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Evidence For Diabetes Reversal

9/14/2020

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The 4+2 Diabetes Reversal Strategy programs​ are based on the research of Dr. Roy Taylor and his team in Newcastle over the past 20 years.  Taylor has shown that Type II Diabetes is a disease of energy overload.  Energy, from food, stored as fat, overwhelms our body’s healthy storage capabilities.  Fat is then stored in places it shouldn’t be - within the cells of the liver, pancreas and muscle initially causing insulin resistance and eventually pancreatic beta cell dysfunction, abnormal blood sugars and diabetes.

From cellular studies, to MRI imaging,
all the way to a randomized controlled primary care study, Taylor developed the Twin Cycle Theory to explain the pathogenesis of Type II Diabetes and most importantly demonstrated the reversibility and potential for diabetes remission.  Getting rid of the fat in the liver and pancreas, restores insulin sensitivity and improves beta cell function.  The amount of fat in each organ is relatively small - 400g in the liver and only 5g in the pancreas.  However to achieve these reversals most people need to lose significant weight.  In the DiRECT study, Taylor and his colleagues showed that 86% of people who lost > 15kg of weight were able to achieve reversal of their diabetes.

At Wellness Garage, we have taken these insights and combined them with other evidence to develop the 4+2 Diabetes Reversal Strategy with a goal of helping people reverse their Type II Diabetes.

The 4+2 Diabetes Reversal Strategy consists of four key and two secondary behaviours:
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Our programs for patients have three phases:
  1. Induction - learn the 4+2 Diabetes Reversal Strategy behaviours.  This stage is supported through a combination of our 6 week group medical visit course which is paired with a personalized lifestyle medicine assessment (both of which are covered by MSP with referral).
  2. Intervention  - intensive effort to reverse diabetes through weight reduction. This is delivered with dietician support to customize the approach to the individual’s dietary preference while closely monitoring blood glucose levels.  It generally involves active “de-prescribing” of diabetic medications as blood sugars fall and normalize.  Click here to learn more on the intensive 1:1 support program.
  3. Indefinite - maintenance of the 4+2 Diabetes Reversal Strategy behaviours for life.  Supported through our Facebook Private Community and ongoing educational events at the Wellness Garage.

Research References:
Taylor and team demonstrated that metabolic vicious cycles operating in the liver and pancreas (Twin Cycle) cause insulin resistance and beta cell dysfunction that results in Type II Diabetes AND that these processes can be reversed.  They have systematically tested and confirmed each step of the hypothesis.
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Research References:
  1. DiRECT Study - demonstration of diabetes reversal in primary care.
  2. Counterpoint Study - demonstrated the return of pancreatic insulin response with decrease of pancreatic fat from a 15% weight loss.
  3. Counterbalance Study - beneficial changes of weight loss persist with weight stability.
  4. Translating aetiological insight into sustainable management of type 2 diabetes
Wellness Garage Resources
  • Is Diabetes Reversible - Part I
  • Is Diabetes Reversible - Part II
  • Is Diabetes Reversible - Part III
  • Understanding Insulin Resistance is the First Step to Reversing Diabetes
  • ​How to Reverse Diabetes
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Understanding Insulin Resistance and the cause of Type II Diabetes

4/20/2020

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“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
​                                    Ernest Hemingway, “The Sun Also Rises"


Like Hemingway’s description of bankruptcy, Type II Diabetes develops gradually and then suddenly.

Diabetes is a disease of sustained energy overload that develops over many years.  The body’s normal energy buffers gradually become overwhelmed, and stored energy in the form of fat disrupts the normal function of key organs.  This disruption through a process called insulin resistance, creates a vicious cycle where energy once stored cannot be accessed, and the energy overload is perpetuated through hunger and increased appetite.  Eventually, fat stored in the pancreas overwhelms the body’s ability to maintain normal blood sugars and the diagnosis of diabetes is made. On average it takes 10 to 15 years for this process to unfold.
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To understand diabetes we need to understand how our body is designed to manage energy.

Energy comes from food. Specifically the fats, carbohydrates and proteins that make up the food we eat.

Our bodies have two different and related ways to store energy from food: glucose and fat.

Glucose is the preferred fuel for our brains and converts to energy faster in our muscles, but it has two major limitations:
  • High concentrations of glucose are toxic, as it is very sticky and will damage proteins and cells, as a result only small amounts of glucose circulate (1tsp - 4.5g - 18 calories)
  • Glucose storage is inefficient as its storage form glycogen attracts water so that each gram of glycogen carries with it at least 3g of water.  In other words for each day of stored energy (2500 calories) we would have to carry 2.5 kg of glycogen. To be able to withstand a week without food we would need to carry 17.5 kg (38.5 lbs).

Our brain’s consume 1 tsp of glucose per hour and at rest the rest of the body consumes 1 tsp per hour. In other words, our blood glucose is turned over twice per hour.

This glucose is supplied directly from food when we are eating and absorbing meals and from stored glucose (glycogen) when we are fasting.  Our livers can only store about 150g of glycogen - for perspective this represents only 15 hrs of basal glucose production (150g = 30 tsp = 15 tsp @ 2 tsp/hr).

Fortunately our livers can also make glucose from fat, protein and lactate (broken down from muscle glycogen).

So our livers are constantly trying to maintain blood sugar levels by either breaking down glycogen (glycogenolysis)  into glucose or breaking other compounds (gluconeogenesis).

These processes are both controlled by the pancreas through the release of two hormones:
  • Insulin - to stop the production of glucose
  • Glucagon - to initiate the production of glucose

Fat is our slow fuel and we have unlimited capacity for storage.  Each gram of fat has 9 calories vs the 4 calories in a gram of glucose and fat can be stored as triglycerides (3 fatty acids linked to a glycerol backbone) without water. So for each day of stored energy we only need to carry 278g or 0.6 lbs. While fat is a slower fuel, in that it takes more time to liberate its energy, many cells with a steady basal energy requirement prefer fat as fuel - heart, intestines, muscles (at low levels of activity).

When we eat food, the digestive process breaks it down into its basic components.

Fat is broken down into fatty acids which are absorbed, reassembled as fats and distributed to cells that use fat for energy and stored in adipose (fat) tissue.

Proteins are broken down into amino acids, distributed to cells that need them and then converted into fat or glucose by the liver depending on our energy needs.

Carbohydrates are broken down into glucose, absorbed into the bloodstream triggering the release of insulin from the pancreas. 80-90% of glucose will be stored in the muscles as glycogen, 10% stored in the liver as glycogen with anything extra converted by the liver into fat.
So when we eat, we use carbohydrates to top up our glycogen stores and store everything extra as fat.

When we are not eating we break down fat into fatty acids providing fuel to the cells that prefer fat, and glycogen into glucose to maintain blood glucose at a steady state.

This works well when we are in energy balance.  Some days we store a bit more, some days we draw down a bit more.

Both energy systems have buffers against overload.

The glucose system has a small but immediate buffer through the storage of glucose as glycogen in muscle.

The fat system has an immense capacity to buffer excess energy through the storage of fat in subcutaneous adipose tissue.  And of course the fat system can buffer the glucose system.

With prolonged periods of energy overload these buffers begin to break down.

Muscle inactivity results in lower capacity to store glycogen in muscle resulting in more energy being converted into fat.

Our ability to store fat in subcutaneous tissue eventually hits a limit.  

This limit differs greatly amongst different people and is known as the personal fat threshold.  We have two ways to store extra fat - store more fat in existing fat cells or create more fat cells.  By the time we are 2 years old the number of our subcutaneous fat cells is set. So once these cells are full we have to store fat elsewhere.  We retain an ability to create new fat cells in our abdominal space around our intestines and other organs (viscera). This visceral fat is a further attempt to buffer energy overload but it is not without cost, as these fat cells send out inflammatory signals activating our immune system.

Fat also begins to build up in other non-fat cells (ectopic fat).  As fat builds up in these cells, their ability to respond to insulin decreases; they become insulin resistant.

Ectopic fat in muscle results in insulin resistance and muscle takes up less of the glucose from dietary carbohydrates; causing more of this glucose to be converted to fat in the liver.

Ectopic fat in the liver also results in insulin resistance.  The pancreas initially responds to this insulin resistance by pumping out more insulin both in response to meals but also at baseline to control the liver’s production of glucose in order to maintain normal fasting blood sugars.

This increased basal insulin level suppresses the body’s ability to utilize fat for energy as one of insulin’s effects is to inhibit fat oxidation.

At this point, weight gain becomes inevitable further compounding the issue.  Food is eaten, food is stored, but high levels of insulin prevent the utilization of that stored energy and hunger mechanisms are triggered resulting in more food intake.  This extra food energy is in turn stored and the overloaded fat storage system continues to find new, but unhealthy places to store fat: visceral and ectopic fat. This vicious cycle repeats and the problem progresses.
Eventually, ectopic fat finds its way into the pancreas and affects insulin production.  At this point, insulin production plateaus and can no longer control blood glucose levels.  By the time that blood sugars begin to rise - insulin levels are 2-3 times normal levels and 50% of pancreatic beta cells (cells that produce insulin) are dysfunctional.
Once fasting blood sugars reach 7.0 mmol/L we call this Type II Diabetes and an estimated 80% of pancreatic beta cells are no longer secreting insulin.
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The path to Type II Diabetes is the result of sustained energy overload systematically overwhelming our body’s buffers - muscle for glucose and subcutaneous adipose tissue for fat.  Over time, excess energy becomes stored as fat in places that it should not be - visceral fat in the abdomen and ectopic fat in cells throughout the body. This fat worsens insulin resistance, resulting in higher insulin levels, and decreasing our ability to use the stored energy driving hunger that adds more energy to an overloaded body.  Our individual propensity toward insulin resistance and its manifestation as Type II Diabetes is variable and dependent on such factors as age, genetics, obesity, especially visceral obesity, sedentary behavior, stress, poor sleep and of course poor nutrition.

Learn more about our Diabetes Reversal Programs

Previous blog posts:
Diabetes Reversal Part I
​Diabetes Reversal Part II
​Diabetes Reversal Part III
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Is Diabetes Reversible? Part 3

7/4/2018

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In Part I of this series, we reviewed the extent and impact of the diabetes epidemic and noted that the traditional approach to diabetes was clearly not working to prevent or reverse diabetes.
 
In Part II, we dove into the science to show that we have had evidence that Type II Diabetes could be reversed through bariatric surgery.  What was most interesting was the fact the improvements in blood sugar control and diabetes emerged well before the weight loss resulting from the surgery.  The trigger theory of the twin cycle postulates a mechanism behind this dramatic and immediate improvement and suggests a path where therapeutic diet interventions could accomplish the same effects as bariatric surgery.
 
From this theory, the key to diabetes reversal lies in improving liver function and decreasing the liver’s role in diabetes by changing the fat flows from the liver - the key steps:
  • improve insulin sensitivity in muscle 
  • stop the consumption of fructose
  • stop the consumption of alcohol
  • reduce the level of caloric intake to reverse the flow of fat from the liver 
The next question is does the composition of the hypocaloric diet matter to the reversal of diabetes?
 
Here the evidence is mixed between evidence from diets of varying:
 
The DIRECT study (http://www.directclinicaltrial.org.uk)  in the UK - took 298 Type II diabetics people through a randomized controlled study:
  • half received a structured weight management program consisting of a hypocaloric - 830 kcal, (61% Carb 13% Fat, 26% protein) - total diet replacement followed by food reintroduction (50% Carb, 35% Fat, 15% Protein)
  • the other half received standard care from their GP
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The results were dramatic:
  • 86% of individuals that lost 15kg or more put their Type II DM into remission (HbA1c < 6.5% and no diabetes medications)
  • In total 45.6% of diabetics in the structured program achieved remission, compared with 4% in the standard care group.

​VIRTA Health has recently (https://www.virtahealth.com) research published the 1 year results of their study of 300 Type II Diabetics
  • 60% reversal
  • 94% reduction of medication
  • 1.3% reduction of HbA1c
  • 30 lbs weight loss
  • decreased risk of heart disease
  • lower blood pressure
  • reduced inflammation markers
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What is interesting is the difference in composition of the VIRTA diet:
  • carbohydrates were restricted to the level required for ketosis to occur - generally in the range of less than 30g per day
  • protein targeted at 1.5 mg/kg (and adjusted as necessary to maintain ketosis)
  • fat to satiation
  • The breakdown of macronutrients in a well-formulated ketogenic diet usually fall in the range of Carbs 10-15%, Protein 10-20% and Fats 65-75%
This ketogenic approach was specifically not calorie restricted.
 
The VIRTA study included longstanding diabetics and those on insulin while the DIRECT study spefically excluded these populations.
 
Both studies clearly show that therapeutic nutritional intervention can reverse diabetes.
 
In both studies, changes in blood sugars came before weight loss and correlated with changes in liver function - suggesting similar mechanisms: reducing the metabolism of carbohydrate into fat by the liver, and reversing the flow of fats from storage to utilization.
 
In my opinion, the biggest practical difference between these approaches is calorie restriction vs carbohydrate restriction and which is easier to sustain over time.
 
This is where a ketogenic approach may have advantages.  It has been proposed that there is a metabolic advantage to ketosis whereby a 'calorie is not a calorie'.  In other words ketogenic diets cause a greater expenditure of energy than non-ketogenic diets.  Scientific evidence for this is limited, and if there really is an advantage, the effect is likely small and would not explain why people lose weight when carbohydrates are restricted to the point of ketosis.  This common observation of sustainable weight loss with ketosis is more likely explained by three attributes of nutritional ketosis:
  1. Improved fat burning: once the body is keto-adapted, fat is burned at twice the rate compared to when carbohydrates are a major component of the diet  (Phinney 1983, Volek 2016)
  2. Decrease in appetite: in nutritional ketosis people report diminished intensity of hunger and cravings
  3. Positive metabolic effects of ketones: beta hydroxy butyrate (BHOB) the pre-dominant ketone,  turns on the body’s innate defenses against oxidative stress and inflammation (Schimazu 2013, Youm 2014), and it also acts to reduce insulin resistance at its source (Newman 2014).
 
Bottom Line:
  • Type II DM is reversible and diabetes remission is sustainable
  • Therapeutic nutritional approaches that reverse the liver's production of triglycerides and stop the ectopic deposition of fat are required to reverse diabetes
  • Reversing the flow of fat from storage to utilization results in weight loss -the degree of weight loss achieved correlates with diabetes remission
  • These effects can be achieved through calorie reduction or carbohydrate restriction and nutritional ketosis
  • Nutritional ketosis has other benefits relating to the metabolic effect of ketones to reduce oxidative stress, inflammation and direct actions on insulin sensitivity.
 
How can these findings be applied to diabetics today?
  • Individualized therapeutic approaches need to be designed by health professionals to take into account overall health status, lifestyle patterns, beliefs and circumstances.
  • Dramatic changes, as studied by DIRECT and VIRTA, require day-to-day adjustments of diabetes medications - directed by a physician or a pharmacist.  A DIY approach can be very dangerous.  (for example in our practice - we find that immediate reductions of insulin and other diabetic medications in the range of 30-50% are required to avoid dangerous hypoglycemic episodes).
  • Digital monitoring of blood glucose and BHOB are required for therapeutic nutritional ketosis programs.
  • This data must be shared on a platform that allows immediate feedback from a physician directed coach.
  • Approaches that do not use real food will be have a challenging secondary phase of food reintroduction (as seen with the DIRECT approach).
 
Learn more about the Wellness Garage 4+2 Diabetes Reversal Strategy Programs

Other Blog Posts in this Series:
Is Diabetes Reversible - Part I
Is Diabetes Reversible - Part II

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Is Diabetes Reversible? Part 2

6/27/2018

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In part I, we discussed the impact of Type II Diabetes on our health and the extent of the epidemic of diabetes in Canada and the world:
  • 9% of Canadians are diabetic, up from 3.3% in 1998
  • almost 30% of Canadians live with diabetes or pre-diabetes
  • in the UK – the NHS spends 10% of the health budget on diabetes
  • 1/10 Canadian deaths are attributable to diabetes
  • conventional treatment does not prevent or reverse diabetes, as it focuses on glycemic control to attempt to prevent complications from diabetes

The traditional approach can be summarized as:
  • eat less
  • avoid fat
  • exercise more
  • prescribe early
  • intensify medications to maintain glycemic control
  • prescribe other medications to control for other risk factors
    • hypertension
    • high cholesterol
Following this conventional approach, the probability of a diabetic achieving remission (normal blood sugars without medication) is very low.  In a large cohort study of 122,781 patients in the Kaiser Permanente health system, the 7-year cumulative incidence of achieving any remission was 1.6% overall and 4.6% in a sub-group of newly diagnosed (< 2 years) diabetics.(1) 

Yet we have clear evidence that diabetes can be reversed.

The first hint of this reversal comes from the outcomes of bariatric surgery.  In 1992, Pories et al. showed that blood glucose levels normalized in obese people with Type 2 diabetes who had undergone bariatric surgery and that almost 10 years later 90% remained free of diabetes. 

The effect of bariatric surgery to reverse diabetes has been replicated in numerous studies with rates of remission ranging from 30 to 70% depending on the procedure and trial.

Overall the long term remission correlates with the amount of fat loss achieved and maintained.

But this correlation may be misleading when it comes to causation.

The changes in insulin resistance and blood sugar happen well before there is any significant loss of fat.  Initially there was belief that these early effects were mediated through incretin hormone secretion. 

Closer analysis shows that real change happens through the initial rapid decline in caloric intake at the time of surgery.  This creates a sudden reversal of traffic into fat stores that brings about a profound change in the intracellular concentration of fat metabolites.  This effect happens first in the liver and other ectopic (visceral) fat storage sites.  

These changes represent a sudden and dramatic reversal of the proposed cause of insulin resistance.

With this evidence that Type II DM can be reversed by bariatric surgery and that the effect results from the immediate reversal of the intracellular changes that cause insulin resistance and diabetes in the first place, the next question is can this be done through diet - without the cost,  risk and complications of surgery.  The simple and resounding answer is YES:

Type II DM can be reversed through dietary interventions.

Before we look at the therapeutic nutrition trials that are now providing evidence that diabetes is reversible, I want to step back and look at the mechanism and time course of insulin resistance, as this will help us understand what approach an individual looking to reverse diabetes should follow.

Insulin resistance is a process by which muscle, fat and liver cells no longer respond properly to insulin and thus cannot easily absorb glucose from the bloodstream. As a result, the body needs higher levels of insulin to help glucose enter cells.

The liver is the key player in the development of diabetes, as it is the hepatic production of triglycerides from excess carbohydrates that is at the root of the disease process.

Interestingly, it is the reversal of insulin resistance in the liver that occurs during the immediate hypocaloric response to bariatric surgery.  

The trigger theory for the twin cycle explains the mechanism for both the development and reversal of Type II DM, and provides the foundations of a strategy for a new paradigm for diabetes management.

This theory postulates that:
  • positive caloric balance, muscle and fat insulin resistance, fructose and alcohol, lead to increased liver fat,
  • this changes the intracellular concentrations of some fat metabolites and
  • results in a resistance to insulin's action to suppress glucose production in the liver (gluconeogenesis)
  • resulting in increased plasma glucose and a
  • corresponding increase in the secretion in insulin which leads to
  • increased storage of liver fat, further disrupting the normal function of the liver and increasing insulin resistance​
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These changes in the liver also lead to 
  • increased production and export from the liver of VLDL - the lipoprotein fraction highest in triglycerides
  • the uptake of triglycerides in the pancreas leads to
  • increased pancreatic islet triglycerides which results in
  • decreased insulin response to ingested glucose in turn increasing plasma glucose

The key is to understand at what the point the trigger is activated in the liver, that is the point at which liver fat accumulates along with the corresponding trigger level at which adverse metabolic effects of fat on the pancreas occur.  The goal of any therapeutic effort to reverse diabetes would then be to reduce the liver and pancreas fat below the personal trigger levels.

The key here is the liver: we have known for some time that insulin resistance in Type II DM correlates with liver fat - decrease the liver fat and the diabetes improves.  

How do we decrease liver fat?
  • improve insulin sensitivity in muscle 
  • stop the consumption of fructose
  • stop the consumption of alcohol
  • reduce the level of caloric intake to reverse the flow of fat from the liver 
It is this last point that illustrates why the reversal of diabetes in bariatric surgery comes with the dramatic and immediate induction of a hypocaloric diet.

If bariatric surgery’s immediate effect on diabetes results from this hypocaloric induction – can this be done through diet alone, without surgery.

In Part III, we will explore some of the new and powerful evidence for therapeutic nutrition that demonstrates that Type II Diabetes is in fact reversible through dietary interventions.

Is Diabetes Reversible - Part I
Is Diabetes Reversible - Part 3
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Is Diabetes Reversible ? - Part I

6/15/2018

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diabetes treatment and cure
In medical school we were taught that Type II DM is a chronic progressive disease - once diagnosed, it could potentially be managed, controlled, but never cured.  
 
The primary thrust of diabetic cares has been to try and control blood sugar with a goal of decreasing the risk of macrovascular (heart attack and stroke) and microvascular (kidney failure and blindness).  
 
Conventional wisdom has been that 90% of diabetics require medication treatments that need to intensified over time to effectively prevent complication  and that "delays in intensification of are common and may be due to unrealistic patient expectations." (1)
 
Evidence is accumulating that conventional wisdom has been wrong.

The Massive Toll of Diabetes
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Diabetes rates globally are rising, driven by the obesity epidemic. 
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In Canada, 9% of the population is diabetic - this has grown from 3.3% in 1998 and is expected to grow to 12% in 2025.  


Perhaps even more alarming, an additional 22% of the population are pre-diabetic, 90% of whom do not realize it.  Over 70% of pre-diabetics will go on to develop diabetes.

Diabetes reduces lifespan by 5-15 years and accounts for over 10% of deaths in Canadian adults.
 
People with diabetes are:
  • over three 3 times more likely to be hospitalized with cardiovascular disease
  • 12 times more likely to be hospitalized with end-stage renal disease and
  • over 20 times more likely to be hospitalized for a non-traumatic lower limb amputation compared to the general population.

Diabetics have a 25% greater chance of developing cancer.  Diabetes is moderately associated with cancers of the:
  • liver
  • pancreas
  • ovary
  • colorectum
  • lung
  • bladder and 
  • breast
Fully 40% of premature deaths for diabetics come from non-vascular causes
 
Diabetes and depression create a self-enforcing viscous cycle:  30% of diabetics have clinically relevant depressive symptoms,  people with depression have a 60% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
 
Adding to this massive clinical toll, the cost of diabetic care is staggering - in Canada we currently spend $15B on treatment and management of complications.  With the rates of diabetes climbing the cost trend has been called an economic tsunami, with an expected doubling by 2025. 
 
Looked at from both the clinical and financial perspective, it is clear that diabetes is the biggest healthcare challenge of our generation.
 
Stepping back, we can see that our traditional approach:
  • eat less
  • avoid fat
  • exercise more
  • prescribe early
  • intensify medications to maintain glycemic control
  • prescribe other medications to control for other risk factors
    • hypertension
    • high cholesterol
 
... is not working, for the simple reason:  our current approach does not address the cause of diabetes. 

The chronic and progressive nature of diabetes may have more to do with our management than of the disease itself.
 
In part II and III of this blog series, I will look at the powerful new evidence that Type II Diabetes can be reversed through a comprehensive lifestyle approach.
 
At Wellness Garage, we believe that the answer to optimal health and vital longevity lies in our lifestyle behaviors.  We use comprehensive, evidence-based, precision health assessments to gain deep understanding of an individuals current health and behaviors.  We then use this information to come up with a behavioral plan to address underlying illness and risk, while optimizing health.
 
If this approach makes sense to you, learn more about our 4+2 Diabetes Reversal Strategy programs

Is Diabetes Reversible - Part II
Is Diabetes Reversible - Part IIII

Understanding Insulin Resistance is the First Step to Reversing Diabetes
How to Reverse Diabetes
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