Success with LADA Diabetes: Achieving Optimal Health with Diet, Exercise, and Insulin by Lin May
My book is finally published! I’ve collected all of my wisdom learned from a decade of LADA diabetes, and presented the information needed to understand how to succeed at treating it.
“This is a wonderfully friendly real-life look at managing LADA. I love the conversational tone that carries the whole book. It’s such a light and easy read with so much relatable real-world experience. Definitely a worthy read for anyone newly diagnosed with LADA and looking to learn more.”
— Ginger Vieira
I hope you’ll check out my Success with LADA Diabetes book!
Below are a list of books that have helped me on my journey. Although these are not specific to LADA, they provide a wealth of information and are great books to accompany you on this journey.
Bright Spots & Landmines: The Diabetes Guide I Wish Someone Had Handed Me by Adam Brown.
Learn how to navigate this disorder by someone who’s already been here! This book covers topics that would apply to all types of diabetes, like dealing with the mental stress of diabetes and making smart food choices.
Below is a photo of a passage from this book. This book discusses the benefits of low carbohydrate diet and how to accomplish that. I also agree with Adam that a low carb diet is very helpful in managing diabetes.
The Type 1 Diabetes Self-Care Manual: A Complete Guide to Type 1 Diabetes Across the Lifespan by Jamie Wood, MD, and Anne Peters, MD. 2017.
This book is very thorough. It isn’t about LADA diabetes, but LADA diabetes is treated like Type 1, so the vast majority of the book is relevant. I recommend it for anyone who is using insulin to treat diabetes, or planning to. It has in depth medical information. It’s the kind of information that you’d hope to receive from your endocrinologist. This book is written by two doctors and I really love how openly they share their knowledge.
I also liked how this book has quotes and stories from people with their first hand experiences in coping with the challenges of diabetes.
Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin –Completely Revised and Updated. By Gary Scheiner.
This book has a lot of great information about types of insulin and how to determine the correct dose. If you are new to the world of insulin, this is a great read.
Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring: A User’s Guide to Effective Diabetes Management
by Francine R. Kaufman, M.D. with Emily Westfall
This book contains a lot of new information which is not covered in the other books on this page. It covers really practical things like how does an insulin pump work, what type of infusion set to use, and how much tubing to buy.
It also goes in depth into WHY spending all of this effort to control your blood glucose levels is a smart reason…. Ever wonder why doctors are so sure that getting your A1C low is important? They’ve done studies that show that people who have better A1C are less likely to have any serious side effects. They actually had to stop a study early because side effects like going blind were happening in the group of people who were only taking insulin once a day (which was the standard treatment then). Intensive insulin therapy by using an insulin pump or multiple daily injections became the standard of care BECAUSE it’s proven that intensive insulin treatment cause a person’s blood glucose to be closer to normal and this stops blindness and kidney failure, as well as other serious long-term health effects!!!