Lyle Hurd: Dr. Cass we have been talking about your book, '8 Weeks to Vibrant Health' and we looked at the fact that it tells you how to understand where you are with your own body and how to take charge of it. What does the rest of the book talk about?
Dr. Hyla Cass: Well, this is, as you can see, it's like a 350 page book and I cover a lot of territory. First of all, the first couple of chapters are how to evaluate yourself? What's going on? What areas? I don't expect somebody to know, oh! Yeah, I have a thyroid problem, or I have problem with blood sugar. People aren't going to know that necessarily, they know they are not feeling well.
But by narrowing it down through these questionnaires, they will figure what area to look at and then turn to that section. So, if they are having for example, if they feel, kind of shaky at times during the day, lightheaded and then when they eat something, they feel better. Well, it's a blood sugar issue.
So, you turn to the section on blood sugar and you get more details about how blood sugar is related to your diet and if you eat too many refined carbs, you are going to have a blood sugar pattern that goes up, then it goes down and you are going to feel great when you have had your donut, you feel terrible when it wears off.
And I explain how it's much better to start off with breakfast, have some oatmeal and egg, preferably both because you are combining complex carbs with a protein and that's going to keep your blood sugar like this and you are not going to get the shakes.
And then I explain how for example, with the same case, take some chromium, vanadium, which help to balance your blood sugar. If you already are into the diabetic category, which is not low blood sugar but high blood sugar and by the way, the low blood sugar, the hypoglycemia, ultimately leads to insulin resistance, high blood sugar and diabetes.
So, you want to prevent all of that, so I explain how to eat, but what kind of a diet to eat, exercise and what supplements to take, so that you won't get diabetes. It may even run in your family, but you don't have to take it on. Your body does not have to manifest it, if you know how to take care of yourself properly. So, a lot of this is preventive, take care of yourself before you get into trouble.
Lyle Hurd: I have found over the last eight or nine years that we have been working together, that when you come out with a book and then we have a chance to review it, and you and I have an interview on it, that all of these books have become very good reference books for myself, for my spouse and for other people we know that have problems.
And I would recommend that anyone that really wants to be as temporary as they can be about their health, goes to your website drcass.com, looks into the books and I think, it's just all great help in these milestones that we pass and really understanding where we are. And I thank you.
Dr. Hyla Cass: Thanks.
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