Which Diabetes Drug Should I Take?
There are a lot of choices, but diabetes specialists concur that metformin is the likely best first step for diabetic patients, unless a...
Antibiotics Cause Blood Sugar Swings In Diabetics
Diabetes patients who require a particular category of antibiotics tend to get serious blood glucose changes than people who take other...
Diabetes, Sugar, Candida and Invokana
Yeast loves sugar, and diabetics have high blood sugar, so diabetes are more prone to develop candida infections. Recurrent candidiasis...
What’s the best diabetes drug? New study says "any."
As I’ve discussed before on this blog, whenever someone is pre-diabetic, the first “drug” is really a change in their lifestyle. Many...
Diabetes, Gut Bacteria, and Proteins
In a prior post I discussed the role of protein in diabetes. As I discussed then, although most diabetes diet management focuses on...
Which diabetes drugs cause hypoglycemia?
Diabetes is typically characterized by too high blood glucose, but hypoglycemia is the result of too low blood glucose. So how does...
Diabetics Need To Watch Protein In Their Diet
Diabetes is all about the levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood stream, and about having too much sugar (hyperglycemia) or too little...
Where does diabetes affect the body?
Diabetes begins in the pancreas, where insulin is made. This is true for both type I diabetes and type II diabetes, even though the...