If you work for someone else – or even think that you might some day – you might not want to let people outside your family know that you have diabetes. [Read more →]

Of the three cornerstones of diabetes control – nutrition, exercise, and medication – nutrition has to be the most interesting. That’s especially true because none of us knows much about it. [Read more →]

Some of my best friends are endocrinologists. But a primary care physician treats my diabetes.

Dr. Jeff Gerber is an outstanding doctor who is up-to-date on diabetes, weight loss, and nutrition. While his office south of Denver is about an hour from my home in Boulder, he more than makes up for this geographical undesirability by scheduling appointments quickly and by being easily reached by email and phone. [Read more →]

You can find information about the medicines you take all over the Internet. Hype and scams surround us. So, what information can you trust? [Read more →]

People with diabetes probably look as hard for free drugs as party crashers look for a free lunch. Both are sometimes there for the taking, but you have to know where to look.

The surprising fact about free drugs is that the best place for most people to look for them is in your doctor’s office. In my experience doctors often have more free samples than places to store them. [Read more →]

People with diabetes have been among the quickest to embrace the Internet. Their doctors have probably been the slowest.

This will change as soon as physicians catch on to the impact of a long-term study. This study compares the A1C levels of people with type 2 diabetes in an Internet-based glucose monitoring system with those in a control group. [Read more →]

In my spare time this week I read a couple of books. Both books are about diabetes. Both are new and both are very well written. But that is where the similarities end. [Read more →]