Healthy from diabetes 2 with carnivore

Type 2 diabetes is not a fate you have to accept – it is a metabolic disaster created by the modern diet. It is not a mystery, and it is definitely not a lack of metformin.

There is an abundance of sugar, processed factory foods, and a desperate addiction to carbohydrates which keeps people trapped in a vicious cycle of insulin resistance, weight gain and inflammation.

The solution? Cut out processed foods and all the completely unnecessary carbohydrates. Eat meat, seafood, poultry, eggs and lots of fat. You give your body real food, then it fixes itself!

The body is an organism that intensely wants to live, wants to be healthy, so if we can play as a team, many of our modern health problems will be solved.

But before you read further, it is important to emphasize that if you are taking medication for type 2 diabetes, you should talk to your doctor about how you can taper off these as your body manages your blood sugar and insulin production on its own.

These medications become completely unnecessary very quickly, sometimes after just a few days, sometimes a few weeks.

When everything is stabilized naturally through diet, it is important not to mess around with chemical manipulations from medications. It is not only unnecessary as you get healthier – it can even make you very sick if your blood sugar gets too low. If you have a blood sugar meter, you can easily monitor this yourself.

What happens to your body when you go carnivore?

When you completely eliminate carbohydrates and live on a strict animal-based diet, several things happen at the same time, all of which help give the body the chance to reverse the completely unnecessary type 2 diabetes:

Insulin levels plummet

Type 2 diabetes is basically about insulin resistance – your cells are simply tired of your diet, now they can't take any more of all these carbohydrates you put in your cookie hole, and the pancreas is valiantly pumping out even more insulin in a hopeless attempt to force the sugar into your cells – because out of the blood it HAS to, because the blood is literally toxic to you every time you eat carbohydrates. This is completely uncontroversial, and a fact. The sugar has to go.

This high insulin level is the root of all ills, but strangely enough, it is not measured on a regular annual check-up. Did you know that you can have such an insulin problem for decades before your doctor's typical blood sugar test shows it?

When you then eat a carnivore, or any other low-carb diet, the fuel for this process: sugar and carbohydrates, disappears. Your body doesn't have to fight sky-high insulin, your blood is no longer toxic from all the sugar, and all your cells can finally start functioning normally again.

This is called “homeostasis,” and is the body’s favorite state – a state of balance, in a way a state of “nothing.” Finally, the body can do other things, such as maintenance, renewal, building up, and not least the destruction of diseased cells and parasites and microbes. Ideally, the body breaks down old or diseased cells and builds them up again.

The lack of these processes is called aging, and they can be called disease. Because the body is a wonderful self-repair machine if you just give it the chance, the peace, the time, the calm – and the building blocks.

Dr. Ben Bikman, one of the world's leading researchers on insulin resistance, has been explaining for years that type 2 diabetes is a disease driven by chronically elevated insulin, not just high blood sugar. He points out that even people with "normal" blood sugar often have catastrophically high insulin. It still takes years to "finally" get a diagnosis of diabetes from a doctor, but you're really on your way to doing a lot of damage to yourself and your body even before the traditional alarm goes off at the doctor's office.

Bikman's research shows that the most effective tool for reducing insulin is a low-carb diet, rich in animal fat and protein. And as he says, while he may enjoy having ice cream with his kids, he's aware of what's harmful: Carbohydrates.

Blood sugar stabilizes

Without carbohydrates in the diet, the body stops fluctuating between sky-high blood sugar and insulin crashes. Instead, energy levels become stable, without mood swings, hunger pangs, or panic hunger.

It is important to understand that our blood is directly dangerous to us when there is too much sugar in it. Actually, there should only be a tiny teaspoon in our entire blood, while a single small slice of bread contains two teaspoons of sugar (even though they taste salty!), and starts to convert into sugar already in contact with our saliva. And this is before we have touched the jam.

Suddenly we have three teaspoons of sugar in our blood, just from a small slice. What about a glass of orange juice? Which has as much sugar as Coca Cola?

If you eat 2 eggs and a few good slices of bacon instead, your blood sugar won't move at all. And that's where the magic happens with a carnivore diet. To the extent that we need tiny amounts of glucose, and steady blood sugar, your liver continuously makes the perfect amount. Never the big peaks, never the painful dips – where you get "hangry", or in Norwegian, "sintsulten".

The amount of carbohydrates we need supplied through the cookie hole is undeniably 0 grams.

Insulin resistance is reversed

Dr. Ken Berry, one of the most uncompromising voices for a low-carb, carnivore diet, has stated that he has seen thousands of patients completely reverse type 2 diabetes by doing one thing: cut out carbohydrates altogether.

Ikke bare reduce them, not "moderate» intake – but cut them out completely.

A stable, low insulin level means that the cells have time to adjust. Fat stores open up, metabolism increases, and the body begins to use fat as its primary fuel instead of being a sugar-dependent burning machine on the verge of collapse.

Now insulin production in the pancreas decreases, and the same gland produces "glucagon" instead.

Glucagon does the opposite of insulin, it tells the body that now we are going to break down. And only then is the body ready for fat burning, and catabolism – “self-eating.”

Professor Emeritus Tim Noakes, previously a staunch supporter of high-carb diets, made a complete turnaround after developing type 2 diabetes himself. He explains that high insulin is the primary driver of obesity and metabolic disease, and that carbohydrates are the big villain.

He went from promoting high-carb to becoming one of the most fearless advocates of a low-carb, animal-based diet. Powerful forces from the food and pharmaceutical industries tried everything they could to have him convicted of medical malpractice, and thus disbarred, for telling people to stop eating this toxic factory food, but he luckily won the lawsuit against him.

Dr. Ben Bikman explains that insulin resistance is not just about sugar, but about cells becoming resistant to protecting themselves from the food you eat. How sad! He has documented how a meat-based diet radically reduces insulin resistance and completely restores metabolic health.

Inflammation disappears

Type 2 diabetes is closely linked to chronic inflammation, and inflammation is the body's way of sounding the alarm when something is seriously wrong. The worst inflammation drivers? Vegetable oils, processed foods, sugar and starch. So first and foremost, absolutely everything from factory foods, but fruit is also pure sugar bombs, and not as benign as we think. For example, did you know that fructose, i.e. fruit sugar, is processed in the liver in much the same way as alcohol? That you can get "fatty liver", which was previously reserved for alcoholics, from fruit?

The carnivore diet completely removes all of this from the diet, and the inflammatory markers drop like a rock.

Weight loss as a side effect, not the original goal

Being overweight is not the cause of type 2 diabetes – it’s a symptom of insulin resistance. When insulin no longer stands like a locked door between you and fat burning, your body finally lets go and starts to get rid of excess fat. Not because you’re starving yourself, but because your body is working properly again.

Dr. Gary Fettke, an Australian orthopedic surgeon who also had his career nearly ruined because he advised patients to eat fewer carbohydrates, has been one of the biggest voices arguing that diabetes is not a chronic, progressive disease, but a condition caused by modern foodHe has said outright that the authorities and nutrition institutions that recommend carbohydrates for diabetics are guilty of pure health crime. He was simply tired of sawing people's legs off, and gave them the simple solution to get out: Cut carbs.

Dr. Shawn Baker, an orthopedic surgeon, weightlifter, and world champion rower, has seen countless people reverse diabetes by going full carnivore. He emphasizes that a diet based on meat and fat is the most natural for the human animal, and that most health problems—including diabetes—are the result of us deviating from our natural diet. He was also simply tired of sawing off people's legs.

dr. Georgia Ede, a psychiatrist who specializes in how nutrition affects the brain, has also documented how insulin sensitivity improves radically on an animal-based diet. She shows that the brain is extremely sensitive to blood sugar disturbances, and that diabetes and mental health are closely linked. She is concerned that the brain needs nutrition, and that this comes from the animal kingdom, that it needs peace from sugar, and it needs real fats and healthy energy.

The Truth: No Reason to Have Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is a self-inflicted metabolic failure, created by poor food and hopeless dietary advice. That also means it can be reversed – not with medication, but with diet. Going carnivore is about giving your body the fuel it was designed to function on. And when you remove the poison that created the problem, you give your body a chance to heal itself.

Dr. Anthony Chaffee, a neurosurgeon and former professional athlete, has dedicated much of his career to uncovering how plant-based foods and carbohydrates wreak havoc on the human metabolism. He has also been crystal clear:

Type 2 diabetes is an artificial disease created by an unnatural diet. He points out that when you cut out carbohydrates completely and live on a pure animal diet, insulin sensitivity improves drastically, blood sugar stabilizes, and type 2 diabetes disappears – something he has seen countless examples of in his own practice. For him, the solution is simple: Eat what the human animal is meant to eat – meat and fat – and see what happens.

The human animal was not designed to be an insulin-pumping sugar slave. Cut out the sugar, cut out all bread and baked goods, cut out the carbohydrates – and take back control of your own health.

Dr. Ben Bikman:

Ben Bikman, PhD | Reversing Insulin Resistance | The Metabolic Link Ep.9

Dr. Ken Berry:

Dr Ken Berry's Secret to Beating Type 2 Diabetes

Professor Tim Noakes:

The pharmacist who gave up drugs & Professor Tim Noakes on how to reverse the Diabetes pandemic

Dr. Gary Fettke:

Dr. Gary Fettke: We Got Diabetes Wrong

Dr. Shawn Baker:

Are They HIDING the NEW CURE for Diabetes?

The Evolutionary Logic Behind the Carnivore Diet | Shawn Baker on Health Theory

dr. Georgia Ede:

The Role of Insulin in Brain Function With Dr. Georgia Ede (Central Insulin Resistance Explained!)

Dr. Anthony Chaffee:

REVERSING Diabetes With The Carnivore Diet!

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