I have reversed my diabetes.
A1C is 5
all lipid factore better than normal
fasting and post prandial normal no matter what I eat

I lost 84 lbs refuse to eat trans fat
I take 1/2 of a b complex
2 grams fish oil
500 mg metformin
fennugreek seed soaked in water over night 1 tbsp
2tbsp pyllium husk with evening meal
1tsp turmeric and capsule of bromelain
pycnogenol occasionally
sub lingual vit b12 methylcobalamin ocasasionally
ride a motor cycle and walk every day
this winter i will weight train
The adage that diabetes is progressive I believe is correct
I check blood sugar after a heavy carb meal everything is good
as I grow older I will return to modern medicine ie insulin

Nice work, origana!!

I had gastric bypass surgery in July and am down 55 pounds. I left the hospital off all my diabetic meds. I went to my pcp last week and they did blood work. They said I'm still considered diabetic because my a1c is 7.1. If it goes 6 or under I'll not be considered diabetic anymore. I was on 5-9 insuling shots a day plus 2 oral meds and off everything now. I don't know your whole story but maybe just losing some weight will bring your a1c's down. I also came off my thyroid meds and cholesterol meds. So I am off a total of 7 meds. Maybe a just basic as improving your health might make you able to come off the meds. Good luck!

MDs do not believe diabetes is curable.

Origana3, you RAWK.

I have been told that I could reverse diabetes but have not done so yet. I am 9 and I know people are on tabs for that - rather worried, having a test next week and will see how it goes, I so want to reverse it, the docs in U.K. dont seem to take it very seriously..:(

Hi LyndaC1947,

I'm type 2 and was heading towards medicine but managed to reverse the *trend* back to "normal" lipids and in fact better than average in all counts for my age. Origana3 has done a great job and I've read carefully the supplements which I will try also.

However, I don't think that diabetes is reversible itself. The trends are reversible and many of the symptoms controllable but I think that it remains in us at least dormant but more likely in remission and there is also damage to organs and for example blood vessels which we don't know can be fully repaired.

In my case although my numbers are very normal, and I drink red wine and have a piece of dark chocolate regularly for example, and eat steak etc, there are latent signs of neuropathy and also rashes and such that I did not have before. So that tells me that it is hanging about.

But, coming to your question, you can have a lot to look forward to through a good food program and exercise program, and that's what I have proven to myself, even though I am still diabetic. I don't need to take any medicine. (How any of this applies to a type 1, I have no idea but it can't do any harm).

So how about Dr Barnard and the other peddlers of their own self-interest? For a start you have to recognise exactly that - that they are acting from their own self-interest not yours. As a general comment "Drs" who do this are more insidious than the straight peddlers because they give themselves an air of credibiity which is rarely deserved.

Secondly, you talked about "looking forward" and the concept of having a life - if you will be happy being a vegen then Dr Banards' book will do you no harm. It will noone any harm as there is nothing wrong with being vegen and the book is educational to read - IF you are at all interested.

But don't think that it is a cure or magic, it's just the first installment and the free steak knives will appear in due course.

If you do not see being a vegen as the way you want to live your life there are credible other ways to attack your diabetes, to start to reverse the progressive trends, and to bring it into control and to give you a good life.

Whatever you do requires you to have the will, and because you are here asking those questions I think you've already started that journey. Having started, I wouldn't like to see you get high hopes for a magical cure which can't be delivered.

I would start to create food plan and exercise goals which you can use as the basis to start transforming your lifestyle and take lots of notes and tips as from origana3 and especially start measuring yourself and seeing which choices deliver the most benefit for you - as we'll all different.

My benefits have been great, and its also been steady consistent and hard work.

Best wishes,
Walter Adamson
www.diabetorati.com

I was diagnosed as type 2 while I was at the National Institute of Health for a clinical study on my Turners Syndrome. The doctors there told me that I could reverse mine and get rid of it. So far I'm down 14 pounds and am working on it.

I tryed that for a few weeks but I coun`t stand the tast of the food we had to eat, allso you can`t have any dairy and I can`t remember the list of foods you can`t eat but its a lot, some people I guess it works for them IT din`t for me.

Hi maelynn, your comment that you couldn't stand all the food that you had to eat supports my idea that you have to start with what works for you.

The most important thing is to get started, and with information overload and suggestions to change everything about the way you eat and live it becomes too difficult. If someone CAN change drastically - like cold-turkey - then that's good because ultimately it does take substantial change to control your diabetes.

But where to start - my experience is to have simple goals:

1. eat 20% less and exercise 20% more so that you start to lose weight;
2. then as quickly as possible cut out all those foods that you already know are no good for diabetics - sugary food, drinks, simple floury things like cakes, white bread, crisps, snacks,
3. and start now reading labels more carefully and trashing the high sugar foods,
4. start drinking for teas like chamomile if you don't mind the taste,
5. replace higher fat meats with lean cuts e.g. lean pork for example if you like pork,
6. include avocado and nuts more but cut out other food so that you don't get too many calories in as these things have high calories
7. Get a meter and start measuring your blood sugar at the same time as you start altering your diet and see which combinations of food have the best result.

When you've got through that and understand what works and where you're having trouble then you can take more steps.

This is no doubt less than the experts want you to do but at least it gets you heading in the right direction. I lost a couple of years in denial, and then I started gradually and now I have good results.

Walter
www.diabetorati.com

DawnNicole I hope that your doctors comments are correct, however it is generally considered that diabetes is not curable however in many cases it is able to be well controlled (type 2) and especially if caught early.

As yours is very early type 2 and if you do all the right things then its highly likely that you will control it completely. But that's not the same as "getting rid of it" as it will remain in your system in the sense that you have to maintain your habits or it will start to develop again.

There is also damage to the linings of blood vessels which noone yet knows is reversible, in fact there is recent research saying that this damage is not reversible. That's what surprises me about your doctor's comments. That's not good news for us, but things change with new discoveries and as science progresses.

The key is to keep doing what you are doing so far as our waistlines are the key external measure of success in minimizing the risk of diabetes.

So if you can get your BMI to the normal range and your waistline to height/2 then your risk of diabetes is very much lower then being above those numbers. To do that takes the right food plan and exercise.

Good luck, Walter
www.diabetorati.com

Origana3 how do you easily recognize trans-fat foods and eliminate them from your diet?

Walter
www.diabetorati.com

There is only one way to get rid of diabetes and that is gastric bypass surgery. Something happens in the intestines with this surgery. I have seen it happen twice.

to LindaC - the only benefit this book has is make the author rich. It is a very very difficult diet to follow and don't think anyone can do it on an ongoing basis.

I didnt know gastric bypass surgery got rid of diabetis. Does it really do that Arinelli, or is it just controlled because of the weight loss. I agree about this book. It is just to make the aurthor rich.

Hi arlineH. While this is definitely a difficult regimen to follow, especially if you are a die hard carnivore, it is an excellent book and proven method to reverse insulin resistance (If you read the whole book...it explains the studies that have been going on since the 70s on this at places such as Harvard University,etc..). Anyway, all opinions are wanted here on dailysupport, but please do not deter people from this book. Even if one cannot follow it completely, there are many beneficial principles from this book that can be adopted(low fat, low GI carbs, importance of lots of vegetables in the diet). It really is an amazing program that works if you follow it 100%. I honestly wish that more people could follow it. I had dropped my fasting bs numbers from 180 to 90 within 4 weeks of this program. Prior to that, lo-carb wasn't doing anything for me. My levels were still at 180-190 going carb free. Anyway, my point is that everyone is different and what everyone is willing to try is also different, so let's all be positive with our comments, while maintaining the realism.