The Diabetes Code by Jason Fung Summary
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Dr. Fung's revolutionary guide challenges conventional diabetes treatment, offering natural reversal strategies through diet and intermittent fasting. Endorsed by Dr. Mark Hyman, this New York Times bestseller has transformed countless lives, proving type 2 diabetes isn't the chronic sentence we've been told.
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The Sugar Trap: How Diabetes Became a Modern Epidemic
Imagine a disease once so rare that medical students learned about it only from textbooks. Today, that same condition affects nearly half a billion people worldwide and strikes children as young as three. Type 2 diabetes has transformed from medical curiosity to global crisis in just one generation. Yet conventional wisdom still labels it "chronic and progressive" - a life sentence of deteriorating health and increasing medication. This fatalistic view is fundamentally wrong. Type 2 diabetes is fully reversible through dietary changes rather than medications. This isn't theoretical - countless patients have eliminated insulin injections after decades of dependency. What makes this approach particularly compelling is that it isn't new or experimental. It's rooted in treatments that predate insulin therapy but were forgotten when medication became the standard of care. For thousands of years, diabetes was recognized across civilizations. Egyptian texts from 1550 BC described "passing too much urine," while Greek physician Aretaeus called it "the melting down of flesh and limbs into urine." The first effective treatment came in 1797 when John Rollo developed an all-meat, low-carbohydrate diet that dramatically improved diabetic symptoms. Everything changed in 1921 with insulin's discovery, overshadowing previous dietary approaches.
The Birth of an Epidemic: How Dietary Guidelines Created Diabetes
Two Diseases, One Name: Understanding the Types of Diabetes
The Body Under Siege: How Diabetes Destroys From Within
The Insulin Factor: Why Obesity and Diabetes Are the Same Disease
The Overflow Phenomenon: How Cells Become Resistant to Insulin
Breaking the Cycle: How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
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