Diabetics Could Be Given Dangerous Antidepressant
It sounds like a comedy sketch. A woman with diabetes goes to her doctor, who says “I want to give you something to help prevent vascular complications… an antidepressant”. “Great”, says the woman,...
View ArticleCholesterol Targets Are Harmful In Type 2 Diabetes
People with diabetes have a higher risk of heart disease than the general population and need to do all they can to minimise this risk. Conventional treatment to reduce heart disease risk among...
View ArticleBoosting Testosterone Could Benefit Men With Type 2 Diabetes
Doctors have known for some time that men with type 2 diabetes tend to have lower than normal testosterone levels. Now, Australian researchers have started a two-year study to investigate whether...
View ArticleDoctors And Patients Must Set Diabetes Care Goals Together
The state of diabetes care in the UK is not good. If I were to give it a school report, it would say ‘fails to understand this subject and must make a huge effort to do better’. And that’s being kind....
View ArticleAir Pollution Can Cause Insulin Resistance And Diabetes
You already know that what you eat and drink can affect your risks of metabolic syndrome, diabetes and obesity. But have you thought about what you breathe in? Surprisingly, scientists are discovering...
View ArticleSome Antibiotics Can Cause Severe Blood Sugar Swings
There is no doubt that antibiotics have been one of the biggest success stories of modern medicine and a staggering one third of people in the UK have taken these drugs in the last 12 months. While...
View ArticleDiabetes: Your Christmas And New Year Survival Guide
The festive season can be one of the more challenging times of year for people with diabetes or metabolic syndrome. Let’s face it, the entire period revolves around food and drink – and much of it is...
View ArticleThe Link Between Type 2 Diabetes And Inflammation
The evidence is mounting that type 2 diabetes is basically an inflammatory condition. In an earlier blog post, I flagged up the link between chronic inflammation and an increased risk of type 2...
View ArticleHeart Failure Risks Of Diabetes Drugs Are Being Ignored
In May last year, I wrote in The Real Diabetes Truth how the vast majority of diabetes research hasn’t properly addressed the cardiovascular risks associated with diabetes drugs. Now, a leading UK...
View ArticleDiabetes And Poor Diet Could Cause Brain Cell Loss And Dementia
Over the last few decades, scientists have come to appreciate that diabetes affects many tissues and organs of the body, including the brain and central nervous system. As I pointed out in a blog post...
View ArticleDiabetes And Depression Are Linked To Kidney Failure
Diabetes can really get you down. Studies have shown that around one in every four people with diabetes suffers at least one episode of depression, with women being more susceptible than men. If you...
View ArticleEvidence Links Statin Drugs To Diabetes, Parkinson’s Disease And Cancer
Statins, those cholesterol-lowering drugs that Big Pharma would like us all to be taking, are back in the news again. And it’s mostly bad news for Big Pharma. Statin drugs have previously been linked...
View ArticleType 2 Diabetes Increases The Risk Of Dementia Later In Life
It’s not exactly breaking news: diabetes is known to be closely linked with both dementia and depression. Previous studies have shown that those parts of the brain that are important for cognition and...
View ArticleCould The BCG Vaccine Reverse Type 1 Diabetes?
If you are among the 350,000 or so people in the UK with type 1 diabetes, you will be encouraged to know that a cure could be getting closer. And, if successful, it won’t mean taking a new and...
View ArticleBacteria That Prevent Type 1 Diabetes
I recently told you here about a harmful strain of bacteria that can cause type 2 diabetes. But bacteria aren’t all bad. It seems that the right kind of friendly bacteria in your gut could prevent type...
View ArticleProbiotics Could Help Prevent Type 1 Diabetes In Children
If you knew you had a 27 day window-period to help prevent your new born child or grandchild from developing type 1 diabetes with a 100 per cent safe and natural alternative, surely you would grab the...
View ArticleDon’t Stop Taking That Chromium Supplement
I was intending to write this blog post on the subject of drug interactions, but instead I want to set straight the recent scare stories about chromium supplements that have appeared in the press....
View ArticleNHS Can’t Keep Up With Rise in Diabetes
It has been known for years that cases of diabetes, and in particular type 2 diabetes, are rising relentlessly. Around four million people are currently living with diabetes in the UK, more than double...
View ArticleWill A Sugar Tax Do Any Good?
I have been saying for years that it is sugar, rather than fat, that is the real killer in our diet. The scientific evidence for this has been piling up and can no longer be ignored. And finally the UK...
View ArticleMetformin Is No Silver Bullet For Cancer
Metformin is a drug that most people with type 2 diabetes have heard of and that many will be taking. But while metformin’s antidiabetic properties have been documented for decades, the way it works is...
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