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...

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...

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...

Additional Risk of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

  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....

Coronary Artery Disease

   Blocked Artery Last week, we covered the key facts of the heart and its main function, and we established that heart disease is all the different things that can mess up the blood flow to the heart, the muscle of the heart, the valves, etc. So, let’s not spend time...