William Bestermann
William Bestermann MD
William Bestermann, MD, practices vascular medicine with the Holston Medical Group in Kingsport, Tennessee. His passion is helping people with diabetes and metabolic syndrome optimize their health by eating right, exercising, and taking the right medications. In his writing, he explores the science underlying our current approaches to diabetes care and vascular health.
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How One Man Took Control of his Type 2 Diabetes
Jim Snell nearly died after a lifetime of being sedentary and eating all the
wrong foods. He has since turned his life around for the better and wrote about
it in his memoir “At the Precipice: My Three-Year Journey from Stroke to Good
Health with Type 2 Diabetes.”
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AT THE PRECIPICE:
My Three-Year Journey from Stroke to Good Health with Type 2 Diabetes
Los Angeles, CA – In 2007, Jim Snell suffered the fate of many Americans who do
not eat nutritionally and live a sedentary life: he had a stroke. Although it
nearly took his life, it served as a new beginning. Reeling from the physical
challenges presented by the stroke, Jim also had to learn to manage the
underlying medical condition of type 2 diabetes that had developed. Now he
recounts his journey in his memoir, At the Precipice: My Three-Year Journey
from Stroke to Good Health with Type 2 Diabetes (published by iUniverse).
After three years of doing everything he was told to do, including monitoring
his blood glucose, making better food choices, taking his medications properly,
and more, Jim gained control over his disease. However, he was frustrated by
what he perceived as a chasm between what his doctors knew and what they were
sharing with him. Like many new diabetics, he found himself lost in a sea of
conflicting information, vague advice, advertisements for “miracle cures,” and
the promise of impossible advances in non-medical supplements. Though
overwhelmed, Jim applied his engineer’s mind to the task.
Type 2 diabetes has been exploding at 200 and 300 per cent worldwide. At the
Precipice addresses the strategies and latest thinking when it comes to this
disease, which is no longer the death sentence it was once thought to be. Even
though he was heading toward severe rot, kidney failure, eye hemorrhages, lung
degradation, and maximum water retention and swelling, Jim Snell is proof of
that. Today he is on minimum insulin, a carb-restricted diet of 1200 calories a
day, and he walks one or two miles daily. His story was written to inspire
others who have developed this increasingly common disease to learn to take
control—no matter how dire the illness seems.
About the Author
Jim Snell worked for forty plus years as an electronics design engineer,
troubleshooting complex, multi-integrated Circuit processing and communications
hardware. He was also a vocational technical instructor. Presently, he is
retired and living in Los Angeles. You may find out more about the author at
http://type2diabetesthinking.com/. He is available for interviews.