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Do people think there is a connection between stress and depression and diabetes? If so, to what extent do you feel the connections exist? My personal feeling is that the connections between these factors may be underestimated. I feel that 50%, and perhaps somewhat more, of the reason for my diabetes, comes from levels of stress and depression. Do others feel the same way? Thank you.

Are diabetes and kidney problems and arthritis and depression related to diets and nutrition too. Esther

Any correlation of autoimmune diseases and having diabetes?

I sometimes put a half teaspoon of aloe vera juice in my hot coffee ☕ and hot tea too. I learned that in my premed years ago and from the arthritis foundation too. According to the arthritis foundation it helps arthritis and other autoimmune diseases too.

All of us here have either been diagnosed with Diabetes or have someone close to us that have been given the news

So what is the "criteria" that separates us from Joe or Jane SugerEater?

Currently it is simply having an A1C, above 6.5% (47.5 mmol's in the IFCC scale) "twice in a row" measured 90 days apart

That's it, that's all - that "test" is all that is required for the Doc to determine "You have Diabetes"

No matter what you do after that, no matter how you control your blood sugar - no… read more

There seems to be a great misconception out there that the "treatment used" is how the Type of Diabetes is determined

Insulin is a treatment for Diabetics, ALL Diabetics IF they NEED it

Type 1 Diabetics have an auto-immune disease that "within days" destroys their own ability to produce insulin - without insulin they will die within a week or two

They (Type 1's) need insulin from minute one of diagnosis and currently there is not other treatment to help keep them alive

L.A.D.A. Diabetics… read more

In the past I have seen GI specialist, Orthopedic for frozen shoulder, Neurosurgeon for bulging disc and a Neurologist for nerve pain. I feel like I'm on the right track now. My numbers are good. Try to keep those numbers in tight range,to avoid complications.

I was reading a few articles and came across a couple that were interesting based on two studies that were just published

The first was from a Canadian University in British Columbia that was crunching numbers from the Covid Pandemic and looking at the long term effects of a Covid infection

(I have posted a bit about this before but now they have some solid numbers)

They looked at 620,000 people who had been (lab diagnosed) as having been infected with Covid and "did not have diabetes" at… read more

According to data demographics in the USA.

We have been told that the diabetes incidence of the general population of the USA is almost 12%

Diabetes is much more common in the 65+ age group than we were led to believe.
29.2% of all adults 65 are diabetic.
By age 75 it is almost 35% diabetic.

So as diagnosed with diabetes, we are not alone. We are almost 1 in every 3, 65 year olds as diabetic.

In my church, there are 11 of us 65 +. All but 3 are diabetic
How have I obtained this… read more