Reversing Diabetes in a Month!
How I Reversed a 71-year-old diabetic’s high blood pressure so quickly
Diabetes was Unknown
Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is power. But health is freedom.
Unshackle yourself and truly live.
Dr. Kevin Ham
A century ago, type 2 diabetes was almost unknown. Today, it's one of the fastest-growing diseases in history.
The Numbers Today (2024)
Diabetes affects more than 11% of adults worldwide, 589 million aged 20-79.
In 1900, fewer than 1 in 100 Americans had Diabetes.
Now, ~40% adults in the U.S. have insulin resistance.
36% adults in the U.S. have prediabetes, ~98 million people, but 80% don't know it!
14.7% of adults in the U.S. have Diabetes, ~38 million people but 20% don't know it!
Diabetes is the #1 cause of blindness, kidney failure, non-traumatic amputations, and a major cause of heart attacks, stroke, and increased risk for cancer and dementia.
The average age of onset of Type 2 Diabetes is 45.
Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in the U.S.
How did this happen?
Our lifestyles: what we eat, how we eat and move, and live.
Lifestyle changes can reduce diabetes risk by up to 70% and can also help reverse it.
Reversing Heart Disease. Seeing is Believing.
Most people and doctors do not know that coronary plaque can be fully reversed. It’s just like a fractured artery healing if you set the right conditions: the CAST, the nutrients and the time to heal in a few months. No different than a fractured leg with a cast and crutches. You don’t walk on a broken leg, you protect the fracture and let the body do its magic and heal quickly.
Dr. Kevin Ham
I just turned 55, and I am so grateful to know that I have clogged arteries. Imagine if I didn't know? I would not make any changes to my lifestyle and likely have a heart attack in the next 2-5 years, perhaps fatal while riding up a hill. Now I've reversed plaque in my neck arteries in 3 months and am confident by the grace of God that I will reverse all the plaque in heart vessels within 3 years.
See the plaque in my left carotid artery. The carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is 0.14 cm or 1.4mm. This CIMT is worse than that of an 85-year-old. Now look below after three months of my reversal protocol and no more plaque at all in both my carotid arteries, and the CIMT is only 0.82mm, which is now normal for my age of 55. I did this CIMT last month as well and repeated it to verify my astounding results. My CIMT had reduced by another 0.2mm in just a month! That's ~0.6mm reduction and no plaque. The best studies I have found show only a 0.04mm reduction in a year. So I had a 15x reduction in 25% of the time. It's what I call 80/20, which is 4x, based on the 80/20 principle: 20% effort but 80% results. Almost miraculous.
I just gave health lectures at the Selkirk Tea Festival. I felt very blessed to tell the stories of how my father overcame a major stroke with total right-sided paralysis for 30 days, how Fred reversed his high blood pressure in two weeks and no meds and on his way to reverse his Diabetes and obesity in a month or two. I also shared my story of a remarkable reversal of plaque and a 64% reduction in LDL cholesterol in 3 months through diet, fasting, and exercise.
I met many people who were highly motivated to do what I did, what Fred did, and what my father did. They were on insulin or cholesterol medication, but getting progressively worse. They had tried so many things or asked for their doctor's help, but felt 'alone' and somewhat flustered—so much information and trying this and that, but only having slight glimmers of hope. Motivation was not lacking at all. I felt such compassion for them. I know I can help them greatly because I also walk in their shoes as a 'patient' full of disease. But I was also trained as a physician.
Before I discovered my disease, I knew the theory and many facts about disease. But now that I am directly dealing with heart disease and my father's high blood pressure, trying this and that and experimenting while also researching to find proven things that can help cure my heart disease and my father's hypertension and now Fred's Diabetes, hypertension and obesity, I have a greater appreciation of the healing power of the body and nature with its foods, packed with healing nutrients. A perfect symbiosis between us and nature. Wow. I am amazed at how wonderfully and fearfully I am made, and in this haven of nature, which can heal every disease of the body and mind.
Physician Heal Thyself
Can I heal myself? God gave me the wisdom and the strength to go against conventional wisdom. I let my body heal itself by removing what harmed me and replacing it with foods that accelerate healing.
Dr. Kevin Ham
Jesus quoted this proverb, "Physician heal thyself." This was a challenge from the religious leaders to Jesus, who claimed He was the Son of God and had come as prophesied in the writings of the prophets.
Many people told me that they don't understand how I, a doctor, could have such severe heart disease. What they do not consider is that I desired to become a doctor to help people like me because I thought I might be dying when I was 14, from an autoimmune disease, unable to move or eat in a hospital bed. I didn't know or understand what was happening to me. I decided that if I lived, I would make it my life purpose to help those who were sick to know and understand what was happening to them and perhaps why as well. I started an Internet business during my medical residency to make enough money so I could practice health freely.
I believe health is not just the health of the body, but more importantly, the health of one's mind and even more importantly, the health of one's spirit. Most people are unaware that they have a spirit. This longing for a true home, lasting peace, justice, rest, and unconditional, perfect love, and eternity are matters of the spirit. However, our bodies are important as our vessel to move us through this world. It is our house, and our minds are the mediator between our spirit (some say heart) and our bodies in the external world.
Now I understand better how our common-day diseases, especially metabolic diseases, arise.
What causes metabolic diseases like high cholesterol, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, high glucose, insulin resistance, prediabetes, Diabetes, macular degeneration, dementia, autoimmune disease, and cancers? These were relatively rare a century ago. It is unbelievable to consider how rare they were.
Jesus said that the healthy do not need a physician, but the sick. So He went to the lepers, the blind, the deaf, the mute, the sick and the orphans and widows. And that is where my heart lies. To those who are sick, like I am. To those who are unaware of their disease, even their spiritual disease. Health is not merely the absence of disease but also the well-being of the body, mind and spirit.
Be a Shifa
Grant me the gift of healing. Bestow upon me the wisdom of healing.
Dr. Kevin Ham
My dear and good friend, Dr. Azra Raza, whose life mission is to cure cancer, told me that Al-Shifa was a healer and a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her wisdom and medical knowledge. Azra is a healer of the heart. Although she is my elder and mentor, she is also a kindred spirit. Ever since her early 20s, her mission was set. She is an oncologist (cancer specialist) and researcher, and I believe her lifelong mission of detecting cancer early and preventing it will be fruitful. I just invested in her company to cure cancer. May God bless her greatly with long life and wisdom.
Shifa means “healing”, “cure” or “remedy”. I prayed to God to make me a healer. To grant me heavenly wisdom to heal and understand disease and health. Little did I know that wisdom would be granted by revealing my own disease. As I write, tears swell from my heart to my eyes. They say that tears borne out of suffering are healing. The two most powerful words in the Bible to me are "Jesus wept." Oh, those heavenly tears shed out of compassion for the sick, the dead and diseased. If only I had such compassion as He did. My greatest role model is Dr. David Livingstone, who left his home to venture into the Congo and help the people there with their physical diseases, as well as their spiritual needs. I longed to have his heart. My next great role model is King David. I love reading his writings. My role models seem to start with"D" (Davinci, Disney, Dickinson (Emily), John Davison Rockefeller).
Tears also fall because God has now granted me this wisdom to be a Shifa, a healer. I believe I can help heal a lot ofpeople. But not I, but God who has granted this wisdom.
Why Metabolic Disease Comes
Disease comes like the waves, each bite, each elevator or car ride, each meal filled with look-alike food, and our systems get clogged and worn down by the relentless waves of habit and comfort. Then the sudden discomforts of disease bring suffering and death.
Dr. Kevin Ham
What is Metabolism? I asked the audience. Some knew, but most did not venture to answer.
What exactly is metabolism, and how does metabolic dysfunction happen and eventually develop into a metabolic disease? And when multiple dysfunctions are present, we refer to it as metabolic syndrome. The brain and the pituitary gland regulate the hormones that govern metabolism. The thyroid, adrenal glands, and pancreas are all instrumental in regulating your metabolism.
The simple definition of metabolism is the bodily processes for life:
Processing the inputs (breath, liquids, foods) into energy
Excess inputs are stored as energy or processed as outputs
Maintain and grow life
Convert stored energy into usable energy
When metabolism is dysfunctional in the digestive system, this can lead to Diabetes.
When it's in the blood vessels, this can lead to heart disease and high blood pressure.
When in the brain, this can lead to brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson's disease.
When in the immune system, this can lead to autoimmune diseases.
When in an organ and the immune system, this can lead to tumours and cancers.
When in the thyroid, this can lead to thyroid disease.
Some metabolic dysfunction is caused by micronutritional deficiencies, like too low or high iodine in the thyroid.
Others are caused by toxins that cause inflammation, like heated oils (oxidation), high spiking glucose (glycation), smoking (reduction), alcohol or viruses, leading to 'itis' such as vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels), hepatitis (inflammation of the liver).
What Causes Diabetes?
Is it too much glucose (carbs) from food or too much fat in the body?
Dr. Kevin Ham
Most people would say insulin resistance or high blood glucose or not enough insulin.
The simple answer is… Too much food and not enough movement.
The Root Problem:
It's a storage and overflow problem.
Flywheel of Diabetes
Too many of the wrong foods overfill your storage tanks (liver, fat, pancreas, muscle).
The wrong foods are:
Refined carbs
Added sugars
Processed oils like canola oil, Crisco, shortening, sunflower oil, safflower oil, etc, and even worse when they are heated
Avoid grilled and fried foods cooked with oils, including heated olive oil, sesame oil, and coconut oil.
Animal fats from animals that do not eat natural, whole foods.
Cows not pasture-raised, eating grass (instead fed with corn and soy feed)
Chickens not pasture-raised (instead caged with no sunlight)
Fish that are not wild (instead, farmed and fed antibiotics in enclosed sea farms)
Overflow causes
Glucose in the blood -> high blood sugar, which rapidly increases insulin, which stores this glucose and lowers blood glucose too much (hypoglycemia), leading to a vicious cycle of hunger and overeating in the next meal
Fat in the blood > high triglycerides & LDL cholesterol, which leads to eventual fatty liver and visceral fat (fat around the organs)
Fatty liver & visceral fat lock stored energy (glycogen and fats) from being converted into glucose and fat energy for use.
High insulin tries to force storage of glucose & fatty acids, but only:
Keeps fat locked in organs and fat cells
Raises blood pressure
Triggers hunger & cravings after glucose spikes
Without adequate movement, muscles don't use stored and incoming glucose and fat.
Oxidized fats from heated oils and excess glucose attach and oxidize fat and proteins in the endothelial cells lining the blood vessels, as well as other cells in the organs (liver, heart, pancreas, heart etc)
This causes inflammation, causing the immune system to try and repair the damage, leading to plaque, further increase in blood pressure, insulin resistance and higher glucose and insulin spikes.
It's a vicious cycle that is like water hitting the rock continually to eventually result in prediabetes and then Diabetes, fatty liver, obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, leading to heart attacks, strokes, liver failure and increasing risks of all types of cancers.
Diabetes and a high glycemic index increase the risk of cancer.
For example, White rice consumption in Korean women increases breast cancer risk by 19% per 100g/day, whereas brown rice or wild rice consumption decreases cancer risk by 24% per 100g/day.
Timeline of Diabetes
Bad things take time. But when you stop the bad things, the body can heal remarkably well, like a miracle of life.
Dr. Kevin Ham
Type 2 Diabetes develops silently, like a thief robbing one of health and unabated, it affects every organ, leading to blindness, kidney failure, leg amputations, heart attacks, strokes, dementia and cancers.
Fix Glucose or Fat Storage First?
What is the big bottleneck of Diabetes? Glucose or Fat?
Dr. Kevin Ham
Type 2 diabetes isn't a problem of too little insulin. It's a problem of too much insulin in a body that is already full.
Liver, muscles, fat cells, pancreas = storage tanks
Wrong foods (sugar, white flour, fried oils, excess fats) = tanks fill to the brim.
Nutrients overflow into the blood:
Glucose → high blood sugar
Fat → high triglycerides & LDL cholesterol
The pancreas pumps even more insulin. But insulin just locks fat away and blocks fat burning.
The result: high glucose, high insulin, and rising weight — the metabolic storm of Diabetes.
Medicines target lowering glucose by either preventing the liver from making glucose, excreting glucose via the kidneys, or increasing insulin to try to store excess blood glucose in the liver, muscles, and fat (tanks).
Diets aim to reduce carbs to lower blood glucose levels.
Exercise targets the removal of stored fats and glucose.
Which is the best to target?
Remove high-glycemic index foods, but allow low-glycemic carbs.
Focus on emptying the liver, muscles, pancreas and fat of their excess fat stores. This is called visceral fat. Thisempties the 'fuel tanks' to allow for the new fuel (glucose, fat) from eating low-glycemic carbs and fat to be stored, rather than overflowing in the blood and causing high glucose and high fat, which increase the risk of heart disease and Diabetes.
Targeted timely exercise to use the unlocked stored fuel from the 'tanks'.
I hypothesize and believe the biggest constraint is the 'fuel tanks' of our bodies being full of stored fat.
Remove these, and the flow of food traffic can flow.
Paired with movement at the right time, food traffic flows well and then
Adding the healing foods repairs the potholes and crashes of your former lifestyle habits.
Reflection
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Dr. Kevin Ham
How many people can I help heal and reverse from suffering and death?
Just one or two, including myself would be worthwhile. A life is priceless.
I’ve always aspired to heal millions. Just a dream since age 14. And to help cure autoimmune disease and cancer.
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Life-Changing Question
Can you be healthier than you have ever been and either reverse your disease or bullet proof yourself from the deadly diseases?
When you take on debt, you eventually have to pay it back with interest. This is financial debt.
When you build a technology product, and you take short cuts to build it, we call that technical debt, that later requires rewriting the code.
When you do not eat, move, live and sleep properly, you will incur health debt, that you will have to pay back 7 fold, sometimes even with your life.
Rob Thompson, my friend, who died so fit, active and strong, at 58 has woken me up from my diseased state to live each day fully, with intention, with purpose and with meaning.
Do not take on any more health debt. You cannot afford it. The cost is too high to bear later on. It may cost you your life and with that, a lot of suffering.
May God open your heart to take a good look at yourself from the inside out and treat your body like a temple, put in the right fuel, use your God-given vehicle to go along the path to your purposed destination, enjoying each passing moment, each view and each person in your vehicle along life’s journey until you reach your final destination.
I hope to see you there, whole, full and prospering.
Next week—
The Diabetes Reversal Flywheel
Turning the vicious cycle of disease into a virtuous cycle of health is the 8th wonder of life.
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