Dr. Nykkia Sellers

We're are"Asking the Expert" about Diabetes with Diabetes Specialist Dr. Nykkia Sellers on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.

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We will start off we will talk with a new expert.
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As we ask the expert, we will be talking with
doctor Nikiah Sellers. Yeah, and we're talking diabetes. So I
know y'all get ready get your questions together. Listen because
you know we we we have diabetes. We'll be talking
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Excited today and because we have a new expert that's
joining the BEV Johnson Show. And let me please introduce
to you. She says, she's no stranger. But it's been years, years,
years years. We'll talk about that to doctor Nikiah Sellers.
Welcome man who's a diabetes specialist. How you doing, doctor Sellers.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
I'm doing well, and thank you so much for having me.
It's a pleasure.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Welcome doctor Sellers. Now you said it's been let me
get over here so I can see you a little bit.
It's been years, you say, you've been here before.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
I was here talking about diabetes, talking about what I
love with the larger organization. Now I have my own
private practice, so I'm back to talk to you and
your listeners about diabetes.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
I'm glad to have you here. Well, yeah, because I
was thinking it's been a long time. We were across
the hall.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
Over there, Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, this is all new
to you, Yes, ma'am, for sure.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
Before we get to talking about diabetes again, I want
you to tell our listeners a little bit about doctor
Nikkia Solier.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
Well, I am a nurse practitioner. I do have my
doctoral degree, so I am doctor Nikia Sellers. I have
been in diabetes management. I'm about the past eleven to
twelve years over my twenty plus career health care career.
I am a certified diabetes care and education specialist. I

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have a board certification in Advanced Diabetes Management. I am
also on several national boards, including with the American Diabetes Association. Again,
I have a passion for diabetes, diabetes. I have a
passion for educating people about diebts and getting their a
one C to go.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Well, we need to talk about all that one. Are you,
doctor Sellers? Are you a Memphian?

Speaker 7 (07:09):
I am.

Speaker 6 (07:10):
I was born in Memphis. I went to Evans Elementary Ridgeway,
and then my parents moved to West Memphis and so
I ended up graduating from West Memphis High School. But
I'm back in Memphis, so a little both Memphis and Westmthhis.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Both love yes, yes, I love it. And gosh, West Memphis.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
Yes, right across the bridge, right across the bridge, and
that's where my office is located.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
There was a need that was there.

Speaker 6 (07:37):
People in West Memphis either have to travel to Memphis
or Jonesborth which is an hour away. And so I
have always practiced in Memphis. So I still have patients
who have followed me from Memphis to my West Memphis location.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Oh that's fat.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
So your office is located in West Memphis.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Yes, just seven minutes from downtown.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Okay, we will be giving that address and your phone number,
so people will know that you are in West Memphis,
and all my West Memphis listeners, I.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Will know that you are there.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Doctor sellers, Yes, yes, yes, but I want to start
off with people so we know exactly what is diabetes.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
Okay, So diabetes, it actually occurs when your body has
too much sugar or glucose from your panthers. That's the
organ in your body not producing enough insulin, or the
insulin that your body produces doesn't work right or work effectively,
and so people often will get confused about like type

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one type two, and there's there's a difference. Type one
is an autoimmune disease, and that means that the body
attacks itself. And so people who are living with type
one diabetes have to take insulin daily to survive. And
so with type two, you may be on insulin therapy,
you maybe die, can troll, you may have injectibles.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
Or pills, but both died.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Both types type one and type two are very serious
and progressive conditions.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Okay, And so when we talk because.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
An old school doctor tellers when we talk about diabetes,
and I remember, back in the day.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Folks, old folks.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
I shouldn't say old folks for people season folks, season folks,
because because I'm one of them, season folks.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Now that season folks would say you got sugar.

Speaker 7 (09:32):
You got the sugar, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
I got sugar, or yeah sugar, he got sugar. But
it's it's it's really not about.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Sugar, is it.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Well, they do have the sugar, because I still would
say that, you know, jokingly to my patients when we
are in the office and everything. So your sugar level
is too high, but it's not necessarily the sugar is
the insulin that your body produces isn't working right, and
so that's what's keeping your sugar elevator, your blood glucose elevated.

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And so that's why we have different medications that will
help not only just insulin, that will help, you know,
get the sugar levels down and that may work to
help to benefit your kidneys or have heart protected or
heard benefits. So there's different medications that we now use
to help people with the sugar.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
The sugar. Yes, So the insulin go back to that.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
We need insulin in our bodies because our body makes insulin. Yes,
but for people with diabetes, you're saying that they're not
making enough insulin.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Yes, So people with type one, their body gets to
where their body no longer produces insulin at all. And
so everyone living has insulin in their.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Bodies, say everybody, Yes.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
It's insulin in their body. Now, people woul type one,
the beta cells in the pancreas no longer makes insulin.
So that's why they have to have insulin every day
to survive because their body no longer so that insulin.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
And I'm gonna get into that, but I don't think
about My grandmother was a diabetic and my aunt, my
mother's sister, and I remember them doctor Seller's getting insolent
and they would have to shoot themselves. Yes, So those
people that's the type one.

Speaker 6 (11:25):
No, that does not mean that. So that's another myth too.
A lot of people, especially in our communities, they think, oh, well,
if the person has on insulin or if I'm on insulin,
i have type one.

Speaker 7 (11:37):
And that's not the case. So people would type two.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
And again what puts your at risk for type two
is like family history, race, being African American, Indian Asian
people are at a higher risk having high blood pressure,
high cholesterol. Also, women who've had gestational diabetes or have
had a baby that is greater than nine pounds are

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at risk for diabetes, as well as people who are
overweight or have obesity. So with those different factors or
different risk factors going into type two, now you may
not always have to take insulin. Okay, it could be
diet controlled, meaning that your A and C may not
be as high to where you need medications. We could

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have you on a program to where you lose weight,
you know, eat healthier, increase your physical activity. And it
can be strictly die controlled, or you may need pills,
you may need injectables, or you may need insulin. And
one thing I always tell people when I'm doing talks
and everything is just because you had to get on
insulin laid on with your diabetes journey does not mean

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that you've done something bad or you failed. Sometimes your
pancreas is tired and your pants are like, hey, I'm
doing working, and so you may have to be on
insulin therapy. But with a lot of the medications that
we have now, I'm taking people off of insulin therapy
and doing most like yeah, we're putting people on like
the GLP ones. A lot of people are using them
for weight loss, but they work. They were really for

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people with diabetes, and so it's working wonders and taking
people off of insulin. So even with me and my practice,
my patients will tell you like, if you don't have
to be on a medication, I'm not gonna throw you
on a medication, okay, and try to work this thing
out together and you know, eat healthier, learn the different
things to where you can live healthier as well.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
I'm glad you said that doctor sellers, because people think
because you're diabetic, you you will be taking medication the
rest of your life. So you're saying you can get
some people off of it.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yes, some people not want to make sure that's clear yes,
And it takes discipline for people to be what we
call diet control. It's not easy and it's not easy
per se to eat healthy and it's not always finding
actially easy either. The healthier food is always more expensive.

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So you you do have to be disciplined to get
off of medications. And don't just get off of the
medications by yourself. Talk to your U, nurse, practitioner, physician,
whomever and do that together.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Good, good, And so the one and two.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
Which you already told our listeners a difference, and somebody
may call it, but that's okay if you didn't get it.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
But which one is the most.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
I don't know if this is the right question, most
dangerous that you should look out for one or two
or both are equally the same?

Speaker 6 (14:45):
So I get that question a lot, do you I do?
And so diabetes if it's you know that type one,
type two both have serious complications, okay, So both will
put you at risk for developing heart disease, heart attack, stroke,
caidney failure, blindness, you know, increases the risk of low

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limb amputations. So both are serious conditions. And so the
thing with type one if they don't have insulin. Just say,
like now, I was up late last night writing a
letter for insulin affordability, and so with not having insulin,
that can put people into what's called diabetic keto acidosis,

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which can be fatal. Okay, So if you want to
think like type one is more serious because of that, however,
both still have very simple, serious complications that we need
to make sure. If you have diabetes, you want to
make sure that you're controlling your blood pressure, you want
to make sure that you're controlling your cholesterol levels. And

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then also we want to make sure that we're getting
those preventative screenings, So get an exam every year, go
to the dinners.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
We have.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
People don't understand how much diabetes affect their mouths and
everything as well. So we have bones that are in
our that's in our mouth, and so if you have
a lot of sugar in your mouth, they can increase
your risk of heart disease. So during those preventative screenings
will help decrease the risk with people with type one
and type two.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Good information.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
If you've just tuned in this morning, we are talking
to one of our new experts. We are glad to
have her here. She is doctor Aquita Sellers. She's a
diabetes specialist diabetes and care and wellness. We are talking
with her today. If you have a question or two

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Speaker 4 (18:00):
You did.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
I'm telling everyone.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Talking everyone.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Good morning and welcome back to w d i A,
the Heart and Soul of Memphis. We are talking with
doctor Nikita Sellers, who's a diabetes specialist.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
We're talking diabetes this morning.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
And before we go to our phone lines, doctor Sellers,
I have an email from Anita and Anita want her
question is doctor Sellers, are there any symptoms to let.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
You know that you have diabetes?

Speaker 6 (18:57):
That's a great question, so yes, so some common symptoms
include unexplained weight loss. You may have or you may
experience where you're staying thirsty all the time, You're urinating frequently.
You may have some blurry vision, you can have extreme fatigue,
non healing wounds, and also people have issues like with

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sexual dysfunction. All those could be signs of diabetes. And
so you don't have to have all those symptoms to
think like, oh.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
This possibly could be diabetes.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
It could be one of those things, or it could
be you may not have any symptoms. So it is
important to make sure that if you're at risk, that
you're getting screened for diabetes.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Okay, thank you Anita for that question, Doctor Sellers. I
am going to our phone lines to talk to some
of our listeners. WDIA unforgetful.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
Let me say, wonderful show, great show. I just love
any medical stuff. Best done. You just got it going
on over.

Speaker 9 (20:04):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
What's the question.

Speaker 8 (20:07):
That's the severe if you taking the influence shots and everything,
does any of them drugs like methatonium, whatever the stuff
is they take to the peel for is indo that
couple of minds your painters or your kidneys or something
like that. I just wondered about that.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Does it compromise it your painters.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
Yeah, yeah, or the kids.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
If you're taking the medications, yeah, I mean you know,
if you, like you said, want you and you're taking
these things like you're taking nine doors.

Speaker 8 (20:41):
I know about the opinion because I know you're gonna
do it at two or three and or you can
even go on eight nine. But I want to ask
you that if you're doing the high, you know, and
plus this last.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
One there, Okay, you're.

Speaker 8 (20:55):
Dealing with the people that going to these places where
they get their stuff, kids and all that stuff. These
people all those drugs or taking these shots before that happened,
or they didn't know and they just never talk. What's
the stacks on that? I would like to know if

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you know that information stock?

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Okay, thank you forget you understand the questions.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
I understand the question. I believe so.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
I believe he was trying to see if certain medications
have side effects like kidney disease and all that. Any
medication that you take has a possible side effect. I
don't care if it's see the metafin, which is like
talent all but insolent itself is generally safe. The only
like complication or side effects you may have is someone

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if they accidentally take too much and the blood sugar
drops too low, you can have hyperglycemia. But it's safe
for people who have kidney issues or on dialysis or
deliver disease as well. Instutent is one of the safe
fits medications that can be given.

Speaker 7 (22:02):
Now.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
I believe he was asking a question about met forming,
and that is a great question. It's a lot of
misconceptions about met forming. A lot of people can't tolerate metforman.
Met Forman was one of the earlier drugs that we
had in diabetes management, and so it still has good benefits.
It helps a little with weight loss, It does have

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a little bit of heart protected. However, the side effects
for most people are a stomach upset. They may have
like some diarrhea with it. So everybody can't tolerate that,
and so if you can't, there's no need of being
on the medication if you can't tolerate it. So that's
a discussion to have with your health care provider. Now,
a lot of people seem to think that met forman

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causes kidney disease. It does not diabetes, especially when it's
not well managed. High blood pressure. All those things cause
kidney disease. Now, with met forming, once your kidney level
is something we look at called GFR. If it gets
to a certain level, then we either decrease the met
format or stop the met forming. Not because met forman

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causes kidney disease. However, it is screened through the kidneys.
Like whenever medication you take, it is gonna come out
some way, it's gonna come out through your kidneys or
when you have a battle moment or something like that liver.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
So this is screened through the kidneys.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
And so if your kidneys aren't working well, then you
have a build up of met forming. Now, a assessive
build up of met forming can cause lack of acidosis,
which is something that it's a whole nother uh serious
hospitalization and all that. So met forman does not cause
kidney disease.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Okay, okay, great question for good questions today.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
W D I a high caller.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Hi dall, Hi, doctor sellers.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh, I'm good. I got out of bed this morning,
so I am good.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
That's right, sister, We're good. You have a question for
doctor sellers.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Well, my question is also about met Foreman because I
was on it for a while, but then when I
realized that your liver produces seniling, then I stopped taking
it because I didn't want to stop an organ from
producing what it was supposed to do, so I stopped.

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I stopped taking that. And then also, I want to
know what is your take on artificial sweeteners because I
try to stick. I try to stick to stevia, which
to me is the safest one, but artificial sweeteners, I know,
are not really good for us to do a lot
of those. So what's your take on artificial sweeteners? Are
you okay with stevia?

Speaker 6 (24:49):
So let me answer your first first question or addressed
the first question. So I believe you said met forman
affects the liver.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Or so, no, I'm sorry, I said that wrong. Your
liver produces. Your liver produces sugar, so that foreman stops
your liver from working. So I stopped taking it.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
That's not true, okay, So yeah, that's where I kind
of got lost with it. So you're absolutely right. Your
liver produces sugar. Okay, So that's one of the things
people with diabetes. Their liver may produce too much sugar, right,
and so and then your muscles aren't sucking in the
sugar like it should. Instead of going into the body's cells,

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that sugar is staying in your bloodstream. So Matt Foreman
has tells the liver to stop producing so much sugar.
So it's not like it's affecting deliver it's actually making
the liver go into a normal state far as not
producing so much sugar. Okay, So metformant is good for that.

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Metformant also helps life with insulin resistance. So a lot
of times, especially African Americans and people who are overweight,
have a lot of insulin resistance, so exercise and met
formant is really good for that. So yeah, so that
wasn't I guess, the right thing to do if that's
the only reason that you stopped the met formant. Now,

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if you would have said, like you are staying in
a restroom, you know, you can't go outside because it's
causing a lot of diarrhea GI upset, and that could
possibly a reason.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
But the reason that you said that's not accurate. Okay,
So it actually helps deliver.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
Now as far as the sweeteners, and you're absolutely right,
not all sweeteners are the same. So what I have
found like going to different conferences and listening to some
of my colleagues who original dieticians that Stevia and so
you're right with that is one of the healthier ones.
Now with having diabetes, you are you can rather see

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a registered dietitian and they can go over all those
things with you and then also give you like an
individualized meal plan to help you. Because I'm not a dietitian,
I do know, you know, something's much. They know way
more than I know because that's what they.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Do all day every day.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah, well, I have an endo chronologist who's going to
allow me to talk to see a registered dietitians. But
you know, at this age and as lung as I've
had it, I really like know what to eat and
what not to eat. But then sometimes you just need
to see if there's any new technology or anything new

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that we need to know, you know, absolutely, Yeah, I
appreciate your information. I appreciate Oh blamemph ride. You're familiar
with blomempherride, Yes, ma'am, I am okay, okay, I just
started that recently. So we're going to see what that's.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
What is that doctor sellers.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
It's an older medication as well as a sulfone urea.
Often I don't write that as much because there's other
medications that have better benefits, like the glamepride in that class,
they don't have like it's with weight loss. They don't
have like any heart protecting kidney protecting. But at the

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same time, everybody, diabetes isn't a cookie color thing. You
have to look at people, the individual person that you're
addressing at that time.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
There's other factors.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
Financial factors may go into insurance may go into that.
That place a big factor and what medications we can
and cannot prescribe. But it will get your A one
C lord, it will lord your blood sugar. But if
your A one C still isn't it goal, that might
be something that you can talk to your INDO about,

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Like you know, if you have any other health conditions
like or if you're at risk for heart disease family
history of heart disease, there could be other medications that
may work a little bit better. But that's just a
conversation that you can have.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
I gotcha to your information so much. I really appreciate you,
thank you, thank you for your call. And I didn't
get your first name, Jackie.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Jackie, Jackie, you had some Jackie, you had some fabulous questions.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
I appreciate you, sister.

Speaker 10 (29:30):
Jackie.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Jackie.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
When you said that, I said, uh, huh, I know what, Jackie,
this is my barbecue.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Jackie, exactly, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Thank you, Jackie, have a good day to day.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Thank you, Thank you all so much.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
Bye bye, w D. Let me get these callers doctor seller's.
They are coming in getting these calls.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
W D. I a high caller.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Hello, yes me.

Speaker 10 (30:00):
Air, Oh I get there so quick.

Speaker 9 (30:03):
I guess dad.

Speaker 11 (30:04):
I got a question, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 10 (30:08):
What what are some good like? Is there anything they like?
Natural products that you can tell you for diabetes? You
hear so much about soursop, and you hear about ginger,
and you hear about the sugar blockers and different stuff.

(30:30):
But uh, let's see turming and different natural products. What
are some natural things that you can do to kind
of control, you know, your sugar even though you might
be taking oz anything me form, goop, bride and all
this stuff. What is uh some natural things you can do?

Speaker 9 (30:51):
I know it's uh what.

Speaker 10 (30:54):
I'm a diabetic and and my doctor told me I
need to try to keep my sugar down at uh.
He said seven point ohs without complication. But I say,
try to do six point five or six point oh.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
But you a good question and yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Let doctor product, Yeah, let her ask about natural product
doctor sellers.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
Okay, So here's the thing with So there are some
things that will help, especially like with instant resistance, help
your fasting blood sugar. Things such as barberine. This natural
cinnamon has been shown to help with fasting blood sugars
as well. Now I'm not sure about the other things

(31:44):
that you named. I know they have like too, murk
has anti inflammatory processes that helps.

Speaker 7 (31:50):
Like with information, because we.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
Hear a lot about ginger ginger, I'm not I have
not had any research or head anything with ginger for
diabetes per se. But for sure cinnamon and also barbarine,
And so when I say those things, it's because they
have been studied and all that. So there are possibly

(32:13):
ginger could be but I have not seen that to
where I would feel comfortable saying that.

Speaker 7 (32:19):
And also to also want to say this, you need.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
To still talk to your health care provider because just
taking those things alone, just say, if your A one
C is fourteen and the normal range is less than seven,
or when we say it's well managed it's under seven.
If it's fourteen or so, we know barberine, cinnamon or
whatever isn't gonna get your blood sugar where it needs

(32:45):
to be. So even with that, you know, that's a
conversation that you can have. So just say, if your
health care provider say you have pre diabetes, and that
just means that your sugars are being a little elevated
but not enough to be diagnosed with diabetes. So it
could be good, a good thing to do the barberine
and sentiment and all that, but I do want to
stress the point that if your A one C is

(33:07):
double digits or whatever, just natural products are not going
to get where it needs to be.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
All right, w d I a HI caller, Hi caller, mayor.

Speaker 9 (33:20):
Yes, I got a question for the young lady doctors? Yes, yes, yes,
My question is my position that I go to. I
went in October twenty twenty five, my A one C

(33:41):
was six point three. Then I went back in twenty
twenty six. In April it jumped up to eight point two.
And every time I go he tells me that I'm
at borderline for diabetes and he's going to give me

(34:03):
an opportunity to try to get on a good diet
and lose the weight. And my question is is I'm
damage Is I'm putting myself in home without getting on something.

Speaker 6 (34:20):
That's a great question. So let me tell you the
numbers far as A and C, and I want to
also tell the listeners what an A and C is.
A and C is a simple blood test that we
do and it checks your It gives us a summary
of your bloods your goal with three month period. So
an A and C A five point seven to six
point four would be suggestive of pre diabetes or some

(34:44):
people still may say borderline, but it's pre diabetes. So
when you have an A and C A six point
five or greater, we know that that's a diagnosis of diabetes. Now,
so at eight point two, it's not in the pre
diabetes range, you by definition, will have diabetes. Now the

(35:06):
type that you would have, type one and type two.
We'll have to screen to see antibodies if you're producing
any antibioties or so now the other part to your question,
we do know the longer that your A one C
is above seven, it increases the risk of things like
heart disease, stroke, blindness, uh, kidney disease, all those things.

(35:27):
So it's possible that your body could be getting some
effects of your blood sugar not being well managed or
at target. The longer you have diabetes, we know that
risk increases. So if you are overweight, which cause you
said he or she said you needed to loose some weight,

(35:52):
there are different things that you possibly can start on
that will help with weight loss. He'll protect your heart
and your kidneys as well, and also making sure that
you're doing those things far as eating healthier, portion control,
increasing your physical activity as well. So the longer your
A one c is above goal, it does put you
at an increased risk of complications.

Speaker 9 (36:15):
So what level do your sugar level need to be down?
Because I take it on a regular and it'd be
like one eighteen sometime one sixteen.

Speaker 6 (36:24):
Okay, So for most people the fasting and that means
when you hadn't had anything to eat or drink, should
between should be between eighty and one thirty, and then
after you've had something to eat or drink, that blood
sugar should be less than one eighty. That's how we
know we're keeping the.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
A one C down.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
Also, a lot of people have CGMS or continuous glucose monitors.

Speaker 7 (36:50):
And so if you look at your.

Speaker 6 (36:52):
Time and range, we want that time and range to
be at least seventy percent.

Speaker 9 (36:59):
Okay, well, I guess you answer my question, and I
want you to know that I do know you very well.
Everybody call me smiling and you had a good day.

Speaker 7 (37:08):
All right, Well you can come see miss Smiley.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Give you our office numbers eight seven zero five five
one four four zero nine and give.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
It give it again ducksels slow for people to get it.

Speaker 6 (37:21):
Eight seven zero five five one four four zero nine.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Okay, get together, Thank you smiling, all right?

Speaker 5 (37:34):
If by w D I a mister cool, Hey man,
I'm doing well, mister cool, and you.

Speaker 12 (37:46):
I'm all right, and I get afternoon you uh well,
I ain't one to you. I get uh. I wanted
to ask m uh you know is that you know
like this woman asked her about the matter is now
and I'm asking I won't like to ask you is
it anything that that's uh where I know it is
a parasite that's causing this type two diabetics effect.

Speaker 8 (38:12):
You're asking parasite which exactly.

Speaker 12 (38:14):
Like they like Warren and they block your uh they
blocked your pancily from producing the right type of uh
uh uh insilance that you need, you know, and they
continue to feed you with the uh I'm looking for
to see the paper now on the same by.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
So you want to know about that parasites?

Speaker 12 (38:36):
Okay, yeah, about the parasite And is is just what
calling causing this stuff or it's just sugar. I know
sugar is wheats and stuff like that, and calls it
as well. But the fact of the matter is, uh, that's.

Speaker 9 (38:49):
Not all it is to it. You know.

Speaker 12 (38:50):
It's I said, you get rid of them parasites. You
can always have the type two stuff and uh, I
can go a long way out.

Speaker 9 (38:56):
I used to be.

Speaker 12 (38:57):
I used to be I'm gonna let you go. I
yuh take a pet, take personal for it, to take
care of person for the last seven years of her life, okay,
And she struggled greatly with h with that type two
stuff something some of these incident.

Speaker 11 (39:13):
To try to cue that problem.

Speaker 12 (39:15):
There wasn't even a problem for an instant talk two
and they gave her instant right after type one taper.

Speaker 9 (39:23):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
So so mister cool, let's let's let's let doctor sellers
answer your question.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
You're gonna hang up and listen.

Speaker 12 (39:32):
Uh, I might have to use apply to her for
something that just out.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Okay, okay, okay, go on, doctor sellers, help mister cool.

Speaker 7 (39:41):
Okay, mister cool.

Speaker 6 (39:42):
So let me tell you this is something that I've
seen on like Instagram late at night when I can't sleep,
when I'm up scrolling.

Speaker 7 (39:52):
I do not have any type of.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
I guess medical uh inform on that, to be honest,
but I have seen that, you know, And to be honest,
there's a lot of misinformation that can be found, you know,
like on the internet. Yes, yes, TikTok, Instagram and all
those different things. So I laugh not laughing at you,
because I have seen those things. And for health reasons,

(40:24):
we all you know, could use a detox or whatever.
Drinking more water, eating green leafy vegetables, stand away from
a lot of processed foods, you know, eating fresh vegetables
and everything that will help to keep our bodies where
they need to be, keep us healthier. So I cannot

(40:45):
medically say anything about like the parasites or so, however
it would be important to do those things. Drink of water,
fresh fruits and all that so we can keep ourselves
healthy and everything, and thank.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
You, miss Cool. You know you're bringing that up. And
before I go to this next caller, doctor Seller's.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Yet, we see a lot of stuff on social media,
and I see a lot of stuff when I'm going,
all right, now, what is this?

Speaker 9 (41:12):
Now?

Speaker 4 (41:12):
What if you do this?

Speaker 5 (41:13):
So sometimes, mister Cool, those things are misinformation, so you
have to be careful with that.

Speaker 7 (41:20):
And I just saw that that's what it's so crazy
outside one night.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Recently, so I'm glad you said that. Going to our
phone lines to talk with you.

Speaker 13 (41:29):
Nurse Beverly, Hello, Bell Johnson.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
How you doing, Nurse Beverly.

Speaker 13 (41:38):
I'm doing well. I'm doing well. And hello is doctor Sellers.

Speaker 7 (41:42):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Hello.

Speaker 13 (41:44):
Uh. I tuned in a little late when the I
tuned in when the lady was talking about the liver
and the med form and all that, and I just
want to tell my story. Maybe it's be helpful to somebody.
I uh have been having like a one seas running
like five point seven five point nine for the last

(42:06):
several years. Also have these tags, these intense carb craving,
potato chips, jeez puff cookies and tie and chake. I mean,
just intense carb craving loving all kind of pasta and
potatoes and all that stuff.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
I lost you, Beverly, maybe she called back her phone
without Okay, we hear your bevery, We hear you, now.

Speaker 10 (42:37):
Hear me now?

Speaker 13 (42:38):
Yes, okay, so Ina, I was saying, I have had
these intense carb craving.

Speaker 12 (42:45):
That I couldn't control.

Speaker 13 (42:47):
So in February I went to the doctor and my
A one C had gone up to six point three
and I thought, all, my you know, this is the
hides has ever been. So I asked my doctor to
give me an old those of ned for mean. So
she put me on an extended release of med forman.

(43:07):
This was in February.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (43:10):
It did help with my carb craving, you know, it
didn't take it away, but I was able to resist,
you know, the potato chips and I might with eat
one cookie, you know like that, just trying to watch
it because I didn't want to have that diagnose with diabetes. Well,
Tuesday I went to the doctor. My A one C

(43:30):
had come down from six point three to five point
six and I had lost four pounds.

Speaker 7 (43:38):
Right, congratulations.

Speaker 13 (43:39):
So I just want to encourage people. It takes some determination.
It's hard when you used to eating certain things, and
you enjoy certain things, but when it comes to your health,
you know the sacrifice is worth it because diabetes it's
nothing to play with. Like you explain, it affects so

(44:00):
many of your organ Yes, you know, clausus, amputations and blindness,
keeping a disease. You went through all of that and
I did not want to deal with that. So I
just want to say, people, stay in Paris, do what
your doctor tell you to do. And I don't know
if the mad forman extended release, maybe you can expound

(44:21):
on that. Is that a better option than you know,
the regular mach form And I guess that people may
have been would take several times a day, but I
just take mind once a day in the evening and
it's the extended release and it has really helped my
a one C.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
Well, congratulations to you there, thank you for sharing that.
Congratulations to you. So the extended release, it is exactly
how it sounds, so it doesn't give you the medication
like right all at one time, So it's gonna slowly
give you the medication throughout the day to help lower
your sugar. And some people have less side effects with

(44:59):
the extend the release, So they both worked well, but
some people can't tolerate inform and it, so the extented
release has less of those GI complications or side effects.

Speaker 10 (45:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (45:13):
I didn't have any problems with it. It didn't cause
any GI problems or anything. It helped me really well.
And I'm just really grateful and thankful because I know
that diabetes this epidemic now, and you know you don't
want to have to deal with that, all right, thank
you for being on giving us this information.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
Thank you, Nurse Beverly. Bye bye. I saw your husband yesterday.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah he told me.

Speaker 13 (45:40):
He told me, Yeah, all right, the rest of your day,
you too, Bye bye.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
That was good information.

Speaker 5 (45:49):
Also, I have this email doctor Sellers, and both wanted
to know Doctor Sellers. Can diabetes call someone to not
be able to stand and walk and be bed written.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
So diabetes can be debilitating in that if you may
have a stroke or so from your diabetes not being
at goal and put you at the high risk for
heart attacks as well. So that can leave you to
where you may be bettering or soul. And then also

(46:26):
people have neuropathy, which is nerve damage where you can
experience numbness and tingling, and it can occur anywhere over
your body, because we have nerves all over our bodies. However,
most of the time people will first get a glimpse
or be able to see the neuropathy or feel the neuropathy,

(46:47):
like in their fingertips and in their feet. So I
do have some patience, especially people who've had diabetes for
so long. They tell me that their neuropathy gets so
bad that it's hard for them to stand door. You know,
is worse at now, you know, when they're trying to
go to sleep. So there's reasons why diabetes can affect

(47:08):
mobility or can call someone to be bedridding, And that's
because of the serious complications that possibly can occur from that.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Okay, going to our phone lines to talk with you.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
W D, I a hey caller, Hello, bed Hey, Orlando,
how are you?

Speaker 8 (47:30):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (47:31):
During final Okay, I didn't know if that was me
or not.

Speaker 9 (47:33):
Bad brother, here's me. I'm down here.

Speaker 11 (47:37):
I'm down here in Birmingham calling you today. Okay, I
just left the museum and it's you know, the sixteenth
Street church and all of that. But I'd never like
to miss w D. I don't care where I'm at. Okay,
and I'm glad you're talking to doctor.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
The sellers name doctor Sellers.

Speaker 11 (47:55):
Yeah, okay, doctor Sellers, I may have to come and
see you. I was diagnosed last year as a diabetic
and I have lost about twenty five pounds because of
I'm gonna die program right now. But one of the
things I was going to ask you about. You know,
I heard you talking about all.

Speaker 14 (48:12):
These things you see excuse me walking out here in
the park, but some of the things that you see advertised,
even doctor Phiel and doctor Odds, they sell in some
type of Doctor phil claimed that he found a cure
for diabetes, and they selling all this stuff, so you know,

(48:32):
and they're saying that the medical industry don't want you.

Speaker 11 (48:35):
To know that it is a cure for diabetes. But
I ordered some of that I'm taking. I don't know
if to do it for me or not. That mean
why I said, proble to make an appointment to see
doctor Fela and see how I'm checking out here. Lost.
Like I said, about twenty five pounds, I was at two.
Matter of fact, I am lost more than that. I
was about two fifteen and I'm down to about one

(48:56):
hundred and eighty eighty pounds, So I'm about starving myself
to trying to bow all this stuff. Anything that says
a little cure for it. But the medical industry keeps
saying there ain't no cure for it. So who's telling
the truth about this? You can believe it or not.
If you saw one of those ads that doctor Phield
now is putting out there, they really talk bad or

(49:17):
saying it's all about money and it ain't about your care.
If you was, if you was actuate to walk in
the room and give a person diabetes just by being
in the room with them, they would come up with
a cure tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (49:29):
Well, let me ask you this.

Speaker 14 (49:30):
You know you I can't catch it from you and
you can't catch it from me.

Speaker 15 (49:34):
Is doctor Fiel are they selling whatever that you're getting?
Is doctor Phield selling? Is doctor Peel? Are they selling
something that you that you have? By selling something?

Speaker 6 (49:46):
Let me let me address that. So as of now,
there's not a cure for type two diabetes. I am
actually when I leave here today, I'm going to a
conference's one of our largest conference world conferences for diabetes management.
And we are, and I mean the scientists and researchers
are actively trying to cure type one diabetes, and so

(50:11):
they're looking at sell transfers, they're looking at pancreas transplants.

Speaker 7 (50:17):
So there is a lot of.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Research and funding that's going into trying to cure type one.
So I know, for me, I wouldn't hinder anybody from
feeling better. I wouldn't, you know, try to keep someone seek.
So I I don't know about that far as the
medical community. I can't speak for everyone, but I can

(50:42):
speak for myself. I wouldn't dare try to do something
to keep somebody seek, you know.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
I I love what I do.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
I love talking to people about diabetes, and so if
I could help, you know, even one thing that we're
trying to push is type one screening and younger individuals
and all that. So I know with American Diabetes Association
that we are strongly trying to fight type one diabetes

(51:11):
and also prevention for type two diabetes.

Speaker 9 (51:15):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 11 (51:16):
But like I say, I probably calling and make an
appointment to see you. I'm really serious about that. I got.
I got diagnosed as with diabetes. I'm seven to seven
at seventy six years old, and I'm just trying to
figure out how well I must have been taking care
of myself pretty good, BEFO. Then I don't have no
real problems with anything. So here I am trying to

(51:36):
figure out what cause the diabetes and what can I do.
So when I do see negative stuff being said about it,
you know, like they saying that it is a cure.
But in vactor Field, you know, he's a big television
star and all that kind of stuff, And then you've
got your your your health department person, we don't want
to talk about Kennedy and White sent up there in

(52:01):
the White House saying the same thing that that is
a cure. But the medical people don't want because they're
making so much money off I know, when I order
their supplies, they send me, they send me all kinds
of needles and all of these different types of needles
and things. I'm saying, God, man, you know you can
get a job working there, and these people are really

(52:22):
making money off of this stuff.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Well this I.

Speaker 6 (52:26):
Believe, doctor feel and all of them were making way
more money than.

Speaker 7 (52:30):
Your average provider.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
Just to be honest, and I'm you know, I just
don't think that the medical community. Now, it could be
insurance companies or something like that maybe, but I know
all of my colleagues that I know, especially in diabetes.
We we really care about what we do, like the people.

Speaker 11 (52:53):
That yes, ma'am, okay, well, I thank you very much
for your time. I'm gonna be making apartment.

Speaker 7 (53:00):
I can't glait to see you.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
Thank you, Orlando, thank you, and saying that before we
go to our next call, Doctor Sellers, give our listeners
because doctor Sellers is in West Memphis.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
Your dressing phone number there, all.

Speaker 6 (53:16):
Right, So, yes, we're in West Memphis on five twelve
Gramd Street, West Memphis, Arkansas, seventy two three zero one.
Now it is a quick drive from downtown, a quick
drive from white Haven. I live in Memphis and so
I travel every day to West Memphis. And so we
also have patients that come from Mississippi as well. So

(53:38):
I serve the tri state area and so we will
take the time to get you where you need to
be on your first visit. We also go over diabetes
education with you and everything. So it's not just about
a number, you know, seeing a patient to say, hey,
I've seen my twentieth patient for the day, and let

(54:00):
me get that A want see down to seven. I
actually like to gain a rapport with my patients and everything.
So I have some patients.

Speaker 7 (54:08):
They'll come in.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
They've been seeing me over ten years plus. They asked
about my son. My son is nine. They were like,
I remember when he was in your belly, you know,
So get in that rapport with patients and really, you know,
taking the time for them to understand what's going on
in their body. So we're at five to twelve gram. Look,
I got all office, So five twelve Gram West, Memphis.

(54:29):
Our phone number is eight seven zero five five one
four four zero nine. We are closed on Thursdays and
so if you Kyle today you might can't get an answer,
but we definitely will be there tomorrow. The office staff
will be there and our website is my dcwillness dot com.
So my DC Wellness dot com eight seven zero five

(54:52):
five to one four four zero nine sounds good.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
W D I a hi caller.

Speaker 16 (54:58):
How you doing miss Johnson?

Speaker 4 (54:59):
And your doing well today? How are you?

Speaker 16 (55:03):
I am doing outstanding? I got a question for your
for your guests for the doctor. Okay, okay, so so
now okay, So I just I went to the doctor's
offer to a endochronologist last week, and I wish I
could call her name, but I'm not going to do it.
But somehow another I never got my report. So and

(55:28):
I can tell the new person really didn't know what
they would, you know, I mean, I said, ma'am, if
you can't find a vane, go ahead and do a butterfly.
So I'm telling them.

Speaker 9 (55:37):
So they did that.

Speaker 16 (55:38):
They took like six beacons of blood what do you
call them? Beacons?

Speaker 9 (55:43):
Whatever?

Speaker 16 (55:44):
And I'm waiting for a phone call to say, you know,
because last time I ate one seed what's six point oh.

Speaker 17 (55:51):
A plus?

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Row?

Speaker 9 (55:52):
Was great?

Speaker 16 (55:53):
And you know the ldl oh, that was good. But
the problem that I have, man, what is a red
blood cell rupture?

Speaker 17 (56:03):
Well?

Speaker 9 (56:03):
What is that?

Speaker 16 (56:04):
Because that's what I was just told just right before
I called you. I said, let me call, I said,
cause they just talking about this lady looking for some
new business.

Speaker 9 (56:13):
What they took six six? They took six units units,
I'm gonna say units or the little bigger things of blood.
What is a what is a red blood cell rupture?
What is that?

Speaker 16 (56:23):
Then she said, well, we didn't get it, cause I said, ma'am,
you took six so what.

Speaker 9 (56:27):
It gave you?

Speaker 16 (56:28):
Your your analysis? So what is a red blood cell rupture.
No one can answer that. Nobody came to the phone answer.
Let me say that, So what what exactly is going on?

Speaker 9 (56:37):
Tell me?

Speaker 6 (56:38):
So are they saying that was an issue with your
blood sample, because that could have been an issue of
how it was collected, how it's transported, or it could
be an issue like if you know, if you dehydrated
or so. So I really don't know the context of
what they're saying. But I do know sometimes we'll give

(57:00):
reports and it'll say like the blood was hemalized incorrectly
or something like that.

Speaker 7 (57:06):
That has happened in the past.

Speaker 9 (57:09):
So what is that? What is that?

Speaker 6 (57:11):
What is that the way that the blood was collected
or wasn't we have to put it in a centrifuge
and expensed down and all that. So it could be
how it was collected, could have been collected in the
realm too, could be some other things that's going on,
uh with your blood that caused that. So to be honest,

(57:34):
you so I don't I can't say if they collected
it not eactly right, I can't say that.

Speaker 16 (57:42):
Okay, but I'm gonna tell what happened. She said, Well,
I don't have enough blood in a couple of So
I'm about to put some more blood in them. Can
you can you?

Speaker 14 (57:50):
Can you do that?

Speaker 16 (57:51):
I mean, I mean, is that possible if they can
go back and stick that and put some more blood
in without something that they Yeah, they put it back
in the same tooth. That's what I'm saying. They put
the blood back in the same truth. And I'm saying
to myself, you know, you know, putting a letting errolsrom
back into this.

Speaker 17 (58:11):
Yeah, I mean that's what my thinking, you know, but
this is what took place.

Speaker 5 (58:16):
Well, doctor Selling's is over here frowning up, so you
can't hear it. That's all I'm saying, because when you're saying,
because I'm asking you, I wouldn't put it in the
same tube.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Now, I know I'm not a medical doctor or nurse.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
But.

Speaker 16 (58:32):
Listen, I'm telling you exactly what took place for me.
And I'm like, and I'm saying myself, is.

Speaker 12 (58:37):
It possible what you're doing right now?

Speaker 17 (58:39):
You know, I'm holding this year and I'm looking at I'm.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Like, okay, well, doctor Sellers, that something's wrong.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
I just can't make sense of it. I know sometimes
my face does say what I'm thinking about. I just
can't make sense of it. I don't know why they
would do that. I mean, I don't know, so I can't.
I can't say, yeah, why.

Speaker 16 (59:01):
But because they normally take the person who takes the blood, ma'am.
And excuse me, the normal person that takes the blood
is a contracted to that particular agency.

Speaker 17 (59:12):
It's contract to that particular doctor. Just so happening.

Speaker 16 (59:15):
Uh, no one uh came to work. Uh, that particular person.
They didn't come back over there for some reason. Probably
I know why now because she was good at him
taking blood. But now, I mean, can I tell you
at least what the area is?

Speaker 4 (59:30):
You just want to tell them that. You know what
I want to tell you. I want you to tell
you to call doctor Sellers and go to her.

Speaker 17 (59:38):
I got a pen in my hand right now.

Speaker 5 (59:40):
Okay, we're gonna give you doctor Seller's number so you
can call because I say it no more, you know what,
because you just described us. I wouldn't want to go
back there. But anyway, that's me, so come on.

Speaker 16 (59:54):
No, No, I already told him, I said, I said,
may I have a good day?

Speaker 17 (59:58):
I said, I rather be dealing with AI.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Well, you might have been dealing with it out. Okay,
So doctor Sellers.

Speaker 17 (01:00:07):
Ma'am, I think they had that PTR disease something.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
They had something over there.

Speaker 17 (01:00:11):
But brother, hey you know what that ptr?

Speaker 16 (01:00:14):
I mean, what.

Speaker 17 (01:00:16):
Far time retired? Oh lord, I'm sorry, God give me
doctor selling them.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
It's eight seven zero eight.

Speaker 17 (01:00:26):
Seven zero yes, ma'am five five one five five to one,
four to four yes, ma'am.

Speaker 9 (01:00:33):
Zero nine zero nine.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
They're closed today but called tomorrow.

Speaker 17 (01:00:38):
Okay, okay. Spelling name s E L L E R.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
S doctor Nikiah Sellers.

Speaker 17 (01:00:48):
Okay, sellers, Okay, thank you so much, thank you, look
at doctor, Thank you, bell going back. Don't worry about.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Doctor Sellers.

Speaker 5 (01:00:57):
Welcome to w D I A and listen, and y'all
we are so we're so happy to have doctor Sellers
here because she is a diabetes specialist. And before you
get out of here, doctor Sellers, I wanted to ask you,
Oh well, I had another question. Let me see because
I think you'd ask. But this person may have come

(01:01:18):
in late. She wanted to know, doctor Sellers, at what
point do you have to take shots for diabetes? And
can you choose to take pills than shots?

Speaker 7 (01:01:31):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
So with that, it just depends it depends on the
level of your A one C. It also depends on,
you know, if you have other risk factors that go
into what will possibly put your greater risks of developing complications.
So just say, if someone's A one C is fourteen twelve.

(01:01:56):
I've had someone A want to see as high as twenty.
So if they're A want to see, is that how
we know what's going to get that A and CE better,
get the blood sugars better. It's insulin therapy. Now, just
say you have an A on C, just like the
gentleman said an eight point two, that's not a need
for any insulin therapy. We can put you on some
type of oral medication, some other type of injectable that

(01:02:21):
could be like a golp one but not necessarily insolent.

Speaker 7 (01:02:25):
So it's it varies. Now, if your A.

Speaker 6 (01:02:28):
One C is seven, you don't need insulin therapy seven
point five or something, So it just varies. Now, if
it finds out comes to find out we do screenings
and you have type one, then you have to be
on insulin and you can get your insulin through multi
daily injections, or we can do an insulin pump where
you're continuously getting insulin throughout the day without having to

(01:02:51):
give yourself an injection. So there's different things that go
into that. And then again, if you have to be
placed on insulin and just say you know you've been
doing you eating right, you are, you know, taking all
your medications as prescribed, sometimes that PANCS just gets tired
and say, hey, I don't want to produce any insulin

(01:03:12):
or this insulin that I'm producing.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
It's just not right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
So we'll put patients on insulin. Then okay, floodairies, Okay,
thank you for that question.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
And one other thing, last thing is when we talk
about diabetes, can we inherit that? Because I'm asking because
my grandmother, my mother's mother had diabetes and my mother's
sister had diabetes, but my mother didn't and I have
a sister, my sister and I we don't have it,

(01:03:46):
so it didn't pass on, So I'm wondering can it
pass on?

Speaker 6 (01:03:51):
So family history definitely plays a part in developing any
type of chronic condition, and diabetes is no difference different. Now,
another thing with family history is affected by diabetes is
we also learn certain behaviors from family members. We may

(01:04:11):
eat certain foods from our family may not be as
active if our family members not active, and those all
those things put us at a risk for diabetes. So
as far as inherent in it, we do know that
there are family risks for us with type two. Now
with type one, people who have siblings or so who

(01:04:33):
have type one other parents probably would need to be
screened for type one. So that's more genetics. Genetics in play. However,
family history just affects high blood pressure, heart disease, heart failure,
and diabetes. So yes, it can be a major risk

(01:04:54):
factor for diabetes.

Speaker 5 (01:04:56):
Sounds good. Doctor Nikiah Seller's human faculous. Today we welcome
you into the w DIA, ask the experts, family, and
glad to have you here because you're gonna help a
lot of people, and glad to have you coming on
and talking with us about diabetes.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 9 (01:05:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:15):
Once again, I.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
Want you to give your telephone number, your address, and
your website where people can get in touch with you.

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
All right, So, Diabetes Care Wellness five twelve gram West, Memphis, Arkansas,
seven two three zero one. Our phone number is eight
seven zero five five to one four four zero nine
eight seven zero five five one four four zero nine
and our website is Mydcwellness dot Com.

Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:41):
Doctor Nicky says, thank you for being here, and have
a wonderful day and a beautiful weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:05:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
You're welcome.

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