The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

by Jason Fung

drugs won’t cure

a

dietary d...

Imagine your body as a big sugar

bowl. At birth, the bowl is empty. Over several decades, you eat sugar and refined carbohydrates and the bowl gradually fills up. When you next eat, sugar comes in and spills over the sides of the bowl because the bowl is already full.

When you eat sugar, ...

secretes the hormone insulin to help move the sugar into your cells, where it’s used for...

off that sugar sufficiently, then over decades your cells become completely filled an...

The next time you eat sugar, insulin cannot force any more of it into your overflowing cells, so it spills out into the blood. Sugar travels in your blood in a form called glucose, and having too much ...

of

type 2 di...

When there’s too much glucose in the blood, insulin does not appear to be doing its usual job of moving the sugar into the cells. We then say that the body has become insulin resistant, but it’s not truly insulin’s fault. 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...

In response to excess glucose in the blood, the body secretes even more insulin to overcome this resistance. This forces more...

to...

blood levels ...

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

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 c...

problem, of course, is ...

Remember the bowl that was overflowing with sugar? It still is. Insulin has simply moved the glucose from the blood, where you could se...

So the very next time you...

spills out into the blood again and you inject insulin to cram it into your body. Whether you think of it as an overstuffed suitcase or an overfl...

over ...

And here’s the thing: if you are taking more and more medications to keep your blood glucose at the same level, your diabetes is actually getting worse.

you can’t use drugs to cure a dietary disease.

ONCE WE UNDERSTAND that type 2 diabetes is simply too much sugar in the body, the solution becomes obvious. Get rid of the sugar. Don’t hide it away. Get rid of it. There are really only two ways to accomplish this. 1.Put less sugar in. 2.Burn off remaining sugar. That’s it. That’s all we need to do. The best part? It’s all natural and completely free. No drugs. No surgery. No cost.

You should maintain a moderate, not high, intake of protein. When it is digested, dietary protein, such

meat, breaks down into amino acids. Adequate protein is required for good health, but excess amino acids cannot be stored in the body and

so the...

converts them into glucose....

eating too much protein ad...

the body. So you should avoid highly processed, concentrated protein sources ...

protein bars, and 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 healthy effects on both heart disease and d...

f...

And fasting is the simplest and surest method to force your body to

burn

s...

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 ene...

source of food energy. Therefore, if you lengthen your periods of fasting, you can b...

The secret to reversing type 2 diabetes now lies within our grasp. All it requires is having an open mind to accept a new

paradigm and the

courage to challenge co...

wisdom. You know the basi...

ready to get started. But to really understand why type 2 diabetes is an epidemic and what you can do to effe...

Dietary fat was falsely believed to increase blood cholesterol levels, leading to heart disease. Physicians

advocated lower-fat diets, and the demonization of dietary fat began in earnest. The problem, though we didn’t see it at the time, was that

restricting dietary fats meant increasing dietary carbohydrates, as both create a feeling of satiety (fullness). In the developed wo...