We found a diamond in the rough world of Diabetes!\xa0 Today's guest is Dr. Mariela Glandt an Endocrinologist and founder and CEO of OwnaHealth, an online consulting company aimed at reversing diabetes and helping patients ditch their drugs, especially the dreaded Insulin.\xa0 After being approached by a best friend who confronted her on how \u201cthe medical system\u201d seemed to be backwards in its dietary approach to managing Diabetes, Dr. Glandt reconsidered what she learned in Medical classes. After some hesitation, she became forward thinking enough to start using the principles of basic physiology\xa0 and stop the perpetual cycle of using drugs over food and lifestyle modifications. Go figure! (and if you haven\u2019t seen the South Park episode about flipping the food pyramid, don\u2019t laugh but they actually were on to something!) As we perpetually see a continued rise in the obesity epidemic and the\xa0 increasingly dangerous effects of Type 2 Diabetes and its complications, Dr. Glandt is helping her patients achieve MAJOR health changes, ditch their medications and achieve their amazing results with diet modifications- specifically LOW CARB diet. She expertly and simply explains to her patients and our listeners here, the mechanism by which Insulin is causing more inflammation and damage, and how to\xa0 She admits she is a unicorn in her field but is hopeful the paradigm will soon shift. For those of you lucky enough to have found her here, check out her website and consider making a dramatic health and life change you won't regret.\xa0 Shout out of the week! This week\u2019s shout out goes to Donna M. P. who recently commented on one of our FB posts that she looks forward to our podcasts! Well, Donna\u2026 we can\u2019t imagine doing anything else other than producing an awesome show for fun people like you. Thank you for following us, interacting, and letting us know how you feel! We appreciate you! Links! Dr. Glandt: Website; Ownahealth.\xa0 Amazon Book;\xa0How to Eat In the Time of Covid:\xa0 South Park:\xa0Flip The Pyramid\xa0 Books: Dr James DiNicolantonio : The Obesity Fix Fat For Fuel- Dr. Mercola More about our Guest:\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Dr. Mariela Glandt is an endocrinologist trained at Harvard and Columbia with more than 20 years experience in treating metabolic disease. She is the co-founder of OwnaHealth, a virtual diabetes clinic that combines optimal medicine, nutritional science, technology and behavioral therapy in order to reverse type 2 diabetes. She is the director of Glandt Center for Diabetes Care in Tel Aviv, a multidisciplinary clinic that uses ketogenic diets as the main tool for treatment of diabetes. As a need that\xa0arose from her practice, she co-founded Eatsane, a company that makes low-carb\xa0foods with no artificial sweeteners. She is also the co-founder of Metabolix, a non-profit organization in Israel that aims to educate people to help them achieve optimal\xa0metabolic health. For more info owna.health and www.glandt.co.il/en Our Advice! Everything in this podcast is for educational purposes only. It does not constitute the practice of medicine and we are not providing medical advice. No Physician-patient relationship is formed and anything discussed in this podcast does not represent the views of our employers.\xa0 The Fine Print! All opinions expressed by the hosts or\xa0 guests in this episode are solely their opinion and are not to be used as specific medical advice.\xa0 The hosts,\xa0 May and Tim Hindmarsh MD, BS Free MD LLC, or any affiliates thereof are not under any obligation to update or correct any information provided in this episode. The guest's statements and opinions are subject to change without notice. Thanks for joining us! You are the reason we are here.\xa0 If you have questions, reach out to us at doc@bsfreemd.com or find Tim and I on Facebook and IG. Please check out our every growing website as well at\xa0 bsfreemd.com (no www)\xa0 GET SOCIAL WITH US! Website:\xa0bsfreemd.com Rumble: https://rumble.com/search/video?q=bsfreemd Instagram:: https://www.instagram.com/bsfreemd/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bsfree Coming Soon: YouTube Channel!