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Jeffrey Davenport, MD

Obesity and Injury Recovery

  So when we're discussing diabetes, if I start as a normal individual and progress to the disease process of diabetes, it starts with an individual who has normal function, then you develop insulin resistance, which makes the pancreas work harder. Eventually the...

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Peripheral Fat and Hormone Levels

  With respect to the endocrine system, when you carry too much weight, it will affect your hormone levels. In the peripheral fat, testosterone gets converted to estrogen. So for overweight men, they literally begin to have higher levels of estrogen than they are...

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The impact of excess weight!

  When discussing the cardiovascular system, the inflammatory nature of excess weight and unhealthiness, because of excess weight, affects our immune system. Similar to smoking or diabetes or some other disease processes, obesity increases the inflammation which...

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Treatment Options

  How do you treat type 1 diabetes? As I mentioned before, type 1 diabetics are not resistant to insulin. They just don't have any. All we have to do is give them insulin. Easy right? Well, yes, it's easy in the sense that it is very straightforward but...

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What Causes Diabetes?

  The causes of type 1 diabetes are genetic and possibly environmental factors that cause your body's immune system to destroy the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. There's a theory that the routine viral illnesses we all get might stimulate this immune...

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Diabetes

  Let's talk about diabetes. First, there are multiple types of diabetes. There are actually 3 types of diabetes at this point. The third type I won't even talk about because it is rare and will only affect a few people. Type 1 diabetes is super straightforward....

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