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Bodywork: What a diagnosis of prediabetes means

June 17, 2025

Adam’s Journal Two friends were recently diagnosed as prediabetic. Like me, they’re both in their later 50s, and they’re both active and not overweight. I was surprised by their diagnoses, as neither seems to have the hallmarks of Type 2 diabetes. Also, I’m not sure if it’s coincidental, but both also have some impaired gallbladder […]

Filed Under: Bodywork Tagged With: adam cohen, blood glucose levels, diabetes, dr. hal scofield, Hal Scofield, insulin, insulin level, prediabetes, prediabetes diagnosis, reversing prediabetes, sugar intake, type 2 diabetes

OMRF scientists reveal diabetic heart clues

January 27, 2020

Heart Disease is the number one cause of death in diabetic patients.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: cardio, cardiomyopathy, diabetes, diabetic, disease, heart, Humphries, inflexibility, insulin, kenneth, Kinter, koco, Michael, neswok, nutrient, OKC, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, oklahoman, scientist-news, sugar

OMRF discovers new approach to treating obesity

April 4, 2018

The findings could potentially lead to new drugs to help weight loss or combat obesity and associated metabolic disorders.

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OMRF finds new clues to why diabetes harms the heart

March 8, 2018

The findings could lead to new treatments to limit the damaging cardiac effects of diabetes.

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OMRF receives funding to investigate how diabetes affects the heart

August 8, 2016

An overactive fight-or-flight response creates too much stress on the heart.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: cardiovascular, diabetes, healthy, heart, hormone, Humphries, insulin, ken, kenneth, lab, newsok, NHLBI, NIH, OKC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, pka, problem, science, scientist-news, stress, switch

New OMRF research may lessen diabetic effects on the heart

December 4, 2012

Repairing diabetic heart cells’ mitochondria could save lives.

Filed Under: Featured News, News, Research News Tagged With: diabetes, glucose, heart attack, heart cells, heart disease, Humphries, insulin, kenneth, kenneth humphries, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OMRF, scientist-news, stroke

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