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Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, we are certain you will learn something new in this video about ‘Practitioner Missteps in Resolving Metabolic Dysfunction‘. You’ll walk away with inspiration and ideas you can use in your practice right away.
Here are some of the things we’ll be unveiling:
- Waiting for blood glucose to be notably high? You have likely missed these earlier three stages of metabolic dysfunction.
- Yes! Focus on diet, stress and sleep, but don’t forget THIS too when addressing stubborn Insulin Resistance and T2DM.
- Crossroads of metabolic and gastrointestinal distress: the pancreatic dysfunction that is often unrecognized.
- This hormone (not Insulin) directly affects your patients’ fasting glucose and HbA1c – regardless of diet! Are you assessing and optimizing it?
- Considering GLP-1’s role in your patients metabolic dysfunction? Look at the microbiome for important devil-in-the-detail!
- Meet Jane. In exactly 10 years, she’s going to get a T2DM diagnosis. But the evidence is lurking in her labs Right Now. Do you know what to look for?
- These 4 high-value supplements have a powerful place in your metabolic health toolbox. Are you using them?
After you watch, please share a quick thought below about what inspired You in this presentation (in the “Ask a Question” area). Include what type of practitioner you are, so that we can all see your unique perspective.
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Would a 51 yo overweight Hispanic male with a family hx of DM recently diagnosed with what appears to be “idiopathic” exocrine pancreatic insufficiency be at a greater risk for advancing to DM since the pancreas is starting to show dysfunction? A16 is 5%, but isn’t looking at fasting insulin and c-peptide warranted in this case?
Indeed, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) can increase the risk of developing diabetes, or vice versa; diabetes can lead to EPI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8708123/). Thus, it would make sense to examine the situation by checking fasting insulin and/or c-peptide.
Thank you for this awesome video! The one thing I loved learning was that hypothyroidism somehow promotes fatty liver disease that can develop into type 2 diabetes. I would love more information on that. And thank you for the access to the reversing metabolic disease workshop.
You are most welcome! We are truly delighted to support your learning and passion for the functional medicine approach. Here are a couple of publications that may find interesting regarding this interconnectedness:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/liv.15723
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9926038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9158236/
I loved when Tracy spoke about the pancreas. Such an important function. And my mind was blown away with the Ah Ha moment that 13 years leading up to the DX. So much can be done in a preventative sense.
What caught my attention is to know that at early stages of metabolic dysfunction hypoglycemia almost always presents before hyperglycemia and that occurs even 13 years before !
A great pearl I learned was the Interconnectedness of how anemia influences HgA1C. An aha moment for sure!
Thank you so much!
The inspiration to include HbA1c and fasting insulin in all testing for new patients, to catch the cases of insulin resistance early on before damage has progressed to disease.
You are talking about how things were for me 25 years ago. I need the follow on for those who have progressed with metabolic disease beyond this point.
Very informative! I found it interesting that Fasting insulin or fasting C-peptide can be elevated 13 years before diabetes diagnosis and will use this info going forward when assessing my patients.
It was new to me that inositol can help reverse Insulin Resistance. Thanks!
It’s always good to hear again how beneficial our services are in being able to head off disease dynamics like Insulin Resistance by keeping an eye on Fasting Glucose and C-Peptide and making sure that clients are informed on how and why to request that test.
I did not realize the root cause or inter connectedness between subclinical hypothyroidism and NAFLD. I also had never heard of d-leonine and didn’t realize that berberine was as effective as metformin for T2DM.
Thank you for reminding us about eating hygiene
very powerful presentation. Thank you
Very informative talk. I did not know about the link between akkermansia, short chain fatty acids and GLP-1 one levels. Information about inositol and berberine on insulin resistance was new to me, a lot to start researching for more information.
Thank you!
I loved learning about the impact of scfa and the importance of feeding bacteria that produce SCFAs
C-Peptide as predictive marker.
Reminded about motility impacting incretin release and first pass insulin response.
Never knew A1C could be unreliable due to anemia
One of my earlier careers was 20+years in dentistry so I found the link of Periodontal Disease to Diabetes so interesting along with the enhanced permeability in the gingival tissue leading to Hypertension! Funny while in dentistry I never heard the term oral micro biome! We treated the mouth, right! Makes so much sense that what happens in the mouth doesn’t stay in the mouth! Wow! I’m going to keep my teeth cleaner! Oh! I’m not a practitioner, my business is Milwaukee Pet Sitters,Inc, but a very close friend has inspired me over the years to learn about functional medicine and so I’m learning so much while she is on her journey through your program. Thank you Tracy! Thank you Deb!