24/11/2025
Reversing diabetes is not guesswork — it’s detective work.
Before trying to “reverse” anything, we must check whether the patient has insulin resistance (the main engine that drives type 2 diabetes) and how powerful that engine is.
Think of insulin resistance like a stubborn gatekeeper:
Your insulin is knocking politely,
but your muscle and liver cells are like,
“Sorry sir, we don’t recognize you.”
So sugar stays outside in the blood and the glucose meter starts screaming.
Why checking insulin resistance matters
If we don’t know the cause, how can we fix the problem?
Talking about “reversal” without first identifying insulin resistance is like trying to fix a car without opening the bonnet.
Diabetes treatment ≠ sugar-lowering only
Just treating the blood sugar number is like turning off the fire alarm without putting out the fire.
To genuinely reverse diabetes, we must treat:
• the sugar
• and the insulin resistance that caused the sugar to rise
🧪 What the research says
• Up to 90–95% of people with type 2 diabetes have insulin resistance – American Diabetes Association, 2022
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/45/Supplement_2/S125/147347
• Insulin resistance strongly predicts diabetes progression and complications – Shulman GI, J Clin Invest (2000)
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/10842
• Reducing insulin resistance improves remission rates – DiRECT Trial (2018)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)33102-1/fulltext
• Lifestyle changes significantly improve insulin sensitivity – Look AHEAD Trial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606825/
The Bottom Line
If you want real diabetes reversal — not “Facebook reversal” — you must measure insulin resistance and treat insulin resistance.
That’s where structured Medical Nutrition Therapy + Clinical Exercise Therapy, like at Nutrinex, can switch off the fire and stop it from coming back.