Date:   6/23/2015 3:11:51 PM ( 9 y ago)
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Diabetes is the cause of heart disease, high blood pressure, erectile dysfunction, blindness, foot amputations, and the tragedy is that doctors & Big Pharma insist there is no cure. Even worse, they promote the very diet that causes diabetes in the first place. Dr. Sarah Hallberg provides a surprisingly simple cure for her diabetic patients.

STEVE TALLY is a veteran of the weight battle, having lost more than 130 pounds over the past several years, and successfully cured his diabetes with a strict Ketogenic Diet. Here are excerpts from his story, many thanks to Dr. Hallberg:

"After a year of following a ketogenic diet, I achieved two personal records last week.

The first was from a 5K race in which I beat my previous time by 10 seconds. For a real runner it would be an embarrassingly slow time, but it’s a sign of improvement for me and I’m claiming it.

The second PR came as the result of a doctor-ordered blood test. My Hb A1c was 5.7 percent, which I accomplished without the help of any medications.

Neither of these numbers is going to win me any awards, but they are a really big deal, because until recently they would have been considered by some to be nearly medically impossible for a person like me to achieve.

For those not steeped in the language of diabetes, the hemoglobin A1c is a common test that measures the amount of Sugar in the form of glucose in your bloodstream by counting the amount of the hemoglobin that has been “glycated.” It is the test physicians use to determine whether or not you are diabetic, and if so, how well controlled.

A normal A1c is between 4.0 percent and 5.6 percent. You are at risk for diabetes and considered “pre-diabetic” if your A1c is between 5.7 percent and 6.4 percent, and you are considered to have Type 2 diabetes if your A1c is 6.5 percent or above.

It was six years ago when I made the transition from being pre-diabetic to being diabetic, and it was a huge disappointment to me. I had been working to lose weight for the previous five years under the gray pre-diabetes cloud, and I had moved from the medical category of “morbidly obese” to simply “obese” after a 60-pound weight loss. And it still wasn’t enough to stop the progression of the diabetes.

... One thing you discover if you are Type 2 diabetic is that the big pharma companies love you. Right away they give you gifts, in the form of fancy blood glucose meters. (And I mean they give them to you at no charge. After all, you’re about to become a very valued and, they assume, life-long customer.) The companies will send you free books and enroll you in online clubs. They might as well begin giving you airline miles for being diabetic.

Like most people with Type 2 diabetes, I suddenly had a medicine cabinet full of medications to manage. Metformin, Victoza (which required daily injections near my belly button), glimepiride, Invokana, and, although my cholesterol levels were very good, a statin for good measure.

And despite this pharmaceutical onslaught, year over year my A1c numbers continued to creep up until they were in the mid-sevens.

This is how Type 2 diabetes is generally understood to progress. You may be able to slow the progression through diet and medical treatment, but it will continue to worsen, never improve.

Eventually you will need to take insulin, or more insulin if you are already taking it. You may have to deal with related issues, such as amputations or increased risk of heart attacks or strokes, and even if you manage to avoid those catastrophic developments, you will begin to look older even faster than normal because Type 2 diabetes literally ages your body.

But all of that is behind me.
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In two more weeks I will have been on a ketogenic diet for one year. I was already splashing around with a low-carb diet as a way of managing my weight and diabetes, but last May, with the encouragement of Dr. Sarah, I decided to jump in the deep end.

The first two or three weeks I had some of the usual keto-flu symptoms, but nothing too severe. I found that I couldn’t ride my bicycle as fast and keep up with my regular cycling buddies, and that if I exercised for more than 50 minutes or so I would suddenly become spent. But that was only in those first few weeks.

About two months in, I suddenly began feeling lousy again—really lousy. Dr. Sarah suggested that I was over-medicated, and she developed a plan for easing me off of my medications. (Here’s where her experience becomes invaluable, because there really isn’t any information in the medical literature or in the research of the pharmaceutical companies about how to get people off of these drugs—it’s assumed that you would only stop taking them if you are dead.)

As soon as I started cutting back on and then stopping my diabetes medications, I regained my energy.

The pharma companies weren’t happy to see me go. I began getting emails and phone calls from representatives saying that I either had “forgotten” to renew my prescriptions or, as a few more weeks went by, that I was recklessly endangering my health by not following the treatment plan my physician had given me. (They were completely ignorant of the actual treatment plan Dr. Sarah had laid out for me, which was going great.)

Within a few months my A1c level had dropped enough that my Type 2 diabetes was officially “resolved,” as the physicians call it. I wasn’t diabetic anymore.

In the months that followed, as I continued to see declining A1c numbers, I couldn’t help but notice that other treatment plans made no mention of this possibility. My internal medicine physician didn’t believe it was happening, despite the numbers from my test results. My online prescription service (required through my insurance) continued to send me medications I had cancelled and cancelled again and cancelled again. It took two phone calls where I was forced to raise my voice to get them to finally stop mailing me the drugs I had cancelled multiple times.

I also noticed that almost nobody talks about the possibility of reversing Type 2 diabetes. As I continued to receive unsolicited mailings from the American Diabetes Association, I noticed that nowhere in their materials do they mention the possibility that Type 2 diabetes can be reversed. My employer offers classes for employees on “Living with diabetes,” but these make no mention of reversing diabetes. Instead, if you sign up, they cheerfully offer to give you coupons for more drugs!

So after a year of taking the road less traveled, I’m not really much faster at jogging down actual roads. But I’m a measly 0.1 percent away from not even being classified as pre-diabetic—which gives me a new PR goal to shoot for.

Complete detailed testimonial here:
http://fitteru.us/2015/05/putting-the-devil-diabetes-behind-me/

Dr. Sarah Hallberg Lectures at TEDx @ Perdue University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ
‘SMASH THE FAT’ INTERVIEWS DR. SARAH ON REVERSING TYPE 2 DIABETES
http://fitteru.us/2015/06/smash-the-fat-interviews-dr-sarah-on-reversing-type-2-diabetes/
Search Youtube for MUCH more on Sarah Hallberg

Best to all
Grizz
 

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