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Winning with Diabetes: Inspiring stories to help you thrive

Diabetes does not need to hold you back! Dr. Mark Corriere and Dr. Rita Kalyani are both diabetes specialists who have written a lovely book called Winning with Diabetes: Inspiring stories to help you thrive which we discuss in great depth.

Essential reading for people who have diabetes and their families, Winning with Diabetes highlights the challenges, perseverance, and successes of sixteen elite athletes living with the disease. From mountain climber Will Cross, to college softball champion Kylee Perez, to NBA legend Dominique Wilkins, and many more, these are the real-life stories of diagnosis, adapting new day-to-day routines, finding support, training, competing, and connecting with communities of other people living with diabetes. The book features advice for facing common fears and challenges, both on and off the playing field. Each chapter includes interviews with athletes about their experiences, paired with expert commentary from the authors. Chapters also include summaries of key concepts, along with illustrations and other graphics. Winning with Diabetes will inspire readers of all ages—those newly diagnosed as well as those who have lived with diabetes for years. Written by physicians who have set the standards for management of the disease, this book brings you expert insight into finding ways to live your best life. Let the experts, the athletes, and the inspiration in Winning with Diabetes give you what you need to you stay in the game.

Key Areas We Discuss

What is diabetes? Type I versus Type II?
What organs are involved in creation of diabetes?
How does fat contribute to diabetes?
How do you treat diabetes?
What is the deal with newer GLP-1 agonist drugs (such as Ozempic) for diabetes and for weight loss?
Are there lifestyle changes you can make to reduce your blood sugars?
What is the deal with continuous glucose monitoring for the average adult, not diabetic?

About Dr. Mark Corriere and Dr. Rita Kalyani:

Dr. Mark D. Corriere, MD (BALTIMORE, MD), is an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a clinical endocrinologist at Maryland Endocrine. Dr. Rita R. Kalyani, MD, MHS (BALTIMORE, MD), is an associate professor of medicine and a diabetes specialist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the past chair of the American Diabetes Association’s committee that establishes the standards of medical care for all people with diabetes. Kalyani and Corriere are coauthors of Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes. Patrick Smith (BALTIMORE, MD) is a biomedical science writer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Extra Innings: The Joy and the Pains of Over-30 Baseball

How to Improve Your Diabetes Health Once And For All

Blog, Podcast, Seeking Voices: Exploring the Science of Health and Healing, Uncategorized / October 29, 2022

Today you’ll learn how to improve your diabetes health while we speak with Dr. Cyrus Khambatta.

Dr. Cyrus Khambatta is the co-author of The New York Times bestseller Mastering Diabetes. He co-created the Mastering Diabetes Method to reverse insulin resistance in all forms of diabetes, and has helped more than 10,000 people improve their metabolic health using low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition, intermittent fasting, and exercise.

Episode Summary:

You can lower your insulin use and get better blood glucose levels with a high carbohydrate diet vs. a low carb diet like many doctors recommend.
You can reverse insulin resistance and feel the best you’ve ever felt by changing your diet.
We need to understand all the different kinds of carbs and how they impact glucose levels and insulin. We shouldn’t fear carbs.
You can eat a nutrient-rich diet filled with healthy carbs. Apples, bananas, oranges, and other fruit is fine and recommended.
Both type 1 and 2 diabetes can be managed by the foods we eat. You can reverse your medication dependence with type 2 diabetes, when you change your diet early.

Here’s a minute by minute of Dr. Cyrus Khambatta | How to Improve Your Diabetes Health Once And For All:

0:00 Who is Dr. Cyrus Khambatta

8:57 How Dr. Cyrus Khambatta treated his diabetes

10:35 Lowering insulin usage 42% in 1-week

13:28 Understanding insulin resistance

15:53 How to help diabetic eating low carbs

19:45 Mastering Diabetes Book Summary

21:27 Why Personalized Coaching vs. Book

23:29 6-Week Blood Sugar Transformation Challenge

24:40 Type 1 diabetes vs type 2

29:15 Curing Type 2 Diabetes

32:50 Type 2 Diabetes discontinuing insulin

36:23 Fasting and Diabetes

40:08 Endocrinologist problem

43:20 Dr. Cyrus Khambatta Diet

46:00 Dr. Monica Aggarwal Diet

Who Is Dr. Cyrus Khambatta:

Cyrus Khambatta, PhD earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003, then earned a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. He is the co-author of many peer-reviewed scientific publications.

He is the co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green, and is an internationally recognized nutrition and fitness coach who has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2002.

He co-created the Mastering Diabetes Method to reverse insulin resistance in all forms of diabetes, and has helped more than 10,000 people improve their metabolic health using low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition, intermittent fasting, and exercise.

He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at the Plant-Based Nutrition and Healthcare Conference (PBNHC), the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Conference (ACLM), Plant Stock, the Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and has been featured on NPR, KQED, Forks Over Knives, Healthline, Fast Company, Diet Fiction, and the wildly popular podcasts Plant Proof and Nutrition Rounds. He is a co-author of the upcoming book Mastering Diabetes with Robby Barbaro, MPH.

Learn more about Dr. Cyrus Khambatta: https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/