In our modern world, diabetes type 2 (and even type 1) has been increasingly affecting more people. In fact, diabetes type 2 has been referred to as an epidemic and is today one of the top 3 lifestyle-related diseases, next to heart disease and cancer. According to Dr. Bisci, numbers have tripled in the past decade alone. What else is certain is that type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease, and it is a disease that not only decreases the quality of life, but often ends it prematurely.

According to the Canadian Diabetes Association, more than 9 million people are living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. According to the American Diabetes Association, more than 80 million people are living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. That is a lot of people, and research indicates the numbers are only about to get worse.

However, as with everything else, misinformation, half-truths, and biased, false conclusions are widespread, and this field is no exception. We are told “diabetes must be battled“, and there is “a fight against diabetes” and that it is incurable, when nothing could be further from the truth.

So let’s step away from the violent talk, as there is no need to fight anything. There is simply an urgent need to learn how to eat and take care of ourselves properly. And to help us do this, we are going to seek out some expert resources who are leading the way in healing diabetes naturally and take a holistic approach for the greatest level of effectiveness and empowerment.

Reversing Diabetes in Days? Yes, It’s Possible!

The best thing anyone at risk of diabetes or who has been diagnosed with diabetes can do is look for high-quality information to empower themselves and know that diabetes type 2 and, in many cases, even type 1 is REVERSIBLE. Yes, you heard me correctly: diabetes is not a life sentence, and many doctors, researchers, and nutrition experts today know you can reverse diabetes with the simplest, most natural, and most powerful method, your diet.

What you eat either predisposes you to diabetes, gives you diabetes, prevents you from having diabetes, or heals diabetes. The question now is, what do you choose to do with your diet? Will you use it to support yourself or use it against yourself?

The leading researchers on this are doctors and resources as follows:

  1. Dr. Gabriel Cousens – at his Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona, is continuously researching natural health and nutrition, and healing diabetes in the patients who visit the center. His 21+ day diabetes reversal program is one of the world’s most successful diabetes programs.

  2. Dr. Joel Fuhrman – has years of experience and success reversing all chronic and lifestyle diseases in his patients through nutrition, with one of his specialties being diabetes. He is a top health expert for reversing diabetes, through his personal nutritional excellence program.

  3. Dr. Joseph Mercola – is a natural health and nutrition expert who is constantly educating the public and bringing awareness about the amount of misinformation we are told about our food and the state of our health. He is a leader in teaching people how to prevent and reverse diseases, including diabetes.

  4. Dr. Mark Hyman — is another leading health expert and integrative medical doctor who is helping people gain back their health via diet and lifestyle changes. You can get to know his work by starting with his 5-step guide to reversing diabetes and insulin resistance.

  5. Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days – One of the best places to start to gain information and empowerment about reversing diabetes via your diet is the free documentary film – Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days. I will share more on this film below.

Diet and Lifestyle Changes to Reverse Diabetes

No matter which source you consult, you’ll find a common foundation of healthy nutrition and lifestyle steps to follow to reverse most diabetic conditions.

With regard to the diet, here are some of the main protocols to follow:

  • Eliminate refined sugars — This includes all candy and junk foods, as well as the numerous processed foods to which sugars are added.
  • Eliminate refined and heavily processed grain products — This includes all flour-based breads, buns, and similar products, whether white or brown, as well as boxed cereals, cookies, crackers, and cakes.
  • Eliminate liquid or sugar calories — This includes all pasteurized juices, fruit drinks, and soda, regardless of whether they are sugar-free or not. This also includes alcohol.
  • Eliminate fried and high-fat processed foods — This includes fried plant and animal foods, including French fries, onion rings, burgers, meats, chips, pizza, etc.
  • Eliminate dairy — This includes all the various types of milk, cheese, and yogurt, most of which are heavily processed and neither ideal for our health nor for diabetes reversal.
  • Eat lots of vegetables, especially raw vegetables — This includes all colors of vegetables from the green and white, through the yellow, orange, red, and purple. Raw vegetables can be fully raw or gently steamed.
  • Eat beans and legumes, including sprouts — These are very high in fiber, healthy carbohydrates, and protein and provide excellent bulk for filling and satisfying meals. You can enjoy them as part of salads, soups, stews, chili, dips or spreads like hummus, etc.
  • Eat real, whole grains — This includes whole, unprocessed brown rice, quinoa, millet, amaranth, buckwheat, etc. These grains are high in fiber and healthy complex carbohydrates, breaking down slowly and providing a healthy amount of sustainable energy.
  • Eat some raw fruits — Even though most people associate diabetes with an avoidance of fruits, as you will find from the doctors and diabetes reversal programs above, fruits can actually be part of diabetes reversal and healing.
  • Eat some nuts and seeds — This includes any tree nuts, like walnuts, almonds, or pistachios, as well as seeds like chia, flax, hemp, pumpkin, and sesame. Nuts and seeds are highly advantageous during diabetes healing, but we must ensure that our nuts are raw, not roasted, and not flavored with anything like salt or sugar.
  • Drink lots of water — Water is essential to not only keep an optimally running system, but especially during times of healing and detoxifying.

With regard to lifestyle changes, here are some of the main protocols to follow:

  • Get enough sleep — This means both in terms of quantity and quality. Our body’s best healing takes place during sleep. This is the time your body uses to repair cells, tissues, and organs. Sleep is also necessary to support and balance proper hormone levels, several of which play a leading role in reversing diabetes and maintaining optimal health.
  • Engage in daily movement — The easiest and most effective thing we can do with regard to movement is to walk. Schedule into your day and commit to at least one, 10 to 30 minute walk daily. Aside from that, some stretching and resistance exercise is always a good idea for our overall health and weight.
  • Avoid destructive or toxic habits — This includes loading your body with toxins on purpose via things like cigarettes, cigars, alcohol, and other drugs.
  • Nurture healthy relationships — Feeling connected to others and having our own support system or community of friends or family is important. The more stable our relationships are, the less likely we are to use food in order to fill any voids we may be feeling within.
  • Nurture creativity and your passions — When we make time to do things we enjoy, our entire body benefits from a better sense of well-being. This also positively enhances our emotional state of being and makes us less likely to use food or other destructive habits against ourselves, which cause imbalance and disease in the body.

Deeper Holistic Roots of Diabetes

On a metaphysical level, diabetes symbolizes losing or not being able to enjoy “the sweetness of life”. Individuals who experience diabetes usually prevent themselves, whether consciously or unconsciously, from enjoying life to the fullest. There may be an underlying current of guilt and thinking along the lines of “all that did or can go wrong” or “that we don’t deserve to enjoy ourselves”. According to Dr. Susan Corso, diabetes is about a soul pattern of emotional isolation—starving for love, and unable to get enough of its sweetness. In her book You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay describes the underlying pattern of diabetes as a “Longing for what might have been. A great need for control. Deep sorrow. No sweetness left.”

If you are currently experiencing diabetes, pre-diabetes, or insulin resistance, it will be most valuable and sustainable to address your healing via a holistic approach. This means focusing on the physical - what we eat and don’t eat, as well as exercise and sleep - but also on the mental and emotional. Ask yourself the following questions:

  • What are you unhappy about in your life on the deepest level of your being?
  • What are you resistant to accept?
  • What part of your being is being neglected?

This approach can not only provide benefits and healing for diabetes, but also improve your quality of life immensely as you take accountability for actively creating what you wish to experience while releasing and healing old wounds.

Ultimately, may you always know that your body is an intelligent system that will always work to balance and heal itself, able to overcome almost any dis-ease. Our job is simply to support this system and its functions, rather than work against it via self-destructive habits, causing it and ourselves unnecessary suffering.

Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

One of the first places one can start to understand the power of diet in preventing and healing diabetes is the groundbreaking documentary Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days, which features some of the top medical and holistic experts of our time.

Many diabetics today think they have no choice and that pills and insulin shots are their only hope, but that is not true. However, science has proven that diabetes, especially type 2, can be greatly reduced in its effects and often eradicated altogether by diet. As such, I am thrilled to share a valuable resource that can not only help prevent diabetes in the future, but perhaps save your life, or the life of someone close to you, today. Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is a film that takes 6 Americans with diabetes and performs nothing short of miracles where their health conditions are concerned.

Simply Raw – Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that was created by Mark Perlmutter and produced by Aiyana Elliot and Leda Maliga. The executive producers include: Keith Lyons, Scott Mader, Alex Ortner, and Nicolas Ortner. It was released in 2008.

It features 6 diverse Americans who have diabetes (2 have diabetes type 1 and 4 have diabetes type 2) and have decided to participate in a diabetes reversing challenge.

Amidst the 6 patient case studies, it features interviews with some of the most respected, world-renowned, and leading health experts, as well as other personalities with experience in the raw lifestyle:

  • Dr. Gabriel Cousens

  • Dr. Joel Fuhrman

  • Dr. Fred Bisci

  • David Wolfe

  • Anthony Robbins

  • Woody Harrelson

  • Karen Knowler

  • Rev. Michael Beckwith

  • Morgan Spurlock

The purpose of the movie is to show people of all walks of life that diabetes is not a death sentence. On the contrary, diabetes is reversible – the secret simply lies in what support we give our body through the foods we eat, not the drugs we take. The American Diabetes Association states that “diabetes is a chronic disease that has no cure”, but the participants of Simply Raw clearly show otherwise.

The movie starts with an introduction to diabetes and presents undeniable statistics that are hard to ignore. It then goes on to introduce the 6 participants, who have, up to this point, lived on the standard American diet, giving us a little background of who they are, where they came from, and their story of diabetes. In a quick summary:

  • Participant 1 is a 26-year-old African-American male who has type 2 diabetes, which was actually misdiagnosed; he actually has type 1 diabetes.

  • Participant 2 is a 58-year-old Caucasian male who has type 2 diabetes.

  • Participant 3 is a 36-year-old African-American female who has type 2 diabetes.

  • Participant 4 is a 68-year-old Native American male who has type 2 diabetes.

  • Participant 5 is a 62-year-old African American female who has type 2 diabetes.

  • Participant 6 is a 25-year-old Caucasian male who has type 1 diabetes.

These 6 participants all meet at The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. This is where they are to spend the next 30 days. Away from all friends and family, they participate in workshops, cooking seminars, and medical assistance, but most importantly, they live for 30 days on a completely raw and vegan diet. That meant no meat, dairy, refined sugar, alcohol, or processed food of any kind.

The film then chronicles the highlights of the 30 days and shares with the viewer the challenges, setbacks, joys, and successes that the participants experience. In between their stories are the expert interviews that are presented on various topics when it comes to the raw, vegan, and diabetes-free life.

The final results are shocking in a nutshell and nothing short of a miracle, as some may see it. Without spoiling the movie for you, let’s just say that there are some unexpected twists and turns in the 30-day challenge, but ultimately almost all of the patients got off their meds completely and improved their health in so many more ways than just beating the diabetes.

Let the garden be your pharmacy.

Simply Raw

Film Review of Simply Raw

It was very satisfying and enjoyable to watch the journey of the 6 participants in the Simply Raw film. In less than 30 days, all of the participants’ health had improved drastically, and the only main difference was their diet. It is a great film because it shows us the power of food: wholesome, natural, plant-based food, and, in this case, to be even more exact, the power of raw vegan food. This is food as Mother Nature intended, and it is proving time and time again to be a superior choice for a healthy life.

It was absolutely incredible and astounding to see how fast some of the participants’ bodies responded to the raw food lifestyle; literally within days, they were able to be removed from their drugs. Drugs that, up to this point, came in the dozens and they could not function without. I think that speaks volumes.

What was really awesome about the movie too is how real the stories were. You can tell these are not people scripted or made to say or do anything they do not want to. I am sure it will help a lot of people out there relate to at least one of them. Although I would have liked to have seen a slightly bigger test group, perhaps at least 10 people. I understand the costs involved when a film is not made for the big screens of Hollywood. I am not a fan of reality TV, but watching this was different. It was like a medical “Big Brother” with a purpose. And the emotion and the drama were heartfelt, deep, and most importantly meaningful. However, for anyone who does like reality TV, I imagine they will love this movie even more.

Finally, one cannot but walk away impressed and empowered with all the research and helpful information presented in the movie. I am a huge fan of Anthony Robbins – perhaps the greatest motivational speaker ever, and it is so amazing to see the balance that he promotes. To him, it is not just about one area of life in order to be successful and happy – it is about the whole package, and you can bet the right diet leading to great health is one of the critical components of that.

Raw food expert David Wolfe’s interviews were equally stimulating. For anyone who is familiar with his work – he does not disappoint. His passion and enthusiasm for the raw lifestyle are contagious, to say the least.

I was also happy to have met some new faces like Dr. Bisci and Dr. Cousens, both of whom provided a wise and scientific approach to this whole experiment.

In the end, did the experiment work? Were people with type 2 diabetes and even type 1 diabetes able to reverse their disease and get off of their insulin? For the most part, yes indeed! The results were amazing, and as I have stated earlier, some would even call them miraculous.

The Power Rests With You To Change Your Diabetes Outcome

A whole food, plant-based lifestyle is extremely powerful when it comes to healing and prevention, but when we focus on applying those dietary choices in the raw form, they become even more transformational for our health. People’s body and health is transformed by this lifestyle, literally from head to toe. Whether it be diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, digestion, vitality, or you name it – a raw food approach is truly remarkable when it comes to its healing qualities. And the best part is that this method does not include or involve any expensive supplements, and can be the cheapest way to eat and the most environmentally friendly, not to mention the numerous short-term and long-term health benefits it offers. All we need to do is decide what our priorities are and make our choices. After that, it will be as easy, realistic, and enjoyable as we make it!

If you want to learn more about healing diabetes and other chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease, to empower yourself or someone you know, I highly recommend this film. And if nothing else, watch it to learn for yourself about the wonderful world of raw foods and the numerous benefits it can offer you.

You can watch just the trailer below, or watch the entire film for free now (see the video at the top of this film review).

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