Taking Control Of Your Diabetes

Diabetes and Liver Disease: Frequently Asked Questions ❤️‍🩹  Is there a cure for liver disease? While there isn’t a cure for liver disease currently, it can often be improved (and sometimes even reversed) in early stages with lifestyle changes. The liver has an amazing ability to heal itself when underlying causes like inflammation are addressed.

What Is Graves’ Disease? Graves’ disease is an autoimmune condition that causes hyperthyroidism, which means your thyroid gland becomes overactive (“hyper”) and starts producing too much thyroid hormone. Why does this happen? In all autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks a specific target, but the consequence depends on what the immune attack does to that target. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.

Rapid-Acting Insulin Afrezza Works Differently Than Injected Insulin The reason why Afrezza works so well for kids (especially unpredictable eaters) is due to the time course of action. Subcutaneous insulin typically starts working in 15-30 minutes, reaches its peak in 1-3 hours, and doesn’t get out of your system for 3-5 hours. Afrezza starts working in about 12 minutes, reaches its peak in about 45 minutes, and is out of your system in 1.5 to 3 hours.

Inhaled vs. Injected Insulin in Kids: What the Research Says The Afrezza FDA approval for kids and teens was based on results from the INHALE-1 study, which evaluated whether inhaled insulin could safely and effectively replace injected insulin at mealtimes for this age group. Half of the 230 participants in the 26-week study used Afrezza at mealtimes and for corrections, while the other half used injected rapid-acting insulin. Both groups used their long-acting injected basal insulin.

Who Thinks They’re Not at Risk for DKA? The majority of people who don’t think they’re at risk for DKA are the ones who’ve never had it! It’s a natural assumption to think, “It hasn’t happened to me, so I must be doing something right”. But DKA can develop quickly (sometimes within hours) from an unexpected loss of insulin, an illness, or even certain medications.

What Causes Euglycemic DKA? One of the biggest triggers for euglycemic DKA is a class of medications called SGLT2 inhibitors (Farxiga, Jardiance, Invokana, and Steglatro). These medications help lower blood sugar by causing the kidneys to flush extra glucose out through the urine. While SGLT2 inhibitors have major heart and kidney benefits, they can also make DKA harder to recognize because they lower blood sugar so effectively.

What Is Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA)? LADA stands for “Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults”. In non-medical speak, all it means is type 1 diabetes that’s diagnosed in adulthood. The term LADA was created because the condition presents a little differently than “classic” type 1 diabetes. Some people call it LADA diabetes or LADA type 1.5, but it’s not a different type – it’s part of the type 1 diabetes spectrum. How Is LADA Different from Classic Type 1 Diabetes?

Why We Still Treat Type 2 Diabetes Like It’s 1995 Doctors have been treating diabetes the same way for decades.

Dr. Edelman: What you’re experiencing is called reactive hypoglycemia (also known as postprandial hypoglycemia). Reactive hypoglycemia happens when your blood sugar drops a few hours after eating – usually about 2 to 4 hours later. It typically occurs after meals or snacks that are high in sugar or refined carbs (like white rice, potatoes, candy, cake, etc…basically all the good stuff!).

What Is Insulin Resistance? Insulin resistance is a complex condition that happens when cells in your muscles, fat, and liver don’t respond to insulin like they should due to certain genetic, metabolic, and lifestyle factors. It’s a key underlying cause of type 2 diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes Is Progressive Type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition, which means the initial strategies you used to manage it in the beginning may become less effective over time.