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The i was told time after time after time there is no such thing as a diabetic diet. Just whatever the standard diet is and youve been given here and just keep giving are the most important thing is learning how to control within one. So when we were in the hospital, you remember them saying, eat whatever you want and goes for it. And actually his 1st smell in the hospital was a breakfast burrito because i was like, thats a, thats no cards. So we dont have to dont see for that. So then he wanted to cookies and after every meal. Yeah, i think hes and we left the hospital with him being over 300 still my entire nursing career. This is how weve done. I knew that my patients at my job a whatever they want it, and we just gave them this one scale. I knew that their numbers were 2 or 300. I knew that that was the norm. That was the Diabetic Community for most medical doctors, including the Nutrition Education is at the very bottom of our list of things that were taught about in medical school to most doctors and most medical School Educators are new maniacs, but everything new. They dont Burning Technology new research. If you Start Talking about a dietary intervention thats 250000 years old. Everyone at the table size one glass of or because thats not new. You cant get a notice. Big st manufacturers are not interested in that. At all, or no 1000000000. 00 drugs, they can be fashions. Im talking about nutrition. So you cant make any money on a nutrition idea that hundreds of thousands of years old the governing bodies put these recommendations out and it forces physicians to live within those guidelines for fear of reprisals. And if you dont follow the guidelines as a doctor, you can open yourself up to that occasion to. So theres a, theres a dual problem where not only the doctors never learn how to control blood sugars, they dont learn about proper nutrition. But even if they do, theyre essentially forced to follow these incorrect guidelines. Obviously incorrect guidelines in the recent position statement regarding management of diabetes for type one children. The American Diabetes association failed to have a section dedicated to either food or diet, which are the main contributors to high blood sugar levels, which are responsible for diabetes complications. The lifestyle Management Section notes. Theres no single ideal dietary distribution of calories and carbohydrates, fats, and protein. So for people with diabetes, i see it in these barrett groups. Theres a lot of pair of groups out there that these people are, theyre not even diabetic. And theyre sitting there like given advice, right . And hey, you know what your kids numbers dont matter. Doesnt matter. Its all good. So you can go in there. You can share your graph of your 400 everybody a patio in the back and say, hey, you know what . You know, thoughts and prayers go out the way i knew. When youre short and why kates or your kidney fails. His thoughts and prayers dont mean anything about that. Dont you go online and facebook . So probably a lot of people on social media. You see them stuff like this. She wont have any energy unless you give them carbohydrates. If your child will resent you for the rest of his life, what kind of mother are you to deprive your child of a childhood . Hes not going to learn as well. Hes not going to grow. You have to have sugar for your body to metabolize energy. And if they dont have the sugars, then they wont grow. Thats what youre told over and over. Ive been researching for over a year, a low carbohydrate die. Its grossing shows im and i printed out over 60 articles that talk about proteins, not carbohydrate drives, long bone growth in children. People have suggested to patients and their family, but carbohydrates are required for growth. Totally falls down to where that belief comes from. Our body can produce all the glucose spring, gluco neo, just the best model exist. Where being a kid is, you know of any cupcakes or k to pizza and all that crap. Right. But as you know, a t one young kid, if youre not feeding them protein and vegetables and keeping the blood sugar, which is never gonna grow to his or her potential f. Nighttime isnt particularly scary time for parents when they have a child with diabetes, because that child goes well, they can go thats what people are afraid of with young children. They fear that low blood sugar seizure coma. Thats the scariest. Its a median. It happens overnight. So i think people think if you give your child carbohydrates, youre going to somehow help with that. But the truth is, its the large dose of insulin, youre given your child that puts them at the most risk. The only reason a child has a low blood sugar is because theres too much insulin in their body. These very companies who are supposed to be helping us and you know, advocating for us. And during this break, the, theyre, theyre putting their name on stuff that basically causes complications. The, the, the families are given a cookbook. And it features, characters that children might see on morning cartoons. And each character is presenting a recipe to that child or to that mom. And these recipes are full of carbohydrates. And one of them that i recall was the recipe featuring a magical character that my, both of my sons love. And it was for pumpkin waffles. And i think just for the waffle, it was something around 44. 00 carbohydrates, and thats without adding syrup. So if you give your child a waffle in some syrup for breakfast, thats like 80 some carbohydrates, a Disaster Recovery scenes of the pink panther, sas carp, dining and handling works. We just kinda did what they told us, you know, base. I remember our cd said she can eat whatever she wants, as long as she covers and highs are not a big deal as long as you catch them. So, you know, dont worry about spiking after meals with her, as long as youre not staying up there. And youre catching them and bring them back down. And that was kind of when we were time theres another publication given to us by the American Diabetes association. And it has a page where its trying to do a little mess busting. And one of them is, you know, its a method that people with type one diabetes cant eat sugar. Now, why . When theyre given such a platform and such an ability to reach people. Why would you not say at that moment . Its better for people with type one diabetes to completely avoid sugar. Its just an, a wasted opportunity by a big governing body that called a lot of power with these new families. Thats basically the education that we got a crash course in cobb county ratios. How the insulin was supposed to move the glucose into a cells, and it all had to do with his carbohydrate intake. We were told that he can eat, you know, cheeseburgers and fast food and that these things wouldnt change because he was type one diabetic. If i wanted to have them brownie and i wanted to sit down and actually calculate how many real carbs are in there, and how if its white, sugar or brown sugar or oats or whole grain, whatever. You wanted to calculate all of that accurately based on grams and glycemic index, and how its working in my body. And if i worked out and if i slept well, and if im in a good mood or a bad mood, and if i have insulin on board, go for it. Most people dont have time. They just take a random ratio in front of the car ratio that they are in. The chronologist said 6 or 8 months ago hasnt been tweet hasnt been changed, and they take a brownie and their blood sugar still goes high carp counting as a method to manage diabetes, a slide for many reasons. But one of the most obvious that i hope anyone can grass is that the ca allows food manufacturers to be off and theyre carbohydrate counts on their labels by plus or minus 20 percent. So even if you are the most advert, curb counter and you way food and you measure it. The fact that the label itself can be often account will set you up for, for failure. The it is estimated to over 415000000 people are living with diabetes all over the world today. In the United States and estimated 35000000. 00 diabetic patients spend over 330000000000. 00 per year on care making diabetes. The most expensive chronic disease in the country. Global insulin sales are currently near 20000000000. 00 per year. And costs are rising. Or if i die bid adopted in low carbohydrate diet, there was a multiple 1000000000. 00. They found the corporations that were go bankrupt. Operations were seeing as dire financial straits if they are not able to ride the backs of the banks anymore. Industry once us buying their products. Pharmaceutical companies, once us buying their products as well. So when were paying for carbohydrate food and were paying for big amounts of insulin, those companies are thriving. If every person with type one diabetes reduce their amount of insulin by 65 percent or someone is going to feel the sting of that. The very 1st time i went to cbs and bought no blog for 400. 00. Your heart is trying to figure out how in the world are you going to sustain this lifestyle to keep your child alive. This is whats needed for life, and its insanely expensive. The i go to the refrigerator and i pull out the vial of silverlock to give sierra her warning dose. And i hadnt had coffee yet and i was still sleepy. And i fumbled with the insulin and it shattered to the floor. And i cried. Buckets of chairs, 400. 05 saving madison on the ground. Or we could continue doing this. How can any family afford to keep their kid alive . No parents ever have to think about that. This is a 24 hour a day roller coaster. This isnt the kind of ride you take a break from this day and night. And we were desperate for something else. In the hospitals, we started doing research, and on the internet doing a google search, we kept saying this name, dr. Bernstein, bernstein, and dr. Bernstein. Dr. Burn sir, dr. Burns burns things i read very seams book and really got my blood sugars under, under control to non diabetic levels. I remember the dates that i searched the symptoms because it was a couple of months after the animal. Im was drugs late. 1946 diagnosis diabetes. We had to use reusable syringes and needles, which we sterilized in boiling water after it cooled off Sweet Assembly and the needles would get well. Then we had to sharpen the needles. We had to pump this stone and you run the needle on the pump this stone and get rid of the hooks. You didnt know what your blood sugar level was. Most of the time, it was either very low, very high, and my low blood sugars, or a constant problem for the family. And it happened that i was working for a company that made Clinical Laboratory equipment. And i saw an ad for a sweet pound device that could be used in Emergency Rooms to distinguish unconscious, strong from unconscious diabetics by the blood sugars, and said, if i knew my blood sugars, im an engineer finding my blood sugars. I could do something about them. So i ordered a meter and started measuring my blood sugars. The the in the early days had a very creative lunch, a peanut butter, mayo and tuna, on date not thread. I found that the highest blood sugars were after lunch. So i said, well if lunch is the biggest culprit, it must be because the carbohydrate. So im going to eliminate the bread and eliminate repeated tighter. And ill just have the tuna fish and mail and a solid. Well, the amount of events when i took for lunch dropped dramatically and the blood sugars after lunch became predict i decided at that point that i had to get this information out and that the doctors would bend over backwards. So the 1st thing i did was approach my own doctor who is present to the American Diabetes association and the shared people come to me once a month for blood sugar. If they could measure it themselves, id have no patients knowing, come to see me. I wrote a, it was i took the step by step, what do you do to have normal blood sugars . If your type one diabetic, i submitted it to many Major Medical journals and theyre all rejected. The so i decided i would go to medical school to get an m d f. And therefore be able to get published. I was diagnosed with age 12 and Life Expectancy for type one diabetic was 30 years and um, 86 right now. And ive made it less than few folks just by to read or the, the bernstein situation just made sense to me. You know, he was, he was the 1st diabetic that we know of that checked his own blood sugar. Now, every diabetic checks are on blood sugar, the he was able to realize by blood sugar is directly affected by the foods. I shouldnt be a big surprise, right . By reducing his carbon tag, he was able to significantly stabilize the swings in his blood sugar over time. And that, that made a lot of sense to us, and we said, well lets, lets give this a shot. The, i couldnt, can leave the reduction insolence instantaneously. You started to notice the blood sugars coming on down. And so you can, we cannot continue giving those large doses of insulin because your little card i said go, i talked to dr. Barms, they are is the 45. 00. The other is limited to 6 months and it keeps my biggest states that friday, she has a straight to the policy, but we found it certainly sounds really amazing recipes and the foods were eating. Now, on this low carbs restriction, are some of the richest, most delicious place that weve ever, even before. The, we make low carb ice cream, make low car pizza. We make little car cupcakes. Theres low carb deserts. Theres all these little companies that you can eat. You dont feel deprived, theres nothing that i cant eat. You just have to change the recipe. The lay of the chart in our kitchen that has all the dinners that we have set up the week. So whatever is on there, its the dinner always consists of the protein salad. Some type of the shingles, the whole family itself here. Now that weve all changed our diet to adapt to what river if its easier for me, i cook one meals, a simple cooking. Its natural, its easy to find a simple site to have some vegetables and throwing some meat on the grill and salad, and maybe a low carb treats. We have this moniker now that were the low car of and mean im also low alcohol. I mean, im also low drugs. I mean theres, its, its kind of a mixed up name, i think because we dont say, oh, im high car. I mean, nobody says that i use a way that i think our disease dictates which is carbohydrate in power. The why is this not something i knew before . I like im a dietician. I went to school for this and ive had diabetes for you know, 20 plus years. Yeah. Ive never heard of this in my life the i decided to give it a shot. My info, nissan titan, half my blood sugars a like, rarely over 120 any more change in my diet. So the low carb diet made my blood sugars so much easier to control. I wasnt needing to count as high, you know, as taking these lower doses of insulin is much, much lower doses of insulin. The im on your for now, you know, eating this way. No part. And you know, very happy to say that Kidney Disease going the meds that they were given me for that no more not even needed for my end. No, no, right. But these hearts in great shape a self. This is a how it used to be. And now this is how it is being a type one diabetic doesnt really define who i am at all ive gotten so good at and managing myself over these last couple of years. That isnt really a problem at all for me at this point. Its not a party all you to hammer without a bon known cares if i you know, i pizza without the, the cross underneath and its, its not a big deal. 10 years ago when i started eating low car, it was really tough to get low carved portions at dinner or, you know, pulled the fries, give me broccoli instead. Now its like very, very common restaurants. Understand stores have low car products. Its much much easier the cake, but we make a little curve cake. So what did we make for your birthday . Blood pipe . A low carbon pipe the for breakfast, just about every day we are bacon and eggs we saw to them and rich butter. This is not a brooklyn issue. This is a wesley family issue with ease me eating. She had to be an example for your time. The in 2018 harvard university, let a team of doctors and scientists to study the low carbohydrate diet and its effect on type one diabetic. The findings were unprecedented. The very low carbohydrate diet resulted in non diabetic blood sugar levels. Fewer hypoglycemic events. Thats the risk of hospitalization, and a marked improvement on Mental Health is of just anecdotal evidence. There is now a collection of Scientific Data that proves part of the dr. Bern schemes. Diabetes solution, the fuel cards increased fewer complication. We know what were doing on a daily flush and arranges in the ninetys sometimes in the eightys. The reward is that isnt on the kid. She doesnt feel as ive been is nearly as much as we do as it stands. And for as long as i can do it, i want to make sure that this happens we would not have complications normal assures where life back and thats exactly what we do the the, the, the the, the, the, [000 00 00;00] the, the mom, the. Ready the, the. 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