Diabetes Group

What we do

Life Medicine’s diabetes groups use all the tools of lifestyle medicine to help you achieve your health goals. After an initial consultation to find out what’s most important to you, you will embark on either a 3-month or 6-month journey of full-spectrum lifestyle change. Unlike the diabetes care visits you might be used to, we don’t just tell you what to do – Dr Weiss and our Life Medicine staff do it with you, every week. Tailored uniquely to your goals, this physician-supervised journey will involve a personalized exercise and movement program, nutrition and diet counselling, cooking classes, and group psychotherapy. 

Who can join  

Our Life Medicine diabetes groups are available to any adult with type 2 diabetes. There is no age limit and consultations can be arranged either by physician-referral or self-referral. There are no automatic exclusions for any co-existing physical health conditions. All you need is a health card and a willingness to participate! 

Quick Facts

• Life Medicine’s diabetes groups consist of weekly, 75-minute evening sessions running for 3-month or 6-month intervals. 

• You won’t just sit there learning how to get better. Each session is an active, hands-on experience.

• Each weekly session focuses on a different aspect of managing type 2 diabetes. For some patients, this may simply lead to better glucose control, for others it can eventually lead to a full remission of diabetes.*

• Multidisciplinary lifestyle treatments like ours have been shown to decrease Hemoglobin A1C values by 0.6% to 1.8% in as little as six sessions!**

• All physician services are covered by OHIP. For patients with private insurance, we do offer additional, privately covered services such as physiotherapy and massage therapy. These additional services are available at low-cost to those without private insurance.