I know your time is limited and this site is very big--90,000 words at last count. The emphasis on this site is on looking at what peer-reviewed scientific research can tell us about diabetes and its treatments.

I give you citations to that research so you can read it yourself. I also analyze the flaws in some of the research drug companies use to promote their drugs. Where no research exists, I provide anecdotal reports from the hundreds of people with diabetes who post on web bulletin boards.

But because the site has swelled to such a large size, it can be overwhelming to the new visitor. So to help you out, I've put together this summary of the most important topics you'll find on this site. Each topic is followed by a link or links to the pages that go into each point in detail.

You Can Avoid Deterioration and Complications No Matter How Bad Your Blood Sugar is Right Now

• Type 2 diabetes does not have to be a progressive disease. Doctors think it is progressive because they don't recommend blood sugar targets that are low enough to prevent deterioration.

  Do People with Type 2 Always Deteriorate?
  How Blood Sugar Control Deteriorates
  From Normal to Type 2
  

• Prolonged exposure to blood sugars over 140 mg/dl (7.8 mmol/l) damages your organs and causes diabetic complications.

  Research Connectiong Organ Damge to Blood Sugar Levels
  Healthy Blood Sugar Targets

• No matter how bad your blood sugar right now, you can get it down to a safe level.
  

  Inspiring Stories of People Who Did
  

• The way you get your blood sugar down is to do the following:
  • Cut back on your carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are the main thing that raises blood sugar. Replace starch and sugar with protein and non-trans fat.

    How to Get Your Blood Sugar Under Control
    A Diabetes Diet is Different from a Weight Loss Diet

  • If cutting your carbohydrates down to about 15 grams a meal doesn't give you normal blood sugars, ask your doctor to prescribe Metformin ER.

    The Truth about Oral Drugs - From Research
    Oral Drugs--A Quick Summary
    Be Safe with Rx Drugs
    

  • If Metformin ER doesn't help or isn't appropriate, try Byetta for a short time and continue using it only if you get strong results.

    Byetta and Januvia
    

  • If you still don't have normal blood sugars talk to your doctor about adding basal insulin. If basal insulin doesn't give you normal blood sugars, use insulin after meals too. Used properly with a lower carb intake, insulin will always work. If it isn't working for you, you need to find a doctor who can help you fine tune your dose.
    

    Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes
    

• Lowering blood sugars to normal levels can reverse some diabetic complications, most notably nerve pain (neuropathy) and early kidney changes.

  Neuropathy
  Diabetic Kidney Disease

• Diabetes is not caused by gluttony and laziness. Research shows it is a genetic disease caused by many different genetic flaws.

  You Did Not Eat Your Way to Diabetes
  

• Diabetes is often Not Diagnosed Correctly and Undiagnosed Diabetes Causes Complications

  • Not all Type 2s are overweight or insulin resistant. Those who don't fit this stereotype often fail to get diagnosed until diabetes has had years to ravage their bodies, especially those with very high post meal blood sugars and near normal fasting blood sugars.

    MODY

  • To determine if you have diabetes, you should test your 1 and 2 hour post-meal blood sugars. If your doctor tests you, make sure he orders a post-meal test, too. The Fasting Plasma Glucose test most doctors use often fails to diagnose diabetes especially in women.

    Am I Diabetic?

  • Many "diabetic" complications begin at blood sugars that the American Diabetes Association does not currently define as "diabetic"

    Misdiagnosis by Design - The Story Behind the ADA Diagnostic Criteria

There are many more topics covered on this site, but these are the ones that are most important. I invite you to come and read the whole site when you have time. The information you find here could save your health!

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Now There's a Book Version of This Site's Content

Take it to the beach with you. Give it to your friends. My newly published book Blood Sugar 101: What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes presents the information found on this site in a logically organized, easy-to-read form.

Check it out at the Technion Books web site.