How Doctors Like Me Are Becoming Medical Outlaws

Every day, millions of people around the world battle type 2 diabetes. You or a loved one may be one of them.

As you know, Big Food and Big Pharma don’t have the slightest interest in curing this chronic scourge that now affects more than half a billion people worldwide. And those frightening numbers are projected to more than double to 1.3 billion over the next few decades.

Meanwhile, doctors like me have been turned into medical outlaws for telling patients that we can not only prevent type 2 diabetes, but cure it.

And I’m not alone. Several Australian doctors recently faced a backlash from the Big Food industry for successfully helping patients reverse type 2 diabetes through diet alone.

I’ll tell you more about that in a minute. But first let me tell you that similar pressure is happening right here in the United States.

It’s no surprise that Big Pharma or Big Food aren’t interested in curing diabetes. Last year alone, the global diabetes drug market was worth more than $66 billion. And it’s projected to surge to $132.36 billion by 2034.

But these Big Pharma meds will never cure the disease. They only manage the disease and that’s just how they want it to stay.

Big Food’s profits rely on the sugar and additives that are at the root of the global diabetes crisis in the first place.

Meanwhile, food industry lobby groups have successfully targeted the FDA and Congress, and now diabetes-causing foods are stocked on every shelf, in every supermarket, in every town in America and the world.

In this article, you’ll learn how Big Food has created the global diabetes epidemic and how it continues to profit as the world gets sicker. You’ll also learn how to follow a blueprint that your ancient ancestors left that can trigger the hidden mechanisms in your body to prevent and reverse — type 2 diabetes.

Most recenlty, at least seven physicians in Australia have been placed in the crosshairs and reported to their local medical boards for helping patients beat diabetes with diet.

That may sound shocking, but it’s true. I’ve faced the same threats in the past.

These doctors committed no crime except to advise patients to reduce their sugar intake and consume more whole foods like eggs, cheese, and full-fat yogurt.

One doctor told a television interviewer that he was "reported" on more than one occasion for advising patients to reduce sugar and "inappropriately" reversing another patient’s diabetes.

He also said he’s been accused of inflicting a "horrendously dangerous intervention" on diabetic patients with this protocol. And he has email evidence that Big Food wants physicians like himself to be stopped from helping diabetics overcome their illness.

As if telling patients to eat less sugar and more fat and protein is somehow a threat to their health!

It turns out that since he had in fact reversed his patients’ type 2 diabetes, their change of diet was exactly what they needed to start healing.

Meanwhile, another Australian doctor was reported for suggesting his diabetic patients spend more time exercising at the gym, because it directly benefits the pancreas by reducing blood sugar levels.

These are terrible crimes in the eyes of Big Food and Big Pharma!

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries — and probably for thousands of years before that — the incidence of diabetes around the world was constant. But then things took a massive turn for the worse in the 1980s.

By the year 2030, one in every 10 people on the planet is expected to have full-blown type 2 diabetes.

What changed?

Enter Big Agra and Big Food, and the explosion in wheat and sugar consumption as well as the more recent addition of toxic and nearly nutritionless ultra processed foods.

Wheat consumption in America alone has increased by a staggering 26 pounds since the 1970s to about 133 pounds per person a year — the equivalent of around 200 loaves.

Globally, wheat is Big Agra’s most-planted cash crop. Around 215 million hectares — an area the size of Greenland — of wheat are grown and harvested every year, generating more than $50 billion a year for Big Agra before it’s even processed into the food supply.

Meanwhile, the consumption of sugar, another cash crop, has also skyrocketed. Just look at the chart on page 1 of this article. The average American now consumes around a 170 pounds of refined sugars each year, compared with just 4 pounds 100 years ago.

Whether it’s in sandwiches, pizzas, pasta, toast, breakfast cereals, Oreo cookies or even granola bars in the name of health, wheat and sugar now dominate the western diet.

According to the CDC, the average weight for men in 1960 was 166.3 pounds, compared with 195.7 in 2014. That’s almost 30 more pounds spread over every adult male.

The result is sky-high blood sugars, insulin resistance, obesity and a worldwide diabetes epidemic.

Over the past few decades all these sugary, carb-laden concoctions now fall under the category of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). To make matters worse, this means they’re packed with even more unnatural refined starches and sugars, and come from industrialized, pesticide-contaminated, genetically modified crops grown on land that’s been stripped of nutritional value.

Most UPF products also usually include artificial flavorings, aromas, colorings, emulsifiers, preservatives, and other additives that increase shelf life and profit margins for Big Agra and Big Food — but reduce human life.

Multiple studies directly link UPFs to a significantly increased chance of developing type 2 diabetes, as well as a host of other conditions, including cardiovascular diseases and mental health disorders.

Most doctors respond to diabetes by first telling you that you have something broken inside — a genetic defect. Then they’ll tell you that treating the disease is all about controlling your surging blood-sugar levels.

Like my Australian counterparts, I’ve been reversing diabetes for decades by attacking the true source of the disease — not blood sugar, but insulin resistance.

But you can prevent and reverse diabetes by using the same natural techniques that kept your primal ancestors free of this dreadful condition.

Let me explain...

Your ancient ancestors never suffered from diabetes. Their bodies knew instinctively how to avoid this scourge, and they even had built-in mechanisms for reversing it if it did happen...

You see, although type 2 diabetes is a modern epidemic, it’s not a modern disease.

It’s no surprise then that the first mention of the disease appears among the medical texts of the first large-scale farming empires like ancient Egypt, India, and Greece, all of which were utterly dependent on their grain crops as far back as 1552 BC.

But before the rise of the first ancient agricultural societies, diabetes was unknown — and most likely didn't even exist.

That’s because, plain and simple, type 2 diabetes is caused by the excess of insulin-spiking carbohydrates and starches in our nutrition-less, grain-based modern diet. It has wrecked our metabolism and made our bodies act in ways nature never intended.

You don’t get type 2 diabetes from the diet and lifestyle of a hunter-gatherer. And you don’t get it from the genes that you inherited from your relatives either, as many mainstream doctors still believe.

The good news is that your body has the inborn blueprint you inherited from your hunter-gatherer ancestors to be strong, smart and disease-free — and that includes freedom from diabetes.

You see, diabetes is your body’s response to not following those ancient guidelines.

I use three natural strategies that modern medicine rarely even considers, to help patients with type 2 diabetes.

You can immediately begin to normalize your insulin levels by reducing your sugar and carbohydrate intake. It’s the first step to defeating diabetes, despite what Big Food and the Australian medical boards claim.

But there’s a lot more you can do...

Strategy #1. Eat Full-Fat Yogurt (And Other Probiotics): The Australian doctors were right to recommend yogurt to their diabetic patients.

You see, multiple studies now confirm that diabetes starts in your gut — and one of the best ways to improve your gut health is with full-fat yogurt.

Studies show that your gut microbiome — the complex community of trillions of microflora that live in your gut and support your health — also plays a key role in the pathology of type 2 diabetes, as well as defending against it.

Your health depends on mass populations of bacteria living together in balanced harmony, or "bacterial homeostasis." But when you have an imbalance in your gut — a condition called dysbiosis, where bad microbes thrive, and beneficial ones die — diseases like type 2 diabetes can strike.

Probiotics like full-fat yogurt help redress that balance. The problem is, not all yogurts are created equal.

Most yogurts on supermarket shelves are packed with added sugar. These are more likely to contribute to the development of diabetes, rather than reduce your risk of getting it.

Studies show that live bacterial colonies in yogurt will survive the perils of traveling through your stomach acid to reach your gut.

While I always tell my patients to repopulate their gut bacteria to rebuild a healthy microbiome, I never recommend sweetened yogurts and only a few of the so-called "natural" yogurts are worth considering.

Organic unsweetened Greek or "Greek-style" yogurts will have the highest number of bacterial colonies, along with unsweetened kefir products. Both options have around twice as many active cultures as most yogurts.

You can also try coconut yogurt, which is a non-dairy alternative fermented with live cultures of healthy-gut bacteria, but it contains much less protein than its dairy-based cousin.

Another good option for repopulating your gut with good bacteria is to take probiotic supplements — but make sure you choose ones that can make it through the acid in your digestive tract.

Always check for gut survivability. The manufacturer should be using some form of "acid proof" technology that protects the organisms from your stomach acid.

After a "loading dose" of once a day, most brands can be taken every two or three days thereafter. But don’t lapse. Keep feeding your microbiome what it needs.

Strategy #2. Feed Yourself Fat First: Fat is so important that if your body senses you’re starving, it does everything it can to preserve your fat stores.

This goes against everything we’ve been told for 50 years. In fact, the diet "dictocrats" did everything they could to ban natural fat from your food because they still say it causes heart attacks and other disease. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Following a meal that’s high in animal fats and super low in grains and other carbohydrates is as close to the diet of your primal ancestors as you can get.

Fat stabilizes your appetite by triggering the satiety hormones in the hippocampus region of the brain, which makes you feel full.

You feel it in other ways, too. Fat provides long-burning, consistent energy that carbohydrates from wheat and other grains just can’t match.

And there are no starches to trigger the extreme insulin response. Because your body doesn’t have starches to burn for energy, you burn fat instead.

In the beginning you may notice a little fatigue, brain fog, weakness, low libido, or bad breath. That should clear up in a week or two as your body adjusts to burning fat instead of carbohydrates. Soon your energy and mental sharpness will surge.

Make sure the fats you choose come from grass-fed cows, pastured pigs, and wild-caught fish.

Add fats like olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, butter, ghee, and heavy cream.

I also recommend MCT (medium chain triglycerides) oil derived from sources like coconut oil, and palm kernel oil. Your liver converts MCT directly to ketones, which are quickly converted into fuel for your body.

Many people think eating fat gives them the green light to eat any kind of fat they want. But even though fat is generally good for you, there are certain fats you have to avoid, including trans fats, omega-6 fats, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), and any fat from a factory farm-raised animal.

Strategy #3. Mimic The "Feast Or Famine" Of Our Ancestors. For tens of thousands of years, our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in a world where food was not guaranteed. And their cycle of feast or famine ensured their blood sugar and insulin were never chronically high.

Today I recommend what’s known as intermittent fasting. The research is pretty conclusive on its benefits...

Intermittent fasting helps improve glucose regulation, increases stress resistance, and suppresses inflammation. It also helps cells to activate an important process called autophagy. This is where the body cleans house and recycles worn out components of damaged cells.

One study of 16 healthy people found "alternate day fasting" for 22 days helped them lose 2.5% of their initial weight and 4% of their fat mass. This came with a 57% decrease in insulin levels.

Two recent studies showed reversed insulin dependence for patients with prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes when using an intermittent fasting plan.

Weight loss and less insulin dependence are just two of the benefits of intermittent fasting.

In addition, fasting helps:

I recommend that my patients start with a safe, simple regimen that calls for an 8-hour eating window each day, followed by a 16-hour fast.

Here’s how it works:

When your body gets used to the 16-hour fast, you can move up to the 24-hour mark. Make sure to drink plenty of water to hydrate and flush out toxins.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD