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Nov 3rd 2025
Is Diabetes Becoming the “New Normal?”
. . . many now believe having diabetes is no big deal!
Nearly 10% of the US population, including 25% of all seniors, has diabetes. Another 25% has pre-diabetes, a condition that’s almost as bad, and the situation is only getting worse. By 2050, it’s predicted that 30% of the population will be diabetic.
What’s especially frustrating is that about 95% of diabetics have diabetes type II, which is entirely caused by lifestyle and fairly easily reversed by lifestyle.
But many diabetics we encounter these days have come to believe that having diabetes is normal and “no big deal,” especially if they’re “keeping it under control” with medications. They even often categorize themselves as healthy!
Let’s be clear. If you have diabetes, you are not healthy! There is only one disease—malfunctioning cells. And before you get to the point where you are even pre-diabetic, cellular malfunction is occurring throughout your body on a massive scale and doing all kinds of damage.
Because diabetes is narrowly defined as a condition of having too much sugar in the urine, or blood, lowering fasting blood sugar levels with medications is equated with controlling the disease. But controlling this symptom is a far cry from controlling, let alone reversing diabetes. Typically, the patient begins with the drug Metformin and then either needs to progressively increase the dose over time or add other drugs or insulin to the regimen as the disease continues to get worse.
Another problem is that blood glucose levels that are considered “pre-diabetic”—100-125 mg/dL—are in fact dangerously high and greatly increase the risk of cancer; cardiovascular disease; cognitive decline; diseases of the liver, kidneys and pancreas; and diabetes-related complications like retinopathies and neuropathies. Optimal fasting glucose levels are 75-85 mg/dL.
Also, even when fasting blood sugar is optimal, it can spike to high levels after meals, which can keep levels high throughout the day. Optimal levels an hour after a meal are less than 120 mg/dL; two hours after a meal, 100 mg/dL.
Insulin itself is a big problem. Insulin is the hormone that transports blood sugar, or glucose, into cells where it can be burned for energy or stored as fat. Chronically high blood sugar causes cells to become “insulin resistant” so that more and more insulin is needed to shove the glucose into the cells. Excessively high insulin levels are every bit as dangerous as high blood sugar: they cause cholesterol and other fats to be deposited in blood vessel walls, encourage cancer cells to divide and multiply and accelerate cellular aging. Yet many diabetes drugs whip the pancreas into secreting more and more insulin to get blood sugar levels down. A true solution to blood sugar regulation would produce insulin levels of 2-5 µIU/mL.
Glucose metabolism is extremely complex and just about impossible to manipulate in the way that drugs are designed to do since so many different nutrients and biochemical pathways are involved. Yet there is a simple solution: be healthy! Adopt a healthy lifestyle that optimizes nutrition and minimizes toxins (the two causes for ALL disease, including diabetes are toxicity and nutritional deficiency) and glucose metabolism will take care of itself.
A 2011 study found that diabetes could be cured in 8 weeks with a very low calorie diet (600 calories a day). We have seen it cured in as little as 2 weeks by going on a good diet and supplement program. Most diabetics will experience significant improvement by eating a low-glycemic diet, starting an exercise program, and, if they are overweight, losing weight. We recommend the holistic program for weight loss presented in Raymond Francis’ book, Never Be Fat Again as a long term approach to reverse diabetes and keep it from recurring. For a comprehensive supplement program, call our office at 1-800-250-3063 to get a personalized Diabetes Support Kit.