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Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide To Achieving Normal Blood Sugars (1997)

by Richard K. Bernstein(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0316182699 (ISBN13: 9780316182690)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: This book changed my life. I've had Type 1 diabetes for 48 years and managed it well, but not until I read this book did I understand in depth the interplay of insulin, food, exercise, and. of course, the associated sequelae. I also learned, perhaps most importantly, that blood sugars kept within normal range can result in diminished or even reversed sequelae. That was a eureka moment for me: I'd always thought that diabetes-related decay of every organ in the body (barring hair follicles; they're not so sure about that. I have weird hair, but I don't think it's diabetes-related) was more or less inevitable. If you have diabetes, or have a diabetic relative who could use some help, you might want to read or recommend this book. Then again, you might not. I'll explain. Ber... morenstein developed Type 1 diabetes as a young man. Following then-current wisdom on insulin dosing, diet and exercise, he was a wreck. As in, passing out at the wheel and crashing. That is not a metaphor. Bernstein, then an engineer in the medical devices field, began to research the disease. One thing he found was that lab animals, if their blood sugars were kept within the range of normal, could be, essentially, cured of diabetes and/or its sequelae. The thinking back then was that this was impossible for humans, for whatever bizarre rationale. (We are not animals? We lack discipline? Honey, show me a way to fix this malady, and I'll be a soldier who won't flinch when you slice off his nipple. That analogy courtesy of the season's opener for Game of Thrones. No, no don't thank me.)He heard of a new device, relatively portable (suitcase-sized), to test blood sugar on the spot, as opposed to the very long times it had taken (bear in mind the doctor is now in his 80s; this was long before at-home, portable, personal glucose testing devices). He wanted one. They wouldn't sell it to him. They said these were just for emergency rooms, for the purpose of differentiating passed-out drunks from hypoglycemic faints. They said diabetics would never test their own blood sugar. So Bernstein got his wife, a medical doctor, to get him one, and he set about normalizing his blood sugars. Well. He did darn good. He got his blood sugar within normal range (in the 80s), and his sequelae went *poof*. He also looks like somebody suffering from starvation. Which brings me to why you might not bother to read this book or have your diabetic loved ones read it. This stuff is hard. This stuff requires a discipline that's severe when it comes to diet and medication, to exercise, to cooking your own food, to all sorts of diabetic fun-fun-fun. Not many people can do things the way the good doctor Bernstein carefully lays out in this excellent book. That's why people die from diabetes. Thank God I'm blessed with discipline, and with the ability to cook, and with a rabid love of living. This is doable. It's all doable. I don't look like a Holocaust survivor. I look plump and happy. Albeit with weird hair. I eat like a horse. I don't feel deprived. I gorge myself on fat and protein, and I eat tons of low-carb vegetables. This is important. This is key. You can do this. Your diabetic friends and relatives can do this.But you, or they, have to really, really want to do it. Best of luck to all in dealing with the big D.
review 2: This book is a life saver. Give it to anyone you know who is diabetic. I am a type II and after reading this book I lost 50 pounds, was taken off insulin and three of four medications, and am controlling my diabetes through diet and exercise. It's all about dietary sugar. The ADA teaches that sugar is sugar, Dr Bernstein shows otherwise. Limiting certain dietary sugars lowers your blood sugar and removes all the symptoms of high blood sugars. Diabetes could be viewed as a person's reaction to dietary sugars two hours after every meal. less

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