Master Your Diabetes: A Comprehensive, Integrative Approach for Both Type 1 and 2 Diabetes

By Mona Morstein

Book Overview

The evidence is clear: We are in the midst of a worldwide diabetes epidemic. In the United States alone, one in three Americans is either diabetic (29 million patients) or prediabetic (87 million patients), costing an annual $242 billion in medical treatments.

In Master Your Diabetes, naturopathic physician and diabetes expert Dr. Mona Morstein shows how people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can gain and maintain excellent control of their blood sugar levels, preventing and even reversing existing complications through education combined with medical support and encouragement. This is the first comprehensive guide for patients, caregivers, and medical practitioners to demonstrate an integrative approach based on the "eight essentials" of treatment and prevention: a low-carb diet, exercise, good sleep, stress management, healing the gut, detoxification, supplementation, and medications.

Topics covered include:

Important physical exams and lab work Conventional diets and non-insulin medications Insulin Low-carb diets and how they apply to different food groups Lifestyle factors, including exercise, stress management, and the microbiome Diabetic supplementation Pediatric diabetes

An indispensable resource, Master Your Diabetes will empower readers to take control of their condition and continue living full, active, enjoyable, and long lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603587373
• ISBN13: 9781603587372
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Whole guide for Diabetes

Master your Diabetes is a masterpiece by Dr. Morstein. She fill the book with helpful guide and useful information for the diabetes. Her 8 essentials in page 8 need to be highlighted here: diet; exercise; sleep; stress management; healing the gut and microbiome; environmental detoxification; supplementation and medications. She listed many herbal supplements for liver, pancreas and the brain, even with the Chinese herb Six Gentlemen. For different people of Diabetes in different age, A1C cannot strictly demanded as senior citizens need sugar in a wider range for daily function. Too low will trigger heart troubles. This book is heavy duty loaded with medical information to absorb and digest. It is a comprehensive, integrative wholistic approach for American Diabetes to keep it under control.