by Julie Wood | Feb 19, 2022 | Healthy Living
The digestive system is a group of organs working together to covert food into energy and nutrition to feed the body. The gut is home to more than 100 trillion microbes or bacteria which are necessary for health. Dr. Mark Hyman describes our gut as an inner garden; if...
by Julie Wood | Jan 30, 2022 | Healthy Living
Would you like to live to be 100 years old? Most of us would pause as we think about the quality of life at that age. In America, to be a centenarian is rare and typically someone in poor health and needing must assistance from others. A Danish study on...
by Julie Wood | Dec 21, 2021 | Diabetes, Healthy Living
As we bring 2021 to a close, let’s look at innovations that improve the lives of those living with diabetes. Affordable long-acting insulin. Semglee manufactured by Viatris is a biosimilar insulin that is medically identical to Lantus or glargine. Semglee is priced...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Healthy Living
Fasting in the broadest sense is willfully not partaking of something to eat or drink for a period or intermittently. It can be a pattern that involves regular, short-term fasts or periods of minimal or no food or drink consumption. Intermittent fasting,...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Healthy Living
Fasting in the broadest sense is willfully not partaking of something to eat or drink for a period or intermittently. It can be a pattern that involves regular, short-term fasts or periods of minimal or no food or drink consumption. Intermittent fasting,...
by Julie Wood | Dec 19, 2021 | Diabetes, Healthy Living
How Do I Know if I am a Diabetic? I get asked this question quite often. The real question here is ‘how do I know my glucose is controlled?’ The measure of glucose can be done in many ways. BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORS There are many brands of glucose monitors which...
