In the first installment of our series on Type II Diabetes, Dr. Jonathon Sullivan discusses the basics of the disease: What it is, how it happens, why it's bad, and how it seems to be getting worse.

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Papers

• Beta cell mass in diabetes: a realistic therapeutic target?
• Beta Cell Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance
• Diabetes and beta cell function: from mechanisms to evaluation and clinical implications
• Disordered Fat Storage and Mobilization in the Pathogenesis of Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes
• β Cell Dysfunction Versus Insulin Resistance in the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes in East Asians
• Environmental/lifestyle factors in the pathogenesis and prevention of type 2 diabetes
• Adipose Tissue Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes
• Differentiation of glucose toxicity from beta cell exhaustion during the evolution of defective insulin gene expression in the pancreatic islet cell line, HIT-T15.
• Mechanisms of β-Cell Death in Type 2 Diabetes

Summary Images for Review:

• Diabetes Pathophysiology
• Role of beta-cell in diabetes

Videos:

• The Pathogenesis and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: What We Know and Need to Know
• Diabetes and Exercise
• Diabetes and Exercise: Why Exercise Works When Insulin Does Not
• Making Sense of Diabetic Medications
• ANTIDIABETIC DRUGS; PART 1 OVERVIEW OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF DIABETES
• Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Books:

• Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
• The Barbell Prescription by Jonathon Sullivan and Andy Baker