New Book Blood Sugar Dogs: Steady Glucose, Real Energy, and the Life You Want · Releasing World Diabetes Day, November 14, 2026
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Blood sugar instability touches everything for everyone, — your energy, your weight, your mood, your sleep, how fast you age. It is particularly important to find the simple approaches for stability --h especially those with any form of diabetes. Most people don't connect those dots until something forces them to. You don't have to wait that long.
(There are now 8 forms: metabolic disease, T1D, T2D, LADA, ... and even including Alzheimer’s!)
Blood Sugar Dogs shows you what a dog noticed before any device could — and how you can train your own dog to do the same. Part memoir, part science, part practical guide, built from forty years of living with Type 1.
prediabetes or diabetes
well with Type 1
Karin Collinsworth · Type 1 Diabetic Since 1996 · DCCT/EDIC Longitudinal Study Participant · 500-hr Registered Yoga Teacher · 40 Years of Health Research, Yoga, Ayurveda & Nutrition · Public Health & Systems Thinker · Foreword by Raymond Aaron
Holistic Vitality Series · Book 1
Part memoir, part science, part practical guide. Begins with Cocoa — and the fact that the body sends signals long before symptoms appear. Foreword by Raymond Aaron.
- The science and reality of blood sugar alert dogs
- Strategies for stable glucose and healthy aging
- 40 years of lived experience in practical tools
- Stabilize the system first — everything else follows
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Stability isn't a feeling.
It's a system.
Blood sugar doesn't exist in isolation. It talks to your hormones, your sleep, your stress response, your inflammation levels, your mood. When you stabilize glucose, everything else gets quieter. Energy returns. Weight becomes easier to regulate. Brain fog lifts.
Most approaches treat the symptom. Blood Sugar Dogs looks at the whole system — and finds the leverage points that actually compound over time.
- Glucose stability and metabolic health fundamentals
- Reducing chronic inflammation through food, movement, and rhythm
- Energy management — not just the afternoon crash
- Longevity practices from yogic science and Ayurveda
- How to train your own dog to read blood sugar shifts before any device can
- Building systems that outlast your willpower
80% don't know it.
Type 2 is largely preventable with the right systems.
Type 2 diabetes in their lifetime without intervention.
You don't have to have a diagnosis yet
to feel like your body is fighting you.
Your energy is unreliable
You crash after meals, drag through afternoons, wake up already tired. You've tried cutting things out, adding things in. Nothing sticks because the underlying system is still unstable.
You want to age without more medications
You're watching what's happening to people around you and want a different story. Curious about longevity, your body's signals — you want to work with your biology, not override it.
You're managing a diagnosis — or trying to avoid one
Prediabetes, Type 2, Type 1, or persistent metabolic drift. This book comes from someone who's lived it for four decades and figured out what actually works.
I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1996 and enrolled in the DCCT/EDIC longitudinal study — one of the most significant diabetes clinical trials in history. Forty years of data on my own body, and forty years combining that research with yoga, Ayurveda, and systems thinking. My dog Cocoa learned to detect my glucose shifts before my monitor could. The body communicates long before it reaches crisis. That's the premise of this book — and the training method is one you can use with your own dog, too.
Karin also works with a limited number of 1:1 coaching clients on metabolic health and stability. See details →
What it is like to
work with Karin
Working with Karin has been illuminating. It's a joy and a relief to have somebody come at my health — physical and mental — from so many different angles. I finally feel seen, which is not how I leave most traditional medicine appointments. Karin is a forest thinker, overlaying the details gleaned from a variety of different wisdom systems on each other. I'm reading these new insights about myself with a sense of recognition, and trying out the concrete suggestions from her — so far so good. I suspect it just deepens from here.
Working with Karin made me feel like I had a map and a true understanding of practices I could use to manage my metabolism and stabilize blood sugars for better mood and memory. I'm truly grateful.
Karin's unique blend of blood sugar control, nutrition, and yoga-inspired methods is effective and life-changing. As a mentor, she's one of a kind and worth every penny. She's a joy to work with and super generous with the support and information she provides through the journey.
Karin is an extraordinary, profoundly energetic coach. She brings expertise in championing change — using her passion to support people in shifting the trajectory of their lives.