The Steve Jordan Experience

Do you or someone you know have Type II Diabetes or is at risk?

The symptoms of diabetes can be very mild. .In fact, of the 29 million people in the U.S. who have diabetes, 8 million are undiagnosed, according to the American Diabetes Association.

Diabetes is a problem with your body that causes blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than normal. This is also called hyperglycemia. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes.

If you have Type II Diabetes your body does not use insulin properly. This is called insulin resistance. At first, your pancreas makes extra insulin to make up for it. But, over time it isn't able to keep up and can't make enough insulin to keep your blood glucose at normal levels.

Kent C. Sasse, M.D., MPH, FACS, FACRS has a solution that is has a 90% success rate of reversing Type II Diabetes.

In this episode Dr. Sasse answers these questions and so much more:

• How is being overweight or obese related to type 2 diabetes?

• What are the 5 most important steps you should take if you receive a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes?

• What is new in the treatment of type 2 diabetes? How have the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association changed so significantly to recommend surgery?

• What are the surgical procedures that completely reverse diabetes?

• What are the risks, recovery time, and things everyone should know about metabolic surgery to treat and reverse type 2 diabetes?

• What are the risks of heart attack with type 2 diabetes on traditional medical therapy and how much is that risk lowered by a person having metabolic surgery?

• What does metabolic surgery - and the fact that it completely reverses type 2 diabetes in most people - tell us about how type 2 diabetes occurs?

Dr. Sasse is the lead surgeon at Sasse Surgical Associates in Reno, NV and the director of the Obesity Prevention Foundation, an not-for-profit organization he founded in 2006 dedicated to the prevention of obesity and excessive weight gain in children and adolescents. Dr. Sasse is a speaker and mentor to surgeons nationwide and hosts cadaver courses on surgical topics including complex abdominal wall reconstruction at the University of Nevada School of Medicine for visiting surgeons. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed research articles recent papers discussing sleeve gastrectomy, laparoscopic rectopexy, gastric physiology, endoscopic techniques for gastric repairs, and minimally invasive hernia repair. He is an acclaimed award-winning author of five books, a marathon runner, and father of five. You can find him online at www.SasseSurgical.com.