: Episode 974 – Dr. Mona Morstein ND, DHANP joins Vinnie today to discuss the similarities between naturopathic and general medicine, and ways to master your diabetes with naturopathic medicine such as diet.
MONA MORSTEIN
- Has been practicing naturopathic
- Your body has great healing powers
- Naturopathic medicine tries to stimulate your body’s ability to heal after addressing the illness / symptoms initially
- Can prescribe most of the same medications that a general practitioner can prescribe
- Not ADD and amphetamines
- Different rules for different states
- She is in AZ
- She personally takes an interest in helping those with metabolic disorders and diabetes
- Cows, by eating grains, lose essential fatty acids that are good for us to consume
- Grain-fed cows can lead to insulin resistance and other problems
MASTER YOUR DIABETES
- Check out Dr. Morstein’s book Master Your Diabetes
- She goes over a low-carb diet in the book
- Vegetarian and vegan diets as well
- Patient chooses the option that they feel best resonates with them
- Spend more time telling patients what they can eat than what they can’t
- Makes it seem more reasonable and doable so people do not shy away
- This can be a problem when people, for example, realize they have to cut all of the grains out
- Makes it seem more reasonable and doable so people do not shy away
- There are lean people with type 2 diabetes
- GAD 65 marker can help determine whether it is type 2 or another related issue
- Type 1: eating, drinking, peeing a lot, lots of lethargy, weight loss, etc., in children
- Type 2: harder to pinpoint with symptoms, though people tend to be pre-diabetic for years
- Some physicians just wait until patients move from pre-diabetic to diabetic so that they can treat them
- Deals with A1C levels
- Adding years of damage to the body before they are even diagnosed
