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Type 1 Diabetes: Can a low carb diet cure it? Does immunisation cause it?

Our online health professionals discussion group includes clinicians who use dietary interventions to change the course of type 2 diabetes. One of them described two patients newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and his approach to their treatment, raising a couple of interesting questions: – Can a low-carb diet help with type 1 diabetes? – …

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Fatty Liver Has a New Name, and a New Drug. Why Should We Care?

If you’ve never heard of NAFLD (Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease), or MASLD (Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver disease (MASLD), its equally non-catchy new name[1], you’re not alone. Yet this condition affects 30% of the global population.   Image: DALL-e As an anesthesiologist working in the operating rooms of a large university medical center in Cleveland, Ohio …

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