Sweet Route and Frozen Shoulders Posted on January 28, 2011 by Docturnal In the last few years, I have come across a lot of people I know personally who have become SWEET around forty years of age. I mean they are diagnosed of DIABETES. Initially, I also thought it was a coincidence. But of late I am convinced that the numbers are increasing by the day. According to one statistics there were around 31 million people diagnosed of diabetes in the year 2000 in India alone!! So imagine the number in 2011!!!. Luckily for me I get a regular battery of blood investigations done every six months and ‘touch wood’ I am SUGAR FREE!!. I had a neighbor back home who was diabetic and on irregular treatment and improper diet. So at any of the functions or parties, if anyone forced sweet meat, he used to request whether we are ready to LEND HIM A SHOULDER(He meant to carry his body to the crematorium). Then, one day he passed away due to renal failure, one of the problems we come across on the SWEET ROUTE. Unfortunately, I was not there to lend him a shoulder. I think at the rate the population is taking the SWEET ROUTE we might find a lot of FROZEN SHOULDERS.
Decoding Human Genome & Obesity Posted on January 26, 2011 by Docturnal New England Journal of Medicine reported that there is no direct correlation between Obesity and Type-2 Diabetes. Until the recent past we all religiously believed that the obese had a greater chance for Type-2 Diabetes. I am not emphasising on the fruits derived from the human genome project but to actually look at the current state. Cancer, Diabetes and other Autoimmune diseases are definitely on the rise despite the decoding of human genome. It is also said that it is the current ‘you’ is responsible for the genetics of your body. What you eat, State of mind, State of relationships, Gut equilibrium all are encompassed in the subjects such as Epigenomics, Nutrigenomics and Metaproteomics respectively. The human gut hosts an overwhelming number of genes from associated micro organisms and this is a fundamental premise that forms basis for your physique, cancer susceptibility and overall health. Roughly around 500 cancer controlling genes were effected due to the consumption of whole plant foods. On a related note, behavioral Genetics has proven to have a high rate of false positives and hence rather than examining 1000’s of SNPs (Genome Wide Association Studies-GWAS), there are just 6 SNPs that are being used to determine the social behavioural traits of an individual. Read more from the articles available as favourite tweets by Docturnal at https://docturnal.com/resources.html OR click on the following links wiredscience and others .
Insulin – Mix Posted on January 23, 2011July 9, 2023 by Docturnal A lot of type-I diabetic patients in the country do not have an idea on what is the mix all about. You keep pumping a biphasic mix (30/70) twice a day and that’s it. One portion of the mix being short acting and other a long acting do their job in the body as per the percentage and hence towards end of the day, the long acting would have exhausted and the short acting would have definitely exhausted if it was more than 2 hours since the shot was taken. Now i get up in the morning and check my blood glucose without consumption of food and damn, it’s high to the tune of 200. This was alarming and hence started a new insulin regime where i take a separate long acting (basal or baseline) called Lantus from Aventis and a Fast acting known as Lispro(100) Humalog from Eli Lily. They worked perfectly fine and i am a happy camper. This combination worked very well for me but do see your doctor/endocrinologist as there were some side effects reported for Lantus in the long run as seen from an article reported a couple of years ago. Note that the long acting lantus is potential for 24 hours while the Lispro-100 has a potential of about 2 hours. So it is not as to how many times you are poking the insulin pen but how many times the glucometer reports a number less than 100. Keep Mixing and take control of your Type-1 Diabetes.