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Diabetes Is a Curable Disease
 
by Gabriel Cousens, MD • Patagonia, AZ

 

Society is always taken by surprise by any new example of common sense.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

No physician can ever say that any disease is incurable. To say so blasphemes God, blasphemes Nature, and depreciates the great architect of Creation. The disease does not exist, regardless of how terrible it may be, for which God has not provided the corresponding cure.

– Paracelsus

From my 40 years of clinical experience as a holistic medical doctor, and that of live-food 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.

Although allopathic teachings label Type- 1 and Type-2 diabetes as incurable, my clinical experience with 120 clients, is that in 21 days, 61 percent of those with Type-2 non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and 24 percent of those with Type-2 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) are healed—meaning a fasting blood sugar (FBS) of less than 100 and no medications.

Approximately 31.4 percent of Type-1 diabetics were off all insulin in three weeks and approximately 21 percent of Type-1 diabetics were off all insulin with a FBS less than 100.

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. My new insight and theory into looking deeply at the underlying causes of diabetes, which I now label chronic degenerative diabetes syndrome (CDDS), on both the pandemic-global and the personal level, affirms that there is a consistent scientific process 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 the following, on the level of individual responsibility: a diet high in refined simple and complex carbohydrates; high amounts of cooked animal protein and saturated fats with their trans-fatty acids produced from cooking (and especially frying oils at high temperatures and hydrogenation), as well as vegetable-based trans-fatty acids; low-fiber food; caffeinated beverages; smoking; a lifestyle devoid of love and exercise; high stress; and watching television 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. The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year. 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.

These degenerate conditions and lifestyles and a high-carbohydrate, junk-food diet that create diabetes emanate from these modern humancreated 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 lifestyle of the Culture of Death, to embrace the lifestyle of the Culture of Life. On a personal level this means choosing to live in a way that promotes life and wellbeing for oneself as well as the planet. It means creating a diet and lifestyle in which there is naturally minimal or no incidence of diabetes.

Individually, this means a diet that is organic; moderately low glycemic; moderate-low plant-source-only carbohydrate (25–45 percent, primarily from leafy greens, green vegetables, and sprouts); at least 80 percent live food; high in mineral content; 25–45 percent plant-source-only, raw fat (no animal protein or fat and no trans fats from animal or plant sources); 10–25 percent protein; low-insulin index; well hydrated; individualized; and of modest food intake.

For it to be successful, it needs to be 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.

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. Humanity still has that choice. This is about empowering individuals, health professionals, as well as national and global policy makers to make that choice. Even in the most adverse circumstances, it still is possible for motivated individuals and nations to heal on the Dr. Cousens’s Diabetes Recovery Program—A Holistic Approach as an act of love and consciousness.

Excerpted from There Is a Cure for Diabetes, Revised Edition by Gabriel Cousens, MD, published by North Atlantic Books, copyright ©2008, 2013 by Gabriel Cousens. Reprinted by permission of North Atlantic Books.

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Gabriel Cousens, MD, a leading medical authority with 40 years of success in healing diabetes naturally, is the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, AZ. A best-selling author and the creator of Dr. Cousens’ Diabetes Recovery Program, he uses the modalities of diet, nutrition, naturopathy, Ayurveda, and homeopathy blended with spiritual awareness in the healing of body, mind and spirit.