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Biohackers With Diabetes Are Making Their Own Insulin: Meet the Good Guys

Biohackers With Diabetes Are Making Their Own Insulin

The Open Insulin Project, a biohacker collective that is trying to produce the life-saving drug and provide it to people with diabetes for free, or close to it. Diabetes has become the most expensive disease in the United States, The Open Insulin Project believes one solution to the pricing crisis lies in enabling patients and hospitals to create insulin themselves. 

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Can Workplace Bullying & Violence be Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes?

Can Workplace Bullying & Violence be a risk factors for type 2 diabetes?

A multi-cohort study with meta-analysis was conducted to examine whether employees exposed to social stressors at work, such as workplace bullying and violence, have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. The study included 45,905 men and women (40–65 years old and not diabetes at the start of the study) from four studies conducted in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

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How To Have The Best Low-Carb Summer

CarbSmart Outdoor Grilling

It's finally here...summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime! A time for getting outside, spending time with your family, and even sticking with your low-carb lifestyle. That's right! You've worked way too hard on your low-carb weight loss efforts to send it on vacation now. So don't fall into that trap as so many people do when the temperatures rise and temptation rears its ugly head.

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