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NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

Friday Favorites: Fasting to Reverse Diabetes

NutritionFacts.org Video Podcast

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8951 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

By losing 15 percent of their body weight, nearly 90 percent of individuals with type 2 diabetes for less than four years may achieve remission.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is part of my ongoing series on fasting for disease reversal.

0:05.0

I have a bunch of other videos on fasting already, so go to Nutritionfacts.org

0:10.0

and plug Fasting into the search bar for more. Currently, nearly half a billion adults have diabetes that 50% increase is expected in another generation.

0:31.3

I've got tons of videos on the best diets for diabetes, but what about no diet at all?

0:38.3

More than a century ago, fasting was said to bring about the cure of diabetes,

0:42.3

speedily arresting its development and causing complete disappearance of all its

0:46.3

manifestations in several days or weeks.

0:49.3

Even so, starvation is guaranteed to lead to the complete disappearance of you, if kept up long

0:56.5

enough, what's the point of fasting at a wave is just going to come raging back as soon

1:01.5

as you restart the diet that caused it in the first place.

1:06.0

Might it be useful to kind of kickstart a healthier diet?

1:09.0

Let's see what the science says.

1:12.6

Type 2 diabetes has long been recognized as a disease of excess, a disease of the idle

1:17.6

rich, by which they mean anyone who doesn't practice sustained, vigorous bodily exertion

1:22.8

every day and earning enough to regularly eat more than they need.

1:26.2

So diabetes is preventable, but then maybe it's also treatable.

1:32.0

If we are dying of overeating, maybe we can be saved by under-eating.

1:38.8

Remarkably, this was suggested about 2,000 years ago in an Ayurvedic text, diabetics were encouraged to live like

1:46.5

a saint, a walk for, oh, 800 or 900 miles, dig a pond, or live only on cow dung and

1:55.1

cow urine.

1:57.0

That reminds me of the Rolo Diet for Diabetes proposed in 1797, composed of a diet of

2:03.6

rancid meat that was on top of the Ipac-like drugs he used to produce severe sickness and

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