Reversing Diabetes in 21 Days: How Dr. Shah Does It

0:00and I can vouch for that because I grew up at a time like that you know where packaged food was not even available and traditional Indian food is grains, beans and vegetables. So you know people were not consuming a lot of oil because it was hard to get now it's something that is special and so people use a lot of oil so things have changed remarkably from the time I became a doctor in 1981 to now I've seen that change in our Indian population because the rates of heart attacks and diabetes has just skyrocketed. Okay um Dr. Shott you mentioned reversing diabetes in 21 days through diet and your residential program could you outline the general principles of this dietary approach? yeah so basically it's about eating as close to what nature designed for us as totally whole

1:08plant-based and organic because we're the only species that sprays our food with poison so that other animals don't eat it and then we eat it and of course you know all these chemicals not just on our food but also the chemicals that we're using on our bodies or in our spaces all these chemicals enter our body through our mouth or through a breath or skin and chemicals are carcinogens chemicals are hormone disruptors and diabetes is a hormonal problem because insulin is a hormone so if I want to get rid of diabetes and I want to say that in the 21 day program we work on all kinds of diseases and not just diabetes but if I want to get rid of diabetes then I'm going to think what are the causes of diabetes and the number one cause is fat which is what we've already

2:08talked about but also lack of fiber because the fiber holds on to the fat and doesn't allow it to go straight into the bloodstream and so that sludgeiness you know the fat goes into the bloodstream slower so for example if you're eating an avocado or an olive or coconut then you're having the fat with the fiber and it's not going to make such a big impact on your blood and then of course I also you know stress reduction stopping of tea coffee or all substances which are harmful to our body drugs and tobacco and alcohol and everything else and then rest at the right time because there are lots of people who stay up till late at night and you know our body needs exercise and rest and both are equally important and so our body heals during rest so if we can

3:15get all these things in place and we also work on the state of mind because you know I as a homeopath always combine mind and body and stress is one of the major causes of disease and I've seen so many people get diabetes because of a major stress and then even after the stress is gone the diabetes doesn't go away so if we can eliminate all these causes that's what we do in our 21 day retreat so as to get free of diabetes and of course one of the other causes I mean one of the other things that help us get free of diabetes is cutting down the medications because the medications are also chemicals and everything that you put in your body is broken down by the liver excreted by the kidneys it's a load on the body and as long as the body has to eliminate these medications it can't you know put all its energies on healing so so cutting down

4:22medicines is an important part of my program so just one follow up for both of you the word stress sometimes sounds like a fluffy word you go to a doctor and they go well maybe you have stress and it's kind of like anyone could use it any time and you say I'm not feeling better with the medicine or the supplement they go well you probably have stress what how much what is stress I mean I know stress is worrying is that I mean you could is worrying but how do you read what is stress how do you get rid of it and is this something to put attention towards it seems like a lot of people are very intense and very passionate and have stress and I'm not sure is that science that really is bad for you what do we just does everyone just say it's bad for you like I'm very focused on not eating animal products but I might still get angry about something on the news and not think it's a big deal what what is your guys your both of your thoughts on this

5:26yep so my thought is that I normally see patients with chronic diseases if they're under stress and and I'm not talking about oh just a little bit I'm talking about severe stress where they that there's basically no hour of the day where they can't relax for I find people under high stress are much more likely to have chronic diseases and be unable to reverse those chronic diseases because what stress involves is a stimulation of your sympathetic system where your body's releasing fight or flight hormones like epinephrine nor epinephrine and those specific hormones are there for a good reason if you're you know if you see a threat and you can run away from it the problem is in modern society if you're stressed because you're having a stressful commute behind the wheel of a car for an hour or you're stressed because you're trying you feel

6:29you're addicted to your cell phone and you have to check it every five minutes to see if someone responded to your post etc so those types of stress unfortunately cause and cause chronic diseases so but to answer your original question what in the world is stress stress is a time period when your body is hyper acute hyper aware of your environment and again we're not designed to spend all day in the in bed doing nothing we're designed to be out there and active but the problem in the issue is in so-called modern society there's way too much stress and I believe that we experience stress through hormones so for example if we are stressed we produce adrenaline and cortisol for example or epinephrine and where animals are stressed they produce the same hormones

7:35so when we consume animal products we're also borrowing their stress hormones we're borrowing their emotions