Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.

We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy,

and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the Mastering Diabetes Program.

Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and

how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity

using food as medicine. We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in

one million people. We're glad to have you joining us.

Today is New Year's Day 2019. It's the first day of the year and there's a lot of incredible content

that Mastery and Diabetes is going to be putting out this

upcoming year to really continue to move the low fat plant-based whole food nutrition game to the next

level.

Now, rather than talk directly about the nuts and bolts of nutrition and exercise on today's

podcast, I thought it'd take a moment

to zoom out and talk about the bigger picture. Because a lot of the times when we do our podcast

episodes, we're either interviewing people, other experts in the field, or we're interviewing people

who have experienced tremendous benefit from low fat, panipase, whole food nutrition. And a lot of the time, the conversation can become quite

technical. But today, I want to kind of step back one step and really think about the bigger

picture here and get you to start thinking about diabetes in a whole new light. And the reason for this is because

at the beginning of the year, every year, I personally like to take some time to reflect on what

happened over the previous year and then also create some goals for the upcoming year. Now, when I was

first diagnosed with diabetes in 2002, which is at this point

16 years ago, I remember struggling with many, many things. My life was a bit of a disaster

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