Medical Monitoring Helped - TO CONFIRM THE CURE for Annette's Diabetes

I believe there are many ways that nutritarian eating affects health. These things are completely effective, non-controversial, well researched, and proven to consistently work – for everybody. These things are so hugely beneficial that there ought to be a groundswell of public acclaim and demand for this information.

But although nutritarian solutions to disease are proven with solid research, they remain unappreciated. They aren’t taught as the core of medical education; instead, medical students are lucky to get one course in nutrition. These solutions will remain as unproven, experimental and even unfounded (hint – read that as unfunded, and you’ll begin to understand the problem here) to the medical community at large.

And to most people in general.

Still, where positive outcomes are consistent, there is real power and truth at work. You just have to understand how to interpret truth. There is a substantial body of well researched, peer reviewed evidence, to help anyone understand where the real truth lies.

I want to make that very clear. Nutritarian eating can be healing all on its own. It ought to be the first thing people do, not the last. But for serious chronic conditions, and to be on the safe side, and even on the effective side, there are other measures.

For example, my wife’s diabetes. We changed how we ate, but continued to have her medically supervised, including a program of blood sugar monitoring. That way we knew there was healing taking place. We also had complete confidence that what we were doing was not just effective, but safe.

Plus we had medical confirmation for our claims. We knew when all symptoms were reversed. We had full support for the fact that there was never any need for medication. We even knew that after a long period of no symptoms, we could consider her healed.

Along the way we gained some valuable support that made the long-term outcome much easier and more certain.

The support came from a book, recommended by our naturopathic MD friend, Jerry Taylor. He described it as focused, specific advice on recovery from diabetes, and said it would be information that would add to what we’d already accomplished.

Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes* provided the strong backup we needed. It told of amazing recoveries from diabetes, time after time, in the great majority of Type II diabetics. Because it’s written by an MD, backed up by research, with the medical justification for the approach well detailed (his chapter he says only your doctor will understand is right on the money), it was exactly what we needed to keep moving forward in the face of all-but-total ignorance from almost everyone we knew.

Dr. Barnard recommends a diet that has three important components:

1. No animal source calories. Fats, protein, milk, cheese, fish, everything animal based is goners.
2. Low glycemic foods. High glycemic foods contain sugars, or carbohydrates that the body quickly converts to sugars.
3. Low fat, with no added oils, fried food, etc.

If you can’t find the nutritarian essence here, you don’t yet understand. And if you can’t also see how the nutritarian approach expands, explains and makes this anti-diabetes diet even better than the original, then you don’t understand it the same way I do.

Maybe I’m wrong.

But, I really don’t think so.

Healed from a supposedly impossible-to-heal disease. Medically validated. Nutritionally supported. Long term solution. Medication free. Well understood principles. A fabulous support network, strong enough to overcome all reservations, lack of knowledge, support or sympathy from any doctor or other source, including friends, family and culture.

That’s amazing healing power.

Miraculous? Not really.

But the circumstances that made it possible are rare.

It’s actually much, much better than miraculous. It’s repeatable. It’s something anyone can do, at any time of life, that will help powerfully prevent and treat so many disease conditions. It has the potential for massively improving life span, quality of life, productivity, financial stability and so much more.

Imagine that. Worldwide positive outcomes from disease-free people voluntarily making good nutritional choices based on solid, true information.

Now that would be a miracle.

*As much as I appreciate Dr. Barnard's book, if I were looking for an even more effective  and relevant book I'd check out Dr. Fuhrman's 2012 book, The End of Diabetes. Nothing against Dr. Barnard, I think he's also a visionary in the best sense, but I find Dr. Fuhrman's approach more complete and effective, with Dr. Barnard's book as great validation, not the other way around.

The Nutritarian Basis For Ideal Health

One of the truly serendipitous events of my life occurred several months after we had corrected my wife’s high blood sugar.

We had effectively cured her diabetes through aggressive dietary measures. It was through nutritarian style eating, though we didn’t know enough to call it that.

We met the Jerry Taylor family at church, and invited them over for dinner.

Now, let me explain. We had accomplished something we’d been told by the “best” experts was impossible. We had reason to believe the cure would be long term, as long as we kept up the changes we’d made, and similar benefits would come to anyone who tried this. Every meal was an adventure. We were delighted to confirm new eating habits, leave behind old ones, try new combinations and recipes, and occasionally to share the wonderful things we learned.

We have done this before and since, invited people over and shared this, including some in dire need of this information. Usually our efforts to explain are met with polite disregard, not much real interest.

Dr. Jerry Taylor, Montana

This time though, our story was met with unabashed, raging enthusiasm. You see, they had experienced the same type healing experience of an "incurable" condition through nutrition in their family.

Not only that, but Dr. Taylor had just graduated with a naturopathic MD degree, and came to Montana to heal diabetes in one of the many native American communities critically needing such a thing.

(Note: I’m using the word “heal” and “cure” guardedly, as it’s a controversial thing. “Heal” and “cure” when used with “diabetes” is a politically incorrect, as it is with the word “autism” which was the Taylor family’s experience. The standard medical community does not believe in and does not support that “cures” can regularly ((or even ever)) happen with such difficult chronic illness. After all, if such things could be healed, doctors would be doing it, right? And by and large they don’t.)

Self perpetuating ignorance, not necessarily willful or knowing, but as it's associated with lies and death, certainly evil of a real sort.

The one thing, though, exciting me more than anything was he recommended every single one of his patients read The China Study. This book was a foundation of healing my wife’s diabetes.

And my wife is healed in large part because the evidence outlined in The China Study is so powerful, so compelling, so well researched and validated, we understood and believed it was possible.

Our hope turned into knowledge, certainty and reality regarding Annette's diabetes.

And it's why I thought there were real reasons to hope after a second, inoperable, likely soon to be fatal episode of coronary artery disease, caused by a blockage in my "Widow Maker" artery.

The Power of Truth

In his exquisite book People of the Lie, M. Scott Peck describes the relationship between evil, lies and death. He identifies evil as a direct cause and inseparable from lies and death.

This is powerful reality, but I find it best to focus my attention in the other direction. Truth, goodness and life also run in a pack, reinforcing and causing each other.

I love to reflect on these associations as I contemplate the effects of nutritarian eating. These effects are strong indications the nutritarian diet is based on truth. Truth supports life, and nutritarian eating promotes better health, longer life and more sure recovery.

It appears to me to be more effective than medications in both preventing and healing disease. But it also can be used as an adjunct to all medication, making them more effective. It therefore ought to be a first line defense of every family hoping to raise truly healthy children.

It should be the first thing anyone confronted with any illness should be taught and supported in. It should form the foundation of any and all medical treatment, as it supports and makes more certain all medication and medical technology is intended to accomplish.

The healing power of good nutrition is much more powerful than what is currently taught in medical schools.

The reality is, it’s all but ignored. This is, it appears to me, a direct result of the rat pack from the first paragraph.

Part of the lie is good nutrition is all about making a few changes to your diet. The reality is, our normal American diet, also called the Standard American Diet or SAD diet (for good reasons), is, literally, a killer.

Even a lot of changes, but keeping the same basic diet, does not make much difference.

Real healing and real prevention takes a total paradigm shift.

The nutritarian path is the most complete and well founded eating paradigm shift I’ve ever seen.

Here’s an example we experienced (in more detail).

In late 2007 my wife was diagnosed as firmly diabetic, referred to a local hospital diabetes education program, given a blood sugar monitor and told to prepare for a lifetime program certainly leading to insulin. Maybe, just maybe she wouldn’t die early, if she learned and followed the American Diabetes Association diet and recommendations.

This was bunk, a form of lies. Not deliberate lies, not lies from individual diabetes educators, doctors or the hospital, but major, culturally based, research reinforced, medically supported lies.

Those lies would have led to her death. Maybe not by now, but certainly over time, they would have shortened her life.

We attacked her diabetes, not with the full nutritarian plan, but with a few ideas based on The China Study, and a brief reference in the main Wikipedia article on diabetes. It told about a low-fat, vegan, low glycemic approach to dealing with diabetes, based on research by Dr Neal Barnard (we knew nothing about his books or anything else about him until later).

Three months later, her blood sugar was normal. When we told what she’d done, her doctor said, ”I’ve heard of people doing this but I’ve never actually seen it.”

A year after that, her doctor declared “You haven’t had any symptoms in over a year – I’m taking the diagnosis off your chart.”

We call her cured. Cured from a dread disease kills lots of people.
We were told it was incurable and always leads to insulin use. We were prepped to become steady consumers of diabetic testing supplies, insulin, the whole gamut of normal diabetes progression.

Instead, she was cured by nutritarian principles before we ever knew what they were.

A few years later, Larry H. Miller, a local multimillionaire business owner, died a miserable, hacked off (literally) early death from diabetes. He went through one amputation and hospitalization at a time though it was, perhaps mercifully, a relatively short time. He could afford any kind of treatment, any kind of advice, anything at all that would have made a difference.

He was never a nutritarian.

I didn’t know him personally, but it's unlikely he was ever given a real chance or medical advice to become one.

It can be, it really is, lies/death vs. life/truth.

And the reference in the Wikipedia article on diabetes to Dr. Barnard's research has been removed, by the way.

Annette's Story: Diabetes Cured by Nutritarian Eating (that we hadn't even learned about yet)

So there's a story behind our finding, believing and acting on a cure for my heart disease.

It was the cure for my wife Annette's diabetes, through eating basically like what Dr. Fuhrman teaches, though we didn't know about it at the time.

In December of 2007 she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Three months later her blood sugar was normal.

We were hopeful and excited. This was way different than what we’d been told to expect.

Before the diagnosis we only knew Annette didn’t feel good. When her doctor told her she had diabetes we were stunned. Eat too much of the wrong thing, and KABOOM, she felt sick. Not much fun.

Annette went through the standard treatments, took diabetes classes at the hospital, learned how to take blood samples, kept track of blood sugar measurements and what she ate, all the standard stuff.

We realized Annette had it for some time. Her lack of energy and sickness when she ate or when she went too long without eating were all signs of this that we didn’t recognize.

So fast forward to February 2009. Her doctor said, “I’m taking the diabetes diagnosis off your chart. You haven’t had high blood sugar in almost a year, AND YOU’VE DONE IT WITHOUT MEDICATION.”

People tell us it’s unheard of. We think it’s only because they haven’t heard how simple it is, or known anyone who tried the things Annette did.

We spent most of the last two years finding out more and confirming this is valid. We found the proof, confirmed what worked, and more. Part of that proof comes from Dr. Fuhrman, but there's more.

You won’t find this information at the American Diabetes Association or your local diabetes education class.

We were given a book at Annette’s class with a whole bunch of information that we didn’t use. Most doctors don’t know how to do this either.

When Annette’s symptoms went away, her doctor said “I’ve heard of this happening, but I’ve never seen it myself.” And her doctor is a great one, she’s well respected in our community and been in practice for years.

When someone asked “Does that mean the original diagnosis was wrong?” we assured him that no, it wasn’t wrong. That’s how rare recovery is. You tell people you don’t have diabetes any more and they don’t understand.

The answer is no, the diagnosis wasn’t wrong. Annette just didn’t have diabetes long enough for it to get worse or to have any complications. It wasn’t a huge deal because we stopped it, dead in its tracks.

The regular treatment people go through is the wrong answer. We found out that everybody on the American Diabetes Association diet gets worse.

Annette wanted to get better, and everything we heard from the doctor and hospital was there was no feeling better without meds. As for actual healing?

Forget about it, according to standard medical advice (healing is forbidden and controversial word from that perspective).

It turns out what we did was on track, and it worked. It wasn’t an accident either. We found great information, acted on it quickly, with perfect results.

To tell the truth, we had a head start because we had already read The China Study. Then we got lucky and found more helpful information.

We’re glad we didn’t spend a lot of money on expensive treatments, and especially, have the complications of diabetes. We didn’t even spend much on doctor visits. Annette saw the doctor just three times by the time her symptoms went away. Too fast to even get put on meds.

We don’t blame the doctor. Few doctors know about this. We’re just glad we found a better way.

We also didn’t “feed the machine” that advertises and makes billions of dollars off treating diabetes. We also found information that shows it works this well 90+ percent of the time - when you're willing to eat this way.

That’s a win on many fronts. A low-cost cure, that’s medically monitored, safe, consistently effective and benefits us, not some big pharmaceutical company or even insurance or doctors.

If you ever try this, you should definitely tell your doctor. There’s nothing weird or something to hide. Just don’t expect a lot of understanding or support, because if they knew how well this works, they’d be recommending it (and doing it) themselves, thereby losing all professional credibility.

Well, maybe not all. I know many patients would be grateful.