Tools & Handouts
A Variety of Useful Tools and Handouts for Patients and TCR Adopters
These handouts summarize SMHP guidelines and key tenets of TCR that are useful for the patients to use in implementing the guidelines or to take to their own practitioner to help them understand the efficacy of this concept
Benefits of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction (TCR)
This handout is useful to discuss the advantages and safety of low carbohydrate diets with your provider. It may be helpful to use if your provider is unfamiliar with low carbohydrate diets.
Introduction to Low Carb
This handout provides you with a convenient list of foods to eat and avoid on a classic, well-formulated ketogenic diet. It's a really easy guide to get started.
Why You Need To Be Using a CGM
Learn more about continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and how this device can show you how lifestyle factors, in addition to food, affect your sugar levels.
Introduction to Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistance is the underlying cause of nearly all metabolic disease. This handout reviews the causes, diagnosis and treatment of insulin resistance.
The Ketogenic Diet: Concerns and Benefits
The content is streamlined for accessibility but a huge effort has been made to ensure that it is accurate, devoid of hyperbole and dogma, and supported by the literature, with over 300 references.
The SMHP™ position statement on therapeutic carbohydrate reduction for type 1 diabetes
The SMHP consensus regarding the use of therapeutic carbohydrate reduction (TCR) for managing type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)
Labs for Metabolic Health & Talking to Your Doctor
Typical labs ordered during doctor appointments don't paint a complete metabolic picture. Here are our recommendations on what to order/request from your doctor and what your target ranges should be. We also give suggestions for having a constructive dialogue with your physician.