Diet "Failure " in Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes results when cells cannot use insulin efficiently enough to allow glucose(sugar) to enter the cell. The common culprit is fat: fat in the bloodstream and fat in the cells gum up the entry receptors in the cell wall. The cells want their glucose so the body responds by increasing serum glucose, primarily by breaking down other material stored in the liver to make more glucose. Blood glucose rises and the patient becomes diabetic. Best treatment is not drugs which help insulin work better (in spite of what our friendly pharmaceutical industry tells us all day long on television) but changing what we eat. Less fat, sugar and total calories will always solve the problem. Oral drugs should never be used unless a patient refuses to change diet.

When type 2 diabetes is diagnosed there has usually been a lot of damage. The worst is blood vessel damage and all the subsequent injury to every body organ. A primarily whole food plant based diet will reverse this vascular disease. But the pancreas has also been damaged by the overuse that has occurred. Years later the pancreas can wear out in spite of healthy diet and will be no longer able to make enough insulin. When this happens insulin injections are necessary for the rest of life. Two people I helped reverse type 2 diabetes by diet have had this occur. One had done her homework and realized that a diet mainly of whole plant foods was still necessary to protect blood vessels; the other did not and reverted to an unhealthy diet since insulin was now necessary to control blood glucose anyway. This is a guaranteed road to heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, neuropathy. Insulin will allow enough glucose into cells so that the body can function but does little to protect against deadly vascular disease.