Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch to a diet consisting entirely of vegan, organic, uncooked food in order to reverse disease without pharmaceutical medication.
The six are challenged to give up meat, dairy, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, soda, junk food, fast food, processed food, packaged food, and even cooked food for 30 days. The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this radical diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse disease and change lives.
The film highlights each of the six before they begin the program and we first meet them in their home environment with their families. Each participant speaks candidly about their struggle to manage their diabetes and how it has affected every aspect of their life, from work to home to their relationships.
So many triggered skeptics in the comments section. Big pharma has left the chat. Haha XD
Does anyone know why the video has become private now? I really wanted to see this!
Where do you get the recipes that they made? Any suggestions for books or recipes? I want to start preparing these meals as I am diabetic Type 2. If anyone knows, (sorry, no personal emails or any other) "moderator."
My name is Megan and I live in Las Vegas, NV.
Wow what a wonderful film. I was cheering at the end, and am determined to make some serious life changes. I don't know any of these people but am so damn proud of all of them. The fact that we don't know all of this information already is extremely sad. I'm on day two of being raw and feel like I'm on a drug. A really good one.
It is possible to regenerate the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. There are certain nutritional components that can do this, curcumin in turmeric and resveratrol are two things that regenerate the pancreas. This absolutely does work.
This is amazing.
Hi, I live in Orange California and wanted to find out if a camp is available like the one in the documentary. I have type 2 diabetes and recently (6-7 months ago) had a heart attack. I need to have medical help to assure that I don't damage my body more. I saw my heart attack as a wake up call (stent installed) and want to get this under control. I am about 20 pounds to heavy. Any help would be appreciated. The doctors I go to say eat a chicken salad all the time or sign up for a basically worthless nutrition class. Which is a little frustrating. I am a veteran and am now 46 and strong minded. This can be accomplished!!!! I just want guidance and support on things that I can't see or know that is going on in my body.
Please help.
Both my parents have diabetes. My father worse than my mother. It is destroying my fathers kidneys. I was told I have an 80% chance of getting this disease. My parents have had to make radical (not as radical as this film though) changes in their diet. This is incredibly psychologically difficult for people who have lived their whole lives eating a certain way. My father is in a deep depression. I think a lot of times nutritionists and doctors and people who support certain diets forget what a deep mental attachment people have to their food and food rituals. My father never ate fast food. He lovingly cooked for our family for almost 20 years.
My brother had severe intestinal problems and diverticulitis and was told he would need to be on medication for the rest of his life. After switching his diet to predominantly vegan he is virtually cured. I am so glad he is healthy. He made me the person I am today. It is hard to eat with him though because he I feel so self conscious around him because his diet is so limited. I feel like he is always judging me even though I am vegetarian. He's one of those people with skinny genes and I am not. I also have hormonal problems that make it difficult for me to lose weight so I am seeking weight loss surgery.
I am a vegetarian and my brother is primarily vegan. It is easier for us to change because we are young and can redefine the pleasure we get from food and eating to mean different things. This is not so easy for our parents in their 60'- especially when they arent feeling well and some of the only joys they had in life was food or going out to a nice meal. We are trying to change their outlook and increase positivity - but this is very hard and may not ever happen. It is a daily battle for them and for our family.
I'm grateful to see these types of films being produced. Whole, natural, organic, raw food... full of nutrients and life... its amazing! I have been eating about 90% raw the past two months and I feel fantastic... workout almost daily and see a higher energy level.
Also don't use normal milk if you want to use milk, horrible stuff. Use something like rice milk or oat milk instead. Normal milk is boiled to smitherines and it's been pasturized and all sorts. If you want a bit of sugar, use a little stevia or agave nectar.
Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are really nothing alike. Type 1 the person doesn't produce insulin at all or very little. Type 2 they either become resistant to it or do not produce enough to cover their intake.
I didn't watch this, but reading through the comments gave me sparse knowledge of what happens in the film. The only reason this works for Type 1 is simply the fact that THE PERSON WAS NOT EATING AS MANY CARBOHYDRATES(or calories depending on your view point) SO THEY BURNED ENOUGH ENERGY THAT THEIR BLOOD SUGAR WAS LOWERED. As soon as they went back to the diet they had before their blood sugar would spike. Same as if they drank a sugared drink. This would be different for the type 2 person, as they lose weight from a program the need for insulin and the insulin resistance it self becomes less, so a sugared drink would affect them the same as everyone else.
I've been type 1 for a decade, how this misconception would not be obvious to everyone about diabetes I'll never know.
I'm studying to get my MD, and am disappointed how the entire medicinal complex of the United States is lumped together in one big pot. To say that doctors of any sort don't want people to get better, or that they will lose a lot of money if people are healthy, is ridiculous. Of course there are doctors who are greedy, the same way there are people pushing homeopathic cures who are feeding off of people's fear. Bad doctors don't invalidate what Western medicine can do or accomplish, any more than a crazy in the Raw world discredits what it can do. I personally believe food is medicine, and counsel all patients this way. Perhaps, and just perhaps, if you sought to educate Western medicine (which I do whenever I can) rather than villify, more conversation would take place.
Who can give me information in reference to The Tree of Life? Auntie in Sarasota, Florida???????????????
I am a Type II Adult onset Diabetic for 9 years. How can I get information on going for 30 days to the wonderful Tree of Life Program? I would definitely give it a try and stop all these medications that I am on.
Please, if you know how I can contact the Doctors, from Tree of Life, kindly let me know.
Thank you,
Ms. Rosie Santiago
Boca Raton, Florida
so whats the diet plan for someone whose pancreas has completely shut down?
I love their support its sooo great :D
incredible... i want go on something like that... really nice.. :D :D
I used a modified version and reversed my T2 diabetes. Now I take no medications and only control through diet and exercise.
Egads! "High fiber, High carbohydrate, low protein low fat diet" is the key? That's the Anti-Atkins diet. For the last few years I've tried to increase my protein intake and another doc recommended protein to stave off hunger.
I guess the other advise to "Stay away from anything "White"" was good--no sugar, no white flour, no dairy, no salt, no lard, no alcohol. Basicly anything white. I would think apples would be ok, however.
Essentially, the less processed a food is, the better it is for you.
Chocolate is a superfood (without the sugar)!
If I could just stay away from sugar, that would be a start at least, and processed meats and fast foods. It's so hard to do.
@Ale
Its not pushing us along.. Its leading us along like a carrot on a stick.
@mahi
I agree.
Healthy is big business.
Convenient is even bigger business.
I dont usually have time, or the cash flow to follow one of these diets. I can spend 5 bucks for a complete breakfast in 5 min at mcdonnalds or spend 30 bucks at the local safeway getting all the ingredients for a few 'healthy' meals that I need an hour to cook.
@anne V
They cooked some of the food in the video as well, just not over 118 degress F (47.7 C) which should soften them up enough to release most of the nutrients but also preserve a majority of the phytonutrients.
@vegazosten
Show me how to buy my ingredients cheap, year round, and prepare my 3 meals a day in 20 min or less and I would try it. I'm still gonna eat meat tho. I'm not gonna argue with 2 million years of evolution :P
I can't understand why some persons don't even wanne try it? Even after proven good or better results? How can humans be so stupid? It's like smoking, everyone knowns it's so bad, but still they wanne smoke!
This movie broke my heart. I have family who suffer from diabetes and I shared it with them to give them hope. I feel that those of us who understand the power of RAW have a responsibility to spread the knowledge and begin to reverse the health epidemics fight the money-driven medicine machine that seems to be trying to ensure these epidemics continue to grow.
On a lighter note, RAW food also gets rid of 100% of cellulite! Let women know that and the movement will REALLY take off! YAHOO!
I had similar results on a potato diet. I ate noting but potatoes for 30 days and I lost 45 lbs. I ate them mashed, baked, fried. scalloped and boiled and I went from 245 lbs down to 200 lbs in a month and I felt great. I used ketchup with it too and sunflower oil and butter. I didn't starve myself either I ate all the potatoes I could eat until I was full and I lost weight so fast it was incredible.
My daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 12. 6 months ago I was in the hospital and was discussing type 1 with one of the doctors there. She told me that the "theory" of how Type 1 diabetes is contracted is through genetics triggering an auto immune response after having a virus. She said no one rally knows how Type 1 diabetes manifests and, in fact, there is absolutely no eveidence to show that it runs in families. She told me that 5% or less of type 1 diabetics have a family member who also has the disease. No one else in my family or my husbands has type 1 diabetes, but yet my daughter has it.
I would love to see this same documentary performed again with 6 type 1 diabetics. I was disappointed that the type 1 diabetic in the movie, who had been diagnosed as a child was not committed to the program. Even still, he had dramatic drops in his insulin use, but I would like to see what the human body can really do when it is nurtured and given the chance to heal on its own.
Thank you for posting! this has been an eye opener!! God Bless you!!!!!!!!