A lot of clients I talk to that have diabetes tell them that their doctor says, once you have diabetes, you're on medication for life. But what if that's not necessarily true? For millions of people, type 2 diabetes feels like a lifelong sentence, but today's guest believes it doesn't have to be. Chris Reid is an entrepreneur, health advocate, and researcher who's dedicated himself to helping people reverse diabetes, not just manage it. He brings a data-driven practical approach to metabolic health, showing how nutrition,

movement, and lifestyle changes have worked for him to restore insulin sensitivity and give

himself and other people he's worked with their lives back.

So in this episode, we show what he's actually done to reverse his diabetes, some of the

common myths holding people back, and some super simple steps that people can take to regain control of their blood sugar and their future. Welcome to get leaner and live longer with Nate Palmer, the show for busy people who want to maximize their energy, burn fat, and build a body that feels as good as it looks. I'm Nate Palmer. I've been to coach since 2008, and I believe that looking great and feeling unstoppable does not require hours in the gym or giving up all the foods that you love. This show is where I share real strategies to help you get leaner, live longer, and unlock your million dollar body. So if you're ready to cut through the noise and hear a simple strategy that Chris has used very successfully that could work to not only manage diabetes, but actually reverse it, we'll stick around. Let's do this. Chris, welcome the Get Leener and Live Longer podcast. I'm so glad you're here. This is really, really exciting. I'm so excited to dive into potentially the implications and the ability to reverse diabetes. But for anyone who doesn't know you or your work, can you give us a little bit of background on who you are and how you ended up in this position right now? Sure.

And thanks for having me, Nate.

I really appreciate it.

Yes.

So in 2017, of all the things that would end up reversing my health, the thing I never thought it would be would be a botched life insurance renewal.

But that's what it was.

And my agent had switched companies and the guy who picked it up didn't renew my policy.

So within a 12-month period, I end up having to do the medical exam for life insurance twice,

which gave me an amazing baseline where in the beginning of 2017 or end of 2016,

my sugar was completely normal.

My A1C was normal.

My glucose was normal, all that.

By October of that year, when I had to do it again, my A1C, which is the average amount of blood sugar in your blood for a month, which 5.7 is normal and 13 O'Langea in a hospital, and mine was

9.1. And what was it, what was it like earlier in the year? 5.4, 5.5, something totally normal.

Yeah, so it's very, very scary. And if you Google that up, that's called rapid onset diabetes.

And it has a small but significant possibility of being pancreatic cancer, which obviously scared me into action probably more than just about

anything else because I was only 46 at the time, so I'd have been dead within a year. So fortunately

for me, it wasn't pancreatic cancer, but it did force me into action.

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