The Foods That Reversed Type 2 Diabetes (Doctors Finally Admit It)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Is there a diet that can help reverse type 2 diabetes? Discover how to reverse diabetes naturally with a diet that improves blood sugar control, eliminates cravings, and reduces insulin resistance.
0:00 The diet that reverses diabetes naturally
0:23 Can you reverse diabetes?
1:38 Insulin resistance and prediabetes
5:09 High blood sugar explained
6:08 Side effects of type 2 diabetes
6:47 How to reverse diabetes naturally
8:49 A low-carb diet and intermittent fasting
9:30 Signs of blood sugar problems
10:13 The best diabetes diet plan
12:15 Foods to avoid if you have type 2 diabetes
12:58 Natural blood sugar control
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Type 2 diabetes is diagnosed very late in the chain of events. Blood sugar can remain normal for years before a problem is detected. Long before prediabetes develops, insulin resistance is already present.
Insulin resistance is the body’s adaptation to excessive sugar, refined carbohydrates, frequent eating, and fructose consumption. When you eat sugar, insulin quickly removes it from the bloodstream. Over time, chronically elevated insulin levels cause cells to become resistant to its effects.
As insulin resistance worsens, excess glucose is converted into fat and stored in the muscles, liver, and other tissues. At this stage, blood sugar levels may still appear normal.
Eventually, this excess fat spills over into the pancreas, damaging the beta cells responsible for insulin production and leading to prediabetes and, ultimately, type 2 diabetes.
By the time type 2 diabetes is diagnosed, damage may already be occurring in the kidneys, arteries, nerves, and eyes.
Diabetes reversal may be possible through dietary changes that improve blood sugar control and address insulin resistance at its source, without the side effects associated with many medications.
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 61, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.
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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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| 0:00.0 | The diet that reverses type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetic patients were told it's irreversible. |
| 0:07.4 | You have to get on the medication. All we can do is manage it. Research isn't there. We have to wait |
| 0:12.3 | until we have some cure. Unfortunately, the system that we have now is mainly looking at drug |
| 0:18.5 | cures, not behavioral or diet change cures. |
| 0:23.3 | There are three credible trials that show that you can reverse diabetes. |
| 0:28.4 | The first one was called the direct trial. |
| 0:31.2 | 46% of people went into remission. |
| 0:34.3 | Now, I know the word remission sounds like it's not fixing the problem because you |
| 0:38.6 | have to maintain that lifestyle change. But all they really did is change their diet to a healthier |
| 0:44.6 | version of what they were eating. The Montreal study showed a 40% reversal in type 2 diabetes. |
| 0:51.7 | And then the retune trial showed a 70% remission. That means you phased out |
| 0:57.1 | of type 2 diabetes and you no longer have to keep taking the medication over and over and over |
| 1:01.1 | and being at the mercy of whatever side effects they create. There was something very interesting |
| 1:06.1 | in these studies. There were quite a few people who did not have a weight problem, yet they had type 2 diabetes. |
| 1:12.8 | So you can't always correlate obesity or being overweight with diabetes. |
| 1:18.0 | There are people that are thin that still get type 2 diabetes, primarily because some of the skinny |
| 1:23.0 | people don't really show fat on the outside. They show it deep inside around their liver, around their |
| 1:28.6 | pancreas, around their organs, and you can't really see it by looking at them. So there's two things |
| 1:33.4 | I want to go through. I am going to show you what to eat to reverse diabetes, but I first need to |
| 1:39.3 | show you the phases that someone goes through before they get diabetes. Over a period of 10 to 20 to 30 years, |
| 1:47.9 | you have normal blood sugar. And then one day, you're diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. And one way |
| 1:55.5 | they diagnose it is a fasting blood sugar level of 126 or more. Pre-diabetes is between 100 and 125. Now, if you look at this |
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