Dr. Topher Fox

Can people with prediabetes eat carbs?

This answer to this question is the source of a lot of confusion, frustration, and misinformation for people who need to control their blood sugar. Let's review what happens to carbs when you eat them and how that influences your "carbohydrate tolerance." Understanding this concept is the key to controlling your blood sugar, improving your health, and preventing diabetes.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. We can help you. Join Reversing Prediabetes. https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com

Hey Doc, Why Are You on Facebook?

You may be wondering why a doctor is spending his time on Facebook and YouTube.

I thought this week I'd share a little about more own journey and why I'm here each week sharing thoughts about how to get healthy and stay healthy. It may not be what you think.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. Let's reverse prediabetes together. https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com

Can you really win by making 1% improvements?

Can you really improve your health by staking together small improvements over time?
While it may seem counterintuitive, making consistent small upgrades to your choices and behaviors can yield amazing results. Making a 1% improvement every day for a year leaves you 3700% better off (it's crazy, but true if you do the math).

The key is consistency. And consistency is not easy.

In this training we'll discuss one of our clients who has lost over 30 pounds and dropped her A1c from 6.5% to 5.8% by focusing on 1% improvements. We'll then discuss one practical example of how to make a 1% improvement with a "snack makeover."

Yes, you can win by making 1% improvements. Let's get started together today.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. We can help you. Join Reversing Prediabetes, your first month is just $1: https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com

Hey Doc, what if I don't want to pay attention to my health all the time? Do I really have to live like that?

If that thought resonates with you, don't worry. You're not alone. The idea that you might have to think about good nutrition, regular exercise, and quality sleep every hour and every day can be daunting!

While you do need to keep focus and attention on our health if you want to make progress and get the results you desire - whether that be losing weight, improving energy, or improving blood sugar - there are skills you can develop to shift this from being a supreme effort to something you can maintain over the long term.

In this training I'll discuss 3 simple ways you can start to make that shift today.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. We can help you. Join Reversing Prediabetes, your first month is just $1: https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com

Could you live to be 100 years old?

Let's look at strategies that could help you do just that. Insights from 2 key resources reveal the key actions that have helped others not only live to be 100, but maintain their vigor and vitality along the way.

The New England Centenarian Study:
People who live to be 100 don't live longer after being diagnosed with chronic conditions like heart disease, cancer, or dementia. Rather, they delay or prevent the onset of these conditions. If they are diagnosed with such, it occurs 1-2 decades later in life than the average person. Therefore, we want to live in a way that we can delay or prevent such conditions.

The Blue Zones (www.bluezones.com):
People from 5 cultures where a high percentage of people live to be 100 all tend to have these "Power 9" in common:
1. Move Naturally
2. Purpose
3. Down Shift
4. 80% Rule
5. Plant Slant
6. Wine at 5
7. Belong
8. Loved Ones First
9. Right Tribe

I encourage you to find 1-2 ideas that resonate with you and...

Nutrition for prediabetes shouldn't be hard.

Yet we live in a world and we live with an internet that is full of confusing and often conflicting information. Trying to understand what makes up good nutrition often leaves us confused and frustrated.

Two recent studies by Dr. Kevin Hall are fascinating and provide some great insight into the question "What is the best diet?" and demonstrate why we might focus on one key characteristic of the food we eat. Watch this training to learn about nutrition for prediabetes and that important insight.

The studies:
"Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain: An inpatient randomized controlled trial of ad libitum food intake"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946062/

"Effect of a plant-based, low-fat diet versus an animal-based, ketogenic diet on ad libitum energy intake"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-01209-1

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through...

Hey Doc, can my prediabetes be reversed?

This is an important and very common question when you've been diagnosed with prediabetes.

The short answer and good news is YES. Prediabetes can be reversed.
Prediabetes indicates the current combination of your genetics, environment, and lifestyle has you on the wrong path.

In this training we'll discuss the best study of diabetes prevention, what it showed about reversing prediabetes, and steps you can take to get on the right path to good health.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. We can help you. Join Reversing Prediabetes, your first month is just $1: https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com

Hey Doc, what foods do I need to avoid if I have prediabetes?

What should I eat and what should I NOT eat are two very common questions folks have after a diagnosis of prediabetes.

Available nutrition information on the internet is confusing and conflicting. It labels individual foods as "good" or "bad" and can leave you feeling frustrated, guilty, or bad about yourself.

Let's look at how to improve your nutrition, and specifically what you might want to limit or avoid, as you work to prevent diabetes and ideally reverse prediabetes.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. We can help you. Join Reversing Prediabetes, your first month is just $1: https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com

Do you ever feel like you're too busy to improve your health? Getting healthy just takes too much time?

If so, you are not alone. The idea that improving your health will take up all of your spare time and bandwidth is a common sentiment, and it's actually not true.

In this 8-minute training we'll look at 5 simple tips for getting healthier when you've got limited free time.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. We can help you. Join Reversing Prediabetes, your first month is just $1: https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com

Healthy food that tastes good.

Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to join a cult to use good nutrition to control your blood sugar, prevent diabetes, and ideally reverse prediabetes altogether?

Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to commit to overhauling your entire way of eating to be keto or vegan or whatever the fad of the week is?

Wouldn't it be great if you could simply eat healthy food that tastes good?

Well, it turns out a few simple tweaks and adjustments are all most people with prediabetes need to go from stuck to getting results.
In this part 3 for nutrition for prediabetes, let's discuss the 5 steps you can use to build a sustainable healthy nutrition plan that will work for you.

Woman 50+? Prediabetes? You want to be healthy, but the world makes it hard to follow through on your good intentions. We've got a program that will help you. Your first month is just $1: https://www.ReversingPrediabetes.com