Education
In this week’s episode, we explore:
- A potential saliva test for early diabetes risk detection
- Childhood obesity rates rising over 250% since 2008
- GLP-1 drug usage patterns and a Medicare/Medicaid pilot program
- A new brain-targeted hormone approach for type 1 diabetes
- How a modified DASH diet is helping people with type 2 diabetes
All information sourced from peer-reviewed studies:
- UBC Okanagan saliva insulin study - Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
- Severe pediatric obesity trends - JAMA Network Open, UC San Diego
- GLP-1 usage patterns - RAND Corporation and KFF Health Tracking surveys
- Medicare/Medicaid coverage pilots - CMS policy announcements
- Leptin therapy research - University of Washington, Journal of Clinical Investigation
- DASH4D dietary intervention - Johns Hopkins, Nature Medicine and JAMA Internal Medicine