Optimize your Immune Health
Nearing the end of Summer, it is time to make preparations for the upcoming Winter season that is so often referred to as “cold-and-flu-season”. In order to avoid a Winter of misery, it’s critical to have a strong immune…
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It’s Time to Set a Higher Bar for Health Care
It’s Time to Set a Higher Bar for Health Care When working in the hospital, I am often witness to the disappointingly low bar that has been set for metabolic health in our modern health care system. One of my…
How to Optimize Your Health with a CGM
How to Optimize Your Health with a CGM Glucose monitoring has come a long way from when it was first recognized as a useful tool for managing diabetes. The use of Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) has revolutionized diabetes care by…
Glucose monitoring – From urine-tasting to CGM’s
Glucose Monitoring – From urine-tasting to CGM’s Rapid measurement of blood glucose is such a standard part of diabetes management that most people don’t realize the complicated history preceding the widely available technology we have nowadays. Urine-tasting As early as…
Cardiovascular Risk Starts Even Before a Diagnosis of Prediabetes
Cardiovascular Risk Starts Even Before a Diagnosis of Prediabetes I recently did a presentation about Insulin Resistance and the importance of early detection of Prediabetes, which is defined as a fasting plasma glucose (FPG) of 100-125 or a Hemoglobin A1c…
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As a physician and a parent, I am deeply invested in the health of our children and future generations. Metabolic health is as critical, if not more, for children as it is for adults. My goal is to partner with individuals of all ages to improve their health spans – the length of time that people remain healthy and functional, not just alive.
