Questions: Answer YES or NO Can diabetes be cured? Can diabetes complications be reversed? Is exercise the answer to reversing type 2 diabetes? if a person maintains normal blood sugar levels for 20 years, will a doctor will still consider their diabetes to be cured? For the answers to these questions and detailed explanations for … Continue reading Reversing Diabetes
Regardless of what the medical and pharmaceutical industries think about older diabetics, I firmly stand with Dr. Richard K. Bernstein in believing that older diabetic patients have just as much right to have normal blood sugar as younger patients and non-diabetics. While older diabetics are more likely to have co-morbidities along with diabetes, a low-carb … Continue reading Older Diabetics
What Is Ketosis? Ketosis is a natural metabolic state in which your body runs primarily on fats and ketone bodies, instead of carbohydrates (i.e., glucose). What Is a Ketogenic Diet? Any dietary protocol that allows one to achieve and maintain ketosis (as described below) is the ketogenic diet for that person. The clearest explanation of … Continue reading Ketosis and Ketogenic Diets
TRUE or FALSE? Insulin resistance occurs when excess glucose in the blood reduces the ability of the cells to absorb and use blood sugar for energy. Insulin resistance is caused by too much glucose and too much insulin. You can have a normal blood sugar and still be insulin resistant. Insulin resistance can be reversed … Continue reading Insulin Resistance
Diabetics have been told that they need to lower their blood glucose and A1C. (If you need a reminder of what this means, please see our recent blog posts on A1C and blood glucose. With additional information in More on Blood Glucose.) As a result, many of us have been focused on doing whatever we … Continue reading Hyperinsulinemia
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