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A Path to Understanding Diabetes
Manage episode 346624198 series 2823711
Yumlish welcomes Dr. Alana Biggers an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Dr. Biggers is passionate about health disparity research and achieving health equity. Dr. Biggers leads a mentored research study to investigate the effects of mindfulness meditation on sleep and stress around Type II diabetes and heart disease risk. Today, Dr. Biggers will discuss how and why; people develop high blood sugars, the different types of diabetes, and if there is a relationship between sleep and type II diabetes.
Dr. Alana Biggers, MD, MPH, FACP is an internist and attended the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine where she received her medical degree. She is interested in achieving health equity through health outcomes research. Dr. Biggers currently has a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant to study the effects of mindfulness meditation and sleep on type II diabetes mellitus and heart disease risk in communities of color.
“[T]he work that we do as physicians only, accounts for about 10% of somebody's, health, their overall health”
Question of the Day: Does diabetes run in your family?
In this episode you will learn:
What can cause high blood sugar
Differences in type I and type II diabetes
Why type II diabetes is more common
Diabetes and people of color
How sleep correlates to type II diabetes
How Dr. Biggers’ research can help communities of color with type II diabetes
Portion control and diabetes
Connect with Alana :
Connect with Yumlish:
YouTube
Key Points:
00:00 Intro with Shireen!
01:03 Welcome Dr. Biggers
05:31 What can cause high blood sugar
07:53 type I vs type II diabetes
09:47 Why type II is more common than type I
10:47 Why diabetes rates are higher in communities of color
11:34 Underlying factors for type II diabetes
14:07 Sleep health and type II diabetes
17:02 Why Dr. Biggers is researching sleep and type II diabetes
21:10 Stress of diabetes diagnosis and changes and portion control
26:3 Question of the day
27:19 Outro with Shireen!
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yumlish/message
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Manage episode 346624198 series 2823711
Yumlish welcomes Dr. Alana Biggers an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Dr. Biggers is passionate about health disparity research and achieving health equity. Dr. Biggers leads a mentored research study to investigate the effects of mindfulness meditation on sleep and stress around Type II diabetes and heart disease risk. Today, Dr. Biggers will discuss how and why; people develop high blood sugars, the different types of diabetes, and if there is a relationship between sleep and type II diabetes.
Dr. Alana Biggers, MD, MPH, FACP is an internist and attended the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine where she received her medical degree. She is interested in achieving health equity through health outcomes research. Dr. Biggers currently has a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant to study the effects of mindfulness meditation and sleep on type II diabetes mellitus and heart disease risk in communities of color.
“[T]he work that we do as physicians only, accounts for about 10% of somebody's, health, their overall health”
Question of the Day: Does diabetes run in your family?
In this episode you will learn:
What can cause high blood sugar
Differences in type I and type II diabetes
Why type II diabetes is more common
Diabetes and people of color
How sleep correlates to type II diabetes
How Dr. Biggers’ research can help communities of color with type II diabetes
Portion control and diabetes
Connect with Alana :
Connect with Yumlish:
YouTube
Key Points:
00:00 Intro with Shireen!
01:03 Welcome Dr. Biggers
05:31 What can cause high blood sugar
07:53 type I vs type II diabetes
09:47 Why type II is more common than type I
10:47 Why diabetes rates are higher in communities of color
11:34 Underlying factors for type II diabetes
14:07 Sleep health and type II diabetes
17:02 Why Dr. Biggers is researching sleep and type II diabetes
21:10 Stress of diabetes diagnosis and changes and portion control
26:3 Question of the day
27:19 Outro with Shireen!
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yumlish/message
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