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Paul Kolodzik, MD joins host Doug Reynolds on the LowCarbUSA\xae podcast to talk about his new book, The Continuous Glucose Monitor Revolution for Nondiabetics: Lose Weight, Look Great, and Live Longer with Continuous Glucose Monitoring (https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Glucose-Monitor-Revolution-Monitoring-ebook/dp/B0C4MP8MJN/&tag=lcu-20/). Dr. Kolodzik is a double board-certified emergency and metabolic-health physician with 30 years of experience. During his 25 years in emergency medicine he treated victims of motor vehicle accidents, shootings and overdoses, but he was always astonished by the number of patients whose hospitalization was due to conditions related to vascular issues and obesity.\xa0 He believes a large percentage of these conditions are preventable, but only if patients receive the necessary information and treatment in time.\xa0 \u201cPreventative health can address the majority of disease,\u201d he said, \u201cand it often boils down to two things: blood sugars being too high, and being overweight.\u201d

Five years ago, Dr. Kolodzik opened a private practice, Metabolic MD, based in Ohio, to help patients with preventative measures that can help them improve their metabolic health and achieve sustainable weight loss.\xa0 As a private-practice metabolic MD, Dr. Kolodzik has used continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to help thousands of patients lose weight and prevent and reverse disease. The success he\u2019s seen with patients in his practice inspired him to write The Continuous Glucose Monitoring Revolution. \u201cThe device (CGM) itself can be life changing,\u201d said Dr. Kolodzik. \u201cAfter you eat that cake, and see the spike in blood glucose, you can never unsee it.\u201d\xa0 He and his team are able to monitor patient data remotely and in real time. Just two weeks of data from a CGM can provide enough valuable information to develop a comprehensive plan that can lead patients to sustained weight loss and improved metabolic health, including improvements in a1C and lipid levels.\xa0 \u201cOnce a patient experiences using a CGM, they get a great sense about what is going on with their physiology,\u201d he says \u201cThe data they see as a result of what they put in their mouth is amazing. A light bulb goes off in their head \u2013 they understand for the first time what's going on with their body and why they\u2019re overweight, and why diabetes runs in their family, and it provides them with the basis for intervention \u2013 people get religion real quick looking at this data.\u201d

Dr. Kolodzik stressed that while CGMs have been used most often by diabetes patients who use insulin, the value to those who have not yet been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes can be enormous. He suggested patients look for a metabolic health provider with the expertise to guide them through the entire process. In the United States and many other countries, a prescription is required to obtain a CGM, so the provider can help with that as well (https://thesmhp.org/directory/).

Easiest place to find the book is on Amazon and it will be out on Audible any day now.