 The brand new International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention had a share of typical plant-based miraculous disease reversal. After having not one but two heart attacks within two months, a whole food plant-based diet and no more chest pain, controlling its cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugars, while losing 50 pounds is a neat little side bonus. Yet the numbers don't capture the transformation. Resurrection from feeling like a dead man walking to getting his life back. I already discussed the cases of autoimmune inflammatory disease reversal, the psoriasis, the lupus nephritis kidney inflammation, and speaking of autoimmune diseases, we didn't think we could do anything about type 1 diabetes. In contrast to type 2 diabetes, which is a lifestyle disease, it can be prevented and reversed with a healthy enough diet and lifestyle, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which your body attacks your own pancreas, killing off your insulin-producing cells, condemning you to a life of insulin injections. Unless perhaps you catch it early enough. Maybe if we can switch people early enough to a healthy enough diet, we can reverse the course by blunting that autoimmune inflammation. Now we know patients with type 1 may be able to reduce insulin requirements and achieve better blood sugar control with healthier diets. For example, randomized children and teens to a nutritional intervention in which they boost the whole plant food density of their diet, meaning eating more whole grains, whole fruit, vegetables, legumes, which are beans, split peas, chickpeas, lentils, nuts, and seeds, and the more whole plant foods the better the blood sugar control. The fact that more whole fruits was associated with better blood sugar control has important clinical implications for nutrition education in those struggling with type 1. We should be educating them on the benefits of fruit intake and allaying erroneous concerns that fruit may adversely affect blood sugar. But this case series went beyond just proposing better control of the symptom of diabetes, high blood sugars, but better control of the disease itself, suggesting the anti-inflammatory effects of whole healthy plant foods may slow or prevent further destruction of the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas if the dietary intervention is initiated early enough. Where are they getting this from? Check it out. One patient who began a vegetable-rich diet at age three immediately following diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, but three years later still has yet to require insulin therapy while experiencing a steady decline in autoantibody levels, markers of insulin cell destruction. Another child who didn't start eating healthier until several months after diagnosis maintains a low dose of insulin with good control. And even if the insulin-producing cells have been utterly destroyed, type 1 diabetes can still enjoy dramatically reduced insulin requirements and reduced inflammation and reduced cardiovascular risk, which is the number one cause of death for type 1 diabetics over the age of 30. Type 1s have 11 to 14 times the risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared to the general population. And it's already the number one killer among the public, so it's like 11 to 14 times more important for type 1 diabetics to be on the only diet and lifestyle program ever proven to a reverse heart disease in the majority of patients once centered around whole plant foods. And the fact that it may also help control the disease itself is just sugar-free icing on the cake. And all this exciting new research was just from the first issue of the journal. As a bonus, there's a companion publication called the Disease Reversal and Prevention Digest, a companion publication to the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention for the lay public, with the belief I wholeheartedly share that everyone has a right to understand the science that could impact their health. You can go behind the scenes and hear directly from the author of the Lupus series, with bonus interviews from luminaries like Dean Ornish, practical tips from dieticians on making the transition towards a healthier diet complete with recipes. The second issue continued to feature practical tips like how to eat plant-based on a budget, what Dr. Clapper is doing to educate medical students, what Audrey Sanchez, from Balanced, is doing to help change school lunches. And if you think that's hard, Dr. Osfield got healthy food served at a hospital. What a concept! And what magazine would be complete without an article to improve your sex life? Now while the journal itself is free, downloadable at ijdrp.org, the companion digest available at diseasereversaldigest.com carries a subscription fee, but I, for one, am a proud subscriber.