Reverse Prediabetes and Insulin Resistance - Josie Smythe-Rivers

This short guide is a concise outline of Smythe-River's book, Prediabetes: A Patient's Guide to Preventing Diabetes, which draws on current science and research in diabetes prevention to give you the information you need to reverse insulin resistance and therefore reverse prediabetes. In this brief introduction, Smythe-Rivers helps you understand why high blood sugar, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, and weight gain often occur together (metabolic syndrome). Smythe-Rivers succinctly shows you why improving insulin sensitivity enables you to lose weight, lower high blood pressure, bring high cholesterol down, and she gives you the information you need to address these serious medical issues by doing one thing: controlling blood sugar. This brief guide also introduces you to the concepts, data, and conclusions in her book, Prediabetes: A Patient's Guide to Preventing Diabetes, in which Smythe-Rivers provides the 10 essential dietary steps that reverse high blood sugar, outlines the role of functional exercise, strength training, and HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training), and in which she helps you understand how both food order and food combinations affect blood sugar and signal satiety.This short guide also provides a quick introduction to the A1C test and its limitations as well as the ideal A1C goal. In this overview, Smythe-Rivers introduces you to the reasons high dietary glucose, lack of movement, prolonged stress, and sleep deprivation are so dangerously incompatible with our evolutionary history as humans, information on which she expands in her book Prediabetes: A Patient's Guide to Preventing Diabetes.All of the information in this guide is contained in her book, Prediabetes: A Patient's Guide to Preventing Diabetes, so you do not need to purchase both. However, if you want a brief overview of how to reverse prediabetes, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, build insulin sensitivity, and lose weight without buying expensive supplements or trying to conform to an inflexible or difficult diet, this guide will get you started. It also makes a good gift for someone who can benefit from a concise and accessible outline of the complex science regarding metabolic syndrome.