Your body is constantly remodeling itself. Studies show that about one percent of your body cells are renewed daily. These cells will either manifest themselves in you as stronger and more vibrant cells, or as weaker and older cells.

So how can you assure that you give your body the best chance to bring forth the stronger and more vibrant cells, that will, in turn, translate over into health? By wisely choosing the materials/foods you give your body to use for rebuilding, which is, in fact, real whole foods, especially leafy greens.

Whole foods are merely natural foods in their natural state, free from any additives and unprocessed. Meaning they have not been altered or if any very little. Not only will these foods satisfy your hunger, but they will also be naturally rich in real nutrients, that synthetic nutrients simply can’t compete with. In addition to their nutrients, many have shown have properties that are anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, and being anti-cancer.

If you want to experience high-performance health, whole foods with a strong emphasis on plants, especially leafy greens are where it’s at. As healthy as the labels will claim, “food” that comes in a wrapper, package, box, or through a window, with additional ingredients, such as preservatives and additives, are just not real whole foods.

Here is where a lot of discipline is required. A lot of people resort to a sweet treat, some chips and a can of 50 cent soda as comfort food or even to fill up a craving but in the long run the consumption of all that junk adds up to extra fat and weight that can lead to unfavorable health conditions, diabetes type 2 included.

What you need to know and understand is that type 2 diabetes is NOT a medical condition, it is a Dietary/lifestyle condition. You don't treat dietary/ lifestyle conditions with medications since a lack of medicines was not what caused it in the first place. The equation for type 2 diabetes looks like this, "Refined foods + frequent eating + lack of movement = insulin resistance over time." This is lifestyle all day. By adjusting and improving the variables above, we will  now be able to improve and or reverse diabetes. 

Over and over again, you've probably heard me say that " the Standard American Diet is a disease, it is a dysfunction of nutrients. Why? Because it’s at the root of these preventable/ lifestyle conditions. It's almost impossible to achieve the status of diabetes without the use of process foods. More than one-third of the population is obese, and around 70-80% have some level of insulin resistance, and this is what causes it: the standard American Diet. Uncontrolled amounts of highly refined and heavily processed "foodstuff," that causes metabolic havoc on our bodies.

Processed foods are the nutritional version of colonization that launches an internal war on your physiology. This daily attack of processed foods will cause the body to protect itself via insulin resistance, increased blood pressure and cholesterol, along with other protective adaptions that will be demonized and treated as diseases. However, these adaptations are merely protecting us from ourselves. The real question is what kinds of foods we should consume for optimal health? There are different kinds of diets and ideologies out there but our goal at H-BAMN to get us back to whole foods, at least 70% plant-based. If you choose to incorporate animal sources in your diet as a part of the other aspect of that ratio, then make sure it's organic.

The growing number of people who have obesity can be attributed to mainly two things. The first thing is consuming processed foods, which we’ve pinned above. While the other thing is a sedentary lifestyle, which, simply put, is the lack of movement and physical activity.

For my patients and clients, I usually recommend walking daily or HIIT. HIIT is a methodology that I prescribe to all my patients, but more especially for those who are pre-diabetic or have type 2 Diabetes. For my patients who choose to implement it, it does wonders for their health.

So what is HIIT? Well, it's something that we all use to do at some point in our life. Whether we were playing hide and go seek, freeze tag or riding our bikes playing chase, we all at some point habitually did HIIT. In fact, doing HIIT seemed to come so natural to us that is was baked into our play. It was never something that had to be taught.

HIIT is Going TOP SPEED for a short burst followed by a short rest period in between followed by several more rounds of going all out. Essentially, this is fancy talk for being a kid again! Although a very popular method among kids, the health effects of HIIT are anything but child’s play.

You see, type 2 diabetes and HIIT are inherently natural enemies. HIIT gives the pathology of diabetes extreme difficulty when trying to persist as a disease. High-intensity interval training has been shown to override this insulin resistance momentarily, thus making the muscle cells very much sensitive to the glucose present in the bloodstream, without the use of insulin, which in turn done consistently, will increase insulin sensitivity, while also improving uncontrolled blood sugar levels.

The reason this happens has been well documented. Each cell has glucose transporters (GLUT4) which are usually activated by insulin to allow glucose into the cell. However, HIIT sends your muscles into beast mode, because the INTENSE contraction of the muscles, will now simulate the GLUT4 transporters, absorbing glucose whether insulin is available or not. Why, because in order for your cells to participate in this intense workout, it will use the glucose that it already had, while needing more to continue.

Clinically, I have seen this work multiple times with my own patients who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. When I give them a prescribed workout plan of HIIT, along with these other strategies, their HA1c and several other markers for diabetes improve.

Fasting is everything and Fasting is my gospel. Due to the successful miseducation from the pharmaceutical, medical and health care industry, many of us are taught to believe that diabetes is all about blood sugar and blood sugar control, hence the need for medications that help keep you nice and managed within a certain range. Although the constant presence of high blood sugar level is a problem, this is the inappropriate focus of the condition due to the fact that high blood sugar levels are merely a result of the underlying issue, which is insulin resistance.

Due to the constant exposure and presence of insulin, our cells have made the intelligent decision to down-regulate insulin receptors so that there is not a continuous influx of glucose inside of an already glucose stuffed cell. This downregulation of insulin receptors then leads to the build-up of glucose in the bloodstream. All of this is a protective mechanism that is actually protecting us from ourselves. How do we call off this protective mechanism? By ceasing the onslaught of food so frequently. This is why every month we hold a space for the community to come together to engage in a 24-hour FUBU Community Fast, while also bringing awareness to the accelerated deterioration of health in our community and how we can stop and reverse this issue.

This step mainly focuses on the supportive aspect of pre-diabetes and diabetes type 2 reversal. We have to collectively re-remember that nature holds most of the answers to much of our health issues, and this is especially true with diabetes. Along with all the other steps, an accurately designed, naturally-sourced herbal supplementation can really help.

There are several herbs, vitamin, and minerals that are particularly helpful with decreasing blood sugar while increasing insulin sensitivity.

This is just to name a few, but there are so many more herbs out there that would have a similar effect on blood sugar and insulin sensitivity. The problem with consuming these beneficial herbs on a daily basis is that it would be unpractical and costly. However, if you can find these ingredients in an all in one supplement like our Blood Sugar Support, then I would highly recommend taking it on a daily basis.

Our Blood sugar support is made of more than ten natural ingredients that are hand-picked because of their actions against diabetes, glucose tolerance, and insulin sensitivity. It’s not only natural and fully absorbable, but it also doesn’t have any adverse side effects.

These five simple steps can help anyone prevent diabetes and with best efforts, even reverse type 2 diabetes. It doesn’t happen overnight though, it can be a long, tough battle, but what matters is the commitment and diligence put towards reaching the end goal which is health. Type 2 diabetes is not a dead end road, it is reversible, but you have to put in the work!