BEATING DIABETES Type 2: 1000+ Answers Your Doctor May Not Know or Tell You
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BEATING DIABETES Type 2: 1000+ Answers Your Doctor May Not Know or Tell You
The idea for this book grew out of our monthly webcast series with Dr. Richard K Bernstein, where both patients and medical professionals ask questions about diabetes. Answers are based on Dr. Bernstein’s years of clinical experience, knowledge and training.
This book aims to support diabetes management theory with practical suggestions for addressing common clinical problems based on Dr. Bernstein’s medical experiences with patients. The answers are based on his clinical observations with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes patients.
This book compiles 1000 questions and answers from over 40 webcasts conducted by Dr. Bernstein in one volume, including an index, making it easy to find the answers to all of your diabetes questions. Topics include:
• What your blood sugars really should be (and how to get there); • Using insulin, insulin mimetics, and oral medications properly; • Low carb diets and everything you wanted to know about them; • Weight loss, diet and exercise; • Herbals, OTC's and vitamin supplements; • Complications and slowing their progression; • Insulin pumps; • Special challenges for Type 2s; • What's ahead – Dr. Bernstein's future research plans;
Whether you've just been diagnosed or have been living with diabetes for many years, you'll find the answers to your most pressing questions in this special e-book.
Dr. Bernstein’s Amazon Story: According to statistics from the American Diabetes Association, Dr. Richard K. Bernstein should have been long dead by now. That he is very much alive and in excellent health, after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1946, can be attributed to two primary causes. The first is that as a graduate with a degree in engineering he attacked his diabetes as a problem to be solved and not a condition to be treated. The second is that he was fortunate enough to still to be alive when the first blood glucose meters arrived on the scene.
Dr. Bernstein’s sheer determination to solve the problem of diabetes led to his revolutionary method of blood glucose normalization, which he demonstrates in the groundbreaking, perennial bestselling book, Diabetes Solution.
In 1969, after following ADA guidelines for more than twenty years, Dr. Bernstein had many of the debilitating complications of the disease. Sick and tired of being at the mercy of his disease, he was the first diabetic ever to monitor his own blood sugars when he obtained one of the early blood glucose meters. He then began testing his blood glucose throughout the day, hoping to discover what made it go up and down. After considerable trial and error, Dr. Bernstein discovered how he could normalize his blood glucose through diet, exercise and medication—and that he could help others do the same.
His elegant, landmark breakthrough is: The only difference between a diabetic and a non-diabetic is high blood sugars. All of the complications of diabetes are caused by high blood sugars. Therefore, if you normalize blood glucose, you can prevent the complications of diabetes and make them go away, which is exactly what a cure would do.
However, when the then-engineer Richard Bernstein tried to persuade the medical community he had found the answer, they roundly ignored him—even told him it was impossible. So, in his mid-forties, he left his successful career in business and went to medical school.
Even when the first edition of his landmark Diabetes Solution came out in 1997, Dr. Bernstein was still battling established notions about diabetes treatment.
Today, many thousands of patients later, Dr. Bernstein continues to see and train patients, maintains a busy schedule that includes a monthly question-and-answer teleconference, and continues to refine his cutting edge program of blood glucose normalization. He reaches more patients than he ever could have back when he first opened his practice—and slowly, too slowly perhaps, the standard of care has been changing to mirror his ideas.