The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

by Jason Fung

But only diet and lifestyle changes—not medications—will reverse this disease, simply because type 2 diabetes is largely a dietary disease. The most important determinant, of course, is weight loss.

Each person's body behaves in a different way as per doctors and other writings. So, this can work but only up to a certain extent.

Insulin, for example, is notorious for causing weight gain. Once patients start on insulin injections for type 2 diabetes, they often sense they are heading down the wrong path.

The problem is not the disease; the problem is the way we treat the disease.

I think many doctors today just prescribe drugs instead of first trying a change of diet and behaviour approach.

The primary problem is that the cells are overflowing with glucose. The high blood glucose is only part of the issue. Not only is there too much glucose in the blood, there’s too much glucose in all of the cells. Type 2 diabetes is simply an overflow phenomenon that occurs when there is too much glucose in the entire body.

In response to excess glucose in the blood, the body secretes even more insulin to overcome this resistance. This forces more glucose into the overflowing cells to keep blood levels normal. This works, but the effect is only temporary because it has not addressed the problem of excess sugar; it has only moved the excess from the blood to the cells, making insulin resistance worse.

At some point, even with more insulin, the body cannot force any more glucose into the cells. Think about packing a suitcase. At first, the clothes go into the empty suitcase without any trouble. Once the suitcase is full, however, it becomes difficult to jam in those ...

The better solution is to remove some of the clothes from the suitcase.

What happens in the body if we do not remove the excess glucose? First, the body keeps increasing the amount of insulin it produces to try to force more glucose into the cells. But this only creates more insulin resistance, in what then becomes a vicious cycle. When the insulin levels can no longer keep pace with rising resistance, blood glucose spikes. That’s when your doctor is likely to diagnose type 2 diabetes.

drugs do not rid the body of excess glucose. Instead, they simply continue to take the glucose out of the blood and ram it back into the body.

It then gets shipped out to other organs, such as the kidneys, the nerves, the eyes, and the heart, where it can eventually create other problems. The underlying problem, of course, is unchanged.

Insulin has simply moved the glucose from the blood, where you could see it, into the body, where you cannot.

The more glucose you force your body to accept, the more insulin your body needs to overcome the resistance to it. But this insulin only creates more resistance as the cells become more and more distended. Once you’ve exceeded what your body can produce naturally, medications can take over.

But the standard treatment for type 2 diabetes follows the same flawed logic of hiding the glucose instead of eliminating it. If we understand that too much glucose in the blood is toxic, why can’t we understand that too much glucose in the body is also toxic?

Standard medications do not prevent the progression of organ failure because they do not help excrete the toxic sugar load. No less than seven multinational, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trials have proved that standard medications that lower blood glucose do not reduce heart disease, the major killer of diabetic patients.

ONCE WE UNDERSTAND that type 2 diabetes is simply too much sugar in the body, the solution becomes obvious. Get rid of the sugar.

There are really only two ways to accomplish this.

1.Put less sugar in. 2.Burn off rem...

Complex carbohydrates, which are simply long chains of sugars, and highly refined carbohydrates, such as flour, are quickly digested into glucose. The optimum strategy is to limit or eliminate breads and pastas made from white flour, as well as white rice and potatoes.

You should maintain a moderate, not high, intake of protein.

Adequate protein is required for good health, but excess amino acids cannot be stored in the body and so the liver converts them into glucose. Therefore, eat...

So you should avoid highly processed, concentrated protein sources such as protein shakes, protei...

Natural fats, such as those found in avocados, nuts, and olive oil—major components of the Mediterranean diet—have a minimal effect on blood glucose or insulin and are well known to have ...

Eggs and butter are also excellent sources o...

To put less sugar into your body, stick to whole, natural, unprocessed foods. Eat a diet low in refined carbohydrates, moderate in protein, and high in natural fats.

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Step 2: Burn off remaining sugar EXERCISE—BOTH RESISTANCE AND aerobic training—can have a beneficial effect on type 2 diabetes,

And fasting is the simplest and surest method to force your body to burn sugar. 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 don’t eat, will your blood glucose come down? Of course. If you don’t eat, will you lose weight? Of course.

To burn off sugar, a popular strategy is to fast for 24 hours, two to three times per week. Another popular approach is to fast for 16 hours, five to six times per week.

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type 1, or insulin-dependent diabetes, and type 2, or non-insulin dependent diabetes.

Worse, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased only in the last forty years, making it clear that this is not some genetic disease or part of the normal aging process but a lifestyle issue.

Classification of diabetes and prediabetes according to A1C blood glucose levels A1C Classification < 5.7% Normal 5.7%–6.4% Prediabetes > 6.5% Diabetes

Prediabetes is the in-between stage, where blood glucose levels are abnormally high, but not quite high enough to be considered diabetic.

Overall, type 2 diabetes accounts for approximately 90–95 percent of diabetes cases worldwide. It typically develops gradually over many years and progresses in an orderly manner from normal to prediabetes to full-blown type 2 diabetes. The risk increases with age and obesity. Hyperglycemia occurs due to insulin resistance, rather than the lack of insulin, as in type 1 diabetes.

The failure of insulin to lower blood glucose is called insulin resistance. The body overcomes this resistance by increasing insulin secretion to maintain normal blood glucose levels. The price to be paid is high insulin levels. However, this compensation has a limit. When insulin secretion fails to keep pace with increasing resistance, blood glucose rises, leading to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.

DIABETES, UNLIKE VIRTUALLY every other known disease, has the unique and malignant potential to devastate our entire body. Practically no organ system remains unaffected by diabetes. These complications are generally classified as either microvascular (small blood vessels) or macrovascular (large blood vessels). Certain organs, such as the eyes, kidneys, and nerves, are mostly supplied by small blood vessels.

There are many contributing factors to the higher rates of infection. High blood glucose may impair the immune system. As well, poor blood circulation decreases the ability of infection-fighting white blood cells to reach all parts of the body.

WHEREAS MOST DISEASES are limited to a single organ system, diabetes affects every organ in multiple ways. As a result, it is the leading cause of blindness. It is the leading cause of kidney failure. It is the leading cause of heart disease. It is the leading cause of stroke. It is the leading cause of amputations. It is the leading cause of dementia. It is the leading cause of infertility. It is the leading cause of nerve damage.

We focus obsessively on lowering blood glucose. But high blood glucose is only the symptom, not the cause. The root cause of the hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes is high insulin resistance.