Just diagnosed with diabetes; how do I reverse my condition.

[Julsey]

13 hours ago, ucastrobr said:

 

 

 

 

 

People in the U.S. today mostly live on Coca-Cola, fast food, pizza, and chocolate.  

 

Here, the food in the video is considered healthy.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTlcSqbiShV/

Not everyone in the U.S. eats this way. Notice when things started going wrong. This is when companies started injecting high fructose corn syrup into practically everything. It makes you hungrier than you would be if you ate regular table sugar. Appetites got out of control. This is why we need to go back to basics rather than continuing to consume highly processed foods. I’m so glad that my first 20 years of my life the foods I ate had sugar and not HFCS. 

[Witness1970]

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19 hours ago, Myew said:

I don't get this 'definition'. If diabetes causes damage to cells through glycation from fructose and glucose and alcohols, and changing your diet flips insulin resistance to insulin sensitivity and allows for your cells to start healing again... is that not "reversal"? I've said it before and I'll say it again, but complete remission with T2D is entirely within the realm of possibility for most people without drugs or exercise or fasting. I'm not saying those things can't help in specific scenarios. It's known cause is the types of macronutrients in your diet over time, so the cure is simply adjusting those to a type that allows your body to use up what it has already stored. Once you do that, the ongoing damage stops. You may not be able to reverse all of the damage done to the organs or certain parts of the body, but our body was specifically created and designed to reverse the disease itself. There are many animals such as bears that induce insulin resistance in themselves, followed by hibernating to reverse it. Not to say that it doesn't damage their bodies, but Sumo wrestlers do something similar. Because of their extreme strength training regimen, much of their fat is stored subcutaneously rather than viscerally, meaning it does less damage to their organs and allows for easier reversal of their weight when they retire.

 

Not long back, a new documentary was released called The Cholesterol Code. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GS8ZFCYN/ It's focused on a study of Cholesterol and the phenotype of Lean Mass Hyper Responders (of which I am one), and ends up in how diet can reverse atherosclerosis (after being ketogenic with very high saturated fat/calorie diet for several years I have been tested to have 0 arterial plaque despite 'high' 'bad' cholesterol) - but among several other examples of reversing varying chronic physical/mental illnesses, it goes into the very first portable blood glucose monitor and how people used to treat T1D before insulin became available. It also shows a family following this diet for their child with Type 1 Diabetes recovering significantly after changes and ending up only needing a very minimal amount of insulin per day.

All of the answer I gave came from ChatGPT.  I am no expert, but what I got from ChatGPT seemed reasonable to me.

[Witness1970]

22 hours ago, ucastrobr said:

 

 

 

 

 

People in the U.S. today mostly live on Coca-Cola, fast food, pizza, and chocolate.  

 

Here, the food in the video is considered healthy.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTlcSqbiShV/

In the 1960's was also the time when fast food franchises started popping up everywhere.  In the 1950's eating at Dairy Queen was rare treat for many.  For me it might be once a week when I was walking to a ball game across town.  In the 1960's you would drive by a fast food joint constantly.

[Myew]

3 hours ago, Witness1970 said:

All of the answer I gave came from ChatGPT.

I understand and quoted that. I just can't comprehend how anyone or anything can say that it can't be reversed or how they define the word "reverse" when there are so many documented cases of people that have done just that: achieving 100% remission of all symptoms and no longer meeting any of the diagnostic criteria.
(Proverbs 30:8) "Remove untruth and lies far from me."

Here's a link to just one case report of thousands shown at 1:05 in the video. There are plenty of books and newer videos from many doctors all over the world showing similar cases.

Edited yesterday at 02:24 PM by Myew

[Cushi]

On 5/14/2026 at 10:38 AM, Myew said:

I know that I have lost control of my emotions several times around this issue. I've done wrong when I've judged others for what they choose to eat. (Romans 14:3) "Let the one eating not look down on the one not eating, and let the one not eating not judge the one eating, for God has welcomed him." I am sorry for acting that way and if in doing so I have caused you any harm or offense.

I do want to clarify and help you to understand that at least in my case and possibly others, my anger towards vegan diets in particular is not about attachment to meat or food. There are other reasons why people rightfully get offended or upset. I'd watched several vegan/plant based documentaries in the past and done a lot of reading into it. My personal anger stems from having been lied to when I was sick and vulnerable only to end up even worse off (I believed their claims without physiological proof due to my delusional state at the time and without understanding the physiology due to my cognitive dysfunction), for the children who have suffered and died from vegan diets (while I do believe that whole food plant based diets are less toxic than what most people eat today, I do believe that they are insufficient, and there are now laws in some places to protect such children), and from my own failure of not realizing that those diets were based on the teachings of demons among groups such as the Seventh Day Adventists and Latter Day Saints.

Yeah, there's a list of reasons why people react negatively when you mention you’ve adopted a plant-based diet. I think some people resent the fact that they see vegans/vegetarians as possessing some special willpower that they themselves don't have. Like they think we’re doing something they can't. But in reality, we’re human, with food weaknesses just like them. My suspicions are confirmed when, after saying passive-aggressive comments, they follow it up with, “I can't live like that. I got to have my meat.”

 

I have heard some people say that a vegan diet made them feel worse. But since humans originally ate plants and our bodies, teeth, and jaw mechanism suggest we are meant to, I think failure on a vegan diet usually results from 4 things:

 

1 failure to wait out the detox phase.

2 eating a poor “vegan” diet.

3 not getting a variety of nutrients

4 expecting the impossible

 

When you go from eating the standard American diet to a healthy plant-based one, your body will start to detox. You won't feel good for possibly weeks. You may even have bad breath and body odor as your body expels these toxins. When I went vegetarian, I had a detox headache for 3 weeks straight, although I was still eating some processed food. Many people go through detox symptoms and give up. When they start back eating unhealthy food, the detox symptoms end, they feel better, and that causes them to think the plant-based diet was bad for them.

 

Not all vegan diets are the same. Oreo cookies and potato chips are vegan. But eating an unhealthy vegan diet can be bad for your health as well, and cause some to think vegan diets aren't good for you. I know, because my old job required a lot of energy. I thought my energy levels were going down because I was getting older. I then cut out all processed sugar and junk food, and now, although I turn 40 this year, I have more energy than when I was a teenager. 

 

Some vegans fall into the rut of eating the same thing all the time. This can create nutritional deficiencies. It is possible to get all the nutrients you need from a plant-based diet, except vitamin B12. It used to be easy to get by eating produce and drinking water. Now, because of commercial farming, the land is so depleted of nutrients that it's extremely hard to get B12 in some areas. Also, water processing plants remove B12 from water through purification processes. The only reason meat has it is that the animals are given supplements, whereas they used to get it from bacteria on plants.

 

And lastly, some expect too much from a vegan diet. Although a plant-based diet has the power to cure a lot of diseases, and I would argue even most, some are so severe that they can't be treated this way. This leads many people to become disillusioned with this way of eating.

[Myew]

I agree with 97% of what you're saying there, I just want to elaborate on one point a bit.
 

1 hour ago, Cushi said:

since humans originally ate plants.. I think failure on a vegan diet usually results from..

Don't forget that Jehovah is the one who changed the dietary guidelines. He is the one who put the fear of man into the animals and the desire for animal flesh into man and the ability to digest it with a stomach pH of 1 and less than 5% waste as stool. I believe that he did this because we could no longer get much of what we needed from the trees or bush, since he cursed the ground and changed the climate.

(Genesis 9:2) "A fear of you and a terror of you will continue upon every living creature of the earth and upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that moves on the ground and upon all the fish of the sea. They are now given into your hand."

(Deuteronomy 12:15) “But whenever you desire it (“in all the desire of your soul.”), you may slaughter and eat meat, according to the blessing that Jehovah your God has given you in all your cities. The unclean person and the clean person may eat it, as you would eat a gazelle or a deer.
(Deuteronomy 12:21) If the place that Jehovah your God chooses to put his name is far away from you, you should then slaughter some of your herd or some of your flock that Jehovah has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you should eat inside your cities whenever you desire it ("in all the desire of your soul.”).



...I did end up going off on a bit of a tangent here, I apologize.
For many people, especially mothers and babies, ones in recent generations born with chronic illnesses due to the nutritional deficiencies in their mother and suffering from the herbicides killing our microbiome and gut lining such as myself, or ones dealing with chronic serious metabolic disorders as in this thread's case, the conversion ratio of nutrients in plants into the forms that our body actually uses are so low and the amounts needed to thrive are far beyond the 'recommended daily allowance', it's often unattainable for such ones even with a balanced vegetarian diet, even if eating to excess or juicing. The simplest methods to get what our body's need to grow or heal is to eat an excess of bio-available fatty acids, nutrition, and minerals that are in a ready to use form, which is primarily found in fatty fish and ruminant organ meat. It's somewhat ironic that one of the fastest ways for obese individuals with diabetes to lose weight is to eat only a high fat diet. This allows your body to learn to adapt to processing and metabolizing ketones efficiently, it reverses the state of metabolic slowdown and constant hunger by providing satiation. In the cases where someone has an acetone body odor when you're referring to detoxing, fasting, herxheimer reactions, or the 'keto flu', that isn't a toxin, but excess ketones that should pass once the body's cells have adapted to using them as the primary fuel source instead of glucose in the absence of glucose. This is healthy and essential to healing from metabolic illness, provided that you have already reduced the insulin resistance to the point where you don't maintain high blood glucose levels, which could lead to ketoacidosis. Fasting helps do that before you change your diet itself.

Edited 16 hours ago by Myew

[Cushi]

9 minutes ago, Myew said:

I agree with 97% of what you're saying there, I just want to elaborate on one point a bit.
 

Don't forget that Jehovah is the one who changed the dietary guidelines. He is the one who put the fear of man into the animals and the desire for animal flesh into man and the ability to digest it with a stomach pH of 1 and less than 5% waste as stool. I believe that he did this because we could no longer get much of what we needed from the trees or bush, since he cursed the ground and changed the climate.

(Genesis 9:2) "A fear of you and a terror of you will continue upon every living creature of the earth and upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that moves on the ground and upon all the fish of the sea. They are now given into your hand."

(Deuteronomy 12:15) “But whenever you desire it (“in all the desire of your soul.”), you may slaughter and eat meat, according to the blessing that Jehovah your God has given you in all your cities. The unclean person and the clean person may eat it, as you would eat a gazelle or a deer.
(Deuteronomy 12:21) If the place that Jehovah your God chooses to put his name is far away from you, you should then slaughter some of your herd or some of your flock that Jehovah has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you should eat inside your cities whenever you desire it ("in all the desire of your soul.”).



...I did end up going off on a bit of a tangent here, I apologize.
For many people, especially mothers and babies, ones in recent generations born with chronic illnesses due to the nutritional deficiencies in their mother and suffering from the herbicides killing our microbiome and gut lining such as myself, or ones dealing with chronic serious metabolic disorders as in this thread's case, the conversion ratio of nutrients in plants into the forms that our body actually uses are so low and the amounts needed to thrive are far beyond the 'recommended daily allowance', it's often unattainable for such ones even with a balanced vegetarian diet, even if eating to excess or juicing. The simplest methods to get what our body's need to grow or heal is to eat an excess of bio-available fatty acids, nutrition, and minerals that are in a ready to use form, which is primarily found in fatty fish and ruminant organ meat. It's somewhat ironic that one of the fastest ways for obese individuals with diabetes to lose weight is to eat only a high fat diet. This allows your body to learn to adapt to processing and metabolizing ketones efficiently, it reverses the state of metabolic slowdown and constant hunger by providing satiation. In the cases where someone has an acetone body odor when you're referring to detoxing, fasting, herxheimer reactions, or the 'keto flu', that isn't a toxin, but excess ketones that should pass once the body's cells have adapted to using them as the primary fuel source instead of glucose in the absence of glucose. This is healthy and essential to healing from metabolic illness, provided that you have already reduced the insulin resistance to the point where you don't maintain high blood glucose levels, which could lead to ketoacidosis. Fasting helps do that before you change your diet itself.

I want to be clear. I'm not opposed to eating meat at all. It doesn't matter to me what people choose to eat. In fact, I would love to eat meat if I thought it was necessary for optimal nutrition, but I don't. My opinions are based on my personal experience and that of family and friends who have adopted a plant-based diet. It is also based on over 20 years of research, including hundreds of hours of reading countless books, watching countless videos, and documentaries. 

 

I'm of the opinion that Jehovah permitted man to eat animals, not because the produce was no longer suitable, but, like you said, because the survival of the human race depended on the earth being in a perpetual tropical climate needed to grow most of the produce in many parts of the earth year-round. Also, I think Jehovah knew that many individuals wouldn't always have enough fertile land necessary to sustain themselves, so they needed other sources of nutrition. 

 

While meat has some benefits, plant sources of nutrition are far superior and agree a lot better with the human digestive system. As I mentioned in my previous post, I get my blood checked every six months. I am not deficient in any nutrient. All my levels are excellent and my protein levels have only changed 0.1 since I gave up meat. My blood results improved dramatically once I switched to a plant based diet.

 

I agree that a plant-based diet isn't for everyone. Everyone is free to eat how they choose. I just believe a plant-based diet is better for optimal nutrition in most cases.  I do believe bad diets can cause body odor. When I was younger, I thought “morning breath” was normal. I Haven't had morning breath a single day in over 13 years. I read an article stating how it is caused by the body releasing toxins through the mouth, and then it dawned on me why I hadn't had it since I started eating cleaner. Although I sometimes choose to, I don't stink if I don't wear deodorant either. I don't say that to say I’m better than others, but my experience and that of others in my family have shown me that a poor diet can cause body odor. Although not showering will cause anybody to smell bad 🤪

 

But I'm afraid this is turning into a debate, so I won't speak on it anymore. Plus, my reason for bringing it up was to help the OP. And I appreciate you’re humility, but no apology was necessary. We were just having a discussion 😊

 

 

[Julsey]

15 hours ago, Witness1970 said:

In the 1960's was also the time when fast food franchises started popping up everywhere.  In the 1950's eating at Dairy Queen was rare treat for many.  For me it might be once a week when I was walking to a ball game across town.  In the 1960's you would drive by a fast food joint constantly.

Yes, but people didn’t make a lifestyle out of it. We’d go to Taco Bell once in a great while, get 6 tacos for a dollar, and split them between 2 adults and 2 children. 

1 hour ago, Myew said:

I agree with 97% of what you're saying there, I just want to elaborate on one point a bit.
 

Don't forget that Jehovah is the one who changed the dietary guidelines. He is the one who put the fear of man into the animals and the desire for animal flesh into man and the ability to digest it with a stomach pH of 1 and less than 5% waste as stool. I believe that he did this because we could no longer get much of what we needed from the trees or bush, since he cursed the ground and changed the climate.

(Genesis 9:2) "A fear of you and a terror of you will continue upon every living creature of the earth and upon every flying creature of the heavens, upon everything that moves on the ground and upon all the fish of the sea. They are now given into your hand."

(Deuteronomy 12:15) “But whenever you desire it (“in all the desire of your soul.”), you may slaughter and eat meat, according to the blessing that Jehovah your God has given you in all your cities. The unclean person and the clean person may eat it, as you would eat a gazelle or a deer.
(Deuteronomy 12:21) If the place that Jehovah your God chooses to put his name is far away from you, you should then slaughter some of your herd or some of your flock that Jehovah has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you should eat inside your cities whenever you desire it ("in all the desire of your soul.”).



...I did end up going off on a bit of a tangent here, I apologize.
For many people, especially mothers and babies, ones in recent generations born with chronic illnesses due to the nutritional deficiencies in their mother and suffering from the herbicides killing our microbiome and gut lining such as myself, or ones dealing with chronic serious metabolic disorders as in this thread's case, the conversion ratio of nutrients in plants into the forms that our body actually uses are so low and the amounts needed to thrive are far beyond the 'recommended daily allowance', it's often unattainable for such ones even with a balanced vegetarian diet, even if eating to excess or juicing. The simplest methods to get what our body's need to grow or heal is to eat an excess of bio-available fatty acids, nutrition, and minerals that are in a ready to use form, which is primarily found in fatty fish and ruminant organ meat. It's somewhat ironic that one of the fastest ways for obese individuals with diabetes to lose weight is to eat only a high fat diet. This allows your body to learn to adapt to processing and metabolizing ketones efficiently, it reverses the state of metabolic slowdown and constant hunger by providing satiation. In the cases where someone has an acetone body odor when you're referring to detoxing, fasting, herxheimer reactions, or the 'keto flu', that isn't a toxin, but excess ketones that should pass once the body's cells have adapted to using them as the primary fuel source instead of glucose in the absence of glucose. This is healthy and essential to healing from metabolic illness, provided that you have already reduced the insulin resistance to the point where you don't maintain high blood glucose levels, which could lead to ketoacidosis. Fasting helps do that before you change your diet itself.

I think he did it because all the vegetation had been destroyed in the flood.

[Witness1970]

20 hours ago, Myew said:

I understand and quoted that. I just can't comprehend how anyone or anything can say that it can't be reversed or how they define the word "reverse" when there are so many documented cases of people that have done just that: achieving 100% remission of all symptoms and no longer meeting any of the diagnostic criteria.
(Proverbs 30:8) "Remove untruth and lies far from me."

Here's a link to just one case report of thousands shown at 1:05 in the video. There are plenty of books and newer videos from many doctors all over the world showing similar cases.

Type 2 diabetes is the adult-onset diabetes.  It is not insulin dependent and is much easier to treat than type 1 diabetes.  I had a niece with type 1 diabetes which she had from the time she was a teenager until she died at the age of 40.

 

I have believed in "fasting for your health" for the past 35 years.  I have fasted on 3 occasions, but only for 3 days each time.  If I tried fasting now, I would have to stop my medication.  I went without eating once (just for one day) while still taking prescription medicines.  It upset my stomach really bad.  

[Witness1970]

8 hours ago, Julsey said:

Yes, but people didn’t make a lifestyle out of it. We’d go to Taco Bell once in a great while, get 6 tacos for a dollar, and split them between 2 adults and 2 children. 

There are some people that eat fast food very often.  And you will note that I said I walked to a ball game and stopped at Dairy Queen for a hamburger and a drink.  When I was still working, I would drive by several fast-food restaurants.  I am not saying the fast food is the only cause but for some people it is a major contributor.  Also walking to a ball game and driving to work was also important.  Unlike you there are people who eat fast food almost daily.

 

I agree about the High fructose corn syrup being the biggest problem.  But i think there are other things that also contribute to the problem.

[Myew]

5 hours ago, Witness1970 said:

Type 2 diabetes is the adult-onset diabetes.  It is not insulin dependent and is much easier to treat than type 1 diabetes.  I had a niece with type 1 diabetes which she had from the time she was a teenager until she died at the age of 40.

I'm very sorry to hear that happened to her. Still, the same methods mentioned in reversing T2D are also very effective in managing T1D and allowing such ones to live a much happier and long life. T1D is quite rare in comparison to T2D. I did miss the sentence where the AI mentions reversing T2D specifically, though it started off in a way that confused me as it wasn't relevant to the thread's focus of T2D.

I understand that not all autoimmune conditions can be reversed over time even when maintaining strict habits due to significant organ damage, I live with some myself that would come back if I returned to my old diet. I mentioned one case of T1D, but there are now many such individuals keeping their T1D under control with very low levels of exogenous insulin and non-diabetic blood levels. Here is what another AI references about managing it specifically with the same methods many have shared regarding T2D, along with the case report for the second:

"Long-Term (10-Year) Ketogenic Diet Study: A notable case report followed a patient with T1D who adhered to a strict ketogenic diet (\le50\text{ g} of carbohydrates per day) for 10 years (Koutnik et al., 2024). The patient achieved exceptional glycemic control with an HbA1c of 5.5% and a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) time-in-range of 90%, all while experiencing a 43% reduction in daily insulin requirements. Crucially, the 10-year follow-up showed no adverse effects on kidney function, thyroid function, or bone mineral density, though LDL cholesterol did increase (Koutnik et al., 2024)."

(as I've mentioned, studies now show that a proper ketogenic diet is cardio-protective and the high LDL has no merit on atherosclerosis over time)

"Adult Management Case: Another case report followed a male in his 20s who slowly tapered down to a strict ketogenic diet (Gardemann et al., 2023). His diabetes biomarkers improved to the point of hitting the official non-diabetic range, his overall quality of life improved, and his total daily insulin requirements dropped significantly by 70%."

Here is the second's case study:
https://edm.bioscientifica.com/downloadpdf/view/journals/edm/2023/3/EDM23-0008.pdf

Note some of the very positive benefits and absence of adverse events that can be maintained in spite of T1D if you stick with it:
"It could even be argued that the patient is less prone to the dangers of diabetic ketoacidosis as his low glycemic variability stops blood sugar levels exceeding certain values, while diabetics following the standard approach show higher glycemic variability (Fig. 5). During the reported timeframe, the patient did not suffer from any acute illness. During the follow-up period, there was not a single incidence of severe hypoglycemia which has remained till today. There was also no incidence of ketoacidosis. Arguably, the most important change seen from this treatment was the significant increase in the quality of life of the patient. Due to the extreme reduction of blood glucose fluctuations and reduced HbA1c values, the patient reported more energy, clearer thought, the ability to focus better, decreased hunger urgency and the overall feeling of greater safety and security in the management of his disease. We have to keep in mind that such a diet needs to be followed for the rest of the patient’s life in order to achieve that tight glycemic control. Transitioning to a ketogenic diet may initially appear to be limiting from the outsider’s perspective but once the dietary commitment is consistently adhered to, people report high levels of satisfaction and satiety from protein and fat-focused meals. People following a ketogenic diet need to plan their meals when eating outside of the home. The beginning of this diet seems to be especially difficult for most people as they experience carbohydrate withdrawal and tend to crave sweets and carbohydrates."

Edited 58 minutes ago by Myew

[GeoRodRR]

Ill admit i did not read through all the pages in this post.  However if your body does not produce insulin, you will probably need some replacement.  If your body makes insulin but it does not move into your cells then you can try to control without insulin.  Its a difficult illness but not impossible.  Hopefully goes well for you.  Diet and exercise work good for any illness