I recently read that an easy way to begin writing is to ask a question. What an easy way to start a blog post, I thought. Today I would ask, does high blood sugar and insulin resistance cause dry eye? Research greatly suggests the answer is yes. I wonder how many medical professionals see young or (whatever age) people with dry eye and blepharitis and ask if they have had their blood sugar checked. I was being treated for meibomian gland dysfunction, which debilitated me, many years before my Type 1 diabetes diagnosis. Blood sugar was never once discussed. Despite consuming a typical American diet of pizza, high sugar yogurt, "whole grain" bread for lunch, ice cream, pasta, Gatorade, rice bowls, dried cranberries on a "healthy" salad with a sweet dressing, etc., I had never once in my life had my blood sugar checked. It was never recommended by a medical professional, though I had multiple seemingly "separate" health issues circulating for years. Never onc...