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Life Without Diabetes

The definitive guide to understanding and reversing type 2 diabetes

About The Book

Transform your life with Professor Roy Taylor’s revolutionary 3-step plan, whose research inspired The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet. Now updated with the latest scientific research.

Professor Roy Taylor is one of the world's leading experts in type 2 diabetes, who discovered that this life-limiting disease is a reversible condition. With his team of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK, he launched a series of studies culminating in a multi-million-dollar trial, which confirmed that simple dietary changes can bring about lasting remission.

In this updated edition, with a new chapter on type 2 diabetes in young people, Taylor brings his knowledge and experience of four decades of treating people with diabetes and explains exactly what is happening in the body as type 2 develops. Alongside delicious tried-and-tested recipes, he presents his brilliant 3-step weight-loss plan that enables you to reverse your diabetes and live a full, healthy life beyond it.

About The Author

Courtesy of Professor Roy Taylor

Prof Roy Taylor is Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant Physician at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He was visiting Professor of Medicine at Yale University, where he acquired new MRI methods to look into the human body. He also developed the UK system for screening of diabetic eye disease and is author of over 300 scientific papers.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia (June 4, 2025)
  • Length: 336 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781761633249

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Raves and Reviews

‘My husband Michael was a huge admirer of Roy’s trailblazing work. This book will change a great many lives for the better’

Dr Clare Bailey Mosley

‘A brilliant, readable and life-changing book from the world authority on type 2 diabetes reversal’

Sir Richard Branson

‘Roy Taylor and his team at Newcastle University have not only cracked the mystery of what causes type 2 diabetes, the greatest health problem of our time, but shown the world how to get rid of it. This is a terrific book, which will help a huge number of people.’

Dr Michael Mosley

‘Fascinating, informative and, in today’s world, important. For anyone with type 2 diabetes, it’s a no- brainer – follow Roy’s roadmap and reverse it. And if you haven’t got type 2 diabetes – yet – follow Roy’s roadmap and avoid it.’

Jimmy Nail, musician and actor

‘This book reads like an adventure story; it is an amazing journey of discovery. It is also packed with insights and valuable information. Without giving you any false hopes, it contains what you might need to know to be able to escape from your own type 2 diabetes.’

Dave Myers, Hairy Biker

‘Professor Taylor’s remarkable tenacity in researching the concept that some people are able to put their type 2 diabetes into remission is changing how we think about and treat this pervasive condition.’

Dr Elizabeth Robertson, Director of Research, Diabetes UK

‘This fine book contains good science, good writing and good advice in equal measure. It is both fascinating and useful for readers.’

Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything

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