Since people want more information. Here you go.
In addition people should understand that this documentary video is a video documented diabetes cure study. That is right, this documentary is a documented study itself. I really don't want to get technical with this thread. It was meant as an introduction to the topic, but since Jack is challenging it here is some more information. Which basically means Jack was trying to refute a study itself when he has no knowledge of it what so ever.
The problem along with the pharmaceutical industry is you also have junk food companies that do everything they can to try to prove their food isn't responsible. Do you think they will give out education that says, don't use our product or here is how to get off our product? It is self-defeating to a business and every bit in their best interest to mislead people. If you expect them to tell the truth, forget it. Never going to happen.
This explains a condition known as insulin resistence along with several other conditions.
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent health challenges of our time. It has evolved to pandemic proportions, growing most rapidly in developing economies, such as India and China, and among poor and minority groups in developed nations. In this two part series, we will explore the diets employed by two medical doctors, Neal Barnard, M.D. and Gabriel Cousens, M.D., whose patients have successfully controlled, reversed and cured diabetes by following their advice. Dr. Neal Barnard is a physician and clinical researcher who recently completed a study on the effects of the vegan diet, which is an animal free diet, on controlling and reversing Type 2 diabetes. The study, which is documented in his book Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes, was funded by the US National Institutes of Health and conducted by George Washington University and the University of Toronto in Canada. Dr. Barnard is also the director of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Our research shows several benefits of a vegan diet for people with diabetes. Number one, you lose weight, and you lose about a pound per week and add that up, 52 weeks per year, you’re talking serious weight loss. Cholesterol levels fall and blood sugars fall. The need for medication drops, many people get off their medications completely and blood pressure comes down as well. So that sack of pills that you’ve been taking for your cholesterol, your blood pressure, your diabetes, a lot of those you’ll probably be able to throw away.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens is a medical doctor, a diplomat for the American Board of Holistic Medicine and founder of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. Dr. Cousens is an expert in the holistic application of raw vegan nutrition, supplements and lifestyle changes to cure diabetes, overcome addictions and many other health challenges. He has been working with diabetics in his private practice and has detailed his findings in his recently-released book There is a Cure for Diabetes. Dr. Cousens had invited six diabetics eating the standard American diet to the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center to demonstrate the rejuvenating power of curing diabetes with a raw, vegan diet. His patients’ journey was documented in a newly released movie titled, Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days.
We have a 21-day program. In one to four days, really one day, practically we get people off all their insulin, and all their other diabetic medications. In two to three weeks, even if their blood sugar started with 500 or 400, returning their blood sugars to normal which is less than 100.
Both doctors have independently proven that the vegan diet is effective in treating diabetes. Their approaches, while both using plant-based vegan diets are at different ends of the spectrum – one mostly cooked and the other 80% raw – and yet their results are profound. Before we go further into the details of this healthy diet, let’s learn more about diabetes.
Diabetes is a condition, as I guess people know, where there’s too much sugar in the blood. The sugar is glucose and it’s there normally to go into the cells to provide energy, so that if I’m going to run a marathon all my muscle cells are using that glucose for energy. The problem is in diabetes is the glucose can’t get into the cells. It stays in the blood, and in the blood it can be toxic. It can hurt the eyes, the tiny little blood vessels of the eyes or the kidneys or other parts of the body. Type-1 diabetes, we hear people talk about that. That used to be called “childhood onset,” and in this condition the pancreas, which normally makes the insulin that brings the sugar into the cell, the pancreas is no longer making insulin so the sugar can’t get into the cell. Type-2 diabetes used to be called “adult onset.” There’s still insulin there, but the cells resist its action. So it’s like having a key, which is the insulin, going to a lock on the cell and the key can’t open the lock, so the sugar builds up. The research shows in every indigenous culture, when white flour and white sugar are introduced there’s an outbreak of diabetes 20 years later. We have the evidence from comparisons of different countries. We’ve known for a long period of time, when a person goes from a vegetarian type of culture, a plant-based kind of culture, to a meaty culture, diabetes rates go way, way up. It comes directly as a symptom of the culture of death, because diabetes is a direct reflection of living in the culture of death, which is white flour, white sugar, cooked animal flesh, fat, saturated fat pesticides and herbicides, the effect of mineral depletion in the soil (so our input doesn’t have enough minerals), of pesticides and heavy metals. All these play a role.
It’s important for us to understand the cause of diabetes. If I had a patient who had diabetes, and I pulled out one muscle cell from their leg or their arm, and I looked at it, blew it up big with a microscope, we’d see the cause of diabetes. Keep in mind what this glucose that’s built up in the blood is there for. It’s supposed to power our cells; it’s supposed to keep our muscle cells moving. Well, if the insulin key arrives at the surface of the cell, and it can’t open the channels to let glucose in, why not? Well if I look at this big muscle cell, I see that it looks different from a muscle cell from somebody who doesn’t have diabetes. It’s different because it’s full of little fat droplets. Imagine if I have a perfectly good key for my front door, and I go away and I come back and my key no longer opens the door. Because it’s full of fat globules. Yeah, somebody put gum in my lock; it doesn’t work very well. So if I have fat in my cells, it’s not gum, but it could be fat from cheese, fat from meat, fat from eggs, or fat from a fryer grease or something like that. So to make it short and sweet, the cause of Type 2 diabetes is when fat builds up in the cells and insulin can no longer signal that cell to accept glucose. The answer to it is to get that fat out of the cell. How do I do it? Well where does the fat come from? The fat comes from meat, it comes from cheese and other dairy products; cheese is the worst, about 70% fat, also eggs and cooking grease.
To demonstrate how powerful animal fat is in its ability to create diabetes, Dr. Barnard and his colleagues ran an experiment funded by the US National Institutes of Health.
We made it rather simple, and that’s an advantage of the vegan diet, because the typical diabetes diet says you’ve got to count carbohydrate grams, use exchange lists of foods. And it is a little bit complicated and some people find it quite tedious. The vegan diet, we actually had three rules. One is no animal products; that’s pretty simple. Keep oils really low. And the third was avoid sugars and things like white bread, but don’t avoid healthy carbohydrates, so they could eat rice and they could eat pasta and sweet potatoes and yams and beans until their heart’s content. Those were the only rules. The first result was that the patients really liked it. These people were not vegans coming in to it, they were eating all kinds of things, but they came into the study and something has changed in the world. We had a control group following the American Diabetes Association Diet; they did pretty well, they lost some weight, and their blood sugars came down. But the vegans lost significantly more weight, their blood sugar control improved dramatically, and their cholesterol levels fell and other things improved as well, so it’s clearly the preferable diet. Let me give you an example: There was a man who came into our study named Vance. Vance’s father was dead by age 30. Wow. Vance was 31 when he was diagnosed with diabetes. He’d been a Washington, DC policeman for 12 years; he said, “I know I’m overweight, I’m not paying too much attention to my diet, eating a lot of BBQ chicken and so forth.” We said “OK, those days are gone Vance; now it’s time for you to follow a healthy diet.” And we made it simple for him. So if you’re eating bacon and eggs for breakfast, well that’s not vegetarian food. So throw that out and make a big bowl of oatmeal, top it with cinnamon and raisins or whatever. You can have as much of it as you want. Or if you’re more a fruit person, have a half a cantaloupe, or some rye toast, no butter or whatever, those are good breakfast choices. For lunch, Vance liked chili, so he had a veggie chili, there’s lots of vegetable chilis, or a bean burrito or something like that. For dinner, if he went Italian, instead of spaghetti with a meat sauce he had spaghetti with a tomato sauce. So it seemed to him like the easiest diet in the world, because he didn’t have to limit how much he ate. Well as time went on he lost weight, he lost weight and he lost weight. After a year he had lost 60 pounds. His blood sugar, which had been out of control, came down so much his doctor sat him down and said, “Vance, you’ve been on this diet; you don’t have diabetes anymore.” His doctor took him off his medicine. So basically to sum it up, the benefits of a vegan diet for diabetes… OK, number one, very gradually, very gently, your blood sugar starts coming down. Your weight comes down as well. Blood cholesterol comes down as well, very impressively, similarly to what a cholesterol-lowering drug will do. You can do that with a vegan diet. And blood pressure comes down as well. Those are the big things. The little things: Your digestion is better, so a person who has had chronic constipation, that’s usually fixed in about 24 to 48 hours. It’s that quick! If a person has arthritis, not everybody gets better, but many do. If people have migraines, that’s better as well.
Dr. Cousens’ experience is that the top three factors leading to diabetes are foods which convert to sugar, animal fats and toxins, followed by several other factors which cause insulin resistance, such as smoking, caffeine, and white flour.
High sugar is not going to work. Dr. Klein, who was the head of the British Medical Services in World War II, did this research. He studied all the different subcultures around the world, indigenous cultures, whatever, and they came up with what’s known as the 20-year rule. The 20 year rule means, 20 years after you introduce white flour, white sugar you get dire outbreaks of diabetes . That’s it. So sugar plays the biggest role. And fructose is the worst.
Cooked animal and meat and dairy are the second category. And what happens, there’s lots of problems here. Basically, a high-cooked fat blocks the function of insulin. That’s the basic bottom line. People who are diabetic also have some kind of genetic tendency that they have more fats in their cells and it creates a backup in their system. So it creates insulin resistance; that’s what we’re talking about so animal products do this problem. Dairy does it. All these things cause inflammation. Now that’s one of the keys, is diabetes is the inflammation of the whole system, and particularly the beta cells in the pancreas. And the live food diet, as you’ll see the results, creates a specific anti-inflammation effect.
Other researchers have tested diets that are sort of semi vegetarian. So we thought alright, let’s do a real study. Let’s bring people in and get all the junk out of their diet. Remove the meat and the dairy products and the eggs, and keep the oils low too, so the people aren’t eating a lot of fried foods. And that was what we wanted to test. We did some preliminary tests that were very favorable, so in 2003, the national institutes of health and/for the federal government supported our work to do a careful test of a vegan diet for type 2 diabetes . And the results were wonderful.
So just by eliminating the meat… by eliminating all animal products, meat and dairy, by reducing all the sugars and keeping oils low, just by doing those 3 things, without doing any other exotic optimizing the diet, these people had lower….
Their blood sugar fell, their cholesterol fell, they lost weight, their blood pressure gets better as well.
Eliminating the toxins from our bodies is also a very important part regaining and maintaining one’s health.
Pesticides, herbicides and your heavy metals all have their effect. Mercury poisons the beta cells of the pancreas and deactivates insulin. Fluorine causes insulin resistance. Cadmium affects the kidneys and causes insulin resistance. Lead causes insulin resistance. So arsenic creates hormonal disruption but also causes insulin resistance. Caffeine increases insulin resistance by 30%. Cigarettes increases insulin resistance by 20-30% whether you’re a lighter smoker or heavier smoker. Low fiber diet because high fiber diets slow down the glucose going into the system; stress retention, wheat. There is a substance in white flour called oxalic acid. How many people have ever heard of it? Oxalic acid is a specific poison to the beta cells in the pancreas; specific. It destroys the beta cells in the pancreas. So we don’t really recommend anything with white flour. Wheat itself tends to increase insulin resistance in the organic system that’s called carpogenic. It tends to create diabetes .
What we learn from the live foods and we learn from what we call juice fasting is that you can turn on and you can turn off the diabetic switch and activate people into a healthy lifestyle, healthy on anti-aging genes.
I actually wrote a book about 10 years ago, called Foods that Fight Pain, where I talk about painful conditions like migraine headaches or arthritis or menstrual cramps, for not everybody, but for many people, when they get away from dairy products their arthritis improves or goes away. Same with migraine headaches.
We have seen, which is surprising to people here, is, we have healed Type-I as well. We had one person that actually was Type-I that got into our program by accident for a movie we were doing with him. He was thin with the blood sugar of 1200; that’s really high.
Wow!
Yeah, should be 85. OK, in four days he is off all insulin, two weeks his blood sugars were within 73 to about 85, varied. He is healed!
73! Raw for 30 days. February 14th, without insulin! And you tell me what program works!
What program works? This works! This works! We do specific training on the optimum diet. What’s the optimum diet? Is your, again, your organic, vegan , 80% live-food. We, at least, particularly we do a lot of indigenous diet things, like tepary beans and that kind of thing, and some grains because they have actually being shown to be quite good for diabetes , OK? The mainstream medical community considers a person to be free of diabetes when their blood sugar is below 125.
However, Dr. Cousens finds that when the blood sugar is below 85, it helps to stimulate the body’s organs to heal. One goal of his program is to keep the blood sugar at these low levels for a certain number of months after the initial 21 days to give the organs a chance to rejuvenate.
Most people are coming with 300, 400 or things like that, and so, we dropped it very rapidly, but then we want to see it stabilized. We want to see the pancreas healed, we want to see the adrenal healed, the thyroid healed, these are things that we are talking about that are really important for the hypo-seizure thing, organs disordered by a way of life. We want to see people do their exercises, because exercise is very, very important, losing weight is very important. Those are two associated factors with the on-set of Type-2.
Now, one of the gentlemen who came to your program, he was about to have his foot amputated and you mentioned that certain portions of his body were starting to lose sensitivity.
Right.
This is scar tissue from the burn. I forgot all about my foot in the heater.
If he weren’t to reverse it, he would be going towards amputation.
They should have cut your foot off. And good thing they didn’t, because look at it now.
How was he healed?
He, within three weeks, his foot was all healed up, he got his neuropathy which is what we were talking about, went away, his skin condition improved, his mental state improved dramatically. We need to understand a new piece of the information, which is Alzheimer’s is associated with diabetes . And so, he was like in that confused mental state, and that also cleared up. He was in his late 40s, and way overweight, and you know, the classical diabetic, obese and eating sugar and mentally not clear and in suffering, pain, legs about ready to be amputated; that sort of disease is the classical kind of symptoms that begin to happen, complications, and so it’s not fun to live that way.
I’ve been the man with a lantern looking for the truth, and by God, I’ve found it!
And there’s one regret that sometimes people have, they regret that they didn’t do this about 20 years earlier because to be in a body that feels healthy, it’s the best possible thing. Not only to be healthy for yourself, but for your family, to be a good example for them.
