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What if we’re wrong about type 2 diabetes?

Conventional health care and medicine states that type 2 diabetes is chronic and progressive. But is it? Can type 2 diabetes be reversed?

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  0:33 The conventional dietary advice
  2:32 Understanding the essential problem
  4:14 Reversing type 2 diabetes
  5:58 Real-life patient results
  7:17 A hopeful message to people with type 2 diabetes

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About the video

Story producer and editor: Hari Dewang
Medical review: Andreas Eenfeldt, MD and Bret Scher, MD
Narrator: Sean Dougherty
Production: Diet Doctor
Year: April 2020

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Shawheen
April 22 2020
Kudos to a very well made, science based, informative video!
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Cassieoz
April 23 2020
The video keeps stopping at 2:55. I've tried to watch it on a PC and an Android tablet but it akways freezes at the same place so I'm guessing it's not me that's the problem

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Crystal Pullen Team Diet Doctor
April 23 2020

The video keeps stopping at 2:55. I've tried to watch it on a PC and an Android tablet but it akways freezes at the same place so I'm guessing it's not me that's the problem

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Anne
April 24 2020
What happens to the pancreas? A nurse told me that you can’t go off medication as the pancreas is already damaged.

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Rowie
April 24 2020
A well considered and concise short video that outlines the real cause and real solutions to type 2 diabetes.
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Crystal Pullen Team Diet Doctor
April 24 2020

What happens to the pancreas? A nurse told me that you can’t go off medication as the pancreas is already damaged.

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