When the doctor said, “You have type II diabetes.” Immediately scary thoughts spun through my brain like an F5 tornado. I am scared of needles and shots! Will I go blind? How long before my feet will be amputated? All these thoughts in a nano second!

I must have been dazed and in a shock-fog at hearing my diagnosis, because my ears may have heard my doctors words, but my brain didn’t register them. Diabetes. Type II Diabetes? Medicine?

When I walked out of the doctor’s office and got outside, WHAM! It hit me like a whack to the head! I don’t even know what diabetes is. What does diabetes affect, and how did I get it? And now I have to take medicine for it? Wait a minute; I didn’t just catch this diabetes like you do a cold or a virus.

I started in on researching type II diabetes, obsessively. For 3 months I poured through medical journals, article after article, searched the Internet, interviewed doctors, a dentist, an eye doctor, a chiropractor, a foot doctor, and an endocrinologist. All were informative, but the natural health practitioner advice was what struck me, as “this is it”.

I found that the medical profession mostly talked about the conditions and what medicines help relieve those condition symptoms. The natural health practitioner actually told me that you could possibly control or reverse the conditions that diabetes brings through nutrition and exercise.

Through my research, insulin quickly became the focal point. When you get down to the root of a problem (at the molecular/cellular level) you will find that insulin seems to have an effect on most body functions. When insulin is not controlled, bad things happen in our body. So basically diabetes is insulin out-of-control, causing unwanted reactions within our body, thus creating possibly debilitating health conditions.

Control your blood glucose at a normal level through nutrition and exercise or physical activity and possibly supplements and you may not have to succumb to a lifetime of ever-increasing doses of diabetic medications. I am not saying to dump your medications and start eating correctly all in one swoop, but do your homework. Find out what steps to take to reverse the type II diabetic conditions. You will find it is through proper balanced nutrition and physical exercise.

After interviewing close to 100 people diagnosed with diabetes, I found only 4 people actually trying to reverse their condition through nutrition and exercise. Two have succeeded in getting off their medication completely, and the other two have cut their medication requirements by more than half.

What is sad about this is, the other 96 people were never informed about how to control their blood sugar through nutrition and exercise by their doctor, or just took it at face value that “yes, I do have diabetes, give me a pill”. They accept someone else’s opinion that you have to take medication the rest of your life to control their “diagnosis”.

Come on! Learn about diabetes. You can’t hit the re-run button of life, but you can prevent, delay, or reverse your type II diabetic conditions through knowledge, nutrition and exercise. This is it. Be vibrant. Be healthy. Be smart. You deserve it, don’t you?

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