Reverse diabetes......

using a combination of limiting refined carbs, following a meditteranea diet and fasting
Maybe its just me, but it seems a tad simplistic


How to Reverse Diabetes

Once we understand type 2 diabetes, then the solution becomes pretty bloody obvious. If we have too much sugar in the body, then get rid of it. Don’t simply hide it away so we can’t see it. There are really only two ways to get rid of the excessive sugar in the body.

1. Don’t put sugar in.
2. Burn it off.

That’s it. That’s all we need to do. The best part? It’s all natural and completely free. No drugs. No surgery. No cost.

Step 1 – Don’t put sugar in

The first step is to eliminate all sugar and refined starches from your diet. Sugar has no nutritional value and can therefore be eliminated. Starches are simply long chains of sugars. Highly refined starches such as flour or white rice are quickly broken down by digestion into glucose. This is quickly absorbed into the blood and raises blood sugar. For example, eating white bread increases blood sugars very quickly. Doesn’t it seem self-evident that we should avoid foods that raise blood sugars because they will eventually be absorbed into the body? The optimum strategy is to eat little or no refined carbohydrates.

Too much dietary protein is also converted into glucose by the body. Therefore, you should avoid eating too much protein as this, too will only add sugar to the body. Protein shakes, protein bars, and protein powders should all be avoided. Instead focus on eating lots of vegetables and natural healthy fats.

Dietary fat, long shunned for its purported effect of causing heart disease, is back. Natural fats, such as found in avocado, nuts and olive oil are well known to have healthy effects on both heart disease and diabetes. The Mediterranean diet, high in natural fats, is well accepted to be a healthy diet. Dietary cholesterol has also been shown to have no harmful effect on the human body. Eggs and butter are back.

Most importantly, stick to eating whole, natural, unprocessed foods.

Step 2 – Burn it off

Fasting is the simplest and fastest method to force your body to burn sugar for energy. Glucose in the blood is the most easily accessible source of energy for the body. Fasting is merely the flip side of eating – if you are not eating you are fasting. When you eat, your body stores food energy. When you fast, your body burns food energy. If you simply lengthen out your periods of fasting, you can burn off the stored sugar.

Since type 2 diabetes is merely excessive glucose in the body, burning it off will reverse the disease. While it may sound severe, fasting has been practiced for at least 2000 years. It is the oldest dietary therapy known. Literally millions of people throughout human history have fasted without problems. If you are taking prescription medications, you should seek the advice of a physician. But the bottom line comes to this.

If you don’t eat, will your blood sugars come down? Of course.

If you don’t eat, will you lose weight? Of course.

So, what’s the problem? None that I can see.

We can reverse type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes today, right now, immediately. All without cost, without drugs, without surgery, with an all natural, time-tested healing method. We only need to lead our bodies down the healing pathway and have the courage to apply our hard-won knowledge

Ive read what he has written. I also know that in my case at least, his assertion that “of course your blood sugars will come down if you dont eat” is incorrect - mine go up
Whilst I agree with much of what he says, there are also strong critiques out there e.g. diabetes warrior

Several days of fasting or over a week of 24 hr fasting = sugars up 5-6 points, ketones high ( outside or nutritional ketosis range)

bulkbiker said:

So how high did they go and have you tried it recently?

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Sugars low - mid teens, ketones over 7 and yes

I would agree theres something more going on but who knows what.
What I do know is that I was diagnosed T2 over 20 years ago and manage to keep hba1c in the pre / non diabetic range using a combination of diet and medication. In the Uk ( at least) T2 diabetes seems to be something of a “catch all” diagnosis with increasing evidence of misdiagnosis - as such any theory that says “ obviously just do x and you will reverse your diabetes” is going to be inappropriate in a significant number of cases which are exceptions to the assumed norm
. To my mind, any theory that does not / cannot account for and explain the exceptions is a simplistic theory. Reminds me rather too much of the doctors who explain people failing to lose weight following their advice, by saying that the patient is either lying or “forgetting” (polite word for lying) about what theyve eaten

kokhongw said:

Even Dr Roy Taylor mentioned this in his 2011 paper...
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blo...etiology-and-reversibility.1828/#comment-2253


It would usually take 2-3 days to deplete/exhaust our glycogen store. And it is then safe to ramp up the ketones production...

I wonder what is causing your glucose to continue rising...

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Im assuming my livers having a fun time making more glucose, but who knows

kokhongw said:

Have you ever had c-peptide or fasting insulin taken to gauge your insulin level?

I was fortunate to have my fasting insulin measured on diagnosis and it came out high. So Dr Jason Fung's approach works for me. 2 skipped dinner was all I needed to dropped fasting BG from 8+ to 5.5 mmol.

But my sister who has been diagnosed T2D 10 years earlier has been having a more difficult time normalizing her glucose level even after deciding to go carbs lite/IF over the past 3 months. Her fasting levels remains 8+ mmols. She needs to have background insulin 4 units Lantus to maintain a fasting BG < 8 mmol level.

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No no other tests. One medic raised the question of monogenic diabetes but no tests have ever been done. I generally manage to keep my overnight fasting BM in the 6-7 range. Ive been under the hospital diabetes team for years

Yes although I do not think its very helpful to imply that some people with a T2 diagnosis do not have ‘true ‘ T2
It becomes a problem when people cite his thinking to justify advocating particular approaches to T2 without adding the caveat that the theory is predicated on the assumption of endogenous insulin levels being high and that it is not applicable to all situations attracting a T2 diagnosis