About Christine Lehmann, Reverse Diabetes Coach

Christine Lehmann is a Certified Nutritional Therapist
Specializing in Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes

Hi. I am Christine Lehmann, the Reverse Diabetes Coach™. I am dedicated to helping men and women prevent or reverse diabetes naturally. I bring 25 years of experience working in the health care field to my work with clients.

I use a holistic natural approach to lower your blood sugar levels. While doctors usually prescribe medications to control your blood sugar and recommend a low-fat, high carb diet, I use natural supplements and a low carb diet with healthy fat and unprocessed food. I typically get better results without the medication side-effects.

My programs also offer customized exercise and stress management techniques to fit your lifestyle. So when you work with me, you actually get 3 programs rolled into one: diet, exercise, and stress management.

Why My Clients Prefer to Work With Me

My clients know they have my ongoing, undivided attention and support when they enroll in one of my reverse diabetes programs. They know they can talk to me about any issue that impacts their health and that I will listen and respond to them intelligently and with the utmost respect. If I don’t know the answer, I promise to research it and get back to them.

One of my clients told me that my program was more like a class because she learned so much from me. She said that the comprehensive education I provided was missing from the popular mass-produced weight-loss program she had enrolled in that emphasized points and calorie-counting.

My goal is to empower you to know how to reverse type 2 diabetes naturally and maintain your progress long-term. I want you to experience what good health and energy feels like from the inside out!

Why I Specialize in Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes

I find it so rewarding to help my clients transform their health in a relatively short amount of time by making lifestyle changes. I love seeing their anxiety disappear as they make progress and gain confidence that they can reverse diabetes.

Clients often come to me in despair because their doctors have told them they will be on diabetes medications and statins for life or that they need knee surgery because their obesity has worn down their knee cartilage. They really appreciate that I can reverse diabetes naturally and effectively. 

I use a low-carb diet with healthy fats and proteins that slow the release of glucose into the bloodstream. This unprocessed diet helps clients to detox from the refined carbs loaded with sugars and starches that contribute to sugar cravings and weight gain.

I have done a lot of research and know that my programs are a winning combination of a low-carb diet, customized supplements, exercise, and stress management techniques.  This combination is very effective for lowering blood sugar, losing weight and regaining energy.

When I see clients commit to my program, lose up to 100 pounds, and their lab tests come back normal, I know my approach works.

When they feel great, they radiate positive energy that is contagious!

Why I Decided to Become a Certified Nutritional Therapist

After working as an award-winning health care reporter for 20 years, my own health took a nose-dive in 2012. I passed out in my apartment and landed in the emergency room. They told me I had atrial fibrillation and a potassium deficiency, both of which can cause fainting.

Fortunately, my heart rate returned to normal within a week, and I bought lots of potassium rich foods including tomatoes, and avocados. However, my health continued to deteriorate. Nothing medically was wrong but I felt weak, shaky and had to drag myself out of bed every morning to get to work. I worried constantly that I would pass out.

Intuitively, I knew that conventional medicine wasn’t going to solve my problem.

After a miserable summer, I found a nutritional therapist who explained that my diet was high in processed starchy carbs and refined sugar, which deplete the body of its natural vitamins, minerals and enzymes. She said this was contributing to my blood sugar roller-coaster, and that my adrenals were stressed from releasing cortisol in response to my low blood sugar and daily doses of caffeine (2 cups of coffee and 2 diet Cokes).

She recommended a low-carb diet without refined starchy and sugary carbs to detox my system and stabilize my blood sugar. I also started eating healthier carbs (fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds) and food with healthy fat and protein.  I also drank more water than I ever had before. I was amazed that within a few weeks of starting the diet, I felt so much stronger, had more energy and lost 10 pounds.

I was motivated to complete the second phase. I gave up grains, dairy, caffeine, and alcohol for one month and lost another 20 pounds. Fitting into size 6 clothes did wonders for my self-esteem and dating life!

I was inspired by my positive experience to learn more about nutrition. I enrolled in an intensive training program offered by the Nutritional Therapy Association and became a certified nutritional therapy practitioner in 2013.

I learned how nutrients in the form of food and supplements influences and heals the body’s systems. I have since helped numerous clients lower and stabilize their blood sugar, gain energy, and lose weight through a healthy diet, supplements, exercise and stress management.

Christine’s Education, Certifications, and Experience

Christine knows the challenges busy professionals face in eating healthy and staying fit. Before starting her company Nourishing Foundations in 2013, she worked for two decades as an award-winning health care writer with more than 500 published articles.

Christine holds a Master’s degree in public health with a minor in journalism from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2007). Her public health coursework gave her a broader understanding of chronic conditions, especially type 2 diabetes and the devastating impact the disease has on individuals when left untreated. She also learned more about evidence-based medicine and behavior change.

Christine is also a designated faculty member of the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) with several wellness certifications and teaches nutrition classes at local companies and organizations.

Christine integrates her expertise in holistic nutrition, wellness, and science to help her clients reverse diabetes.