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A groundbreaking method to master all types of diabetes by reversing insulin resistance.
Current medical wisdom advises that anyone suffering from diabetes or prediabetes should eat a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. But in this revolutionary book, Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, and Robby Barbaro, MPH, rely on a century of research to show that advice is misguided. While it may improve short-term blood glucose control, such a diet also increases the long-term risk for chronic diseases like cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, chronic kidney disease, and fatty liver disease.
The revolutionary solution is to eat a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet, the most powerful way to reverse insulin resistance in all types of diabetes: type 1, type 1.5, type 2, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes.
As the creators of the extraordinary and effective Mastering Diabetes Method, Khambatta and Barbaro lay out a step-by-step plan proven to reverse insulin resistance-the root cause of blood glucose variability- while improving overall health and maximizing life expectancy. Armed with more than 800 scientific references and drawing on more than 36 years of personal experience living with type 1 diabetes themselves, the authors show how to eat large quantities of carbohydrate-rich whole foods like bananas, potatoes, and quinoa while decreasing blood glucose, oral medication, and insulin requirements. They also provide life-changing advice on intermittent fasting and daily exercise and offer tips on eating in tricky situations, such as restaurant meals and family dinners. Perhaps best of all: On the Mastering Diabetes Method, you will never go hungry.
With more than 30 delicious, filling, and nutrient-dense recipes and backed by cutting-edge nutritional science, Mastering Diabetes will help you maximize your insulin sensitivity, attain your ideal body weight, improve your digestive health, gain energy, live an active life, and feel the best you've felt in years.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAvery
- Publication dateFebruary 18, 2020
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Are you tired of uncontrollable blood glucose levels? Excess weight? An increasing need for oral medications and insulin? Are you tired of all the conflicting and confusing information about what to eat?
Join thousands of people who have addressed the root cause of all blood glucose variability - insulin resistance - using the Mastering Diabetes Method. Learn a new way of eating and reverse insulin resistance permanently.
Start by understanding the science of insulin resistance and move on to a detailed description of how to implement the Mastering Diabetes Method into your busy life, which includes daily movement and intermittent fasting.
Included in the book are success stories from people just like you, weekly meal plans and over 30 delicious, nutrient-dense, diabetes-friendly recipes.
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Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro, MPH are the co-founders of Mastering Diabetes. They have been living with type 1 diabetes for a combined total of 36 years. Both consistently have A1c values between 5.3-5.7% and have eaten a low-fat, plant-based, whole-food diet for a combined total of more than 28 years.
Cyrus and Robby have helped thousands of people reverse type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, get exceptional blood glucose control in type 1 and 1.5 diabetes, achieve an excellent A1c, reach their ideal weight, lower their cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides, gain energy, and even reverse common complications of diabetes including fatty liver disease, kidney disease, neuropathy, retinopathy, and cardiovascular disease.
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"A whole food, plant based diet is the secret to longevity on every continent in the world. Now, this amazing book teaches us you don’t have to wait until old-age to reap the benefits. The Mastering Diabetes method will help you reverse insulin resistance, lose weight, and feel fantastic. Highly recommended!"—Dan Buettner, New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones Solution
"We’re seeing more and more that a plant-based diet is the way to go for maximum health. But this book is a game-changer. Cyrus and Robby make a compelling case that a plant based, whole food diet is the key to reversing insulin resistance. That’s a message that is great for all of us and for the planet too. Love it!"—Kathy Freston, New York Times bestselling author of Quantum Wellness
"Mastering Diabetes is a game changer for the millions of people living with diabetes. Cyrus and Robby’s approach is easy to understand and backed by a sh*tload of science. With medical costs skyrocketing, you can’t afford to do without this book."—Michelle Davis and Matt Holloway, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the Thug Kitchen series
"My message for type 2 diabetes is don’t control it–get rid of it. Mastering Diabetes is a masterpiece with critical information that every diabetic should know. Knowledge is power. Why be a diabetic when you can recover?"—Joel Fuhrman, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Diabetes
"Cyrus and Robby have expertise that transcends scientific evidence using their personal experiences with diabetes to help others heal. Their book outlines a nutrition and lifestyle prescription that can truly save your life!"—Matthew Lederman, MD and Alona Pulde, MD, New York Times bestselling authors of Forks Over Knives Plan
"Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro have translated their encyclopedic knowledge of diabetes care and management into a vocabulary that all readers may grasp. Their skill makes diabetes vanish or become a manageable companion."—Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
"Robby and Cyrus are innovative leaders in the field of diabetes reversal and management. Their tireless devotion to compassionately guiding people to healing is evident in everything they do. This book is yet one more incredible example of the countless ways they bring light into the misguided and misunderstood area of diabetes health."—Anthony William, Medical Medium
#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Medical Medium book series
About the Author
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Even though we didn’t know each other at the time, we each made the decision to reexamine the nutritional advice given to us by the conventional medical system. We started by looking to “alternative” diet philosophies for guidance, including vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan, and the Weston A. Price Foundation diet. Amazingly, our two different tracks led us to the same conclusion:
A low-fat plant-based whole-food lifestyle is the most effective way to gain insulin sensitivity using your food as medicine.
Even though this may seem counterintuitive at first, this form of nutrition is extremely powerful at reversing insulin resistance because carbohydrate-rich whole foods require large amounts of insulin if and only if the total amount of fat in your diet is also high, as you will learn about in detail in chapter 3. But when you eat a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet and reduce your intake of fat- and protein-rich foods, you gain insulin sensitivity very quickly, which in turn drops your need for oral medications and insulin in the short and long term.
Within days of changing our diets, we both observed that our insulin sensitivity increased dramatically. In addition, our energy levels increased, and our blood glucose became much easier to control. After only a few months of eating this way, Cyrus saw his total insulin use drop by 40 percent and Robby saw his insulin sensitivity improve by 600 percent. To put it in perspective: The average adult with type 1 diabetes injects approximately 0.5 to 1.0 units of insulin per kilogram of body weight per day. Following the Mastering Diabetes Method, those living with type 1 diabetes inject as little as 0.35 units of insulin per kilogram body weight per day, and experience dramatically improved blood glucose values, while increasing carbohy- drate intake as much as twenty-fold. When we transitioned to eating more plants, we began eating more fruits and vegetables than ever before—including many foods that previously had been forbidden on a low- carbohydrate diet. And despite this counterintuitive approach, we both felt better than ever—even better than before we were diagnosed.
This radical shift in our own personal diets sparked an adventure to learn as much as possible about nutrition-driven wellness. It’s what originally led Robby to help build the revolutionary Forks Over Knives empire and earn a master’s degree in public health. It’s also what inspired Cyrus to leave his job at the NASA Ames Research Center as a Stanford University–educated mechanical engineer to earn a PhD in nutritional biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. But the real magic was in realizing that we could take our unique insights, knowledge, and experience as people with diabetes and turn it into usable, relatable, and effective advice for other people living with all forms of diabetes, including type 1 diabetes, type 1.5 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes. That’s the ethos behind our coaching program, and it’s what lies at the foundation of this book.
Over time, we have fine-tuned the Mastering Diabetes Method into something that is truly unique. It encompasses the following four components:
Component 1: Low-Fat Plant-Based Whole-Food Nutrition. We encourage carbohydrate-rich whole foods, including fruits, starchy vegetables, legumes, and intact whole grains. As you will learn in this book, carbohydrate-rich food is not the enemy when you are living with diabetes, and we’ll provide you with the scientific rationale as to why eating fruit and starchy foods is actually an integral part of reversing insulin resistance and maximizing your longevity.
Component 2: Intermittent Fasting. Not eating is one of the most powerful ways to improve your insulin sensitivity, improve your cardiovascular health, lose weight, and actually increase your lifespan. You’ll learn about various intermittent fasting routines and ways to successfully integrate this time-tested and proven practice into your busy lifestyle.
Component 3: Daily Movement. Your body is designed for physical activity, and when you make daily movement a part of your lifestyle, you’re likely to dramatically improve your insulin sensitivity, your energy levels, and your mood. We’ll teach you how to move your body, how often to move your body, and how to combine movement with a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet for maximum effect.
Component 4: Decision Trees. We have created a specific tool that helps you address hour-by-hour decisions, look for patterns, and establish cause-and-effect relationships between your lifestyle choices and your blood glucose profile. The process of filling out decision trees helps you troubleshoot confusing everyday scenarios relating to oral medication use, insulin use, and blood glucose management. In addition, decision trees can help you address little-picture scenarios like managing your blood glucose before, during, and after exercise; safely reducing your use of oral medications and insulin as your insulin nsensitivity significantly increases; understanding why your fasting glucose might be higher than your post-meal glucose at times; dealing with post-meal blood glucose spikes and dips; and timing your insulin use to properly control your blood glucose after meals.
Furthermore, you’ll learn how to use and interpret important diabetes blood tests and how to incorporate various medicinal plants as alternatives to pharmaceutical medications. We’ll also answer such questions as: Should I exercise before or after a meal? Why does my blood glucose increase when I eat certain foods? and Do fruits really metabolize to sugar?
One aspect of the Mastering Diabetes Method that is very important to understand is that we welcome people with all forms of diabetes including type 1 diabetes, type 1.5 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes, because our collective struggles controlling blood glucose all originate from the same underlying condition: insulin resistance.
Even though we are diabetes experts, our understanding of diabetes does not originate from a traditional medical background and instead comes from personal experience, a PhD in nutritional biochemistry, a rigorous analysis of almost a hundred years of evidence-based scientific research, decades of repeatable results from our colleagues, our in-person retreats, and our work with thousands of people via our online coaching program. Unlike any other program or book currently on the market for diabetes, Mastering Diabetes is written by two experts who have proven firsthand that our prescription works by helping more than 3,000 people around the world adopt lifestyle changes that transform their metabolic health from the inside out. This program is based on thirty-six years of combined personal experience living with type 1 diabetes and twenty-nine years of combined experience following the Mastering Diabetes Method.
Even though we’re not MDs, we are well versed in the evidence-based research of nutritional biochemistry and use rigorous scientific evidence as the basis for our recommendations. Because we put this data to the test every single day in our own lives, we are able to translate complex scientific concepts into easy-to-understand principles. Many people tell us that watching a few of our videos or webinars—like the ones that debunk the misleading science of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets, reveal the true causes of high cholesterol, or demonstrate why increasing your protein intake can help you lose weight but increases your long-term disease risk—has taught them more about the biological details of living with diabetes than their doctor ever has. Evidence-based science (not pop science) is the foundation of our platform, and we make it a point to translate complicated biological phenomena into easy-to-understand topics so that you can understand how and why specific foods can transform your health from the inside out, and how and why other foods can increase your chronic disease risk.
Last but not least, we’ll plug you into a community. We’ve honed and strengthened the Mastering Diabetes Coaching Program based on the feedback from thousands of clients who follow it every day, and the most important thing we’ve found is that our clients do best when surrounded and supported by other people going through the same experience. Success is truly contagious! Too often, when you read a book or try a new program to improve your diabetes health, you’re a solo rider. The Mastering Diabetes Coaching Program is designed to put an end to that isolating feeling that comes from attempting to manage diabetes on your own. To help you plug into our support system, we have created a private online community that we monitor 24/7 to give real-time responses to our clients. We also host regular video conferences where community members can bring questions and concerns and interact directly with our highly educated and experienced coaching staff.
What began years ago as a cautiously optimistic plan originally using ourselves as test subjects—bolstered, of course, by sound research—has since blossomed into a life-changing program that has received the praise and support of well-regarded experts and friends. It’s a scientific method that has transformed the lives of the thousands of individuals who have already followed our program and will do so for you, too. If you stay faithful to the steps and insights outlined in this book, you are likely to experience the same results as our clients. You’ll lose the weight that you never thought you’d be able to lose, you’ll achieve the best A1c values you’ve ever experienced, you’ll lower your total and LDL cholesterol, you’ll reduce your blood pressure, you’ll reduce your need for oral medications and insulin, and most importantly, you’ ll significantly decrease or completely reverse insulin resistance now and for the rest of your life.
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- Publisher : Avery (February 18, 2020)
- Publication date : February 18, 2020
- Language : English
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- Print length : 399 pages
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About the authors

Cyrus Khambatta, PhD earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003, worked at NASA Ames Research Center, then earned a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. He is the co-author of many peer-reviewed scientific publications.
He is the co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and Amla Green, and is an internationally recognized nutrition and fitness coach who has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2002. He co-created the Mastering Diabetes Method to reverse insulin resistance in all forms of diabetes, and has helped more than 10,000 people improve their metabolic health using low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition, intermittent fasting, and exercise.
He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at the Plant-Based Nutrition and Healthcare Conference (PBNHC), the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Conference (ACLM), Plant Stock, the Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and has been featured on NPR, KQED, Forks Over Knives, Healthline, Fast Company, Diet Fiction, and popular podcasts including the Rich Roll Podcast, Plant Proof, and Nutrition Rounds. He is a co-author of the Mastering Diabetes book with Robby Barbaro, MPH.

Robby Barbaro, MPH is co-founder of Mastering Diabetes and co-author of Mastering Diabetes (Avery / Penguin Random House).
He is a diabetes coach, educator, and international speaker who has been living with type 1 diabetes for more than twenty years. Since 2006, Robby has used an evidence-based approach to his personal health and fitness, built on a foundation of low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition.
Using the Mastering Diabetes Method, he has seen his insulin sensitivity improve by 600 percent and his overall health improve dramatically. His personal experience sparked a passionate interest in learning as much as possible about nutrition-driven wellness, a quest that led Robby to devote six years to building the revolutionary Forks Over Knives empire, alongside the founder and president.
In 2016, Robby turned his full-time attention to Mastering Diabetes, which offers a revolutionary online coaching program that is helping thousands reverse insulin resistance, gain energy, and significantly reduce chronic disease risk.
He is the co-host of the annual Mastering Diabetes Online Summit, a featured speaker at Whole Foods Global Headquarters, VegFest LA, Plant-Stock, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and has been featured on Forks Over Knives, Healthline, Medical Medium, Vice, Thrive Magazine, Diet Fiction, Thrive Global, BestLife and popular podcasts, mindbodygreen, Plant Proof and Nutrition Rounds.
A graduate of the University of Florida, Robby has a master's degree in public health from American Public University. Recognized widely for his colorful, fruit-inspired Instagram photos and recipes, Robby documents his daily diet and lifestyle on Instagram Stories (@mindfuldiabeticrobby).
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I picked up Cyrus Khambatta and Robby Barbaro’s book, Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes. With a forward by Neal Barnard – who has written a book on reversing diabetes.
The first five chapters introduce the authors – who are both diabetics, and they explain what insulin resistance is and what it is in relation to the intwined diseases. They conclude that animal produces are a major detrimental health factor in insulin resistance.
Each chapter has shaded boxes with further explanations, charts and diagrams to help with understanding, anecdotal stories, and a bullet-point “take-home messages” page with the link to what amount to thousands of scientific papers referenced to back up their argument.
Beginning in chapter eight, they introduce their “Mastering Diabetes Method,” and they introduce the concepts of green light, yellow light, and red light foods – designating how much is allowed. The encourage the reader to write down specific goals and to plan out weekly menus.
In the nineth chapter, they write about the need to be monitored by a doctor and the tests that are most important to see how you are progressing. The also explain how to use a “decision tree” in making healthful decisions.
Chapter ten begins with a questionnaire about your weight and eating habits, which determines which of two breakfast types you should begin with. If you score low on the scale, they start you off with a fruit bowl for breakfast. If you score in the top 75% of their questionnaire, they start you with a high fiber breakfast for two to four weeks and then switch you to the fruit bowl.
Lunches are vegetables, grains, and beans. They discuss calorie density and how that works – and they illustrate several comparisons of this food versus this food for calorie density. And they explain batch prepping.
Dinners are salads with vegetables.
Chapter thirteen looks at the benefits of intermittent fasting and offers several patterns, with 16:8 being the most frequently adapted. (16 hours a day fasting.)
Fourteen looks at the benefits of exercising.
Chapter fifteen has suggested meal plans and sample recipes.
Appendix A explains C-Peptide testing.
Appendix B lists the green, yellow, and red foods.
Appendix C looks at the use of decision tree.
The book ends with a lengthy index.
This is an excellent book for anyone looking to reduce their insulin resistance and/or reverse any of these diseases. It is science-based – with thousands of papers referenced. It is clear – with explanation, charts, illustrations, summaries, and anecdotes. It is an extensive, useful, and helpful guide.
Their meal plan reminds me of the first book I ever read on what is now called Whole-Food, Plant-Based diet – that being the Diamond’s, Fit for Life. Their reliance on scientific papers reminds me of Dr. Gregor’s work.
I am continuing to tweak my diet and lifestyle with sarcoidosis and prednisone, and this book with be a help in getting healthier.
Nearly 100% of Americans are overweight. Two-thirds of Americans are obese. Get this book. Care for your body and your life.
[This review appears on my blog, my YouTube channel, Amazon.com, and Goodreads.com.]
I will always be grateful to Cyrus for introducing me to the astounding health benefits of this low fat and high fruit/carb diet.
Then I found the Medical Medium books, and could really take my healing to the next level.
Those are the books I recommend the most.
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Longer story of my journey with this information and how I met Cyrus:
I thought I was “healthy.” I had no idea how much my life was going to change, or how good I could feel.
When I met Cyrus at a wedding 8 years ago, I asked him what he did. He said something about “doing retreats, and coaching people with diabetes on what to eat to improve their diabetes and health.”
“Oh,” I said, “You must feed them some kind of low-carb, keto/paleo-type diet, right?”
He looked me right in the eye and said “Nope, on retreat they eat a LOT of fruit. Like, piles and piles of fruit the whole time.”
I just stared at him. “Uhhh, some kind of low-glycemic fruit?”
“Nope,” He replied, “any kind of fruit, bananas, dates, papaya, mangoes, veggies, and almost no fat.”
I was kind of bewildered and horrified, and figured he was a little off his rocker. I politely said, “Uhh, ok, nice to meet you,” and walked away thinking he was really weird.
At the time I was quite a devotee of a high meat, high fat, butter coffee, paleo- or keto-type diet, and had read a ton of books on it. I also have a degree in biology, and was sure that this was the best and most logical nutrition. Unfortunately, I didn’t actually feel great, didn’t have great energy, but I figured I just needed to do the low carb thing longer, be more strict with it.
A couple drinks later in the evening at the reception, my politeness was overcome by my curiosity. “Ok,” I said to Cyrus, “You feed diabetics piles of WHAT??” But then he explained, and my entire life changed. He explained to me, like he explains in this book, how the fats block the ability of the nutritious and high quality fruit sugar to get from the blood stream into the brain and muscles, and block up the ability of your insulin to do its job, so people require more and more insulin. He explained all of his research, all of the evidence, all of the trials. How he studied mice, and found that feeding the mice fats could make them diabetic, but feeding the mice just sugar never did. How the sugar spike in the bloodstream was a symptom, not a cause of any problems. He told me about the real “paleo” diet, and how we are descended from primates that thrive most eating eat high fruit, high carb, low fat diets. He told me about how great he felt when he started eating this way, how he never got sick with colds anymore. And he explained why I currently felt like crap eating piles of meat and butter coffee.
And I did feel like crap. If I was honest, I really didn’t ever feel very good. I was tired. All of the evidence he presented made enough sense that I tried it. I switched my entire diet, ate mostly raw fruits and veggies (including piles of fruit!), and kept my fats to 15% or less of my daily calories. And within DAYS my energy started to skyrocket, and was really steady. My head was clear, my body felt fantastic. I stopped drinking coffee because I just didn’t need it. I started running, just because it felt good. Within two months of that meeting, I started tapering off and was able to discontinue my postpartum depression medication that I had needed for almost two years.
Today is over four years later. And just like he described, ever since I changed my diet, I rarely get sick. My migraines went away. Skin issues went away. Even stretch marks from my first pregnancy suddenly disappeared. The depression never came back, even after I had my second child. I haven’t had a sinus infection since then either, which I used to get several every year. My energy is consistent and strong, even with small children and little sleep. I’m still eating piles of fruit every day, and I love reading about how to use fruits, veggies, potatoes and herbs to continually improve my health.
This information isn’t just for diabetics. Since not everyone has the luxury to meet Cyrus or Robby, I’m so glad everyone has access to this information now, and can cure their fruit/potato fear once and for all. Try eating piles of fruit with salad and steamed veggies and potatoes with basically no fat for a week, and just see how great you feel. Get your A1c tested, try this way of eating for a month, and test it again. The results are just so clear and easily measurable. Try it. I didn’t know my body could feel this good.
I attached a photo I took about 3 months after I met Cyrus, 2 years after the birth of our first child. I had never felt so good in my life.
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020
I will always be grateful to Cyrus for introducing me to the astounding health benefits of this low fat and high fruit/carb diet.
Then I found the Medical Medium books, and could really take my healing to the next level.
Those are the books I recommend the most.
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Longer story of my journey with this information and how I met Cyrus:
I thought I was “healthy.” I had no idea how much my life was going to change, or how good I could feel.
When I met Cyrus at a wedding 8 years ago, I asked him what he did. He said something about “doing retreats, and coaching people with diabetes on what to eat to improve their diabetes and health.”
“Oh,” I said, “You must feed them some kind of low-carb, keto/paleo-type diet, right?”
He looked me right in the eye and said “Nope, on retreat they eat a LOT of fruit. Like, piles and piles of fruit the whole time.”
I just stared at him. “Uhhh, some kind of low-glycemic fruit?”
“Nope,” He replied, “any kind of fruit, bananas, dates, papaya, mangoes, veggies, and almost no fat.”
I was kind of bewildered and horrified, and figured he was a little off his rocker. I politely said, “Uhh, ok, nice to meet you,” and walked away thinking he was really weird.
At the time I was quite a devotee of a high meat, high fat, butter coffee, paleo- or keto-type diet, and had read a ton of books on it. I also have a degree in biology, and was sure that this was the best and most logical nutrition. Unfortunately, I didn’t actually feel great, didn’t have great energy, but I figured I just needed to do the low carb thing longer, be more strict with it.
A couple drinks later in the evening at the reception, my politeness was overcome by my curiosity. “Ok,” I said to Cyrus, “You feed diabetics piles of WHAT??” But then he explained, and my entire life changed. He explained to me, like he explains in this book, how the fats block the ability of the nutritious and high quality fruit sugar to get from the blood stream into the brain and muscles, and block up the ability of your insulin to do its job, so people require more and more insulin. He explained all of his research, all of the evidence, all of the trials. How he studied mice, and found that feeding the mice fats could make them diabetic, but feeding the mice just sugar never did. How the sugar spike in the bloodstream was a symptom, not a cause of any problems. He told me about the real “paleo” diet, and how we are descended from primates that thrive most eating eat high fruit, high carb, low fat diets. He told me about how great he felt when he started eating this way, how he never got sick with colds anymore. And he explained why I currently felt like crap eating piles of meat and butter coffee.
And I did feel like crap. If I was honest, I really didn’t ever feel very good. I was tired. All of the evidence he presented made enough sense that I tried it. I switched my entire diet, ate mostly raw fruits and veggies (including piles of fruit!), and kept my fats to 15% or less of my daily calories. And within DAYS my energy started to skyrocket, and was really steady. My head was clear, my body felt fantastic. I stopped drinking coffee because I just didn’t need it. I started running, just because it felt good. Within two months of that meeting, I started tapering off and was able to discontinue my postpartum depression medication that I had needed for almost two years.
Today is over four years later. And just like he described, ever since I changed my diet, I rarely get sick. My migraines went away. Skin issues went away. Even stretch marks from my first pregnancy suddenly disappeared. The depression never came back, even after I had my second child. I haven’t had a sinus infection since then either, which I used to get several every year. My energy is consistent and strong, even with small children and little sleep. I’m still eating piles of fruit every day, and I love reading about how to use fruits, veggies, potatoes and herbs to continually improve my health.
This information isn’t just for diabetics. Since not everyone has the luxury to meet Cyrus or Robby, I’m so glad everyone has access to this information now, and can cure their fruit/potato fear once and for all. Try eating piles of fruit with salad and steamed veggies and potatoes with basically no fat for a week, and just see how great you feel. Get your A1c tested, try this way of eating for a month, and test it again. The results are just so clear and easily measurable. Try it. I didn’t know my body could feel this good.
I attached a photo I took about 3 months after I met Cyrus, 2 years after the birth of our first child. I had never felt so good in my life.
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Reviewed in Brazil on December 20, 2021
La persona a cui l'ho regalato è un diabetico ed lo sta trovando molto utile.
Sono soddisfatta e contenta dell'acquisto ☺️





