T2D is mistakenly thought of as a simply progressive disease needing lifelong medication. The name itself instils fear and provides no insight to its cause and potential for recovery.

Renaming the condition high blood sugar puts the condition in context and invites an individual to explore potential routes for recovery.

Fructose is the sugar we often associate with fruit and a healthy diet. Unfortunately it is now routinely separated from its natural fruity matrix and added to all sorts of unnatural everyday “foods”. It’s abundance and refined state means that it is now recognised as adding to the toxic burden associated with chronic disease.

The Sunday Telegraph in Great Britain does a good job of raising awareness and describing the risks associated with overconsumption of fructose.

A recent New York Times article contributed to the public debate around the human gut microbiome. Put bluntly, we still don’t understand it very well because our research material does not represent the human population.

The article introduces us the the Global Microbiome Consortium, a recent attempt to fill the gaps in our knowledge and foster a more honest discussion of the science.

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It is run by a group of well-respected scientists with a track-record of challenging the status quo and trying to find out what is driving today’s unprecedented increase in chronic disease.

Starches in bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes are rapidly converted by your body into sugar. Very quickly that sugar exceeds our metabolic need, is converted and stored as fat, and contributes to what we call chronic disease.

The good news is that this can be reversed. Cutting down on starchy foods is a way forward. This has been shown to result in drug-free T2D remission.

Want a feel-good story about health and longevity from a mainstream newspaper? Look no further. The Telegraph ran a great piece on how Dr. David Unwin is reversing Type 2 diabetes in his patients.

He lays out a simple and effective 6-point plan to get his patients off medication.