Professional Resources
As a health provider, you have an important role to encourage and support your patients when they receive a prediabetes diagnosis.
Learning their blood sugar is rising out of normal ranges can be a key motivating moment for patients to adopt new lifestyle habits. You can help them examine their current diet and the ways they might be able to make simple changes, such as reducing their consumption of sugar, or foods that rapidly digest to sugar. Making such behavioral changes can reverse their prediabetes, dramatically change the trajectory of their future health, and greatly reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other complications of worsening metabolic health.
Knowing that their doctor approves of their approach, and believes that they can be successful, may help motivate a patient to stay on track and speak honestly about their experience.
As a health professional, you may have questions about how to support your patient with therapeutic nutrition. We can help you learn more about personalized therapeutic nutrition, answer any questions you may have, and connect with other providers who are using this approach to support their patients in their prediabetes reversal journey.
Here Are Some Resources to Get Started:
Explore the resources of the IPTN (Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition)
We offer several ways to increase your skills and knowledge in the field of therapeutic nutrition, including:
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Training courses, including:
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Introductory Foundations in Therapeutic Nutrition course
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Skill Building Workshop in Therapeutic Nutrition, with different versions for physicians, pharmacists, dietitians, and nurses
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Monthly interactive webinars with experts on various health-related topics, such as:
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Therapeutic Nutrition for Major Depression with Elisa Brietzke, PhD
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How to Assess and Support Patients to Have Healthy Sleep Behaviours with Charles Samuels, MD
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Sugar and Food Addictions: Best Practices in Diagnosis and Treatment with Vera Tarman, MD
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An annual conference dedicated to therapeutic nutrition for various chronic diseases
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An active, member-only Community of Practice where healthcare providers can share resources, experience, case histories, new research links and engage in discussions about therapeutic nutrition issues.
Learn from Dr. David Unwin, a UK-based general practitioner who has helped hundreds of patients achieve type 2 diabetes remission with a low carb approach. In a 2023 paper he co-authored with Dr. Roy Taylor and others, he explains that intervening early in the type 2 diabetes process offers the greatest chance of remission: What predicts drug-free type 2 diabetes remission? Insights from an 8-year general practice service evaluation of a lower carbohydrate diet with weight loss
Join and learn from other organizations dedicated to therapeutic nutrition, such as:
Share this helpful questionnaire with your patients to help them determine their risk for developing prediabetes or diabetes.
Become familiar with the position statements the American Diabetes Association and Diabetes Canada have published regarding therapeutic carbohydrate reduction for diabetes and prediabetes:
Diabetes Canada, 2020: “Healthy low- or very-low-carb diets can be considered as one healthy eating pattern for individuals living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes for weight loss, improved glycemic control and/or to reduce the need for antihyperglycemic therapies.”
The American Diabetes Association, 2019: “Reducing overall carbohydrate intake for individuals with diabetes has demonstrated the most evidence for improving glycemia and may be applied in a variety of eating patterns that meet individual needs and preferences.”
Articles & Research
Keep up-to-date with the most recent research and studies.
Echouffo-Tcheugui et al | 2023. Journal of the American Medical Association | |
Reimche et al. | 2023. Diabetes Communicator | |
Jayedi et al. | 2022. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | |
Davidson et al. | 2021. Journal of the American Medical Association | |
Li et al. | 2021. International Journal of Endocrinology | |
Thom et al. | 2021, Diabetic Medicine | |
Hostalek, U. | 2019.Clinical Diabetes Endocrinology | |
Hyde et al | 2019. Journal of Clinical Insight | |
Segade et al | 2019. Acta Diabetology | |
Tabák et al. | 2012. Lancet | |
Kahleova et al. | 2011. Diabetic Medicine |