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Foods That Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes: Win-Win!

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The great thing about the foods that can reverse diabetes is that the same foods that reverse diabetes also can prevent and cure heart disease, auto-immune conditions, and most of the chronic diseases that have become so common, including type 2 diabetes.

Medical doctors who are leading experts in nutrition, including Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Terry Shintani, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., Dr. Michael, Dr. Michael Klaper, Dr. Alan Goldhamer, Dr. Baxter Montgomery, Dr. Steve Lawenda, and many more leading medical doctors with expertise in nutrition, agree that the foods that can reverse diabetes (type 2) are whole food plant-based foods. These board-certified medical doctors collectively have many decades of experience helping their patients reverse type 2 diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune conditions and other diseases and illnesses.

Learn more about these medical doctors who also are leading experts in nutrition here.

Many of these board-certified medical doctors also are best-selling authors, whose books discuss the medical studies, their own personal experience helping patients reverse type 2 diabetes in their medical practices, as well as easy to follow guidance to help you choose whole food plant-based nutrition — the foods that reverse diabetes (type 2).

There is some variation among these medical doctors in terms of which varieties of whole food plant-based foods they emphasize for overall health as well as specifically foods that reverse type 2 diabetes. Following are several variations of medical-doctor-recommended whole food plant-based foods for life that can reverse diabetes (as well as prevent and reverse many other illnesses and disease.)

Dr. Neal Barnard’s Expertise on the Foods that can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

In board-certified medical doctor Dr. Neal Barnard’s book, Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs, you can learn everything you need to know about the disease-reversal power of whole food plant-based nutrition, which are the foods that often result in reducing/eliminating diabetes medications (under your doctor’s medical supervision, as with any diet or lifestyle change) and even reversing type 2 diabetes.

As discussed in detail in Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs, here are some of the foods to include to reverse diabetes, as well as foods to avoid.

Image of Foods to Include for Diabetes Reversal from Dr. Neal Barnard's Program
Samples of foods to include from Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes. Courtesy Dr. Neal Barnard/PCRM.org.

FOODS TO INCLUDE for Reversing Type 2 Diabetes

(From Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes)

Fruits
Eat unlimited amounts of most fruits, including fruit smoothies (dairy-free) and assorted fresh fruits.

Beans and Legumes
Eat beans, peas, lentils, low-fat tofu, unsweetened soymilk, and fat-free soy foods such as veggie burgers and other meat alternatives.

Whole Grains
Carbohydrate-rich whole grains such as oatmeal, barley, couscous, rice, rye and pumpernickel breads, and pasta.

Vegetables
Eat lots of vegetables including low-glycemic vegetables such as yams and sweet poatoes, green beans, and cauliflower.

Foods to Avoid (for Reversing Type 2 Diabetes)

(From Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes)
AVOID Animal Products – Avoid all red meat, poultry, fish, all dairy products (regular and fat-free), and eggs.

AVOID High-Glycemic Foods – Avoid foods high on the glycemic index, which increase blood sugar too rapidly. These include sugar, white or wheat bread, most cold cereals, and baking potatoes.

AVOID Added Oils (including vegetable oils and other high-fat foods.) Keep added oils to a MINIMUM (or none at all) due to the high-fat content; also keep to a MINIMUM (or not at all) oily toppings, fried foods, peanut butter, olives. Also keep avocados to a minimum (due to high-fat content).

Read more about Dr. Neal Barnard and his explanation why and how whole food plant-based foods can reverse type 2 diabetes, and the role that animal products and fats have in causing type 2 diabetes here.

In addition, as a practical step-by-step introduction to switching to whole food plant-based nutrition, Dr. Neal Barnard offers his online 21-Day Kickstart Program free of charge. Did we mention? Dr. Barnard’s 21-Day Kickstart Program with recipes, meal plans and guidance is FREE.

Watch the short video below to learn more.

Dr. Barnard’s free 21-Day Kickstart program now is available in Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese as well as a free 21-Day Kickstart for people in India.

In addition to Dr. Barnard’s FREE online 21-Day Kickstart program, anyone with type 2 diabetes (and anyone who cares about someone with type 2 diabetes) should first read Dr.Barnard’s book, Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs, and consult with your doctor as you make these powerful changes for health so that your doctor can reduce and/or eliminate medications when and to the extent you no longer need them.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s Nutritarian Lifestyle and The End of Diabetes

Dr. Joel Fuhrman advocates a “nutritarian” lifestyle, (encouraging people to choose whole food plant-based foods giving priority within each group to the foods that have the most nutrients per calorie).

For type 2 diabetics, Dr. Fuhrman recommends a broad variety of green vegetables, beans, lentils and other legumes, non-starchy vegetables (including mushrooms, onions, garlic, peppers, eggplant), fresh fruits and nuts and seeds.

You can learn in detail about the foods that reverse diabetes (type 2) in Dr. Fuhrman’s book, The End of Diabetes. Dr. Fuhrman’s book The End of Diabetes should be required reading for ANYONE suffering with type 2 diabetes, as well as anyone who cares about someone who is a type 2 diabetic. (Type 1 diabetics also should read Dr. Fuhrman’s book to learn how to improve their insulin sensitivity.)

Dr. Fuhrman also offers a specific diabetes reversal program — currently under $16 — as a companion to his book, called the Transformation 20 Diabetes plan, offering “guidelines, meal plans and recipes for 20 days of Nutritarian-style eating to wipe out type 2 diabetes.” (Read Dr. Fuhrman’s book The End of Diabetes first, as his Transformation 20 Diabetes Plan is a practical step-by-step companion to make it simple to apply what you learn by reading the book).

Always consult with your doctor, as with any diet or lifestyle change, especially since as you begin eating the way Dr. Fuhrman recommends, your doctor may need to reduce your diabetes medications/insulin very soon, within a few weeks or even in a few days.

Other medical doctors who advocate whole food plant-based foods for preventing and reversing disease including type 2 diabetes, may include/allow more starchy vegetables on the menu, for example, Dr. John McDougall’s nutrition program, available free online.

Dr. John McDougall: More than 35 Years of Experience Helping People Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. McDougall advocates a whole food plant based diet to replace the western diet (aka S.A.D. standard American diet) that most people eat and which causes so much suffering, illness and disease. The whole food plant-based diet that Dr. McDougall advocates includes plenty of filling, delicious starch-based vegetables, as well as including a broad variety of additional nutrient-rich vegetables and fruit.

Listen to Dr. McDougall’s description of the foods that reverse diabetes in this short (2 minutes) video:

In the video, Dr. McDougall emphasizes that,

By definition, type 2 diabetics are ALWAYS curable, by fixing the problem: the western diet. Get rid of it. Substitute it for a starch-based diet with the addition of fruits and vegetables. Lose the associated excess weight, the obesity, and you will be CURED. That’s what the truth is. That’s what the science says, and my more than 35 years of experience as a medical doctor shows that to be true.”

Dr. McDougall notes further that “type 2 diabetes is a dietary disease by definition. so why couldn’t you fix it? YOU CAN.”

You lose the weight, eat a healthy diet, and it goes away, and you get off the pills, and that is, of course, what you want. But, people aren’t hearing that. They are hearing that you need to take one pill after another pill, and then you have to go on insulin shots. These pills make you sick, as a matter of fact they make you even fatter, your diabetes gets worse and you feel lost. And the problem is continuing. Expect, within the next 30 years, that 30% of the population in Western countries will suffer from type 2 diabetes. You don’t have to be one of them!” – Dr. John McDougall, McDougall’s Moments: Cure Type 2 Diabetes without Pills video (watch above).

Dr. McDougall is often quoted for this pithy and to-the-point observation about what causes type 2 diabetes (as well as heart disease and so many other illnesses and disease): “It’s the food!”

Accordingly, it’s also the food that can reverse type 2 diabetes, specifically, an abundance of delicious whole food plant-based foods.

You can sign up FREE online for Dr. John McDougall’s nutrition program, which includes free recipes, meal plans and guidance for weight loss and health.

The Power of Green Vegetables in Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: Eat Your Brussels Sprouts (+ a Recipe to make them DELICIOUS!)

Read below about the foods that reversed the type 2 diabetes of an engineer and former type-2-diabetic who first learned he had type 2 diabetes when he came out of a diabetic coma at the hospital and was told he would need to have both of his legs removed. He was in his early 40s.

He did not go through with any amputations, and in a week’s time brought his blood sugar down to healthy normal range upon his return from the hospital, all thanks to the foods his mother made for him to help him reverse his type 2 diabetes.

He has now been free of diabetes for [14+ years], off the diabetes drugs, off the insulin, all thanks to changing his food choices for life (and for his health for life).

(Scroll down to read more about his type 2 diabetes reversal success story – thanks to his mother preparing for him the kinds of foods that can quickly and easily reverse diabetes.)

Inspirational Diabetes Reversal Success Stories: Watch the Documentary films that Show How the Right Foods can Reverse Diabetes

For anyone who wants to learn about the foods that reverse diabetes, read about (here at ReverseDiabetes2.com) — and watch — the inspirational documentaries that show the real life success stories and diabetes reversal testimonials of other people who have reversed their type 2 diabetes by switching to whole food plant-based nutrition for life.

Here at ReverseDiabetes2.com we are documenting together in one easy-to-find place the stories of people have been able to reduce and then get off their diabetes medications and insulin (under their doctors’ close supervision) by switching to whole food plant based nutrition.

Read their stories, watch the documentaries and interview videos in which you can see these people transform their health over the course of the documentary.

You can then see and hear their stories with your own eyes and ears, and decide for yourself if you would like to get the same results as all of these people around the country (and around the world) who have discovered the power of whole food plant based nutrition for life to reverse disease, including type 2 diabetes.

One of the most powerful testimonials of how food can quickly reverse type 2 diabetes is the success story of DeWayne McCulley, an engineer and former type 2 diabetic who is the author of the book, Death to Diabetes.

Look for our article about DeWayne McCulley’s journey in the coming days; in the meantime, for anyone looking to learn about the foods that reverse diabetes, it’s important to include at least a brief synopsis here because Mr. McCulley’s story is so instructive and powerful.

More than a decade ago, when DeWayne McCulley was an engineer with Xerox (and in his early 40’s), he awoke one morning with a strange feeling of numbness, as if his limbs had fallen asleep, but worse. His situation quickly became more dire, as he struggled with immobility, haziness and mental fog, and a strong desire to go to sleep, when a voice in his head alerted him, “If you go to sleep, you will not wake up.” Fortunately he was able to call 911. He ended up in a diabetic coma, in the hospital. Previously he had not even known that he was a type 2 diabetic.

DeWayne has described how strange it felt to wake up from the diabetic coma, to find a doctor there, explaining to him that now the doctors would need to remove DeWayne’s legs. In his foggy state having just come back from a coma, DeWayne thought the doctor was saying that they would need to MOVE his legs. The doctor reiterated that they would need to REMOVE both of his legs. DeWayne has described the (surreal and absurd) moment his doctor started talking about how, fortunately, he would be able to save $250 . . . (and DeWayne in his groggy state wondered out loud if the doctor meant $250 per leg, or $250 for both legs). DeWayne’s adult daughter who was there with her father at the hospital told the doctor that they would not be removing her father’s legs.

Even with maximum dosages of diabetes medications and insulin, the doctors at the hospital did not succeed in bringing DeWayne’s blood sugar down further (reduced from 1337 down to 400 with drugs and insulin). They determined there was nothing more they could do so they sent him home (with blood sugar over 400 and a very high A1C while on the maximum doses of drugs and 4 four insulin shots a day).

What happened next may seem miraculous, and it is, except that it’s also another predictable outcome in line with Dr. McDougall’s maxim, “It’s the food!”

DeWayne’s mother and sister came to see him and help take care of him upon his return home from the hospital. DeWayne has described how his mother went into his kitchen and expressed her disappointment that he was not eating the way she had taught him to eat. She had him get rid of all of the frozen pizzas, the processed foods, the pies, everything unhealthy. And instead she replaced his S.A.D. standard American foods/western diet with green vegetables: specifically, BRUSSELS SPROUTS, as well as spinach and broccoli, to turn DeWayne’s health around. (He notes that, at the time, those green vegetables were NOT his favorite foods.)

DeWayne has said that the first morning, he awoke to a breakfast of . . . brussels sprouts … that his mother had prepared. He attempted a weak protest – but then got to eating the brussels sprouts. Listening to DeWayne recount his success story, you can easily imagine DeWayne’s strong mother and her determined mission to rescue her son’s health and his life. DeWayne had no choice but to comply – fortunately for him!

It was fortuitous that DeWayne, as an engineer who likes to scientifically track data and understand what the data shows, had set about testing his blood sugar levels frequently (6 times a day) upon his return from the hospital. He was frequently testing and tracking his blood glucose, and charting the results throughout the day, at least six times a day.

DeWayne’s engineering-minded and fastidious testing, tracking and charting of his blood glucose is why he was able to so quickly discover the stunning, seemingly miraculous direct effect that even his very first brussels sprouts-for-breakfast meal had on him.

This is why it made an immediate impression on DeWayne that day when, a few hours after eating the FIRST brussels sprouts-for-breakfast meal his mother made for him, SUDDENLY his blood sugar fell from over 400 down a hundred points or so to around 300. As his mother continued to prepare these green vegetables for him over the course of the next week (instead of the S.A.D. he had been eating previously), his blood sugar quickly continued to fall down to healthy levels.

Within a week of replacing his previous S.A.D. standard American diet with green vegetables — lots of brussels sprouts — DeWayne’s blood sugar was down to 100 — well within a healthy, normal range.

Remember, and once again consider this: At the time (a few weeks prior) when DeWayne was hospitalized and ended up in a diabetic coma, and was told that he needed to have both of his legs amputated, his blood sugar had been high as 1337!

A week or so after returning from the hospital, when he was sent home taking maximum doses of drugs and 4 daily insulin shots which still only succeeded in lowering his blood sugar to 400 at best, he began eating brussels sprouts (no added oils) for breakfast and green vegetables and healthy whole food plant-based foods to replace the S.A.D. standard American diet he had eaten previously.

Brussels Sprouts
Green vegetables – especially brussels sprouts for breakfast – helped DeWayne McCulley reverse his type 2 diabetes.

Only ONE WEEK of eating brussels sprouts for breakfast and lots of green vegetables and healthy whole food plant-based foods, DeWayne’s blood sugar had dramatically fallen to a healthy, normal level, testing at 100.

As he continued to eat this way over the course of the following weeks and months his A1C levels fell to consistently perfectly healthy, low levels.

DeWayne was in contact with and under the supervision of his doctor as all of this unfolded. (Anyone who makes diet and lifestyle changes must do so under their doctor’s close supervision).

His doctor’s response was that it was just “an anomoly” – his doctor was adamant that DeWayne’s drastically lowered healthy blood sugar numbers could have NOTHING to do with the food.  His doctor tested and re-tested but didn’t believe the results of the doctor’s own tests. This doctor refused to believe that type 2 diabetes could be reversed, even when seeing the reversal clearly with his own eyes through the doctor’s own testing and repeated re-testing.

Fortunately DeWayne’s training and expertise as an engineer gave him the confidence and skill to thoroughly investigate the CAUSES of this awful type 2 diabetes disease that nearly killed him, leaving him in a diabetic coma. After experiencing the seemingly miraculous reversal of his own type 2 diabetes — initially by eating brussels sprouts for breakfast, spinach and broccoli, whole food plant-based foods with no added oils — he set out on a mission to determine what causes type 2 diabetes, and to understand scientifically those causes in order to help other people REVERSE type 2 diabetes as he had.

The diabetic coma he experienced had been like a strike of lightning from out of the blue since, prior to the time he ended up nearly losing his life and in a diabetic coma in the hospital, and awoke to his doctor telling him he would need to have both legs amputated, he hadn’t even known previously that he had type 2 diabetes. He was working diligently as an engineer, living his life, in his early 40s, when BAM! Type 2 diabetes struck him with full force all of the sudden and all at once, seemingly out of the blue.

DeWayne McCulley has described how whole food plant-based foods — SPECIFICALLY, GREEN VEGETABLES, and SPECIFICALLY brussels sprouts, spinach and broccoli were the foods that helped him reverse his type 2 diabetes, quickly and easily. These were the foods that his mother prepared for him in those first weeks upon his return home from the hospital, to REPLACE the S.A.D. western diet he had previously been eating.

Moving forward, switching to a focus primarily on whole food plant-based foods for life allowed DeWayne to reverse his type 2 diabetes, and he was able to get off all of the drugs and insulin.

However his doctor, despite repeated tests over the next six months, still refused to believe the results of the doctor’s own tests, and kept telling DeWayne he should stay on the drugs and the insulin even though DeWayne’s tests showed that his blood sugar and his A1C (at 4.3) both were consistently at perfectly stellar healthy levels. Instead, DeWayne is happy to be drug-free and insulin-free and free of type 2 diabetes, thanks to switching to whole food plant-based foods (no added oils) for more than 14 years now!

Since that time DeWayne McCulley has become an expert, author, health coach and public speaker who now helps other people reverse type 2 diabetes, through his book, Death to Diabetes, as well as through his other programs, coaching, and speaking engagements.

DeWayne McCulley’s health transformation all began in one miraculous week of initial healing thanks to his mother who knew best: she innately KNEW that green vegetables, including lots of brussels sprouts (for BREAKFAST!), spinach and broccoli could help him to self-heal. She was right! These are some of the foods that reverse diabetes, along with the variety of nutrient-rich foods within the larger universe of delicious, filling, whole-foods plant-based foods. These are the foods that DeWayne McCulley continues to eat for his health for life, having long ago ditched the S.A.D. standard American diet in favor of his health and his life.

Bookmark ReverseDiabetes2.com in your website favorites, and in the coming days look for our more detailed article about DeWayne McCulley’s health transformation journey and his mission to help others reverse type 2 diabetes just as he himself has done.

On a side note – how to make brussels sprouts DELICIOUS!
It’s interesting that Chef AJ’s new book (2018) with lots of delicious recipes emphasizes the importance of vegetables for breakfast for weight loss, for health, and for maintaining a healthy weight for life. In her new book, Chef AJ includes a recipe for DELICIOUS, easy-to-make roasted brussels sprouts.

Watch and learn (with Chef AJ herself) how to make these delicious roasted balsamic dijon brussels sprouts. At the beginning of the video, Chef AJ says: “Even if you hate brussels sprouts, I PROMISE, you will LOVE this recipe!”

In the video above you can watch and learn how to make Chef AJ’s balsamic-dijon glazed brussels sprouts, DIY stuffed kabocha squash, and an easy, no-bake, decadent banana strawberry chocolate mousse torte (made from only 7 healthy ingredients).

Click the button to play the video above, and you will also see Dr. Roy Artal, a triple board-certified medical doctor, internist, pulmonologist, and sleep medicine specialist in Los Angeles, who himself switched to whole food plant-based foods five years ago, and recommends a plant-based diet to his patients. Chef AJ notes that Dr. Artal is the creator of the roasted balsamic dijon brussels sprouts recipe!

The Chef AJ video above also features plant-based elite 2-time champion bodybuilder, Robert Cheeke (plant-based aka vegan for more than 20 years), and other guests.

Chef AJ’s brussels sprouts recipe can help you give it a try and then add this nutritional & health power house to the list of foods you love!

For more testimonials about the foods that can reverse type 2 diabetes, read the success stories of:

Joey Aucoin (Forks Over Knives documentary),

Dr. Steve Lawenda,

Amy Johnson of Frisco, TX (by way of upstate NY),

Jim Balla of Detroit, MI,

Micheal Abdalla of Atlanta, GA (What the Health documentary),

Nick Delgado (now a whole food plant based strength and endurance world record holder who often wins competitions over fit, muscular men decades younger),

Patty of Mebane, NC (Plant Pure Nation documentary),

Kirt Tyson of Baltimore, MD (Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days documentary).

Just to name a few. You can discover and read many, many more additional diabetes type 2 reversal stories, with links to the first-hand testimonials in videos and documentaries so you can watch their diabetes reversal transformations, here at reversediabetes2.com.

The list goes on and on! Read their stories here at ReverseDiabetes2.com with many more success stories added frequently.

The bottom line is, all of these leading medical doctors who are experts in nutrition, and all of the people whose success stories are featured here at ReverseDiabetes2.com (and many, many more across the country and around the world), choose to eat whole food plant-based foods for life because these foods are filling, delicious, satisfying, (no measuring food, no weighing foods or combining foods; feeling satisfied and without feeling hungry).

They also choose whole food plant-based nutrition for life because the same foods that reverse diabetes also lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, prevent and reverse heart disease, auto-immune conditions, and many other chronic diseases, including preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes.

The greatest win-win choice you could ever make!

As Dr. Barnard says, try it for 21 days (under your doctor’s supervision, as with any diet or lifestyle change) and see what happens!

Former type 2 diabetics who have switched to the foods that reverse diabetes for 21 days, or 30 days, end up feeling so good that they don’t want to go back to eating the way they used to eat. They discover that it feels too good to feel healthy to accept anything else. It feels so good to take control of your own health destiny, simply by switching to delicious whole food plant based foods for life, especially compared with feeling afraid and helpless in the face of the devastating effects of type 2 diabetes.

Give it a try for 21 days, or 30 days, and then keep going. Share your own success story in the comments below! Your own success story can help so many others.

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How to Reverse Diabetes

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An ever-increasing number of medical doctors now are teaching people how to reverse diabetes, (specifically reversing type 2 diabetes, and improving insulin sensitivity for type 1 diabetics), in an easy to follow, step-by-step, simple way.

Even better, the exact same simple method that can reverse type 2 diabetes (so that, under their own doctor’s supervision, type 2 diabetics often are able to reduce or discontinue diabetes medications and insulin, sometimes within just a few days or weeks, as they make these changes), also offers additional phenomenal health benefits.

In addition to reversing type 2 diabetes, the exact same simple, easy to follow method (described below) also can prevent and reverse heart disease, dramatically lower cholesterol, dramatically improve blood pressure, prevent and reverse auto-immune conditions, asthma, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and even helps to prevent cancer. For many people skin conditions clear up; migraine headaches go away. Fantastic lifelong health benefits result from making the exact same diet change that prevents and even reverses type 2 diabetes.

Medical Doctors Teaching How to Reverse Diabetes

The great news is that more and more board-certified medical doctors are learning how to reverse diabetes (type 2 diabetes, as well as also ameliorating overall health and improving insulin sensitivity for type 1 diabetics).

These doctors are teaching their patients the easy, simple method for reversing type 2 diabetes and losing weight without counting calories, without measuring, without feeling hungry, while increasing energy and dramatically improving overall health and healing illnesses, lowering cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, and preventing illnesses and disease.

Fortunately, many of these board-certified doctors now have also written worldwide best-selling books about how to reverse diabetes, including all of the step-by-step guidance you need to get started right away on your journey to reclaim your health and choose your own health destiny.

As discussed in these books, and as emphasized by all of these medical doctors, it is critically important that, as you make these changes in your life (and as you make any diet and lifestyle changes, especially if you are on medications) you do so under the close supervision of your own medical doctor so that your doctor can monitor your progress and reduce and discontinue diabetes medications and other medications and drugs when and to the extent necessary.

It would be very dangerous to continue taking diabetes drugs, insulin and other medications when and to the extent you no longer need them as you make these specific diet and lifestyle changes that are specifically detailed in the books listed below.

So, as always, consult with your doctor, let your doctor know that you will be making diet and lifestyle changes and will need your doctor’s close supervision as you make these changes.

To learn more about some of the many U.S. board-certified medical doctors who show their patients how to reverse diabetes using the same simple method, specifically how to reverse type 2 diabetes and improve insulin sensitivity for type 2 diabetics, read our article HERE for more details.

As discussed in our article linked above, these medical doctors all have impressive educations, impressive backgrounds, including Harvard-educated doctors, doctors who earned their medical degrees from some of the best, most prestigious medical schools in the United States, and they all are teaching their patients how to reverse type 2 diabetes using the same, easy to follow method, that also prevents and reverses heart disease and most of the chronic disease and auto-immune conditions from which so many people suffer unnecessarily.

Read on below to learn about the step by step, simple method to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes from two of these U.S. board-certified medical doctors.

What better way to learn how to reverse diabetes than to learn from medical doctors who also have decades of personal experience in their medical practices helping people to reverse type 2 diabetes?

If you want to reverse type 2 diabetes, or help someone you care about learn how to reverse type 2 diabetes (by making these same changes with them, out of solidarity and support for the person you care about — which is a very powerful factor), then read (at a minimum) these two books, from cover to cover.

Read Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs,

and read Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s The End of Diabetes.

Read these two books AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and implement what you learn to begin on the journey to reclaim your health for life. If you or someone you care about is suffering from type 2 diabetes, time is of the essence to make the kinds of changes that Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and many other medical doctors teach about how to reverse diabetes, to give yourself the best possible foundation to reverse type 2 diabetes. The sooner you make these specific, powerful, easy to follow “diet and lifestyle” changes (under your medical doctor’s supervision) the better!

How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes – Dr. Neal Barnard’s Simple, Powerful Program for Diabetes Reversal

Neal Barnard M.D., is a board-certified medical doctor (and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology – F.A.C.C.), whose medical practice is in Washington, DC. He is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. and also earned his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Through his work at George Washington University, his medical practice, his best-selling books, and the major health organization he founded, Dr. Barnard helps people dramatically improve their health, and he specifically specializes in helping people learn how to reverse diabetes (type 2).

Learn more about Dr. Neal Barnard’s medical practice, the ground-breaking scientific studies he has led regarding the role of nutrition in type 2 diabetes (funded by the National Institutes of Health – NIH), and his decades of experience below.

Dr. Barnard grew up on a cattle farm in Fargo, North Dakota, as did his father, and grandfathers before him, for generations. However his father got out of the cattle business and instead became a medical doctor whose expertise was in diabetes.

Dr. Barnard has said that growing up, he never heard his M.D. father talking about patients recovering from type 2 diabetes or getting better or stopping diabetes medications. From hearing his father’s descriptions, Dr. Barnard got the impression that the only thing a doctor specializing in diabetes was trained to do at the time was to prescribe more and more drugs, while diabetic patients got sicker and sicker.

Sound familiar? Have you ever heard a doctor prescribe diabetes drugs rather than addressing — and teaching people how to reverse — the cause of the disease?

Fast forward to present time: Neal Barnard followed in his father’s footsteps by himself becoming a board-certified medical doctor. However, unlike his father, Dr. Barnard has learned the simple process for how to reverse type 2 diabetes, and he helps his patients to reverse their type 2 diabetes, and reduce or get off all of the medications in many cases.

Dr. Barnard also has headed up ground-breaking medical studies (going back more than a decade) regarding how to reverse diabetes by addressing the cause of type 2 diabetes through nutrition (specifically reversing type 2 diabetics in many cases, as well as improving insulin sensitivity for type 1 diabetics).

All of these impressive and live-changing, life-saving diabetes reversal results come from one simple method, with easy to follow step-by-step guidance (as set forth in his book) that is the HOW TO for reversing type 2 diabetes with simple, specific diet and lifestyle changes.

In order to learn how to reverse diabetes, it is important to understand how type 2 diabetes happens in the first place.

Dr. Barnard describes the science behind the causes/triggers that create type 2 diabetes and insulin insensitivity, both in his books, and in his speaking engagements around the U.S. and around the world, as well as through the NIH-funded (National Institute of Health) scientific studies investigating the causal link between nutrition and diabetes that Dr. Barnard has led beginning more than 15 years ago.

To paraphrase in a nutshell (paraphrased here in layman’s terms), Dr. Barnard describes how type 2 diabetes occurs as a result of an excess of fats (eaten in foods) building up at a (microscopic) cellular level inside the muscle cells (intramyocellular lipids) and inside the liver cells (intrahepatic lipids).

When these tiny particles of fat (intramyocellular lipids and intrahepatic lipids) build up inside the muscle cells and inside the liver cells, the fat (lipids) block insulin’s ability to transport glucose into the cells. The cells need glucose (which is stored as glycogen) for energy and for basic essential functions including regulating body temperature.

Since the insulin is blocked by intramyocellular lipids from transporting glucose into the cells, blood sugar builds up in the blood, but is not reaching the body’s cells — including brain cells! — that need the glucose/glycogen to function optimally.

This leads to feelings of brain fog (since the brain is not getting the glucose/glycogen fuel it needs) and tiredness, weakness (muscle cells not getting the glucose/glycogen fuel they need for even basic baseline activity.)

And as any diabetic can attest, that tired/low-energy feeling only scratches the surface of the havoc wreaked upon the body by diabetes.

Since this is such an important topic in understanding how to reverse diabetes, read Dr. Barnard’s description below, in his own words, (quoted from a recent interview) about how type 2 diabetes happens as a result of the foods people choose to eat (or, for children with type 2 diabetes, the foods their parents/caregivers – unwittingly — choose for them).

Dr. Barnard recently described how type 2 diabetes happens and how to reverse diabetes in a recent interview videotaped for the Plant Fit Summit 2018:

[F]or some reason [some] people have really missed the science, that has been out there for 15 years or more, which is as follows: that when you eat fatty foods, the fat can enter the muscle cells and the liver cells, as tiny particles of fat called intramyocellular lipid in the muscle cell, or intrahepatocellular lipid in the liver cell. They stop insulin from being able to work. They gum up the cell if you want to put it that way, so the insulin can no longer bring sugar into the cell.

And the answer is to get the fat out of the diet. . . . A vegan diet has no animal fat at all, and if [you] keep the vegetable oils really low, we then believe that fat inside the cell [dissipates], and the insulin resistance will go away, and the diabetes has a chance of going away too, especially if you catch it early.

Now, [for] the people who say ‘Well, when I avoid sugar I do better,’ it’s true that if your cells are full of fat and they can’t take in sugar, then to the extent that you avoid sugar and you avoid carbohydrate, your blood sugar will not go up so much.

But you need to fix the cause of it, and the cause of it is this build-up of fat, especially animal fat, but vegetable oil can contribute too, and you want to get that out of your cells.” (Plant Fit Summit 2018 Dr. Neal Barnard interview, at 5:31, emphasis added.)

Dr Barnard continues:

[When you switch to a whole food plant-based low-fat diet], what we believe is happening is the fat that is inside the cell starts to dissipate, and then the insulin which your body is making anyway … will attach to the cell, and it will allow the blood sugar to come down. The sugar in the blood now can go into the cell more easily because [much of] that fat is gone. And that fat is the cause of the insulin resistance which is causing the disease. So when a person goes on a low fat vegan diet, what they discover is sometimes their blood sugar falls REALLY fast, even if they are eating a lot of carbohydrate.

Their blood sugar will fall, and that’s because their insulin resistance is going away, their insulin sensitivity is returning. And that can happen within the first week in some cases. They lose weight, their cholesterol falls, their blood pressure falls, their need for medication goes way, way down, their energy comes up.

. . . .

[E]verybody is different; if you catch this disease early, in some cases it just goes away. If a person has had diabetes for 30 years, it’s not necessarily going to go away, it may well not, because they’re not producing as much insulin as before, but nonetheless this is still the kind of diet they want to be on, because it protects their arteries that would be assaulted by the disease. You don’t want any cholesterol. You don’t want any animal fat in your diet, you want to protect yourself.” – Dr Barnard interview, 2018 Plant Fit Summit at 5:52 to 7:25.

Dr. Barnard also notes the dramatic weight loss benefits of switching to whole food plant-based nutrition (low- or no-added-oil): “[T]he proof of it is [clear when people] come into our clinic, and we put people on a low fat vegan diet, and they lose weight like crazy. They are not building more body fat [by eating whole food plant-based carbohydrate/fiber-rich, no-oil-added foods.]”

. . . .

Until fairly recently, people thought [type 2 diabetes] was irreversible. We now know that [type 2] diabetes isn’t so much a diagnosis that you get and you keep, so much as it is a state that you get in, and it can change. It can get worse, it can get better, and in certain cases, it can go away.

[With healthy whole food plant-based low-oil nutrition,][for] a LOT of people, particularly if you catch this early, they can tackle this disease and it can go away, and they can live a totally normal life.

I’m very excited about this.”

Dr. Barnard concludes:

I am happy to say that convention is changing, but when we got started in all of this, the conventional diet was cutting calories to help people lose weight, because most people with type 2 diabetes needed to lose weight … And the idea was well, just eat less. And that wasn’t so hot, because if you give a person a menu that just cuts out a lot of foods, by Wednesday they want to eat the sofa, because people don’t want to be hungry.

So instead [we teach people to reverse diabetes through a whole food plant-based diet] that fills you up with high fiber healthy foods that are satisfying so you don’t have the hunger.” Dr. Neal Barnard, 2018 Plant Fit Summit.

When asked what percentage of people succeed in reversing type 2 diabetes in percentage, Dr. Barnard clarified that,

it depends entirely on how long the person has had the disease, and how well they [commit to whole food plant-based low- or no-added-oils nutrition]. If you get a person who is just tipping into the disease, I think in virtually every case it can be reversed (when I say reversed, I mean go away with no medication).

But on the other hand, most people at the time they are diagnosed have had the condition for five years or more. And at that case their body has been hurt by it. The pancreas has beta cells that make insulin, and they have been beat up by this disease.

And the longer this goes on, the harder it is for them to recover. . . . So get to it early.”

It’s Never Too Late to Try! Learn How to Reverse Diabetes by Switching to Whole Food Plant-Based Nutrition – Try it for 30 Days (under your doctor’s supervision) and See What Happens!

Editor’s Note: Dr. Joel Fuhrman has said that in his decades of medical practice and experience in helping his patients to reverse their type 2 diabetes, around 90% are able to reverse their type 2 diabetes.

In Dr. Fuhrman’s experience helping his own patients learn how to reverse diabates, some patients reduce their medications but still must take some reduced level of diabetes medications and/or insulin, especially if these patients have already been taking diabetes medications and insulin for many decades.

However, Dr. Fuhrman also has said that, in his personal experience with his own type 2 diabetic patients’ results, even many of the patients who have been type 2 diabetic and on drugs/insulin for years, often are able to get off the drugs completely.

Try it for 30 days (under your doctor’s close supervision, as with any diet and lifestyle change) and see what happens.

Step-by-Step and One Step at a Time: Dr. Barnard’s Book Teaches How to Reverse Diabetes

Read Dr. Barnard’s book, Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs from cover to cover.

Consult with your doctor before making these nutritional changes since making these nutritional changes can quickly result in powerful excellent, changes for your health which usually will also require reduction or elimination of diabetes drugs/insulin to the extent and when no longer needed, as determined by your doctor under your doctor’s medical supervision.

In a nutshell, when asked in the Plant Fit Summit 2018 interview what steps people should take in the real world to lose weight and reverse diabetes while NOT counting calories, not measuring or weighing, and not feeling hungry, Dr. Barnard explained that:

If a person eliminates animal products, [first] take a week, figure out what you like to eat that’s free of animal product. [For example, oatmeal with blueberries or strawberries on top.] Figure out what these foods are, and as time goes on, even though you aren’t intentionally cutting calories, by choosing low fat, high fiber foods you are getting full sooner.

[By eating this way] you aren’t thinking about it, you aren’t trying to lose weight; it just happens and it can be very significant.

The average person loses between half a pound to a pound a week. With 52 weeks in a year, [the average weight loss by switching to whole food plant-based low- or no-added-oils nutrition] is between 26 and 52 pounds per year. A person can easily lose 20 Kg in course of a year, that’s not uncommon at all.” – Dr. Neal Barnard, 2018 Plant Fit Summit interview.

Dr. Barnard also points out that the benefits of exercise apply whether you walk or whether you run, so starting out on your weight loss and diabetes reversal journey, do what you can to get some level of exercise in. Exercising muscle pulls sugar out of the blood with very little insulin. Dr. Barnard notes that studies show that exercise affects the brain, improving memory. However Dr. Barnard reiterated that when people exercise, they need fuel. Exercise works with diet, but it doesn’t take place of a healthy whole food plant-based (low- or, ideally, no-added oils) diet.

Finally, Dr. Barnard pointed out that we are now seeing (both in the US and other parts of the world) a LOT of elite athletes switching to whole food plant-based nutrition, including marathon runners (for example, Rich Roll, Brendan Frasier), NBA basketball players, tennis players (Serena and Venus Williams), and star NFL quarterback football players (Aaron Rogers of the Green Bay Packers and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots), just to name a few examples out of many whole food plant-based elite and Olympic athletes.

Whole food plant-based nutrition is an anti-inflammatory diet, which results in better blood flow, and oxygenation of your muscles. Instead of being sore for 3 days, whole food plant-based elite athletes are back building and exercising again.

Watch for our article on the subject of elite professional athletes and Olympic athletes who have switched to whole food plant-based nutrition for strength, endurance, superior performance, faster recovery and overall health, coming soon to reversediabetes2.com.

Dr. Barnard’s advice for anyone who is skeptical and finds it difficult to believe how food can have such a huge impact on our health and performance, as well as the power of healthy whole food plant-based nutrition for reversing type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Barnard points out in his recent 2018 Plant Fit Summit interview that skepticism is good, but he encourages them to get some good information, including Dr. Barnard’s books, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr’s books, Dr. Dean Ornish’s books, Dr. Michael Greger’s book, and Dr. John McDougall’s books (just to name a few!)

All of these medical doctors address prevention and reversal of type 2 diabetes and prevention and reversal of heart disease, chronic disease, auto-immune conditions and many others USING THE SAME, simple method, so reading one or more of the books mentioned above will give you the tools you need to learn how to reverse diabetes type 2 and change the course of your own health destiny.

The more you learn the better.

If you are skeptical, learn more.

Learn about the science behind the cause of type 2 diabetes (by reading these books) so that you can understand how to reverse diabetes in the way that is recommended by all of these board-certified medical doctors with impeccable academic and medical practice credientials.

Read as many of the books mentioned above as you can; start with Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs.

Read some of the many first-hand testimonials (accompanied by video and documentary footage) available here at reversediabetes2.com.

For example, read (and watch first-hand in video and documentaries) the diabetes reversal success stories of Joey Aucoin (Forks Over Knives documentary), Dr. Steve Lawenda (medical doctor who reversed his own pre-diabetes and quickly transformed from being obese to being strong, healthy and fit), Amy Johnson of Frisco, Texas (originally from upstate New York — reversed her type 2 diabetes more than 6 years ago, quickly lost weight and no longer is obese), Jim Balla of Detroit, MI, Kirt Tyson, N.D.A., Joseph Alexander, Nick Delgado (expert in diabetes reversal, longevity, as well as 60+ year old bodybuilder, world record holder for weight/endurance), Patty of Mebane, NC (PlantPure Nation documentary), Jason Mraz’s bandmate (reversed type 2 diabetes in under 30 days while on tour with Jason Mraz’s band), and many more diabetes reversal success stories all in one place here at reversediabetes2.com.

These diabetes reversal testimonials in videos and documentaries that you can watch for yourself are a great source of inspiration as well as instructional to help you understand how to reverse diabetes type 2.

A recurring statement by so many of the people who have reversed their type 2 diabetes by switching to whole food plant-based nutrition is how EASY it is! How easy it was to reverse the type 2 diabetes; how easy it was to lose all of the weight. Never feeling hungry, not having to weigh food, not having to count calories. Having the excess weight fall off practically effortless after making this change, as well as, in many cases, quickly reducing and then eliminating diabetes drugs under their medical doctors’ close supervision as they made these powerful, but simple and easy, nutritional changes.

Final Note on How to Reverse Diabetes While Maintaining a Healthy Skepticism

Dr. Barnard encourages you not to throw out your skepticism; he has said that skepticism is healthy. But he encourages type 2 diabetics to try it. (1) Try a vegan (whole food plant-based, no-oil added) diet for a while. Take a week, try out vegan foods, see which ones you like. (2) Then, after you have figured out which whole food plant-based (aka vegan) foods you like the best, take 3 weeks and do all vegan all the time and see what happens.

Dr. Barnard says that, in his decades of experience with patients in his medical practice (as well as in NIH-funded medical studies that he led), for most people, the results include weight loss, dramatically improved blood sugar numbers, lowered blood pressure, improved cholesterol numbers, digestion better, migraines headaches go away, and more (often allowing people to reduce or eliminate medications under their doctor’s close supervision, when and to the extent medications are not longer needed thanks to the powerful health benefits of switching to whole food plant-based nutrition).

Dr. Barnard’s success formula for how to reverse diabetes type 2 begins with this: Switch to whole food plant-based (no added oils) in the short term as an experiment for 3 weeks, and then . . . don’t stop.

Editor’s note: We hear over and over again in diabetes reversal success stories that when people make this change, they find that they feel so much better they don’t want to stop!

Finally, Dr. Barnard emphasizes that once you switch to whole food plant-based nutrition (aka vegan), “that’s not the end of your diet exploration, that’s just the beginning . . . You’ve gotten the animal products out, now you can explore to find what is BEST for you. Explore culinary traditions such as Mediteranean foods [but no-added oil], Latin American foods, Asian foods… explore and veganize them all. It’s a door you will be so happy you walked through because it will change your life.” – Dr Neal Barnard, Plant Fit Summit 2018

More About Dr. Neal Barnard & His Program for How to Reverse Diabetes

Neal Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C., is an adjunct associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. He also is the founder of Barnard Medical Center, and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Dr. Barnard is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Trailblazer Award.

Dr. Barnard has led research studies on the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including a ground-breaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes that was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Barnard is the author of 18 books and more than 70 scientific publications. His books include the New York Times best-sellers Power Foods for the Brain, 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart, and the USA Today best-seller Dr. Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes.

As president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Dr. Barnard leads programs advocating for preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research. He hosts four PBS television programs on nutrition and health and is frequently called on by news programs to discuss issues related to nutrition and research.

Originally from Fargo, N.D., Dr. Barnard received his medical degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine and also completed his residency at George Washington University Hospital. He practiced medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York before returning to Washington, DC to found the Physicians Committee and the Barnard Medical Center, where Dr. Barnard and his other board certified medical doctor colleagues help their patients learn how to reverse diabetes (for type 2 patients, and improve insulin sensitivity for type 1 diabetics).

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