Although experts agree that diet and lifestyle are the keys to preventing and reversing diabetes, the ballooning number of diabetics and pre-diabetics (estimated at over 10% and 1/3 of our population respectively) is too big a market for drug companies to ignore. With one toxic drug after another, they’re trying to convince the public that blood sugar regulation is a problem pills can solve. However an all-natural alternative approach is both safe and effective. Introduced last year, canagliflozin (Invokana) is the first in a new family of diabetes drugs called sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors to be approved by the FDA. However, consumer advocate group Public Citizen has put it on their “do NOT use” drug list as having minimal benefit and dangerous side effects. Nonetheless, Forbes predicts it will reach $416 billion in sales by 2016. Although Invokana lowers blood sugar somewhat, it does so by doing what drugs always do—interfering with normal…

. . . almost all disease can be prevented and reversed. Because I maintain that almost all disease can be prevented and reversed, I'm sometimes asked if type 1 diabetes can be reversed. Most type 1 diabetes results from an autoimmune illness in which the body destroys insulin-producing cells (beta cells) in the pancreas. Once these cells are gone, I don't know anyone who has grown new ones. However, if caught early, it may be possible to reverse or at least mitigate the autoimmune process causing the damage. To do this, you would need to give strong support to your immune system with good diet (get rid of The Big Four!), minimize toxins in your life, identify and address food sensitivities and allergies, and get onto a comprehensive, high-quality supplement program. Vitamin D is particularly helpful with autoimmune issues. Even when irreversible damage has been done to the beta cells, there is much you can do to optimize your health. Many studies, for example, have found th…