Global PAD Association with Emmy Award winning journalist, entrepreneur and advocate Kym McNicholas -Saving Limbs, Saving Lives: Inside the Fight Against PAD with Kim Nicholas
Dr. G interviews Emmy winning journalist Kym Nicholas, CEO and co‑founder of the Global PAD Association, about peripheral arterial disease (PAD), its strong link to diabetes, common misdiagnoses, and...
16 Sep 202553min
Second Chances: Repurposed Drugs Healing Diabetic Foot Ulcers
In this episode of Diabetic Foot Files, Dr. G explores how existing medications — from metformin and insulin to statins, fentanyl, sildenafil, doxycycline and nitric oxide donors — are being repurpose...
15 Sep 202514min
Semaglutide Steps In: New Hope for PAD Patients
This episode explores new randomized evidence that semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist used for diabetes and weight loss, can improve walking distance and quality of life for people with type 2 diab...
15 Sep 202511min
The Dangerous Duo: PAD and Kidney Disease in Diabetes
In this episode of Diabetic Food Files we explain how peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) interact in people with diabetes to worsen circulation, slow wound healing, and...
14 Sep 202513min
From Hippocrates to Gene Therapy: The Journey of Diabetic Peripheral Arterial Disease
This episode of Diabetic Foot Files explores peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in people with diabetes — its history, how diabetes accelerates arterial damage, the biology behind impaired wound healin...
12 Sep 202514min
How Nicotine Silences Healing: The Diabetic Foot Risk
Dr. G explains how nicotine — from cigarettes, vapes, pouches, and nicotine replacement products — reduces blood flow, disrupts immune and cellular repair, and slows or worsens healing in diabetic foo...
11 Sep 202525min
Pinky Toe Peril: Why Fifth Metatarsal Ulcers Threaten Limbs
A focused look at fifth metatarsal ulcers in diabetic patients — why they form, how the peroneus brevis and lateral biomechanics drive injury, and the clinical strategies to heal and prevent recurrenc...
11 Sep 202516min
Monckeberg Sclerosis: The Silent Vascular Threat in Diabetic Feet
This episode explains Monckeberg ("Mockingbird") sclerosis—a medial arterial calcification common in diabetes and chronic kidney disease—how it stiffens arteries without narrowing the lumen, and why i...
10 Sep 202512min
