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Diabetes Professionals

Type 2 diabetes is not a disease that can be treated single handedly. It requires a team approach. The majority of the patients suffering from type 2 diabetes lack the necessary information they require and due to the fact that they do not have a suitable team to guide them. Patients suffering from type 2 diabetes are not aware of the various diabetes professionals that could assist them.

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A large number of people have expert knowledge in area of diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Some of them are listed below:

  • Nurse educator
  • Medical doctor
  • Registered dietitian
  • Endocrinologist
  • Eye doctor
  • Podiatrist
  • Social workers
  • Dentists
  • Exercise physiologist
  • Chiropractors
  • Functional endocrinologist
  • Chiropractors being on the above list may surprise you, but what's more surprising is the fact that chiropractors should have received extensive nutritional education with their degree. Their education in nutrition allows chiropractors to play a very important role in the treatment of people suffering from type 2 diabetes.

    Most of the chiropractors, naturopathic doctors and a small number of medical doctors have had detailed training in functional endocrinology. They have broad understanding of how the organ systems function jointly, and also how to read and interpret lab results. Functional endocrinologists are currently becoming one of the most important people in the diabetic patient's expert team.

    A traditional endocrinologist dealing with diabetics looks at the good and bad things in the lab results, and is able to determine the best medication to be administered to the. The same is done by a health professional that practices functional endocrinology, but in turn asks what led to the good and bad things seen in the results. By doing so, the root to the problem can be found by the person practicing functional endocrinology; especially for someone that has type 2 diabetes.

    Orlando Diabetes Project

    Doctors at the Orlando Diabetes Project are in a better position to perform functional endocrinology due to their thorough understanding of the various body and their relation to type 2 diabetes. This enables them to find out the root to the problem and achieve exceptional results. Diabetes is an intricate problem that needs to be addressed by an expert who has an in-depth knowledge of this disease.

    For a very long time the cause of type 2 diabetes has been overlooked and different medications have been used to treat the symptoms of the disease. As much as these medications are essential to patients suffering from type 2 diabetes, they are not normally meant to fix the cause of the disease. This shouldn't worry you since the goal of the Orlando Diabetes Project is to get to the root of the problem.

    For more information on the Orlando Diabetes Project at Integrative Health of Orlando, get in touch with to schedule for one of our free classed offered. Don't miss out on this opportunity.



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