Gestational Diabetes

Conventional wisdom says: A blood glucose reading is sufficient to determine whether a pregnant woman has gestational diabetes, and the only other test she may need is a glucose tolerance test.

Now The Calcium Lie reveals:
A glucose resistance test is crucial in detecting gestational diabetes, and adding essential minerals and 100% whole food vitamins and supplements to the patient's diet when gestational diabetes is detected can quickly bring blood sugar levels back to normal during the course of the pregnancy.

Here's some additional information you'll learn about gestational diabetes by reading The Calcium Lie by Dr. Robert Thompson and Kathleen Barnes.

- Doctors fail to diagnose at least 20% of today's cases of gestational diabetes because they have failed to consider the significance of the insulin resistance measurement in accurately diagnosing the problem. Unfortunately, when they do make the diagnosis correctly in the other 80%, they treat gestational diabetes with caloric restriction, insulin and sometimes drugs. A glucose/insulin (G/I) ratio is needed to provide a definitive diagnosis of gestational diabetes.

- Problems associated with gestational diabetes often continue even after pregnancy. Although gestational diabetes does go into remission after the baby is born, the risk of its return in later years is over 70% if the underlying problem has not been treated. This underlying problem., insulin resistance, contributes to difficulty with weight loss and often continued weight gain after pregnancy.

- A patient with a low glucose/insulin result, indicating developing gestational diabetes, can often benefit from adding a chromium supplement such as ChromeMate to their nutritional diet. Women with signs of developing gestational diabetes can also benefit from 100% whole food vitamins and large amounts of trace minerals. Often, these patients get their blood sugar levels back into the normal range within just a few weeks, and go on to maintain those normal levels at the time of delivery.

To learn more about gestational diabetes, read The Calcium Lie.