Sleep Apnea, Appointment Preparation

This will vary some by who is the sleep doctor. My appointments have varied in length from 15 minutes to more than 30 minutes depending on ...

Making Sense of Lab or Home Sleep Apnea Testing

Home sleep apnea tests don't always detect cases of sleep apnea and most don't detect other sleep disorders. Yet because they are i...

More on Sleep Apnea Home Testing

I would strongly urge you to have a talk with your insurance carrier before using any sleep apnea home test. This is the only way to know w...

Sleep Apnea Home Testing

There are some changes taking place in sleep apnea testing. More people are being tested at home rather than being tested in sleep study la...

The Dangers of Sleep Apnea

Patients with OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) are at significantly higher risk for developing hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, ...

Information for CPAP Users - Mask Liners

This blog is about an accessory piece of sleep apnea supplies. This is mask liners, which will help in the use of most masks, nasal and ful...

Information for CPAP Users

I admit that I love my sleep apnea machine. It is a BiPAP and this means that two settings are input into the machine. The first is the lo...

Some Signs You Need More Fat in Your Diet

I can only say that since childhood, I have seemed to know when I needed extra fat in my diet. My mother always wondered when I asked for f...

Researchers Say Pre-diabetes Label Unnecessary

Researchers from University College London and the Mayo Clinic have raised a few valid concerns, if, they had done their research properly. ...

Help Fund High-Quality Research on Diet and Health

University of California, San Francisco researcher Dr. Ashley Mason has asked me to spread the word about a diet-health study she's prep...

More Diabetes Management Tips Part 2

This is a continuation of the previous blog with five tips. #6. Fight Everyday Stress With Activity. Living with diabetes can make you sad...

More Diabetes Management Tips Part 1

I am using WebMD for the ideas, but not the rhetoric and the pushing of carbohydrates and high carb low fat that the articles promote. Agai...

It Must Be OK - It's Sugar-Free! Wrong!

A very brief post to emphasise an important point. When we as diabetics are choosing foods for the menu or checking the ingredients of a r...

It Seems Everyone Now Worried About Elderly Medication

For decades, no one has expressed concern for the elderly or that they were often over medicated. Since the NY Times column and several othe...

Managing Your Medicines

Of course, for many seniors with memory problems or those with different forms of dementia, managing medications can be extremely difficult ...

Senior Health and Medicines

Medicines enter the body in several ways. They enter through an inhaler, a skin patch, a pill, an IV, or a hypodermic needle. Oh, you say ...

An Elusive Definition and a Discussion

This topic has been growing and has been presented in many other places besides the five references I will present. The topic is “patient e...

Patient Education Helps Manage Diabetes

Two points I wish to make in this blog are: The first point = People with diabetes who receive education and training at clinical appointme...

Need a Magnifier to Read Your Prescription Labels?

Do you have problems reading the label on prescription vials or bottles? I admit I have a serious problem reading parts of the label. The ...

Are People with Diabetes Taking Too Many Supplements?

This is one of the better blogs by a CDE and deserves readership by people with diabetes even though it is written for CDEs on the AADE webs...

Instant Pot Electronic Pressure Cooker: Two Years Later

I've had several people tell me that the Whole Health Source post that changed their lives the most was one I published in 2012 -- about...

We Still Can't Email Our Doctors

Technology has it good points, but many in the medical profession refuse to make use of the technology. Having been burnt by the electronic ...

More on Nutrition for People with Diabetes

In the last blog, I covered eating patterns and started the macronutrients as covered in the October ADA dietary guidelines. Now I will wri...

Nutrition for People with Diabetes

In covering the new nutrition guidelines (a PDF file) from the ADA (American Diabetes Association) from last October, I was more than a litt...

Diabetes Doesn't Have to Mean Complications

Allen and I are having sessions with a person with diabetes that has basically given up on living. Allen has Barry and Ben both helping him...

Upcoming Talks

I have two talks planned over the next two months.  Hope to see you there! Ancestral Health Symposium 2014: UC Berkeley, August 7-9 If you w...

Researchers Challenge Diabetes Guidelines

Now universities are promoting less care for the elderly. Yes, I know many of the elderly have memory problems and trouble with many medica...

A Companion at Your Doctor's Appointment May Be Important

Should you have a spouse, a trusted friend, or a patient advocate accompany you to a doctor's appointment? This will vary by the person...

Some Tips for Diabetes Food Plans

Choosing the right food plan is a major part of managing diabetes. It is easier to keep track of what you’re eating when you’re the one in ...

Personalized Medicines

Finally, it is great to see a federal agency advocating for personalized medicines. The agency is the National Institute of Health, Senior ...

FDA Approves Afrezza to Treat Diabetes

With everyone going ga-ga over FDA approving Afrezza, I have some serious doubts about how many people will be able to use it. I know that ...

How Well Can You Manage Your Type 2 Diabetes?

Some people will claim I am talking about reversing type 2 diabetes, which I am not. You can manage type 2 diabetes, but you cannot reverse...

Study Claims VA Elderly Overtreated for Diabetes

If you guess that I am upset, you would be correct. More articles are being promoted in newspapers, magazines, and on the internet that are...

Beware of Doctors Practicing Cookbook Medicine

I could say something humorous, but this is serious and patients need to be aware of the problems some key words cause. These key words wil...

AHA Recommends Statins, Not Heart Healthy Foods

A lot of what the American Heart Association (AHA) does is not for the benefit of heart patients. The AHA must be raking in the money from ...

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