Category Archives: Diabetes and endocrinology

Is Italian flour healthier than American?

Picture of Elon Musk as a farmer (with rocket in the background), drawn by Grok AI December 12, 2024- by Steven Greer, MD

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Look for big changes at your grocery store

December 10, 2024- by Steven Greer, MD

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Is Vitamin-D deficiency overdiagnosed?

November 8, 2016- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine,  Brigham

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How human behavior has changed since 1950

January 26, 2020- by Seven E. Greer, MD What defines the generations? What fundamentally changed the way we behave?

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The Breville blender is an essential tool for a meatless diet

November 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Trying Beyond Meat for the first time

November 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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How did a small academic lab succeed where big medical device companies failed?

July 5, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the early clinical data on the “bionic pancreas”

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Go Vegan?

November 3, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD My diet is much better than it used to be. I eat a lot more plants and almost no red meat. I snack

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Hormone replacement therapy is safe and effective after all

November 14, 2017- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed JoAnn Manson, MD, DrPH about her JAMA paper that followed the cohorts in

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Vagal nerve stimulation for weight loss

January 22, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Erik Dutson, MD, bariatric surgeon from UCLA, discusses the newly FDA-approved weight loss device called

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The bionic pancreas data

July 2, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The New England Journal of Medicine recently published the early clinical data on the “bionic pancreas”

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Aerobic or Resistance Exercise, or Both, in Dieting Obese Older Adults

June 14, 2017- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Dennis Villareal, MD, the author of the NEJM paper “Aerobic or Resistance

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Tandem Diabetes

August 27, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Overview of rHGH therapy

January 14, 2015- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD We interviewed Dr. Shlomo Melmed, Director of the Clinical Research Institute and Dean of Faculty at

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Using Afrezza inhaled insulin with a CGM

November 3, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Inhaled insulin will make a comeback when Mannkind’s drug, Afrezza, goes on sale in early 2015.

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Hacking CGM’s to smartphones

October 31, 2014– Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD Type 1 diabetes patients using continuous glucose monitors have been creating their own software,

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Jay Skyler discusses the recent bionic pancreas data

June 22, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD This week, the mainstream press reported on the “bionic pancreas” data published in the NEJM

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The serious adverse events caused by topical testoserone

March 1, 2014

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Alex Rodriguez’s PED schedule

January 12, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD CBS’s “60 Minutes” interviewed the man, Anthony Bosch, claiming to have been the pseudo-doctor

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The clinical hurdles to prescribing CGM

October 31, 2014– Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD The portion of total Type 1 diabetes patients who use continuous glucose monitors (CGM)

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