Type 2 Diabetes

Joyce Hollman

Diabetes + obesity = a recipe for serious liver damage

Metabolic syndrome can lead to serious trouble impacting different organs in the body. But it’s the combination of diabetes and obesity that can wreak significant harm on the liver. Here’s what you need to know…

Joyce Hollman

How to make managing blood sugar less stressful

Plenty of dietary guidance is available to manage diabetes. But that doesn’t make developing meal plans and choosing the right foods less daunting. Can you imagine carrying this weight every day? Cut yourself some slack…

Joyce Hollman

The weird connection between mouthwash, gum disease and diabetes

There’s an especially complex relationship between gum disease and type 2 diabetes. It’s a loop where one condition exacerbates the other, and vice versa. But research says it may be possible to gargle away both problems. Let’s look at the facts…

Carolyn Gretton

The statin that raises your risk of diabetes and cataracts

Statins are prescribed to lower cholesterol. But, they come with a laundry list of side effects, including a higher risk of dementia, kidney damage and muscle pain. Now we’re finding some statins increase the risk of diabetes and cataracts…

Joyce Hollman

40 things that go wrong with your body when you don’t exercise

Hippocrates warned that if all parts of the body “are unused and left idle, they become liable to disease, defective growth and age quickly.” Modern science has proven him right. Here are 40 ways your health can go wrong without exercise.

Dr. Adria Schmedthorst

Sleep impacts microvascular complications in T2D

If you’re living with type 2 diabetes, you know the importance of taking steps to keep your arteries healthy. But if your doctor hasn’t discussed your sleep habits, you could be missing a crucial factor in guarding against microvascular damage.