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In the diabetic world, insulin is often looked at as a wonder drug and for all reasonable circumstances that is true. Insulin is the”key” that allows glucose to get into the cell. For type I diabetics, they no longer make insulin and it is essential that they use insulin for proper blood sugar regulation. For type II diabetics they essentially have run out of insulin an

Remind yourself that you have a story you tell yourself about your life everyday when you wake up. You and only you are the author of this story. You have the power to change this story, hence changing the way that you relate to the world around you. Understand that you have an ego. It is was makes you human. It is also what makes you suffer. The entire purpose of changing your sto

I just saw a statistic that stated 1/3 of the population is pre-diabetic. This means that 1/3 of Americans are faced with developing a medical condition that is entirely lifestyle-based. Now, I do believe that most chronic health conditions are heavily lifestyle-based, but Type II diabetes I can safely say is exclusively based on lifestyle choices.  I would not even classify it wit

Let’s look at the definition of the word “cure.” Cure- to relieve a person of the symptoms of a disease or condition. This is actually a fair definition of the word. However, in our current healthcare model I believe that we impose a much different concept of the word “cure.” There seems to be this definitive assumption created around the concept of cu

To doctor or not to doctor? That is the question. What does it mean to doctor someone? I tried looking up the definition of “doctor” but I did not really get what I was looking for. When I think of the term doctoring, what comes up is the Latin term docere. I do believe that this is the origin of the word doctor. When I look at the definition of docere it is as follows:

What brings you into the doctor? A headache, chest pain, diarrhea, depression, anxiety, joint pain, bloating, heavy menstrual periods, etc… These are all called symptoms. Symptoms have become the priority within the health care setting and have dominated the conversation for the past 100 years. The time is now to change that conversation. I ask that you begin having the hard

I have been speaking to my patients about co-dependency and their health for the last 3-4 years and I always have patients ask where they can read more about it. I would often direct them to books on co-dependency but they often come up short of helping people understand this topic outside the world of addiction. Below is my first effort to begin putting this concept into a written