The Blood Sugar Solution – by Dr. Mark Hyman

The main purpose of this book is combating metabolic disease, the amalgam of what’s often prediabetes (sometimes fully-fledged diabetes) and cardiovascular disease (sometimes fully-fledged heart disease).

To achieve this (after an introductory section explaining what the sociomedical problems are and why the sociomedical problems are happening), he offers a seven-step program; we’ll not keep those steps a mystery; they are:

1. Boost your nutrition
2. Regulate your hormones
3. Reduce inflammation
4. Improve your digestion
5. Maximize detoxification
6. Enhance energy metabolism
7. Soothe your mind

Thereafter, it’s all about leading the reader by the hand through the steps; he also offers a six-week action plan, and a six-week meal plan with recipes.

The style is very sensationalist (too sensationalist for this reviewer’s personal taste) but nevertheless backed up with hard science when it comes to hard claims. So, if you don’t mind wading through (or skipping) some early chapters that are a bit “used car salesman” in feel, there’s actually a lot of good information, especially in the middle of the book, and useful practical guides in the middle and end.

Bottom line: if you want a good comprehensive science-based practical guide to addressing the risk of metabolic disease, this is that.

Click here to check out The Blood Sugar Solution, and look after yours!