Meet Natalia, a member of our Teens Rock support group, where teens with Type 1 Diabetes find camaraderie and support. For five years, Natalia has navigated the challenges of type 1 diabetes. “I had to learn how to prick my fingers to check my blood sugar, count carbohydrates, calculate my personal insulin to carb ratio,…| Rady Children's Health
The fact that eating less meat improves cardiovascular health is not a new revelation, but previous studies supporting this have often been hampered by confounding factors such as genetics, background and lifestyle. Now, scientists have removed many of those variables, with a study on identical…| New Atlas
Obesity caused by a high-fat Western diet damages the pancreas, affecting insulin production and blood sugar control even after dietary changes and weight is lost. The new research suggests that early intervention is needed to stop obesity from causing permanent pancreatic damage.| New Atlas
Benefits of salt include curing iron deficiency, oral rehydration treatment, diabetes control, relief from sore throat, pain, muscle cramps and chronic rhinosinusitis.| Organic Facts
After publishing my post Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI) in retrospect, I received an email from Peter Attia, MD, the former president of NuSI, suggesting that I had gotten aspects of the story wrong due to a lack of additional context. Attia and I spoke twice by phone, and I think he has a point. I also had an additional conversation with Kevin Hall, PhD, one of the key researchers NuSI funded, for additional context from his perspective.| Stephan J. Guyenet, PhD
I recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Kevin Hall, PhD and Rudy Leibel, MD on a commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine (1). It was fun for me to work with two researchers who I respect tremendously. Hall’s energy balance modeling work has brought important new insights to the obesity research field and Leibel is, well, the co-discoverer of leptin. And he has done as much as anyone else to help us understand how this hormone works in humans.| Stephan J. Guyenet, PhD