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Today we have a special guest, Dr. Mona Morstein, a naturopathic physician and diabetes

expert.

She's written an incredible book, number one on Amazon and diabetes, called Master Your

Diabetes, a comprehensive integrative approach to type 1 and type 2.

It's an extremely detailed look at various diets, drugs, and other integrative approaches and hacks to get a handle on this disease and essentially master it.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Elle.

I'm glad to be here.

So let's get started with what inspired you to even be passionate and get passionate about this subject?

Well, it's a good question, and the answer is a little awkward and embarrassing.

But when I was a very, very new doc, fresh out of medical school, I actually missed the diagnosis of a type 2 patient having kind of an acute onset,

a serious acute onset.

And of course, missing any patient is a huge shock and to one's ego, but also to one's

wondering if, you know, is, am I a good doctor? You know, am I safe and

responsible in treating patients? And after that happened, I really committed myself to learning

everything there was to know about diabetes and to never miss another patient and to really be good

at treating it. And so that's what developed over the years. That's incredible. I love that you took

something that was sort of a personal professional seemingly a failure. And you said, no, let me get

behind this. That is so at the root of what we try to push on this show in terms of

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