Lectins: Love them or Leave them?
Beans are part of a healthy diet, right? Aren’t they are a healthy source of protein and carbohydrates? Enter the debate on lectins… We may not think of ourselves as “predators” to plants, but plants do! And they’ve developed a mighty weapon to thwart our appetite for them: lectins. Basically, lectins are anti-nutrients that can […]
The Obesity and Inflammation Connection
Most people by now know that excess body weight is bad for your health. What many do not know is that there is a very strong connection between excess body fat and inflammation/pain. Especially visceral fat or the fat surrounding the major organs. Inflammation is a natural process used by the body to repair itself […]
A Deadly Trio- Insulin Resistance, Pain & Obesity
Insulin resistance is defined as the state where the body produces insulin and does not get the expected biological effect that it should, which is to deliver glucose into cells to be used as energy. In other words, your body produces insulin that becomes essentially ineffective at doing the job it is supposed to do. […]
Alleviate Pain Caused by Type 2 Diabetes
In the US, 29.1 million people have type 2 diabetes (9.3% of the population), and a whopping 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. As you might’ve guessed, there’s a lot of crossover between the two. In fact, 48% of people with diagnosed diabetes also have a diagnosis of arthritis, and people with diabetes are […]
FDA Warns Diabetes Medications Cause "Severe" Joint Pain!
If you manage your type 2 diabetes with a medicine classified as a DPP-4 inhibitor, the FDA has issued a warning that the medication may cause severe joint pain. The warning applies to the following medications, which are available under different brand names alone or combined with other diabetes medicines like metformin:
Is it Fibromyalgia or my Thyroid?
If you’ve been dealing with chronic, unexplained aches and pains in your muscles, tendons, or joints, you may relate to TV ads of fibromyalgia sufferers gripping their tender points in agony. Yet, the pain that’s often attributed to fibromyalgia may not be fibromyalgia after all. Instead, the pain may be a symptom – or a […]
