We’ve all been there before. How many times have you left a doctor’s office frustrated, upset, and full of unanswered questions. Sometimes doctors just spurt out medical lingo and jargon that just doesn’t make any sense. Even more frustrating, they see one patient after another on any given day so can only spend a few minutes with you. If you’re lucky, you get 20 minutes, but when it comes to topics like diabetes, you can't possibly understand everything that you need to know in that amount of time.

The first episode of the new podcast series by The Monarch and Dr. T discusses this frustration. Hosts Amy Monarch and Teresa Leberknight break down the doc talk so you can understand it easily and start making the changes your body needs to be healthy and happy.

In the 20 minute podcast, the hosts will talk about the easiest, natural ways to drop some weight, change what you’re eating, change some of your personal habits, get more sleep and free yourself from a lifetime of medication!

Teresa says diabetes is not just one thing, it is a system of damaging conditions due to high insulin levels and it takes over many aspects of your body. Is it weight, is it insulin, is it sugar, is it cardiovascular diseases, is it HDL, BMI, is it your pancreas?

We, as humans, are set up to deal with low sugar, low fuel. In the last 100 years or so, we have an abundance of fuel. Think about adding gas to your car. You’re filling your car up and you’ve got that pump cranked and you ignore it when it tries to turn itself off, so it’s just overflowing out of your tank, falling all over the ground. So now you’ve got all this gasoline going into the earth, and it can’t handle it, it wants that gasoline in the car.

Now imagine that gas is sugar and the ground is your body, it’s your system. Your body is not able to digest that sugar and put it into the cells where it needs to be, so it goes into your bloodstream. Your cells can only take in so much sugar at a time.

Your doctor simply tells you to change your diet, or start eating healthier. He has no time to go into what this means, so you're left wondering. A lot of people don't understand exactly what healthy eating means. Eating healthy is the number one thing you can do in order to lower your risk for Type 2 Diabetes, as well as heart disease.

Amy and Teresa provide some great menu and diet tips to get you started. They also talk about how staying active can help prevent diabetes and keep it under control.

Listen as they clear up some of the confusing medical lingo and answer questions like:

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• What is HDL and LDL?
  
• What are triglycerides and what do they do?
  
• Why do sugar and insulin levels continue to go up?
  
• What is borderline diabetes?
  
• What’s the secret to getting the right foods to give you the nutrients you need without impacting your body negatively?
  
• What is “bad fat”?
  

There are many things you can do in order to help prevent diabetes all together, as long as you're keeping your body healthy. Doctors may not have the time or energy to explain it to you properly, but just by following a healthier lifestyle, you can keep your diabetes under control.

Please leave your comments or questions below, we would love to hear from you! Let us know about the things you’re having trouble changing, the bumps in the road that you’re facing.