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Diabetes and Immune function

Everyone is talking about Coronavirus. People are discussing strategies to mitigate infections, importance of hand washing, disinfecting surfaces, being responsible citizens and not spreading germs and working on building immunity. This is a good time to discuss diabetes and immune function. Studies have shown that patients with diabetes have some decline in humoral as well as cellular immunity, ...

Living Well with Diabetes February 2020

When your health provider offers you pellets… Please: P for Pause

I got a phone call from a dear friend asking me about those “hormone pellets”. She is only 43 years old and premenopausal. She complained of fatigue to her gynecologist, and he offered her the pellets as a way to “balance her hormones” and feel great again. I have seen patients come to me with levels of testosterone in the male range even months after having received “pellets.” For example, I had ...

Living Well with Diabetes Winter 2019