Savvy Eating, 3/6/19: A.I. Diet, Fat and Memory, Junk Food and Bears
The A.I. Diet ,,,Forget government-issued food pyramids. Let an algorithm tell you how to eat … according to Dr. Eric Topol (cardiologist) for the Opinion Section of The New York Times, 2 March 2019. Despite decades of diet fads and government-issued food...
Savvy Update 3/4/19: Alertgy CGM, History of CGM, Stop Calling Physicians as ‘Dr.’
Alertgy’s Non-Invasive CGM Wristband was reported by Martin Hensel on InsulinNation.com, February 2019. The Alertgy GM is a band that you wear around your wrist that works with an app on your smartphone to measure your blood sugar. The Alertgy wristband acts as...
Savvy Living, 3/1/19: CBD/Marijuana and Type 1 diabetes
I’ve been wanting to look at this for a while … and I’ve tried to find a local medical doctor and a medical group willing to host a discussion about CBD oil and Type 1 diabetes. But most places I checked would not go on the record to host or...
Savvy Eating 2/27/2019: NUTS,
Nuts Linked With Lower CV Risk in Diabetes, as reported by Jeff Minerd of MedPageToday.com, 22 February 2019, based on a study at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and published in Circulation Research. Eating more nuts — especially tree nuts such as...
Savvy News 2/25/19: Lawsuit against Insulin Makers, Tandem X2
It’s about time! Lawsuit Against Insulin Companies Can Move Forward…..Tick Tick Tick was posted by Tom Karlya, DiabetesDad.org on 15 February 2019. Below is the press release from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP. They are a consumer-rights...
Savvy Friday 2/22/19: SLEEP and Houseplants and Meditation
The Real Problem with America’s Sleep Problem … yes, for us T1s, we KNOW the importance of sleep … was authored by Robert Roy Britt for Medium|Luminate, 11 January 2019. The saddest day of my life was when I left preschool and naps were no...
Savvy Eating 2/20/19: Fiber, Water, Processed Meats (BAD!), Yak Milk, Coffee w/out Coffee Beans
What Your Microbiome Really Needs Is Fiber, Not Kombucha according to Katherine Harmon Courage, a science writer, for Health/Medium, 4 February 2019. In recent years, we’ve begun to learn that most everything we eat — from probiotic yogurt to a serving of asparagus to...
Savvy Update, 2/18/19: FDA Approves X2, Trial for New Insulin, CGM Accuracy, CGM for all by 2025, Smart Insulin Pen, Research Studies to Watch 2019
FDA authorizes first interoperable insulin pump intended to allow patients to customize treatment through their individual diabetes management devices, as announced on the FDA website, 14 February 2019 (happy Valentine’s!). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Savvy Updates, 2/11/19: Insulin Pill, Replicating Insulin Cells, Post-prandial spikes, Faustman and BCG Vaccine
Pea-sized pill delivers insulin shot from inside the stomach was announced by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology-led research team on 2/7/2019 and reported by Lauran Neergaard on APNews.com as well as Gina Kolata in the Health Section of The New York Times. ...
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