Diabetes is a metabolic disease that affects how the body uses blood sugar (glucose). 

It is a global problem, it is increasing in our environment because of the adoption
of Western culture especially certain kinds of food. Globally, about 361 million people are diabetic, with about four million diagnosed in the UK and over 24 million in the US, Africa has about 15 million diagnosed cases and Nigeria accounts for five million of these. This figure is aside from those who are not yet diagnosed, those who are not aware, and those who are pre-diabetic. We need urgent action!

Recent evidence shows that type 2 diabetes is entirely reversible. Type 2 diabetes has been said to be a progressive disease, meaning it will get worse no matter what you do. However, this is far from true because type 2 diabetes is not a progressive but highly reversible disease. It only progresses if you are going about the treatment and management wrongly.

Generally, there are so many foods that are unhealthy choices for day-to-day consumption. These found their way into our diet and constitute the majority of what we eat every day. They often have negative effects on the body and land you into diabetes, reduce the quality of your health, and pave the way to many other diseases.

The three foundational problems that a diabetic patient is dealing with are insulin resistance, excess sugar in the blood, and insulin overproduction (excess insulin in the blood). If you are going to reverse type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, these three problems must be tackled, and once this is done you can reverse the condition no matter how long you have had it. We have been failing to achieve this because the current management approaches for type two diabetes only focus on excess sugar in the blood, leaving out the main problems – insulin resistance and excess insulin. If we follow the right approach that not only deals with excess sugar in the blood but also insulin resistance and excess insulin, we will successfully reverse type 2 diabetes, and the patient will no longer require medication.

In layman's terms, diabetes is a condition in which there is excess sugar in the blood. Your body needs sugar for the day to day activities and we get this sugar basically by eating or from the food we have eaten before which has been stored as fat in our body.

When you eat, insulin is released from the pancreas to take up sugar from the blood into the cell that needs it. Unfortunately, in diabetes, the cells of the body have become less sensitive to insulin so insulin is released but could not perform its duty as a result the body releases more insulin and the cycle continues.

 The first problem is that the cells of your body becomes resistant to insulin and this starts with the cells of the body being less sensitive. By this, it means that you eat foods that supply the body with sugar as expected and insulin is being released to get this sugar into the cells of the body which are already drowning in the sugar and does not allow any sugar to come in. At this point, we say they are resistant to insulin because they are resistant to its action.

As insulin’s service is no longer required, the cells are full hence the sugar piles up in the blood which is ultimately dangerous. This is the second problem. As long as there is excess sugar in the blood, the pancreas keeps receiving signals to release insulin to force the excess blood sugar into the cells of the body and this leads to excess blood insulin which has its deleterious effect. So, not only do you have excess sugar in the blood you now also have excess insulin which is a bigger problem than the excess sugar. 

Hence to successfully reverse diabetes we must deal with insulin resistance, insulin overproduction, and high blood sugar. Diabetes has been viewed as a life sentence up till now because we only focus on dealing with high blood sugar which is nothing but a mere symptom. If we deal with the cause of high blood sugar successfully, we will end diabetes once and for all and this is very achievable.

Doctors will never tell you the truth about the cause of diabetes because the medical world has converted the disease into monetary gain. If you ask them about the cause, they will say different things like you eat sugar too much, it is hereditary, or they will say the disease comes with age. Different doctors with different answers but they will prescribe heavy doses of drugs for you to buy and most of those drugs are rather harmful than helpful.

You will agree with me that the best way to solve a problem is to treat the root cause (explained above) rather than the symptoms. Let me illustrate this further. Assuming someone got his leg broken he would feel pain, to take care of the pain, he used a pain reliever. The pain got suppressed, does that mean his legs are still not broken? No, his leg is still broken just that his pain has been reduced.

That is exactly how treating the symptoms of disease instead of the root cause works, and that explains what your medications have been doing. Your medications cannot heal you, they are meant to just “reduce” the symptoms of diabetes (and not treat it) for as long as your money can last.