Insulin Therapy - Articles
Thyroid Nodule Therapy in Patients with Insulin Resistance
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Dr. Richard Guttler
Recent studies have shown that patients with high levels of insulin seen in obesity, diabetes, and in thin patients with insulin resistance have a larger thyroid gland by volume studies by ultrasound, and have a significant increased number of nodules.Thyroid vol.18(4),461-164 2008. Obese and non-obese patients with insulin resistance had increase ...
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The Problem With Insulin
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Dr. Matthew M.
... helped to prevent countless complications of diabetes such as blindness and kidney failure. While patients with Type 1 diabetes, who produce no insulin on their own, rely on insulin therapy to survive, the use of insulin in Type 2 diabetes is more complicated, since patients with early stage Type 2 diabetes initially have high levels of insulin an ...
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Understanding Insulin
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Eric C.
Understanding InsulinBy: Eric CresseyAll too often, we overlook the important underlying anatomy and physiology upon which solid training and nutrition recommendations are based. In rushing to get to the “meat and potatoes” (the program or ultimate recommendations) of an article, we fail to truly question and understand the basis f ...
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Insulin Speculation
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Matt M.
Scott sent me some interesting info on the effects of insulin. The main idea is that when there are low levels of insulin, even high amounts of excess calories will not go to fat stores. But what I'm thinking is that in the presence of low insulin, a person may not be able to gain significant weight of any kind, be it fat or muscle.Take the examp ...
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Smart Insulin?
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Naomi M.
There was an interesting article in my Google Alerts today about Type 1 diabetes. You can read it here. The JDRF is announcing the kick off of a project to develop Smartinsulin insulin, which will recognize when the body's blood sugar is rising and release insulin to cover for it. Then when the blood sugar settles down, it stops the release. It wou ...
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Insulin Resistance
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Low Carb Confidential !.
“Youknowyou’re going to become a diabetic, don’t you?” Said my doctor as we went over my blood work.I suppose I know this - I just thought that I could keep it at bay a bit longer.I just had my blood work done, and although my numbers are pretty good, my glucose was 106 mg/dL. This is the indicator that I’m on the path ...
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insulin pump
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Lee Nevitt
All going well with the insulin pump, gettingused to it and not really aware of it now, although does sting a bit when it 1st goes in... still early doors though... my stomach is still the biggest issue i have, not knowing when and where its gonna hit... waitin to see if there is another wonder drug that may help out.... not holding out though!!
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insulin pump
by
Lee Nevitt
All going well with the insulin pump, gettingused to it and not really aware of it now, although does sting a bit when it 1st goes in... still early doors though... my stomach is still the biggest issue i have, not knowing when and where its gonna hit... waitin to see if there is another wonder drug that may help out.... not holding out though!!
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