Two years ago at age 66, I was overweight at 410 lbs, not able to stand for more than 30 seconds, and needed a walker with a seat in order to get anywhere.
Twenty-five years of it
Type 2 diabetes was kicking my ass, as I was suffering with that disease for 25 years. Been on many drugs, but nothing worked to treat the root cause. Cholesterol was around 300. Heart disease was investigated in 2019 and found that my “widow maker” was 100 percent closed. Kidney disease worsened to stage 4. Dialysis was in my not too distant future if things didn't change.
I was on 400 units of Humilin R 500 each day (max legal dose), Jardiance, Ozempic, Chlorthalidone, Losartin, Glimepiride, Ezetimibe, Isosorbide Mononit, Furosimide, Carvedilol and Rovastatin. And my A1c was still 10.3, and the weight that I put on after being in a foot cast and boot for 18 months because of my Charcot foot, that weight wasn't coming off.
He is never going to lose weight on that much insulin.
Two doctors, arguing in front of me
That is when I took matters into my own hands and set out on a journey to get healed.
Clean fuel first
I learned about metabolic health and insulin resistance, and researched a protocol that was working for a friend of mine.
Here is the part nobody explained to me for 25 years. Every time you eat, your body puts out insulin to move that fuel into your cells. Do that all day, every day, for decades, and the cells get worn out with being shouted at, and they stop answering. So your body puts out more insulin to get the same job done, and the cells answer even less. That is insulin resistance, and no amount of injecting more insulin fixes it. It was making it worse. What I needed was to give my cells a rest from the constant signal.
Gut health and healing started with getting clean fuel: no more over-processed food with ingredients that I couldn't pronounce. Good food like beef, eggs, salmon, butter, green beans, etc.
The first few weeks
In the first few weeks my blood sugar started stabilizing, I felt better, more energy, slept better too. The yerba maté tea was helping my body create more GLP-1 naturally.
By the end of 4 weeks the weight was coming off about 3 lbs a week.
Three months
3 months in, blood work: the A1c went down 3 points to 7.3 and 35 lbs gone. And that was after I was off Ozempic and insulin.
Nine months
By the time 9 months passed, I was off all meds, down 112 more lbs and getting rid of my CPAP. A1c was 5.4.
The fiber matrix drink that I take before both meals has allowed me to be med free with blood numbers under control.
Sixteen months
Blood sugar stabilized. Heart and lung function vastly improved. And these numbers are without meds.
Two drinks, yerba maté tea and a fiber matrix drink, gave me my life back at age 68.