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How i reversed my type 2 diabetes



I am Dora Lebaga-Mevaa, CEO ADHA/ADHA EMPOWERMENT, State Registered Nurse in France, Health and wellness consultant and a Diabetes Educator.

In 2011, Iwas diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes. As a nurse I managed to reverse my Diabetes without any medications.

Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease; it doesn’t happen unless we let it happen. When we gain weight from an unhealthy diet, fat builds up in our muscle cells, which blocks insulin from ferrying glucose to our cells. The problem is made worse when you eat a high-fat diet—that is, one with lots of meat and dairy. The fat from our food spills into our blood, further clogging up our muscle cells and preventing insulin from doing its job.

With firm determination and discipline, I was able to remove fat from my body and animal fat from my food, by eating more vegatables and fibers. I could reverse my diabetes entirely.

I had to prove that eating plant foods could reverse my diabetes and restore the vitality that had long left my body. I had to look and act the change I wanted to impart in my life and with some daily physical activities.

After some weeks of healthy eating and physical activities , the extra fat on my body seemed to melt away and People began to notice my dramatic weight loss.It was like I was never diabetic at all. Decades of poor health habits and tens of thousands of Big Macs, chicken wings, and French fries etc all reversed in a matter of months. Since 2012 I am diabetic free.

It was after my own personal experience, that I decided to create ADHA in 2018, to raise awareness on Diabetes and Hypertension and most important to save lives in Africa and the world at large.

I lost my Dad some 35 years ago because of Diabetes and Hypertension, not because of anything but negligence, he was taken to the hospital in Cameroon and was injected with glucose without taking blood, to know his sugar level, he immediately went into coma and died a week after. Since then I had always had this burning dream in me to create an  organisation, on Diabetes and Hypertension.

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