Dr Sarah Hallberg : Reverse type 2 diabetes with the proper diet

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI)- If you are one of the millions living with type 2 diabetes, experts say it can be reversed and it all starts with your diet.

Debra Jones is one of many people who has seen a reverse in her diabetes and other health issues, thanks to changing her diet.

“I was on insulin and diabetic medicine and I’m off of it now, my sugar stay real low, and I’m also off of my blood pressure medicine, it’s just, it’s just unbelievable,” said Jones.

IU Health Arnett Doctor Sarah Hallberg helped to create this diet for a weight loss study program that examines how a low carb diet can serve as a treatment for diabetes. The diet is low in carbs, moderate on protein intake and suggests high levels of fat.

The fat sources are all real food sources, our patients get fat from dairy, butter fat, heavy whipping cream, and coconut oil. Certainly meat sources for those people who choose to eat meat but you don’t have to, in order to follow a proper low carb high fat diet,” said Hallberg.

Lisa Asbury is another participant who took part in the diet study. She said she would encourage people with diabetes to join this weight loss program.

“This is the easiest way of eating that I have learned in my entire life, you can take your life back you don’t have to sit at home and be depressed and not leave home because you’re so heavy,” said Asbury.

Sarah Hallberg said with this consistent diet people can control blood sugar levels almost instantly. She also says the response she gets from participants drives her to help those in need.

“They cry because they are so happy, like I can’t believe I don’t have to take the insulin anymore or I can’t believe my blood sugars are normal, or they’ll cry more commonly and say why didn’t anybody tell me this before. But it really show, that we can use food as medicine,” said Hallberg.

Hallberg says this diet can also help to maintain blood sugar levels for people who have type 1 diabetes. With 500 people participating in the study, doctors will evaluate the diet over two years.

To learn more about taking part in the clinical trial click here.

http://wlfi.com/2015/12/11/reverse-type-2-diabetes-with-the-proper-diet/

Yes another spoke in the wheel. I'm less enamoured of the number of doctors who claim diabetes can be "reversed" or "cured" though, I think "controlled" is more accurate because if you are tempted to go back face down in the carbs it WILL return.

chris c wrote:Yes another spoke in the wheel. I'm less enamoured of the number of doctors who claim diabetes can be "reversed" or "cured" though, I think "controlled" is more accurate because if you are tempted to go back face down in the carbs it WILL return.

Do they understand the sad situation that they put diabetics on? Saying that controlling temporarily your blood glucose level is a "cure" or "reversing" diabetes is IRRESPONSIBLE and WRONG. Yes diabetes is a disease diagnosed by a symptom and there can be many different causes that could produce high blood glucose results. Some may be reversible if found out on time but that is not possible for the great majority of diabetics. Giving the incorrect information and false hope just put people in desperate mode for a quick fix. They convey the message to diabetics not to make the permanent healthy lifestyle changes they need to do, because there is the "cure".

Precisely! But "cured" diabetics improve their statistics.

It's much the same using insulin secretagogues or high levels of insulin simply to reduce BG, not a little of the CVD risk and other damage comes from the insulin as much as the glucose. Much "modern" medicine involves using drugs to reduce numbers rather than looking at the entire disease pathway which may respond better to diet.

Insulin eventually causes the liver to be poisoned by N.A.F.L.D.
Best to keep our insulin low by a LCHF diet.

yoly wrote:

chris c wrote:Yes another spoke in the wheel. I'm less enamoured of the number of doctors who claim diabetes can be "reversed" or "cured" though, I think "controlled" is more accurate because if you are tempted to go back face down in the carbs it WILL return.

Do they understand the sad situation that they put diabetics on? Saying that controlling temporarily your blood glucose level is a "cure" or "reversing" diabetes is IRRESPONSIBLE and WRONG. Yes diabetes is a disease diagnosed by a symptom and there can be many different causes that could produce high blood glucose results. Some may be reversible if found out on time but that is not possible for the great majority of diabetics. Giving the incorrect information and false hope just put people in desperate mode for a quick fix. They convey the message to diabetics not to make the permanent healthy lifestyle changes they need to do, because there is the "cure".

This is the way I see the so called cure or diabetes reversed. It's a bit like being an alcoholic. A man can drink until it starts to wreck his mind and body. It's the same for us type two diabetics, but with us it's high carb food. If the alcoholic stops drinking totally, he can stop the rot, and maybe repair some of the damage in time. It's exactly the same for us. Dump the food that we cannot tolerate and we can stay safe, we might even be able to repair minor damage. But for sure, we are not cured. If I eat a meal containing a 100 carbs or so, my BG numbers go straight to 10 in old money plus. I will never be CURED but I can live with that, I have no other choice but to low carb.

The bottom line, we are very very lucky, so many can do nothing against a chronic disease.

"The bottom line, we are very very lucky, so many can do nothing against a chronic disease."

Correct - IF we are given the right information. "Eat more carbs amd don't test" is NOT the right information. Nor is "we have drugs for that!"