March 24, 2007 by admin.

Why are doctors still generally prescribing glucophage and other meds when a patient comes in and shows high blood glucose levels, without giving any comprehensive dietary recommendations.

Can’t we finally agree that 98% of people with type II diabetes (under the age of 75, for the sake of cancelling out much of the hereditary action), develop the condition because of their lifestyle and diet? Is this still politically incorrect? Is this still inappropriate because it will hurt people’s feelings or take away their right to eat and live however they want?

I am all for freedom of choice. If I want to take a pill and ignore my actions, then give me that choice. But by God, we need to give people the choice to change their diet and lifestyle and thereby change their health.

It seems like this is still a fringe idea. And then we have the hyper-ventilating raving eccentrics touting cure-all nutritional philosophies who completely eschew the mainstream approach.
I am not into that either.

I have utmost respect for conventional western medicine. I just think that the teeter totter of emphasis is WAY OVER THE TOP FOR EXPENSIVE, TECHNOLOGICAL, PHARMACUETICAL, and INVASIVE approaches. Because, hey, guess what, that is what MD’s study. For all you MD’s out there, especially my friends, thank you for sewing people up, removing unfriendly invaders, setting bones, diagnosing wierd pathogens and all the other stuff that I have no idea about.

But in the type II diabetes world, give some respect to the health counselors, the folks that can set people straight. We want to use silly things, like eating real food, to help people get better. I know, it is a crazy idea, very simple, but we get results. Add in some exercise and WHAM! Fantastic. I understand that type II diabetes is a tricky set of imbalances and so I want to work with my MD friends to moniter my client’s progress through testing protocols and I am all for using pharmacueticals when appropriate. But once you start, it is harder to stop, you know what I mean?

And for the people with type II. I don’t underestimate the freak out factor that may be in between the lines in an articel like this. You may be thinking this health nut is trying to make me eat twigs and leaves. Well, yeah, but not really.

Health Counselors work with clients where ever they are at and helkp them make small, sustainable changes that add up over time. Health counselors are experts at working with their clients on all levels so that the work feels digestible and achievable.

Remember, you are what you eat. And you become what you think. And who you spend time with now is a predictor of where you will be in 5 years.

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September 16, 2006 by admin.

It is clear to me that diet, lifestyle, mental attitude and physical fitness are the core of reversing, managing and preventing diabetes. The future of health is understanding that everything in our world is energy and that some things support life energy and other things diminish life energy.

Through my work as a diabetes health counselor and educator, I am devoted to honoring the memroy of my father. My father developed type I diabetes when he was 5 years old. 2 weeks after his 9 year old sister developed it. My father had a tough time of it. Dying at age 39, his short life presented me with a script of how not to tend to the body-mind-spirit.

My father experienced the “worst case scenario” of the diabetes experience. By the time I was 9 years old, my father was undergoing massive laser surgery to attempt to reverse retinopathy. By the time I was 12, he went through heart surgery, heart attack and was “legally blind.” The last 4 years of my fathers life, he went through constant agony and excrutiating pain. I vividly remember the amputation of his leg and the post op experience of crying for morphine.

This wasn;t the most pianful time in my life. That came for the two years after my father’s death where I spiraled down into sicknenss and depression with anger and confusion at the purpose of my father living such a hard life. But I thank God now for the pain I experienced and the invaluable lesson my father taught me.

Since my committment to help other people with diabetes, I have been blessed to have learned an amazing arsenal of tools and techniques for uplifting body mind and spirit and I am so glad to have the opportuntiy to serve people with this work.

You can improve your health.

You can change the direction of your life.

You can initiate a series of events that are nothing short of miraculous.

I know this to be true.

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