What Happens When Doctors Aren't Taught Nutrition?- with Saray Stancic | EP. 124
Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience
Mastering Diabetes
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🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode Dr. Saray Stancic shares her remarkable story of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and how lifestyle medicine changed her life forever.
We talk about the importance of overcoming a victim mindset.
We talk about the disconnect happening in the medical field right now and how Dr. Stancic is working to make an impact on young medical professionals.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Dr. Stancic, is triple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Lifestyle Medicine. She graduated from New Jersey Medical School in 1993 and after completing her fellowship, accepted the position as Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Valley VA in New York. In later years, she served as Translational Medical Leader at Roche Pharmaceuticals where she led clinical trials in the field of viral hepatitis and HIV.
In 2012, she left her work in Infectious Diseases to fully dedicate her time to the field of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Stancic's interest in Lifestyle Medicine is rooted in her personal story as a patient living with multiple sclerosis. She is the founder of one of the first Lifestyle Medicine practices in the country, and mentors the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
She seeks to spread the power of preventive Medicine on a global scale and bring needed change to how we train physicians. She is Producer of the documentary film; Code Blue, which made its global release on May 26th, 2020. Dr. Stancic released her first book on January 12th, 2021 entitled, What’s Missing from Medicine; Six Lifestyle Changes to Overcome Chronic Illness.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, long story short, from a young woman who was dependent on a cane, a diaper, and 12 medicines to a woman who crossed the finish line at a marathon, medication free. |
| 0:14.4 | And today, 25 years since that diagnosis, I'm medication-free, disability-free, and empowered more than ever before |
| 0:23.4 | to share the message. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we show you how to sit in the driver's |
| 0:29.9 | seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. |
| 0:33.3 | We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, |
| 0:38.1 | and get your best A1C following almost 100 years of evidence-based research. |
| 0:43.7 | Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and gestational diabetes, |
| 0:50.1 | and how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes, type 1.5 diabetes, and insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes |
| 0:56.4 | by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using your food as medicine. |
| 1:01.4 | We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in 1 million people. |
| 1:06.2 | We're glad to have you joining us. |
| 1:16.6 | Thank you for tuning in to the mastering diabetes audio experience. We have a very special guest today. |
| 1:18.6 | Her name is Dr. Saray Stancic. |
| 1:21.6 | I have personally been in touch with Dr. Stancic since early 2014 when I was working at Forks Over Nyes. We talk about that |
| 1:30.1 | briefly in the show today, but it's really exciting to see all that Dr. Stansick has accomplished |
| 1:35.0 | since we were first in contact. Dr. Stansick is triple board certified in internal medicine, |
| 1:41.6 | infectious diseases, and lifestyle medicine. She graduated from New Jersey |
| 1:45.9 | Medical School in 1993, and after completing her fellowship, accepted the position as chief |
| 1:51.7 | of infectious diseases at the Hudson Valley VA in New York. In later years, she served as |
| 1:58.5 | translational medical leader at Roche Pharmaceuticals where she |
| 2:03.2 | led clinical trials in the field of viral hepatitis and HIV she was doing big |
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