The Diabetes Code Quotes

“fasting is the simplest and surest method to force your body to burn sugar.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“The key to the proper treatment of type 2 diabetes is to get rid of the excess sugar, not just move it around the body. The problem is both too much glucose and too much insulin.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“The root cause of the hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes is high insulin resistance.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“If the situation is getting worse, then the only logical explanation is that our understanding and treatment of type 2 diabetes is fundamentally flawed.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“Fatty liver is a completely reversible process. Emptying the liver of its surplus glucose and dropping insulin levels returns the liver to normal. Hyperinsulinemia drives DNL, which is the primary determinant of fatty liver disease. Normalizing insulin levels reverses the fatty liver. Refined carbohydrates, which cause large increases in insulin, are far more sinister than dietary fat. High carbohydrate intake can increase DNL tenfold, whereas high fat consumption, with correspondingly low carbohydrate intake, does not change hepatic fat production”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“1.Stop putting sugar in (low-carbohydrate diets, intermittent fasting). 2.Burn remaining sugar off (intermittent fasting).”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“All the conditions we thought were problems—obesity, insulin resistance, and beta cell dysfunction—are actually the body’s solutions to a single root cause—too much sugar.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“Metabolic syndrome, of which obesity and type 2 diabetes are a key part, are ultimately caused by—you guessed it—too much sugar.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“failure of insulin to lower blood glucose is called insulin resistance.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“HOPE FOR THE FUTURE TYPE 2 DIABETES is currently the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer. But it doesn’t have to be our future. The pages of The Obesity Code and The Diabetes Code contain the knowledge to reverse type 2 diabetes. This is not the end, but only the beginning. A new hope arises. A new dawn breaks.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“You should maintain a moderate, not high, intake of protein. When it is digested, dietary protein, such as 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 liver converts them into glucose. Therefore, eating too much protein adds sugar to the body. So you should avoid highly processed, concentrated protein sources such as protein shakes, protein bars, and protein powders.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“Durante los períodos de ayuno, los órganos grandes, como el hígado, el corazón, el páncreas y los músculos esqueléticos, queman grasa, para que la glucosa, por escasa que sea, esté disponible para el cerebro. Este mecanismo de supervivencia esencial alarga el tiempo que los seres humanos pueden sobrevivir sin comer.”
― Jason Fung, El código de la diabetes: Prevenir y revertir la diabetes tipo 2 de manera natural

“Normalmente, este sistema bien diseñado y equilibrado permanece autorregulado: comemos, la insulina sube y almacenamos energía como glucógeno y grasa. Ayunamos, la insulina baja y usamos el glucógeno y la grasa que tenemos almacenados.”
― Jason Fung, El código de la diabetes: Prevenir y revertir la diabetes tipo 2 de manera natural

“During fasting, the body opens up its ample supply of stored food—body fat. Basal metabolism stays high, and instead of using food as our fuel, we use food our bodies have stored as body fat. After all, that’s exactly why we stored it in the first place. Now we have enough energy to go out and hunt some woolly mammoth. During fasting, we first burn glycogen stored in the liver. When that is finished, we use body fat. Oh hey, good news: there’s plenty of fat stored here. Burn, baby, burn. And since there is plenty of fuel, there is no reason for basal metabolism to drop. That’s the difference between long-term weight loss and a lifetime of despair. That’s the knife edge between success and failure. Simply put, fasting provides beneficial hormonal changes that are entirely prevented by the constant intake of food, even when the calories in that food are reduced. It is the intermittency of the fasting that makes it so much more effective.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“Therefore, eating too much protein adds sugar to the body. So you should avoid highly processed, concentrated protein sources such as protein shakes, protein bars, and protein powders.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“2006, the FDA approved a new class of medications called the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors. These drugs are designed to lower blood glucose by blocking the breakdown of incretins, which are hormones released in the stomach that increase insulin secretion in response to food. High incretin levels stimulate insulin release; however, this insulin response is not sustained and therefore these drugs do not cause weight gain. The risk of hypoglycemia is also low.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“Using medications like insulin to hide the blood glucose in the tissues of the body is ultimately destructive.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“If this high glucose level were toxic in the blood, why wouldn’t it also be toxic inside the cells?”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“fatty acids are absorbed directly and do not pass through the liver before entering into the regular bloodstream.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“Little did we know that we were, in essence, making human foie gras.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“After all, you don’t pick dinner rolls from the tree. You don’t grow a bottle of vegetable oil. The most important rule of all is to just eat real food. If the food you are eating looks like it does when you see it in nature, it is probably good for you.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

“High-fructose corn syrup contains 55 percent fructose, which means it’s sugar, not corn.”
― Jason Fung, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally