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I publish these cases on my Instagram and TikTok, with their figures and their faces. Here they are summarised and linked: you can open the original post and check for yourself.
Their numbers at a glance
The HbA1c of 17 people when they started the programme (○) and the HbA1c after starting (●). Tap a name to see the case.
Normal · under 5.7At risk · 5.7 to 6.4Diabetes · 6.5 or more
These are real people, with the figures from their blood tests. It is not a promise: every body responds at its own pace, and medication is always your doctor’s decision.
Before and after
Real photos of people in the programme, shared with permission. Tap any of them to see the full case.
Sandra · 31
HbA1c. In one year
She is still on metformin, and he says so in the post itself: she is starting to reduce it slowly and under medical supervision. Her process was not perfect — it was consistent.
Javi · 52
Fasting blood glucose. mg/dl in five months. His doctor took him off insulin
He works shifts, which is exactly why many people write this off as impossible. And he did not stop the insulin on his own: his doctor took him off it.
Isabel · 74
HbA1c. Two years later she is still in the normal range
She had diabetes on both sides of her family and back pain that limited her. Her own words, the ones that open Pablo’s post: “at my age there is not much you can do”.
Jaime · 60
HbA1c. In less than a year
A family man. He could not see a way out in the system; he tells it himself, in a live video with Pablo.
Beatriz · 59
HbA1c. In one year
She was on more and more medication, about to start insulin, and came to think that, at her age or with her back pain, it was impossible for her. She has not stopped the pills on her own: her doctor is taking her off them.
Carmen · 61
HbA1c. She was on two pills when she started
She had just retired as a teacher and did not want to start her retirement on insulin or more pills. She has not had to give up paella or a beer.
Orlando · 63
HbA1c. In three months
An engineer from the Canary Islands. He says the public system did not pay him much attention. His own post calls it remission; worth remembering that a blood test confirms that and a doctor judges it, not a website.
Francesc · 64
HbA1c. Still at 6 % today, with no added medication
He came from a one-size-fits-all diet and more and more pills, gaining weight with his HbA1c climbing. He knew insulin was next.
Sonia · 53
HbA1c. In five months, without adding medication
She works in an office and has children: not much time. She arrived tired and unhappy with how she saw herself.
Conchi
HbA1c. In the first months
She is a nurse, used to looking after others, and on top of diabetes she had other serious health problems.
Bethany · 40
HbA1c. In five months, without medication
She is a teacher and a mother. In her words: “I had got used to feeling bad, thinking bad was normal.”
Mercedes G. · 79
HbA1c. From the diabetes range to the prediabetes range
A figure dropping below 6.5 is not remission and does not remove the diagnosis: her doctor judges that, with her blood tests. What it does say is that at 79 there is still room to move.
Olga · 57
HbA1c. In three months
Olga was working and caring for her mother when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and told to start medication. She wanted to try to reverse it without starting on pills. She got in touch, joined the programme and her values are now fully normal. She feels and looks much better. It took her only three months, but getting there that fast is not the norm: let’s be realistic.
Pilar · 63
HbA1c. Fifteen years with her diabetes out of control
She spent fifteen years unable to control her glucose and suffered a cerebral ischaemia. She is still on medication, one pill less: this is not remission, it is a sustained improvement. And not in a straight line: she got down to 6.2 %, went back up to 6.8 % and is at 6.5 % today.
Fernando · 68
HbA1c. He started at 65, weighing 97 kg
He started at 65, weighing 97 kg. He plays golf and has had to move to heavier clubs because he is stronger. Age was not the excuse it looked like.
Eva · 53
HbA1c. In three months
She is slim, very active and careful with food, and still her HbA1c kept rising, on insulin and metformin.
María
HbA1c. In five months
She was looking after herself but not improving the way she wanted. She was taking two metformin pills a day.
Santiago · 63
HbA1c. In three months
Before starting he put it like this: “I don’t want to go on to diabetes or depend on medication.”
Arturo · 61
HbA1c. In a year, with no extra medication
Not every body responds the same way or at the same pace: his HbA1c has dropped a little, with no extra medication, and his body has changed a lot. It is told as it is, because that is a result too.
Álex
Blood glucose. In mg/dl, in his first three months
He works as an engineer and looks after his two babies and the house. He had tried diets and always ended up dropping them; his weight kept going up and his blood sugar was sky high when he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He has learnt that you can improve with little time and without doing it perfectly.
Each case opens right here, exactly as Pablo published it on @pabloberna.enf —his verified Instagram account, followed by more than 90,000 people— or on his TikTok. Fernando’s opens on Instagram.
A handful of cases show it is possible; they do not show how often it is possible. For that there is a clinical trial published in The Lancet, DiRECT, and you can look the numbers up yourself. Remission depends above all on the weight lost.
| Weight lost | In remission |
|---|---|
| Gained weight | 0% |
| Under 5 kg | 7% |
| 5 to 10 kg | 34% |
| 10 to 15 kg | 57% |
| 15 kg or more | 86% |
And two caveats almost nobody mentions, because they do not sell: at two years, those who kept the weight off kept the remission, and those who regained it did not. And remission is considerably more likely if you were diagnosed recently.
If anyone promises you any of those three things, be careful.
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