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Managing Diabetes On Little Sleep: How To Keep Blood Sugar Controlled | Everyday Health

Managing Diabetes on Little Sleep: How to Keep Blood Sugar Controlled | Everyday Health

Managing Diabetes on Little Sleep: How to Keep Blood Sugar Controlled | Everyday Health


Sometimes its impossible to get at least seven hours of sleep per night, but insufficient zs dont have to derail your health goals when living with diabetes.
A growing body of research suggests that getting enough quality sleep is one of the most important factors in our mental and physical health. In fact, you need sleep to live and yet so many people come up short, be it due to stress, lack of time, one of many sleep disorders, or other factors.
So how much sleep do you need for optimal health? The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults ages 18 to 64 get seven to nine hours, while older adults ages 65 and older get seven to eight hours of snooze time. But one-third of Americans dont get enough sleep, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in February 2016 .
Because insufficient sleep is so widespread, the CDC has declared it a public health problem , pointing to a lack of sleeps link to weight gain, heart disease, depression, and more.
For people with type 2 diabetes or at risk for the disease , the consequences can be particularly dangerous.
The Relationship Between Sleep and Diabetes Risk
For one, shorting yourself on shut-eye raises your risk of type 2 diabetes. Compared with sleeping the minimum recommended seven hours, your odds for developing the disease rise by 9 percent for every hour of shut-eye that you cut, suggests a review published in March 2015 in Diabetes Care .
Past research, the review points out, has shown that a lack of sleep may prompt the body to produce inadequate insulin and boost blood su Continue reading

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Teens with Type 1 + Depression

Teens with Type 1 + Depression


You may already know that depression and diabetes are related, and it turns out that teenagers with Type 1 can be especially susceptible to depression. According to SAMSAs National Survey on Drug Use and Health , more adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes experienced a major depressive episode (MDE) within the past year than their peers without diabetes. Experiencing MDEs is different from experiencing diabetes distress , and its important to distinguish between the two in order to best address mental health issues in teens with diabetes.
[The research] is concerning because depression can affect not just your mood and your energy level, but also how you take care of yourself. That includes taking care of diabetes, says Molly L. Tanenbaum, Ph.D. Molly is an instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. It can be difficult to identify the reasons behind symptoms of depression. If we point to diabetes first, we miss an opportunity to learn whats going on and to offer support.
Symptoms of depression can be identified via a PHQ-9 screening questionnaire and can include:
These symptoms last for two weeks or more and vary from teenager to teenager. If you think youre experiencing symptoms of depression or thoughts of hurting yourself, let your healthcare team know right away.
Two people could get the same score on a questionnaire, and one could be feeling really distressed and discouraged about diabetes, and the other could be feeling down and struggling with school but with diabetes not really b Continue reading

Obesity Action Coalition Dear Doctor Can Bariatric Surgery Treat Type 2 Diabetes?

Obesity Action Coalition Dear Doctor Can Bariatric Surgery Treat Type 2 Diabetes?


Dear Doctor -Can Bariatric Surgery Treat Type 2 Diabetes?
Answer provided by Lloyd Stegemann, MD, FASMBS
To view a PDF version of this article, click here .
Diabetes is a devastating problem worldwide. It has been estimated that as much as 8.3 percent of the worlds population has diabetes and this number is on the rise. As your weight goes up, so does your risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D). In fact, almost 25 percent of individuals who are affected by severe obesity (body mass index greater than 35) will carry a diagnosis of T2D. Uncontrolled diabetes leads to a host of long-term problems including heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, blindness and the need for amputations.
For many years, bariatric surgeons have known that bariatric surgery has a profound effect on T2D. It is not uncommon for our T2D patients to come off of all of their diabetic medications after bariatric surgery. Many primary care physicians (PCP), however, have been reluctant to advise bariatric surgery as the first line of treatment for their patients affected by severe obesity with T2D because of the lack of quality studies comparing the effectiveness of medical therapy versus surgical therapy for the treatment of T2D. Two recent studies that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine were designed to help answer this question.
In the first study, known as the STAMPEDE trial, 150 poorly controlled diabetic patients were divided randomly and equally into three groups. All of the patients in the study received intensive medical therapy including lifestyle counseling, weight managem Continue reading

An Overview of Herbal Products and Secondary Metabolites Used for Management of Type Two Diabetes

An Overview of Herbal Products and Secondary Metabolites Used for Management of Type Two Diabetes


An Overview of Herbal Products and Secondary Metabolites Used for Management of Type Two Diabetes
Department of Food Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Edited by: Jianbo Xiao, University of Macau, China
Reviewed by: Bhekumthetho Ncube, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Ying Wang, University of Macau, China
*Correspondence: Nataa P. Ulrih, [email protected]
This article was submitted to Ethnopharmacology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology
Received 2016 Aug 9; Accepted 2017 Jun 16.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Diabetes mellitus is a common effect of uncontrolled high blood sugar and it is associated with long-term damage, dysfunction, and failure of various organs. In the adult population, the global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980. Without effective prevention and management programs, the continuing significant rise in diabetes will have grave consequences on the health and lifespan of the world population, and also on the world economy. Supplements can be used to correct nutritional deficiencies or to m Continue reading

NZ case study; A citizen scientist controls autoimmune diabetes without insulin, with a low carb diet, a glucose meter, and metformin.

NZ case study; A citizen scientist controls autoimmune diabetes without insulin, with a low carb diet, a glucose meter, and metformin.

The case study is a very important type of medical publication that’s overlooked in this age of big data. Unlike large statistical studies, which tell you the probability of something happening, the case study tells you whether something CAN happen at all, and under exactly which circumstances it has happened.
Case studies answer questions like “Can autoimmune diabetes, with lower insulin production, be managed long-term without insulin?”
Yes, it can, and this is described in full detail and a clear and simple style in a new case-study from Christchurch.[1]
2017 Nelson Jacobs Case report Management of autoimmune diabetes without insulin
This is published on Zenodo.org, an online data repostitory set up by people involved in CERN and other places. Warrick Nelson, the first author is the patient and is an operations manager at Plant and Food Research in NZ. The second author is his doctor. This is citizen science. We love it.
So onto the topic of diabetes, and management of the condition with low carb diets……
We reviewed the strong evidence for low carb diets in diabetes management in the New Zealand Medical Journal in a 2016 review cited in the current paper.[2]
Its case study is a great example of how the wisdom of Citizen Scientists, equipped with mass produced measuring devices and, in this case, a proven medicine, can discover the one way to treat a disease. It is written up by the patient and his doctor, who was wise enough to recognise this as the teachable moment it is.
The patient first presented with type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, insu Continue reading

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