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What is An Evidence-Based Take?
When exploring the resources in the media library, you may notice videos that are called evidence-based takes (or EBTs). These cover a wide variety of topics including pregnancy and type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes remission, vaccinations and diabetes, diabetes and immunity, among others. An EBT is a short snippet from a conversation with a...
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Making Sense of Your Diabetes Lab Tests
After a routine appointment, your health care provider doctor hands you a requisition for a full panel of diabetes lab tests. These include HbA1c, creatinine, eGFR, LDL cholesterol, ALT, and a urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio. What does it all mean? While each test checks for something different, they are all designed to answer important questions about...
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Is This Glucose-Lowering Drug the Right One for You?
Many new glucose lowering drugs for people with type 2 diabetes have been introduced over the last 30 years. In addition to various types of insulin, there are now 8 different classes of drugs that are available in Canada and that have been approved for type 2 diabetes. These include: Metformin Acarbose Sulfonylurea drugs (mainly...
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The Answers to Your Questions About Continuous Glucose Monitors
Following the live webinar The Info Hiding in Your Continuous Glucose Monitor Readings, our team collected your questions and recorded a Q&A session with Dr. Alice Cheng. In this session, the following questions about CGMs are answered: What information does a CGM summarize? Where is the best place on the body to wear a...
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Aging and Diabetes – How Do We Slow It Down?
Many articles and videos on this platform discuss the long-term health effects of diabetes. The bottom-line is that people with diabetes have a higher chance of getting a wide variety of serious health problems over time. The most serious ones are blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, heart failure, strokes, amputations, dementia, cancers, and some infections....
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Timing Is Everything: How Circadian Rhythms Shape β-Cell Function
We often think of pancreatic β-cells as simple glucose sensors that detect glucose and release insulin in response. But in reality, they behave more like highly trained performers following a daily script. That script is written by the body’s internal clock and is known as the circadian rhythm. Circadian rhythms are 24-hour cycles controlled by specialized...