New "What They Don't Tell You" Summary Page

My Web Site, What They Don't Tell You About Diabetes has grown over the past three years to where it contains an entire book's worth of information--a full 85,000 words.

The downside of this is that the amount of information on the site can be overwhelming to new visitors. So I've put together a new introductory page which sums up the message of the site and helps the visitor decide which pages they want to visit.

Here's what I've come up with. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvement please let me hear them:

THE NEW SITE INTRO:

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 Connecting Organ Damage 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!