Type II Diabetic here.........

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9. I had type 2 diabetes

until Sept of last year. I had refused to take the meds and kept my blood sugar under control pretty well with a low carb diet. My blood sugars started creeping up (I was falling off the low carb wagon) and I was wandering the web looking for better answers. I happened upon mark's daily apple. It's a free site, one of many that explains the primal/paleo diet/lifestyle, with scientific cites to back up their assertions. One of the things that appealed to me was that they encourage people to give it a try for just 30 days. That seemed like something I could do... no long term commitment. I started reading there and within about a week (I seem to need a lot of research....) decided to give primal eating a try because so many people seemed to be having success in curing diabetes, losing weight (which should help diabetes) and other auto-immune diseases by eating that way. It was similar to low carb, so it seemed like it couldn't hurt.

Within 3 weeks of changing my diet I no longer had diabetes. I still tested in the insulin resistant category, so I just kept eating primal and with 3 months or so my insulin resistance was also gone. As a bonus, I've lost about 30 lbs! I was able to stop my blood pressure meds after I lost the weight, as my blood pressure was normal!

I've made some other changes too.... mainly supplements that have improved my sleep (magnesium), Vitamin D (it's always been extremely low in my labs). My energy level has improved enormously and that has helped with my outlook on life!

May not work as well for everyone, but did for me.