hi everyone I am dr. Amit Arjun I am the
founder of sugar emmys.com
a new way of managing diabetes today we
are going to talk about three facts that
no one knows about specialist doctors
and like endocrinologist will know these
things but most of the time either they
don't have time to explain or one or the
other reason it doesn't go through so as
a patient I think you have the right to
know these three facts that you probably
never heard of now I'm going to first
summarize these three facts briefly and
then we are going to dive deeper into
these facts to understand them better
now the first fact is diabetes is a
progressive disease what I mean by that
now think about chronic kidney disease
or tink about patients on dialysis they
didn't go to dialysis overnight right so
it took them 10 15 sometimes 20 years of
progressive chronic kidney disease
diabetes is a progressive disease
it starts with insulin resistance and
then you become pre-diabetic and then
you become diabetic and then
uncontrolled diabetic insulin dependent
diabetic and so forth that happens and
it's very frustrating patients come and
tell me a doc why are we keep adding
medication so why my sugars keep getting
worse I'm not changing my diet I'm
trying to exercise more but my Sugar's
keep getting worse and I try to explain
to them it is unfortunately a
progressive disease that there are a lot
of ways for you to slow down that
progression but also that our
medications that are much much better or
more effective that can actually help
you reduce or slow down the progression
of the diabetes so don't be too
frustrated we are all getting old right
so it is a process we are progressing we
are born and we
that's worse death so nobody expects to
live 200 years you know we are gonna die
at some point now diabetes if you accept
it as part of your life and then trying
to slow it down
just like any other person if you take
care of yourself you're not gonna get
old as fast right you're gonna be
functional in your 70s maybe or you can
just be disabled at 50 if you don't take
care of yourself the same thing applies
to diabetes when you end up with
diabetes that's the world it is it can
be a new start for you to obtain a new
healthy lifestyle it's very important
you do not want to use generic advice or
generic medications to try to cover up
your high blood Sugar's that's not the
way to go diabetes is a whole spectrum
it's a very philosophical disease it is
not yes a lot of people have it but just
because a lot of people have it doesn't
mean that it's a normal thing just
because a lot of people have HIV doesn't
mean that they're not suffering from it
right so you don't want to just take any
medication for HIV you want to take
something that will not progress that
will not let you progress to AIDS
same thing with diabetes you don't want
to just take any medication that is in
the market you want to take something
that will slow down the progression and
there are a lot of keys now number 2
fact I'm not going to prolong this any
more so because I know you're wondering
about the second fact already now the
second fact is that patients with
diabetes actually two-thirds of diabetic
patients unfortunately die from heart
attacks and strokes or complications of
these cardiovascular disorders rather
than the classical fears of blindness
and dialysis and leg getting cut off etc
you can die from an earlier event from a
sudden cardiac death or stroke now I
don't want to scare you guys that I want
to give you like a totally a great
picture here but what I am trying to say
which we'll talk about next is how to
avoid these complications
now the third fact is that
there is legacy effect in diabetes care
so what is legacy effect that is
actually a well-known scientific fact in
diabetes world legacy effect means that
the first ten years in your diabetes
have a major and a long term effect down
the road actually during your entire
life that means that if you took care of
your diabetes within first ten years
even if you lack sand you slack and you
don't do well down the road you'll still
do much better compared to someone who
totally ignored their diabetes did not
control the first ten years and then
suddenly they have a complication
suddenly they hit the wall and they say
okay I'm gonna do something about it
that is too late guys don't wait because
if you wait ten years the complications
going to settle in you're only a
destined to have kidney problems eye
problems neuropathy don't do that to
yourself
okay make sure make sure you take it
seriously it's your life you know
patients with diabetes lose a lot of
years in their lives - statistically
speaking a patient with diabetes will
lose eight years from their life the
patient with a heart attack in their
history will lose twelve to thirteen
years from their life a patient who
already had a stroke will lose up to 20
years of their life and we feel deeply
sorry
if something happens to our patients but
that's why at sugar and acecomm we
always this is the reason we came up
with this concept that we have to help
people manage their diabetes without
going into so much burden trouble it is
that importance of disease and what we
are trying to do is to coach you to help
you be there for you anytime you need us
choose the best medications fight with
your insurance and whatever is necessary
control your diabetes within the first
10 to 15 years max and then stay under
control and when you do that you will be
golden now if you want a deep dive a
little bit more in the diabetes is a
progressive disease if your doctor tells
you that we have to add medications
because you already tried diet and
exercise you're doing your best and your
a1c is going up let your doctor do
something about it
let your specialist do something about
it okay so do you not just say oh they
give me another three months give me
another six months this three months six
months add up and then five years down
the road you remain with a high a month
C and that is the reason you are going
to have complications so diabetes is not
going to reverse itself you have a
neuropathy you have a pain in your feet
you cannot sleep at night that's not
going to be reversible it's already done
so you need to make sure that you do
everything it takes to not to go there
okay so let your doctor do whatever they
need to do and of course I know your
fears what if this medication causes
problems what does this medication cause
side effects you don't have anybody to
talk to
just call us at sugar remedies calm we
are going to tell you everything about
this medication so you have a question
about the medication you call us we tell
you what to do you change the medication
if necessary we wean we do everything
until we get it right until you are
satisfied and until you are happy and
and free of complications now let's talk
about the second complication the second
facts that we talked about
which is the fact that patients die from
cardiovascular causes so there are a lot
of actually ways in your diet and
exercise the medication choices that can
reduce cardiovascular risk and that is
your main goal as I said two-thirds of
patients with diabetes die from
cardiovascular complications so you have
to do something about it not just one
thing you sometimes have to do multiple
things to get your risk really down and
that our ways around is there are we can
discuss more about it all you have to do
just get a free consult and we will lay
out everything for you the the third
thing we discussed is Legacy effect so
if you are currently an uncontrolled ab
medic patient who are trying and failing
the medications and you're not getting
enough support that is the time for you
to call us call us at
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