The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

by Jason Fung

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.

Obesity is a hormonal imbalance, not a caloric one. The hormonal problem in undesired weight gain is mainly excessive insulin. Thus, type 2 diabetes, too, is a disease about insulin imbalance rather than caloric imbalance.

Both obesity and type 2 diabetes are manifestations of the same underlying problem: hyperinsulinemia. Their close relationship has given rise to the term “diabesity,” which implicitly acknowledges that they are one and the same disease.

Despite forty years of research trying to link dietary fat, dietary cholesterol, and heart disease, not a single shred of evidence could be found.10

All the scientific evidence has consistently refuted the dearly held belief that reducing dietary fat would lead to weight loss and reduce heart disease.

How often have we heard type 2 diabetes called a chronic and progressive disease? This idea has only become accepted as if it were fact because we have spent decades treating the symptom (hyperglycemia) rather than the cause.

•Type 2 diabetes is a largely reversible disease. •With the standard treatments of low-calorie, reduced-fat diets and medications (including insulin), type 2 diabetes progresses.

most cases of type 2 diabetes are being treated incorrectly. That is why type 2 diabetes has become an epidemic. The problem is not the disease but our treatment and understanding of it.

Due to its unique metabolic pathway, fructose is many times more likely to cause insulin resistance than glucose.

It’s time to stop pretending type 2 diabetes is a chronic and progressive disease, and it’s time to stop treating it that way. Clearly type 2 diabetes is a dietary and lifestyle disease. To pretend otherwise is pure self-deception. But here’s what is important. A dietary disease requires a dietary treatment.