Many athletes believe that they can grow larger muscles by taking protein supplements rather than by eating protein in ordinary foods. However, protein powders come from food, and extracts cannot be more efficient than the foods from which they are extracted
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Protein for Muscle Recovery and Growth
I’m a supporter getting the stories of people with diabetes out there for public consumption. Awareness and advocacy are the name of the game, for me. We aren’t perfect, we don’t have all the answers, but we do know what it’s like to live, every day, with diabetes. And now you can share your story and win a prize ! Here are the details, according to the info I received: If you have diabetes, support someone with diabetes, or help the diabetes community, then tell us
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GlucoStories: Everyone’s Got One.
We’re planning for a pregnancy, so I’ve been working tirelessly to stalk my blood sugars. I’m wearing the Dexcom , testing regularly, and really aggressively chasing highs and lows in pursuit of that nice "between the lines" look on my blood sugar graphs. So when I changed my infusion set last night and neglected to take the 1.0 u bolus in anticipation of the high (which seems to be the only way I can keep the highs at bay after a site change), I knew I was in trouble. Sweaters on my teeth, and my tongue thick with dehydration, confirmed by the 254 mg/dl on my meter. I cranked up a correction bolus and sent it cruising in, along with some frustration and a few choice curse words. A few hours later, I was on the steady but seemingly safe decline, with the Dexcom keeping tabs and my meter serving to confirm. No worries. I ate a snack (cottage cheese with some frozen raspberries) before bed and snuggled against the pillow (read: cat ) at a blood sugar of 187 mg/dl. Higher than normal, but I knew it would continue to come down. Didn’t anticpate the 3:30 am wake-up call of BEEEEEEEEEEP! , though. I have no idea what my blood sugar was. The Dexcom showed me only as "low" and I woke up crying, for some reason. Chris was next to me, fast asleep, but I didn’t wake him up. I don’t know why. A bottle of glucose tabs sat on the bedside table but I didn’t reach for them. I don’t know why. The shape of my body was outlined in sweat on the bedsheet and my hair was sticky, and for some reason combing my hair down before I went to get juice took priority over eating something to correct the low. I don’t know why.
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Penguin Truck.
When I was a guest on cancer-patients podcast last week, the hosts asked me if we PWDs don’t get frustrated: cancer seems to have all the big celebrities behind it, and make all the big headlines.
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Type 1 Kids Lobby Congress: “Attention… is Going to Help Find a Cure”
After a hectic week with the conference in Philly and then Chris’s great news , I need to spend some time today catching up on everything. Thankfully, Jessica Phillips has offered to guest post today, writing about marking 500 days with type 1 diabetes. She’s come a long way, and I’m proud to host her words here on SUM. Heeeeeeere’s Jessica! * * * As I was injecting myself with insulin on a lunch break at work, a co-worker walked by and exclaimed, “I could never do that! EW! I hate needles!” Less than two years ago I might have agreed. I never had a strong phobia of needles, but that is not to say that I particularly liked them either.
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Guest Post: 500 Days of Diabetes.
Considering what I am about to write, I feel a little guilty about the post headline here.
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Does Lantus Cause Cancer?
Listen, we would all like to say that we are always on point when it comes to maintaining diabetes health. But in reality, it is very common for people to fall of track from time to time.In this article we are going to look at the most common reason that people fall behind in their diabetes diligence and what you can do TODAY to get back on track with your diabetes care.The most common reason that people neglect their diabetes health is due to…DENIAL. Now you may not consider yourself to be a person that lives in denial.
By now you’ve probably heard the disturbing news about the epidemiological studies that connected Lantus to a higher incidence of cancer. It says something about our health system that this news was reported by the business press long before the health press noticed it.
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Questions about The Lantus/Cancer Association
This week the Lancet published an epidemiological study which asked the question, “Can we see clear cut signs that a person is on the way to developing diabetes in the years before diagnosis?” The answer was of course, “Yes.” The abstract of this article is here: Trajectories of glycaemia, insulin sensitivity, and insulin secretion before diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: an analysis from the Whitehall II study. Dr Adam G Tabák et al. The Lancet The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9682, Pages 2215 – 2221, 27 June 2009 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60619-X This was a prospective study–i.e.
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Clear Indicators of Diabetes Three Years Before Formal Diagnoses
The conference I’m speaking at this week is about social media and how pharma and patient bloggers can work together to benefit the patient community. My main points are to drive home the fact that even though we might be perceived as "target markets" and "diabetes consumers," we are people first. We’re people before we’re patients, before we’re anyone’s consumer base, before we’re diabetics.
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The Faces of the Philly Meet Up.