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Metabolism is a system. We'll help you understand it.

We teach six interlocking pillars as one system, so you can understand the pattern before you change the plan.

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One metabolic system.

For individuals and caregivers

The diabetes education your diagnosis should have come with.

Diabetes Foundations connects type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and a new diagnosis into one picture you can use between appointments.

A 20-module course written and taught by Tina Alexander, a registered dietitian and certified diabetes care and education specialist.

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For clinics and care teams

Clinical infrastructure for the teams treating it.

Add dietitian-led capacity without building a full program in-house.

  • Embedded dietitian services
  • Clinical protocol development
  • Care-team training
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We teach metabolism as a six-pillar framework.

Your body has been running all six the whole time.

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Nutrition & Hydration

What you eat and drink.

The solid and liquid inputs that fuel, build, and repair the body. We treat nutrition and hydration as separate behaviors with separate signals; both deserve their own teaching.

What you eat and drink.

The solid and liquid inputs that fuel, build, and repair the body. We treat nutrition and hydration as separate behaviors with separate signals; both deserve their own teaching.

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We chose diabetes first because it makes the whole metabolic system visible.

Diabetes Foundations helps you read that system before a diagnosis, at diagnosis, and years into care.

  1. Before a diagnosis

    Recognize the patterns before they receive a label.

  2. At diagnosis

    Understand what your treatment is responding to.

  3. Years into care

    Build a vocabulary you can use with your care team.

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Diabetes Foundations

Diabetes, taught as a system.

Authored by

Tina Alexander RDN, CDCES

Understand your blood sugar without giving up the foods you love. Diabetes Foundations connects the diagnosis, the numbers, the medications, and daily life so you can see how each part affects the others.

20 modulesVideo and interactive exercisesSelf-paced

$129, one-time, when enrollment opens.

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From understanding the diagnosis to building a plan you can use.

Six sections. Every node is one module.

  1. Foundations

    2 modules
    1. What diabetes is
    2. How the body uses glucose

  2. Monitoring and medication

    3 modules
    1. Monitoring your blood sugar
    2. Diabetes medications
    3. Cardiovascular medications

  3. Healthy eating

    6 modules
    1. Building a healthy plate
    2. Carbohydrates
    3. Non-starchy vegetables
    4. Protein
    5. Fats
    6. Everyday substances

  4. Living with diabetes

    5 modules
    1. Hypoglycemia and emergencies
    2. Sick days
    3. Mental health and diabetes distress
    4. Physical activity
    5. Sleep

  5. Protecting the long term

    2 modules
    1. Microvascular complications
    2. Macrovascular complications

  6. Making it yours

    2 modules
    1. Reducing risk and your care team
    2. Putting it all together

Metabolic health is the whole map.

Berine is building one system of metabolic-health education. Diabetes Foundations is the part that is furthest along. Around it, the clinical, publishing, and community work carries the same system into more places.

  1. Available now

    Clinical services

    Accepting inquiries

    Dietitian integration, clinical protocols, and team education for clinics and programs.

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  2. Building now

    Diabetes Foundations

    Waitlist open

    In active development now.

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  3. Later

    Education across the six pillars

    Planned

    Future Foundations courses guided by the same six-pillar model.

    Deeper clinical education

    Planned

    More practice-focused education for the teams that deliver metabolic care.

    Community

    Planned

    A place to compare notes with people managing the same metabolic changes.

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