Can you reverse diabetes without medicines? Ravi Chandra was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2015, but decided to ditch medicines, and instead started running for kilometres. In type 2 diabetes, pancreas does not produce enough insulin – a hormone that regulates the movement of sugar into cells. In a book called, Your Simple Guide to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, …
Administering ursodeoxycholic acid can stave off the tendency of statins to induce glucose intolerance and diabetes, a study by a group of researchers in China has found. “It has been known for a few years now that statins can induce glucose intolerance and even frank diabetes in some people,” V. Mohan, chairman of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, said over …
The prevalence of diabetes is growing rapidly all over the world and in India. Moreover, the excess fat in the blood circulation also gets deposited in the liver and this is called ‘Fatty Liver’. Epidemiological studies done by us at the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation have shown that over 50% of people with type 2 diabetes have some degree of …
Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, 53, is pre-diabetic. “Even before starting medicines for diabetes, exercise is advisable in patients with prediabetes,” says Dr. Chhavi Agrawal, associate consultant for endocrinology at Fortis Escorts Hospital at Okhla, New Delhi. When you start any form of physical work, your body starts metabolising glucose to meet excessive energy demands which is exactly what we are …
Kota: The managing director and the nursing staff of a private hospital here were on Thursday booked under culpable homicide, cheating and criminal conspiracy charges over the death of COVID-19 patient, who was allegedly administered a glucose injection instead of remdesivir. Circle Inspector, Jawahar Nagar police station, Ramkishan Verma said a case was lodged under sections 304, 420 and 120 …