Mr.Bohman Shamardan’s Testimonial: A GAPS Story on Diabetes Type-2 Reversal

At 85 years of age, I realised that age is actually just a number. I feel younger and happier today than in the last 40 years. 

My name is Bohman Shamardan, proudly ex-Indian air-force top gun and squadron leader. I have seen action in Indo-Pak wars and served my country with my heart and retired early due to eye injury during flying. 

I am blind by both eyes, with one being injured during my flying career and the other eye due to advanced diabetes and using spurious eye drops for two years. I was going downhill fast and was afflicted with several health conditions: diabetes type-2, impotency, hydrocele, incoherent speech due to a stroke, dry eye syndrome, chronic constipation and chronic sleeplessness. The quality of my life was most uncomfortable and painful to say the least, compounded by sleeplessness for a very long time.

I started with the GAPS Nutrition Protocol under the excellent coaching by Certified GAPS Coach, CGC, Mr.Jal Bhagwagar, in February 2025. I am very ably assisted by my caretaker, Mr.Akhilesh Yadav, who put the GAPS Nutrition Protocol into practice for me, under Mr.Jal’s coaching.

Fast forward to August, 2025, and I am absolutely blown away with the results:

My long standing blood sugar levels are now in control. As a result, as Jal explained, my impotency is resolved and even though I am a Bramhachari, I had a wet dream for the first time in 3-4 decades. This was a very huge surprise for me, but when I said it to Jal, he said he was not surprised: that it was connected with better levels of testosterone and the blood sugar getting normal.

My chronic hydrocele condition is resolved and I have stopped my medications for that. The comfort I feel now is worth all the time, effort and money I have invested. 

My speech has improved to such a degree, I am much more comfortable speaking to family and friends without trying their patience. I have shared this entire testimonial on voice message, because I am blind. Being able to speak coherently is such a big gain for my age and quality of life.

My dry eye syndrome was such a huge discomfort. Every morning I had to make an effort to open my eyes because they were stuck together due to oozing through the night. It was very painful and uncomfortable with burning and irritation in my eyes for long after that. This was despite using two different drops 3-4 times a day. Now, I have stopped one of the drops completely, and the other one is only once a day. This was beyond my expectations.

Years of chronic constipation and extreme discomfort, now resolved.

I now also sleep very well and have stopped my sleep medication. I am surprised at the content of my dreams: happy dreams.

My mood is now so much better and I look forward to each day. I have gained some healthy weight and people are commenting that I look rosy.

I thank God, the GAPS Nutrition Protocol, my caretaker, Akhilesh, so ably guided by Jal, for A New Beginning for me. I now look forward to every day. 

My heartfelt advise to anyone who has ageing parents: do seriously consider The GAPS Nutrition Protocol and give them a great quality of life, just as I have experienced first hand.

Jai Hind.

Bohman R. Shamardan, 

Palghar, Maharashtra,

India.

Coach’s Response:

All Glory goes to God/Consciousness Alone. He Alone Heals.

Thank you, Bohman and Akhilesh. Bohman, for trusting the process/Protocol and committing to it. Akhilesh, for ably implementing the  Protocol to the letter. Without Akhilesh it would have been impossible.

I started appropriately with Bohman, taking into consideration his daily and eating habits then. With the initial wins, I immediately put him on the Stage-2 Introduction Diet, which he still is on and will be for the next few months, until I see it fit to progress him. 

These results are not surprising as a GAPS Coach. 

As Coaches, Dr.Natasha Campbell Mc-Bride and her team have trained us rigorously in the GAPS Nutrition Protocol and we are still in training with the GAPS Coach community. Learning never stops. Especially if one needs to understand “nuance” and how Nature has designed the body: magnificent. The body wants to heal, is designed to heal, not to be sick and diseased. 

As the reader, you have read just how systemically the body can be diseased, and, once addressed Nutritionally and using the Protocol to the letter, the body heals systemically, too. Therefore, it is very common to see a client taking the GAPS Nutrition Protocol for reason X, but healing in several other ways: X,Y,Z,P,Q,R . . . ! It is worth repeating: disease and healing are both systemic. 

All disease begins in the gut, as Hippocrates quoted in antiquity. And, therefore, as we heal the gut, all diseases can be healed, without even going into “healing” per se. (Please read the Disclaimer for more understanding of the statement).

As Bohman said, age is just a number. True. 

The Indian Paediatrics Association calls juvenile type 2 diabetes: an epidemic. Why should children under age 10 be diabetics if age has anything to do with disease. It doesn’t. It depends on the right food: is the food being consumed toxic and insulinogenic, or, is it nourishing and life giving as Nature designed it for humans?

In Bohman’s and other people’s GAPS stories, what is common is: ancestral/human appropriate food, healing and sealing the gut via food, balancing the microbiome, covering nutrition deficiencies and detoxification. That’s what the GAPS Nutrition Protocol does. The results are there to see for all.

Very important is the spirit in which the Protocol is applied. In this case I give it full marks. Many thanks to Mr.Akhilesh Yadav, Bohman’s caretaker.

I appeal to the reader to seriously consider The GAPS Nutrition Protocol for their ageing parents. In the final analysis, it will save you a lot of time, money and heartbreak. Age is just a number. As demonstrated, it is never too late to give them a graceful, painless ageing process.

Thank you.