Diabetes: From Beta Cells to Bicycles

Dr. Graydon Meneilly

Episode Summary

Older adults with type 2 diabetes face unique challenges—and they’re often a very under-studied group. Dr. Graydon Meneilly has spent more than four decades studying diabetes and carbohydrate metabolism in the elderly in order to improve treatments and outcomes.

Episode Notes

Older adults with type 2 diabetes face unique challenges—and they’re often a very under-studied group. Dr. Graydon Meneilly has spent more than four decades studying diabetes and carbohydrate metabolism in the elderly in order to improve treatments and outcomes.

Dr. Meneilly  is a gerontologist and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.