Treating diabetes with a plant-based diet

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My grandmother died of type 2 diabetes (back then I knew very little about this disease), even though she was under the best medical care possible.

My mother developed type 1 diabetes at the age of 65.

So I dug into this topic as deeply as I could to avoid my “genetic destiny.” The truth I discovered was devastatingly different. For years no one told her that type 2 diabetes is a fully reversible disease that can be cured within 2 weeks simply by changing diet. And type 1 diabetes can also appear at any age, just like type 2, and the causes are mostly the same.

The most popular person spreading this knowledge is Dr. Michael Greger, whose videos you can watch on nutritionfacts.org. Here I present a summary of the key points on how to cure diabetes permanently and a few tips if you are in bad shape and need heavier ammunition to recover. In these guidelines there is no need for any drugs or supplements, and once you’re done you won’t need any syringes. You’ll simply be healthy. The cost of medication is zero and you can start immediately.

Once you’ve healed and your body has regenerated, you can live a normal life without drugs, without supplements, and without a restrictive diet 24/7.

What causes diabetes?

Ignorance and weak will. The cause of diabetes is eating foods that cause it:

  1. Meat – in all forms: chicken, beef, pork, turkey. This also includes fish.
  2. Dairy – in all forms. This especially applies to cow’s milk, but also to all cheeses, eggs, yogurts, butter and all other dairy products.
  3. Refined sugar and artificial sweeteners. In all forms. Do not consume added sugar or sweeteners. Sweeteners are even worse than sugar itself, so forget about “light” versions of any drinks.
  4. Rice, potatoes, grains (including pizza, pasta, corn and corn products) and other cooked foods with a high glycemic index.
  • Fresh, sweet fruits are allowed. They contain enzymes that, once eaten, reduce any spikes in blood sugar.
  • Vegetables that can be eaten raw without cooking are allowed (if a vegetable must be cooked because otherwise it is poisonous – don’t eat it even cooked).

That’s it. Get rid of these 4 unhealthy foods from your diet and you will stabilize your blood sugar at the right level within 2 weeks. To cure diabetes you should eat only vegetables and fruits, preferably organic. The less cooked and processed, the better.

Avoiding all processed food and eating mainly fresh fruits and some vegetables (those that can be eaten raw) + salads is the way to cure diabetes.

After you are cured, you can try to expand your diet with some of the previously forbidden items and monitor whether your condition worsens or not.

Simple, right?

If you want to speed up the healing process:

  • Do a water fast for 2–5 days. Drink only WATER. No juice, no tea, no coffee, no vitamins. Just drink pure water. For the first 2 days you will be hungry, but then the hunger will stop. Drink only boiled water. Do not extend the fast without supervision from someone more experienced or without reading some books (e.g. Bragg’s: The Miracle of Fasting) on the subject, because after 5 days reintroducing food is crucial and if done incorrectly can harm you. For a few days nothing bad will happen to you, but if after a week of not eating you eat bread on an empty stomach, you can die from a sudden sugar spike from such highly processed food. Bread does not contain enzymes that regulate sugar absorption. Refeeding (the process of returning to eating) is more important than the fast itself. I know because I have gone through this process many times and experimented on myself with different approaches. Don’t repeat my mistakes, read on.

Water fasting is very effective in patients with type II diabetes. This is what Dr. G. A. Voitovich, one of the experts in therapeutic fasting, writes on the subject: “Since diabetes is a disease originating from the nervous and endocrine systems, its treatment with fasting certainly also produces positive results – this is our conclusion. Moreover, we have learned from foreign sources that doctors in the East, in Japan, and especially in India, have long considered diabetes one of the diseases that can be treated with fasting. However, in practice we have rarely treated this disease in this way in our department.

We began to look into this topic more closely only after the symposia on RDT, when doctors from Armenia, Odessa and other places reported effective treatment of even severe forms of diabetes with fasting. We were particularly interested in the method used in Yerevan, where patients with severe diabetes, obesity and leg ulcers were treated with several 11‑day fasts, quite successfully, still taking hormonal drugs but reducing the doses 5–10 times.

Initially we had only a few people with mild forms of diabetes who were not taking insulin. During the treatment their blood sugar levels decreased. In the refeeding period they rose again, but did not exceed normal. The general condition of these patients improved: weakness, itching, thirst and increased appetite were eliminated. One patient with early‑stage diabetes was completely cured and has had no relapse for more than 25 years.

Dr. G. Sarkisyan from the Clinic of Endocrine Diseases in Yerevan carried out 2–3 fasts of 10–11 days in severely ill patients. One patient was at risk of amputation due to gangrene of the feet. After two 11‑day fasts all fasting diabetes tests (sugar in urine, sugar in blood, etc.) improved significantly, the gangrenous inflammation was alleviated, amputation was no longer needed, and the patient began to walk freely.”

~ Dr. Sergey Filonov from the book “20 Questions and Answers About Dry Fasting”

If you want to read more about what you should eat to be healthy after a long water fast – read on.

Proper diet.

To answer the question: what is the healthiest diet – let’s start with a logical approach:

What is the most important nutrient/substance you can get from any food?

It is WATER

We can live healthily for months without food. Without water – only weeks. Yes, a few weeks! That’s probably longer than you thought. The healthier you are, the longer you can go without water. There are waterless fasts called dry fasts, but this is a higher level of fasting only for those experienced in water fasting and I will not discuss it here, because if you are a “beginner on the path to a healthy lifestyle” a few‑day water fast may already be too much for your mind. Yes, only for your mind, because your body will cope without any problem and will even breathe a sigh of relief.

  • Fun fact: water from food is more easily absorbed by the body and hydrates tissues better than drinking plain water, because it is pushed deeper into the digestive system along with food and is not filtered out to the kidneys as quickly as plain water alone.
  • The better food retains water in its natural state, the juicier the raw food, the more you will hydrate.
  • You can measure the hydration of your tissues with a medical scale that costs about 250 PLN. In most modern societies people’s hydration is below 60%. This is simply dangerous and creates various health problems, such as primarily deteriorating eyesight. I tested myself that if I reach more than 65% hydration of body mass – my eyesight improves and sharpens. Such a level of hydration can only be maintained on the healthiest diet consisting of unprocessed fresh food.

Based on my experience and hydration analysis with a medical scale I confirmed what Loren Lockman says: “Drinking lots of water doesn’t change much in your daily level of hydration. Eating fruit does.”

First rule of a healthy diet: the juicier the food, the better.

All nutrition experts around the world suggest to “ avoid processed food” . But what does “processed” actually mean?

I don’t understand why they never tell you straight to your face what processed food is.

  • Have you ever thought about it? In simple words: anything that is not raw. Anything that has added salt, sugar or oil, has been cooked, heated, dried, frozen or fried.
  • Meat is always processed, you never eat raw meat because of the danger of parasites, and it’s hard to get truly raw meat anyway.
  • Even if you buy “raw” meat like tartare in a supermarket, it usually contains salt and/or many other preservatives. If you think meat is essential for our life, muscles or that it contains proteins or “fiber,” you are colossally mistaken. Watch the film “Cowspiracy” and some videos on nutritionfacts.org, and then come back.

But you can still be on a raw, “plant‑based” vegan diet and have chronic diseases. Just like I did – I had rheumatism on a vegan diet. Why?

  • A good explanation is in the book “The Plant Paradox” by Dr. Gundry. He got to the main cause quite well (though not perfectly).
  • Lectins – natural chemicals produced by plants

Lectins: the main cause of pain and many chronic diseases. All plants have them, but some have much more and more harmful types of lectins. Lectins are produced in plants as a defense mechanism against being eaten by pests. They accumulate in the food chain. If an animal eats a lot of lectins (an animal that is not naturally adapted to digesting them – e.g. when a cow eats corn from artificial feed) and you eat that animal – you get a shot of concentrated lectins. And in today’s agriculture animals eat corn‑based food instead of natural food: grasses or vegetables, so they and their products such as eggs/milk are filled with lectins. You are what you eat… and what your food ate. Eat ecological, organic raw food if you want to be healthy.

Most plants “don’t want to be eaten,” but there are exceptions:

Fruits

  • Fruit is the part of the plant that is meant to be eaten by frugivores so that the seeds are carried away and ideally left in natural fertilizer (feces) in the soil. Fruits also temporarily have large amounts of lectins, but they are dissolved by the fruit’s enzymes when the seeds are already ripe. A ripe and tasty fruit is the healthiest possible food. There is a debate whether fruits picked unripe dissolve lectins, or whether they are disarmed only when the fruit ripens on the plant. Everyone agrees that the best and healthiest fruits are those picked ripe from trees, bushes or the ground.
  • I disagree with Dr. Gundry that we must avoid some fruits, because if we do, we will have nutrient deficiencies. That is exactly what happens when you follow his diet. In the last chapter of his book he suggests consuming almost 7 types of supplements that he himself sells… I cured RA and eat tons of fruit and don’t take any supplements. However, thanks to reading Dr. Gundry I understood the lectin mechanism. Removing foods high in lectins from my diet helped my health a lot.

Rule number two of a healthy diet: Your diet should provide you with all the nutrients you need, without any supplements.

  • All living species on this planet have eaten ONLY raw food for billions of years. Humans as a species can also live healthily only on raw food.
  • If you think about it: it’s no coincidence that you can eat some foods raw, like an apple or mango, and some you can’t: like grains, beans or grass. Cows can eat raw grass, so why can’t we? Because over millions of years of evolution we got used to eating those raw foods our body needs and we don’t have three stomachs like a cow to process grasses.
  • Did you know that in 99% of cases you can tell whether a mushroom is poisonous or edible by its taste (though not always!). Why can we eat raw mushrooms that are edible? If a raw mushroom is sharp or bitter – it can kill you. This is an innate skill we inherited from our ancestors who were forced to live on mushrooms when there were no fruits before winter.
    • We can eat hundreds of kinds of mushrooms raw and they are neither sharp nor bitter. Of course there are some exceptions, such as death cap mushrooms, which don’t taste bad raw but are deadly. In nature there are always exceptions, so be careful what you eat, especially when eating mushrooms without experts to help you identify them.
  • The general rule is that what is bitter or spicy means: lots of lectins that will harm you.

What has the most lectins?

Grains contain the most lectins. All parts of all grains. Rice, corn, quinoa and amaranth too. All of them destroy your insides, causing leaky gut syndrome. Only millet and sorghum, which are ancient, have low lectin content.

Beans, lentils and other legumes are second. They must be cooked for a long time to break down lectins. But getting rid of all of them is almost impossible. There will always be lectin residues, and if you are weakened by disease, they will wreak havoc in your insides.

And what about seeds like pumpkin seeds? Do you think they want to be eaten? No.

Seeds are the plant’s offspring and nothing remains after eating this part of the plant.

  • They are heavily protected. Take a walnut for example: it not only has a hard, layered shell that you wouldn’t be able to crack in the wild, but it also has protective, invisible layers of enzymes that prevent them from being digested (together with other food that happens to be in the stomach with them).
  • These layers need hours in water to dissolve, and right after that mold living in symbiosis with walnuts forms its protective layer around them so they don’t suffer until they grow. So the only way you should eat walnuts is by soaking them for many hours to dissolve the digestion‑protecting enzymes, and then briefly scalding them in boiling water before eating to get rid of the mold. This is no longer raw food and there is a high chance that the mold will survive and wreak havoc in your insides.
  • The same story applies to pumpkin seeds. Their seeds are so toxic that they kill parasites. This is a good antiparasitic medicine, but you shouldn’t eat them unless you want to get rid of parasites. And only for a specific period, and certainly not every day.

So can we eat all fruits? Unfortunately not:

  • Tomatoes are another common source of large amounts of lectins in our diet. In Italy they eat a lot of tomato sauce, but they not only remove the skin and seeds from each tomato, they also pour boiling water over it before use. This removes most of the tomato’s lectins. Normal people in other countries don’t do this.

What else has a lot of lectins?

  • Peanuts and peas. My favorite foods. I was very sad that I had to give them up. But the difference in how I feel when I don’t eat them is huge and I feel much better when I avoid them (I tested organic peas and peanuts – they affect my health just as badly).

There is of course an exception to the rule “don’t eat anything that doesn’t want to be eaten”:

  • Green leafy vegetables. For example: lettuces, Brussels sprouts, spinach, etc. You can eat them in large quantities and they will help you digest other foods you eat.
  • There are also seeds that are not very harmful, like sesame, flax and others. You have to try and assess for yourself whether you feel tired after eating them or not. Tiredness after a meal means your body has trouble digesting what you ate.
  • Sweet potatoes are quite harmless both raw and baked.

“So what do I eat if I don’t eat anything?” I often get this question. Here is a photo of my 7‑day food supply that I took in my local grocery store.

On a daily basis I mainly eat vegetables such as cauliflower, potatoes and ready‑made frozen stir‑fry vegetable mixes. I also like to add olive oil or goat cheeses to that, and season generously with turmeric or salt. I use a strict diet only when I’m sick, not every day.

Below are my lists: what you can and should not eat to recover quickly. This diet can be called: “raw vegan lectin‑free diet,” or almost fruitarian diet. Cooked meals are a minority of my food but only because I personally have weak willpower :wink: Some cooked things are very tasty like cooked cauliflower or Brussels sprouts and when my wife makes them I can’t just walk by. Still, I have definitely observed that the less cooked food I eat the better I feel. When I eat 100% raw food for at least two days in a row, I feel my best.

Do not eat “grey‑zone” items until you feel good for at least a week from the moment you recover from a chronic disease.

List of toxic foods in all forms. Do not eat raw, cooked or dried when you want to recover:

  • All grains and cereals, including rice, corn, quinoa, amaranth (except sorghum – i.e. millet)
  • Salt, sugar, all artificial sweeteners
  • Oils, butter and margarine. All oils! Including grape seed oil and sunflower seed oil. Seeds are full of lectins, and oil from them is nothing but a lectin concentrate.
    • This is processed food. If I had to choose something at all, I would go for organic, fresh, cold‑pressed extra virgin olive oil from hand‑picked olives. Such high‑quality oil can only be obtained from a farmer who makes it personally with his own hands, picking the olives and taking them fresh for pressing. Most supermarket olive oils don’t taste like that.
    • Most of the food you can get in your store is unhealthy food, so leave it alone unless you want to be chronically ill. Personally I suffer the most after eating anything that contains rapeseed oil (including organic). Unfortunately almost all “healthy vegan” processed spreads contain it.
  • Did you know that the main ingredient of mayonnaise on the shelves is not eggs, but in most cases rapeseed oil, which usually makes up 70–80% of the product’s mass? Eggs are only about 5% of today’s mayonnaise… This should set off alarm bells for you about the quality of products available in today’s grocery stores.
  • Be careful with “healthy vegan food,” because it usually contains added sugar, salt and low‑quality oils, not to mention a periodic table of other preservatives. Below is a photo of “vegan mayonnaise.”
  • Coffee. It raises blood pressure = it is toxic. Decaf too.
  • Alcohol. Beer, whisky, vodka, wine. Especially all non‑organic. I once visited a “small local vineyard.” It had a special installation for distributing Roundup under the vines to weed them more effectively… The amounts of pesticides in alcohol are deadly. If you do drink, drink organic red wine. By the way, after a water fast you lose the craving for alcohol (and cigarettes) and it stops tasting good. Don’t drink until you recover.
  • Nightshades and other high‑starch plants. Including peppers, eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, tomatoes.
  • Most nuts, especially walnuts and cashews. Pecans, macadamia and peanuts unfortunately too.
  • Most seeds. This includes (but is not limited to) sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and apricot kernels.
    • Seeds don’t want to be eaten and strongly defend themselves against it. If you eat them they will slowly harm you. In some cases they are suitable for treating non‑chronic diseases, but you cannot eat them as “snacks” without a specific purpose of acting on a specific condition.
  • Legumes. All kinds. Including peas and peanuts :(. I loved them, but when I stopped eating them – I felt much better! You can too.
  • Garlic, ginger and other antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal and antiseptic spices and food additives. They are great medicines, but they destroy your microbiome and should be used as a second‑line weapon to treat acute diseases such as sore throat.
    • Daily consumption of any medicines (including natural ones) is bad for a healthy body and in the long run weakens the immune system! Eat them only when you are sick and then medicines like garlic, ginger or turmeric will work wonders! Eating them every day weakens their effect when they are really needed.
    • Most spices, especially “hot” ones.
      • Spices are medicines, they should be used when you are sick and know exactly what you want to achieve with them, not eaten every day “for taste.”
      • Sometimes I drink tea with ginger, cinnamon and cloves, but only to recover when I feel slightly ill and don’t feel the need to fast to get well.
      • Eat in moderation and observe whether you feel good. If not – cut that food out.
    • Even food in micro‑amounts can affect your whole body. For example iodine supplements (like Jodid) in tablets – contain 200 micrograms of the element in a tablet (0.2 grams!)! And if you take one such tablet, you will quickly feel different (better or worse depending on your needs).
  • Chocolate with milk, sugar or other sweeteners. Basically all sweets.
  • Brazil nuts. I often had food poisoning with a 24‑hour delay after eating them, so it was hard to identify. I think they are even more protected by nature than walnuts. Most of our ancestors never ate them and you don’t have to either.
  • Practically all vegetables that must be cooked and are completely inedible raw: such as pumpkins, broccoli, kale. Yes, I know most guides suggest these are the healthiest foods, but they are not. Dr. Gundry and Loren Lockman also say otherwise and they are right. If something must be cooked because otherwise it harms you, it’s because it has a high concentration of lectins. There are vegetables that can be eaten raw (like cauliflower) and this is not without reason. They are much better absorbed by humans and you should focus your daily diet on such vegetables as an addition to fruits.

List of grey‑zone foods. Eat in moderation and observe whether you feel good within 24–72 hours after eating a given food

  • Almonds. Sometimes they are fine, you have to observe how you react after eating them and what form of almonds you tolerate (with skin or without, roasted, or maybe soaked?). I tolerate blanched best. But I figured this out by trial and error.
  • Almond milk. This is processed food. Most producers make terrible almond milk, so if you find one that tastes good – stick to it. It’s a great alternative to cow’s milk. I tolerate only Alpro Almond.
  • Carrots. I don’t think carrots want to be eaten. If you found a wild one in a meadow – you probably wouldn’t be able to distinguish carrot leaves (the root part is not visible) from some deadly plants that have similar leaves, like hemlock (Conium maculatum). Carrot and parsley leaves mimic deadly plants… Eat in moderation. You lose nothing by not eating them.
  • Fermented products such as sauerkraut or pickled cucumbers. They usually contain a lot of salt, and that’s bad because salt is toxic. You can rinse off the salt under running water, but then such pickles taste poor. I eat pickles about once a month and feel fine, but eating fermented food at the refeeding stage after a fast made me suffer a lot.
  • Fresh, raw sheep or goat cheese. Only when sheep or goats are fed grass and not stuffed with artificial large‑scale animal feed. Everything goat‑related stinks, so by listening to your nose you can conclude that sheep’s is better. Trust your sense of smell. Eat occasionally or not at all. I only eat such things when I travel abroad to wild places and count it as a new experience. I tolerate sheep cheese well.
  • Fruits that are picked unripe but ripen in transit or on the store shelf. You don’t know how they are stored and processed until the final stage. This is something you have to test on yourself and your local stores, whether specific fruits from a given producer don’t harm you. If your condition relapses and you’ve eliminated everything else from your food – this may be the cause.
  • If you can’t imagine life without alcohol, choose organic red wines because of their high resveratrol content. Drink no more than 150 ml per day and not every day!
    • Remember that raw red grapes are a better source of resveratrol than red wine.
  • Hazelnuts. Up to half a glass of all seeds per day is considered safe, but try and observe your reactions. If you feel tired or have strange rashes around your mouth or anywhere – remove all nuts from your diet. Unfortunately I had to remove all types of nuts except almonds.
  • Olives. Raw olives straight from the tree taste awful. Who ever thought of eating them? Don’t eat them unless you have to. If you do eat them – mix them only with acid‑forming foods – other processed/cooked foods.
  • Radishes. They are spicy, and a spicy taste is a signal that you shouldn’t eat them.
  • Raw cacao processed at low temperature and dissolved in pure water below 42°C (107.6°F) is in my opinion the best alternative to tea and coffee. I drink it myself from time to time when I need to focus on work.
  • Tea, all forms. It has a high theanine content that will addict you if you drink it daily or in large doses. Don’t drink tea every day. Listen to your body: if it raises blood pressure = it is toxic. If you must – drink Japanese organic Bancha tea. It is very delicate and tasty.
  • Broccoli. They are hard to eat raw. Cooked they taste good, but raw they are inedible. In addition, it is very difficult to find them organic. The more broccoli I eat, the worse I feel; if it weren’t for the fact that I like them a lot, I wouldn’t eat them at all.
  • Dried fruits. Mainly what remains after drying fruits is sugar and shavings of the real food that fresh juicy fruits are. Don’t eat too many dried fruits, because you will suffer as after eating pure sugar. And especially don’t eat dried fruits if you have diabetes! They no longer have all the enzymes (unlike fresh ones) that stabilize blood sugar.
  • Beets, sweet potatoes – you can eat them raw or baked. If you have diabetes don’t overdo it, because both these vegetables are sweet when cooked – and then they no longer have enzymes stabilizing blood sugar, because most enzymes dissolve above 42°C. Raw they are fine and suitable for salads.
  • Onion – at the recovery stage eat raw as needed to support immunity in non‑chronic disease. Remember, however, that like garlic it has antiseptic and antibiotic effects, so eating it daily destroys your microbiome and in the long run, like any medicine or supplement, weakens your immune system. It is an excellent emergency remedy for colds. Raw onion is much more potent than cooked. Sometimes when I feel worse I eat a whole onion raw or make onion soup, whose ingredients are basically 500 g of onion, water and a bit of homemade vegan broth. It tastes delicious, but is not as effective as raw onion.
  • Chicory – given how bitter it is raw – it has a lot of lectins. Therefore eat in moderation, not too much (maybe a few leaves in a salad) and not too often, and certainly not at a stage when you are not fully healthy.
  • Sunflower seeds – in small amounts they don’t harm. Sunflower oil as a concentrate of seeds – no.
  • Rice – in small amounts and depending on the variety – can be okay. You have to test it on yourself, but important: eat only organic rice. Recently in Bali there was a scandal because several people in the field were seriously harmed by too high a concentration of pesticides used on rice terraces. And you’d think Bali is a distant civilization living in harmony with nature…
  • 100% cacao – a good alternative to coffee or tea if you drink 100% cacao (without sugar, milk, etc.) with water only. Provided it is processed at low temperature and preferably organic. However, if you want to be on a 100% healthy diet you shouldn’t drink it, because cacao is made, after all, from fruit seeds that “don’t want to be eaten.” Interestingly, the fruit itself is apparently edible, but I’ve never managed to buy it fresh.

List of foods you can eat safely

Based on DNA research it can be stated that the Homo sapiens species is the result of 25–55 million years of evolution from the first ape‑like mammals [source: Timeline of the human condition | Milestones in evolution and history]. Most researchers agree that it was certainly more than 32 million years. During this time we and our ancient ancestors ate only raw food that could be picked straight from the ground/tree/bush. The first cooked food from agricultural crops and domesticated animals appeared about 14–16 thousand years ago. 14–16 thousand years out of 32 million is like comparing 18.25 days to 100 years of life. Or better: 9 days to 50 years of life. That is not enough to evolutionarily change the biological capabilities of processing food in the body. We are evolutionarily built to survive on raw food (and without food), and the foods we can eat raw without cooking are not accidental. We are naturally adapted to them and the healthiest possible natural diet is based on them.

Below in the picture are teeth for the following types of “‑vores”:
Carnivore – meat‑eater: eats meat
Omnivore – omnivore: eats meat and vegetables
Herbivore – herbivore: eats grasses and leaves
Frugivore – frugivore: mainly eats fruits, sometimes vegetables, rarely nuts
Human – human: mainly eats fruits, sometimes vegetables, rarely nuts

As you can see we have been adapted for millions of years to be frugivores.

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Dentition depending on what we have naturally eaten for millions of years

Returning to the “safe” list, it includes:

  • Figs (especially fresh) and other flowers. Yes, figs are inside‑out flowers that taste great raw.
  • Fruits that do not ripen after picking (therefore they must be picked when they are already tasty and ripe): all kinds of berries, apples, melons, oranges, grapefruits, pineapples and hundreds of others.
  • Avocado: they ripen after picking, but can be safely eaten at the right stage – just before black lines appear in them when cut.
  • Raw honey processed only at low temperature (below 42°C). Good quality honey should be hard and have a smooth surface. This means it has not been heated and still has its enzymes with pro‑health effects.
  • Bee bread (perga) – lately my favorite snack. This is the basic food of bees. It has a super original taste that seems strange at first, but beware – every day you catch yourself eating a bit more. Healthy, vitamin‑packed food that’s addictive! :slight_smile:
  • Dates, even if they are super sweet – will be healthy. You can use dates as sweeteners. Do not use date syrup – it is just processed sugar in liquid form.
  • Maple sap (not maple syrup – which is boiled concentrated sap and, like honey, loses its properties then)
  • Green leafy vegetables: raw spinach, lettuce, iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce and hundreds of others
  • Seeds: sesame, flax. That’s all when it comes to safe seeds from my experience, but I believe there are more. Comments welcome.
  • Coconuts – eat fresh. I like the water and white flesh inside. Fresh ones are hard to get and expensive (about 11 PLN/piece), but they taste amazing. A fresh coconut available in the store has a white woody‑fibrous shell and must be opened with a cleaver. Remember that coconuts contain cholesterol, so don’t eat them every day if you have high cholesterol.
  • Cooked sweet potatoes (strangely, they don’t cause RA in me)
  • Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts. They can be eaten raw or steamed. They can be eaten fried or baked. Yum!
  • And the basic food: organic fruits picked fully ripe: mangoes, bananas, kiwis, apricots, pears, apples, peaches, jackfruit, melons and hundreds of others. There are hundreds of fruits and thousands of varieties – you could eat a different fruit every day for your whole life. In Poland there are, for example, medlar or dogwood. There are also late varieties of peaches and apricots – it’s a pity so few people are interested in the topic and eat just anything, and then get sick. If most people had knowledge about healthy food, we could eat different fruits every day.

Ripe fruits smell amazing, taste great and can provide you with all the nutrients your body needs. You will be surprised how powerful you can feel after staying on fruits for a longer time. You can eat only fruits and be 100% healthy.

Downsides of a truly healthy diet

  • When you start the healthiest possible diet – based on raw fruits and vegetables – at first you will feel very energetic, but after 2–6 weeks your body will “collapse” and you will feel tired and “hungover.”
    1. This is because your body first “rejoices” that it has good food and then switches into “hey, this is super healthy food – I can finally start detoxing.” And it starts detox. And detox, like any other – just like after drinking too much alcohol – is, to put it mildly, “unpleasant” until it’s over. When you destroy your body your whole life with junk food it is not adapted to and then suddenly change that, detox can be a very long process, and full cleansing can take even years – it can be compared to cleaning the lungs after quitting smoking.
    2. If you want to detox quickly – you must do a water fast for at least 21 days (40 days recommended), and then refeed with a healthy diet. Sometimes multiple water fasts are necessary, because you will crave old bad food after too short a fast and poison your insides again. However, then you will already feel the difference between being healthy on a healthy diet and you will feel the loss of that health and the desire to restore it. Therefore you will fast again until you recover. After each water fast the craving for junk food will fortunately be weaker and after some time, in case of a health crisis, switching to a fruit diet will be enough for the body to detox without fasting.
    3. Rapid detox on water can be a terrible hangover, but it brings stronger effects compared to anything else. It will heal your whole body even from old wounds and unhealed diseases. It costs nothing and is simple! Read more in my other post here: The Growin Way to Health

If this does not help your chronic disease

  1. Know that this is not the end of the possibilities in healthy eating and water fasting.
  2. More detailed information is available in my description here: https://jakwyleczylem.pl/disease/reumatoidalne-stawow/growin-way-to-health-pl, which includes information on:
  3. Food quality – it matters
  4. How exactly to conduct long‑term water fasts and, more importantly – how to come off them
  5. How to combine appropriate foods with each other, because eating everything at once is not advisable. The rules used when restarting eating after a water fast are also effective if you want to get back on your feet quickly after a disease relapse.
  6. Other ways to remove harmful food effects from the body, e.g. with vitamin C or activated charcoal.

Sources

If you want more information on why and how, read the books:

  1. “How Not to Die” by Dr. Michael Greger. I recommend starting with the film

  2. All Loren Lockman’s videos on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/LorenLockman

  3. “The Miracle of Fasting” Patricia Bragg, Paul C. Bragg

  4. “20Q&A About Dry Fasting” Dr. Sergey Filonov

  5. “The Science and Fine Art of Fasting” – Herbert M. Shelton

  6. “The Detox Miracle Sourcebook” by Dr. Robert Morse

  7. “The Plant Paradox” by Dr. Gundry

This page contains the most important parts needed to cure diabetes from the above sources. Each of these books contains dozens/hundreds of references to scientific studies, so I will not quote them here – I encourage you to read the materials in the order above.

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