Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter describes a clinic wellness program where an on-staff nutritionist teaches dietary changes instead of immediately prescribing diabetes or cholesterol medications. Many cases of lifestyle-related diabetes are reversible with diet alone, though hormone treatments have variable insurance coverage.
We have a wonderful nutritionist here on staff that loves to meet with patients and help them with their diet. So one of the things that I like to explain is instead of putting patients on diabetes medications and cholesterol medications, how about you give them a nutritionist to teach them how to eat? A lot of patients don't even know that their diabetes is completely reversible. Not talking about the type 1 juvenile diabetes. I'm talking about the traditional diabetes that we get from obesity and overeating. But those types of diseases are completely curable with diet. One of the things our wellness program does is we have a wonderful nutritionist here on staff that loves to meet with patients and help them with their diet. The other thing is hormones. So some hormones are covered by insurance, some are not.
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