What is the cure for type 2 diabetes? It’s a question on the minds of many, because millions are suffering from this disease. The answer is easy to find when you discover where to look. Testimonials and success stories from people who have reversed their type 2 diabetes naturally, and gotten off all of the diabetes drugs and insulin, are like a spring board to your own transformation.
Learn what they did to reverse type 2 diabetes, do what they do, transform your health. As you read these diabetes reversal testimonials on reversediabetes.com, you will find a consistent theme in many of these success stories: the person who reversed their type 2 diabetes is surprised and amazed by how EASY it was to make the changes that reversed their type 2 diabetes in days or weeks. That is the case for today’s type 2 diabetes reversal success story.
Today’s type 2 diabetes success story comes from a person who has been through some serious health challenges, but now, at age 58, he has reversed his type 2 diabetes (almost 2 years ago), he lost 162 pounds (half of his previous body weight, 324 pounds.) He lowered his blood pressure; lowered his cholesterol, and no longer needs statins or diabetes medications. All of these changes happened within DAYS. He lost the weight in under 22 months.
Also, the serious health issues from which he had been suffering as the result of an emergency hospital surgery years before, all were resolved within only days.
Jim Balla’s health transformation seems miraculous, both in the simplicity of the cure he discovered to reverse his type 2 diabetes, and in the profound, joyful effect he has experienced from transforming his health almost two years ago.
Jim Balla was interviewed by Jason Cohen for the Big Change the Film interview series. You can watch the entire interview below.
Please note that in the interview (watch above) Jim goes into some detail about the emergency situation that led to excruciatingly painful repeated surgeries. That part may be hard to listen to, but it is part of his powerful health transformation success story.
Jim Balla, 58, of Detroit, Michigan grew up in a family that grew vegetables and did not eat processed/packaged foods; no potato chips, no ice cream. But they ate tons of meat, tons of cheese and butter, and lots of milk. They had huge dinners, always with a 16 ounce steak (or bigger) for each person, as Jim describes it in the interview (watch above). Jim remembers the sandwiches he had for school lunch were inches thick of meat and cheese between the bread.
Eating this way caused Jim to gain a lot of weight beginning from a young age, in grade school, in high school and beyond, he continued to eat this way, and he continued to gain weight.
By the time he was 34 years old, he was hospitalized for health issues, and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. In the coming years his doctor put him on diabetes medications and insulin, as well as statins and blood pressure medications.
Jim is a painter in the Detroit area, and he has his own business in which he does most of the work / painting jobs. At the point where he weighed more than 320 pounds, it was difficult to get up and down the painting ladder and to do the kind of concentrated physical work that house painting requires.
To make everything much worse, he ended up experiencing a terrible infection as the result of going to the hospital to visit a family member. The infection led to numerous painful surgeries, including the removal of large areas of his leg as well as removal of a large section of his colon.
In the interview (watch above) Jim describes the details of the infection, surgeries, and resulting health disaster, compounding the type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity at 324 pounds. As a result of the surgeries, Jim was left with a limp, a great deal of swelling in his leg (that was often debilitating), and constant diarrhea.
Fast-forward to the very happy new beginning of Jim’s health transformation for life.
Twenty-two months ago, Jim was listening to a set of recorded audio talks from Dr. McDougall, transcribing them for a friend. In the process of listening to Dr. McDougall’s recorded audio talks, after just the first few hours, Jim had already transformed his thinking, and his understanding of nutrition for life, thanks to what he was learning from Dr. McDougall in the recorded audio.
Jim learned from Dr. McDougall’s recorded audio talks about the power of whole food plant-based (no added oils) nutrition to prevent and reverse disease and sicknesses.
Jim immediately decided he would make this change. He was amazed, (as well as disappointed, and even angry), that he had never learned any of this before. Thanks to Dr. McDougall, Jim understood what to do, and believed that he could do it.
Listen to Jim talk about his transformation in the interview (above). It is a powerful testament to the power of whole food plant-based nutrition to QUICKLY heal and reverse disease, including reversing his type 2 diabetes.
Jim was only 4-5 days away from relief from the pain he previously had needlessly suffered for more than 5 years
Jim described that by Day 4 and Day 5 after switching to whole food plant-based foods (WFPB), eating a large abundance of delicious health WFPB foods, ALL of the terrible effects of the previous surgeries had DISAPPEARED completely.
IN ONLY 4 DAYS, Jim’s leg no longer had any swelling — he had been suffering for more than 5 years from the extreme swelling in his leg post-emergency-surgery.
IN ONLY 5 DAYS, he no longer had any diarrhea, he had become completely, perfectly normal in that regard, using the bathroom just twice a day — he had been suffering for more than five years from constant diarrhea as a result of the previous emergency surgery that removed a large part of his colon.
Jim says, poignantly, in the interview (above): It took only 4 and 5 days to heal and cure with whole foods what five years of his doctor’s drugs did NOT heal or cure or ameliorate. The whole time, he had been only 4-5 days away from his (EASY, delicious), cure, but he didn’t know this until he listened to Dr. McDougall’s recorded tapes (to help a friend).
Jim reversed his type 2 diabetes and was off the drugs and insulin within days. He also has lost 162 pounds – half of his body weight – in the past 22 months.
After only a few more days, Jim also was off all of the diabetes drugs, off the insulin. He lost a lot of weight, effortlessly, while eating lots of delicious nutrient rich, fiber rich, plant-based whole foods, without ever feeling hungry, because he ate as much as he wanted until he was full.
He went back to his doctor several months later to test his blood cholesterol levels; his cholesterol had fallen to 164 and he got off the statins. His doctor reduced his thyroid medication by 50%, all in only 2 months after he had switched to eating whole food plant-based foods.
But when Jim went into the doctor’s office that day after making such dramatic improvements in his health, reversing his type 2 diabetes, lowering his blood pressure to normal, healthy, lowering his cholesterol to the healthy range, losing a lot of weight (after previously weighing 320+ pounds), his doctor said something like, “oh good, the drugs are working.” Nope, the whole food plant-based food is working.
When Jim told his doctor that he accomplished all of this, including reversing his type 2 diabetes naturally, simply by eating whole food plant-based foods, his doctor’s reaction was, with raised voice, “No, no, no, no! You can’t do that. You’ll die if you don’t eat meat and dairy. Come over to my house and I’ll feed you lots of meat; I have a deer carcass in the freezer, etc.” (To paraphrase.)
Jim has lost 162 pounds (half of his heaviest weight, 324 pounds), effortlessly, and without ever feeling hungry, after switching to whole food plant-based nutrition (no oil added).
Jim says that the most surprising things about making the change to whole food plant-based nutrition is HOW EASY IT IS, and how delicious the food is, and how easy it was to lose this much weight (162 pounds) without ever feeling hungry, eating as much as he wants of this delicious food.
In the interview (above) Jim describes how the change to whole food plant-based nutrition has brought joy and happiness to his life.
Life is so different now. Life is a JOY.
I feel alive, I feel like I have my life back.
I wasn’t in control of the first half of my life.
but now I am in control of my life, I can do whatever I want.If I want to go walk, I can get into a kayak or canoe, things I never
wanted to do before, loving nature, walking in the woods and hiking,
walking with my dog. [Before], I never did any of that stuff.Look at what I missed out on in life,
and why did I continue feeling this way for 50 years? …I just didn’t have any of the information.
Now with the internet the information is out there.
Go to PBNSG.org. Go to Youtube … the information is there.The books [about whole food plant-based nutrition] are unreal.
This will absolutely change your LIFE.I am a different person.
If I see Dr. John McDougall, I think I would hug the guy and never let him
go, and just say, “Thank you.” I went to his website and I told him my
whole story, he knows everythingIt’s just, this is the diet for humans.
You can’t be fat, you can’t be sick [when you switch to whole food plant-based nutrition]; it reverses all of your diseases.I would never, ever, go back to eating [the standard American diet].
I never miss [anything about] it.” – Jim Balla Big Change the Film interview, at 49:56 – 51:38.
Now Jim constantly is learning more and more about plant-based nutrition. He signed up for Audible and he listens to whole food plant-based doctors talking about health and nutrition, while he works, painting.
He joined a whole food plant-based group in the Detroit area called the Plant-Based Nutrition Super Group (PBNSG), which has grown to more than 4,700 members (the largest such group in the United State). They have monthly speakers come and speak to the group, luminaries in the plant-based movement including Dr. McDougall, Rip Esselstyn, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and his wife, Jane, (coming in October 2018, Doug Lisle), and many others.
Do you know what the third leading cause of U.S. deaths is? Another reason why everyone should empower themselves with whole food plant-based nutrition for life.
The third leading cause of death in the United States is something you might not have guessed, but it’s something to seriously consider and ponder. The third leading cause of death in the United States is doctor error.
As reported by NPR, According to Johns Hopkins researchers, medical errors rank behind heart disease and cancer as the third leading cause of death in the U.S. The Johns Hopkins study estimates that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from medical errors.
This includes deaths of patients caused by medications prescribed to them by their doctor, and which the patient took exactly as prescribed.
Truly consider how frightening that statistic is: doctor error is the third leading cause of death in the United States.
It’s another very good reason to choose and decide a different way when it comes to the many preventable and often reversible chronic diseases that are the result of eating the standard American diet, like type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and many others.
The U.S. “health care” system has often been described instead as mostly “disease management.” For type 2 diabetes (and other chronic diseases), thousands are choosing a whole food plant-based lifestyle to reverse (and prevent) illnesses and disease, rather than to “manage” chronic, never-ending diseases (type 2 diabetes, auto-immune diseases, asthma, lupus, osteoarthritis, and many other chronic illnesses) with drugs.
Why would anyone choose the pain and suffering that accompanies all of these chronic diseases, “mangaing” them with drugs and side effects that make them even sicker in so many ways, when they could instead choose health in the simplest, easiest way possible: IT’S THE FOOD (to quote Dr. McDougall).
Remember Jim Balla’s experience. Before he discovered Dr. McDougall’s audio recordings about the power of whole food plant-based foods to prevent and reverse disease, Jim never knew he was only 4 or 5 days away from being PAIN FREE; he never knew he was a week or so away from curing his type 2 diabetes.
Jim had taken doctor-prescribed drugs for YEARS, simply managing the illnesses, and setting himself to just continue the illnesses on and on and on. Until he discovered the EASY way (as he emphasizes throughout the interview above) to reverse his type 2 diabetes, and heal and cure ALL of his health issues: IT’s THE FOOD.
He also lost 162 pounds in 22 months, in the easiest way possible, as he describes it, without weighing, measuring, counting calories, and without ever feeling hungry because the food he eats is nutritionally dense with lots of fiber, (but also comparatively low in calories), so it’s filling and satisfying in a way that the standard American diet never is.
Jim is diplomatic in the way he describes both his experience at the hospital with the devastating infection (after he visited a family member), then the many surgeries during which he had been at risk of possibly losing his leg.
He is grateful that he still has his leg, he is grateful that the surgeons and doctors saved his life from the infection. He glosses over whatever happened when the surgeon(s) accidentally “nicked” him during one of the surgeries, causing internal bleeding, which went undetected by hospital staff, even though Jim was in a great deal of pain from the pressure caused by the internal bleeding.
Jim also is diplomatic and kind when he describes the way his doctor is practically vehemently opposed to the idea of anyone not eating meat and dairy, even when his doctor can see with his own eyes the miraculous healing transformation that whole food plant-based (no oil added) foods have brought about for Jim: dramatic weight loss (from 324 down to 162). Jim’s doctor also witnessed that Jim reversed his type 2 diabetes naturally: no more drugs, no more insulin. His doctor witnessed that Jim lowered his cholesterol to normal levels: no more statins. His doctor witnessed that Jim lowered his blood pressure to normal: no more meds. His doctor witnessed Jim’s sudden relief from the debilitating effects of the emergency surgery five years prior: No more diarrhea; no more debilitating swelling in his leg.
Jim’s doctor witnessed all of these seemingly miraculous results from Jim’s switch to whole food plant-based nutrition, yet his doctor still is vehemently opposed to learning anything whole food plant-based nutrition. (Just think of how many more patients in the future could be helped if only their doctors had witnessed this kind of healing, especially first-hand, as Jim’s doctor did, and also would TELL them about it).
As Jim’s doctor knows, Jim accomplished ALL of these miraculous results simply by switching to eating lots of delicious whole food plant-based foods, with the guidance of Dr. McDougall’s website, Dr. McDougall’s Youtube videos, and his books and recipes.
What if someone said they had one pill that could do ALL of those things, reverse type 2 diabetes, lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and many more, all without any side effects?
That one-stop health solution does exist, zero side effects, no drugs to buy: it’s simply whole food plant-based nutrition. One-stop healing.
Jim is enthusiastic about the PBNSG Plant-Based Nutrition Super Group, and mentioned that the group has a Doctor Teaching Doctors program to train other medical doctors about the healing, transformative power of whole food health-based nutrition.
Jim invited his doctor to come to the group, to join in this Doctor to Doctor training initiative (which gives the doctor continuing education credit, and it’s funded by the group so the doctor doesn’t have to pay for the training that gives them required continuing education credits.) But Jim’s doctor (in the Detroit area) vehemently declined. “He wanted nothing to do with it.”
Jim noted that, as a result of his doctor’s fundamental incompatibility [aka close-mindedness] (apparently his doctor doesn’t want to believe that “IT’S THE FOOD!”), he is “looking for a new doctor.” But then Jim immediately corrects himself, he’s not really actively looking for a new doctor, because he says he hasn’t needed to go to the doctor for the past several years since he switched to whole food plant-based nutrition.
But still, as diplomatic and humble as Jim is, his story is a powerful testimonial as to why we all should jump at the opportunity to choose a solution that is so simple, whole food plant-based nutrition, yet so powerful at preventing and reversing disease.
Do the same things that Jim Balla did and continues to do for life: eat lots of delicious whole food plant-based foods, with no added oils. It’s that simple. The food is delicious and you can eat as much as you want of these foods. You can prepare them in ways that are very similar to the favorite foods you already enjoy.
Listen to Dr. McDougall’s Youtube videos; visit his website; read his books. Watch Forks Over Knives. Join a plant-based community group for support from others in your community who also are choosing health via a whole food plant-based (no oil added) lifestyle.
When you choose whole food plant-based foods to prevent disease, you also prevent yourself from ending up in the clutches of the “disease management” system, potentially with a life sentence to be on drugs for (usually preventable and reversible) chronic diseases for the rest of your life.
Now you know that the third leading cause of death in the United States is doctor error. (Read the NPR article quoted above here; do some research.) Avoid that roulette spin.
Prevent disease and illness in the first place, by eating whole food plant-based nutrition. Like Jim Balla, if your doctor is vehemently opposed to whole food plant-based nutrition or learning anything about it, consider your options. You have choices. But when you switch to whole food plant-based nutrition, like Jim, you just may find that you don’t need to visit a doctor frequently, anyway.
As Hippocrates said several thousands of years ago: “Let food be thy medicine.” Still applies today, maybe more than ever.
Here’s to your health for life!
What do you have to lose? What do you have to gain?
More Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Success Stories
Read about how Jason Mraz Helped His Bandmate Reverse Type 2 Diabetes in Under 30 Days
Read about how a Joey Aucoin, a Florida Dad and Business Owner, Reversed Diabetes Naturally in Weeks in the Forks Over Knives documentary
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.
You can find the Plant-Based Nutrition Super Group online, with recipes and community support, here. PBNSG is based in Detroit, but their resources are available to everyone and they welcome visitors!
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