The New Standard in Family Care

  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...

  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...

  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...

  Weight management is important to overall health because it affects every aspect of a person. It affects the cardiovascular system as well as the muscles, bones, and joints. It affects the endocrine system and how well your body responds to certain nutrients,...

  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...

  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...

  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....

  Last week we looked at 3 things that affect your risk for coronary artery disease (CAD): blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes. This week we will discuss 3 more things that can affect your risk, weight management, smoking, and cardiovascular exercise....