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Easy Start for Diabetes

Lifestyle improvements are an important part of a successful diabetes management program and the Easy Start program at Draelos Metabolic Center is a great way to begin.

By utilizing our Easy Start program, our clients with diabetes find help gaining glucose control and also a way to obtain optimum nutrition with an eating plan that is simple to follow.

The Easy Start program for diabetes allows two medical food meal replacement shakes, a lean and green meal, and 2 snacks daily. With improved blood glucose control, weight loss, and decreased medications, additional foods and meals are added back into the daily diet.
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Diabetes is Our Specialty
Here at the Draelos Metabolic Center, we specialize in total care for people with diabetes.  Helping people with diabetes is not a sideline for us, it is a vital part of our core mission.  We are dedicated to helping people with diabetes lead full and normal lives.    

Dr. Draelos, himself diagnosed with diabetes as a child, has not only the professional credentials to care for people with diabetes, but he has the personal motivation and firsthand experiences to know what you really need.            

Our staff at the Draelos Metabolic Center also includes a part-time diabetes educator, Karon Potter, R.D, L.D., C.D.E.  Karon works with you one-on-one, answering all your questions and personally helping you learn to manage and control your disease.  

The Draelos Metabolic Center is equipped with specialized medical machinery and state-of-the-art technology for comprehensive diabetes diagnosis, treatment and care.  This specialized equipment helps us detect problems early and accurately, which is the all-important key to ensuring proper medical management of diabetes.

If you have diabetes, or even if you don’t (many people have diabetes but don’t know it!) then you owe it to yourself and your family to get the most comprehensive, personable, quality medical care available.  Visit Dr. Matt Draelos, Board Certified Endocrinologist and Diabetes Expert at the Draelos Metabolic Center in Edmond, Oklahoma, twenty-five minutes from downtown Oklahoma City.
 
What is Diabetes?

Diabetes, also called sugar diabetes, is a condition in which the body cannot properly metabolize food energy.  As a result, food energy, in the form of glucose, rises to unsafe levels in the bloodstream.  Prolonged levels of high blood glucose can cause severe complications including blindness, amputation, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage.  

However, with proper lifestyle modifications and daily blood glucose monitoring, a person with diabetes can lead a perfectly normal and healthy life.

There is no doubt about it, lifestyle changes make a world of difference for the person who has diabetes.  

Many health professionals say that diabetes has reached epidemic proportion in the United States.  23.6 million people in the U.S. have some form of diabetes.  It’s estimated that 6 million of them do not even know they have the condition.  

Diabetes in Oklahoma, as in the nation, is a severe problem.  Please call us (405-330-2362) at the Draelos Metabolic Health Clinic in Edmond for a diabetes screening test today.

Read on for more information about diabetes and how it affects your health.
 
Types of Diabetes
Three Types of Diabetes

There are three main types of diabetes. Although similar, each one is caused by a slightly different mechanism.

  1. Type 1 Diabetes: Also called juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes
  2. Type 2 Diabetes: Most common. 90-95% of people with diabetes have Type 2.
  3. Gestational Diabetes: Occurs during pregnancy then goes away after giving birth
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Pre-insulin pump classes will be held from 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Sept. 15, Oct. 13, Nov. 17, and Dec. 15. Please note: Your health care provider must enroll you in our pre- insulin pump class once they have determined that you are a candidate for insulin pump therapy. Call to schedule an appointment today at (405) 330-2362.

Current pumpers wishing to upgrade their insulin pump may join Pre-insulin pump class at 3:45 for a discussion of available pumps and their features. Call to reserve your space in this discussion 1 day prior to the next class.

*Already a pumper? Want to learn more about the Advanced Features on your pump?  Call (405) 330-2362 to sign up for our Advanced Pump Features Class on October 5th from 3:00-4:30 p.m..  Topics include temporary basal, multiple basal rates, combo bolus, plus much more. Cost $20

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Easy Start for Diabetes

Lifestyle improvements are an important part of a successful diabetes management program and the Easy Start program at Draelos Metabolic Center is a great way to begin.

By utilizing our Easy Start program, our clients with diabetes find help gaining glucose control and also a way to obtain optimum nutrition with an eating plan that is simple to follow.

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