To reverse diabetes, follow the No Change Rule

I’ve previously discussed the basic steps you can take to reverse, or at least absolutely minimize, type 2 diabetes. This involves strategies such as wheat and grain elimination (of course!), vitamin D restoration, cultivation of bowel flora (not just probiotics!!), and magnesium supplementation. But there is another exceptionally powerful strategy that helps push you even farther away from diabetes, something I call the “No Change Rule.” Let me explain. At some risk of oversimplification, the majority of people with type 2 diabetes have 1) high fasting blood sugars (semi-arbitrarily defined as 126 mg/dl, 7.0 mmol/L, or greater), 2) high after-meal, or “postprandial,” blood sugars (200 mg/dl, 11.1 mmol/L, or greater is the semi-arbitrary cutoff during formal glucose tolerance testing), and 3) high insulin levels due to insulin resistance, or poor muscle and organ responsiveness to insulin. (A minority of type 2 diabetics, particularly those diabetic for many years, have also incurred either autoimmune and/or glucotoxic/lipotoxic damage to pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin, leaving them incapable of producing high, or even normal, levels of insulin. If this situation develops, then diabetes will not reverse. But this does not apply to the majority, thankfully.) Diabetes is also characterized by a high hemoglobin A1c, HbA1c, of 6.5% or greater, a value reflecting the prior 60-90 days of high blood sugar values. At the very start of your...
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