CATEGORY: Stuff in the ‘diabetes’ Category
Obesity and Vitamin D Deficiency
Vitamins are vital to the enzyme pathways that make our bodies metabolize food into energy. You may think that people who take vitamins are crazy or hypochondriacs, but it is a valid truth that vitamins are vital to the enzyme[...]
Are Suntans and Sun Exposure as Unhealthy as we have been Taught?
The Many Health Benefits of Sun Exposure. The material for this Healthcast comes from a magazine article in the magazine Outside, written by Rowan Jacobsen, January 10, 2019. Did you know that vitamin D is made by your body in[...]
What Peptide Treatments Will You Need as You Age?
What are the different Peptide treatments associated with aging? We have been talking about peptides, the “pieces of proteins” that are the local communicators in our body that disappear with illness and age. We have been talking about these peptides[...]
Anti-Aging Medicine and Peptides
How does Hormone Replacement Therapy and Peptides Work Together to make you Healthy? Why do peptides need replacement as we age? Peptides production in the body, are at their peak when we are in our youthful fertile years, between 12[...]
What Exercises Should You do to be Healthy? – Continued
Continuing the discussion on the different types of exercises. Exercise improves your overall feeling of well-being and helps get you to your ideal weight and muscle mass. You may find yourself asking why you should go to this effort and[...]
Breast Cancer Risk Is Higher in Women with Low Muscle Mass and High Percent Body Fat
Since the threat of estrogen replacement has been put to rest, women are asking, "What are the real risks of breast cancer?". Several articles have come to the fore in the last few months that focus on the risk of[...]
The American Sugar Conspiracy That Is Killing Us
It is not an accident that the US has the fattest sickest adults in the world and our government's paternalistic approach has put the economic interests of an economic segment above the health of private citizens. All Americans have been[...]
Your Insurance Company Plays Doctor – Without a License
I know in the state of Missouri, the insurers have no license to practice medicine, but they do anyway and we as a community let them. Yesterday I spent the day writing letters to insurance companies to try to get[...]
Triglycerides and the Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic
Dr. Kathy Maupin and Brett Newcomb discuss the considerations in our diet that help prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes. Did you know that the fat you eat in your diet is not the fat you need to worry about?[...]