Reversing Diabetes: No Drugs, No Insulin, Just Common Sense

Numerous studies have shown the most effective way to go about reversing diabetes and lowering blood sugar levels is to eat a low-fat vegan diet, with no more than 10 percent of calories coming from fat.

It's virtually impossible to eat a low-fat diet while consuming animal products in any significant quantity, so it make sense to cut them out. Oils and other fatty processed foods are also excluded.

One recent study looking at this diet showed that type 2 diabetes patients were able to drop their fasting serum glucose concentration 28% compared with 12% for a control group following the dietary guidelines of the American Diabetes Association. The vegan group also lost more weight and lowered their cholesterol by a greater degree (13).

These blood sugar drops are so impressive that patients are usually able to discontinue medications and insulin injections within weeks.

A similar trial studying the ability of a low-fat near-vegetarian diet's (very small quantities of meat were allowed) ability to reverse diabetes in combination with exercise showed similarly impressive gains. After only 26 days patients largely ditched their medications. In all, 21 of 23 patients on oral medications and 13 of 17 patients on insulin were able to get off of their medications (14).

For all intents and purposes they had reversed diabetes, in some cases ending decades-long dependency on medication and insulin.

You can do the same.


Although there have been no studies looking at a low-fat raw food diet's ability to reverse diabetes, my own personal experience is that it's even more effective than low-fat cooked vegan diets.

Although I am barred by law from ever treating anyone for a disease because I am not a doctor, through my raw food coaching service I've helped three diabetics in fairly good health get on a sustainable raw food diet.

Each told me within a week and a half that they were off their insulin because they didn't need it to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. Considering that most type 2 diabetics stay diabetic for life, I'd say that's a pretty rapid turn around.

Of course, all cases are unique, and those in poorer health may require more time for their bodies to normalize.

There are hundreds of pages of resources on this site explaining how to adopt a low-fat raw diet, if you'd like to make the change yourself.

In short, though, you need to get most of your calories from fruit, while also eating plenty of vegetables.  Avoid overt fats (foods that are obviously fatty), like nuts, seeds, and avocados, while you're reversing your diabetes. This will mean that your fat levels comes in at under 10 percent of calories consumed.

When you stabilize your condition you can bring healthy, unprocessed overt fats back into your diet in small quantities.

Learn more about starting a healthy raw food diet here, which will improve your life in so many ways.

A natural cure for diabetes is right in front of your nose. Get at it.