Personal Health Consulting
with Bill Bergman, M.D.
The Challenges of Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes
Whether you have diabetes or pre-diabetes, you have a major challenge --- how to achieve good health. Many people have one or the other condition, but they don't even know it. With pre-diabetes, the damage can go on for years before it evolves into full-blown diabetes. With full-blown diabetes, the damage is done on a daily basis.
Diabetes and pre-diabetes in America today affect nearly one in two adults and are now at epidemic levels. One in ten Medicare dollars now goes to diabetes treatment and diabetes costs US healthcare $174 billion annually. The simple reason is that having diabetes is like havingten diseases in one --- as a disease of broken metabolism that is expressed through the blood, it affects every major organ in the body, from head to toe. The results of uncontrolled diabetes include a much higher than normal risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), peripheral arterial disease(PAD), stroke/high blood pressure, kidney failure, blindness, lower-limb amputations, nerve and skin disorders, certain cancers, and even Alzheimer's Disease. With diabetes, you get it all.
But I bring you good news. The latest medical research has revealed the "common denominator" of major chronic disease --- cellular inflammation or metabolic dysfunction. By helping the cells achieve optimum balance and health, to a large degree you can help your body heal itself, even if you have had diabetes for a long time. There is no cure for diabetes today, but the strategy of reducing modern-day inflammation --- driven by poor diet, environmental toxins, and chronic stress --- can help you gain better control of your diabetes and/or help you minimize the risk of having pre-diabetes become full-blown diabetes.
Diabetes Self-Defense is the best tool I have seen in my 40+ years of medicine to help you track, manage and control your diabetes, in concert with your primary care physician and your diabetes healthcare team. I strongly recommend that you obtain a copy to help you as both a reference manual and tracking log. It is tools like this that will help promote the ever-changing model of American healthcare by promoting a close relationship --- a partnership --- between the physician and the patient.
How Dr. Bergman Can Help
With more than 40 years of experience in preventive and integrative medicine, I can provide you with a more comprehensive approach to both diabetes and pre-diabetes.
Through an affordable health consultation, you will be both informed about recommended strategies for determining whether you might be pre-diabetic as well as receiving the benefits of an effective lifestyle program if you are already facing either pre-diabetes or diabetes.
To learn more about arranging a health consulting session, please ontact me toll free at 877-299-8445 or email me at: drbergman@diabetesselfdefense.com.
