Medical Ways of Treating Diabetes

One; a standard method, that does not work.

Neal Barnard, Treating Diabetes Naturally - A Vegetarian Diet

Dr Barnard builds a good case for adopting a low-fat vegetarian diet to REVERSE diabetes. He claims clinical and practical success with patients. Vegetarian diets are still strongly supported by many Americans. I think that is driven by strong ethical and religious values, among some groups. On the other hand, many students of bio-chemistry and physiology, argue that there is no scientific basis for recommending a vegetarian diet. The major professional nutrition forum on the Internet, has banned posts from people claiming that vegetarian diets are healthy, because that claim has no scientific support.

Open Future Health believes the above video is unhelpful. We don't recommend it at all.

Two; a new method, that does work within the treatment guidelines.

Jason Fung, Treating Diabetes by Fasting

I'm very impressed by Dr Fung's presentation. The clarity of his description of the interaction between carbohydrate and insulin is excellent. He then recommends fasting to reduce the glycogen stored in your body, and the glucose load in the blood. I wondered why on earth he would do that. And concluded that it was a way to preserve his status as a "professional" within standard practice.

At the end of the lecture he confirms that fasting was simply an alternative to a low carbohydrate diet. The ketogenic way of achieving the same result, is the simple reduction of obvious carbohydrates to less than 50gm a day. This lecture is very informative.

Three; another new method, that does work outside the treatment guidelines.

"Reversing Type 2 diabetes through diet with Dr David Unwin"

Peppermint Wellness: Published on 21 Jun 2017
This is the skinny version, there is a longer video below.

"Dr. David Unwin - resolving Diabetes and Obesity - with Science"

Ivor Cummins: Published on 9 Oct 2017

Dr Tim Noakes

Dr Noakes, tells us that diabetes is a disseminated vascular disease caused by our poor diet. Our diet forces the body to continually produce insulin, after some time carbohydrate intolerance/insulin resistance develops. That causes the body to store fat, the fat we notice around our hips and belly, but more importantly the fat we don't notice around our liver and other internal organs. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is an early sign of type 2 diabetes, but like insulin resistance, it's usually never diagnosed.

Dr. Jason Fung

The Intensive Dietary Management (IDM) Program was developed by Dr. Jason Fung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The program focuses on treating our generation's great epidemic – metabolic syndrome. This is a spectrum of disease including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, fatty liver, Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Diabetes puts people further at risk for heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease (PVD) including amputation, blindness, kidney disease and more.

Open Future believes Dr Fung's description of diabetes and how to treat it, makes complete sense.

There are also numerous lectures and podcasts by Dr Fung that you can explore at your leisure.

If you've got an hour to spare, here is Dr Jason Fung, giving a lecture for physicians, about the causes of diabetes and it's cure by simple dietary methods.

More Information about Diabetes

Type I diabetes. This is the diabetes that seems to be an autoimmune response perhaps caused by genetic factors.

Type II diabetes. This is caused by a faulty lifestyle and diet. Sadly the "healthy diet" we've been told to eat is the prime cause of type II diabetes.

Type III diabetes; we usually call it Alzheimer's. Just as we can force type II diabetes into remission by dietary methods, we can do the same to stop or reverse Alzheimer's.