January 29, 2010
For the first time since insulin started being developed to treat diabetes 80 years ago, a new medical breakthrough in insulin administration will allow adult diabetics to deliver their insulin a very different way.
Exubera is rapid acting meal time insulin that was recently approved by the FDA. It comes is powdered form and can be inhaled through the mouth. Exubera will not completely replace insulin shots (some diabetics may still need shots of long acting insulin), but it will defi Read the rest of this entry →
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January 28, 2010
No one has paid attention to bodybuilding for the last several years without being able to tell you that over the past 15 years, the physiques have grown like never seen before. Professional bodybuilders these days are stepping onto the stage at over 280 pounds, after the top champions have had the title at 230-240 pounds for many years before. Few people know that the secret of this newfound growth is insulin.
For a long time insulin had a reputation for making people put on fat. Read the rest of this entry →
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January 28, 2010
There are many people who hear the words Insulin Resistance and think diabetes. While the two are related, they are definitely not the same. Although Insulin Resistance is not diabetes, it is a condition that can lead to diabetes.
What happens to most people with insulin resistance is that they have high levels of both blood glucose (sugar) and insulin circulating in their body simultaneously. A person who is insulin resistant has muscle, fat and liver cells that do not make Read the rest of this entry →
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January 28, 2010
Glucose is also called blood sugar as it circulates in the blood at a concentration of 65-110 mg/mL of blood. Glucose-6-phosphatase dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) deficiency is the most common disease-producing enzymopathy in humans.
Inherited as an X-linked disorder, G-6-PD deficiency affects 400 million people worldwide. Glucose, with six carbon atoms, has four asymmetric carbon atoms (marked in this diagram with *). The arrangement of the OH’s and H’s on these atoms is very important. Read the rest of this entry →
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