Dr R K Sanghavi

  # RKS: INSULIN – THE KEY FOR DIABETES LOCK ENJOY PILL LIFE & NOT PRICK LIFE! RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 6 1st September 2026 MOST DIABETICS ARE NOT INSULIN DEFICIENT FUNCTIONAL INSULIN KEEPS DIABETES AT BAY Dear Reader, Although diabetes was first recorded in the ancient Egyptian Ebers Papyrus around 1552 BCE it was only in 1889 that German scientists Joseph von Mering and Oskar Minkowski were credited relating the disease with pancreatic secretion. However, it was Belgian investigator de Meyer (1909), and also a British researcher Schaefer (1916), who proposed the name “insuline” for the hormone manufactured by pancreas. Diabetes is usually equated with diminished insulin secretion by most but the fact is it is because of it’s defective functioning in most cases. 90% of patients have Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and the goal of treatment lies therefore in not giving insulin but in increasing its functionality (or sensitivity). On the other hand, T1DM, whose incidence ...

  # RKS: CHECKMATING CARBS LOAD THE CARB-RESPONSE EQUATION DISSECTED RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 5 1st August 2026 PANCREAS - THE MARVEL INSULIN PRODUCER THE MATHS BEHIND RESPONSES OF INSULIN TO CARBS Dear Reader, They truly said: ‘Ignorance is Bliss’ is extracted from a phrase that was coined by in 1742 by English poet Thomas Gray. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is 90% of type 2 variety (T2DM) in which the pancreas-secreted insulin is not working. It only implies that all non-diabetics as well as most T2DM cases have circulating insulin and a responsive pancreas which liberate the same when carbohydrates (carbs in the form of glucose) enter blood. If however there is no tight blood glucose control maintained in diabetics, 4-5% of pancreatic beta cells (producing insulin) start failing each year!  Glycemic index (GI) has become the talk of the town but more important is the Glycemic Load (GL) as has been discussed in the previous blog of July 2026. This present blog is a longish an...

  # RKS: GI vs GL FACE-OFF GI - THE FAD, BUT GL - A DICTATING HEALTH REALITY RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 4 1st July 2026 THE GI & GL COMBAT ENLIGHTENING ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GL Dear Reader, Glycemic Load (GL) is the most accurate predictor of how a specific food impacts blood sugar and insulin. While Glycemic Index (GI) only measures how fast carbs break down, GL calculates both the speed and the quantity in a realistic serving. This makes it pivotal for controlling insulin spikes.  When chased by a dog compared to a tiger one would accordingly run or gallop. So does the secretion rate of insulin from pancreas depends upon how glucose floods the blood. Facing one animal is different from confronting a hound. Similarly the carbs with varying GI can be conquered but GL needs to be factored whether the pancreatic insulin can counter the same. This blog is devoted exclusively to unveiling the GI of carbs as well as GL of foods consumed to make an educative choice whilst cho...

    # RKS: GI CONUNDRUM “GI - THE FAD-DICTATING CARBS CONSUMPTION” RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 3 1st June 2026 THE GI IMPLICATIONS LAID THREADBARE GI ASCERTAINING & UNDERSTANDING Dear Reader, Diabetes is a disease under the radar for the healthcare providers, Dieticians and common man alike. So much has been the spread about its awareness, including the complications and so much has been professed about diabetes by self-created and projected experts that the unwitting lay population has fallen easy prey to even information viralled by unqualified Nutritionists or even housewives! The latest craze is discussions on the Glycemic Index (GI) of various carbohydrates (carbs) contained in food items and the scare about the same has even put to shame the roar of lions and tigers.  Healthy, non-diabetics and with zero risk factor have become unnecessarily worrisome regarding the GI of the foods they consume! It is not essential to dwell on what we eat and get alarmed at gr...