What is insulin resistance, and what are the signs?
Insulin resistance usually causes no symptoms you can feel, which is why it is found through blood tests rather than how you seem. The visible clues are subtle — and it rarely travels alone.
What causes high triglycerides, and what the number on your panel actually means
Triglycerides are the lipid panel's fourth number, and most of what raises them is modifiable. Here is where the thresholds sit — and the point at which a very high level becomes a medical emergency.
A six-month habit programme left more people in metabolic remission two years later
In a 618-person randomized trial, 27.8% of the intervention group met the sustained-remission endpoint at 24 months against 21.2% of comparators. The confidence interval nearly touches no effect.
Two supplement meta-analyses, two clean results, and one shared weakness
October brought pooled analyses of ginger and of marine omega-3s. Both report significant effects on blood markers. Neither measured whether anyone got healthier.
Cutting calories on top of a Mediterranean diet lowered diabetes risk by 31%
A Spanish trial in 4,746 adults compared an energy-reduced Mediterranean diet plus exercise against the same diet eaten freely. Over six years the absolute gap was 12.0% versus 9.5%.