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Can you push back type 2 diabetes with a six-month programme? The Dutch programme KeerDiabetes2Om ('Reverse Diabetes 2') set out to find the answer, with 234 participants. The results were published in the scientific journal BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health.
Participants worked in groups of twenty. They started with a two-day workshop and returned after one, three and six months — only a few days of professional guidance in total. In those days they learned to eat a Mediterranean diet with fewer carbohydrates (less bread, pasta, potatoes and sugar), took cooking courses, started moving more and worked on relaxation and stress.
Two years later, the results were remarkable. 28% of participants no longer used any diabetes medication at all. Of those injecting insulin, 71% were able to stop. Participants lost on average 7.1 kilos and 7.9 centimetres of waist circumference, rated their health 7.3 instead of 6.9 — and felt clearly less tired. To grasp how special that is: with type 2 diabetes, medication is normally built up over time, not scaled down.
The programme is now widely recognised: KeerDiabetes2Om is reimbursed by Dutch health insurance and has been elected a best practice, with the ambition to expand to twelve other European countries.
This is precisely where My Lifestyle Platform comes in. The platform supports not only participants but also the professional coaches advising them — with a complete client overview, automatic record-keeping and draft advice with sources included. That is how a proven programme like this can grow to many more participants without professional guidance having to grow at the same pace. The approach stays the same; the daily support comes from the app: a personal schedule, recipes, reminders, an AI coach and a community.