involved in aging. It is tentatively suggested that physiological and biochemical differences in the hippocampus point to a … Read more
[ad_1] This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure. As people with diabetes, we are often told that having a low A1c is an important goal in our diabetes management. But do you know why? Do you know what a good A1c target is, how to lower your A1c, and how quickly you … Read more
[ad_1] The primary problems with drug development are self-evident from the data. Firstly the process of drug development has become enormously more expensive over the past seventy years, a period in in which rapid technological progress has diminished the cost and effort required for any task in pharmacology and biotechnology by orders of magnitude. … Read more
[ad_1] Have you seen the video that went viral on Facebook in which four amazing women with type 1 diabetes talk about what hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) feels like? I love this video, and it inspired me to think about what a low blood sugar feels like for me and to put it into words … Read more
[ad_1] In the interview noted here, Aubrey de Grey of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation makes a bold prediction of 12-15 years as to when we might see the advent of the first therapies capable of extending the healthy human life span by a few decades, allowing older people to live long enough … Read more