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This article is authored by Dr.
HYMAN
(Watch his videos below)
New Research Finds Diabetes Can Be
Reversed
I have recently spent more time in drugs stores than I would like helping my
sister on her journey through (and hopefully to the other side of) cancer. Rite
Aid, CVS and Walgreens all had large diabetes sections offering support for a
"diabetes lifestyle"—glucose monitors, lancets, blood pressure cuffs, medications,
supplements and pharmacy magazines heavily supported by pharmaceutical advertising.
Patients are encouraged to get their eye check ups, monitor their blood pressure,
track their blood sugars, have foot exams and see their doctor's regularly for
better management of their blood sugars—all apparently sensible advice for
diabetics.
But what if type 2 diabetes could be completely reversed? What if it wasn't, as we
believe, an inexorable, progressive disease that has to be better "managed" by our
health care system with better drugs, surgery and coordination of care? What if
intensive lifestyle and dietary changes could completely reverse diabetes?
A ground breaking new study in Diabetologia proved that, indeed, type 2 diabetes
can be reversed through diet changes, and, the study showed, this can happen
quickly: in 1 to 8 weeks. That turns our perspective on diabetes upside down.
Diabetes is not a one-way street.
We used to believe that once cells in your pancreas that make insulin (beta cells)
poop out there was no reviving them and your only hope was more medication or
insulin. We now know that is not so.
Continuing misconceptions about what causes diabetes and our unwillingness to
embrace methods know to reverse it have lead to a catastrophic increase in the
illness. Today one in four Americans over 60 years old has type 2 diabetes. By
2020, one in two Americans will have pre-diabetes or diabetes.
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