Name: How to reverse diabetes type 2
Uploaded: 2020-01-16T13:52:41.000Z
Duration: 10 min 24 s
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We are told that this is a chronic and progressive disorder.

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That means that once you develop type 2 diabetes,

you're going to have it for life and there's nothing you can do about it.

You're going to be on medications, you're going to be on insulin

and then you're going to develop the complications.

Blindness, nerve damage, amputations, heart attack,

Imagine a world where type 2 diabetes is a simple reversible disorder

where a simple dietary maneuver can reverse your diabetes in a matter of weeks.

The American Diabetes Association of course disagrees.

They say right on their website that it's a fact

that for most people type 2 diabetes  is a progressive disease.

Don't even try to get better,  it's hopeless.

and we can see that this  is actually not true at all.

Let me give you some of these examples -  bariatric surgery.

Bariatric surgery is also called weight loss surgery or stomach stapling.

What they do is they take your stomach and they cut it to the size of a walnut,

Because you're not eating, you're going to lose a lot of weight.

In this study they randomized two groups of people.

One group of people stayed on their medications

and got the best medical therapy available.

On the horizontal axis is time over 12 months.

On the vertical axis is the number  of medications that these people were taking.

You can see that the number of medications that people took

while doing the best medical therapy available, really didn't change.

They kept taking the same number of medications,

they're really no better  than they were when they started.

But look at the weight loss surgery group.

they're coming off all their medications and it keeps going.

By 12 months many of these people are off of all their medications

and their blood sugars are completely normal.

Wasn't this a chronic and progressive disorder?

Wasn't this a disorder where there's no treatment

and there's nothing you can do, it'll get worse?

Well not really, not according to this study.

It looks like diabetes is a disease that's reversible.

But better than that, it's quickly reversible.

And even other types of weight loss surgery, such as gastric banding,

Gastric banding is a procedure where they put a belt inside your stomach

is that the diabetes very quickly reverses and it stays gone.

So this is not a chronic and progressive disorder, this is a reversible disorder.

I'm not saying that gastric banding or weight loss surgery is the answer for everybody,

but it simply points to the fact that the situation is different

where you don't eat anything for a certain period of time.

I had this patient here, Richard,  who came to me for treatment of his diabetes.

He had been diabetic for 10 years,  he was taking about 70 units of insulin

He was getting eye disease, he was getting kidney disease.

So we changed his diet,  we put him on a low carbohydrate diet

and we included some intermittent fasting in his regimen.

Over a period of months he lost about 50 pounds.

We took him off all of his insulin, we took him off all of his medications

Even two years out now he is still on no medications

Fasting seems to lead to a reversal of his diabetes.

Dr. Elliott Joslin, perhaps the most famous diabetes specialists in history,

wrote this in the Canadian medical journal...

"That temporary periods of under-nutrition are helpful in the treatment of diabetes

after these two years  of experience with fasting."

So what happened was that  he had been using fasting for two years

that it's going to be obvious, everybody is going to know this.

At the time he didn't differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Well, it's very beneficial for type 2 diabetes, it really doesn't impact type 1 very much.

And with the discovery of insulin a few years later

and everybody forgot  about these dietary therapies.

Dr. Taylor performed a study called "The counterpoint study"

and there he put people on very low calorie diets.

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