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There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program Paperback – January 8, 2008
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- Print length472 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNorth Atlantic Books
- Publication dateJanuary 8, 2008
- Dimensions6.03 x 1.15 x 8.98 inches
- ISBN-101556436912
- ISBN-13978-1556436918
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—Dr. Rob Ivker, DO, ABHM, co-founder and past president of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and author of Sinus Survival
“Gabriel Cousens, MD, has clearly established himself as the world's leading medical authority on diabetes. His Tree of Life program is proven to completely reverse Type-2 diabetes and markedly improve the condition of those suffering from Type-1 diabetes.”
—David Wolfe, author of Eating for Beauty and The Sunfood Diet Success System and founder of Sunfood Nutrition and The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation
“There is abundant evidence that people with even long-standing diabetes can improve their health dramatically—and practically reverse their condition. Gabriel Cousens, MD, shows you how to tackle this disease through lifestyle intervention, explaining how a low-fat, vegan diet could save your life. There Is a Cure for Diabetes is an extraordinary tool that will guide you in your journey to fight diabetes and regain your health.”
—Neal Barnard, MD, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
“As a doctor who has treated diabetes for nearly thirty years, I can tell you with certainty that the standard medical protocols and management of this illness are not only inappropriate, they’re absurd. In sharp contrast, Gabriel Cousens, MD, has developed a protocol for successfully restoring the health and well-being of diabetics, sparing them the pain and agony of unnecessary and inevitable amputations, obesity, blindness, and premature death. If followed, his advice in There Is a Cure for Diabetes provides diabetics freedom from their illness and enriches the quality of their lives.”
—Daniel Nuchovich, MD, director of Jupiter Gardens Medical Center and Jupiter Institute of the Healing Arts
"The beauty of Gabriel's work is that he's not just putting forward an interesting theory—the people he's cured of diabetes are living proof that it works. The truths in [There is a Cure for Diabetes] go behind diabetes—they're a sensible lifestyle choice for all human beings."
—The Mother magazine
"There is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., prescribes fasting and a low glycemic, low insulin scoring diet."
—Publishers Weekly
"Massively packed with information and references to studies and other scientific papers that can make your head spin. [Cousens'] years of tireless scientific research for the living foods community is a precious gift for those of us seeking a much healthier lifestyle. All in all, There Is A Cure For Diabetes is an excellent book for a raw foodist library."
—Raw Food Right Now!
"Gabriel Cousens’ book, There is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program, is a comprehensive guide—not to living with diabetes but for learning how to live without it. It is, as the author explains, about embracing a culture of life rather than a culture of death. In reading this book, do not expect an approach of moderate changes to your lifestyle—adding this, or subtracting that—this is about total physical and spiritual transformation."
—Spiritualitea.com
About the Author
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Yes . . . Type-2 diabetes is a curable disease. From my thirty-five years of clinical experience as a wholistic medical doctor, and that of livefood therapeutic centers since the 1920s when Max Gerson, MD, healed Albert Schweitzer of diabetes with live foods, the fact that diabetes is a curable disease is common knowledge in the live-food community. Diabetes is not a fixed sentence; it is not our natural condition, and has only become a problem of pandemic proportions since the 1940s. The word pandemic comes from the Greek pan-, meaning “all,” plus demos, meaning “people or population.” Thus, “pandemos” or “all the people.” A pandemic is an epidemic that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world. This book is about looking deeply at the underlying causes of diabetes on both the pandemic-global and the personal level, and supplying readers with a way to achieve rapid reversal from the misery of a diabetic physiology to a joyous and healthy physiology.
Although many people have a genetic susceptibility to Type-2 diabetes, the true causes (which activate the genetic potential physiology of diabetes) lie in a personal and world lifestyle and diet that pulls the trigger on the diabetes gun. This diabetogenic personal and world lifestyle and diet includes on the level of individual responsibility: a diet high in refined carbohydrates such as white sugar and white flour; high amounts of cooked animal saturated fats; trans-fatty acids produced from cooking (and especially frying oils at high temperatures); low fiber food; coffee and caffeinated beverages; smoking; a lifestyle devoid of love and exercise; high stress; watching TV programming. Diabetogenic contributing factors on a planetary level include living in a degraded environment in which the air, earth, and water are, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, filled with 70,000 different toxic chemicals, heavy metals, agrochemicals, and other toxic substances—65,000 of which are potentially hazardous to our health. The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year, including seventy-two million pounds of known carcinogens. In addition, we live in a mental and emotional environment filled with messages of stress and death from the media, including news of constant wars and terrorism infecting the planet. The degenerate conditions, lifestyle, and diet that create diabetes emanate from these modern human-created realities, which, taken together, we are calling the Culture of Death.
The cure, on the most profound level, is to move away from a global and personal Culture of Death, to embrace the Culture of Life. On a personal level this means choosing to live in a way that promotes life and well-being for oneself as well as the planet. It means creating a diet and lifestyle in which there is minimal or no incidence of diabetes. Individually, this means a diet that is organic, vegan, at least 80 percent live-food, high in mineral content, 15—20 percent plant-only fat (no animal fat), high-fiber, low-glycemic, low-insulin index, well hydrated, individualized, and prudent food intake—a cuisine that is sustainable for the duration of one’s life, and prepared and eaten with love. Collectively, it means creating a world culture where all people have access to healthy, organic food and water, decent shelter, and a living environment free of chemicals and pollutants. Healing diabetes in this personal and global context is an act of love for oneself and the living planet. This love is an expression of the Culture of Life.
The teaching of this book is that humanity is created to be vibrant, alive, and healthy. As it says in Deuteronomy 30:19 from 3,400 years ago: “Today, I have set before you life and death and a blessing and a curse. You must choose life in order that you and your children shall live.” Things have not changed. We still have that choice. This book is about empowering you, health professionals, and national and global policymakers to have that choice. Even in the most adverse circumstances, it still is possible for motivated individuals and nations to heal on the Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program as an act of love and consciousness.
The inspiration for this book began with a movie on diabetes and live foods that was made at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. The original idea was to do a film on the effect of being raw for thirty days. I strongly suggested that it would be more interesting to the general public to witness on film the effect of live foods on diabetic, McDonald’s-Culture-of-Death individuals. Based on my clinical experience in healing diabetes naturally with motivated people, I was confident that these principles and approach would work with this new group of diabetic people. It seemed like an interesting exploration of how it would work for a group of people totally unfamiliar with live-food cuisine and way of life. The results were amazing. Of the six who started the program, only one dropped out. By the fourth day, four were off their insulin or oral hypoglycemic medications, and one Type-1 diabetic was down from 70 units of insulin per day to moving toward the 5 units he reached by the end of the month. One of the two Type-1 diabetics, whose fasting blood sugar (FBS) chart appears later in the book, and who was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes by doctors in a hospital setting, dropped to a normal blood sugar after two weeks, and has remained there ever since. As of this writing, two years later, he remains cured of Type-1 diabetes. Another participant, who had severe neuropathy in his lower limbs, numbness in his scrotum and feet, was suffering from mental deterioration and confusion, and was preparing to have a foot amputated, recovered completely from the neuropathy and became mentally clearer. The tissue of his foot also healed and his blood sugar dropped to normal range in the first two weeks. Two of the women who had been living with a blood sugar of 300-plus while on medications dropped to blood sugars of 111 and 130 by the end of the month without medications. Most of the other blood chemistries of all of them became normal after one month. Mental state became clear and joyous in all participants.
On realizing the powerful effect of thirty days of live food with specific diabetic supplements and herbs on participants’ physical and mental states, and on their diabetes in particular, it became clear that we had a program that could be applicable and successful for everyone, as this group was representative of the Western populace. The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program is more powerful than the thirty-day raw approach seen in the film. It includes a minimum seven-day green juice fast in the first week, which greatly accelerates the reversing of the diabetic degenerative physiological process. Based on research by Dr. Stephen Spindler, it is our theory that calorie restriction turns on the anti-aging and theoretically the anti-diabetic genes. In our dietary approach, there is actually no restriction, but the participant is invited to enjoy a delicious, healthy cuisine. This is the powerful secret of the success of this program. In the second week, a four-day course shows people how to let go of their belief that diabetes is incurable. It also shows people how to let go of all the psychological programming and habits that create the diabetes lifestyle. In the third week, people learn how to prepare low-glycemic foods and a healthy healing cuisine. We then have a one year follow-up that supports people in staying on the program, which includes, if needed, supervised Juice Feasting, a powerful at-home practice for those who need to continue to lose weight and heal the complications associated with a diabetic physiology that develops over many years and takes some time to reverse...
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- Publisher : North Atlantic Books; 1st edition (January 8, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 472 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1556436912
- ISBN-13 : 978-1556436918
- Item Weight : 1.66 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.03 x 1.15 x 8.98 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #854,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #885 in General Diabetes Health
- #2,466 in Healing
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About the author

Gabriel Cousens is the author of seven internationally acclaimed books including Spiritual Nutrition and Creating Peace by Being Peace. Known worldwide as a spiritual teacher and the leading expert in live, plant-source nutrition, Dr. Cousens functions as a holistic physician, psychiatrist, family therapist, and cutting edge researcher on healing diabetes naturally.
He holds an M.D. from Columbia Medical School, a doctorate in homeopathy, and diplomas in Ayurveda, clinical acupuncture, and holistic medicine. His multi-cultural background as an ordained rabbi, an acknowledged yogi, and a four-year Native American sundancer, adds insight to his “whole-person enlightenment” teachings.
Dr. Cousens is the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, an innovative holistic retreat center for the renewal of body, mind, and spirit, based in Patagonia, Arizona. In his book, There Is A Cure For Diabetes, Dr. Cousens presents his rejuvenation center’s program for reversing diabetes naturally.
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before i start eating what is recommended, my BG is 180 fasting and over 240 after meal.
Now its at 80-90 (3 weeks into eating 80% raw) and after meal highest is 145's (big cooked veggies meal) and went down to 100's in 2 hour
Yea, I still eat some cooked vegetables. But I try..
Also exercise 5 days a week 1 hour on average per session. Only lost 8 lbs but saw major improvement.
Also I am not obese or overweight to begin with. only 20lbs above normal weight.
only meds I took is metformin 2x a day 500mg
That also will be lowered soon as doctor is monitoring me to wait for 1 more month and notice the improvement.
Hopefully she let me take off the meds soon.
I bought the DVD recommended from amazon.
it's about $5 cheaper than the author website, go find "simply raw dvd" in amazon
I think it's worth it.
If anyone want advice on their diabetes, you can shoot me an email:
stan.genesis@live.com
I read: 4-5 books on reversing diabetes, research on other alternatives including surgery. And currently on this diet myself.
some book allow fish and chicken. But hey, why don't just do what all the books give green light? heheh
good book :)
and the DVD is inspirational as well.
There are lots of great raw food recipes in this book and if you buy his other book "Rainbow Green Life Food Cuisine" you could be on your way to stopping or preventing diabetes.
If I can get my diabetes under control with food and exercise as opposed to a regime of drugs then this is what I will try. It is hard as family and peer group pressure will continue on as usual. My brother in law has also been diagnosed with diabetes in the last 6 months. He has taken the drug route and continues to do everything that he did before.
I think I will take the informed path and move on based on what I have learnt.
Thanks for creating such a well researched tome.
I have to change my life and if I do not then my body will do it for me.
Robert.
However, like Dr. Bernstein's books I find some of the author's suggestions too radical/impractical for me. I think that in both cases, the author's have everyone's best interests at heart but leave out the discussion about diabetes being a very individual journey. I'm not an expert but everyone appears to be at different places with this disease and if you're a Type 1'er please be careful with this book. It may not work for you and as I understand some Type 1'ers only have a 72hr grace period when it comes to insufficient insulin.
Anyway, this book is worth the read and so I recommend that you add it to your list.
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problems. It is very clear and well written. I am learning a lot of important things for my health in this book. Excellent.
Not manage it - or maintain it - or create positive affirmations - but actually cure it - through awareness of diet...
The Tree of Life 21 day plan may seem quite complicated - and a little way out there - the first time you read the book - so re-read it and highlight it and get organised before you choose to start because it's actually nice and simple...
You need a blender and a juicer to begin eating nutrient dense food instead of calorie dense processed food. The basic premise is to juice and blend your way back to health - and it works.
It is also a simpler way - once you get your head around it - than counting calories - although there is also research that suggests an 800 calorie per day diet will also "reverse / cure" diabetes type 2 - just google R Taylor Newcastle Diabetes Reversal for the scientific published paper regarding calorie and diabetes.
Anyway, I bought two copies because I had a client who recommended this book to me - I specialise in addiction, weight loss, relationships and a few other things and now am getting more and more clients who either have diabetes type 2 or have learnt how to "cure" the incurable disease themselves through books such as this one - and I want to help share this life changing information.
The book is much more than just information regarding diabetes - it's a philosophy on living - or as the author states - moving away from a culture of death towards a culture of living.
The information is split into 6 chapters and begins by covering the current "pandemic" as it was in 2008 (and it seems is getting worse in 2012) and also the reasoning behind the "why it's happening". Gabriel then moves into a very comprehensive and scientifically backed theory of diabetes and a helpful "7 stages of disease" model.
And most importantly for you - the reader - especially if you have diabetes - Gabriel then explains how to begin the cure by following a simple 21 day program.
Then - just as importantly - Gabriel covers the "what next" and explains the rationale behind choosing a style of life that's a "culture of living" and finishes the book with a chapter on raw food recipes...
When I first worked in addiction - and spoke about unhelpful beliefs - I used to talk about "cooking" because its not actually that "normal" even though everyone does it - and it's a "given" that cooking is what we do - and yet now - 20 years older - and a bit wiser - I'm continually questioning - what everyone does - because it's not that healthy - and this book has become a continuation of my personal quest for helpful knowledge...
And this book is probably one of the most helpful books I have ever read - in generally "getting better" and not just in regards to curing diabetes. It will enable you to question what "well" actually means in relationship to you, significant others in your life and also your place in the world / Eco system...
The book may be over detailed and overly complicated in certain areas - however - when attempting to change the world - and this book has the power to definitely change your world - and create a ripple in the wider world - especially if you put your "western belief system" to one side and choose to buy a blender and a juicer and have a 21 day blast...
You may become pleasantly surprised at what happens next - want to write a review such as this one - buy a couple of copies and help Gabriel continue sharing his life changing 21 day plan...
should specify type 2 as it is misleading and may give people false hope.
i learned a lot from this book, with a lot of excellent info on how the body changes as you age. in particular i was interested in how simple changes - adding chromium and cinnamon and excerise etc was able to - as good as - correct the insulin levels needed to make blood sugar levels drop back to being pre diabetic.
of course this was a self experiement which worked for me, it may not for others and we all know we need to speak to medical people before doing what i did = give it a go and see.
however i will say reading the book is a bit heavy going, i had to fold corners of pages,scribble notes at the back. why ? because the info was that good.
so to summarize - the book is excellent and factual, and to be honest, it has made me change my lifestyle and diet for the better.
if you only get one bit of life changing info from a book then the book is worthwhile.
however - i can assure any reader - you will be going back and fore to this book, it has more info in it than you would think possible.
i hope the NHS insist all GP's have a copy, there's info in it i doubt GP's know about. and yes my sugar has returned to the normal level and i have been successful in preventing myself from being diabetic. i did what was in the book before having a tol.test. therefore i was not recorded as being diabetic and if i continue with my new knowledge it would be unlikely to change.
books are about choice, but i am glad i chose this one to read.

