Diabetes Group

DinaRalt What do you think of crowdsourcing? I am starting to plan a vast experiment in Israel - asking the crowd about diabetes. I discuss the project with Josh Bongard and Paul Hines, who did it on BMI, see link: http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=14100

drdelorenzo Crowdsourcing has, under my point of view, a very good potential. There are many interesting projects out there based on crowdsourcing.

DinaRalt I'll appreciate if you send me information about specific projects...Thanks

drdelorenzo joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I am a geneticist interested in personal genomics and nutritional genomics. I mostly work in the interaction between food (nutrients) and genome to determine our health status (what is called Nutrigenomics). I am also interested in personal genomics, or better, in understanding what is in our personal genomes.”

MedStartr joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “To help push diabetes knowledge as best as possible and prevent getting diabetes myself”

melanie Hi everybody, we'd like to investigate Diabetes Prevention in a DIYgenomics study for which we have IRB approval. We are looking for any glucometer company to donate glucometers & supplies for one month of measurement in 100 healthy individuals. Please contact m@melanieswan.com with any suggestions. Here is the preliminary study protocol: diygenomics.pbworks.com/w/page/52294609/Quantified self-tracking diabetes study Thanks!

jonathaneisen joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “Have type I diabetes”

entrepreneur27 joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I am interested in better techniques to treat and avoid diabetes”

DonNorbeck joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “qualitative and quantitative data on diet's impact on glucose to better predict insulin dosages. ”

Gut Microbiota in Human Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Differs from Non-Diabetic Adults

plosong.org · posted by fathomworks

fathomworks Diabetes may be caused by the invasion of spirochetes into the Islets of Langerhans cells of the pancreas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwP4e2LvmoE

fathomworks joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I would like to contribute research news about the relationship between diabetes and chronic infection.”

Exercise Alters Epigenetics

The Scientist · posted by gbiggers

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gbiggers "Exercise causes short-term changes in DNA methylation and gene expression in muscle tissue that may have implications for type 2 diabetes."

DinaRalt http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/news/theme_news_detail.php?id=801309227&tab_id=116

DinaRalt no wonder that sitting around ups diabetes risk in women...

DinaRalt Let me tell you how I have corrected my blood sugar levels. Even with proper diet my sugar levels where always slightly high. This was changed/corrected within 3 days after me stopping all milk products. I have heard it from others as well...so try...especially if your diet is based on yogurts and cheeses. and as I want to try the image att. I have attached my weight loss graph...see what have happened after milk stopping.

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EriGentry Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I saw the same recommendation in the Four Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, but I found it a little hard to accept without seeing numbers for myself. Your graph is compelling. I definitely want to look at glucose numbers on/off milk products. Would make a good study, I think :) Dina, do you have blood glucose data from before and after having milk products?

DinaRalt yes...it was glucose level around 130-140 and now it is 110 or lower.

EriGentry Was that fasting glucose? And it changed 20+ points after 3 days of no dairy?

DinaRalt yup, for both questions...

keithkojo Hi, do you happen to know your genotype for the rs4988235 SNP that determines whether or not you continue to produce lactase into adult life? CC is the most common worldwide, leads to lactose intolerance, but CT and TT are the most common in people of Northern European origin. I don't know of any work showing any direct link to glucose levels but... maybe it's a study!

EriGentry That's incredible, Dina! I have to try this experiment!

DinaRalt yup, i have found out later that I have lactase intolerance... However milk effects were seen also at people with lactase

gbiggers You may also now attach an image to a post. Great for sharing graphs, illustrations, visualizations, pictures of interesting products, etc. Currently you may attach an image using the general 'Add Post' action. Would you find it useful to also attach images to Questions and Articles?

gbiggers You can now post general thoughts and comments in additional to articles and questions. When we started the Groups here, we wanted to help steer the conversation via structured items like articles and questions. That has been working, but many people asked for the ability to just post anything related to the group. So here you go. A third button, for posting 'whatever,' as long as it is related to our topic. Post away!!

Shift work: Good for your pocketbook, bad for your health

NYT · posted by EriGentry

EriGentry The circadian rhythm is more important than most realize: Shift work, say two studies out this week, poses particular problems for women, who appear to be at greater risk of Type 2 diabetes and possibly breast cancer if they maintain work schedules that mess with their internal clocks.

DinaRalt no wonder that the Chinese medicinal routes insist on the circadian rhythms such as eating dinner early and not late at night.

gbiggers joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I am relatively new to the diabetes topic. But my grandfather had diabetes, and my glucose levels have been up over the last few years (though not so high as to cause a diagnosis). I am interested in optimal levels of blood sugar, and as more monitoring products become available, I am interested in understanding how it varies throughout the day.”

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aaronvollrath i am 'pre-diabetic' meaning my fasting blood sugar level is > 100 mg/dL. i have been testing my blood sugar over the last 4 years and have remained consistently around 104 mg/dL after fasting. i have a family history of diabetes and am interested in starting to correlate diet with changes in fasting blood sugar. I have not investigated postprandial blood sugar levels, but should.

EriGentry @gbiggers -- how has measuring your glucose changed your habits? @aaronvollrath -- is that why you eat a vegan diet?

chloester I don't have diabetes but am doing my PhD research on personal informatics through looking at self-monitoring of diabetes. I'm also personally interested in blood sugar management, haven been on the low carb diet and currently doing the Paleo diet. I'd love to be able to continually monitor my blood glucose and choose foods that my body responds to well.

aaronvollrath @EriGentry : i'm not a strict vegan at the moment... i occasionally have something with milk in it. i decided to go vegan mainly to (hopefully) keep from getting heart disease. one thing to note is that diabetes and heart disease occur together quite often.

EriGentry aaron - what do your genes say about your heart disease profile?

blaine joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “I would also like to learn more about ways to monitor my glucose levels and my predisposition for diabetes.”

EriGentry joined and answered the questions: What brings you here? What do you hope to discover? “The fear of getting diabetes set me on a lifelong pursuit of optimal health. I knew diabetes type II ran in my family, but I didn't learn what caused it until I was 17. After that, I read everything I could get my hands on about health, and completely changed my dietary and exercise habits. Nowadays, I have my genetic profile from 23andMe, which does indeed show that I am predisposed to diabetes type II. I'll keep up my healthy routine, but there's a bigger problem out there... I can't imagine what the world will be like 30 years from now when kids with diabetes grow up to have heart disease and other accessory issues that threaten their lives. It's a scary future that I hope we can prevent by focusing on it now!”