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Fix Your Blood Sugar With The Yates Protocol

Dec 30, 2025
26 mins

Episode Description

Dr. Beverly Yates explains her no-shame, five-step approach to improving blood sugar through nutrition, stress, sleep, meal timing, and movement.


In this episode, Dr. Beverly Yates joins Dr. Will Shu to discuss a compassionate, systems-based approach to reversing blood sugar dysfunction. Dr. Yates shares her five-step Yates Protocol, addressing nutrition, meal timing, stress, sleep, and strength training. She reframes diabetes as a lifestyle-sensitive condition and explains how small, personalized changes can dramatically improve health span and quality of life.


Dr. Beverly Yates, ND, is a licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. She is the nation’s leader in online type 2 diabetes care. Her virtual practice has programs and supplements to help people lower their blood sugar naturally, at home, without ever having to set foot in a clinic.

Dr. Yates is on a mission to help 3 million people heal from type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. She has helped thousands of people reverse Type 2 Diabetes.

Dr. Yates is writing a new book on blood sugar. The working title is: The Yates Protocol, 5 No-Shame Steps To Fix Your Blood Sugar and Eat the Food You Love.

Dr. Yates used her background in MIT Electrical Engineering, her work as a Systems Engineer in Silicon Valley, and leadership of California’s first-ever fully accredited Naturopathic and Integrative Medicine Residency Program to create effective online programs for people with diabetes to achieve blood sugar control and live the life of their dreams.

Dr. Yates is an internationally recognized speaker and expert in diabetes and heart disease. She is a published author of Heart Health for Black Women: A Natural Approach to Healing and Preventing Heart Disease, and co-author of multiple books, including with Jack Canfield, The Soul of Success, Vol. 2.

Dr. Yates has been featured in numerous media outlets, including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, Black News Channel, Fox, Sirius XM, MindBodyGreen, Essence Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Women’s World, Readers Digest, Rodale Press, and more.

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