MASTERING DIABETES

Diabetes has become one the world's major health problems, approaching pandemic levels in many countries, with an estimated 422 million people world-wide living with diabetes. It's time for a diabetes revolution. That is the clear and urgent message of Mastering Diabetes

Cyrus and Robby have been living with type 1 diabetes for a combined total of 32 years, who, seeing their well-being deteriorate under standard treatment, scrutinized the protocol top to bottom and looked to other effective diet philosophies. They then, first using themselves as guinea pigs, developed a very different approach to understanding and living with the condition – and they refer to it as “mastering diabetes,” not “managing" diabetes – based on a plant-based, whole-food lifestyle that is lean in fat and rich in whole carbohydrates, including fruits, vegetables, and intact whole grains—foods that are traditionally thought "forbidden" for those with diabetes by the medical establishment.

They have uncovered evidence-based scientific research that describes in detail the powerful biology of reversing insulin resistance, and why carbohydrate-rich whole foods only require large amounts of insulin if the total amount of fat in your diet is also high. The scientific evidence clearly demonstrates that eating a low-fat, plant-based, whole-food diet instead of foods high in fat and protein, increases insulin sensitivity very quickly, which in turn drops your need for oral medication and insulin. And you feel better.

For more than four years, Cyrus and Robby's popular Mastering Diabetes Program has helped thousands of people with all forms of diabetes to reduce their insulin use by 40 to 60 percent (in the case of type 1 diabetes) and to completely reverse insulin resistance (for pre- or type 2 diabetes), while also helping people with diabetes lose weight, lower cholesterol, eliminate pharmaceutical medications, improve digestion, and live without fear of long-term complications.

Mastering Diabetes is like no other book on the market today and will serve as a personal coach to regain control of your health and address all the day-in-the-life questions, concerns, frustrations, and quandaries that affect people with diabetes.

At the core of the program is a comprehensive, yet easy to follow 8-week step-by-step plan that includes these benchmarks:
- Getting Started: How to Be Successful and Eating the Mastering Diabetes Way
- Changing Your Diet One Meal at a Time (included will be 30 simple recipes to help readers “jump start” the program)
- Intermittent Fasting for Maximum Insulin Sensitivity and Weight Loss
- Exercise to Reverse Insulin Resistance
- Mastering Your Lifestyle.

With more than 30 delicious, filling, and nutrient-dense recipes and backed by cutting-edge nutritional science, the authors teach you how to eat carbohydrate-rich whole foods like mangoes, potatoes, and quinoa while decreasing your blood glucose and medication requirements.

Mastering Diabetes will help you maximize your insulin sensitivity, attain your ideal body weight, improve your digestive health, gain energy, live an active life, and feel amazing!

Innovative, optimistic, illustrated with relatable case-histories, and above all, “do-able,” the Mastering Diabetes program is the complete plan that people coping with diabetes need now.


Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, and Robby Barbaro, MPH, are the team behind Masteringdiabetes.org, an online coaching platform for people living with all forms of diabetes that focuses on low-fat, plant-based, whole-food nutrition.

Khambatta has a PhD in nutritional biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2002. Barbaro has a master's degree in public health, and spent six years working at Forks Over Knives. He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2000.

They have been featured in such media outlets as NPR, KQED, CNBC, Healthline, Forks Over Knives, Vice, Fast Company, Plant Based News, and Wired. They have spoken at major medical conferences including the International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference (PBNHC), the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) Conference, and Plant-Stock, and are featured speakers at festivals including VegFest LA.