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Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes

Endocrinologists diagnose and treat conditions of the endocrine system, the pituitary gland, thyroid gland, adrenal gland and pancreas.

Your Michigan Answer for Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes

When your endocrine system isn’t working properly, your body can’t use hormones to communicate like it should. These conditions affect how you metabolize food, handle sugar, grow and develop. U-M Health is a leading hospital for endocrine conditions including diabetes. It all starts in our state-of-the-art clinics.

From diabetes to weight management, we believe in personalized medicine. That means we take an approach to your treatment that includes a whole team of experts, including you. We empower our patients to live longer, healthier lives with guidance and support.

We’re committed to preventing, treating and curing diabetes. Our diabetes experts educate, treat and train patients to manage their condition. We provide breakthrough research and treatments, nutrition classes, weight management, support groups, equipment training, social work and specialists in every body system affected by this disease.

See more information and services related to diabetes care at U-M Health

For patients with adrenal diseases, including cancer, U-M Health provides surgery that's not available anywhere else. We also streamline care, decreasing the time from referral to operation. Surgeons can even review records and provide next steps by phone or video. We aim for the safest and highest level of care, fast, with as few in-person appointments as possible.

Get answers, and all the support you need, at U-M Health.

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Nationally Ranked in Diabetes & Endocrinology

U-M Health has been recognized as one of the nation's top hospitals for diabetes and endocrinology care by U.S. News & World Report for 2025-2026. 

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Health Lab talks to Jorge Ruas, Ph.D., of the U-M Department of Pharmacology, about peptides, how they work and whether supplementing them lends any benefit.
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New study reveals a missing step in a weight control pathway that could be targeted for obesity treatment

New research led by Liangyou Rui, Ph.D., of the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School outlines a missing step in one of these alternative pathways, an important discovery in the fight against obesity.
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A unique patient case inspiring research

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New hope for early diabetes detection

The research offers an actionable monitoring method that may guide the administration of current and emerging therapeutics more effectively than the current diagnostics that only assess disease risk or detect disease after destruction of insulin producing cells.
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Researchers uncover why a rare disease resulting in abnormal fat loss can also lead to diabetes

With help of patients with FPLD2, a research team has finally found some answers to why familial partial lipodystrophy can lead to diabetes and metabolic disease.
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Using genetic testing, doctors help patient find answers for her diabetes

For 30 years Autumn Caris thought she had type 1 diabetes. After learning about MODY, a rare and often misdiagnosed type of diabetes, she finally got answers at U-M.