Category: diabetes

  • Artemisinin and the Battle for Understanding

      Just today researchers published a breakthrough in diabetes treatment – an active substance from the herb Qing hao. This substance, artemisinin, became famous when it was approved as a malaria treatment by the FDA, and was also indirectly given a nobel prize in 2015, for it’s “discovery”. The WHO mandates that artemisinin cannot be…

  • The Fat Hack

      Excess carbohydrates in the body are converted to fat – this is why eating too many carbs, not too much fat, makes you fat. Specifically, the carbs are converted to palmitic acid, or palmitate, a saturated fat also found in palm oil, soybean oil, and sunflower oil.   All three of these fats are widely,…

  • How fiber prevents diabetes, obesity

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140114090822.htm A basic dietary recommendation by doctors is “eat more fiber”.  This new research confirms that dietary fiber plays a large role in our health.