The Type 2 Diabetes Breakthrough: A Revolutionary Approach to Treating Type 2 Diabetes

by Frank Shallenberger

Book Overview

Type 2 diabetes is fast reaching epidemic proportions in the United States: More than 17 million Americans have been diagnosed with the disorder, and an estimated 16 million more are living with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591201268
• ISBN13: 9781591201267
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Basic Health Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Endocrinology, for if you want to understand or actively manage your diabetes that much better

What's great about this is that it has more endocrinology than any other diabetes book I've seen. And, not only does he explain it, but gives some supplementation advice (over the counter and otherwise) to give you ways to tackle it. The 'breakthrough' is that he's got an overarching theory about diabetes, that it's the loss of the ability to generate energy as you get older. When you're younger, you generate most of your energy from fat; you stop producing some hormones and come to rely on carbs more as you age. But it's not a mystical theory, just a convenient wrapper for a lot of facts - he refers to many, many studies throughout - he's plugged-in to the research, and gives details and mechanisms. Anyway, it's a great consumer-level endocrinology book, it goes into, with satisfying but not stultifying detail, hormones such as DHEA, cortisol, testosterone, estrogen, and the importance of your liver. If you actively manage your diabetes, and don't have a book with a similar level of detail, this one's pretty good. It can answer questions a couple levels of cause back, such as, why you might not have been able to 'hold your carbs' for the past few days (too little sleep? too little exercise?) He has association with some institute with 'homeopathic' in the title, but he's an M.D., it may be just the name, there was nothing outside of medical science in the book apart from meditation, but, given how stress affects your hormones, good for him. He spends the beginning of the book talking about his inventions of measures of how you produce your energy, which you have to find a center for to take - but he's not just selling something, the rest of the book is well worth the price (to me) without it, and he may well prove to be out in front. Very interesting, and very informative. It left me wishing for more, but, that's at least not entirely the fault of Dr Shallenberger, unfortunately there's a lot that just isn't known about diabetes.

Beating Type 2 Diabetes

I'm glad I spent the money for this book. Bioenergy testing facilities seem to be scarce hereabouts. It is some help that Schallenberger's supplement regimen lists the ingredients. I still have the impression that type 2 is not a disease but merely a condition that results from vitamin/mineral shortages plus too many calories and too little exercise.