Maintain your diabetes under control: Your immediate goal should be to get and/or keep your blood sugar levels under control through diet, exercise, and, if needed, medications. Once you’ve accomplished that, it’s time to think about long-term goals to help you stay as healthy as possible and prevent diabetes complications. Prevent Diabetes Complications: Diabetes complications […]
Why Insulin is not in Tablet Form?
Insulin is a hormone made of protein; If one takes it as a tablet or a pill, the acid in the stomach would break it down during digestion, just like the acid breaks the protein in food. How does Insulin work? Insulin works like a key to unlock the door of the cells on one […]
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How is Your Body Handles Insulin?
Today, we are going to focus on one of the oldest classes of medication uses for diabetes. It is called Metformin and belongs to a class of drugs called biguanides. It is sold under several trade names: Glucophage, Fortinet, Glumetza, and Riomet. Metformin is most commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, either alone or combined […]
Blood sugar levels and the kidneys
There are two types of diabetes there are called type 1 and type 2 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes don’t produce insulin and people with type 2 diabetes don’t respond to insulin as well as they should. Both types of diabetes can lead to chronically high blood sugar levels that increase the risk of diabetes complications. About 90% to […]