Are you looking for a natural way to treat type 2 diabetes; a reversal of diabetes without medication? This guide will show you how to reverse type 2 diabetes with diet alone.
No expensive drugs, no visits to specialists.
Furthermore, it’s a way that you can manage or reverse your type 2 diabetes.
And all from the comfort of your own home.
Sound too good to be true?
Unlike other too-good-to be-true promises, this one is well researched and has a lot of science to back it up.
Further, there are now countless other people like you who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. They are now enjoying a complete remission from this dangerous disease.
Medication
However, just a word of warning here: Are you are currently taking medication? You may want to consider enlisting the help of your medical provider before you make any dietary change.
This is due to the fact that this diet is able to alter your blood/glucose levels.
You may need help with adjusting your medication as your blood/glucose levels lower or stabilize.
With that said, everyone including people on medication will be able to benefit from this diet. You will just have to take a little extra care.
Also, bear in mind that although diet can be used to stabilize your blood/glucose levels without medication, your condition may not be cured but put into remission.
This means that if you stray too far from your new healthy eating plan, you will run the risk of your condition returning.
The good news is, that by following this diet many people have been able to live for years with healthy blood/glucose levels and with no signs of diabetes. They have also remained drug free.
The dangers of untreated type 2 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a disease whereby you are unable to keep your blood/glucose levels to within a healthy range.
The standard American diet is high in carbohydrates, and the chances are that you’ve been eating this way for a long time.
Carbohydrates are easily metabolized by the body and produce the glucose that you need for your immediate energy needs.
Unfortunately, carbs will also cause a spike in the amount of glucose that will hit your bloodstream fairly quickly.
This isn’t good news for anyone, but if you’ve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes it will cause you even more problems.
You will have problems with dealing with this glucose as your ability to produce or use insulin will be impaired.
It is the job of insulin to maintain blood/glucose at normal healthy levels.
The healthy range for blood glucose is relatively small, and so this is normally tightly controlled by the body.
When Insulin is not working properly for you, blood glucose levels remain high but you’ll be unable to absorb and make use of the glucose.
This will lead to the symptoms that you’re probably already all to familiar with such as:
- extreme thirst and dry mouth
- frequent urination and urinary tract infections
- fatigue
- blurred vision
- slow healing of cuts or wounds
- numbness or tingling in hands and feet
- itchy skin
Left untreated, type 2 diabetes is a dangerous condition which has multiple health implications.
By eating the right diet you can reverse type 2 diabetes naturally
As mentioned, too many carbohydrates in your diet will cause a quick spike in your blood/glucose levels.
It makes sense therefore to make sure that you’re eating a diet which reduces carbohydrates. This will help to stabilize your blood/glucose levels.
The keto diet is a way of eating that is very low carb, medium protein and high fat.
This lowering of carbohydrates is central to the keto diet.
Further, low carb intake isresponsible for the diet’s multiple health benefits and ability to manage weight.
The keto diet has been proven to stabilize blood/glucose levels and keep them stable (1)
This study stated that:
“While the current treatment of T2DM emphasizes drug treatment and a higher carbohydrate diet, the ketogenic diet is an effective alternative that relies less on medication, and may even be a preferable option when medications are not available.”
This study published in April 2019 also found evidence of the ability of a low carb diet to reverse type 2 diabetes. Further they found that even long-standing diabetes could be reversed by cutting the carbs.
“The 12-week individualized treatment intervention served to functionally reverse 26 years of T2DM, ameliorate two and half decades of chronic depressive disorder and empower/equip the patient with a new experience of hope and success.”
If someone with type 2 diabetes for 26 years can reverse the conditions with diet, you can be sure that you can too.
In that case, the subject also managed to treat her long-standing depression.
Another study found that the keto diet could be more effective in reversing type 2 diabetes than medical intervention.
They pointed out that there is a large body of evidence that points to the high-fat, low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet (KD) as being more effective diet in modifying diabetes.
By following the keto diet, the low carb consumption let to a shift from a carbohydrate to a lipid dominant metabolism.
In order to achieve a ketogenic state, carbohydrate intake must be restricted to about 10% of total dietary intake.
With the keto diet, carbs are restricted to 5% initially, so well within this range.
Protein and fat should make up ~20% and ~70% of the diet, respectively. Under these conditions, the body begins to upregulate lipolytic enzymes and bypass the dependence on glucose for energy.
In other words, when you eat a keto diet, your body will switch from using to glucose for energy to using it’s secondary metabolic pathway: burning fat for fuel.
It is this fat burning state which produces ketones and gives the keto diet it’s name.
When in ketosis, your energy needs are met either from the fat you are consuming, or the fat you have stored.
This means that your blood/glucose levels will remain stable.
This is due to the fact that your body has a steady supply of fat to metabolize for its energy needs.
This study also found that the keto diet was successful at reversing type 2 diabetes and also stabilizing blood/glucose levels.
They did however caution that due to how effective the keto diet was as lowering blood/glucose levels, patients on medication should seek medical help with changing their medication in line with their changing needs.
They concluded:
“In summary, the LCKD had positive effects on body weight, waist measurement, serum triglycerides, and glycemic control in a cohort of 21 participants with type 2 diabetes. Most impressive is that improvement in hemoglobin A1c was observed despite a small sample size and short duration of follow-up, and this improvement in glycemic control occurred while diabetes medications were reduced substantially in many participants”.
So what should you eat to reverse type 2 diabetes?
The keto diet should consist of no more than 5% carbs or 20 net grams of carbs each day.
You should aim for 20% of your intake to be protein, and 72% to be healthy fats.
To find your individual allowances of each of these three macros use this quick keto calculator.
Once you know how many carbs and how much protein and fat you can eat, you will need to familiarize your self with which foods fit these macro goals.
The keto diet food list and understanding keto macros will help you to work out what exactly you can eat to get the most out of the keto diet.
In general, you can eat all meats and fish as these are low carb.
Most above ground vegetables are also low carb and can be eaten on a keto diet.
Eggs are also super healthy contain few carbs.
Fats should be healthy fats such as olive oil, coconut oil, butter, cream, lard and cheese.
To find out more about the foods you can eat on the keto diet visit What can you eat on a keto diet?.
You may also be interested in the free keto diet plan (28 day keto diet plan) which will give your recipes and shopping lists as well as explaining how you can get started.
This list of top 100 keto foods with nutritional values will also get you started in double quick time.
There is overwhelming evidence that the keto diet is fantastically good at reversing type 2 diabetes.
This may seem to be in complete contrast too much of the diabetes advice that has been given to patients in recent years.
However, diabetes is a disease that is caused by high blood sugars and so a diet that aims to keep blood/glucose levels healthy and stable is going to be of benefits.
This is so well researched now that there can be little doubt that you will be able to take control of your diabetes and reverse the condition completely.
Further, you will be able to reduce your medication, and to come off medication completely as your condition improves.
The keto diet, when done properly will meet all your nutritional needs and offer other multiple health benefits too.
You will be able to reverse type 2 diabetes, maintain your correct body weight and be drug free.
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