Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast with Dr. Brett Schur.

Today I'm joined by Dr. Jake Kushner.

And Dr. Kushner is a MD and endocrinologist, and he was the head of the pediatric diabetes

and endocrinology section at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.

And he has extensive experience helping patients

with type 1 diabetes. Now, a little definition. I mean, we go into some of this in the

talk, but type 1 diabetes basically known as juvenile diabetes, although it's not always in kids,

but it's more of the autoimmune condition when your pancreas doesn't make enough insulin.

And these patients are absolutely dependent on having insulin shots and insulin infusions,

very different from type 2 diabetes, which is what we're usually talking about.

Now, Dr. Kushner, in dealing with kids and adolescents and teenagers and families,

has learned not only the importance of treating people physically,

but the emotional side of treating diabetes that comes with this.

And he's learned along with people like Dr. Bernstein

and groups like the type 1 grit that we talk about

how to use low-carb lifestyles and low-carb nutrition

to help people not only physically but emotionally

with the challenges of type 1 diabetes.

And it's really eye-opening and almost earth-shattering

because people would think that you need your carbohydrates

when you have diabetes and you simply cover it with insulin.

And that's been the paradigm for years.

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