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Managing Your Diabetes During The Holidays

Managing Your Diabetes During The Holidays

Diabetes is a difficult to manage on a day to day basis, but it’s especially difficult during the holiday season when the world serves candy and sweets onto our kitchen tables. The Metabolic Research Institute works hard every day to try to provide answers and a treatment to the diabetic community, but while we work, we wanted to provide you with a couple of tips from the American Diabetes Association that will help you manage your type 2 diabetes during the holidays.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY

Focus on what the holidays are really about, friends and family. The more time that you spend focused on the people surrounding your table, the less you’ll focus on the tempting and sugary foods that are filling it. Catch up on what everyone’s been doing, spend time outdoors or volunteer within your community to keep busy.

KEEP ACTIVE

The amount of physical activity you do will make a difference on the way that your body reacts to your diabetes. Spend time off doing physical activity, whether it be high, or low, intensity. This helps you manage your diabetes and your weight and makes staying on track easier post holiday season. A great way to ensure you stick to this is by preparing for a town or city run/walk or set a goal for the new coming year.

These two tips will make a big difference in managing your diabetes this season, and you’ll notice the mentality carry over to your day to day life. For more information on the work that Metabolic Research Center does and how you can help, call us today!

 


 

Insulin & Its Effects On Diabetes

Insulin & Its Effects On Diabetes

Diabetes is one of the diagnoses that will change quite a few things in your life. From the amount of exercise that you should be doing, food you’re eating and medicine you’re taking, you will be paying much closer attention to different aspects of your life. One of the biggest changes that happens with the diagnosis of diabetes is the distribution of insulin that you will need.

It seems to be widely known that insulin is used to counter the effects of diabetes, but very few people truly know what insulin is, why it is distributed and how it affects our bodies. At the Metabolic Research Institute, we are always working hard on creating treatments and ailments for diagnoses like diabetes and heart disease, so we’ve looked deep into the benefits of insulin and how it affects the body. Here is a brief breakdown of what it is you should know about insulin.
What is insulin?

It’s best to start off with the knowledge that diabetes is a result of too little insulin within a blood stream. Beyond that, insulin is a hormone that is created and produced by the pancreas and then released through the islets of our Langerhans. The Langerhans regulate the amount of glucose in our bloodstream, keeping it right where it needs to be.
What does insulin do to our body?

Insulin helps our body make use of the glucose in our bodies. Our body then uses this stored insulin to feed our muscles, fat, liver and cells with fuel. Long story short, insulin is pretty important when it comes to our bodies functioning.

All in all, the insulin that is administered to diabetes patients is merely a way of providing balance to their bodies. Depending on whether someone is type 1 or type 2, the amount of glucose in the bloodstream will be too low or too high, so the insulin administered is to balance those that have too low.

We are always working towards new ways to improve the lifestyle of diabetes patients. Check back on our blog to see what new information and studies are being released.

 


 

You May Be The Perfect Candidate For our Diabetes Study

You May Be The Perfect Candidate For our Diabetes Study

Are you an individual who suffers from obesity, type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes? If so, the researchers in West Palm Beach may be able to help! At the Metabolic Research Institute, Inc., we’ve been performing research and tests on volunteer participants in the South Florida area. Through our tests with willing participants, we have been able to learn about different diseases and how they affect people. If you are an individual who suffers from obesity, type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes, you may be in luck because our team is performing diabetes clinical trials and are looking for candidates like you!
Our Current Studies

We have some upcoming studies and you may be the perfect participant that we need! Currently, we’re selecting individuals to take part in our weight loss study, type 1 diabetes insulin study, type 1 diabetes with pump study and type 2 diabetes with oral and insulin study. Do these qualifications fit you? If so, we hope you give us a call!
Our Focus

We are dedicated to the participants of each study, and the results that can help them and others live a better life! Our research center here in West Palm Beach is dedicated to you, as your certified clinical research coordinators. Each participant who is selected for our process will experience a high quality assessment and medical care. From there, you will receive detail-oriented focus along with data integrity that can’t be beat. Our goal is to get to the bottom of the diseases that affect so many individuals in the United States and around the world. To learn more about our diabetes clinical trials, request an appointment with us now!