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Type 2 Diabetes & Insulin Resistance
Guidance on type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, A1c, insulin resistance, continuous glucose monitoring, and glucose control.
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How Is Insulin Resistance Assessed?
Understand the signs of insulin resistance and what glucose tests, fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, LP-IR and CGM can tell you about your metabolic health.
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PCOS Is Now PMOS: How Low-Carb and Ketogenic Nutrition Can Improve Hormones
The condition long known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) now has a more accurate name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). The new name recognizes something women with this…
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Precision Metabolic Care is Changing What’s Possible in Chronic Disease
February, 2026 – TOWARD Health physician Dr. Laura Buchanan, MD, recently co-authored a study published in the journal Healthcare titled Psychological Aspects and Implications of Food Addiction and…
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54% Type 2 Diabetes Remission at One Year
Presentation Authors: Laura Buchanan, MD; Matthew Calkins, MD; Camden Richardson, MD; Amy Eiges; Brian Wiley; Tia Reid; Vic Basmadjian; Tro Kalayjian, DO The TOWARD Health team was excited…
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CGM Recall Update and What It Means for You
What the Latest CGM Recall Means for Patients and Why Continuous Glucose Monitors Are Still Valuable Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, have transformed how people manage their blood…
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Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction for Type 1 Diabetes:
A Call to ActionOn the final day of Diabetes Awareness Month, I am proud to announce that the SMHP™, with a team of 15 authors, has released its position statement on…
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What the Gila Monster Really Taught Us About GLP-1 Drugs
The Gila monster inspired exenatide, not every GLP-1 medication. Learn how exendin-4, semaglutide, tirzepatide, and ketogenic diets actually differ.
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The AAP Gets Low-Carbohydrate Diets for Children Wrong
Toward Health physicians challenge the AAP’s pediatric low-carb guidance, its framing of risk, and its use of evidence—and review two newer clinical trials.
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Starting Low Carb Safely: Medications, Lab Changes, and Side Effects
VIDEO LESSON · 23 MINUTES Dr. Laura Buchanan explains why low-carbohydrate nutrition should be implemented with coordinated clinical support when medications, laboratory results or rapid metabolic changes are…
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Amy’s Corner: Diabetes is Personal
It is mid-October as I sit down to write this, which used to be my favorite time of year, but fifteen years ago, on October 20, I lost…
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What you need to know
about Ozempic & MounjaroWhat the news & your obesity doctor won’t tell you about Ozempic and Mounjaro. Many of my patients have come to me with questions about this new…
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New Quality of life Study
A new paper recently co-authored by Dr. Laura Buchanan, MD, a board-certified family medicine physician at Dr. Tro’s Medical Weight Loss, demonstrates improvement in A1C and weight…
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CGMs, Group Medical Visits, and Food Addiction Symptoms: Pilot Study
A 2026 pilot mixed-methods study by David J. Johnson, Laura A. Buchanan, Erin M. Saner, Matthew W. Calkins, and Julienne K. Kirk examined continuous glucose monitor (CGM) feedback,…
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8 lessons after reviewing 10,000 CGMs
Understanding and Using a CGM · Part 5 of 5 What Is a CGM? How to Read CGM Data Without Feeling Overwhelmed CGM: The First 2 Weeks CGM:…
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Type 2 Diabetes and Insulin Resistance: Start Here
A diagnosis of type 2 diabetes can feel like a life sentence. Many people are told that the disease will inevitably progress, medication will increase and complications are…
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Can Type 2 Diabetes Go Into Remission?
Yes. Type 2 diabetes can go into remission. That answer should fundamentally change the conversation at diagnosis. Type 2 diabetes has long been presented as an inevitably progressive…
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Low-Carb Nutrition and Diabetes Medications: What Can Change Quickly
Lowering carbohydrate intake can change blood sugar and medication needs quickly. Learn which diabetes medications require immediate attention and how supervised deprescribing supports metabolic improvement and remission.
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Keto and Intermittent Fasting: A Beginner’s Course
VIDEO COURSE · 28 MINUTES Dr. Tro Kalayjian and Dr. Laura Buchanan explain the foundations of low-carbohydrate nutrition and intermittent fasting, including their hormonal effects and potential role…
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Prediabetes Is an Early Warning, Not the Beginning
The word prediabetes sounds reassuring. It sounds like a problem that has not started yet—a distant risk that may matter someday. That is not what the diagnosis means.…
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What Is a CGM?
Learn what a CGM does, how continuous readings differ from finger-stick snapshots, and what Dr. Laura learned from her own food experiments.
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