I reversed type 2 diabetes physiology in a client who had been told this was lifelong, and how many times have you heard that? Well, within 30 days, her fasting glucose fell by 60 milligrams per deciliter, without even needing insulin, and she was on the track to be needing insulin, so this is quite profound. Now, Terry is 60 years old, and she's lived a decade with fatigue, her blood sugar kept going up, and she had the fear that she would need insulin, but she would refuse to take it if she ever did need it. She was very stubborn on that, and despite taking the maximum dose of metformin, which was two grams per day, her glucose just kept going up, so her primary care doctor was preparing to initiate insulin when she came to us, but like I said, she just refused to take it.

So, day to day, she felt stuck in a cycle of postnatal crashes, brain fog, and exhaustion, with a sense that her health trajectory was set in stone, as dietary changes she tried to make, and the exercise that she did, which was particularly yard work, because she lived on a farm, was not working. So, Terry's labs and symptoms showed that she had uncontrolled diabetes with fasting and postperennial glucose trending up, despite the metformin. She has developed glaucoma as a result of the diabetes, which is an increase in intraocular pressure, which can damage the optic nerve, and if this gets bad enough, it could actually result in blindness.

Her last appointment with the ophthalmologist showed that her pressure was elevated despite being on prescription eye drops, so this was quite bad, as her vision was getting worse and she wasn't even able to drive at night anymore. She suffered from fatigue and brain fog, and in her own words, I thought I was doomed to take insulin, but wanted to fix the problem without having to do lifelong injections. So, I applied the biological recode system, with the key focuses for Terry on peptides to restore pancreatic beta cell signaling, and reverse age-related pancreatic morphological changes.

You see, as you get older, your pancreas actually undergoes atrophy, and peptides to improve and even out post perennial glucose levels and protect against advanced glycation end products. This is important because diabetics face an increase in advanced glycation end products, and this can increase things known as MMPs, which actually degrade collagen, so they can make your joints worse, they can make your skin age faster, you'll get wrinkles faster, you'll not only feel older, but you'll look older as well. And peptides and cofactors to improve mitochondrial function and enhance insulin sensitivity.

So, peptides are very great here at boosting mitochondrial function, and mitochondrial function is one of the key things that you want to focus on if you need to reverse insulin resistance. So, in regards to supplements, there are certain micronutrients that are needed to improve diabetic neuropathy. It wasn't too bad in her case yet.

Sometimes she would notice that her hands would get tingling and numb, so we wanted to just implement some certain things, you know, like benfotiamine is extremely great at reducing diabetic neuropathy, and this is just a fat-soluble form of thiamine, as well as some other micronutrients that were decreased as a result of long-term metformin use, which paradoxically can even lead to worsening diabetes over time.

You see, there are certain vitamins which metformin inhibits the absorption of in the gut, which your body can store, but only a limited supply of. So, over time, say a year or a few years, if you're taking metformin and you don't also supplement with some important vitamins, then you're going to get worse.

That's definitely a big problem. And medication changes. So, this program was built without any medication changes, and although I don't consider metformin to be the most ideal diabetic drug, especially in certain situations where a client wants the maximum gain from exercise, as metformin, through its mechanisms, at least one mechanism, is an inhibition of the mitochondrial complex 1 of the electron transport chain, and this is actually a good thing in a small amount.

It can result in lowering glucose levels. However, it can also reduce the gains that you get from exercise. So, if this matters to you, metformin is not the best medication for you.

Although, it was needed in Terry's case because she had a history of urinary tract infections, which needs to be addressed through immune system enhancement before considering switching medications to, for instance, an SGLT2 inhibitor, which can prevent the reabsorption of glucose in the bloodstream in the kidneys and cause an excretion of glucose in the urine, but that, like I said, can slightly increase the risk of urinary tract infections, which just conflicts with Terry's particular case. So, we could explore that later, but we made some nutritional changes. I provided her a menu, including some recipes, to help replace some of the sweet options with healthy options that also taste great, and a great example of this is ice cream.

So, this is just one thing that Terry loved to consume, and, you know, there are some good recipes that you can get for homemade ice cream using things such as heavy cream and, like, egg yolks for texture, and then honey or, you know, some stevia, which isn't the best thing in the world, but it's not the worst either, and this is far better than buying, like, your, you know, your general ice cream that you get at the store, which is just loaded with sugar. So, healthier alternative options to replace some of the sweets that she loved and some of the foods that she liked. Now, before the program, her HbA1c was 8.2%, with a fasting glucose of 177 milligrams per deciliter.

Now, this is honestly in a territory where I would consider deploying insulin right away, because once you start having insulin, I mean glucose levels this high, it can damage all of your organs, but also it can burn out your pancreatic beta cells, and you start to lose more pancreatic function then over time, and that's why glucose keeps going up, because your pancreas just can't put out the insulin. Her fasting insulin was 22. Her constant glucose monitor time and range was 31%, and high sensitivity CRP was 4. So, that's a little bit high.

So, she had an elevated amount of inflammation in the body, which combined with the high glucose levels is going to just set her up for tons of, like, advanced glycation end products, joint and skin degradation, and all kinds of other issues. So, within just 30 days, her fasting glucose dropped to 108. That's a 60 milligram per deciliter drop, and her doctor was amazed when she went back and got the results of this test.

Her CGM time and range was 78%, and 6.4% HbA1c. So, much better. What Terry said was, I would have been very happy just lowering my sugars a bit.

Instead, within a month, my fasting dropped by 60 points, and I have much more energy and feel great. And this matters because type 2 diabetes is not a life sentence. It's reversible, even without changing drugs that you're taking.

And left unchecked, it can cause neuropathy, and in extreme cases, you could even potentially lose a limb or an extremity. Cognitive decline, and it increases your risk of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer's disease, which is actually caused by a central insulin resistance in the brain, which just accelerates Alzheimer's disease pathology. It can cause heart failure, and even blindness.

And especially in Terry's case, who, she already had glaucoma, and the intraocular pressure was not even going down, despite being on prescription drops. Like, this is serious. She was going to need actual surgery to address this, if she didn't get it under control.

But we did get her glucose way down, and she has a follow-up appointment at her ophthalmologist, actually today, so I'll have to see how that goes with her. But we did implement some other things in her case to help address the glaucoma, particularly a certain type of eyedrop, which is very high quality. It's natural.

It has certain micronutrients in it, along with four peptides, which are just really great for reducing advanced glycation end products, helping to benefit things such as glaucoma, and even cataracts, and just other peptides which can actually regenerate the retina, to an extent, mind you, okay? I'm not gonna lie to you. Reversing vision loss is something which is extremely difficult to do, although we have had some success with it in clients. In the past, it typically takes months.

Also, I'd like to mention that the biological recode engine, which is able to deliver you a full program, which is just based on the blood work markers that you enter, along with some other information, is capable of defeating type 2 diabetes in a lot of cases. And it essentially provides the exact same thing that I provided Terry in this customized program for diabetes. And the reason I mention the tool is due to its value, you know? The time that it takes to get a full program based on your inputs into the tool takes less than a minute, as long as you have your blood work labs handy.

And if you don't, I mean, they're provided in the full system as well. But another value to the complete biological recode system is all of the other pillars of age reversal that it has as a whole. So not only can it defeat diabetes just as good as what I implemented here and showed you for Terry, but it can help you reverse biological aging to a significant extent.

So it goes far beyond, like, diabetes reversal. And if you'd like to gain access to the biological recode engine and the full system of age reversal, you can just go to CuttingEdgeLongevity.com slash biological dash recode dash page, or just check the link in the description or below this video.