How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
What you’ll learn in this module:
- The disease process of type 2 diabetes
- What has gone wrong in your body and how we know it is reversible
- How much of your diabetes is related to your genes
- Why medications are not a true solution.
- Is Type 2 Diabetes Actually Reversible?
- Understanding the Disease Process
- The Cause and Genetics
- Why Medications Are Not The Solution
- The Real Solution
- Discussion of research that shows us that type 2 diabetes is reversible
- How dietary strategies actually reverse insulin resistance
- Why your doctor doesn’t offer this
- What do we call it? Remission, reversal, cure, control?
- What is insulin?
- What is insulin resistance?
- Insulin resistance begins in the liver first
- Why the pancreas fails
- Type 1 diabetes vs Type 2 diabetes
- Why did you develop type 2 diabetes?
- The relationship between genes and diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes is a mismatch disease
- Your environment is what turns your genes on and off
- What you can control
- How medications work
- Why the A1c is not the most important determinant of control
- Why doctors are obsessed with the A1c
- What controls insulin
- Summary of this module’s main points
- Setting the stage for the next module (How To Make Food Your Medicine)
- Is Type 2 Diabetes Actually Reversible?
- Understanding the Disease Process
- The Cause and Genetics
- Why Medications Are Not The Solution
- The Real Solution
- Discussion of research that shows us that type 2 diabetes is reversible
- How dietary strategies actually reverse insulin resistance
- Why your doctor doesn’t offer this
- What do we call it? Remission, reversal, cure, control?
- What is insulin?
- What is insulin resistance?
- Insulin resistance begins in the liver first
- Why the pancreas fails
- Type 1 diabetes vs Type 2 diabetes
- Why did you develop type 2 diabetes?
- The relationship between genes and diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes is a mismatch disease
- Your environment is what turns your genes on and off
- What you can control
- How medications work
- Why the A1c is not the most important determinant of control
- Why doctors are obsessed with the A1c
- What controls insulin
- Summary of this module’s main points
- Setting the stage for the next module (How To Make Food Your Medicine)
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