Reverse Diabetes

Testimonials from people who have reversed their type 2 diabetes naturally, in a short time (often within a month or so, or even a few weeks) is one of the most powerful ways to help you believe and understand that you — or someone you care about — can do this too!

Today’s inspiration comes from a dad, husband and landscape business owner from Tampa, Florida.

Joey Aucoin was sick and tired, literally, from the side effects of diabetes drugs and drugs for heart conditions that, at the start of the documentary’s filming, he had already been taking for four years. He reversed his type 2 diabetes in weeks, and got off all of the drugs.

You can watch Joey Aucoin’s journey to reverse his type 2 diabetes — and other health problems, including heart conditions — in the film documentary, Forks Over Knives. (The online link to watch the movie is at the bottom of this article).

At the beginning of the film, Joey describes the effects of type 2 diabetes on his life, and the effects of all of the prescription drugs he was taking at the time.

The camera follows him as he shows his rows of prescription drugs in front of him. The camera follows him as he injects his belly with a needle, as he talks about how he injects himself twice a day, (every day, year in and year out).

In those brief moments, as the camera follows him jabbing his belly with the needle, it’s uncomfortable for the viewer to watch that needle jab into his belly. It’s easy to see why no one — no one! — would want to face that reality, day in and day out, year in and year out, as Joey Aucoin had already done for 4 years since he was first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

That is, before he REVERSED his type 2 diabetes, naturally, in a matter of weeks.

In the beginning of the documentary, before he made the changes that reversed his diabetes, Joey Aucoin said, “I tell everybody… the joke with everybody with me is: I don’t eat to live, I live to eat. And I… my whole life, I ate whatever I wanted.” Four years earlier, doctors discovered Joey had a dangerously high cholesterol level of 320, and a hazardous blood sugar level of 480, which made him a type 2 diabetic as well as a “prime candidate for a heart attack and a stroke.”

In Forks Over Knives, Joey Aucoin described his daily pill and injections regimen, which at the time included two pills for diabetes, one for cholesterol, one for high blood pressure, and in addition, an injectable drug (jab/injection in his stomach) every morning before breakfast, and every night before dinner.

And that’s what I’ve been doing for almost four years now.
And I know it makes me tired, and I just…
I just don’t feel normal.
I only sleep four hours a night or so.
I just hate taking them.”

– Joey Aucoin, Forks Over Knives

Later, the documentary follows Joey Aucoin as he went to see medical doctors in California, Dr. Matt Lederman (internist) and Dr. Alona Pulde (family medicine).

In the documentary Dr. Lederman read out loud Joey Aucoin’s answers to a form Joey had filled out about his health goals, as well as a list of the current health ailments and issues he was experiencing while eating the standard Western diet.

These were the top health goals Joey Aucoin listed:

(1) Eliminate the shots and medicines, “Get off this stuff.”
(2) Sleep well at night [he was not sleeping well.]
(3) Stop feeling tired and run down, and lose weight.

(Forks Over Knives at 23:57.)

These are the additional health issues Joey Aucoin listed, with the goal to reverse the following chronic, continuous issues he faced (as a result of eating the standard American/Western diet, high calorie, low nutrition foods).

a. low energy
b. ringing in the ears
c. sinus problems and post nasal drip
d. shortness of breath/wheezing
e. coughing
f. indigestion/reflux
g. loose stool/diarrhea
h. bloating
i. black/bloody/mucous stool with meat consumption
j. difficulty walking and getting around,
k. trouble losing weight
l. chronic and unpleasant hunger feelings,
m. groggy after meals,
n. strong food cavings,
o. anxiety about food in general.”

(Forks Over Knives at 24:07.)

If any of these issues on Joey’s list sound familiar to you or are something you struggle with personally, take heart. Joey Aucoin’s story and all of the information presented in Forks Over Knives will show you how you too, or someone you care about, can reverse these conditions too, in the same way that Joey Aucoin did, naturally, in weeks.

After Dr. Lederman read Joey Aucoin’s health ailments list (above) out loud while reading from his computer screen, Joey Aucoin quipped, “Sounds like I’m dead.” Dr. Lederman joined his laughter but then added, “ALL of these .. I don’t mean to harp on the bad stuff, but most of that should get better.”

Dr. Lederman added his own goals for Joey: “I want you to REVERSE all of your medical diseases, the ones we can reverse, and most of yours, we could [reverse].” (Forks Over Knives at 24:35.) And with disease reversal, Joey would be able to stop all of those drugs.

The film Forks Over Knives discusses in detail some of the many devastating chronic illnesses and diseases, including heart disease, auto-immune diseases of all kinds, asthma, and cancer, that can be prevented and often cured and reversed by doing the exact same thing that also reverses type 2 diabetes naturally. In reversing type 2 diabetes, Joey Aucoin also would be healing his heart conditions and protecting his body from diseases.

Forks Over Knives shows the level of care that Dr. Lederman and Dr. Pulde, who are medical doctors, focus on their patients, including grocery shopping with their patients, and teaching meal preparation techniques in the kitchen. The film shows Joey Aucoin grocery shopping with Dr. Lederman, and cooking together in the kitchen.

The documentary describes Dr. Matt Lederman and his wife, Dr. Alona Pulde, as medical doctors who are

among a small but growing number of physicians who use a whole foods, plant-based diet as a primary treatment for their patients. From shopping with patients to teach them how to read nutrition labels…to showing patients how to prepare meals, they are not your typical M.D.’s. Doctors Lederman and Pulde use food as treatment because they feel it’s the best medicine available… medicine that not only makes their patients feel better but that truly improves their health.”

– Forks Over Knives

Joey Aucoin’s story is just one of the personal stories and testimonials presented in Forks Over Knives, giving personal examples of how to reverse type 2 diabetes naturally, also reverse and prevent heart disease, auto-immune diseases, prevent cancer, and the other illnesses and disease caused by eating the standard Western diet.

In short, one of the powerful messages to take away based on the science and testimonials presented in Forks Over Knives is that we should let food be our medicine, instead of our poison. Don’t choose the standard Western diet — the kinds of foods that are the direct path and master-key to unleashing all of those kinds of illnesses. Instead, choose health.

Within only eight weeks after switching to whole foods plant-based foods, Joey Aucoin was already off all of his medications.

When I started this, I had all these side effects
from medication and from my being so unhealthy.
But now I’m getting in better and better shape every day.
I feel more healthy. I very seldom get tired during the day.
I just feel so good all the time.
This… this is the scale that I weigh myself on.
And it started about eight weeks ago way up here around 218 pounds to 220 pounds.
And now it’s bouncing between 180 and 185 pounds.
None of my belts fit. . . .
Nothing fits. I gotta go shopping. It’s just everything, all my clothes.
A good problem to have.

– Joey Aucoin, Forks Over Knives

Watch the entire documentary, Forks Over Knives (link below).

Watch from start to finish to gain the benefit of learning the science behind how whole food plant-based nutrition can reverse and prevent most of the diseases and chronic illnesses including cancer, heart disease, auto-imune diseases, lupus, rheumatorid arthritis, fibromyalgia, asthma, type 2 diabtes.

Joey Aucoin’s “AFTER” results from switching to delicious, filling whole food plant-based foods.

The documentary follows Joey Aucoin as he gets his test results (22 weeks after he switched to eating whole food plant-based foods) to compare with the original test results.

Within 8 weeks he was off the diabetes drugs and the blood pressure/heart drugs, and he had lost a lot of weight.

Within 22 weeks he had not only reversed his type 2 diabetes, his weight was down 28 pounds and he also reversed ALL of the (more than two dozen) health problems he had listed in his original form at the beginning of the film, all by switching to whole food plant-based nutrition.

And he was feeling great! His marker of inflammation in the vessels was down to that of a normal person. His blood sugars came down and continued to come down on a daily basis. His cholesterol was significantly lower than it was when he first started. His blood pressure was now normal, whereas while he was ON blood pressure pills, his blood pressure still was elevated. Now, OFF the drugs, his blood pressure was normal. (The blood pressure drugs had NOT succeeded in bringing his blood pressure to normal. Eating whole food plant-based foods DID succeed in bringing his blood pressure to normal.)

As Dr. Lederman emphasized when going over Joey’s results after 22 weeks, the numbers aren’t the whole picture, but real health is. Joey looks much healthier and feels much healthier. His results are clear not only in the numbers/test results, but also in the way he is now able to live his whole life.

He is also SAVING a lot of money now from the out-of-pocket cost of the DRUGS above his insurance. In just 5 months he had already saved @$1000 in out-of-pocket cost for the drugs he no longer has to take.

I was taking nine pills a day and two shots.
I was spending almost $150 to $200 a month on medication, above my insurance.
Just think about that: I’ve been doing this [eating whole foods, plant-based] for five months. I’ve saved $800 to a $1000 already, because I haven’t taken one pill, not one shot. So think about what that saved me…not just me, [but also the money saved by] the insurance company [since he no longer needs the diabetes drugs and blood pressure/heart drugs].

– Joey Aucoin, Forks Over Knives at 1:26:41

I can thank them in every way I can think possible, and my doctors, especially Matt, and [it has] changed my life. And it really has. Not just mine, my family’s, everybody’s. It gives me shivers talking about it, because it’s so serious. It’s a life-changing experience.

– Joey Aucoin, Forks Over Knives, at 1:32:13.

How can you cure type 2 diabetes naturally, for yourself or someone you care about?

First, watch the movie, Forks Over Knives (links below). Then read the step-by-step how-to companion books to the film (links below), which give you all of the information you need to get started on your journey to health for life.

It’s important to emphasize that anyone making effective diet and lifestyle changes like these must consult with their own medical doctor so that their doctor can reduce and eliminate the drugs when and to the extent they are no longer needed. Continuing to take diabetes drugs and other drugs when they are no longer needed would be very dangerous, so it’s important to work closely with your medical doctor and let them know you are making diet and lifestyle changes since this will require your medical doctor’s supervision and adjustment of the medication levels until and to the extent they are no longer needed.

Step 1: Watch Forks Over Knives to learn how this Florida family man and business owner reversed his type 2 diabetes, naturally, and got off all of the drugs, in weeks.

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Step 2: Follow the Same Plan that Joey Aucoin Followed to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

Read this book by Joey Aucoin’s medical doctors who were featured in Forks Over Knives, Dr. Matt Lederman and Dr. Alona Pulde (Step-by-step plan, including delicious recipes – everything you need to get started):

Read this companion book to Forks Over Knives edited by Gene Stone, forewords by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr. T. Colin Campbell (with delicious recipes):

Watch the movie Forks Over Knives, read these two books and follow the step-by-step detailed guidance.

What do you have to lose?

Also, how can your life improve, as Joey Aucoin’s life did, when he reversed his type 2 diabetes, naturally, by following these same steps?

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In the short clip below, watch Joey Aucoin discussing his type 2 diabetes reversal under the care of medical doctor, Dr. Matt Lederman, then watch the documentary Forks Over Knives from start to finish to learn much more about how switching to whole foods plant-based foods can prevent and even reverse many of the common illnesses, diseases and chronic sicknesses.

In this video, Joey Aucoin describes how, working with Dr. Matt Lederman and his wife Dr. Alone Pulde, Joey reversed his type 2 diabetes, hot off all of the diabetes drugs and blood pressure drugs, lost 30 pounds, went from size 38 pants, down to a size 33.

Read about how Jason Mraz Helped His Bandmate Reverse Type 2 Diabetes in Under 30 Days

Read about how a Mebane, North Carolina Woman Reversed Type 2 Diabetes as part of PlantPure Nation

Learn More: What is the Cure for Type 2 Diabetes?

As documented in the film, Plant Pure Nation, reversal of type 2 diabetes, lowered cholesterol and lowered blood pressure are just a few of the life-changing results of switching to a whole food plant-based diet for life, in as quickly as only a few weeks.

Watch PlantPure Nation to see the testimonials of people whose health and lives were transformed just by changing the foods they eat.

(Links to view the film PlantPure Nation will follow at the end of this post.)

Particularly moving in the film is the story of a woman from the Mebane, North Carolina area, Patty Jones, the owner of a daycare center, who had previously been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and prescribed diabetes drugs and related paraphanalia to go along with the diagnosis. She had just been told by her medical doctor that the next step was that she would now have to start taking insulin, too. “She told me, your next step is insulin. She told me there is no cure for diabetes. She told me, ‘Type 2 diabetes, there is no cure, Patty.’ And when I left that doctor’s office that day, I was discouraged, and I was depressed.” (PlantPure Nation, Youtube link below, beginning at 44:23).

She did not want this to be her health destiny: who would?

When Patty went to church that very day, before any insulin prescription(s) had been filled, she found that her pastor had invited Nelson Campbell, the creator/director of the documentary film Plant Pure Nation (in progress/being filmed at that time), to speak to the congregation at her church.

Nelson Campbell is the son of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, the world-famous biochemist who specializes in the effect of nutrition on long-term health, and best-selling author of The China Study and many other best-selling books.

As the Executive Producer, Director and Co-Writer of the documentary film PlantPure Nation, Nelson Campbell collaborated on the film with his father to examine the political and economic factors that suppress information about the benefits of plant-based nutrition, and the implications for public policy, medical practice, farming, and food “deserts” (places where fresh, wholesome nutritious whole plant foods are not readily available within walking/bus distance).

That weekend Nelson Campbell spoke to her and her entire church congregation in Mebane, NC about the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse disease and prevent disease, including type 2 diabetes.

She took the opportunity to join in the PlantPure Nation film-in-progress’ invitation to eat this way for ten days. Participants picked up the delicious, healthy meals prepared for them, from a restaurant on the quaint main street of the little town of Mebane, NC.

At the beginning and end of the ten days, each participant’s blood was drawn and blood work run / biometric testing (before and after), in order to quantify the results of eating this way for just ten days.

Even the head of the blood testing company who ran the blood work for the ten-day PlantPure Nation documentary’s “JumpStart” meal programs in Mebane, NC expressed astonishment at the results. He was amazed by the dramatic, positive effects that resulted simply from nutrition, when the PlantPure participants switched to eating the prepared-for-them whole food plant-based meals for ten days. The health benefits include all areas of health, including heart health. Eating this way not only can reverse type 2 diabetes, but also prevent and reverse heart disease (as well as most other diseases and chronic illnesses). He said,

I have worked over the years with many of the manufacturers that make statins. And LDL is the focus. LDL is the number that they all want to bring down, because it shows improved metabolic health. And I have been testing for 26 years. We have tested MILLIONS of people, and I have NEVER seen results like this.”

PlantPure Nation, Youtube link below, at 51:53.

It is critical that any type 2 diabetic who switches to healthy nutrition and makes “diet and lifestyle” changes must work closely under the supervision of their medical doctor so that the diabetes drugs can be reduced and eliminated, to the extent and level that they are no longer needed.

Continuing to take the diabetes drugs after a person has reversed the need for them would be very dangerous, so their doctors must closely monitor their progress as they switch to whole food plant-based healthy nutrition.

In this case, Patty Jones, the Mebane, NC woman featured in “PlantPure Nation” who reversed her type 2 diabetes (after only ten days of eating the prepared-for-her whole food plant-based meals) had not yet even filled the prescription for insulin, since she had just received the prescription earlier the same day Nelson Campbell came to speak at her church.

After making the switch to whole food plant-based nutrition for life she happily pointed out in the film that she never needed to fill the prescription.

In PlantPure Nation, Patty Jones also describes how her favorite foods are fruits, and that now that she switched to whole food plant-based nutrition, she is able to eat them again with no problem.

My favorite foods are fruits. And being on the plant-based diet, I can eat my fruits now, without running my blood sugar numbers up out of the sky. They started out at 340, 350, when I first started. Now I am at between 125 and 130.” She continued, “Once I got back to my doctor’s office, to see my … favorite doctor … we stood in there, she’s talking, and I said, ‘You need to be telling the other patients about it. Because if it helped me, it will help them.’ She acted like she didn’t hear me.” (PlantPure Nation at 48:57 min. to 49:25 min., Youtube video link below).

She describes how her medical doctor’s reaction to her excellent results was . . . disappointing.

In response to her blood work (now showing normal, healthy readings), her medical doctor told her something like, “Great, the drugs are working. Keep taking the drugs.” Even though she had never filled the insulin prescription, never taken the insulin, and it was simply delicious healthy foods over the course of those two weeks (and going forward, for life) that had reversed the type 2 diabetes.

When she later asked her medical doctor to tell the doctor’s other [type 2 diabetic] patients that they can reverse their type 2 diabetes just by eating this way, as she did, her doctor “pretended that she couldn’t hear” what her (formerly type 2 diabetic) patient was saying to her.

The viewer gets the impression from her description that her doctor did not WANT to hear or know anything about a simple solution that did not involve a lifetime of drugs, drug paraphanalia, needles, testing, constant doctor visits, and all of the terrible maladies that type 2 diabetes can cause: heart disease, blindness, amputations, neuropathy, death from diabetes complications. Also, the side effects of the drugs and insulin, especially when taken over a long period of time.

Why wouldn’t a medical doctor welcome a solution that can so simply reverse type 2 diabetes, and all of the heartbreak and unnecessary suffering, that comes with it?

The good news is that many medical doctors now are discovering the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to cure and prevent disease, including type 2 diabetes.

In the coming days, we will post testimonials from some of these medical doctors, for example, Dr. Steve Lawenda, and Dr. Laurie Marbas, about how whole food plant-based nutrition reversed their patients’ type 2 diabetes.

We will also write about the testimonial of a medical doctor, Dr. Steve Lawenda, who received a referral for a type 1 diabetic patient who was scheduled for a foot amputation, referred by the type 1 diabetic patient’s podiatrist (foot doctor).

The foot doctor was willing to go along with the type 1 diabetic patient’s desire to at least try whole food plant-based nutrition, under the theory that, “you don’t have anything to lose to try it,” since the alternative was definitely going to be amputation.

Dr. Lawenda described how the type 1 diabetic patient had a great outcome in a short time from switching to whole food plant-based nutrition. The patient did NOT have to have his foot amputated. His foot seemingly miraculously healed within a very short time (a few weeks or less) of switching to whole food plant-based nutrition.

This type 1 diabetic patient decided to switch to whole food plant-based nutrition to save his foot. Whole food plant-based nutrition is a kind of vehicle for the miracle of renewed health — the catalyst for the miracle — in this case, saving a type 1 diabetic patient’s foot from amputation.

We will also post testimonials from medical doctors who themselves discovered the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to naturally reverse type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes — first for themselves, as in Dr. Steve Lawenda’s case, and subsequently for their patients.

Dr. Steve Lawenda learned first-hand by switching to whole food plant-based nutrition for life that nutrition could cure his own type 2 diabetes/pre-diabetes, as well as his patients’ type 2 diabetes. Dr. Lawenda is a family medicine doctor who had himself been overweight, and whose own father suffered amputations and died due to type 2 diabetes complications (before Dr. Lawenda knew about the power of nutrition to reverse type 2 diabetes). In addition to reversing his own pre-diabetes, Dr. Lawenda lost more than 75 pounds eating whole food plant-based foods, without portion control. Dr. Lawenda received his medical degree from University of California Davis School of Medicine.

In the meantime, one simple book summarizes everything you need to know to get started right now to help yourself or someone you care about reverse type 2 diabetes (under the close supervision of your own medical doctor).

Read Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s book, The End of Diabetes.

Read the Amazon testimonials from several thousand readers of The End of Diabetes, many of whom write in their Amazon customer reviews about how Dr. Fuhrman’s book helped them reverse their type 2 diabetes in only days/weeks (under the supervision of their own doctors, so that the diabetes drugs could be reduced and eventually eliminated to the extent no longer needed.)

Watch PlantPure Nation.

You can now watch PlantPure Nation FREE online on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBKnG9Y0owQ

Learn how Patty Jones of Mebane, NC featured in PlantPure Nation, reversed her type 2 diabetes

Learn how everyone else who participated in the PlantPure Nation two-week meal program in Mebane, NC benefited (with astounding improved blood results) from just two weeks of switching to delicious, satisfying, healthy whole food plant-based nutrition.

What do you have to lose?