The Latest On Type-2 Diabetes

Last week, a couple of articles hit the news in the UK about the power of switching to a low carb diet to treat type-2 diabetes. One was entitled ‘Low Carb Diet Helps To Control Diabetes.’ No sh1t, Sherlock! I don’t mean to cause any offence to sufferers of type-2 diabetes who have been mislead for many years by leading authorities in diabetes.  Type-2 diabetes is a result of over exposure to insulin leading to insulin resistance. This happens by eating excess sugar and high glycemic (high GI) carbs – including not just the likely suspects of sugary drinks and candy, but the likes of bread and pasta and starchy vegetables like potatoes. You can reverse it by not doing what triggered it in the first place.

Here is an excerpt from The Times in which it was featured:

David Unwin, a family doctor and clinical expert in diabetes, is one of a growing number of clinicians treating patients with this diet. “For many years I followed the advice given by PHE and Diabetes UK,” he said. “It didn’t go well. They really struggled to lose weight, their blood glucose remained high and many relied on medication.”

A recent study of 18 of Dr Unwin’s patients resulted in an average weight loss of 8kg after cutting out carbohydrates; blood-glucose levels returned to “normal” in all but two.

“Many diabetics know not to put sugar in their tea but very few are aware that the toast they have at breakfast or rice at dinner may be wreaking havoc with their blood glucose. This is because when starchy carbohydrates like potato or pasta are broken down in the body by digestion the starch turns to sugar,” he said.

Some experts remain dubious about the direct link between carbohydrates and lower blood glucose. READ MORE HERE

That last line in this quote concerns me the most. What are these experts, experts in? There is a 100% direct correlation between carbohydrates and blood glucose. We have known this for at least 100 years.

The conventional treatment for type-2 diabetes with insulin (in the form of a drug) is the equivalent to treating alcoholics who want to recover, with alcohol. Insulin resistance happens you’re exposed to high levels of insulin over time – typically, the Standard American Diet leads to this, and indeed most Western diets when the majority of the plate is carbs. When you have insulin resistance, you are also suffering from chronic inflammation.

Insulin is the hormone secreted whenever you consume food. It is triggered the most, like an injection of blood sugar, when you consume foods very high in sugar – namely, sugar itself, candy, common chocolate bars, sugary snacks, desserts, soft (fizzy) drinks, fruit juices, most breakfast cereals – and also starchy vegetables like potatoes, rice and “healthy whole grain” bread, white bread, and other things made from whole wheat grains including pasta. Fat and protein only trigger very low levels of insulin.

In case you haven’t read Mojo Multiplier or The Vitality Secret, insulin’s main function is to balance blood sugars. Your pancreas secretes insulin to extract the excess glucose from your blood to prevent it from becoming toxic. It then deposits it into your fat, liver or muscle stores. Given we’re mostly sedentary these days it’s normally our fat stores that are topped up, and then body fat is accumulated – or “weight” is gained. This is why obesity and type-2 diabetes are closely linked. However, you do not need to be overweight at all, to develop insulin resistance and then type-2 diabetes!

The current advice is to continue eating a lot of the things that trigger high blood sugars including “healthy whole grains,” brown rice, milk (high in lactose, the sugar in cow’s milk), and to supplement with medication. The diabetes medication market is expected to reach $57bn by the end of 2017.

In 1917 the Diabetes Manual and cookery books that accompanied it, mentioned some foods which must be avoided completely:

Why would this advice be changed in modern day do you think? Here’s what is allowed according to the same source:

This video that explains how type-2 diabetes can be reverse with ease. You can start with a low carb diet, and then combine that with intermittent fasting and ketosis: