The New Threat of Type 3 Diabetes: Connecting High Blood Sugar Levels to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

By Alan D. Raguso and Maria Lizotte RN BSN CDE

The American diet is typically high in sugar consumption and extremely acidic. This lifestyle leads to insulin resistance, inflammation, diabetes, high blood pressure, risk for heart attack or stroke, and possibly dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

In The New Threat of Type 3 Diabetes, authors Alan D. Raguso and Maria Lizotte offer an understanding of diabetes, discussing why people’s health declines and why they get sick. Based on their personal and professional experiences with diabetes, they discuss concepts of body chemistry, look at inflammation as a health risk, and share how it’s a result of improper food intake, heredity, and environmental conditions, along with economics, poor pH balance, lack of moderate exercise, and the modern technological world. Raguso and Lizotte tell how type 3 diabetes is a newly accepted category, connecting a lifetime of damage caused by excessive blood sugar levels.

With illustrations and graphics included, The New Threat of Type 3 Diabetes reviews the basic definitions of medical terms, the possible connections to prediabetes, type 2 and type 3 diabetes, and the steps that can be taken to prevent or reverse these diseases. Raguso and Lizotte suggest ways to make simple changes to live more healthily, better, and longer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532053283

Alan D. Raguso

Alan D. Raguso was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2001 and is the author of The Diabetes Slayer’s Handbook: Preventing or Reversing Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. He lives in Walla Walla, Washington. Maria Lizotte earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing and trained through the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. Lizotte worked for the diabetes and endocrinology centers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA before moving to Walla Walla. Raguso and Lizotte founded the Diabetes Information Group in 2014.

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To Jack Babbitt Sr.

Thank you, Jack, for making our lives better.

THE NEW THREAT

OF TYPE 3

DIABETES

Connecting High Blood Sugar Levels

to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

Alan D. Raguso

Maria Lizotte, RN, BSN, CDE

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THE NEW THREAT OF TYPE 3 DIABETES

CONNECTING HIGH BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS TO DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Copyright © 2018 Alan D. Raguso | Maria Lizotte, RN, BSN, CDE.

Author Credits: Alan D Raguso

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-5329-0 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018909668

iUniverse rev. date: 10/31/2018

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Many Faces of Diabetes

The Body Chemistry Link to Major Diseases

The Links

Total Diabetes Warfare: The Means, the Will, and the Knowledge

Just Coping with Diabetes Is Not Acceptable

Maria’s Personal Story of Type 1 Diabetes

pH Balance

Insulin Resistance

Prediabetes

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1.5 Diabetes

Type 2 Diabetes

Type 3 Diabetes

Tips to Avoid Glucose Spikes and Dawn Phenomenon

Glucose Bumps

Insulin Resistance and Glucose Variability

The Food Groups

The Three States of Carbohydrates

A Matter of Balance

Diabetes Reversal Techniques

High-, Moderate-, and Low-Acid and Alkaline Foods and Beverages

The BEST Syndrome

The Alkaline Diet

The Mediterranean Anti-Inflammation Diet (MAID)

Counting Processed Sugars and Carbohydrates

Pullout Quick Reference Guide

Minerals, Vitamins, and Micronutrients

Low-Carbohydrate Diets

Glycemic Load

Maintaining Low Glucose Levels

The Four Bs

The Three Ps

Stocking Your Food Arsenal

Low–Glycemic Load Foods

Resistance Training and Weight Training to Reduce Insulin Resistance

Six Key Hormones You Should Know About

Timing Is Everything

Genetics and Biomarkers

Convergence

The Connection of Low pH Levels to Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and Type 2 and Type 3 Diabetes

Processed Wheat, Gluten, Soy, and Sugars Can Be Toxic to Us

The Five Worst Foods to Eat

Senior Citizens and Type 3 Diabetes

The Keys to the Car

Questions and Answers

Summary

Conclusion

Our Mission

About the Author: Alan D. Raguso

About the Author: Maria Lizotte

Resources

Illustrations

The Three Mirrors

The Chain

The Cover of The Diabetes Slayer’s Handbook

The Steamroller

The Three Physical States of Carbohydrates

Reversing Diabetes Is a Matter of Balance

The Cucumber and the Pickle

High-, Moderate-, and Low-Acid and Alkaline Foods and Beverages

The Wall

The Bee

The Safe House

Pullout Quick Reference Guide

A1C to eAG Conversion Chart

The Turtle

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the following people:

Stace Filan for the book cover illustration; Allyson Filan for the interior illustrations; our doctors who never quit believing in us; Megan Eaton for the design work on the Safe House illustration; the diabetes educators of the Providence St. Mary Medical Center (PSMMC) Diabetes Education Department, Walla Walla, Washington; Son Bridge Community Center; and Alan’s wife, Linda, for her interior illustrations and dedication to the production of this book.

Last but by no means least, we want to thank our fellow diabetes patients.

Introduction

A few years ago, Alan D. Raguso published The Diabetes Slayer’s Handbook as a motivational book to help fellow patients to understand and deal with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. Over seven years ago, he made a commitment to change his life for the better. Later he became aware that he could help others by interacting with them in diabetes support group meetings and workshops. Eventually he started researching this disease called diabetes and became shocked as to what he perceived as a very misunderstood condition—misunderstood not only by patients but also by some medical professionals themselves. He has had the pleasure of being a member of the Providence St. Mary Medical Center advisory committee for diabetes education for the past five years and has participated in many support group meetings and workshops. It is an honor for him to be able to participate in helping others combat diabetes.

Several years ago he met Maria Lizotte, RN, BSN, CDE, when he made the first of many presentations of his Mediterranean anti-inflammation diet (MAID) and its illustrative form, the Safe House. Maria and Alan teamed together to hold education meetings for the On the Edge program at the local YMCA center for prediabetics. At these meetings they also accepted type 2 diabetics for the simple fact that these patients bring a lot to the table. The conventional thought was that mixing prediabetics together with type 2 diabetics would confuse the patients. Contrary to that, Raguso and Lizotte found that once patients could understand the connections of this disease and how it affected so many, patients came away from meetings with a much better understanding of their medical condition and started asking their doctors and medical care providers questions—many questions.

On May 5, 2014, Alan and Maria founded the Diabetes Information Group (DIG). Their mission is simple. They want patients to be empowered to take charge of their condition of prediabetes or type 2 diabetes and come out winners. They accept type 1 and type 2 diabetics, as well as prediabetics and the families, friends, and caregivers for all these diabetics. All their meetings are free, as well as all the handouts. They do not ask for donations and don’t need them. If there is a patient who can’t afford to buy Alan’s first book, Alan will give it to them free. Patients should not have to pay for critical medical knowledge!

Maria Lizotte is incredibly knowledgeable in the subject of diabetes. Being a type 1 diabetic herself for more than thirty years, she brings to the table personal experience along with her vast medical knowledge of the various forms of diabetes.

There is one thing that matters the most to both Alan and Maria: they truly care about their fellow patients improving their lives and enjoying life as it was meant to be, not being isolated and facing deteriorating health.

Alan and Maria give free lectures