Master Your Diabetes

A Comprehensive Integrative Approach to Both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

by Dr. Mona Morstein, ND, DHANP

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Pub Date Oct 19 2017 | Archive Date Sep 19 2017

Chelsea Green Publishing

Health, Mind & Body | Nonfiction (Adult)

Description

We are in the midst of a worldwide diabetes epidemic, affecting an estimated 422 million people. In the United States alone, nearly a third of Americans are either diabetic or prediabetic, 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 control of their blood sugar levels, preventing and even reversing existing diabetic complications. 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, whole foods diet; exercise; good sleep; stress management; healing the intestinal microbiome; environmental detoxification; supplementation; and medications.

Topics covered include:

• Important physical exams and lab work

• Conventional diets and non-insulin medications

• The different types and uses of insulin

• Various low-carb diets and how they apply to different food groups

• Diabetes in pediatrics and pregnancy

• Diabetic challenges, including low blood sugar, high blood sugar, sickness, and traveling

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

Advance Praise

“We know more about diabetes than ever in history, yet disease rates are not declining appreciably, while costs to manage the disease continue to soar. In Master Your Diabetes, Dr. Morstein draws from the best of conventional and integrative therapies to provide diabetic patients an easy-to-implement program to regain their health.”

—Robb Wolf, author of Wired to Eat and The Paleo Solution

“This book is as complete a compendium on diabetes management as I have ever read. What is more, it tells the truth: ‘To be blunt, no person with T2DM should ever wind up on insulin if they follow the protocol established by an integrative physician.’ Type 2 diabetes is both preventable and in a majority of cases can be put into remission. This book is an ideal reference to understand how and why.”

—Timothy Noakes, MD, PhD, emeritus professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa; founder, The Noakes Foundation

“In Master Your Diabetes, Dr. Mona Morstein covers the topic of holistic diabetes management in exceptional detail, providing real-world guidance for creating a low-carb lifestyle based on anti-inflammatory, organic, nutrient-dense foods and supportive lifestyle measures to improve blood sugar control and reduce disease risk. This comprehensive, well-written, and evidence-based book is ideal for medical and nutrition professionals, those with diabetes or prediabetes, and anyone interested in improving their overall health and vitality through healthy, low-carb living.”

—Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE

“Dr. Morstein has developed a comprehensive and unique approach to the treatment of diabetes; the information she provides is priceless.”

—Dr. Jared Zeff, ND, LAc

“Dr. Morstein is certainly one of the world’s top experts in the integrative management of diabetes. This book is a must-have resource for both clinicians and for people diagnosed with diabetes.”

—Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, executive director, TAP Integrative