- Board-Certified Medical Doctor Steve Lawenda describes how his patient, David, a 66-year-old retired truck driver, reversed his type 2 diabetes.
- Dr. Lawenda affectionately describes him as having been, initially, “David the Grumpy Skeptic.”
- David says he went along with Dr. Lawenda’s recommended changes because David thought he would prove he couldn’t reverse his type 2 diabetes — but the changes DID succeed in reversing David’s type 2 diabetes.
- Watch (below) David’s emotional testimonial video about how he reversed his type 2 diabetes by following Dr. Lawenda’s recommended nutritional changes.
Board-certified medical doctor Dr. Steve Lawenda is a physician with Kaiser-Permanent in Southern California, who reversed his own pre-diabetes by switching to a whole food plant-based foods. Now he helps his patients reverse their type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Lawenda accidentally stumbled upon the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse type 2 diabetes and to prevent and reverse many other diseases, including heart disease, at a time when he himself was already a medical doctor, but obese and pre-diabetic. (Dr. Lawenda’s wife played an audio disc of Dr. Fuhrman’s book, Eat to Live, on their car stereo during their drive home from a family vacation. Steve Lawenda was astonished by what he learned just listening to the audio of Eat to Live, and by the end of the drive he had decided he change his nutrition as Dr. Fuhrman recommends and see if he could lose weight and reverse his pre-diabetes.)
Dr. Lawenda’s own father had suffered from type 2 diabetes, including amputations, but had previously passed away before Dr. Lawenda learned about the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to prevent and reverse disease, including, specifically, type 2 diabetes.
Read here about how Dr. Lawenda made his own health transformation.
In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Lawenda now also is often a speaker at events to help others, including other medical doctors, learn how they can reverse type 2 diabetes and (in most cases) get off the diabetes drugs and insulin, by switching to whole food plant-based foods.
Watch this testimonial video (below) of David, a 66 year old type 2 diabetic retired truck driver, who accompanied his wife to see Dr. Lawenda and learn about whole food plant-based nutrition as a cure for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other diseases. David only went to Dr. Lawenda’s group to support his wife. As Dr. Lawenda describes in the video, “[David] was tagging along, supporting her, but he actually admits that he wanted to prove that this doesn’t work.”
It is a powerful testament to how quickly whole food plant-based nutrition can reverse type 2 diabetes, even for a person like David who was skeptical and only made these changes to prove that it wouldn’t work.
But, as David describes, he was astonished at how quickly and easily it did work. David reversed his type 2 diabetes, for which he is so grateful, as he describes in this video below.
The first three minutes of the video above includes a brief introduction by Dr. Lawenda, describing how he himself reversed his pre-diabetes.
As he introduces David’s type 2 diabetes reversal testimonial video, Dr. Lawenda asks,
So does anyone want to see what happens when you take a retired truck driver, who never ate well, and didn’t want to be there, and wanted to prove it didn’t work, and then see what happens when you put him on a plant-based diet?”
Dr. Lawenda then shows the video testimonial of David, his formerly skeptical patient, who reversed his type 2 diabetes quickly and naturally by switching to whole food plant-based nutrition as Dr. Lawenda had recommended.
Watch the video above and see what happens!
David says, “At first, I wasn’t impressed, because I am 66 years old and I don’t like change!”
He drove trucks for 43 years, and his diet wasn’t great; he ate wherever he could find room to park a truck.
He went on a plant-based diet at Dr. Lawenda’s recommendation, and he says that, the first couple of weeks, they called him ‘grumpy’, and that he had a little bit of an attitude. “I was going to prove to them that it doesn’t work,” David confesses, laughing. “That was my whole objective. I came to support my wife, it wasn’t for me.”
After 3 weeks, he had lost 15 pounds, without even trying, just by switching to whole food plant-based foods. He didn’t know what was going on; how could this be happening, and so quickly? So he started checking the numbers, and he couldn’t believe what had happened. Previously (on diabetes medications) if his blood sugar was lower than 170 or so, he would have been impressed.
All of a sudden his numbers were down to 104; whereas his blood sugar had never been anywhere near as low as 104 in 13 years. David was able to quickly get off all of his medications by switching to whole food plant-based foods.
As David reiterates,
The numbers don’t lie.
My last reading for A1C was 6.7. That was remarkable. The numbers just don’t lie. It does work, even if you are not trying. It works, it really does. It was really impressive. There is no more blood pressure medicine, there is no more diabetes medicine, there is no cholesterol medicine, I am on nothing, absolutely nothing.
It works. The plant-based diet really works, it really does. If you give it half a chance you are going to succeed.
There is no way you are NOT going to succeed, if you give it half a chance.
Who wants to lose their feet? Nobody wants to lose their feet. Or lose their eyesight.
So you know, you talk about being given a second chance in life, all kidding aside, it chokes you up inside, gives you a lump in your throat, because you have been given a second chance. My grandchildren are going to be able to … I’m going to be around for a while, thanks to Dr. Lawenda, thanks to the plant-based diet, and thanks to the group.”
Dr. Lawenda concludes by pointing out that his patient David’s story gives Dr. Lawenda a lot of hope, and should give everyone hope. Upon first meeting a skeptical person like David, a 66 year old who describes himself as someone who “didn’t like making changes,” you might not have thought he would have been able to make these changes. But he did. And so can you, or someone you care about who is suffering with type 2 diabetes.
More Resources: 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.
Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs
Another excellent book that details and explains in a simple, easy to understand way, how and why type 2 diabetes happens, and how to reverse type 2 diabetes with a whole food plant-based, no oil added diet, is Dr. Neal Barnard’s book, Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs
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.
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.
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