8. In a sense, it’s a sleeper! People need to get adequate sleep. People who had nights without enough sleep, or minimal sleep, had blood sugars go up, even in one night. There’s correlation between lack of sleep and increased FBS. I noticed it in myself as well. My FBS is usually in the low 80s and increased after several nights of limited hours sleeping by as much as 10 points.
9. The healing effects of meditation
10. Individualizing the diet type and phase type for optimal healing effects and long-term 90-percent compliance. In Phase 1.0, I recommend using approximately 25, 45 percent calories from fat, approximately 25, 45 percent from carbohydrates, and 10, 25 percent protein in a live-food, plant-source-only diet (dependent upon individual constitution)
for three months of confirmed healing. I then recommend Phase 1.5, an 80, 100 percent live-food, plant-source-only maintenance diet with 30, 50 percent carbohydrates, including some grains, beans, and low-glycemic fruit but no junk or processed foods, white flour, white sugar, or trans fats.
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The overall holistic effect of a 25, 45-percent fat-intake diet, including a drop in total cholesterol to a safe, cardio-protective, mentally protective level of 159, and a cardio-protective triglyceride count of 82.
The use of all raw fats except for trans fats creates an excellent macronutrient balance for minimizing carbohydrate intake and finding the best protein intake for repairing and rebuilding the tissues and enzyme replacement.
The global long-term risks associated with a low-fat diet far outweigh any theorized and unsubstantiated scientifically potential benefits of a low-fat diet.
12. Loving yourself enough to want to heal yourself and the use of a psycho-spiritual approach to activate this
As I look at the overall clinical picture in the last 120 patients, my final thoughts are that the Dr.
Cousens’s Diabetes Recovery Program, A Holistic Approach has become a way of life in which people feel healthier and happier on every level of their lives.
The Dr.
Cousens Diabetes Recovery Program, A Holistic Approach gives the most efficacious results ever recorded in the literature at this time.
It is my intention in future research to apply this program to at least two hundred Type-2 diabetics while using much more rigorous monitoring in a full scientific research paradigm.
After this, I am considering doing a study with Type-1 diabetics.
The data collected from 120 participants (in this second edition) are certainly more significant than the data collected from 11 participants (in the first edition). I feel that there is enough data and that the issue is important enough, given the pandemic nature of diabetes, to release my results at this time. I do so with an awareness that more research is needed to validate this theory and the results.
The big question is the human question: Can people sustain themselves in the Culture of Life with a high degree of success?
With highly motivated people there is a high success rate, but as this is applied to a pandemic level in many cultures and economic realities, I am looking very closely at support programs that will be desirable and thus successful for all circumstances.
This will require a lot of creativity to apply this logical, common-sense breakthrough to national cultures worldwide, as I am now doing in Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, New Guinea, Peru, Argentina, and Mexico; with migrant farm workers in the United States; with some Native Americans; and also in Israel.
It is one thing to develop a successful health program in a volunteer clinical setting like the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center U.S. but something else to create a program that is feasible for all on a national basis.
The Culture of Death and corresponding diet causes diabetes and leads people to a place where they feel at a point of no return once CDDS manifests as Type-2 diabetes and the negative epigenetic and genetic programs have been activated.
The sensible and important awareness is that there is always the potential of a return.
Paracelsus said, “No physician can ever say that any disease is incurable.
To say so blasphemes God, blasphemes Nature, and depreciates the great architect of Creation.
The disease does not exist, regardless of how terrible it may be, for which God has not provided the corresponding cure.”
In this context, the current so-called normal standard American diet is immoderate and detrimental, as it directly contributes to the manifestation of diabetes.
Previous “moderate” diets have been shown to ameliorate and control diabetes to a limited degree.
The dramatic changes that result from my program do not come as the results of practicing the conventional moderation approach of the Culture of Death, which in essence is a way of making denial seem reasonable in this case.
To make this kind of significant change requires a lifestyle and diet that is dramatically and excitingly different, resulting in powerful results in a short period of time.
This requires leading a life of love, purpose, meaning, and self-value, and choosing a diet and lifestyle
that reflect these values. This is the diet and lifestyle being taught in my program.
The essential question that is asked of participants is, Do you love yourself enough to want to heal; and potentially add 10 to 19 healthy years to your life?
The results revealed in this book, for those who have answered this question in the affirmative, show that the conventional paradigm for diabetes, as labeled by the ADA and most medical schools as incurable, is a self-defeating myth.
In all fairness, the conventional paradigm also teaches that proper diet and exercise help slow the progression of this “incurable” disease, but those adhering to the conventional paradigm do not offer the proper diet and intensity to do the job.
I have activated a new paradigm that previous research has pointed toward by taking the next logical step, going deeper into the underlying causes by seeing diabetes as a symptom of the Culture of Death.
In this book I have validated that there is an option if one is ready to take it.
By the Culture of Death, I am talking about a culture founded on predatory competition in which people are economic commodities.
The focus is on wealth for the few versus health for the many.
It is a culture of separateness, domination, and resulting exploitation.
In this culture, people have lost their soul connection and life purpose.
This is connected to the approximate 80 percent obesity rate in diabetics, for as previously stated, there is never enough food for a hungry soul.
The Culture of Death spawns a food environment characterized by the heavy marketing of excitotoxin-rich processed junk foods that are high in white sugar, white flour with alloxan, and refined carbohydrates, and the heavy use of cooked animal fats and hydrogenated trans fats, agrochemical-laden foods, radiation, and heavy-metal toxicity.
These characteristics combine to result in a negative synergy that has precipitated Type-2 diabetes at pandemic levels, compared with its relative rarity before 1940.
This is not an accident, the Culture of Death diet is an active and thoughtless Crime Against Wisdom.
The Culture of Life manifests as cooperation, health, harmony, and compassion, combined with production of healthy, natural, organic foods that preserve soil and minimize the pollution of both people and
planet. The Culture of Life helps us reconnect to our heart and soul in a way that brings the presence of light, love, and the divine back into the core of our human experience. Instead of a “moderate” diet, the Culture of Life cuisine is a common-sense diet of low-glycemic, moderate-low high-quality carbohydrate, low-insulin-index foods that are organic, high in minerals, hydrating, and live, with no animal, hydrogenated, or trans fats, 25, 45 percent high EFA plant-based fats, high fiber, 10, 25 percent plant-source protein, and thoughtful food intake.
The healing of diabetes at the pandemic level requires the healing of the ecology of the planet and the consciousness of the people.
To heal oneself requires the ability to love oneself enough to have the intention to reconnect with the Culture of Life, which is our birthright.
In that way, one performs an act of love for oneself as an individual person and as part of the living planet.
This results in the healing of the planet and all species.
The healing of diabetes in this context is an act of love, compassion, and consciousness.
How to Self-Screen for Possible CDDS, Prediabetes, or Diabetes
Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS)
• One needs a glycometer to do this. They are about the same quality, although prices vary.
• To find your FBS, test your blood with a glycometer when you wake up in the morning before you have eaten anything. This is called FBS. It must be taken before eating or drinking.
• If your FBS is above 85, it is best to be on a Phase 1.0 diet until it has dropped to 85 or below. If the FBS is 86 to 99, you have entered the first phase of CDDS. At this stage, it is a preventative health and warning diagnosis. It is, however, a strong suggestion to go to a Phase 1.0 diet and maybe just green juice for dinner.
• If FBS is 100 to 125, it suggests that you are prediabetic, like a third of all Americans.
• If your FBS is 126 and above two days in a row, it suggests that you may be diabetic.
• No definitive diabetes diagnosis should be made without a full diabetes work-up by your personal physician. If you get an A1C test, from my higher standard perspective, 5.0 or less is optimal, 5.3 is good, and above 5.7 is considered diabetes. Others suggest that the diabetes diagnostic cut off point should be 6.0.
Test Blood Sugar (BS) One and Two Hours after Meals
• A second part of CDDS evaluation is your postprandial spike, which is your blood sugar value one hour after finishing your meal.
• If your blood sugar is above 125 or 40 points higher than your before meal blood sugar, it indicates that you need to go back to the Phase 1.0 diet until the blood sugar level is less than 125 or less than 40 above your premeal blood sugar.
• If your blood sugar is greater than 140 one hour after eating, it is a probable sign that you are a prediabetic and need to go on a Phase 1.0 diet. You should have a diabetes work-up by your physician, including at least a five-hour glucose-tolerance test and an A1C test.
• If your blood sugar is above 180, you are most likely a diabetic and should immediately arrange with your personal physician for a more complete diabetic work-up and begin a Phase 1.0 diet. The Phase 1.0 recipes listed in