Dr. Mona Morstein is a well known naturopathic expert in diabetes. Listen to this podcast where Dr. Morstein is interviewed by Dr. Tursha Hamilton, a naturopathic physician who Dr. Morstein mentored when she was at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. Dr. Morstein discusses using naturopathic medicine to diagnose and effectively treat diabetic patients. Click Here
A new study has come out from Denmark showing that giving White Men statins drugs increased their risk of developing diabetes by 46%! 46%! That means that nearly half the men getting a statin drug developed diabetes. Standard care docs are still trying to convince the public that the cardiovascular protection offered by statin drugs
The Good: There is a new type of oral hypoglycemic agent for Type 2 Diabetic patients: Sodium Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors. These medications work in a novel way. Glucose is excreted from the body through the kidneys but the kidneys try to re-absorb the glucose back into the bloodstream using this sodium glucose co-transporter 2