I have been off of metformin for 5months now and my a1c is at 6.3. I do intermittent fasting, cut out sugar and refined carbs. Doing plant based whole foods. Doing strength training 5times a week and walking for 30mins almost every day. You *can reverse diabetes*. Keep the faith. Your body is designed for health. Give it the right inputs❤❤❤

*I had very high blood sugar I only managed to improve my health when I found a WONDERFUL treatment, if you want to know about it, I left the video in the comment reply*

I’ve subscribed to all the type 2 channels over the last 4 years. I’ve got it down to one. Cyrus seems to be on a mission. Not just trying to promote his channel. The content is real from someone that knows from experience.

Been off Metformin for 6 years. I chose to burn off my glocuse by walking 20k steps, riding my bike 10 miles everyday and light weights and isometrics 2 to 3x a week. I stay away from sodas and juice. I try to eat healthy..

Thank you for speaking the truth that many doctors and health care professionals can't or won't tell you about. Don't stop doing what you do to help people all over the world ⭐⭐⭐

Appreciate your work and mission brother

Facts, practical real life scenarios and lifestyle solutions. I have taken Mastering Diabetes lifestyle medicine and have been thriving since 2016 !!! Keep up the excellent work Cyrus and hope to see u soon on the disc golf course 😀

I took myself off 5 days ago. My a1c was now 5.1. I could not take the side effect of extreme fatigue. It took only a few days off of it to feel normal again. I am taking Berberine now.

Thank you for educating us on the facts.

This information is exactly my sentiments. Thank you so much for the confirmation.

I was 495lbs, I ate what my doctor told me, did as much physical exercise as I could with my bad back and continued to gain weight until I got to that point. I was type-2 diabetic, had high cholesterol, high blood pressure and was a walking heart-attack. I signed up for gastric-bypass surgery thinking I had no other choice, but because I was so high risk I needed to lose 80lbs before the surgery could be done. Imagine, being that obese, trying so hard to lose weight, starving myself, on a ton of medication and not able to have a surgery I needed to help me. That is when I started doing research on my own... There had to be a way. Then I tried an ultra low carb diet. I didn't count calories, I ate until I was full and I only ate when I felt hungry. The pounds fell off without trying. After a year I was off all my medications because I didn't need any of them any longer and I had lost 200lbs. Fast forward 7 years later. I'm still off all my medications, I'm not Type-2 diabetic and I feel amazing. I came to learn that for people that have become Type-2 diabetics that carbs are the enemy. Eating carbs triggers a lot of insulin which is the fat storage hormone and also causes insulin resistance and this gets you stuck in a cycle that you can't get out of. Medications and insulin help but actually make the problem worse as times goes on. What you need to do is reverse what made you sick in the first place. Eating too many carbs, spiking insulin levels over the years and creating more and more insulin resistance making you metabolically unhealthy which leads to weight gain and insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes. What traditional medicine considers low carb is far too high. 20-50g of total carbs per day is what the range should be to reverse Type-2 Diabetes and encourage weight loss without medications.

Deep Sleep ( rest & recovery) , keeping a positive mindset should be added to life style.

Taken metformin for 12 years, never had a doctor check B12.

This was very informative!

Very cool of u 2 make all these videos for our health

I'm so thankful for you!!!!!!!!!

Okay,here is what happened to me,when I was given Metformin.Within three days I developed a severe body rash.My doctor was horrified,ordering me to never take this medication again.I suffered badly for two years before it went away,despite many hospital visits i had two weeks of a hellish existance..

Ok Thank you. ❤

So taking both metformin and a statin for high cholesterol means normal liver function is greatly disrupted. Both drugs affect the liver. Both drugs are widely prescribed.

One fits all advice? Those are great

That path is me. I'm now taking about 5 meds that control the cholesterol, HBP, etc. I'm in the cycle and I'm afraid to leave. I'm in my 70s, I'm alive, I'm alright with it.

Before getting Metformin for Diabetes, I was on 7 other medications for congestive heart failure and attrial flutter (one to slow the heart down, one for rhythm, duretics and one to thin blood), high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Some could have been avoided if I had sought earlier metformin? Surgery (Cardio Abalation) fixed the heart rhythm and walking reversed the congestive heart failure. I reduced my egg and sausage consumption to get off cholesterol medication. Both which also reduced my metformin needs. By the time I read Mastering Diabetes I was down to 3 medications and giving up meat, fish and eggs got me off the rest. Unfortunately by then my kidneys were worse and no warning of high bean consumption or fruit juice being hard on kidneys and certain high oxalate veggies (purines, uric acid and oxalates). I had given up soft drinks in 2011 and fried foods in 2015 before the heart heart problems in 2017. Had I had been told to see a dietician maybe the process would have been faster (dietician at a gym hard gotten me off soft drinks previously). The high meat diet I was using to control my blood sugar and switch to less cooked hamburger by the fast food industry around 2005 moved me from hyperinsulimia to undiagnosed diabetic. The Coke-A-Cola consumption made it harder to learn during college classes taken during the 2009-2011 recession. Warnings from my brother about high fructose corn syrup in soft drinks messing with ghrelin and leptin had gotten me to quite in 2011. Going Whole Food Plant Based no sugar salt or oil diet (WFPB-SOS) November 2020 and intermittent fasting got me off the high blood pressure and metformin and lost 50 pounds in 10 months. I gain some weight back last year on bread, dates, plus courtesy of my moms retirement home instant mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes with sugar and marshmallows during Thanksgiving and Christmas - New Years weeks. I have since lost the holiday weight and plan on losing another 50 pounds. Now I will be tweaking my diet to make it easier on my kidneys. While I reduced my A1C from 7.5 to 5.7 it seems I get quite the insulin spike if I eat too much fruit or bread. Bread was a once a month splurge and it was the dense German style whole ryeberries style pumpernickel or read Sourdough (no added yeast or dough conditioners). Thanks for your work Cyrus Khambatta and Robbie Barbaro plus books by Dr Dean Ornish, Dr Neal Barnard, Dr John A. McDougall, T. Colin Campbell PhD etc. read previously. Mastering Diabetes recommended by a high school classmate was the final straw that got me on the right path.

OMG I love you ❤❤ Thank you for sharing this important information. I felt you where with me at my doctor's when he prescribed Metformin and said oh if you have Diabetes then you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol so take this too. The thing is I'm terrible at taking pills so I would forget. Also the side effects where horrible. March 14th 2023 I quit processed sugar and processed food, started fasting and decided to stop taking my pills 2 1/2 months later I went from 170 to 149 and I'm almost diabetes free but my pressure is normal now. I took my life back.

I currently use Glipizide works too well especially when eating well ?? Any comments or videos on that one

@Mastering Diabetes ... I faced Lactic acidosis due to Metformin and i had to switch to voglibose. Metformin had also lowered my B12 levels despite taking B12 supplements. Now B12 levels are going up without any supplements after Metformin is stopped.

I'm not taking Metformin anymore, but I was traveling in Costa Rica a couple of years ago, and forgot my Metformin. After a small panic I went to a pharmacy there, and no prescription was required, and the cost was $2.50 for 30 1000mg tablets! I bought 10 packs..... Fortunately, I figured out my diet and got off of them, but how about the ripoff here in the States?

THANKS 😊

I wish you where here in Cincinnati you would be my doctor and you are right

Great video 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Any advice on Glibenclamide for type 2 diabetics.

What if you do both life style change and take metformin?

I have lost weight. BMI now 25.2. I never eat after 8pm and never before 11am. I walk 3 miles ever day (quickly). I eat no processed foods. I have eliminated sugar and eat whole foods only (lots of tree nuts). I am still pre-diabetic. I despair.

❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you❤❤❤❤ I’ve been a Type2 diabetic for 13 years now and am more than wanting to get off all of my diabetic meds for good!!!❤❤❤ Thank you Mastering Diabetes❤❤❤❤ I know I can get through this Diabetic Hell

Agree with all the content of your video. Intermittent fasting and healthy foods works really fast to lower glucose.

Thank. you

How

I couldn’t tolerate Metformin. I had too many GI issues. That’s how I got in Jardiance. Now I’m off Jardiance and waiting to get off Ozempic.

I weight 197lbs , 5’2 ft tall, 33 years old, my A1C was 6.4 over the last year it has been on the 6’s. I am considered pre diabetic I actually just picked up the prescription for metformin 500 this one lasts 24 hours. Before I was weighting 197lbs I was 217lbs I have been eating healthier, walking everyday for over an hour, including weights, and intermittent fasting, I drink a green juice in the mornings on an empty stomach. (Celery, cucumber, fruit, ginger, tumeric, black pepper). I’m going to start incorporating ACV to my tea at night every other night. My question is , should I start the metformin and continue to do what I do? I’m getting my A1C tested again in June so in 2 months from now.

Brilliant video. It horrifies me that doctors know so little about nutrition and yet have the skill to do profound complex operations.

What about Jardiance?

ive been on a high dose of seroquel for 10 years. i also have hypothyroidism. i'm also 62 years old. ive exercised 5 days a week for years and watch what i eat but have become very obese. ive come to learn that many doctors when precribing seroquel will subscribe metformin to counter act the blood sugar rise from the seroquel. ive been thinking of trying it because i'm in a bad situatiion, maybe if ide taken it from the start i wouldnt have gained all this weight? appreciate your thoughts.

Is it safe to take Metformin alongwith Statins?

Dr David Sinclair says Metformin is good for heart health and should be taken even if you don't have diabetes. So what's best?

Does it need to be a plant based diet? I go pretty much keto and the results are great. Salmon steaks hardly move the needle in the glucose level at all and keeps me full for most of the day.

The only video thats making sense

How much of the benefit from Metformin is from the fact that Metformin causes nausea, abdominal cramps and diarrhea and is actually working more as an appetite suppressant than anything else? Has anyone compared the benefit of Metformin vs a placebo that just cause nausea, cramps and diarrhea?

Metformin saved my father's life.

I was on metformin for a long time. My numbers didn't change after i started taking it and my numbers did not change after I stopped taking it.

Berberine replaced (met forming

Due to mobility and weakness issues, I'm unable to exercise. Even walking. What do I do?

It worked for 2 years then my numbers went back up to what they were before I started metformin

Sounds like the Metformin manufacturing folks put on great “Conferences” for the MDs.

I have been on metformin for 10 years and it did not help once it just made it worse

I’m NOT doing well with metformin. I’ve lost my appetite and my stomach burns all the time. I need help!

I take 2 Metformin, 500 mg a day, but I take them together in the morning. Seems it should be an am and pm.

Hi Cyrus I'm on metformin, is it possible to get off of this medication

Please help me I don't want to die my sugar is out of control I have been on metformin since 2003 its not helping me at all plus I have been told I must take insulin and multiple pills which all of it makes me sick I don't know anymore what to do

does the diet help to reduce the insulin from liver?

Have you known anyone who takes Berberine in place of metformin? I recently started taking Tudca in addition to Berberin.

So, is it better to get off Metformin while you work on plant based diet to reverse Type 2 diabetes?

Too many letters instead of full names for things thus hard to understand

So can you just stop taking metformin or do you wean off of it, as I have been taking 2000 mg each day for 10 yrs

Earlier this year I was started on 500mgs Sukkarto and 4 weeks later, the dose was raised to 2000mgs. I had violent diarhorea 4x daily and twice a night, was at times feacally incontinent and was exhausted....this went on for 3 months when i came off it as i couldnt go out! I have been off it for 8 weeks now and the bowel is only just calming down! I see the specialist nurse again in about 3 weeks. What on earth is IN this medication?

Thank you. My doctor has zero faith that I can make the changes that will lower my insulin resistance. I don't want to take metformin and she raised a stink over me saying I was going to a 95% plant based diet. Now I will have only two months of regular exercise and plants, herbs. I am learning a lot and don't want to get pushed to take anything except vitamin D3 and maybe thiamine. How can I insist she give me 6 months before shoving me into pills I don't want to take? I need to lose 35lbs.

This video is true. I had to change my lifestyle. No carbs, good food, green veg and meat is my main diet. Lost 20kg in weight. Waiste size drop. I am still on meds but after having type 2 diabetes for over 20 years and poor medical advice i have lost all faith in Drs. When i was diagnosed as type 2 I was told eat carbs. The worst advice. AC1 was 46 gone up to 52 but it will come down again. I have fairly steady blood sugars now running between 6 and 7. No spike above 10 and average spike is to 8.

Metformin gave me blurry vision and stiffness in my fingers. Symptoms went away once stopped.

Metformin was one of the worse meds I took for T2D It had horrible side effects.

“It is mainly a medication for the treatment of diabetes,” says Marcio Griebeler, MD, an endocrinologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. “There are several studies that showed that metformin can decrease the long-term complications of diabetes, including cardiovascular events and cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction, heart failure, arterial revascularization, stroke, and death.”

So the real message is, when it comes to the two of the leading health issues in the US (cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome), don't trust your doctor's advice. I would disagree with the statement at 21:44 "lifestyle change is easy..." Actually no, no it's not. That is such an ignorant thing coming from a channel that is science-based. Especially around something where the whole society is actively working against those choices. The culprit is the Standard American Diet and the volume of marketing around that, and the deep social expectations in support of that, which is absolutely mind numbing. It'd be like an alcoholic who quits drinking, but has to go to bars and clubs every night with people saying "just have one little drink..." Lifestyle change is straightforward which is vastly different than easy. How is Elon Musk going to get people on Mars? The solution is straightforward. Send them in a rocket, etc. But you ain't getting it tomorrow. It's the implementation that's the issue, maybe impossible to do. Lifestyle choices are just as difficult to implement. That's the allure of metformin or a statin. It's the easy button. An easy button with hidden costs though. And the first hurdle on your lifestyle change? Telling your doctor no, that you're going to implement a lifestyle change first. The doctor will persist because how many people have said that, but never follow through? Or they might tell you, take the metformin just until those lifestyle changes kick in. We are socially conditioned to listen to our doctors and follow their advice. So good luck getting out of the starting gate.

Should only be used as necessary. My doctor prescribed meds so easily. I only take 1 dose when she prescribes 2. I change my diet w/less carbs & sugar!

However metaformin seems to have some positive effects for cancer😊😮

I changed my lifestyle drastically -eating 90% REAL food, cutting down on # of meals per day, cutting down on size of meals. I added fiber and eat very low carb. I take 1000 mg of Metformin a day. I exercise by running sprints or walking. I don’t know what else i can do. I don’t lose weight and i can’t lower my blood sugar. Am i doomed?

So what happens when you take metformin and make life style changes

Use drug for hair growth?

I went cold turkey, long story...

True got worst

👍👍👍 thanks

Keep short and simple man

Does Metformin cause ED??

Too many physicians have an allopathic reflex. Speaking as the daighter of a physician, the dont get trained on how to heal, but rather on how to drug patients and support rhe pharmaceutical complex.

I know everything about reverse diabetes by now, my point is: how to be restricted with diet 100% , no cheating 😊 ever. I am very good at it, but I cheat a desert here and there

Metformin doesn't block the release of glucose from the liver. It blocks gluconeogenesis, synthesis of glucose from excessive amino acids. Glycogenolysis is not gluconeogenesis as glycogen is formed from glucose.

Try using 5 vegetables and 3 fruits. Skip banana and kale. Use oatmeal and try to avoid efined carbs

My Doc just prescribed this to me and the only side effects I have is some pretty good farts that can clear a room real quick.

Do glipazide

Berbering

I've been taking metformin for over 25 yrs without any side effects. I don't think this doc really knows much

I don’t know if you’ll ever read this…but the lifestyle change I’m choosing is Keto (meaning,

i thought metformin is not good for you

I lowered my A1C from 13% to 6.5% and my doctor increased my metformin dosage from 500mg to 850 mg. I lowered my cholesterol from 8 to 5 and my doctor prescribed statin 🤦‍♂️

Metfoim NO PROBLEM

Don was killed by a nsw cop named Tom Bunnell out of 21 div king's cross police station.

Metformin can have a rebound effect where glucose control is worse if you stop. Does berberine? A shorter lifespan is another problem with insulin resistance.

Intermittent fasting doesn't work. At least for me.

Yah Neh🥱🥱🥱🥱

You mislead patients!

If I achieve the correct nutrition lifestyle will I be able to do away with Metformin? 😮 …. Plus I’m need of a good lifestyle change suggestion And lastly if seems now like my weight loss is disconcerting I’m actually afraid 😳 if I eat a lot of no carbs non fattening foods I may disappear 🫥… But seriously I need to maintain weight or bulk…