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A few days ago I wrote a post about the four T's in diabetes - toilet, thirsty, thinner, tired - which are the typical symptoms of diabetes. By recognizing the four T's you can save somebody's life. I once again got reminded of how lucky…

One of the things that comes up when you tell people that you're on a ketogenic diet is the question of whether you don't feel deprived. Most people can't envision their life without pizza and pasta. As with everything, you get used to it. There…

There is something called the Somogyi effect or phenomenon which comes up when you treat diabetes. It supposedly happens when you take insulin before you go to bed and wake up with high blood sugar levels. According to the theory of the Somogyi effect, when…

One of the disadvantages to using the ultra-long-acting Tresiba as your background insulin is that it takes several days for any changes you make to show up. I started jogging and got tormented with lows, especially during the nighttime. There are few things as unpleasant…

Lately, I've been sleeping in a lot, and I've noticed that my blood sugar tends to rise in the hours before waking. Since diagnosis with type 1 diabetes, I've woken up at 7 am and taken double my regular insulin dose to account for feet…

Too much of a good thing can be bad for you. Extra screen time is one of them. According to research from one Louisiana hospital, the cases of type 2 diabetes in children doubled during the pandemic. They also increased in severity. When the scientists…

There's a good documentary on YouTube about how western food companies are making people in poorer countries fatter. It's called Global Junk Food and opens up in India, a potentially massive market for fast food restaurants with 1.3 billion people. While some Indians are still…

The last time I spoke to my grandmother, she asked me what I used to drink during the heat waves in Cyprus. I told her: soda. Lots and lots of soda. This was years before I developed diabetes and could still have sugar. My granny…

The $110 billion anti-aging industry may be a lost cause. A new study suggests that it's impossible to stop or even reverse the aging process. It challenges the ideas in the groundbreaking book Lifespan with cellular programming as the next frontier in aging research. The…