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Is It Diabetes or Dementia?

[fa icon="calendar'] Jun 17, 2020 12:14:00 PM / by Isadora Guggenheim

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Older Americans are being misdiagnosed with dementia when they really have diabetes.

Diabetes causes dementia. Diabetes causes damage and complications in every organ system. As a practitioner, I used to think it was simple. If you have pre-diabetes or diabetes then just cut out sugar. End of story. Over the last 15 years I realize my clinical arrogance needs to be examined. It's not so easy.

I have a patient, a sixty three year old male, who is diagnosed with diabetes and on daily insulin. He is careful about his food choices, sees his diabetes doctor regularly and tries to exercise. He buys everything "sugar free" and everything is packaged for convenience.

When I got a closer look at his diet a blurry picture came into focus. Sugar-free jello, sugar-free pudding snacks, lunchables, processed cheese sticks, diet coke, BJ size boxes of Splenda, sugar-free ketchup, reduced calorie bread, cold cuts, a tub of Helman's mayonnaise, Tyson breaded chicken nuggets, Land O Lakes butter with canola oil, Jolly Green Giant brussel sprouts in butter sauce flash frozen in plastic bags, and a slew of other assorted prepared foods that can be microwaved at a moment's notice are his staples.

I check your blood sugar levels with several markers so you won't slip through the biochemical cracks.  

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Topics: Chronic Illness and Disease

Isadora Guggenheim

Written by Isadora Guggenheim

Isadora Guggenheim, ND, FNP, RN, MS, CNS, LMT, owner of Second Nature Naturopathic Care, LLC
For all appointments: Tel: 845 358-8385 Fax: 845 358-2963 drguggenheim@msn.com