#1 Diabetes Reversal Starts Here.

Let’s Get to Work!

If you’re as sick as I am of the usual “wellness influencer” diet and lifestyle advice, then you are in the right place. Here there will be strictly: no naked dawn yoga; no lemon water rituals; no technicolour smoothie bowls; no duelling studies; no showering in the back garden of my jungle home; and, no woo-woo nonsense. I promise.

Critically, there will be no false promises.

This is a newsletter for real people, with a real problem, looking for real solutions, that work in real, messy, busy, stressful lives. Yes, even yours.

Reversing type-2 diabetes is possible. But it’s not going to happen without some effort on your part. You’ll need to be honest with yourself, apply some self-discipline, do things that are likely to work, and track the right data to measure your progress. And, when you wobble, and you will, you’ll need to keep going when all you want is just want to slump back into comfortable, old habits.

If you're here for empty motivation, you're in the wrong place.

But if you're ready to stop blaming yourself, stop hoping for a magic food, stop the endless ‘diet wars’ drama, ditch useless supplements (and the notion that health comes in pill form) and start reclaiming your health in a structured, trackable way - welcome. I will show you how to get this done.

Who am I? And, Why Did I Start This Newsletter?

I’m Andrew Scott - a dad, health statistician, clinical nutritionist and 25-year veteran maths and science educator. And I’m someone who’s been through the chaos and fear of a type 2 diabetes diagnosis and come out the other side.

I started this newsletter because I was angry, odd as that may sound. The outdated, vague advice I got at diagnosis wouldn’t have reversed anything - it might not even have slowed my health’s decline. It was watered down for ‘palatability’, too vague to put directly into practice and delivered with a sense that we were just ‘ticking the lifestyle box’ as it wasn’t going to work anyway! Accept your fate, get on the drug conveyor belt, cross your fingers, hope for the best. Oh, and prepare for the worst.

By an odd quirk of timing, the same month I was first diagnosed with pre-diabetes, I completed a master’s degree in applied statistics, where my research was on applying a new mathematical technique to find deep connections between diet and metabolic disease. Then, a year later, in the same month I received the diagnosis of type-2 diabetes, I completed another master’s degree in clinical nutrition, where my research was on first-line diabetes treatments and their effects on gene expression.

Fortunately for me, that background meant I knew exactly what to do to reverse my diabetes, and how to do it. So, I ignored the bad advice I’d received and made a few non-extreme changes to my diet and lifestyle. I’m telling you the truth here: it was not all that hard because I did the right things and had support. (More on that below).

Within two months, my blood sugars were below the diabetes threshold and, soon after, below the pre-diabetes range, too. I did that while raising my five-year-old as a single dad, working full-time, managing a tight budget, and caring for a seriously ill family member. Life was tough; the approach still worked.

But here’s the thing: I had an unfair advantage: I already knew the physiology, the reversal literature, the wrong turns that lead nowhere, and the difference between what looks good on paper and what actually works a real life.

I started this newsletter to give you that same unfair advantage.

I’ve seen what diabetes does when it's left to run its course - in friends, colleagues, and in my own family. After several miserable years of suffering with increasing pain and difficulty, my dad died from the complications of his diabetes just as he was about to retire. He never got to enjoy the golden years travelling around Scotland and Europe with my mum that he’d earned after almost 5 decades of work. He never met my son, who would have been his first grandson. And, as a small family, we lost the next 20 years with a smart, funny, kind man. He took the path his doctors laid out. I wish I’d known then what I do now.

If I can help you or someone you love avoid that same trajectory, then at least I’m doing what I can to reduce the needless suffering type-2 diabetes can bring.

This newsletter is here to share what actually works - no fluff, no dogma, no sugar-coating. Just a clear, practical path out of metabolic disease and back to health. I’ll share what I did and what I’d tell a loved one in the same position.

I’m delighted you’re here. I think you will be, too.