Dr. Robert Ward, an acclaimed Community Medicine physician and researcher, says, "Type 2 diabetes diagnosis rates have grown in epidemic proportions in the past 40 years, with no slowing in sight. Sedentary lifestyles coupled with diets of processed, calorie-dense foods and sugar drinks have set the stage for this condition. It is a condition based in a failure of insulin to function at a fundamental level, resulting from various forms of oxidative stress. Target tissues (liver, muscle and fat) lose the ability to receive appropriate signals from insulin."

"The answer lies in REDOX chemistry. Obesity leads to a dramatic increase in oxidative stress. In studies, obese subjects in a healthy body, insulin binds to the tissue receptor specially designed to fit insulin. However, oxidative stress inhibits the various special steps in the “phosphorilization” of various chemical components in the Krebs cycle, and sugars cannot get transported into the cell. The cell starves for energy. Sugar levels in the blood stream (outside the cells) rise, resulting in the familiar negative symptoms of type II diabetes. Additionally, high sugar levels activate transcription factors that ignite gene expression and further insulin resistance."

"Because insulin’s action is a REDOX chemical reaction, solutions can be found at this foundational level. Caloric restriction and exercise are restorative, and balancing the oxidative environment may prove helpful with REDOX signaling supplements."