Diabetes Without Drugs: The 5-Step Program to Control Blood Sugar Naturally and Prevent Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Without Drugs: The 5-Step Program to Control Blood Sugar Naturally and Prevent Diabetes Complications
Based on breakthrough studies, Cohen’s program reveals how people with diabetes can
reduce their need for prescription medication and minimize the disease’s effect on the body.
reduce their need for prescription medication and minimize the disease’s effect on the body.
Most doctors consider diabetes a one-way street—once you have it, your only option is to manage the symptoms with a restricted diet, close monitoring of blood sugar, and expensive medications. Pharmacist Suzy Cohen shows that diabetes can be treated instead through safe, natural means, like food and vitamins, rather than strictly relying on prescription drugs. She shifts the focus away from glucose management to a whole body approach, using supplements, minerals, and dietary changes to lose weight, repair cell damage, improve insulin function, and reduce the side effects from prescription drugs, many of which rob nutrients from the body and cause additional symptoms.
This 5-step program uses natural alternatives, such as drinking nutrition-packed green drinks, adding vitamin D and anti-inflammatory supplements, increasing fiber intake, and including minerals in the diet to help restore the body’s own supply of insulin. Diabetes without Drugs explains how patients can protect their heart, kidneys, eyesight, and limbs from the damage often caused by diabetes and shows the impact that the right foods and the right supplements can make in reducing blood sugar levels, aiding weight loss, and restoring vibrant health to everyone with diabetes.
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A pharmacists inside line,
Being a pharmacist gives Suzy a lot of credibility with many people. Few doctors or pharmacists bother to list side effects of medications. If they did a lot of people might be put off taking their medications. Suzy informs you in a balanced way. It’s nice to see a pharmacist pointing out when natural therapies are superior to medications.
Suzy also discusses the link between natural products and medicines ie. medicines are usually just synthesised natural products and this synthesis is usually just for purposes of profit (you can’t patent a natural molecule). The beauty of many natural approaches is that they lack the side effects of the synthetic version (Suzy explains some of the reasons why this may occur)… and if that’s the case it’s worth knowing.
Equally useful is knowing which things to supplement with if you are on medications. Suzy does a first rate job listing the vitamins and minerals that are depleted in the body by certain medications and suggests you supplement with these. This is sensible advice.
If you have diabetes then you owe it to yourself to read books like this which are fact/research based. They will give you strong insights into the causes and treatment of diabetes.
This book suffers from a few too many typo’s. Please fix some of them?
More importantly there are a couple of factual errors that Suzi ought to correct. It was annoying to find the entire book referring to EFA’s (Essential Fatty Acids) as fish oils (EPA/DHA) and various other types of oils:
EFA’s are defined oils the body can not produce. The only two EFA’s are ALA (Alpha Linolenic Acid) an Omega3 oil (flax is one source of it) and LA (Linoleic Acid) an Omega6 oil (Sunflower is the most commmon source). It’s a common error which many authors are making. Please someone stop and read a definition? Then get out a flow diagram of Omega3 and Omega6 derivative pathways? They show some very interesting things including that EFA’s trigger your bodies production of anti-coagulants and anti-inflammatories… a very useful thing in diseases which have both a coagulation and inflammatory component.
Suzy mis-quotes Dr Michael Holick (a dermatologist) on VitD: Suzy recommends people stay out of the sun between 11am-3pm. Holick points out that it is only between 11am – 3pm that UVB is present and that’s what you need to produce VitD. He does say you only need about 10 minutes and not to stay out too long. This was probably just a typo… but it would be nice if someone corrected it.
There are a few more things Suzy could have added to the book like the link between fructose/sucrose and uric acid… which then triggers inflammation and the inflammatory process is involved in diabetes.
You don’t have to be diabetic to read this book as it has lots of useful information that’s just as applicable to non-diabetics.
Well done Suzy.
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|Real Information for Real Results,
There is a wealth of advise and information in Diabetes Without Drugs. Suzy Cohen does an excellent job of breaking it all down into sensible material–the section on “drug muggers” alone has made a huge difference for me on a daily level. I’ve been on Metformin for 3 years and have suffered intense gastro-intestinal problems on a daily basis. This left me exhuasted and depleted of energy.
I realized through this book that the artificial sugars hidden in virtually all low-fat, non-fat or no added sugar products was contributing to my propblems and actually didn’t help my blood sugar levels. After dumping all of those products and returning to eating the real thing–just less of it, I feel so much better.The real flavor of foods with no hidden artificial sugars is much more satisfying.
Within the first few days, I stopped having the gastro-intestinal issues that I have suffered through for so long. The super green drinks of the first part of the program has energized me as I have not felt for years. I feel so much better and I’m eating real food–all day long. No more lows and highs– My blood sugar levels do not spike throughout the day and my fasting levels came down 25% after the first week alone. I haven’t felt this good in years. For the last few years, exercise made me exhuasted, now I feel energized and I’ve already lost weight without really trying.
I was never a tea drinker before trying out the different teas she recommends. Now I drink pots of the stuff because the teas have made such a difference in my energy levels during the day (Yerba Mate) and soothe me to sleep before bedtime (Tulsi). I still enjoy my coffee in the morning, but Yerba Mate gives me a great amount of energizing clarity as oppossed to coffee jitters from too much of the bean.
I know I’ve only scratched the surface of this book, but so far the results have been amazing–for me. I do think she goes a bit over-board with all things non-gluten and since I have no issues with those types of allergies–I’ll stick to whole grain breads. I started making my own so I could control what was in it.
Diabetes is an awful affliction and the road down this disease is filled with more medications and more complications. This book has lots of information and advice that can really help lessen–or possibly in some cases–help one off of the diabetes medication merry-go-round.
There’s no miracle or quick fix offered in Diabetes without Drugs–but for someone who is prepared to be serious about trying–the possibility of lowering meds or freeing onself of having to take them at all–becomes a reachable goal. At the very least, Suzy Cohen offers excellent advice on how to prevent diabetes complications down the road–a road that is pretty downhill for most diabetics who don’t heed the warning signs.
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|A must-have book,
If you have diabetes, you owe it to yourself to get a copy of this book, even if you think you already know all there is to know. You’ll learn all kinds of ways to protect yourself from the damage that this disease can do. You might even be able to put the disease behind you completely. And if you’ve been diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, this book is abolutely a must-have. By following the advice in this book, you could prevent diabetes from developing in the first place.
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