How She Reversed Diabetes With a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet: Interview With Sandra (Part 1) – ENCORE

About this episode

Sandra shares her journey of reversing diabetes through a whole food plant-based diet.

Do you feel weighed down and burdened by constant medications and anxiety around your medical diagnoses? Are you wondering if there is any natural holistic way to drop your blood sugar levels to normal, lift your depression, help you drop pounds, as well as improve your energy levels and mood? Yes, there IS a way and it is simpler than you think – by focusing on eating high quality nourishing natural whole plant-based foods and moving more, your health can improve dramatically. How? In this episode, I’ll share part 1 of a fascinating interview with my special guest, Sandra Y. A member of my Community, Sandra was told initially by her doctor and other health professionals that she would need to live with diabetes for life and that there would be no cure. However, Sandra - after a bout of further depression over her new diagnosis - decided to do her own research and came across plant-based eating. What she didn’t expect though, was the amazing healing journey she found herself on when she made the change to a plant-powered lifestyle, one that would not only improve her diabetes, but cause her to drop nearly 50 pounds, lift her depression and more…all within 6 months of switching to…

People in this episode

Host: Anna Tseng

Guest: Sandra Y

Topics covered

• diabetes
• plant-based diet
• health transformation
• weight loss
• mental health
• nutrition

Keywords

• diabetes reversal
• plant-based eating
• health improvement
• weight loss
• depression
• whole foods

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Plant Nourished

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