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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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Table of contents

  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

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

Experts in this video

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Jeffry Gerber, MD

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Jeffry Gerber, MD

Dr. Sarah Hallberg

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Dr. Sarah Hallberg

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