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47: Dr. William Curtis | Nutrition-Based Diabetic Therapy
Category: Health
Duration: 01:26:49
Publish Date: 2013-09-27 00:00:00
Description: AIR DATE: September 26, 2013 at 7PM ETFEATURED EXPERT: Dr. William CurtisFEATURED TOPIC: "Nutrition-Based Diabetic Therapy" According to the latest statistics from the American Diabetes Association, 26 million Americans currently have diabetes (mostly Type 2) with a whopping 79 million more who are what's known as prediabetic where they are insulin impaired to the degree that if nothing changes they will become a full-blown diabetic in the coming years. The sad reality of these statistics is they are getting worse, not better, with an additional 2 million+ new cases of diabetes being added annually. What's going on here to explain the explosion in the rates of Type 2 diabetes and even the more rare Type 1? That's precisely what we cover in this podcast featuring a former ER physician and family doctor from Corpus Christi, Texas named Dr. William Curtis from the multi-specialty clinic "Future Focus Family Medicine" who has become passionate about how healthcare must shift the way they treat patients away from disease management and more towards wellness and prevention care. His clinical experience has shown him firsthand that health does not come from the medicine bottle for the vast majority of patients but from the very foods they are putting in their mouths as well as fitness and lifestyle changes. When it comes to the subject of diabetes, that statement is magnified many times over with the need for the right kind of nutrition and lifestyle treatment modalities as the FIRST line of defense in an overall wellness plan. Dr. Curtis doesn't believe we should be convincing everyone they are sick and in need of a prescription medication to get better again. He contends that a whole foods-based, low-carb lifestyle that he teaches through his NRG Tribe Diet & Lifestyle Compass will provide diabetic patients with REAL encouragement and invaluable information to help them defeat this chronic health issue. That's the topic we'll take on directly in Episode 47 of "Ask The Low-Carb Experts" taking YOUR questions on "Nutrition-Based Diabetic Therapy." LOWER YOUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS NATURALLY:USE PROMO CODE "THANKYOU" FOR 10% OFFNOTICE OF DISCLOSURE: http://cmp.ly/3LOW-CARB CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH QUEST BARSNOTICE OF DISCLOSURE: http://cmp.ly/3 Here are some of the questions we address in this episode: ANDREW ASKS: It may just be a semantic argument, but I am wondering why the typical medical establishment position is that Type 2 diabetes is incurable. Conventional wisdom says that once you have a consistently elevated fasting blood glucose level, the “diabetic” label seems to stick for life. My doctor bestowed me with that distinction although he never even once checked my A1c, which I later discovered was low. But now my medical records show me as having Type 2 diabetes although I’ve never taken a single drug to treat it. This is such a scarlet letter on my health history that I’m wondering if I am plagued with this label for the rest of my life. What is the difference between "reversed" and "cured" in the context of diabetes? And is the term "managed" the best label one can hope for in the context of our current medical nomenclature? DEB ASKS: I am a 48-year old female who has eaten low-ish carb for the last year and a half (~75-130g per day) and my fasting blood glucose was always nice and low (100 units per day) who adopt a low-carb lifestyle? Do you see problems in this type of patient particularly in achieving the blood sugar lowering you’d hope for and do you attribute that to glucagon dysfunction and hepatic insulin resistance? What other factors should be considered when low-carb just isn’t enough on its own?
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