Reverse Diabetes

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. For example, 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), including 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 and grains on the menu, for example, Dr. John McDougall’s nutrition program, available free online.

In his 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 whole food plant-based nutrition, which are the foods that often result in reducing/eliminating 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.

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, oily toppings, fried foods, peanut butter, olives and even avocados to a minimum due to the 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.

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.

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.

For example, read here on ReverseDiabetes2.com the 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.

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.

Joel Fuhrman MD is a board certified family physician and best-selling author who has cured hundreds of people of type 2 diabetes using diet and lifestyle. He is one of the experts world-wide in helping people reverse type 2 diabetes, along with preventing and reversing all kinds of chronic disease and illnesses.

WATCH THIS VIDEO (!!!) (below) if you are diabetic, or if you care about someone who is, and want to learn the truth about how you can reverse type 2 diabetes, directly from Dr. Fuhrman.

The video is only a few minutes long, but it packs critical information that anyone with type 2 diabetes, or cares about someone who has diabetes, needs to know.

This concise video excerpt from Dr. Fuhrman’s presentation at a health conference gives you:

(1) Inspiration, coming from one of the leading experts in the world, that type 2 diabetes can be reversed and that this is the case for his patients from Dr. Fuhrman’s personal experience over the course of decades of his medical practice. This is very powerful inspiration for any type 2 diabetic to hear. Read the transcript excerpt under the video below.

(2) Dramatic, specific examples of two of Dr. Fuhrman’s patients who have reversed their type 2 diabetes and gotten off all of the diabetes drugs and insulin very quickly; as well as

(3) An extraordinarily sobering story about what happened when a major association dealing with diabetes asked Dr. Fuhrman to write an article for their magazine that goes out to type 2 diabetics all over the country.

WATCH THE 3-MINUTE VIDEO BELOW TO HEAR DR. FUHRMAN DESCRIBING WHAT HAPPENED, FIRST HAND — Every type 2 diabetic should watch this and decide to take control of their own health destiny.

Upon receiving the article, in which Dr. Fuhrman described four examples of his patients who have completely reversed their type 2 diabetes and gotten off all of the drugs, he got a call from the association, asking him to please remove the reference to the fact that his patients no longer had to take the drugs or insulin.

Why? The association’s representative explained on the phone to Dr. Fuhrman that the drug company that makes insulin funds the association’s magazine that goes out to diabetics all across the country. So the magazine would not print Dr. Fuhrman’s article giving concrete examples of type 2 diabetic patients who reversed their diabetes and completely got off all of the drugs and insulin, unless he would revise it to take out the part about the patients’ health transformation and getting off the drugs and insulin. Of course Dr. Fuhrman chose not to revise the article, and it was not published in the association’s magazine.

This story is so very sobering — and disturbing — because type 2 diabetics all across the country (who are members of this association) did not get to benefit from reading the article to learn about how Dr. Fuhrman’s patients are reversing their type 2 diabetes, and how they too can choose to transform their health for life.

They (maybe you included?) didn’t get the benefit of learning this, because the association of which they are members pulled Dr. Fuhrman’s article instead of making this life-changing and life-saving information available to the association’s type 2 diabetic members, solely because Dr. Fuhrman wouldn’t revise the article to edit out the fact that these 4 patients had transformed their health and gotten off all of the insulin and drugs as a result of changing their diet following Dr. Fuhrman’s recommendations. Watch the video below and read the transcript excerpt below.

As a corollary to this story, also watch the documentary, What the Health, and pay close attention to the same association’s reaction (in this case, one of the top medical officials of that association) to questions about how the right kind of food can powerfully transform health and have a positive impact for type 2 diabetes . . . the association’s top medical representative literally walks out and leaves the interview. WATCH What the Health and see for yourself so you can be fully informed.

Watch the video here (the video below is an excerpt from Dr. Furhman’s presentation at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2007).

TRANSCRIPT of video excerpt above:

We have to put all those factors into account if we are devising a diet for a person who is diabetic, and we want to get optimal results. And we have to, at the same time, promise them with 100% certainty, and this is the most important thing, that if you follow this I can guarantee you you won’t need those diabetic medications and you can cut your diabetic medications down right away. We’ll have you become — you won’t be ‘controlling’ your diabetes, if you are type 2 we will be having you become UN-diabetic.

And you’ll get dramatic results that will add many years to your life, and prevent you from developing blindness, leg amputations, kidney failures, and all of these horrendous tragedies that befall people with diabetes, and could be tremendously motivating.

I remember once I had a patient who was sent to me by a [nephrologist via endriconologist referal to the nephrologist]. His blood sugar was 400 to 500, and he was on about 300 units of insulin a day. I said, ‘What?!’ Plus, oral medications too. This guy got off his insulin completely in the first month. He was a huge guy, and he already had his toes cut off, by the way.

The doctor who sent him to me wasn’t the dietologist or endicronologist; they never send me the patient, they know the minute they do, they lose the patient. The diebetologist sends them to the nephrologist when their kidney function starts going bad. The dietologist refers them to the nephrologist, and the nephrologist refers them to me. They always come to me in that back door. Never from the diebetologist directly. And of course, the guy’s kidney function got better.

I remember one story where this lady, her name was Janet, she was a school principal, she went into the emergency room with a complication of her diabetes, she is a lovely lady, and the emergency room doctor liked her so much that he whispered in her ear, ‘Don’t tell anybody, but go see Dr. Fuhrman. But DON’T tell anybody I told you that.” So this lady comes in to see me, and to make a long story short, she gets better from her diabetes, and she writes this beautiful article that gets published in a publication for school principals, because she was a school principal. And the American Diabetic Association, someone working for them, picks up this article, and they call me on the phone, and they say, can you write an article for our national magazine that goes out to all diabetics/people with diabetes, and I say, ‘Sure,’ and they send me a check for $750. I said, ‘Write it for nothing,’ but if they pay me check for $750, great. . . . I write the article, I send it in, and they call me back on the phone and say, ‘Dr. Fuhrman, we can’t print your article as it’s written, because you have an example of four patients, all who came off their diabetic medications. And our magazine is sponsored by Ely Lilly who makes insulin. So can you tone it down [to say that] patients are improving, but not coming off their medications.’ And I said, ‘No, I can’t.’ So I just sent them their check back. But it was a really nice person on the phone, she admitted to me what the problem was … I didn’t want to change it [the article] so I guess I didn’t.” – transcript, video above, excerpt from Dr. Fuhrman’s presentation at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2007

ALSO watch the documentary, What the Health and decide for yourself. Type 2 diabetes is a disease of choice; that’s great news because you can choose to make the changes that Dr. Fuhrman teaches (under the close supervision of your doctor so that your doctor can reduce and eliminate the diabetes and other medications when and to the extent you no longer need them as you make the dietary changes that Dr. Fuhrman recommends.)

Read Dr. Fuhrman’s book The End of Diabetes to learn step-by-step how to reverse type 2 diabetes as well as heart disease and prevent and reverse disease and illness all from changing the foods you eat, never counting calories, never measuring, while eating lots of delicious food and feeling satisfied, not feeling hungry.

What most people say — you will hear this over and over again in video testimonials from people from all walks over life, ages, backgrounds — is that when they change to this way of eating and reverse their type 2 diabetes, the thing that most surprised them is how EASY it is, EASY to lose the weight, reverse the type 2 diabetes, and how EASY, delicious, and pleasurable it is eat this way for life.

Read here about more board certified medical doctors who are also experts in nutrition and help their patients to reverse heart disease and reverse type 2 diabetes with a whole food plant-based diet.

Read the type 2 diabetes reversal success stories (links below) from real, every day people, who faced the same type 2 diabetes challenges and feelings of hopelessness in the past, but who have successfully reversed their type 2 diabetes, all by changing their nutrition. We offer these type 2 diabetes reversal success story testimonials to inspire your journey to your own health transformation.

Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Success Stories, Videos and Documentaries

Read about how Joey Aucoin, a Florida Dad and Business Owner, Reversed Diabetes Naturally in Weeks in the Forks Over Knives documentary

Dr. Steve Lawenda is a board-certified medical doctor (Kaiser Permanente, Southern California), who reversed his own pre-diabetes and lost a lot of weight at the same time, six years ago, and he now helps his patients reverse their type 2 diabetes. Learn more about Dr. Lawenda here.

Watch the video testimonial of David, a 66 year old retired truck driver who learned first-hand from Dr. Lawenda about the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse type 2 diabetes.

Nick Delgado reversed his type 2 diabetes in his 20s by switching to whole food plant-based foods. Now, over the course of the past 40 years, he has helped more than 4,000 people reverse their type 2 diabetes. He also holds world records for strength endurance, still winning strength endurance competitions in his 60s over other strong, fit men who are decades younger than him. Read about how Nick Delgado reversed his type 2 diabetes and helps others reverse their type 2 diabetes.

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

Read about how Jim Balla of Detroit, Michigan reversed his type 2 diabetes in days, and went on to lose 162+ pounds in 22 months.

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

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

Read about how an Ohio Mother of Five Reversed her Type 2 Diabetes and Reversed Hypertension in Weeks

Read about the powerful testimonials and type 2 diabetes reversal success stories in the Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days documentary.

Read about Amy Johnson’s type 2 diabetes reversal and 50-pound weight loss from switching to whole food plant-based nutrition six years ago.

Read about how Michael Abdalla lost weight and reduced his diabetes meds in a short time after switching to whole food plant-based foods, and set his goal to get off all of the diabetes drugs, in the documentary What the Health.

Read about Kirt Tysons’s health journey, reversing his diabetes as part of the Simply Raw documentary challenge, becoming a naturopathic doctor, and founding/running a naturopathic health center in Washington, DC.

The way to reverse type 2 diabetes and to prevent and reverse most of the diseases and illnesses that have become so common is so simple and straightforward. As Dr. McDougall says, “It’s the food!”

You can reverse type 2 diabetes permanently when you change your nutrition to choose only the foods that support your health — simple, easy to find foods from your local grocery store — and cut out the foods that cause disease and illness, as detailed both in Dr. Fuhrman’s book The End of Diabetes. Curing type 2 diabetes permanently is a result of making the powerful diet and lifestyle change for life that Dr. Fuhrman and many other board certified medical doctors who are among the top experts in nutrition, prescribe.

Please include your own testimonial in the comments below; your success story will help other people who are just starting out to transform their health for life and reverse type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery helps his patients prevent and reverse disease type 2 diabetes, & prevent and reverse heart disease and reduce or eliminate medications.

First, just watch this short video introduction (a minute or so long) about Dr. Montgomery’s work. Just … watch this, and ask yourself, why hasn’t everyone learned about Dr. Montgomery, his philosophy, and his approach to medicine?

As described in the video above, Dr. Montgomery helped an 89 year old patient reverse her type 2 diabetes. He helped the 89-year-old woman who had been on insulin for FORTY years, and who was taking 22 medications, to get off the insulin within a couple of days of her having switched to a raw, whole food plant-based detox diet. She is down to taking no medications at all, and now, in her mid-nineties, she hardly ever has to come in to see Dr. Montgomery as a patient, because she remains so healthy after switching to whole food plant-based nutrition.

Over the years Dr. Montgomery has helped so many people reverse heart disease and reverse type 2 diabetes.

As shown in the video, Dr. Montgomery’s health clinic has a vegan restaurant on-site, serving delicious whole food plant-based foods, to show his patients how easy it is to be healthy and enjoy delicious foods. He also has a gym on-site at his medical health clinic.

Why aren’t the majority of medical doctors helping patients to prevent and REVERSE type 2 diabetes, reverse heart disease along with so many other chronic ailments, through such a simple solution? The solution is the food. It’s the food (the S.A.D. standard American diet) that causes these diseases, and it’s the RIGHT KIND OF FOOD — whole food plant-based nutrition — that can quickly reverse disease including type 2 diabetes and heart disease and many others.

Dr. Montgomery specializes in internal medicine, clinical cardiac electrophysiology, internal medicine, and cardiovascular disease. He also is the owner of the Houston Cardiac Association. Dr. Montgomery is a plant-based doctor who has helped his patients reverse their type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and prevent and reverse illness and disease with a whole food plant-based diet. Dr. Montgomery is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and his patients come to him with a range of conditions including type 2 diabetes, as well as arrhythmias and coronary disease.

He performs angiography, defibrillator implants, and other hospital procedures, and teaches young physicians, and for many years now Dr. Montgomery also teaches his patients how to prevent and REVERSE heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and so many other chronic diseases, all using the exact same method, switching to a whole food plant-based diet.

In 2002, at age 38, Dr. Montgomery’s cholesterol was elevated, and his mother passed away from heart disease and diabetes (as well as complications caused by the medications). This was a wake-up call that caused Dr. Montgomery to re-evaluate his own health and his understanding of and approach to medicine. He read scientific studies and books about nutrition, and changed his diet to whole food plant-based nutrition. As a result, he lowered his cholesterol dramatically. Upon seeing the many benefits he experienced for his own health, he began to incorporate nutritional education into his practice with his patients.

Upon learning about how Dr. Montgomery was helping his patients prevent and reverse heart disease, and prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes, the FOX 5 News station in Atlanta interviewed him for a segment. The news station’s focus for the interview was on Dr. Montgomery’s patients reversing diabetes. After the show aired, the phone lines went crazy. So many people were calling the Fox news station and Dr. Montgomery’s office, wanting to know how they, too, could reverse heart disease and reverse type 2 diabetes.

Watch (below) the Fox 5 Atlanta video featuring Dr. Montgomery and two of his patients who reversed their type 2 diabetes:

Transcript of the above video:

Get rid of insulin, control blood sugar, minimize medications, in just a few days? Sound too good to be true? Rosalee Isles did it. She was hospitalized, overweight, suffering from hypertension and high blood pressure when she met Dr. Baxter Montgomery, and he immediately put her on a special diet.
Rosalee: “Three days after I went on this diet, I was taken off the insulin, I had been on insulin since 1987. I no longer take insulin.”

Dr. Montgomery: “By getting on a plant-based diet, and getting her completely off animal flesh, it allowed us to get her off the insulin, and it allowed her to lose weight.”

Rosalee says she lost 35 pounds in two months and reversed her heart disease. This is Rosalee before the diet [shows before picture]; now at the age of 81 she is confident enough to model in fashion shows.

Rosalee: “I feel like a different person ever since I started coming to Dr. Montgomery my life has been different. I’m completely changed.”

Victor Fuller: “The dreaded scale.”

Victor Fuller [at the time, a type 2 diabetic], had just undergone his second life-saving open heart surgery when he turned to Dr. Montgomery. The diet helped him get his heat disease under better control. He no longer has type 2 diabetes, and he lost fifty pounds.

Victor: “At first, I was a little shaky, there, I didn’t want to do it, because I am a “meat and potatoes” man. But then, after he [Dr. Montgomery] told me the ins and outs of what it could do for my body, how I could cleanse my body, then I gave it a try.”

Dr. Montgomery: “The weight loss is very nice, and it’s cosmetic, but the real magic is happening “under the hood” with him. With someone with the amount of vascular disease as he has should not function nearly to the capacity as he functions, and it’s because of the lifestyle change that he has made. That’s what has gotten him to that point.”

[Victor previously was taking 13 medications, now he was down to just four.]

This plan requires some pretty serious dietary changes. Dr. Montgomery encourages people to load up on things like fresh fruit and vegetables, avoiding all animal products, he says go with:

Dr. Montgomery: “Minimally processed, whole food plant-based. I try to avoid terms such as vegetarian or vegan.”

His patients eat food as close to its natural state as possible. He suggests you shuck a corn on the cob and eat it raw or lightly steamed, to keep its nutrients. The biggest step is letting go of meat. Dr. Montgomery has another term for it.

Dr Montgomery: “[When patients have] advanced illness, one of the first things we want to do is remove animal flesh and dairy products from their system. . . .”

Since food often affects us psychologically, it may help to look at it beyond flavor or even texture.

Dr. Montgomery: “If one would eat a cheeseburger now, it would probably taste good for that moment, but from that point on, you only get the adverse effects of that cheeseburger.”

Victor and Rosalee let go of cheeseburgers, and say it works.

Rosalee: “I only put what I am supposed to eat in my refrigerator, freezer, and pantry. That’s the best way you can do it. Don’t bring anything into your house that you can’t have.”

Victor: “I thank God for the pleasure of meeting Dr. Montgomery, because he has changed my life.” – end transcript (video above).

Dr. Montgomery’s Nutritional Bootcamp: Reversing Heart Disease & Reversing Type 2 Diabetes

In 2008, Dr. Montgomery created a one-month Nutritional Bootcamp (located where he practices medicine, in Texas) to help people reverse their heart disease, reverse type 2 diabetes, reduce cholesterol, and lose weight. Dr. Montgomery’s Nutritional Bootcamps still are being offered today, and people who attend get phenomenal results, such as reversal of most chronic health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol and others, reduction or elimination of the need for medications, improved work, sexual and exercise performance, significant healthcare savings and much more. Learn more about Dr. Montgomery’s Nutritional Bootcamps at Dr. Montgomery’s clinic here.

Watch Dr. Montgomery’s presentation in which he offers an excellent analogy for the current chronic disease management system (aka health care)

here.

Dr. Montgomery’s analogy begins with an image of a vice wrench, and he goes on to describe a hypothetical, where someone goes to his doctor with a vice wrench tightly screwed onto his thumb, causing pain and swelling, and describes to his doctor his pain and swelling. The doctor asks if he has had any other similar pain or swelling, and whether he has ever had thumb troubles in the past. The doctor asks if anyone in his family has ever had thumb troubles. The doctor then prescribed medication to ease the pain, in increasing quantities over the weeks, causing sickness and side effects from the medications, and no relief from the vice grip that is the source of the pain. The doctor then refers the patient to other doctors to deal with the side effects caused by the medications, etc., and on an on…

In Dr. Montgomery’s “vice grip” hypothetical/analogy, instead of dealing with the CAUSE of the pain and swelling, in this case, the vice grip tightly screwed onto the thumb, this doctor is dealing only with the symptoms.

As Dr. Montgomery describes in the video above, in the case of type 2 diabetes, the cause is the FOOD, and the CURE is the RIGHT KINDS of FOOD — that is, whole food plant-based foods.

Learn more about Dr. Montgomery and his step-by-step program to reverse type 2 diabetes by reading his book, The Food Prescription for Better Health: A Cardiologist’s Proven Method to Reverse Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, and other Chronic Illnesses, Naturally!

Read some of the MANY testimonials here at reversediabetes2.com, and WATCH the videos/documentaries in which you will see the amazing health transformations (and weight loss transformations) as they cure type 2 diabetes naturally and permanently by changing their nutrition for life, using simple foods you can find at your local grocery store.

Watch the documentary movies, Forks Over Knives, PlantPure Nation, and What the Health. Watch the documentary film Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days.

Read here about board certified medical doctors who are also experts in nutrition and help their patients to reverse heart disease and reverse type 2 diabetes with a whole food plant-based diet.

Linked below are type 2 diabetes reversal success stories from real, every day people, who faced the same type 2 diabetes challenges and feelings of hopelessness in the past, but who have successfully reversed their type 2 diabetes, all by changing their nutrition. We offer these type 2 diabetes reversal success story testimonials to inspire your journey to your own health transformation.

Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Success Stories, Videos and Documentaries

Read about how Joey Aucoin, a Florida Dad and Business Owner, Reversed Diabetes Naturally in Weeks in the Forks Over Knives documentary

Dr. Steve Lawenda is a board-certified medical doctor (Kaiser Permanente, Southern California), who reversed his own pre-diabetes and lost a lot of weight at the same time, six years ago, and he now helps his patients reverse their type 2 diabetes. Learn more about Dr. Lawenda here.

Watch the video testimonial of David, a 66 year old retired truck driver who learned first-hand from Dr. Lawenda about the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse type 2 diabetes.

Nick Delgado reversed his type 2 diabetes in his 20s by switching to whole food plant-based foods. Now, over the course of the past 40 years, he has helped more than 4,000 people reverse their type 2 diabetes. He also holds world records for strength endurance, still winning strength endurance competitions in his 60s over other strong, fit men who are decades younger than him. Read about how Nick Delgado reversed his type 2 diabetes and helps others reverse their type 2 diabetes.

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

Read about how Jim Balla of Detroit, Michigan reversed his type 2 diabetes in days, and went on to lose 162+ pounds in 22 months.

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

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

Read about how an Ohio Mother of Five Reversed her Type 2 Diabetes and Reversed Hypertension in Weeks

Read about the powerful testimonials and type 2 diabetes reversal success stories in the Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days documentary.

Read about Amy Johnson’s type 2 diabetes reversal and 50-pound weight loss from switching to whole food plant-based nutrition six years ago.

Read about how Michael Abdalla lost weight and reduced his diabetes meds in a short time after switching to whole food plant-based foods, and set his goal to get off all of the diabetes drugs, in the documentary What the Health.

Read about Kirt Tysons’s health journey, reversing his diabetes as part of the Simply Raw documentary challenge, becoming a naturopathic doctor, and founding/running a naturopathic health center in Washington, DC.

The way to reverse type 2 diabetes and to prevent and reverse most of the diseases and illnesses that have become so common is so simple and straightforward. As Dr. McDougall says, “It’s the food!”

ALL of these people (links above), whose type 2 diabetes reversal transformations you can watch for yourself in the documentary films in which they are featured, reversed their type 2 diabetes in THE SAME WAY that is described in Dr. Montgomery’s book, The Food Prescription for Better Health: A Cardiologist’s Proven Method to Reverse Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, and other Chronic Illnesses, Naturally! Dr. Fuhrman’s The End of Diabetes Dr. Fuhrman’s book, The End of Diabetes and in Dr. Neal Barnard’s Diabetes Reversal Program.

You can cure type 2 diabetes permanently when you change your nutrition to choose only the foods that support your health — simple, easy to find foods from your local grocery store — and cut out the foods that cause disease and illness, as detailed both in Dr. Montgomery’s book, as well as in Dr. Fuhrman’s book The End of Diabetes and in Dr. Barnard’s books. Curing type 2 diabetes permanently results from making the powerful diet and lifestyle change for life that Dr. Montgomery, Dr. Fuhrman, Dr. Barnard, and many other board certified medical doctors who are among the top experts in nutrition, prescribe.

These doctors collectively have decades of first-hand experience helping people to reverse their type 2 diabetes. You too can benefit from their expertise starting with the potentially life-changing action of reading a book like Dr. Montgomery’s book, The Food Prescription for Better Health: A Cardiologist’s Proven Method to Reverse Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, and other Chronic Illnesses, Naturally! Dr. Fuhrman’s The End of Diabetes, or Dr. Neal Barnard’s book.

As you begin your journey to transform your health and reverse your type 2 diabetes, visit reversediabetes2.com for inspiration from others who have reversed their type 2 diabetes in their first-hand success stories featured in documentary films and videos.

Have you or someone you care about ever asked your doctor: What is the cure for type 2 diabetes? Or this: What can I do to get off all of these diabetes drugs?

If you ask your doctor these kinds of questions, and if they tell you that there is nothing you can do about it, (except perhaps a vague suggestion to make “diet and lifestyle” changes), and that type 2 diabetes is a life sentence of diabetes drugs, insulin, and all of the complications and sickness that comes with type 2 diabetes and the diabetes drugs, ask a different doctor the same questions.

More specifically, ask a board-certified medical doctor who is an expert in nutrition and who has personal, first-hand experience and expertise in the power of the right nutrition to prevent and reverse disease and illnesses, including type 2 diabetes.

The board-certified medical doctors listed below have helped hundreds and even thousands of people reverse their type 2 diabetes, so that in most cases patients who follow their advice are able to get off all of the diabetes drugs and insulin, as well as high blood pressure medications, cholesterol medications, and others, in addition to reversing their type 2 diabetes.

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: Here are just a few of the top experts in nutrition who also are board certified medical doctors.

Collectively (and individually) these board certified medical doctors have many decades of experience helping thousands of people reverse type 2 diabetes. Read on below to learn more about each of these medical doctors.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman (author of the End of Diabetes, Eat to Live and many more)
Dr. John McDougall
Dr. Neal Barnard (author of Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes, 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart and more)
Dr. Terry Shintani (M.D., J.D., Harvard M.P.H., K.C.S.J and best-selling author)
Dr. Michael Klaper
Dr. Alan Goldhamer
Dr. Anthony Lim (M.D. and Harvard J.D.)
Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery
Dr. Steve Lawenda
Dr. Laurie Marbas
Dr. Matt Lederman
Dr. Alona Pulde
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. (Yale, Olympic Gold Medalist)
Dr. Andrea Avery, MD, Internal Medicine Physician and Professor of Medicine at University of California, Irvine

This is just an initial list that includes some of the top nutritional experts worldwide who also are U.S. board certified medical doctors (having earned their medical degrees from some of the best medical schools).

Also: Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, FACN, program founder and Clinical Professor of Preventative Medicine at Loma Linda University (read more about Dr. Diehl and the Complete Health Improvement Program (“CHIP”) at the Lifestyle Medicine Institute below.

We will continue to add more U.S. board-certified medical doctors to this list.

These medical doctors have practical experience helping people reverse their type 2 diabetes as well as heart disease and many other illnesses and diseases, all through the exact same method: switching to whole food plant-based nutrition.

Many of these doctors have written excellent books on the topic of reversing type 2 diet, (for example, Dr. Fuhrman’s The End of Diabetes), and have online programs to help people with the specific “how to do this” step-by-step guidance.

One of these medical doctors, <ahref=”https://reversediabetes2.com/medical-doctor-reversed-his-own-pre-diabetes-helps-patients-reverse-type-2-diabetes-naturally/”>Dr. Steve Lawenda, not only helps his patients prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes through whole food plant-based nutrition, but he himself reversed his pre-diabetes and no longer is obese since he made these nutritional changes for his own life.

Listen to these board-certified medical doctors (Youtube videos); watch them speak about their patients reversing type 2 diabetes and getting off all of their medications; read the books these doctors have written; visit their websites for more information about their medical practices, as well as their weight loss programs, events, free online programs and more.

Watch the documentaries in which type 2 diabetic patients reverse their type 2 diabetes and usually get off all of the drugs, along with reversing heart disease and other illnesses and disease.

For example, watch the film documentaries Forks Over Knives, What the Health and PlantPure Nation.

In Forks Over Knives, watch Joey Aucoin’s transformation from being type 2 diabetic and taking many diabetes and other drugs that were making him feel awful, to reversing his type 2 diabetes and getting off all of his medications under the supervision of Dr. Matt Lederman and Dr. Aona Pulde.

The medical doctors featured here are experts in the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to prevent and reverse disease and illnesses, often very quickly, within weeks or even days, including reversal of type 2 diabetes in most cases, when a person switches to whole food plant-based foods for their health for life.

Dr. Anthony Lim

Dr. Lim is a board-certified family physician and is the Medical Director of the McDougall Health & Medical Center in Santa Rosa, California. Dr. Lim also is associated as a medical doctor with the TrueNorth Health Center.  Dr. Lim received his undergraduate degree in Human Biology from Stanford University. He earned his law degree from Harvard University Law School, and is a member of the California State Bar. He earned his medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Lim’s life mission is to help people prevent and reverse disease, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune conditions and more, through whole food plant-based nutrition.

Read more here about Dr. Lim and learn about how Dr. Lim helps his patients reverse type 2 diabetes, heart disease and more.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman

Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a board certified family physician and author of many world-wide best selling excellent books on the power of whole food plant-based nutrition — “nutritarian” nutrient-dense foods — to heal, cure, prevent, and reverse illnesses and disease.

Dr. Fuhrman has written many best-selling, life-changing, life-saving books about whole food plant-based nutrition for preventing and reversing disease and illnesses, including Eat to Live, the End of Dieting, and the End of Diabetes, among many other best sellers.

Dr. Fuhrman was one of the top ice skaters in the U.S. before he attended medical school. He has first-hand experience with the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to fuel top athletes for strength and endurance.

Dr. Fuhrman’s work has inspired other medical doctors to also become experts in nutrition.

For example, both Dr. Anthony Lim and Dr. Steve Lawenda first learned about the healing power of whole food plant-based nutrition by accidentally hearing Dr. Fuhrman speak.

Dr. Lim happened to turn the channel to find one of Dr. Fuhrma’s PBS shows; the next day he got Dr. Fuhrman’s book Eat to Live and read it from cover to cover.

Dr. Lawenda’s wife played Dr. Fuhrman’s audio book version of Eat to Live on a long drive home from a family vacation.

Dr. Laurie Marabas read Dr. Fuhrman’s book Eat to Live after she searched for ways to learn more about whole food plant-based nutrition. She had witnessed her patients reverse diseases (including lupus) very quickly (in under 30 days) after switching to a whole food plant-based diet. Dr. Marabas later worked with Dr. Fuhrman as Medical Director of Dr. Fuhrman’s Health Oasis in Boca Raton, Florida.

Discovering Dr. Fuhrman’s work was life-changing for Dr. Lim, for Dr. Lawenda, and Dr. Marabas, among many others, and also contributed to these medical doctors changing the focus and direction and mission of their medical careers.

Watch Dr. Fuhrman’s PBS show (below), in which he describes just a few examples of people who have reversed their type 2 diabetes and gotten off all of their medications by following his nutritarian diet.

“Nutritarian” is a term Dr. Fuhrman coined, which means choosing foods that have the highest nutrients per calorie, and avoiding foods that have low nutrient density – like junk foods, processed foods, and oils, for example. Learn all about nutritarian, whole food plant-based nutrition (along with delicious recipes) in Dr. Fuhrman’s life-changing book, Eat to Live.

Watch Dr. Fuhrman’s PBS presentation, “End Dieting Forever,” here:

In Dr. Fuhrman’s presentation above, watch at 29:57, where Dr. Fuhrman shows Before and After photos of a woman named Laura, from Missouri, who watched one of Dr. Fuhrman’s previous PBS shows, and learned for the first time that type 2 diabetes is reversible with whole foods plant-based nutrition. Laura read Dr. Fuhrman’s book The End of Diabetes, changed the foods she ate following Dr. Fuhrman’s guidance in the book, and reversed her type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Fuhrman is featured in numerous documentaries about preventing and reversing disease with whole food plant-based nutrition.

Just to list a few examples, Dr. Fuhrman is featured in the documentary films, Eating You Alive, Vegucated, and To Your Health, and Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days, among others.

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr.

Dr. Esselstyn formerly was a heart surgeon but now he instead specializes in preventing and reversing heart disease through whole food plant-based foods (no oil added). Along with reversing heart disease, type 2 diabetic patients often reverse their type 2 diabetes). Watch the documentary Forks Over Knives to see Dr. Esselstyn’s formerly diabetic patient’s health transformation as she reversed her type 2 diabetes. Read about how Dr. Esselstyn helped her reverse her type 2 diabetes here.

Dr. Steve Lawenda

Dr. Steve Lawenda is a board certified family physician with Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. In his earlier years as a medical doctor, he himself was obese and diagnosed with pre-diabetes. His father had suffered from type 2 diabetes and had amputations due to type 2 diabetes complications, before Dr. Lawenda had learned about the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse type 2 diabetes.

Out of the blue, someone gave Dr. Lawenda’s wife an audio book version of Dr. Fuhrman’s book Eat to Live, and she played the audio book over the car speakers while Dr. Lawenda drove the family home from a vacation. This fortuitous timing, playing the audio book during a long drive so that Dr. Lawenda could also hear it while his wife listened to the Eat to Live audio book, turned out to be life-changing both for Dr. Lawenda himself, and later, for his patients, thanks to what he learned from Dr. Furhman’s audio book, Eat to Live. Read more here about Dr. Lawenda’s own health transformation and how he helps his patients reverse type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery

Dr. Montgomery specializes in internal medicine, clinical cardiac electrophysiology, internal medicine, and cardiovascular disease. He also is the owner of the Houston Cardiac Association and the founder of Montgomery Health & Wellness in Houston, Texas. Dr. Montgomery is a plant-based doctor who has helped his patients reverse their type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and prevent and reverse illness and disease with a whole food plant-based diet. Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Montgomery’s patients come to him with a range of conditions including type 2 diabetes, as well as arrhythmias and coronary disease. He performs angiography, defibrillator implants, and other hospital procedures, and teaches young physicians; for many years now Dr. Montgomery also teaches his patients how to prevent and REVERSE heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and so many other chronic diseases, all using the exact same method, switching to a whole food plant-based diet.

He is the author of The Food Prescription for Better Health: A Cardiologist’s Proven Method to Reverse Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, and other Chronic Illnesses, Naturally!

In 2008, he created a one-month Nutritional Bootcamp (located where he practices medicine, in Texas) to help people reverse their type 2 diabetes, reverse heart disease, reduce cholesterol, and lose weight. Dr. Montgomery’s Nutritional Bootcamps still are being offered today, and people who attend get phenomenal results, such as reversal of most chronic health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol and others, reduction or elimination of the need for medications, improved work, sexual and exercise performance, significant healthcare savings and much more.

Read more about Dr. Montgomery here, and watch him in action, helping patients to reverse their type 2 diabetes (watch the videos here).

Dr. John McDougall

Dr. John McDougall is a board-certified doctor of internal medicine who has decades of experience helping people prevent and reverse disease. He also is a best-selling author and speaker, and he is one of the leading experts in nutrition. He began his career as a medical doctor in Hawaii, then moved his medical practice to California.

Dr. McDougall founded the McDougall Health & Medical Center in Santa Rosa, California, where people can go in person for a 3-Day Program, a 10-Day Live-In Program and other health programs that help people to lose weight and/or prevent and reverse disease through whole food plant-based nutrition for life. Dr. McDougall’s website also offers a completely FREE online weight loss program, complete with a free 10-Day Meal Plan/recipes. Dr. McDougall has excellent Youtube videos on many health and nutrition topics.

Dr. Dougall ate the standard American diet during his early years (as Dr. McDougall describes it, “I lived on steak and eggs”), and suffered a massive stroke at the age of 18. When he was in his 20’s he worked as a plantation doctor in Hawaii, and noticed that the elderly people he treated (immigrants who ate culturally traditional diets centered around rice) maintained better health than did their children and grandchildren.

Dr. McDougall began to study the scientific findings of early whole food plant-based pioneers such as Nathan Pritikin and Walter Kempner, MD (Duke University), which confirmed Dr. McDougall’s observations about the powerful connection between diet and disease.  Dr. McDougall switched to whole food plant-based nutrition and stopped eating meat and dairy. He felt so good eating whole food plant-based foods, including starchy vegetables, that he advised his patients to do the same.

While Dr. McDougall recently retired from full-time medical practice (in May 2018), he will continue to write books, speak at events, and participate in legislative work relating to nutrition and health, and he will continue to visit with people attending the 3-Day and 10-Day programs at the McDougall Health & Medical Center. Dr. Anthony Lim now is the Medical Director overseeing the McDougall Health & Medical Center.

Read Dr. John McDougall’s detailed discussion about the specific step-by-step guidance he gives to patients to help them reverse their type 2 diabetes here.

Dr. Michael Klaper

Dr. Michael Klaper is a medical doctor at TrueNorth Health Center who helps people prevent and reverse diseases, including type 2 diabetes, through a whole food plant-based diet. Dr. Klaper also specializes in medical supervision of water-only fasting at the TrueNorth Health Center in California.

Dr. Alan Goldhamer

Dr. Alan Goldhamer is a medical doctor at TrueNorth Health Center.
He is a founder of the TrueNorth Health center.

Dr. Terry Shintani

Dr. Terry Shintani of Hawaii is an American plant-based physician and author who has seriously impressive credentials: he earned his master’s degree in nutrition at Harvard, and he earned both his M.D. (medical doctor) and J.D. (law degree) from the University of Hawaii, as well as his M.P.H. (master’s degree in public health), and K.C.S.J. In Dr. Shintani’s many roles as physician, attorney, nutritionist, professor at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, author (for example, “Eat More Weigh Less® Diet”, “The Hawaii Diet” and “The Peace Diet™), lecturer, radio show host and community advocate in Hawaii. He also is the Director of Prevention Medicine at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. Dr. Shintani’s life work was celebrated in Hawaii when he was formally designated a “Living Treasure of Hawaii” thanks to his contributions to the community in the fields of medicine, law, traditional healing arts, and cultural preservation. Dr. Shintani also holds many philanthropic positions, including, for example, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Gandhi International Institute of Peace. He is the Founding President of the Hawaii health Foundation

Dr. Laurie Marbas

Dr. Laurie Marbas is a board certified family medicine physician and is board certified in lifestyle medicine. She has used a whole foods plant-based diet with her patients for the past six years in rural Colorado, and as the former Medical Director for Dr. Fuhrman’s Health Oasis in Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Marbas is the host of the How to Health podcast, and her website offers online self-guided classes for people who want to transition to a whole foods plant-based diet. Her website also has many resources for parents to help their kids eat healthier too! She also working with Chef Martin Oswald on a new project called Doc and Chef, bringing even more delicious flavor to health.

Dr. Marbas discovered the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to heal and reverse disease by accident, by observing her patient switch to whole food plant-based foods for a month, along with the patient’s 16-year-old daughter. Both Dr. Marbas’ patient and the patient’s daughter experienced remarkable results and were able to get off medications.

Next, Dr. Marbas wanted to see if a whole food plant-based diet could help a different patient who was suffering with lupus: the patient switched to whole food plant-based nutrition and reversed her lupus. Dr. Marbas saw the light, clearly, and she began searching everywhere to learn how to do this as a doctor, how to use whole food plant-based nutrition to help people prevent and reverse disease. She has said that, at the time, she felt “literally like the lone voice in the forest”… she had no one to turn to … until she found Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and she began “devouring their books.” She went to the Cleveland Clinic to spend time with Dr. Esselstyn to learn even more. She went to meet Dr. Barnard and joined PCRM’s Food for Life training course.

Dr. Marbas has described how since she had no local dietician with whole food plant-based expertise, as Dr. Marbas worked with her patients, she was presenting to them the power of whole food plant-based nutrition at every opportunity she could. Over the course of nine months she also typed up everything she was learning about what worked as a 30-page handout.

In the mornings she would go through her list of patients for the day, including type 2 diabetics, so she knew in advance to whom she would present the information, highlighter in hand, so that she could begin that conversation when they walked in the door.

Dr. Marbas describes her own typewritten handout as having been instrumental in making the transition easier for her patients, because she had a step-by-step “HOW TO DO IT” handout to give each of them. Her handout shows what to buy (even where to go in the Walmart, as well as grocery stores, and places with limited food choices); which aisles to go down.

Her typewritten 30-page handout helped Dr. Marbas’ patients get “some really amazing results.”

For her patients with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes, Dr. Marbas helps them to transition to a plant-based diet. She applies what she learned from Dr. John McDougall as well as from Dr. Fuhrman’s books (for example The End of Diabetes, and Eat to Live).

As Dr. Marbas notes, “They don’t teach you how to STOP medications [in med school], so I had to kind of gather what I could in bits and pieces from Dr. McDougall and Dr Fuhrman’s books.” She says that a third of the patients she sees every day are either pre-diabetic or type 2 diabetic, along with some type 1 diabetics. She teaches her patients that if they are on insulin or any types of medications, she and the patient will have to be very careful as they transition to whole food plant-based nutrition.

As Dr. Marbas explained in a recent interview, when her patients switch to whole food plant-based foods full-force, she usually cuts their insulin dose in half so that the blood sugars won’t get too low. She noted that hypertension medications also usually need to be adjusted and reduced when and to the extent the switch to a whole food plant-based diet makes the them unnecessary. (It would be dangerous to continue taking these medications when and to the extent they are no longer needed.)

Read more here about Doctor Marbas and learn how she discusses whole food plant-based nutrition with her type 2 diabetic patients, and how she discusses with them their options and choices. Dr. Marbas’ advice for anyone who has just learned about this whole food plant-based lifestyle, and wants to make these changes, is that they need to do this safely under their doctor’s supervision in order to reduce or eliminate the medications when and to the extent necessary as they medications no longer are needed.

Dr. Marbas suggests that type 2 diabetics making this change can tell their doctor that they are going to really start eating healthy foods and start exercising, and that they are going to need some help from their doctor with the medications to make sure that they are making these “diet and lifestyle changes” safely.
Dr. Marbas also highly recommends that both patients who are type 2 diabetics and their doctors should read these books:

Dr. Joel Furhman’s books (including The End of Diabetes, and Eat to Live among many other best sellers)
Dr. Neal Barnard’s book, Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, pHd

How can medical doctors (or anyone) learn more about the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to prevent and reverse disease and illnesses, including type 2 diabetes?

For doctors and others who want to learn more about the healing and preventative power of whole food plant-based nutrition, there are excellent programs available, including programs for which doctors can earn continuing education credit.

A few such programs include:

The Plant Certificate Program at Cornell University online (eCornell.com)

The annual International Plant-Based Conference hosted by the Plantrician Project. The International Plant-Based Conference offers doctors the opportunity to learn from top medical experts in the field of nutrition about the role of whole food plant-based foods in preventing and reversing disease and illnesses, including reversing type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Neal Barnard/PCRM’s Food for Life training course. (This is a course that Dr. Laurie Marbas attended.)

In a recent interview, Dr. Lim was asked about whether he is optimistic about other medical doctors learning and applying whole food plant-based nutrition, since he himself experienced such a transformation in his own medical thinking and practice. Here is Dr. Lim’s reply:

Yes. I tend to be an optimistic person by nature, but also I have some evidence to back it up. One of the things I point to is the number of Kaiser healthcare providers who have attended The International Plant-Based Conference put on by the Plantrician Project that is now in its fourth year. The first year it was held, there were less than 5 Kaiser employees that came. The second year, which was in 2014, the same year that my father and I first attended the conference together, there were around 40 Kaiser people. Last year, in 2015, there were almost 100 Kaiser providers! So, in the space of three years we’ve gone from 5 to 40 to 100 Kaiser employees, and who knows how many there will be this year. So it definitely strikes me as a movement that is rapidly picking up momentum.

One interesting thing to note is that among the 100 people that came this past year, virtually all the medical specialties were represented. For example, at a special dinner held during the conference for the Kaiser folks, I just happened to sit at a table with a pulmonologist, a psychiatrist, a nephrologist, and an internist, and then there was myself from family medicine. On top of that, multiple disciplines were represented. In addition to Kaiser Permanente physicians, there were Kaiser nurses, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, occupational therapists, social workers, and more. It is trends such as this that I have witnessed in just a couple of years that give me great cause for optimism.

More Resources: Dr. Fuhrman’s Step-by-Step Proven Method to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

“The End of Diabetes by Dr. Joel Fuhrman

More than a thousand people have written book review testimonials about how they reversed their type 2 diabetes after reading Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s book, The End of Diabetes. In these book reviews, people give detailed descriptions of how they got off all of the diabetes drugs after reading The End of Diabetes and applying what they learned from the book, switching to eating an abundance of delicious whole food plant-based (no oil added) foods. No weighing, no measuring, no calorie counting, not feeling hungry because this food is rich in nutrients and fiber and fills your stomach completely.

In addition, programs like CHIP are available to individuals and employers to help people improve their health and reverse disease including diabetes. Read about Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, FACN, program founder and Clinical Professor of Preventative Medicine at Loma Linda University, founder of

The Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) . . . an affordable, lifestyle enrichment program designed to reduce disease risk factors through the adoption of better health habits and appropriate lifestyle modifications. The goal is to lower blood cholesterol, hypertension, and blood sugar levels and reduce excess weight. This is done by improving dietary choices, enhancing daily exercise, increasing support systems and decreasing stress, thus aiding in preventing and reversing disease.” Learn more about Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) at the Lifestyle Medicine Institute here.

More Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Success Stories

Dr. Steve Lawenda is a board-certified medical doctor (Kaiser Permanente, Southern California), who reversed his own pre-diabetes and lost a lot of weight at the same time, six years ago, and he now helps his patients reverse their type 2 diabetes. Learn more about Dr. Lawenda here.

Watch the video testimonial of David, a 66 year old retired truck driver who learned first-hand from Dr. Lawenda about the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse type 2 diabetes.

Nick Delgado reversed his type 2 diabetes in his 20s by switching to whole food plant-based foods. Now, over the course of the past 40 years, he has helped more than 4,000 people reverse their type 2 diabetes. He also holds world records for strength endurance, still winning strength endurance competitions in his 60s over other strong, fit men who are decades younger than him. Read about how Nick Delgado reversed his type 2 diabetes and helps others reverse their type 2 diabetes.

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

Read about how Joey Aucoin, a Florida Dad and Business Owner, Reversed Diabetes Naturally in Weeks in the Forks Over Knives documentary

Read about how Jim Balla of Detroit, Michigan reversed his type 2 diabetes in days, and went on to lose 162+ pounds in 22 months.

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

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

Read about how an Ohio Mother of Five Reversed her Type 2 Diabetes and Reversed Hypertension in Weeks

Read about the powerful testimonials and type 2 diabetes reversal success stories in the Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days documentary.

Read about Amy Johnson’s type 2 diabetes reversal and 50-pound weight loss from switching to whole food plant-based nutrition six years ago.

Read about how Michael Abdalla lost weight and reduced his diabetes meds in a short time after switching to whole food plant-based foods, and set his goal to get off all of the diabetes drugs, in the documentary What the Health.

Read about Kirt Tysons’s health journey, reversing his diabetes as part of the Simply Raw documentary challenge, becoming a naturopathic doctor, and founding/running a naturopathic health center in Washington, DC.

The way to reverse type 2 diabetes and to prevent and reverse most of the diseases and illnesses that have become so common is so simple and straightforward. As Dr. McDougall says, “It’s the food!” Whole food plant-based foods are the prevention and the cure for type 2 diabetes as well as many other diseases and sicknesses.

Fortunately, the number of board-certified medical doctors who know the simple and fast cure for type 2 diabetes is growing quickly. This list is just a starting point; there are many doctors still to be listed here.