Master Your Diabetes

Level 2 & 3 CPE

CPE Type: 740 for Web-based/Online Tests

Upon successful completion of this self-study course, the users will be able to:

1. Identify four ways treatment for diabetes varies between how traditional and integrative practitioners work with patients.

2. Differentiate and give examples of type 1 diabetes (T1DM), latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (LADA), mature onset diabetes of the young (MODY), and type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

3. Name at which level the A1C begins to indicate damage to the human body and the ideal (at or below) for children with diabetes.

4. Give five nutritional guidelines that help reverse, delay, or maintain better diabetes control for a person with diabetes.

5. Describe three ways how having a healthy microbiome and gut influence the health of a person with diabetes and three ways a person can achieve a healthy gut.

6. Briefly explain an example of how adjusting a patient’s meal pattern or carbohydrate intake (and insulin) can improve his overnight blood glucose levels and thus sleep.  

7. List three benefits of exercise for a person with diabetes, plus how much is recommended of the various types?

8. Identify two reasons obese persons with diabetes have a 70-80% chance of developing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and give two ways to reverse it.