Reversing Diabetes Naturally. Watch it happen...

There's an interesting movie out called Simply Raw. It chronicles the journey of six diabetics making a 30-day dietary shift to a raw, organic, sugar-free, vegan diet, and along the way, most reversed all medical signs of having diabetes. It's pretty powerful stuff, probably most so for the 246 million diabetics worldwide, many of whom believe that their only option for managing or eliminating their diabetes is pharmaceutical drugs.

It's my understanding that some of the participants also took enzymes to aid the process and did colonics to clean the impacted waste from their colon walls, but when it's all said and done, thirty days isn't bad for a disease that's said to be incurable. And it certainly speaks to how fundamentally what we put into our bodies (and what we choose not to put in them) determines whether we'll have health or sickness.

Many people aren't familiar with raw foods or why they are important. Raw foods are simply foods from the earth that haven't been processed or heated above 118 degrees. They are fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts, and if you're new to this, you may be asking, "Why 118 degrees?" Actually, it's pretty simple. Raw, unfired foods from the earth have enzymes in them and enzymes are destroyed at temperatures above 118 degrees, as are many of the nutrients in foods.

Enzymes are important because they help your body break down the foods you're consuming, but they also play a larger role. Enzymes are the catalysts for every action in the human body - including stuff like blinking and breathing. Quite literally, when we run out of enzymes, we die. It's the case because our bodies can no longer initiate these basic tasks that are required for life. So, raw foods supplement these enzymes in our bodies, while cooked foods drain them from our bodies because cooked foods require the body to borrow from its enzyme reserves to facilitate digestion.

Of course, by following such a diet, an aspect not to be overlooked is the absence of foods that are processed and filled with unnatural chemicals, which encompass many of the foods that most people put into their bodies daily. Unfortunately, it's not yet common knowledge that many processed foods and foods with pesticides and herbicides sprayed on them actually have a detrimental impact on health. But this movie shines the light on some of the truly amazing things that can (and do) happen when you put a little effort into eating a diet as nature intended, while foregoing the processed and man-made foods that many have come to see as the norm.

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Kim Evans is the author of Cleaning Up! which outlines a powerful body cleanse to help remove the years of built up waste that the average person has stored in their body. Learn more about about how having a clean body impacts health at www.cleaningupcleanse.com

Comments

[veganpete]

Way to spread the word Huffpost Raw food eating is the way to life, not just for diabetics but for any one at the age of eating solid food. Keep spreading the message of eating raw food for life, not just healing. Our creator God, God of the Bible gives us this information in His word the Bible. Read Genesis 1:29 for a starting point on what we are to eat to keep us alive. This article is really informative and show the power of eating raw food for life. These kind of articles are what is needed to to show there is hope in a sick and dieing wold when their is no hope. Keep preaching the message of raw food.
By Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
Keep looking to God for direction.

[Idytme]

They have recently found that the best way to reverse type II diabetes is rapid weight loss. So far the best has been gastric bypass operations. I do believe in raw food eating as a good portion of what you eat, but I don't believe a ton of raw fruits are great for a diabetic.
I believe this diet worked because it rapidly removed weight and got rid of processed sugars. After a lot of study I believe the best diet for diabetes is no processed foods at all, lots of veggies, raw or cooked, enough meat protein to meet the body's needs and high quality fat for the other calories. Eat nothing that your body would want insulin for. Bring resting insulin levels down ultimately to the point where your liver is no longer insulin resistant (the first to get resistant and the last to "settle down")
What I do like about this article is that it can be achieved with food, especially in the early stages, but I can't agree with that diet long term. Thirty days shouldn't hurt you though as long as you don't each too much fruit.

[alphabet99]

believe from personal experience that raw fruits and greens and vegetables are what the body needs to work miracles, but skeptical about the enzyme stuff. in any case, the power of raw foods was beautifully stated by victoria boutenko (google her family for another story about type ONE diabetes being reversed with a raw vegan diet) when she asked us to compare an unshelled raw almond with one that has been cooked - plant them in the ground and what happens? the raw almond becomes an oak tree, while the cooked almond moulders and breaks down in the ground.

[rejoiceinit]

This is quite peculiar--I actually ordered the raw for life dvd today before I came across this article. Can't wait to get it!

Way to spread the word Huffpost.

[zyxomma]

Diabetes, heart disease, cancer. All can be reversed. I sent my (diabetic, Syndrome X, morbidly obese) sister an application to be one of the film's subjects. I explained that, although it's usually costly to stay there, she'd only have to pay for her transportation (a round trip ticket to Tucson & ground transportation from Tucson to Patagonia & back). She never even filled out the application. Later, she showed me a photo album a friend put together of their Mexican cruise. The most loving photo was the one of their waiters from the ship. I realized her primary emotional relationship was her attachment to the (unhealthy) food she loves. For me, a holistic health educator, organic vegan, and live foodist, this was revelatory. Now, I just love and accept her the way she is. It's hard, enjoying vibrant health, to understand that people are content to be sick and tired, but it's true. Instead, I thoroughly enjoyed my stay at Tree of Life (not concerning diabetes), without thinking about her disinterest. I'll buy 10 copies of the DVD, keep one for myself, send one to my sister, one to the Rosebud reservation, where I have good friends and (as is true on all the native reservations) where there are many, many diabetics, and one each for other diabetics, and, finally, donate the 10th one to my local library. I wish every single one of you health and peace.

[Paul Warren]

Lets be clear: Eating raw is good for anyone. Eating junk food is bad for everyone. This study (obviously) only applies to type 2 diabetics (although everyone can benefit).

http://diabeticx.com/

[graci3la]

Eating raw is good. Eating only raw for 30 days seems to have had positive effects on the group studied. But eating only raw forever can cause nervous disorders. Some people need warm, cooked food. You can slow-cook food at a low temperature (100 degrees, say) and still preserve the enzymes.

[consciousmama]

This is the most amazing movie. As someone who is not diabetic, but sees it all around her, everytime I have seen this movie it moved me to tears. So simple and SO powerful. Everyone needs to see this movie!

[Bill Moffatt]

Wow, that is truly amazing. Every diabetic out there needs to know about this finding.

RT
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[nshepardson]

I'm a huge fan of KISS - so let's keep it simple - eat fresh, vibrant, living foods for 30 days and see how you feel. What's the harm in that? I've never heard of anyone dying from an over dose of fruits and veggies, have you?

Yes I am a raw vegan, and loving every minute of it. I have lots of friends who eat the SAD and yes, we are still friends. We go out to dinner and they have their fish and pasta and I have my big salad with avocados and tomatoes and we laugh and have fun and share stories . . .

I shared my DVD "Simply Raw" with a few of my friends because I believe it carries a life altering message. My husband watched it with me and he is now a vegan - from a meat loving carnivore to a vegan - practically over night. He did have an incentive. He suffered a heart attack two years ago, May 11th. It was the type of heart attack the medical community labels a "widow maker." He's feeling 100% better and claims it's all the green smoothies I'm feeding him, not the drugs.

As for me . . . Most of my friends think I'm a "whack job" and eat funny. Nonetheless, I am a healthy, vibrant post menopausal woman whose only real complaint in life is having to suffer through the cold, snowy winters of Chicago - and that I have the

[AcidAlkalineBalance]

From: http://www­.101-natur­al-health-­remedies.c­om/raw-foo­d-weight-l­oss/
I purchased the Simply Raw DVD and have been a raw food activist for 2 years now and have been able to lose fat that I tried to shift for years. It wasn't until I understood about raw living foods and the effects it has on our bodies that I was able to make a huge different to my health - not just the weight. I've seen the difference it has made in my daughter Jade who had been ill for years with asthma, eczema and allergies. Eating raw living and alkalizing foods is the only way to reverse disease in our body. Toxic foods are slowly killing us and I really hope that more people - especially those that have diseases such as diabetes - will get access to this powerful and truly beneficial information.

[wietog]

from: http://www.living-foods.com/faq.html

Doesn't the acidic ph of the stomach destoy enzymes?
Viktorus Kulvinskas, one of the world's foremost and most experienced active researchers into enzyme nutrition has information showing then stomach acid merely deactivates food enzymes. The enzymes are then reactivated in the more alkaline small intestine. Many people who eat all raw foods, sense a world of healthful difference in our energy, digestion and connectedness with nature by eating enzyme-rich living foods. When we stopped eating cooked protein foods which require large secretions of stomach acid (which is not healthful for several reasons) our stomach doesn't produce much stomach acid. Many people who eat raw foods eat a low protein diet and are free from the stomach acid secretions and have much more energy and a lighter disposition.

[Brendan Diederichs]

Enzymes are not only deactivated, they are broken down by proteases. The cells that line our intestine and control the movement of nutrients into the body do not have transporters for enzymes, but rather amino acids.

Enzymes you eat are degraded and digested just like any other protein you eat. If they weren't, you would be performing all kinds of enzymatic reactions according to whatever species you ate, not your own!

[Brendan Diederichs]

Also, the stomach is maintained at pH 1-2 regardless of what you eat (although the VOLUME of acid produced varies).

[Vickster]

The sensing of "a world of healthful difference in our energy" may be caused by a zinc deficiency.

[PalMD]

Oh yeah, also, even when you control the blood sugars in diabetes, this only reduces risk for microvascular complications such as blindness and kidney disease. Macrovascular risk is still there (heart attack and such) and must be controlled through good blood pressure and cholesterol control.

[Raw Living]

Eating raw foods is also good for blood pressure and cholesterol. Watch the film, you'll see that blood pressure and cholesterol went down for all 6 participants during the film as well.

The problem with how you're looking at thing is that you're looking at it from a pharmacology perspective that works with the "one pill for one problem" outlook.

Raw foods work to heal the entire body not just a part of it. True healing occurs when the entire body heals, not when you give a pill to plug up one whole, which then causes another whole to leak.

[Brendan Diederichs]

I would say he's looking at it from the "non-maleficence, beneficence" outlook, in other words, using science and verifiable knowledge to help people live longer, healthier lives. Why reject medicine on this topic? Medicine does not debate the benefits of eating well and a healthy lifestyle. I repeat, diet and lifestyle modification are the standard of care in medicine today. Medications are offered to patients whose diabetes has failed to be controlled by diet/lifestyle mods.

[Brendan Diederichs]

To illustrate:
"There are few adverse consequences of such lifestyle interventions other than the difficulty in incorporating them into usual lifestyle and sustaining them and the usually minor musculoskeletal injuries and potential problems associated with neuropathy, such as foot trauma and ulcers, that may occur with increased activity. Theoretically, effective weight loss, with its pleiotropic benefits, safety profile, and low cost, should be the most cost-effective means of controlling diabetes, if it could be achieved and maintained long term.

. . . a lifestyle intervention program to promote weight loss and increase activity levels should, with rare exceptions, be included as part of diabetes management. The beneficial effects of such programs are usually seen rapidly, within weeks to months, and often before there has been substantial weight loss."
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/8/1963

For detailed, unambiguous information on healthy eating in diabetes (researched and revised yearly as our knowledge improves) see the nutritional therapy section of the CDA's clinical practice guidelines found here: http://www.diabetes.ca/for-professionals/resources/2008-cpg/

For easy-to-read, free diabetes diet information from a reliable source (not trying to sell anything) and summarized from real science: http://www.diabetes.ca/about-diabetes/nutrition/

ps - I suggest that when talking about an illness with known disease parameters and proposing a particular treatment, it is useful to speak in those well characterized parameters. One can't measure "true healing" or plugging "wholes" (holes?) to verify that a treatment is effective.

[PalMD]

You do realize, Dr Evans, that calorie restriction, rather than the content of the diet, is the most likely culprit here. You also realize, I'm sure, that the disease was not "reversed" but controlled, and that when they return to a normal diet, they will still have diabetes.

I assume you also know that even with their blood sugars controlled they still have diabetes...they must control their blood cholesterol and blood pressure to prevent the macrovascular complications of DM such as heart attacks. Controlling blood sugars reduces MICROvascular complications such as blindness and kidney disease.

I assume you also know that if we are talking about type I DM vs type II, then this information is rather dangerous.

[Raw Living]

Of course if one returns to a regular diet they will get diabetes again. That's because it's the regular diet that caused it in the first place (for Type II diabetics).

That's kind of like criticizing somebody for losing weight because they ate raw foods and exercised by saying "You know if you stop exercising and eat cheeseburgers and fries all day again you're going to get fat again." That is plainly obvious, as is the fact that diabetes will return if the food is not controlled.

Eating better is a lifestyle choice. It is a choice to feel healthy, vibrant and alive.

With the Type I's it is of course more difficult but as you will see in the film insulin reduction can go way down on a raw diet and sometimes be eliminated altogether.

[Brendan Diederichs]

The individuals in the video are likely type II diabetics requiring insulin.

I agree, with this treatment regimen the course would be more difficult for type I diabetics, primarily because removing insulin treatment from a type I diabetic invariably causes diabetic ketoacidosis and (without medical intervention) death.

You cannot eliminate the need for insulin in type I diabetics because they have lost the pancreatic cells responsible for producing it endogenously. Without some form of insulin, cells cannot effectively take up glucose from their environment.

[karemi]

As a physician, I believe you owe it to your patients to be the most informed people on the earth. I think that the medical industry really needs to rethink the research they've fed us over the years, and admit they are incorrect. We all realize the impact the medical profession has on world industry. Enough said there.

As a 22 year Type 1 diabetic, i have been on this raw food plan for the past two months. I have indeed lost weight, have much better controlled sugars (a1C from 13.8 to 7), feel fantastic, reduced the retinopathy that was started (yes, it's documented), and been able to reduce the amount of insulins taken by 2/3's of my original dose. I believe that with time, I can reduce them further or be off insulin totally. The body does regenerate, and we need to look at how this helps eliminate diabetes, rather than propagate the idea that it is incurable.

[Brendan Diederichs]

I have no doubt that your insulin requirement has decreased because you presumably consume less calories.

I reiterate, the duty to patients is the reason anecdotal evidence cannot be the basis for treatment decisions. Medicine itself is not immune to this mistake, there have been many treatments over the years that have been thought to be effective, and when administered to larger groups, were found to have no benefit or even cause harm. Doctors and scientists do not know everything, but it is critical, in order to best care for fellow human beings, that we act only on the best available knowledge according reliable data.

[sprytely1]

I've had type 1 for 25 years, and agree a healthy diet is in our best interest and can decrease the need for insulin, though not always. I eat a very low fat, low calorie diet (I'm 4 ft 10 and 100lbs soaking wet), yet my insulin intake is fairly high for my size. Even without eating, insulin is necessary for the body to continue to function, as starvation is likely to cause ketones, but for type ones, we can't naturally control ketones.

Here's what will happen if you proceed with total elimination of insulin completely:
Blood sugar increases rapidly;
Nutrients aren't getting into the cells, the body starts eating away at muscle mass, heart included, Ketones appear in the urine;
Ketones appear in the bloodstream;
The heart beats hard and fast, and is painful;
Uncontrollable projectile vomiting occurs;
Less important organs shut down, the heart and kidneys increase there work, in order to *attempt* to flush out the ketones and sugar;
The kidneys likely begin to fail;
Coma and or death occurs.

This happened to me with what I thought was "just a bug" when I was 19. I forgot to take my insulin for a couple of days and was taken to the ER. I woke up on life support.

Those that have "reversed" type one were not type ones, if you question the type you have, ask for a c-peptide test. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=3822870&page=2

[aladdin11]

Raw food (real food) is the way forward and this awesome film help leads the way. Eat raw everyone, food as nature made it is simply the best. Peace.

[Brendan Diederichs]

How do the enzymes in a raw food diet aid in catalytic function throughout the body? The human digestive tract denatures and inactivates ingested enzymes just like cooking with heat does. They are absorbed as amino acids which do not have catalytic activity.

Is it known how the enzymes in the raw food diet make it across the intestinal barrier?

[PalMD]

It's magic!

[zyxomma]

Pal MD, I'd place a bet that your best pal is your prescription pad. Before doctors get out of med school, they're taught that no patient should ever take more than 3 prescriptions at once. Because the liver can't detoxify the poison from more than 3, when 4 or more are taken, at least one of them won't do its job. Since almost all continuing education doctors receive is sponsored and taught by the pharmaceutical industry, I understand your skepticism. I suggest you read There Is a Cure for Diabetes and look at all the research that's gone into it before you pass judgment. Health and peace, Pal.