I read Dr. Barnards book the Program for Reversing Diabetes 5 years ago after being diagnosed with type 2 and other chronic conditions probably from exposure to agent orange in Vietnam. I went Whole Food Plant Based and now have an a1c of 5.5 from 9 and lost 72 pounds and reversed high blood pressure. Very grateful for this program.
Thank you for your service and Welcome Home. This country treated you like Crap when you came home. So happy you found a way to get better. I just started listening to this. Maybe help my neuropathy and arthritis. Stay well. Have a great weekend
Congratulations Mary! Chuck, you are the absolute best interviewer. You seem very present with all of your guests, you show such compassion to those who have struggled, you ask excellent questions of the experts, you know so much about this subject, and you are SUPER happy for people's successes....plus, your sense of humor is great :). I have watched the Exam Room podcast every week since Covid began. Looking forward to the next episode.
I am so very proud of Marys accomplishments. She is 100% committed to this lifestyle change and it is paying off in so many ways for her. I should disclose that she is my sister and I can attest to the fact that she is the most determined person I know. Mary has reigned her sparkling personality and has so much energy now. I can hardly keep up with her when we are together. I am so very grateful to this program for giving my sister the tools to save her life. I look forward to many exciting adventures with my sister in the future. I love you Mary! Congratulations!
I needed this testimony more than I can express! I’m in a home with sugar addicts and I am one my self. My A1C was 13.9 in December. Now it’s down to 6.3 but I’ve caved in and started the junk food a bit and then it was more than a bit and today again I had trouble seeing all day long! I feel encouraged. Thank you for sharing HOPE!
I am listening and it is like she is telling my story about my eyes. I do have macular degeneration and my eye doc sent me to a specialist and they suggested I join a trial for macular degeneration. For the trial they need to set a base line for your health so they took blood, urine ran a bunch of tests along with the regular eye tests. Was not able to do the trial and they recommended I see my regular doc because of the test results. More tests and doc told me I have diabetes. After loosing weight and being on medication my eye sight improved. You are inspiring to listen to. So glad to hear your story.
What a beautiful turnout for her. I love that for her & wish this for my mom as she also has diabetes & is really sick. I’m trying to convince her to become vegan.
I am not vegan. I had seen some very good recipes online. I actually am going to try some of them. There is recipes for beginners. Good luck on getting her to eat right. Tell her how much you want her around and be able to get around well.
I've been so stressed out lately. I notice I soothe myself with food. I've have my vegan pre-made meals readily available at home. I find myself in a struggle not to get in the car and head to the drive thru. Most days I win. Trying to retrain myself. It's hard!!
eat more greens & fresh fruit--don't deprive yourself of healthy food! I am a sugar addict myself, so I go through the same struggles. Love yourself and stay strong!
Thanks everyone!💕 I am reading the pleasure trap and I know my emotional eating is not rational. Right now I have Japanese yams and lots of delicious components of the 50/50 plan available to me and I enjoy that way of eating. I do go through an intense mental struggle to stop myself from ignoring my healthy food and get in the car to go grab something crappy with lots of cheese. At least I guess educating myself is helping me to observe and recognize my behavior but it's definitely a process for me. Thanks for all the tips!💕
When you say 'pre-made', do you mean meals you have made yourself, or are they store-bought? I found that eating as clean as I can does help with cravings. Now if I want something sweet I go for fruit or dates.
When people feel like crap, they usually reach for crap. I find it helps to get away from those stressful situations/thoughts, if possible, or use passionflower tea.
Well done Mary. Looking great. May you continue to get better and better. Great interview and thank you for sharing. Chuck, thank you for an excellent interview and for your own shared insights.
I am a Vegan now 10 years. But I was definitely a food addict and getting over it has not been always easy. But my salvation in regards to stopping the damage I was doing to myself with my food addiction I did not know what to do about was to get information which would turn my ideas of what is right and wrong physiologically so I could understand what food was meant to do and how to kill my food additions. I was in a wheelchair and my hands were nearly useless in the pain of arthritis. I remembered I had had a lot of bad reactions to milk, but it did no make my hands, back, knees and ankles hurt as a child. But decided to do an elimination diet and would start with all diary products - I just gave it all up, went to the store with my husband, rode in a ride on cart at Walmart and got my first carton of Soy Milk. Bought one of the vanilla and one plain. Inside of 3 weeks, my handwriting looked normal and I could lift a big frying pan and I was out of that wheelchair. So I looked to what others had to say about dairy causing arthritis and found Whole Food Plant-Based diets. My son had wanted me to try KETO before this, which I did and I became so horribly constipated that no laxative worked and had to use an enema which was excruciating. So I knew KETO was not for me at all. So I kept learning more and more and the weight began to come down. I had gotten up to 200 lbs. Shortly after giving up all dairy, I had to have an emergency Gallbladder surgery, of which I could have died from, it was at the point of rupture and badly infected. So got passed that and took my iPad to bed and watched one video after another on how to do plant-based eating. The weight began to come off. I never was hungry and my weight came down 55 libs. I began walking and I fell and broke my ankle and ten pounds crept back on. I had to find out how to heal my ankle and discovered the importance of kale and all vegetables. The ankle healed. All the calcium tablets the doctors told me to take did nothing as I was in menopause and my low estrogen, just could not absorb calcium this way. But plants worked. My leaky gut healed and so did my ankle and my weight is going down again. I had an abusive childhood so my self-image has not been great nor my confidence that I could make good decisions, but I have had a great mental turn around, and actually the first time in my life, feel happy and confident. My father had died of Alzheimer’s and before transitioning off of the Standard American Diet, I knew that my intellect was not where is used to be and was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. My thoughts are clear now, the diet is powerful over many conditions. All of my life I had been plagued with hyperhidrosis which is sweating like one is in shock out of nearly every pour, and cold and clammy nearly all the time. That I was able to find a husband and have three kids is like one of God’s miracles for me but this was all before my diet change. I exercised like crazy back then and was thin but my dad before he went in a nursing home for AD, but that put me in a wheelchair for a long time as he fell on top of me and crushed a vertebrae. But before menopause I healed that but could not lift much after that. Plant-based allows things to heal no matter how long ago the injury as it helps to clear out calcium deposits which having loads of dairy in my life had done. Though occasionally I can become stiff, it only lasts a day, sometimes only hours. And I can function. Along with getting over being obese and the arthritis, Plant-Based helped me to resolve my food addiction instead of a means of self-abuse and being out of control, to menu planning with an eye to how the foods I am eating can heal me. I have recently caught a virus, not Covid, which attacked my lungs, ran a fever of 104 degrees and I brought that down but so much coughing, went to the doctor and I am normally never on medication as my A1C is 5.1 and my cholesterol though it could be lower is not putting me at risk. So I went to making fresh salsa and got a fresh pineapple and have been finding ways to heal my breathing with what I can eat and drink, like herbal teas. The diet is powerful but also empowering because it get you to think that the answer really is out there and with God’s help, I can find the next step I need to accomplish to keep myself well. Both my mother and sister died of breast cancer and as I’ve also followed “The China Study” and Dr. McDougall’s work with reversing breast cancer for Ruth Heidrich, that I know that eating this way is also life saving. I do not have any cancers at all. Because of what I’ve told some of my friends, there are also several people who are giving Plant-Based eating a chance and I always point them to this channel for inspirational videos. We all owe you all a great debt for having the courage to tell a truth so many of us mocked until it healed us.
A truly inspiring lady. She proves that no matter how bad things get, a truly healthy diet can make a vast difference in the quality of life - and can hit you with some surprises. And Chuck is one of the best interviewers I have ever come across, in any field. PRCM are lucky to have him. I've been doing vegan for a couple of months now. I tried it many years ago and gave up because I often felt hungry and tired, and one day I spat the dummy and gave it up. This time it's different - because I'm eating mostly whole foods instead of processed and refined foods. I was previously a junk food vegan, and didn't even know it then. My unexpected surprise this year was that I don't feel hungry on a whole foods diet - because instead of eating nutritionally depleted convenience foods, I'm getting more nutrients than ever from whole or minimally processed foods. So it takes less calories to satisfy my needs, and the excess weight is just dropping off without having to struggle with constant hunger. A whole foods plant based diet is the way to go.
What a fantastic turn around. It goes to show what a vegan whole plant foods based diet can achieve. I didn't have any health issues before adapting this diet ( even though I am vegan for the animals and avoid other products/services that exploit animals as long as it's practical/ and possible) but that doesn't mean I wouldn't have health issues as I get older if I didn't change.
Thanks for your interview.. Very inspiring and congratulations Mary have a wonderful healthy life ahead. I know how you feel as it's great to get a second chance. Good luck and please carry own giving more talks as you go along. As this inspires lots to learn and take there health in their own hands. God bless you.🙏👍😇
20:00 my go-to are large carrots - because they're so clean, nice-smelling, and clean your teeth and body. Plus they're crunchy and like eating popcorn at a movie or chewing up - you can just eat it continuously without thinking about it. It's somthing that's with you in your activities throughout the day. If my day really went in some unpleasant direction - I do banana and some berries. If my head hurts from the day - it's mango + avocado.
2 months into eating this way. I broke my leg and was diagnosed in the ER with diabetes. A1C 11. In 2 months, I dropped 30 lbs without really trying. I sent the doc my sugar numbers and she called and told me to stop taking the insulin immediately. Loved that moment. Now I just have to keep it up and trust that things will be going the right direction even while eating way more carbs than the doc suggested. Blood work coming up soon. I can relate to Marys story because it was kind of a surprise and I did just make up my mind that something had to change permanently.
I became vegan for the moral reasons because I love animals. I thought when I had my hba1c test my numbers would be worse because now that I wasn’t eating as much fat I relied more heavily on carbs for my energy. But my hba1c was completely normal at 5.6 and my diabetes was reversed.
I also had an A-1C over 12 before my diabetes was diagnosed as type II. But that was 16 years ago. Since then, I have been on a very low carb diet (plant-based, salt-free, low protein). My last A-1C was 5.9 and has consistently been under 6.5 for years. I keep my weight low at about 140 lbs and I walk about 2 miles a day. But despite the very tight control of my blood sugar, my diabetes has continued to progress. I'm virtually blind in my left eye and my right eye is deteriorating, too. It's a terrible, irreversible disease (at least it's irreversible for me).
21:15 when I want to party - I do corn + 3 bean salad + diced tomatoes with optionally some licorice-type spice like basil or bay leaves, even carrot seeds.
Thanks you Dr Igudia on RUclips for all you do in my life and my family. I went for a test today after taking the medication i ordered from Dr Igudia and I tested Type 2 Diabetes’s negative. Thanks doctor I will keep letting the world know about your good work sir.
You have my maximum respect Dr Igudia, I am now negative from my type 2 diabetes after I did the test, I wonder what might have become of me it I didn't get the herbal cure From your RUclips channel. God bless you sir
Thanks you Dr Igudia on RUclips for all you do in my life and my family. I went for a test today after taking the medication i ordered from Dr Igudia and I tested diabetes negative. Thanks doctor I will keep letting the world know about your good work sir
If the world had more people like you, it would be a better place. You make a difference, Dr Igudia thank you for curing my Type 2 Diabetes and introducing your medical products to the worlds.
But if it's retinopathy or dead retinal cells then how did the cells got replaced with new cells just because of control led Blood sugar and reversed diabetes
I'm going through a similar thing with my eyesight, right now. I am having bad vision and starting last Friday went on the Starch Diet and am having significant improvements. I wish my improvements were being documented, but I looked for a plant based opthamologist, even though I'm in the San Francisco Bay area, I can't find a plant-based opthamologist within 200 miles. I did have an ophthalmologist but he retired. Does anyone know of an ophthalmologist within a few hundred miles of Santa Cruz who is interested in lifestyle medicine, and would like to monitor the changes?
@@philnelson5056 thanks, that's what I was thinking, too, True North, but, I can't get through to anyone so far. Btw, they're based in Santa Rosa, about 130 miles north of Santa Cruz. I'll double my efforts. I'm continuing to have positive improvements.
God bless now and always Dr Igudia. And I really wanted to say a very big thanks for helping me cure my Type 2 Diabetes I thought it was the end until I meant you keep saving lives doctor.
I couldn’t understand why plant based(vegan?) did not affect her diabetes when all those food digest they turn to glucose and would affect her insulin. I tried to be vegan but the more i would feel cold and get candida/yeast, i hope they can explain more. I would not still suggest vegan, i used to not to eat meat especiAlly meat and mostly clean eating but the more i ran to the toilet peeing and got blood test ans my a1C was close to pre diabetic,
Starchy carbs turn into glucose(high glycemic foods) If you read about types of glucose and absorption you’ll see that most vegetables and some fruits digest sugar/starch at a slower rate which is safe for diabetes. Those are low glycemic foods. High glycemic foods are not good for diabetics. Hope this helps.
Also if your getting candida you may need to see a doctor but taking digestive enzymes and probiotics to help your body transition into digesting new foods will help.
@@erinbeltran1820 starchy foods are actually classed as polysaccharide complex carbs that take longer to digest the information is hard to understand as GI and GL are two different things but after lots of studying i get conflicting information from Harvard and other reputable website's I think the big problem supposedly is fructose, which gets stored in the liver as glucose is the fuel that the body uses first most carbs contain both, it falls down to the fibre content of cellulose in carbs whether they are soluble or insoluble etc one won't digest and will help pass movements in your bowel and soluble fibre will breakdown with water in the gut to create a gel like substance to slow digestion and spike glucose at a slower rate. Usually fibre contains both types in different ratios.
I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I'M GUESSING YOU HAVE VISION PROBLEMS. GENERALLY, FROM WHAT IVE SEEN, THEY SUGGEST BASING EACH OF YOUR MEALS AROUND BEANS, GREENS AND WHOLE GRAINS, WITH FRUIT. ADD ANY ADDITIONAL YUMMY VEGETABLES AND ITS A VERY BALANCED DIET. IF YOU DO EAT PROCESSED FOOD THEN THERES A FEW GUIDELINES IVE SEEN. ONE IS TO HAVE LESS GRAMS OF SODIUM PER SERVING THAN CALORIES PER SERVING.
@@j.munday7913 people get this same effect when removing the carbs/grains from their diet and going organic proteins/fats & loads of various coloured vegetables, with limited grains.
@@shutthegate8232 Unfortunately the keto diet will leave you with high cholesterol, heart problems, and gut problems… works nicely for a while when you get rid of the sugar and processed crap… but after a year or two you are bashing your circulatory system and organs. Your diabetes will actually get worse after a while as the organs deteriorate and then you will have hassles with your feet and eye sight again again. Let alone the continuous hassles of clogged up guts leading to various gut cancers.
I hate to tell everybody in the comments this but the lady said one thing that discredited everything in the whole video she never lets herself get hungry that's her biggest mistake that's not normal in real life you just can't open the refrigerator and start eating. intermittent fasting is the key to health and low carbohydrates and eat some real fat
Agreed not normal to eat all the time, nevertheless have you thought that maybe her body constantly needed nutrition to subside the ill nourishment and poor quality of food which destroyed her, so she needed constant small amounts of nutrition to help her heal as she adapts and regains health her body will regulate to a state homeostasis.
@@m.taylor She hasn't even been on this woe a whole year, yet! Give her a break. She's still adjusting and learning. She's come a really long way already!
@@lf7065 What gives you the right to attack commenters with your exclamation marks. Maybe eating more soy and getting off the meats would improve your disgusting mood swings.
I read Dr. Barnards book the Program for Reversing Diabetes 5 years ago after being diagnosed with type 2 and other chronic conditions probably from exposure to agent orange in Vietnam. I went Whole Food Plant Based and now have an a1c of 5.5 from 9 and lost 72 pounds and reversed high blood pressure. Very grateful for this program.
That's amazing! Great job! Dr. Barnard is amazing!
Can i get Dr Bernards book to help me with my health issues since i dont live in USA. I need some health
I need some help
@@jacintabaksh220 do you get Amazon that's where is got it. Perhaps you can get it on the Dr's website.
Thank you for your service and Welcome Home. This country treated you like Crap when you came home. So happy you found a way to get better. I just started listening to this. Maybe help my neuropathy and arthritis. Stay well. Have a great weekend
Thank you for this inspiration, I have been a vegan for 8 months now and I can’t believe the difference I feel so happy with life now. Bea
Glad 😊 to Mary you have regained your eyesight . Congratulations
Congratulations Mary! Chuck, you are the absolute best interviewer. You seem very present with all of your guests, you show such compassion to those who have struggled, you ask excellent questions of the experts, you know so much about this subject, and you are SUPER happy for people's successes....plus, your sense of humor is great :). I have watched the Exam Room podcast every week since Covid began. Looking forward to the next episode.
Thank you Mary for sharing your story. I am so glad you regained your eyesight.
Love her story. Such a good reminder to clean up our food, and our body will heal itself.
I am so very proud of Marys accomplishments. She is 100% committed to this lifestyle change and it is paying off in so many ways for her. I should disclose that she is my sister and I can attest to the fact that she is the most determined person I know. Mary has reigned her sparkling personality and has so much energy now. I can hardly keep up with her when we are together. I am so very grateful to this program for giving my sister the tools to save her life. I look forward to many exciting adventures with my sister in the future. I love you Mary! Congratulations!
❤. Like you, my sister is my number one supporter. Bless your heart.
"Trash In = Trash Out" Yes Mary! Stand your ground, for your own health! Thumbs Up for You!
Good on you never give up
I needed this testimony more than I can express! I’m in a home with sugar addicts and I am one my self. My A1C was 13.9 in December. Now it’s down to 6.3 but I’ve caved in and started the junk food a bit and then it was more than a bit and today again I had trouble seeing all day long! I feel encouraged. Thank you for sharing HOPE!
I am listening and it is like she is telling my story about my eyes. I do have macular degeneration and my eye doc sent me to a specialist and they suggested I join a trial for macular degeneration. For the trial they need to set a base line for your health so they took blood, urine ran a bunch of tests along with the regular eye tests. Was not able to do the trial and they recommended I see my regular doc because of the test results. More tests and doc told me I have diabetes. After loosing weight and being on medication my eye sight improved. You are inspiring to listen to. So glad to hear your story.
What a beautiful turnout for her. I love that for her & wish this for my mom as she also has diabetes & is really sick. I’m trying to convince her to become vegan.
💙
Let her watch Game Changers on Netflix
I am not vegan. I had seen some very good recipes online. I actually am going to try some of them. There is recipes for beginners. Good luck on getting her to eat right. Tell her how much you want her around and be able to get around well.
I've been so stressed out lately. I notice I soothe myself with food. I've have my vegan pre-made meals readily available at home. I find myself in a struggle not to get in the car and head to the drive thru. Most days I win. Trying to retrain myself. It's hard!!
I find that eating green vegetables with all my meals helps get rid of the cravings.
eat more greens & fresh fruit--don't deprive yourself of healthy food! I am a sugar addict myself, so I go through the same struggles. Love yourself and stay strong!
Thanks everyone!💕
I am reading the pleasure trap and I know my emotional eating is not rational. Right now I have Japanese yams and lots of delicious components of the 50/50 plan available to me and I enjoy that way of eating. I do go through an intense mental struggle to stop myself from ignoring my healthy food and get in the car to go grab something crappy with lots of cheese. At least I guess educating myself is helping me to observe and recognize my behavior but it's definitely a process for me. Thanks for all the tips!💕
When you say 'pre-made', do you mean meals you have made yourself, or are they store-bought? I found that eating as clean as I can does help with cravings. Now if I want something sweet I go for fruit or dates.
When people feel like crap, they usually reach for crap. I find it helps to get away from those stressful situations/thoughts, if possible, or use passionflower tea.
This was WONDERFUL! I feel so much better just hearing this! Thank you Mary and Dr. Barnard's PCRM. This is such good news.
Well done Mary. Looking great. May you continue to get better and better. Great interview and thank you for sharing.
Chuck, thank you for an excellent interview and for your own shared insights.
6 weeks to the driver's seat, wow 🚗 💨 I've seen this story and it never gets old
amazing recovery Mary and you still have to soldier on . Thankyou for sharing and keep up that beautiful smile!
Mary you are an inspiration - congratulations. I am so happy for you!
I love her can-do attitude and determination. Congratulations on staying the course!
Fantastic work Mary. Love your outlook and how you put your health first and chose to seek healthy foods instead of meds.
I am a Vegan now 10 years. But I was definitely a food addict and getting over it has not been always easy. But my salvation in regards to stopping the damage I was doing to myself with my food addiction I did not know what to do about was to get information which would turn my ideas of what is right and wrong physiologically so I could understand what food was meant to do and how to kill my food additions.
I was in a wheelchair and my hands were nearly useless in the pain of arthritis. I remembered I had had a lot of bad reactions to milk, but it did no make my hands, back, knees and ankles hurt as a child. But decided to do an elimination diet and would start with all diary products - I just gave it all up, went to the store with my husband, rode in a ride on cart at Walmart and got my first carton of Soy Milk. Bought one of the vanilla and one plain.
Inside of 3 weeks, my handwriting looked normal and I could lift a big frying pan and I was out of that wheelchair. So I looked to what others had to say about dairy causing arthritis and found Whole Food Plant-Based diets.
My son had wanted me to try KETO before this, which I did and I became so horribly constipated that no laxative worked and had to use an enema which was excruciating. So I knew KETO was not for me at all.
So I kept learning more and more and the weight began to come down. I had gotten up to 200 lbs. Shortly after giving up all dairy, I had to have an emergency Gallbladder surgery, of which I could have died from, it was at the point of rupture and badly infected. So got passed that and took my iPad to bed and watched one video after another on how to do plant-based eating.
The weight began to come off. I never was hungry and my weight came down 55 libs. I began walking and I fell and broke my ankle and ten pounds crept back on. I had to find out how to heal my ankle and discovered the importance of kale and all vegetables. The ankle healed. All the calcium tablets the doctors told me to take did nothing as I was in menopause and my low estrogen, just could not absorb calcium this way.
But plants worked. My leaky gut healed and so did my ankle and my weight is going down again.
I had an abusive childhood so my self-image has not been great nor my confidence that I could make good decisions, but I have had a great mental turn around, and actually the first time in my life, feel happy and confident.
My father had died of Alzheimer’s and before transitioning off of the Standard American Diet, I knew that my intellect was not where is used to be and was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. My thoughts are clear now, the diet is powerful over many conditions.
All of my life I had been plagued with hyperhidrosis which is sweating like one is in shock out of nearly every pour, and cold and clammy nearly all the time. That I was able to find a husband and have three kids is like one of God’s miracles for me but this was all before my diet change. I exercised like crazy back then and was thin but my dad before he went in a nursing home for AD, but that put me in a wheelchair for a long time as he fell on top of me and crushed a vertebrae. But before menopause I healed that but could not lift much after that.
Plant-based allows things to heal no matter how long ago the injury as it helps to clear out calcium deposits which having loads of dairy in my life had done. Though occasionally I can become stiff, it only lasts a day, sometimes only hours. And I can function.
Along with getting over being obese and the arthritis, Plant-Based helped me to resolve my food addiction instead of a means of self-abuse and being out of control, to menu planning with an eye to how the foods I am eating can heal me. I have recently caught a virus, not Covid, which attacked my lungs, ran a fever of 104 degrees and I brought that down but so much coughing, went to the doctor and I am normally never on medication as my A1C is 5.1 and my cholesterol though it could be lower is not putting me at risk.
So I went to making fresh salsa and got a fresh pineapple and have been finding ways to heal my breathing with what I can eat and drink, like herbal teas.
The diet is powerful but also empowering because it get you to think that the answer really is out there and with God’s help, I can find the next step I need to accomplish to keep myself well.
Both my mother and sister died of breast cancer and as I’ve also followed “The China Study” and Dr. McDougall’s work with reversing breast cancer for Ruth Heidrich, that I know that eating this way is also life saving. I do not have any cancers at all.
Because of what I’ve told some of my friends, there are also several people who are giving Plant-Based eating a chance and I always point them to this channel for inspirational videos.
We all owe you all a great debt for having the courage to tell a truth so many of us mocked until it healed us.
A truly inspiring lady. She proves that no matter how bad things get, a truly healthy diet can make a vast difference in the quality of life - and can hit you with some surprises. And Chuck is one of the best interviewers I have ever come across, in any field. PRCM are lucky to have him.
I've been doing vegan for a couple of months now. I tried it many years ago and gave up because I often felt hungry and tired, and one day I spat the dummy and gave it up. This time it's different - because I'm eating mostly whole foods instead of processed and refined foods. I was previously a junk food vegan, and didn't even know it then.
My unexpected surprise this year was that I don't feel hungry on a whole foods diet - because instead of eating nutritionally depleted convenience foods, I'm getting more nutrients than ever from whole or minimally processed foods. So it takes less calories to satisfy my needs, and the excess weight is just dropping off without having to struggle with constant hunger. A whole foods plant based diet is the way to go.
What a lovely outcome
AMAZEING...IT COULD BE MY STORY RIGHT NOW...♥️
Inspiring interview! Congratulations Mary & Chuck
What a wonderful person. I’m so happy for her.
What a fantastic turn around. It goes to show what a vegan whole plant foods based diet can achieve. I didn't have any health issues before adapting this diet ( even though I am vegan for the animals and avoid other products/services that exploit animals as long as it's practical/ and possible) but that doesn't mean I wouldn't have health issues as I get older if I didn't change.
Wonderful story of personal transformation 🌱🌱 Congratulations 🎈🎉🎊 Mary‼️
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful experience!
Thanks for your interview.. Very inspiring and congratulations Mary have a wonderful healthy life ahead.
I know how you feel as it's great to get a second chance.
Good luck and please carry own giving more talks as you go along. As this inspires lots to learn and take there health in their own hands. God bless you.🙏👍😇
Insane transformation....hats off!
How awesome! Congrats Mary!! 👍🎉🙌
This was AWESOME THANK TOU FOR SHARING!
20:00 my go-to are large carrots - because they're so clean, nice-smelling, and clean your teeth and body. Plus they're crunchy and like eating popcorn at a movie or chewing up - you can just eat it continuously without thinking about it. It's somthing that's with you in your activities throughout the day. If my day really went in some unpleasant direction - I do banana and some berries. If my head hurts from the day - it's mango + avocado.
Wonderful and inspiring story and so well told.
My junk food is kale chips and non-dairy bean burritos
Amazing . So happy for her. Very interesting. I wish I knew this years ago. My Mom went legally blind.
This is amazing God blessed you I love your show beautiful story amazing
2 months into eating this way. I broke my leg and was diagnosed in the ER with diabetes. A1C 11. In 2 months, I dropped 30 lbs without really trying. I sent the doc my sugar numbers and she called and told me to stop taking the insulin immediately. Loved that moment. Now I just have to keep it up and trust that things will be going the right direction even while eating way more carbs than the doc suggested. Blood work coming up soon.
I can relate to Marys story because it was kind of a surprise and I did just make up my mind that something had to change permanently.
I became vegan for the moral reasons because I love animals. I thought when I had my hba1c test my numbers would be worse because now that I wasn’t eating as much fat I relied more heavily on carbs for my energy. But my hba1c was completely normal at 5.6 and my diabetes was reversed.
How did your tests go, have you had them yet ?
@@kyleegabby8883 what was your HBA1C prior to going whole-food, plant-based? Congrats on the 5.6.
@@boomerang6130 the highest it was 6.8 it’s now 5.0. It’s getting lower and lower.
@@kyleegabby8883 Fantastic...what do you mostly eat? Can you please tell me? It might help me get things under control.
My organic junk food is organic
jumbo oats. I'm debating to stop eating oats but I really enjoy those.
So inspiring! Thank you!
4:28 OMG I experienced this! And my primary care doctor started asking me about drug use!
you can clog up your eye mesh filters with saturated fat to get glaucoma - so if you get rid of the sat fat, you can get the eyesight back.
I also had an A-1C over 12 before my diabetes was diagnosed as type II. But that was 16 years ago. Since then, I have been on a very low carb diet (plant-based, salt-free, low protein). My last A-1C was 5.9 and has consistently been under 6.5 for years. I keep my weight low at about 140 lbs and I walk about 2 miles a day. But despite the very tight control of my blood sugar, my diabetes has continued to progress. I'm virtually blind in my left eye and my right eye is deteriorating, too. It's a terrible, irreversible disease (at least it's irreversible for me).
Can you please do a video on plant based diet and acid reflux/hiatal hernia ? Thanks. I love your videos.
Tnx for sharing. Joping to regain my full eyesight too
21:15 when I want to party - I do corn + 3 bean salad + diced tomatoes with optionally some licorice-type spice like basil or bay leaves, even carrot seeds.
Thanks for sharing, God bless you and your family 🙏⛪
Great interview Chuck
Thank you for sharing
30:08 that's like the song 'a little bit longer' by the jonas brothers - when nick got diabetes
amazing!
I NEED TO SPEAK TO THIS LADY 😁
Thanks
It's rather weird that this entire interview passed without any question to the guest about her daily diet.
Very weird indeed 😢
I am making 24 ounces of broccoli and 2 cans of black beans that;'s what I can afford and it fills me
I eat camphor seeds and they've gotten rid of my migraines and headaches.
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A miracle from god! Wait no, it was the WPFB diet 😂😂😂
Mary should have included Hashem in her ‘thankful list’.
I would've liked more information about "how" she reversed.
Thanks you Dr Igudia on RUclips for all you do in my life and my family. I went for a test today after taking the medication i ordered from Dr Igudia and I tested Type 2 Diabetes’s negative. Thanks doctor I will keep letting the world know about your good work sir.
You have my maximum respect Dr Igudia, I am now negative from my type 2 diabetes after I did the test, I wonder what might have become of me it I didn't get the herbal cure From your RUclips channel. God bless you sir
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Thanks you Dr Igudia on RUclips for all you do in my life and my family. I went for a test today after taking the medication i ordered from Dr Igudia and I tested diabetes negative. Thanks doctor I will keep letting the world know about your good work sir
Use Carob powder instead of cocoa.
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If the world had more people like you, it would be a better place. You make a difference, Dr Igudia thank you for curing my Type 2 Diabetes and introducing your medical products to the worlds.
What about exercise
I wonder if the eye Dr checked her eyes for bleeding in the back of her eyes.
What's the cause of her blindness?
But if it's retinopathy or dead retinal cells then how did the cells got replaced with new cells just because of control led Blood sugar and reversed diabetes
Seems like American doctors get their license from a cocoa puff cereal
I'm going through a similar thing with my eyesight, right now. I am having bad vision and starting last Friday went on the Starch Diet and am having significant improvements. I wish my improvements were being documented, but I looked for a plant based opthamologist, even though I'm in the San Francisco Bay area, I can't find a plant-based opthamologist within 200 miles. I did have an ophthalmologist but he retired. Does anyone know of an ophthalmologist within a few hundred miles of Santa Cruz who is interested in lifestyle medicine, and would like to monitor the changes?
check dr.alan gold hammer water fasting..true north.,they may know someone ..Santa Cruz based and they have a network of doctors.
@@philnelson5056 thanks, that's what I was thinking, too, True North, but, I can't get through to anyone so far. Btw, they're based in Santa Rosa, about 130 miles north of Santa Cruz. I'll double my efforts. I'm continuing to have positive improvements.
God bless now and always Dr Igudia. And I really wanted to say a very big thanks for helping me cure my Type 2 Diabetes I thought it was the end until I meant you keep saving lives doctor.
I couldn’t understand why plant based(vegan?) did not affect her diabetes when all those food digest they turn to glucose and would affect her insulin. I tried to be vegan but the more i would feel cold and get candida/yeast, i hope they can explain more. I would not still suggest vegan, i used to not to eat meat especiAlly meat and mostly clean eating but the more i ran to the toilet peeing and got blood test ans my a1C was close to pre diabetic,
Starchy carbs turn into glucose(high glycemic foods) If you read about types of glucose and absorption you’ll see that most vegetables and some fruits digest sugar/starch at a slower rate which is safe for diabetes. Those are low glycemic foods. High glycemic foods are not good for diabetics. Hope this helps.
Also if your getting candida you may need to see a doctor but taking digestive enzymes and probiotics to help your body transition into digesting new foods will help.
@@erinbeltran1820 starchy foods are actually classed as polysaccharide complex carbs that take longer to digest the information is hard to understand as GI and GL are two different things but after lots of studying i get conflicting information from Harvard and other reputable website's I think the big problem supposedly is fructose, which gets stored in the liver as glucose is the fuel that the body uses first most carbs contain both, it falls down to the fibre content of cellulose in carbs whether they are soluble or insoluble etc one won't digest and will help pass movements in your bowel and soluble fibre will breakdown with water in the gut to create a gel like substance to slow digestion and spike glucose at a slower rate. Usually fibre contains both types in different ratios.
Also yeast is dysbiosis of the gut, bad bacteria you need to regain homeostasis.
Look into "Mastering Diabetes"! It's all about keeping your fats under 30 grams per day, so very low. 🙂
remember your b vitamins. they are vital for energy metabolism
They talk like she's not fat anymore.
JUST PLANTS...WITH PROCESSED VEGAN FOOD???
I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I'M GUESSING YOU HAVE VISION PROBLEMS.
GENERALLY, FROM WHAT IVE SEEN, THEY SUGGEST BASING EACH OF YOUR MEALS AROUND BEANS, GREENS AND WHOLE GRAINS, WITH FRUIT. ADD ANY ADDITIONAL YUMMY VEGETABLES AND ITS A VERY BALANCED DIET. IF YOU DO EAT PROCESSED FOOD THEN THERES A FEW GUIDELINES IVE SEEN. ONE IS TO HAVE LESS GRAMS OF SODIUM PER SERVING THAN CALORIES PER SERVING.
@@j.munday7913 people get this same effect when removing the carbs/grains from their diet and going organic proteins/fats & loads of various coloured vegetables, with limited grains.
@@shutthegate8232 Unfortunately the keto diet will leave you with high cholesterol, heart problems, and gut problems… works nicely for a while when you get rid of the sugar and processed crap… but after a year or two you are bashing your circulatory system and organs. Your diabetes will actually get worse after a while as the organs deteriorate and then you will have hassles with your feet and eye sight again again. Let alone the continuous hassles of clogged up guts leading to various gut cancers.
I hate to tell everybody in the comments this but the lady said one thing that discredited everything in the whole video she never lets herself get hungry that's her biggest mistake that's not normal in real life you just can't open the refrigerator and start eating. intermittent fasting is the key to health and low carbohydrates and eat some real fat
I totally agree. I became vegan but did not reverse my diabetes until I started IF. Have a great day.
Agreed not normal to eat all the time, nevertheless have you thought that maybe her body constantly needed nutrition to subside the ill nourishment and poor quality of food which destroyed her, so she needed constant small amounts of nutrition to help her heal as she adapts and regains health her body will regulate to a state homeostasis.
She needs to keep herself busy doing other things rather than eating all the time. She still looks overweight here.
@@m.taylor She hasn't even been on this woe a whole year, yet! Give her a break. She's still adjusting and learning. She's come a really long way already!
@@lf7065 What gives you the right to attack commenters with your exclamation marks. Maybe eating more soy and getting off the meats would improve your disgusting mood swings.
great mexican hat dance of BS!