Reversing Type 2 Diabetes - My Truth

Can you lose weight whilst sleeping?

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:12:32 -0700

Can you lose weight whilst sleeping.

Maybe not. But you do definitely burn calories. Which is loosing weight isn't it?

As Cathy Posey, RD, a blogger, and nutrition coach offered a simple way to approximate how many calories you burn in your sleep:

“On average, people burn about .42 calories an hour per pound of body weight while they sleep,”

So according to her formula:

My weight x 0.42 x hours = calories burnedFor example: I weigh 165lbs x 0.42 = 69.3 cal/hour x 6.5 hours = 450.45 cal/ night

So what does that equal?

About 30-45 min of exercise, or a muffin!

Which is why at www.Type2DiabetesFree.com and @beFreeOfType2D we recommend whilst putting your #Type2Diabetes into remission – 8 hours of sleep. Which is a muffin and a bit. Or for us fighting to be free of Type 2 D ... around an hour of exercise.

So sleep is pretty important. Loose that and you might as well not got to the gym at all.

But does it make a difference when you GET those hours of sleep.

Before I got into the idea of sleep as a way of helping put my Type2Diabetes into remission I didn’t know very much about sleep.

I knew it was good for you. And that I needed it. But I didn’t know why.

Now there is a whole chapter or two about sleep in my book.

But like all books – it’s can’t be updated. Unlike a blog. And so that latest research is just coming out. Not that refutes any of the previous findings. But it shows us that:

YES it might make a difference as to WHEN you get those hours of sleep.

This makes a difference – as everybody is different.

It might be ALL down to your CHRONOTYPE.

Which Dr Michael...Read More

A brand new idea for #Spring. A way I can help ONE person like me, STOP having #Type2Diabetes...

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 03:34:34 -0700

Yesterday was #InternationalHappinessDay and the start of Spring.

Spring is a great season. It means things change. And get reborn. Or just born.

Trees blossom. Flowers bloom. The sun starts to shine again. You get the idea.

Anyway. inspired by the change in seasons I read something yesterday from Seth Godin. Which made me think (*see blog below). Or maybe that should be RETHINK.

As last week I shut down the business - FreedomFrom and the website www.BeFreeOfType2D.co.uk which was heart breaking for me as I really want to help people STOP having Type 2 Diabetes.

But we never got the idea joint funded, or supported by the NHS in time. And so after spending hundreds of hours of my time and thousands of pounds of my own money - I had to close that chapter of my life. Which was a crying shame...

But perhaps the book hasn't ended.... As.....

Perhaps, I can help people in a different way.

Not a lot of people.

In fact, perhaps only ONE person. But every little helps right?

So if you answer YES to ALL the following - then that person COULD be YOU.

And I could be working with you personally to help you change your life - like I did.

So... 15 questions.

5 easy questions to start off with...

Do you have #Type2Diabetes? Or are you pre-diabetic?

Are you classed as overweight?

Do you want to loose weight?

Do you know you can put #Type2Diabetes into remission with diet?

Do you want to change and put your #Type2Diabetes into remission with diet?

And now the harder ones....

Are you prepared to change everything about what you eat and how you eat?

Are you up for a serious challenge - as this is NOT easy.

Do you...Read More

Hi and a bye.... Of sorts... for #NYE2018

Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:40:57 -0800

Some good news and bad news.

The good news is that I will be on BBC Breakfast - the morning of New Year Day. Reviewing the 1st newspapers of 2019 at 720am and 820am.Which is a true honour. And a lovely surprise. Didn't think a year ago - that I would be doing that. I didn't even know if I would be alive. So I am truly grateful for everyone.

The bad news is that in 2019 I will have to stop my non for profit work. As Be Free Of Type 2 D - never got the funding needed and my money ran out. Changing the way the NHS work didn't seem to be something the government would fund. So...

I have to concentrate on me, my new job and my family.

The good news is that I am still free of Type 2 Diabetes, I had my yearly check in December.

I finished the book in October and gave it away for free for two months.And I now have time to concentrate on Great Marketing Works, my new role and my tech investment in FLOCK.SO... Here's to you - and here's to being the change you want to see in the world.Here's to an amazing 2019 for us all.

Does this mean we have won? Or should we push for more.

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:54:05 -0800

Amazingly last week - the government and NHS made a u-turn. All about what we are campaigning for. For them to recognise we can treat Type 2 Diabetes with diet and lifestyle changes.

Here's me on the BBC News Channel talking about it.

This the amazing first step in changing the way that doctors in the UK treat #Type2Diabetes. Saving the NHS millions if not billions.

But does mean we have won?

I don't know... You tell me in the video. The link with the Facebook Poll is below....

I am pretty happy about it - but I got a lot of negativity off others in the health sectors. So I know it's not perfect but at least the NHS and government realise you CAN reverse #Type2Diabetes with diet!

Hopefully I sounded positive and promoted the #realfood message - as this is key for it all working. #LCHF and all that.

And hopefully you can join me on www.type2diabetesfree.comand on Facebook to watch the video here.

https://www.facebook.com/Type2DiabetesFree/posts/582199708860507

Did you know it was #WDD2018 yesterday?

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 06:34:25 -0800

World Diabetes Day (WDD) aka for this year #WDD2018 was founded in 1991. By the International Diabetes Federation and became an official United Nations day in 2006. It takes a pride of place in #DiabetesAwarenessMonth which is November the same month I was diagnosed a year ago.

But I never knew anything about it. The day is marked every year on November 14, the birthday of Canadian scientist Sir Frederick Banting. It was Banting that co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922. Banting who could have personally profited by billions by patented the insulin product but didn’t. Received a Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He then received a knighthood for his contribution to the world of science.

His work continues to help millions of diabetic suffers today. Literally saving millions of lives since he made his discovery.

The theme for this World Diabetes Day is Family and Diabetes. It's aim to raise awareness of the impact that diabetes has on the family. And promote the role of family in the management of diabetes. 90% of people who have diabetes have Type 2 Diabetes. The one I had. And whereas Type 2 is linked to obesity and poor health. Type 1 has nothing to do with lifestyle choices and is neither preventable nor reversible at present.

WHY IS #WWD2018 IMPORTANT?

As each year, more and more people are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. This terrible condition, where your blood rots you from the inside out. Can lead to stroke, blindness, heart disease, kidney failure, limb amputation and your early death. It would have killed me.

But it's not just about death. It's the cost of living with it too. As diabetes prescriptions are costing the NHS in England more than £1 billion a year, according to new figures from NHS Digital. This total cost of the prescriptions has risen...Read More

If @Tom_Watson can do it. So can we.

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:29:50 -0700

Over the last week lots of change has been happening in health care and especially around Type2Diabetes. With myself having learnt first-hand how hard change is for the NHS and how badly we need change in our health care system.

But change is COMING. Some amazing things are happening...

Be that in attending UKHealthCamp in Manchester. And meeting some amazing tech entrepreneurs and future thinkers in health all that know change is needed.

Or having seen (and heard the numbers from) the introduction of more and more technology innovations at the NHS Expo and the great speech by MP Matt Hancock.

Or the admittance of the Deputy Labour Leader that he reversed his condition with diet and exercise and believes the NHS could save billions moving forward.

Or the new numbers coming in from the studies done by PHE . And their wish to move to prevention rather than cure.

Or the DiabetesUK sponsored DiRECT studies that are proving that this method of treating Type 2 Diabetes (which we have been petitioning for) might work on more and more people.

Or that the NHS is planning to fund more innovative ways of dealing with the Type 2 Diabetes epidemic and may finally allow the use of rapid weight loss – like the approach I used to reverse my condition.

As I went on the liquid diet as part of #TheFastFixDiabeteswhich itself was based on the Direct study and the work of Professor Roy Taylor. Who for too long wasn’t listened to by many parts of the #NHS.

It seems now that people are listening and taking action.

As the trial report is published in November and already NHS chiefs are planning how they nationally roll out the diet.

As...Read More

Happy times... Times are a changing.

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 03:47:36 -0700

"It is a public health scandal that so many millions of people are having to suffer this condition when they don't have to," Deputy Leader of the Labour Party @tom_watson makes important call on halting the rise #diabetes at #NationalSummit

I could cry. I really could... It's all happening so quickly!

Yesterday I was on Channel 5 News...

Why?As yesterday the UK government said that NHS chiefs are looking into the rapid weight loss approach to reversing Type 2 Diabetes.

Basically the results from the studies are in and it's conclusive.

The approach works for more than 50% of people and up to 80% of people in different demographics!

Professor Jonathan Valabhji, a consultant diabetologist at St Mary’s Hospital in central London, said research had shown almost 50 per cent of patients could see the blood-sugar disorder go into remission.

The NHS are now going to have to prescribe diet and exercise.

Rather than just drugs! It's amazing news. Does this mean we have WON?

I don't know - the petition and other work we did seems to have worked.Or it was just well timed. A huge thanks to everyone that has helped. It looks like change it really coming... I could cry. I really could...

My Open Letter to everyone who really wants to reverse their Type 2 Diabetes. #Type2Diabetes

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 07:07:52 -0700

This email I received made me re-think. I thank the person who sent it. And in my reply I detail the basics of how I reversed by Type 2 Diabetes.

The EMAIL.

My name is XXXXX, i am the 62 year old Jamaican man living in west bridgford, nottingham with type 2 diabetes.

I am desperate now to reverse this just as you did and i am hoping that you can help me? can you please contact me or tell me where i can buy the products and get the right plans to battle this.

I am not great at emailing and have to get one of my kids to help send them so i would appreciate if you could call me and talk me through it if possible? i would appreciate it alot and if this is possible you can reach me on 0XXXXXX

Thanks in advance.

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So this is the email I send to him. And yes I am also going to call him next week....

The email he sent me. Inspired me to continue to help people. I hope my response is helpful for you too. As in it I detailed everything that I have done to reverse my Type2Diabetes and the research that backs it up for you too.

My RESPONSE.

Hi XXXXX

Happy to chat through this as well but will email to start off with - as then you have a note of everything already.

As this is a LONG email. Which with your blessing I will turn into a blog post for the website - with your name changed (of course...) So.... To start off with...

I have some good new and some bad news.

The good news is that I believe that 70 - 90% of people IF they do what I did - they will reverse their #Type2Diabetes. It's why I started both Type2DiabetesFree.com (which has a link to some of the most up to date research.) And the non for profit retreats with www.befreeoftype2d.co.uk

But the bad news is that...Read More

Should we DO month long retreats?

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:55:47 -0700

What’d you think of the month long health retreat idea for Be Free Of Type2D?

I really want to know.

Email me diabetesfreedan@gmail.com and give me your thoughts.

And feel free to ask any burning questions you might still have about how to reverse your Type2Diabetes. I’d love to read them and maybe answer them in an upcoming video.

One question people have been asking me is where can I get the shakes for the diet?

The answer is coming. With a special thank you.

As I am organising a discount promo code for you from the producers - all hopefully for over the weekend or next week.

The product has sold so well they have run out! Which is great as hopefully this means LOTS of people with Type2Diabetes know they can reverse it themselves.

It's time to take our health BACK into our own hands.

Which reminds me - the retreats. I wanted to do what we did on the #FastFixDiabetes show and take people away for a month. As this is how I turned my health around...

What's your thoughts?

Would you rather do a month or a week?

Email me back on diabetesfreedan@gmail.com with your answer and any questions.

Or comment below :)

Reversing #Type2Diabetes: The Truth

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 07:02:09 -0700

This book by me, Dan Sodergren who starred in #TheFastFix. Is a collection of over a decades worth of research, blogs, white papers and findings. Mixed with my own and other peoples success stories all about reversing #Type2Diabetes.

Collated by me. Whilst, during and after the filming of the @ITV documentary on Type2Diabetes. #TheFastFix.

In this book, I detail what I learnt from some of the leading lights in Type2 Diabetes. And how I manage to reverse my own Type2 Diabetes. Along my personal road to recovery.

A path I would like to take you on...

However, this book is not a medical book. It is not legal advice. I am not a doctor. It is an entertaining and I hope informative study. Around a condition that is growing into an epidemic around the world.

Thinking about why it might be happening. What we might be able to do about it. And how I reversed my Type 2 Diabetes

Through learning about the Three Keys. #The3Keys

These are the Three Keys:

Of Body, Mind and Spirit.

Of Diet, Exercise and Willpower.

Of Experience, Knowledge and Understanding.

And I want to pass these the 3 keys onto you.

It was only with these three keys and the three mantras taught in this book. That I managed to reverse my #Type2Diabetes in less than 100 days.

And then felt inspired to and start www.befreeoftype2d.co.uk to help people like me do the same. As I believe that if I can reverse #Type2 Diabetes - which I have then - then YOU can too.