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and provides a means for IC members to discuss it.
For most people with type 2 diabetes, having this
disease is a CHOICE you make: you can choose to have it, you can choose
to not have it.
Just don’t expect your doctor or the drug
industry to help you choose, because they will choose to keep you diabetic.
For the drug industry, type 2 diabetes is the gift that keeps on giving,
driving extraordinary revenues from the growing list of (quite costly)
diabetes drugs and the expanding number of people with the disease caused
by conventional dietary advice and Big Food.
I discuss this and other health strategies in my
new book, Undoctored.
Transcript:
I call this discussion Hacking Your Diabetes (your
Type 2 diabetes); how to get rid of, or at least substantially
minimize, your Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.
These are the kinds of conversations I have in my
Undoctored book (Undoctored — Why Health Care Has
Failed You And How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor) and
also in the Undoctored website programs. This is all about empowering you
to get rid of health conditions on your own, and be as freed of the
healthcare system as possible. And you know what, the results you obtain
by doing it on your own are superior to the kind of health that the
healthcare system would have provided — which is a health only through
drugs and procedures. That’s not what health is about. Health is
about being healthy, right, feeling good, looking good, and doing it with
as little help from medications and procedures as possible — the exact
opposite of what the healthcare system wants for you. These are the
conversations that I conduct in all Undoctored programs.
Let’s talk about hacking Type 2 diabetes.
How do you do that? Well, I should mention first I was a Type 2 diabetic
25 years ago. I was jogging 5 miles or more a day. I was
a vegetarian. I’d cut out all animal products and oils and ate only
“healthy whole grains”, fruits and vegetables. I had a blood sugar
run, just for laughs, and it was 161: clearly diabetic. I verified
it. Yup, I was Type 2 diabetic.
Well, I went off that dietary program, started
adding back oils and meats and animal products, and not eating so many
grains (back then) and I became non-diabetic. To this day, 25 years
later, I have perfect blood sugars on no medication whatsoever.
I have fasting glucoses in the 80s and hemoglobin A1c of 4.8%
(which is perfect; below 5.0% is perfect).
I just do the Undoctored basic strategies, the
core strategies: great vitamin D, fish oil, cultivation of bowel
flora, no wheat, no grains. You can do the same. At least 90% of people,
even if you’ve had Type 2 diabetes for years, can become
non-diabetic. Some will just become minimally diabetic, with far better,
far improved blood sugars. An occasional person will need one drug, like
metformin. Very rarely does somebody have to remain on more than that,
like an injectable agent or insulin. Oh, it does happen, but it’s
very uncommon.
So be hopeful that you have the potential to
become minimally diabetic, and even more likely, non-diabetic. The
exceptions are the occasional person who did so much damage to their
pancreatic beta cells (that produce insulin), from really high blood
sugars for a long time, or very high triglycerides for a long time.
They can do damage to their pancreas and can never recover and will
always have diabetes. That does happen, but it’s uncommon.
How do you do this? There’s two parts of
this discussion, first you…
Limit Carbohydrates
Oddly, the American Diabetes Association, Academy
of Nutrition and Dietetics, and others, tell you to eat essentially huge
quantities of carbohydrates: grains and sugars. Some even specify
quantities, like 200 grams a day. If I went on 200 grams a
day (and a lot of people I know) would become diabetic. Or, if you had
diabetes your diabetes will become worse: you’d gain weight,
you’d develop need for more medication, you’d go on insulin,
you’d gain another bunch of weight (because insulin causes weight
gain), and then the spiral continues — more insulin, more weight gain,
more insulin, more weight gain. You get people on these extraordinary
high doses of insulin because they were told to eat lots of
carbohydrates, like grains.
So we do the opposite. We eat almost no
carbohydrates (no grains, no sugars) and we put a limit on our carbohydrate
exposure of no more than 15 grams of net carbohydrates per
meal. We have to do a calculation:
net_carbohydrates = total_carbohydrates minus fiber
very easy. Fiber is classified like carbohydrate, but it’s not
metabolized as a carbohydrate or a sugar. It’s not metabolized at
all by humans. It’s metabolized by bowel flora, but not by you. So
we do that simple calculation and stay below 15 grams net carbs
per meal.
That alone will cause your blood sugar
plummet within the first 24 hours — so much so, that your insulin
often has to be cut in half, and oral drugs like glimepiride,
glibornuride and glipizide have to be cut dramatically or eliminated.
You should do this with a doctor who empowers you. Most doctors do not.
Most doctors can put you on medications, but have no idea how to get you
off, and think this would be silly. So it would help to find a health
care practitioner who can help you do this safely — because we do
not want any hypoglycemia — we want
no hypoglycemia.
I prefer to see someone with a higher blood sugar,
as high as 200 milligrams per deciliter, but no low blood
sugars. High blood sugars are a long-term stress. Low blood sugars are
an acute danger. OK, so, no low blood sugars. Work
with your healthcare provider, or find one who will empower you, and
help you get off those medications — because you will become less diabetic
very rapidly, because you’ve cut the foods that raised blood sugar.
Makes sense, right? If you have a problem with blood sugars, take out
the foods that raise blood sugar; very, very easy.
And don’t limit fat. Eat the fat on your
pork chop or your steak. Use more olive oil. Use more organic butter.
Use more coconut oil. Eat more avocados. They’re satiating. They
smooth out your blood sugars. There’s another trick that I call the…
No Change Rule
…that you can use with your glucose meter. If you
have diabetes, you likely have a glucose meter, and finger sticks, and all
the equipment you need to check your finger sticks. We follow the
No Change Rule. You want no change in blood sugar from the
pre-meal blood sugar to the 30 to 60 minutes later blood sugar —
not two hours like your doctor tells you — that’s for another
purpose (that’s for monitoring the effectiveness of your insulin
or drug; that’s not what we’re after, right). We want to
know what your peak blood sugar is after eating a food. We don’t
want a peak. We want no change. We want the No Change Rule.
So if your blood sugar is 130 prior to the meal,
you want a blood level no higher than 130, 30 to 60 minutes after
the start of the meal. If your blood sugar goes from, say,
130 to 280, because you had some oatmeal, don’t eat
the oatmeal, right? We should have eliminated that already —
it’s a grain — it’s a horrible grain.
So what if you had steak, asparagus and some mashed
potatoes; and blood sugar goes from 130 to 240. Well, the culprit
will be a carbohydrate, right? You did not adhere to the 15 gram
net carb rule, and you had too much of a carbohydrate. That will
prove it to you. So next time you have a meal like that, either you
eliminate the mashed potatoes, or cut way back on portion size, and
then check once again to see if you got away with it. There should be
no change in blood sugar.
What happens if you do this over and over and
over again? Fasting blood sugar comes down, and the 30-60 minute
after-meal blood sugar also starts to drop down. Need for medications
drops. At some point you become non-diabetic, or at least as
minimally-diabetic as possible.
Third
There is a third step, and that is engaging all
the strategies in the Undoctored Wild-Naked-Unwashed program,
like vitamin D, and cultivation of bowel flora, and fish oil. Each
and every component contributes to improving insulin resistance —
that’s the underlying process, right, that causes diabetes — your
body’s poor response to insulin. All the components of the
Undoctored program contribute to reversing insulin resistance.
The first step is to recognize diabetes is a
choice. The vast majority people can choose to have diabetes,
or choose not to have diabetes — or at least have as little blood
sugar problems as possible.
The problem is: most doctors have no idea how
to make you non-diabetic. They sure know how to dispense medications to
“treat” your diabetes, once it’s been caused by flawed dietary
advice, but most have no idea how to undo it. So you’ve got to
do it on your own, though you do need the help of a health care provider
to get off the drugs. The Undoctored program is not dangerous — the
drugs are dangerous as you become healthier, OK? That’s
an important distinction. So do it safely — no hypoglycemia — but you
have very high hopes of not being a diabetic — contrary to popular opinion.