Our Deadly Diabetes Deception" [long, but very INSIGHTFUL]
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Our Deadly Diabetes Deception" [long, but very INSIGHTFUL]
Our Deadly Diabetes Deception
By Thomas Smith
10-18-4
Diabetes introduction
If you are an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you
that most diabetes is curable.
In fact, if you even mention the cure word around
him, he will likely become upset and irrational. His medical school
training only allows him to respond to the word treatment.
For him, the cure word does not exist. Diabetes, in its modern
epidemic form, is a curable disease and has been for at least 40 years.
In 2001, the most recent year for which figures US figures are posted,
934,550 Americans died from out of control symptoms of this disease.[1]
Your physician will also never tell you that at one time strokes, both
ischemic and hemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as
both ischemic and hemorrhagic coronary events, obesity,
atherosclerosis, elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol,
elevated triglycerides, impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver
failure, polycystic ovary syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic
candida, impaired carbohydrate metabolism, poor wound healing,
impaired fat metabolism, peripheral neuropathy as well as many more of
today’s disgraceful epidemic disorders were once well understood to
often be but symptoms of diabetes.
If you contract diabetes and depend upon orthodox medical treatment,
sooner or later you will experience one or more of its symptoms as the
disease rapidly worsens. It is now common practice to refer to these
symptoms as if they were separable independent diseases with separate
unrelated proprietary treatments provided by competing medical
specialists.
It is true that many of these symptoms can and sometimes do result
from other causes; however, it is also true that this fact has been
used to disguise the causative role of diabetes and to justify
expensive, ineffective treatments for these symptoms.
Epidemic Type II Diabetes is curable. By the time you get to the end
of this article you are going to know that. You’re going to know why it
isn’t
routinely being cured. And, you’re going to know how to cure it.
You are also probably going to be angry at what a handful of greedy
people have
surreptitiously done to the entire orthodox medical community and to
its trusting patients.
The diabetes industry
Today’s diabetes industry is a massive community that has grown step
by step from its dubious origins in the early twentieth century. In
the last eighty years it has become enormously successful at shutting
out competitive
voice that attempt to point out the fraud involved in modern diabetes
treatment.
It has matured into a religion. And, like all religions, it depends
heavily upon the faith of the believer. So successful has it become
that it verges on blasphemy to suggest that, in most cases,
the kindly high priest with the stethoscope draped prominently
around his neck is a charlatan and a fraud.
In the large majority of cases he has never cured a single case of
diabetes in his entire medical career.
The financial and political influence of this medical community has almost
totally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies. They
routinely approve death dealing ineffective drugs with insufficient
testing.
Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Herbert Ley, in testimony before a
US Senate hearing, commented "People think the FDA is protecting them.
It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks its doing
are as different as night and day."[2]
The financial and political influence of this medical community
dominates our entire medical insurance industry.
Although this is beginning to change, in America, it is still difficult
to find employer group medical insurance to
cover effective alternative medical treatments.
Orthodox coverage is standard in all states. Alternative medicine is
not. For example there are only 1400 licensed naturopaths in 11 states
compared to over 3.4 million orthodox licensees in 50 states.[3]
Generally, only approved treatments from licensed credentialed
practitioners are insurable.
This, in effect, neatly creates a special kind of money that can only
be spent within the orthodox medical and drug industry.
No other industry in the world has been able to manage the politics of
convincing people to accept so large a part of their pay in a form
that does not allow them to spend it on health care as they see fit.
Insurance money can only be spent within an industry that has banned
the cure word from its vocabulary.
The financial and political influence of this medical community completely
controls virtually every diabetes publication in the country.
Many diabetes publications are subsidized by ads for diabetes supplies.
No diabetes editor is going to allow the truth to be printed in his
magazine.
This is why the diabetic only pays about 1/4 to 1/3 of the cost of
printing the magazine he depends upon for accurate information. The
rest is subsidized by ads purchased by diabetes manufacturers with a
vested commercial interest in preventing diabetics from curing their
diabetes. When looking for a magazine that tells the truth about
diabetes, look first to see if it is full of ads for diabetes supplies.
And then there are the various associations that solicit annual
donations to find a cure for their proprietary disease.
Every year they promise a cure is just around the corner;
just send more money. Some of these very same
associations have been clearly implicated in providing advice that
promotes the progress of diabetes in their trusting supporters.
For example, for years they heavily promoted exchange diets [4] which
are in fact scientifically worthless, as anyone who has ever tried to
use them quickly finds out. They have ridiculed the use of glycemic
tables which are actually very helpful to the diabetic.
They promoted the use of margarine as heart healthy long after it was well
understood that margarine causes diabetes and promotes heart failure.
[5] Why everyone expects that these tax free associations will really
self destruct by eliminating their proprietary disease and thereby
destroy their only source of income is truly amazing.
If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been
suppressed for forty years, these associations will soon be out of
business. But until then, they nonetheless continue to need our support.
For forty years medical research has consistently shown, with increasing
clarity, that type II diabetes is a degenerative disease directly
caused by an
engineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health.
Although the diligent can readily glean this information from a wealth
of medical research literature, it is generally otherwise unavailable.
Certainly this information has been, and remains, largely unavailable
in the medical schools that train our retail doctors.
Prominent among the causative agents in our modern diabetes epidemic
are the engineered fats and oils sold in today’s supermarkets.
The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the
disease is incurable.
Diabetes history
In 1922, three Canadian Nobel prize winners, Banting, Best and Macleod
were successful in saving the life of a fourteen year old diabetic
girl in Toronto General Hospital with injectable insulin. [6] Eli
Lilly was licensed to manufacture this new wonder drug and the medical
community basked in the glory of a job well done.
It wasn’t until 1933 that rumors about a new rogue diabetes surfaced. This
was in a paper presented by Joslyn, Dublin and Marks and printed in
the American Journal of Medical Sciences. This paper "Studies on
Diabetes Mellitus" [7], discussed the emergence of a major US epidemic
of a disease which looked very much like the diabetes of the early
1920’s only it did not respond to the wonder drug, insulin. Even
worse, sometimes insulin treatment killed the patient.
This new disease became known as Insulin Resistant Diabetes because it
had the elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes, but responded poorly
to insulin therapy.
Many physicians had considerable success in treatment of this disease
by diet. A great deal was learned about the relationship between diet and
diabetes in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Diabetes, which had a per capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the
century, had by 1933, zoomed 1000% in the US to become a disease faced
by many doctors [8]. This disease, under a variety of aliases, was
destined to go on to wreck the health of over half of the American
population and to incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990’s. [9]
In 1950 the medical community became able to perform serum insulin assays.
This quickly revealed that the disease wasn’t classical diabetes. This new
disease was characterized by sufficient, often excessive, blood
insulin levels.
The problem was that the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce
blood sugar.
But, since the disease had been known as diabetes for almost twenty
years it was renamed Type II Diabetes. This was to distinguish it from
the earlier Type 1 Diabetes which was due to insufficient insulin
production by the pancreas.
Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the
medical scene from this point and into the late 1960’s, diabetes would
have become widely recognized as curable instead of merely treatable.
Unfortunately this didn’t happen and so, in 1950, a search was
launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type II Diabetes
problem.
Cure vs treatment
This new ideal wonder drug would be, like insulin, effective in remitting
obvious adverse symptoms of the disease, but not effective in curing the
underlying disease. Thus, it would be needed continually for the
remaining life of the patient. It would have to be patentable; that
is, it could not be a natural medication because these are
non-patentable.
Like insulin, it would be highly profitable to manufacture and
distribute. Mandatory government approvals would be required to
stimulate the use by physicians as a prescription drug. Testing
required for these approvals would have to be enormously expensive to
prevent other, unapproved, medications from becoming competitive.
This is the origin of the classic medical protocol of "treating the
symptoms".
By doing this, both the drug company and the doctor could prosper in
business and the patient, while not being cured of his disease, was
sometimes temporarily relieved of some of his symptoms.
Additionally, natural medications that actually cured disease, would
have to
be suppressed. The more effective they were, the more they would need
to be suppressed and their proponents jailed as quacks. After all, it
wouldn’t do to have some cheap effective natural medication cure
disease in a capital intensive monopoly market specifically designed
to treat symptoms without curing disease.
Often the natural substance really did cure disease. This is why the force
of law was used to drive the natural, often superior, medicines from the
market place, to remove the cure word from the medical vocabulary and
to totally undermine the very concept of a free marketplace in the
medical business.
Now it is clear why the cure word is so vigorously suppressed by law.
The FDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that prohibit the use of
the cure word to describe any competing medicine or natural substance.
It is precisely because many natural substances do actually both cure
and prevent disease that this word has become so frightening to the
drug and orthodox medical community.
The commercial value of symptoms
After this redesign of drug development policy to focus on ameliorating
symptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent
the way drugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a
major epidemic of insulin resistant diabetes.
In 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms of
diabetes, [10] along with many other disease symptoms, into diseases
in their own right.
With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis, competing
medical specialty groups quickly seized upon related groups of symptoms as
their own proprietary symptom set. Thus the heart specialist,
endocrinologist, allergist, kidney specialist, and many others started
to treat the symptoms for which they felt responsible.
As the underlying cause of the disease was widely ignored, all focus
on actually curing anything was completely lost. By this new focus on
treating symptoms, instead of curing disease, disease was now allowed
to run rampant without any effective check on its progress.
While not a very smart idea from the patients viewpoint, it did
succeed in making the American medical community amongst the
wealthiest in the world because of the continuing high volume of
repeat business that it promoted Heart failure for example, which had
previously
been understood to often be but a symptom of diabetes, now became a
disease not
directly connected to diabetes.
It became fashionable to think that diabetes "increased cardio-vascular
risk." The causal role of a failed blood sugar control system in heart
failure became obscured. Consistent with the new medical paradigm, none
of the
treatments offered by the heart specialist actually cures, or is even
intended to cure, their proprietary disease.
For example, the three year survival rate for bypass surgery is almost
exactly the same as if no surgery was undertaken. [11]
Today over half of the people in America suffer from one or more
symptoms of this disease. In its beginnings, it has become well known
to physicians as Type II Diabetes, Insulin Resistant Diabetes, Insulin
Resistance,
Adult Onset Diabetes, or more rarely Hyperinsulinemia.
According to the American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans suffer
from one or more symptom of this disease.
One third of our population is morbidly obese. Half of our population is
overweight. Type II Diabetes, also called Adult Onset Diabetes, now
appears routinely in six year old children.
Many of our degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure
of our endocrine system that was well known to the physicians of the 1930’s
as Insulin Resistant Diabetes. This basic underlying disorder is known
to be a derangement of the blood sugar control system by badly
engineered fats
and oils.
It is exacerbated and complicated by the widespread lack of other
essential nutrition that the body needs to cope with the metabolic
consequences
of these poisons.
All fats and oils are not equal. Some are healthy and beneficial; many,
commonly available in the supermarket, are poisonous. The health
distinction is not between saturated and unsaturated, as the fats and
oils industry would have us believe. Many saturated oils and fats are
highly beneficial; many unsaturated oils are highly poisonous. The
important health distinction is between natural and engineered.
There exists great dishonesty in advertising in the fats and oils
industry. It is aimed at creating a market for cheap junk oils such as
soy, cottonseed and rape seed oil. With an informed and aware public
these oils would have no market at all and the US, and indeed the
world, would have far less diabetes.
Epidemiological Life style link
As early as 1901, efforts had been made to manufacture and sell food
products by the use of automated factory machinery because of the
immense potential profits that were possible. Most of the early
efforts failed because people were inherently suspicious of food that
wasn’t farm fresh and because the technology was poor.
As long as people were prosperous, suspicious food products made
little headway. Crisco, [12] the artificial shortening, was once given
away free in 2 1/2 lb cans in an unsuccessful effort to influence the US
wives to trust and buy the product in preference to lard.
Margarine was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states.
With the advent of the depression of the 1930’s, margarine, Crisco and a
host of other refined and hydrogenated products began to make significant
penetration into the US food markets. Support for dairy opposition to
margarine faded during WW II because there wasn’t enough butter for
both the civilian population and the needs of the military. [13] At
this point, the dairy industry having lost much support, simply
accepted a diluted market share and concentrated onsupplying the military.
Flax oils and fish oils, which were common in the stores and considered a
dietary staple before the American population became diseased, have
disappeared from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil to the major
distribution chains was Archer Daniel’s Midland and they stopped
producing and supplying theproduct in 1950.
More recently, one of the most important of the remaining genuinely
beneficial fats was subjected to a massive media disinformation
campaign that portrayed it as a saturated fat that causes heart
failure. As a result, it has virtually disappeared from the
supermarket shelves.
Thus was coconut oil removed from the food chain and replaced with soy
oil, cottonseed oil and rape seed oil. [14] Our parents would never
have swapped a fine healthy oil like coconut oil for these cheap junk
oils. It was shortly after this successful media blitz that the US
populace lost its war on fat.
For many years coconut oil had been one of our most effective dietary
weight control agents.
The history of the engineered adulteration of our once clean food supply
exactly parallels the rise of the epidemic of diabetes and
hyperinsulinemia now sweeping the US as well as much of the rest of
the world.
The second step to a cure for this disease epidemic is to stop
believing the lie that our food supply is safe and nutritious.
Nature of the disease
Diabetes is classically diagnosed as a failure of the body to properly
metabolize carbohydrates. Its defining symptom is a high blood glucose
level. Type 1 Diabetes results from insufficient insulin production by
the pancreas. Type 2 Diabetes results from ineffective insulin. In
both types, the blood glucose level remains elevated. Neither
insufficient insulin nor ineffective insulin can limit post prandial
(after eating) blood sugar to the normal range.
In established cases of Type 2 Diabetes, these elevated blood sugar
levels are often preceded by and accompanied by chronically elevated
insulin levels and by serious distortions of other endocrine hormonal
markers.
The ineffective insulin is no different from effective insulin. Its
ineffectiveness lies in the failure of our cell population to respond
to it. It is not the result of any biochemical defect in the insulin
itself. Therefore, it is appropriate to note that this disease is a
disease that affects almost
every cell in the seventy trillion or so cells of our body. All of these
cells are dependent upon the food that we eat for the raw materials that
they
need for self repair and maintenance.
The classification of diabetes as a failure to metabolize
carbohydrates is a traditional classification that originated in the
early 19th century when
little was known about metabolic diseases or about metabolic processes. [15]
Today, with our increased knowledge of metabolic processes, it would
appear quite appropriate to define Type 2 Diabetes more fundamentally
as a failure of the body to properly metabolize fats and oils. This
failure results in a loss of effectiveness of insulin and in the
consequent failure to metabolize carbohydrates.
Unfortunately, much medical insight into this matter,
except at the research level, remains hampered by its 19th century legacy.
Thus Type II Diabetes and its early hyperinsulinemic symptoms are
whole body symptoms of this basic cellular failure to properly
metabolize glucose.
Each cell of our body, for reasons which are becoming clearer, find
themselves unable to transport glucose from the blood stream to their
interior. The glucose then either remains in the blood stream, is
stored as body fat or as glycogen, or is otherwise disposed of in urine.
It appears that when insulin binds to a cell membrane receptor, it
initiates
a complex cascade of biochemical reactions inside the cell. This causes a
class of glucose transporters known as GLUT 4 molecules to leave their
parking area inside the cell and travel to the inside surface of the
plasma cell
membrane.
When in the membrane, they migrate to special areas of the membrane
called caveolae areas. [16] There, by another series of biochemical
reactions, they identify and hook up with glucose molecules and
transport them into the interior of the cell by a process called
endocytosis. Within the cells interior, this glucose is then burned as
fuel by the mitochondria to produce energy to powercellular activity.
Thus these GLUT 4 transporters lower glucose in the blood stream by
transporting it out of the bloodstream into all of our bodily cells.
Many of the molecules involved in these glucose and insulin mediated
pathways are lipids, that is they are fatty acids. A healthy plasma
cell membrane, now known to be an active player in the glucose
scenario, contains a complement of cis type w=3 unsaturated fatty
acids. [17] This makes the membrane relatively fluid and slippery.
When these cis fatty acids are chronically unavailable because of our
diet, trans fatty acids and short and medium chain saturated fatty
acids are substituted in the cell membrane.
These substitutions make the cellular membrane stiffer and more sticky
and inhibit the glucose transport mechanism. [18]
Thus, in the absence of sufficient cis omega 3 fatty acids in our
diet, these fatty acid substitutions take place, the mobility of the GLUT 4
transporters is diminished, the interior biochemistry of the cell is
changed and
glucose remains elevated in the bloodstream.
Elsewhere in the body, the pancreas secretes excess insulin, the liver
manufactures fat from the excess sugar, the adipose cells store excess
fat, the body goes into a high urinary mode, insufficient cellular
energy is available for bodily activity and the entire endocrine
system becomes distorted. Eventually pancreatic failure occurs, body
weight plummets and a diabetic crisis is precipitated.
Although there remains much work to be done to fully elucidate all of the
steps in all of these pathways, this clearly marks the beginning of a
biochemical explanation for the known epidemiological relationship
between cheap engineered dietary fats and oils and the onset of Type 2
Diabetes.
Orthodox medical treatment
After the diagnosis of diabetes, modern orthodox medical treatment
consists of either oral hypoglycemic agents or insulin.
n 1955, oral hypoglycemic drugs were introduced. Currently available oral
hypoglycemic agents fall into five classifications according to their
biophysical mode of action.[19] These classes are:
Biguanides Glucosidase inhibitors Meglitinides Sulfonylureas
Thiazolidinediones
The biguanides lower blood sugar in three ways. They inhibit the normal
release, by the liver, of its glucose stores, they interfere with
intestinal absorption of glucose from ingested carbohydrates and they
are said to
increase peripheral uptake of glucose.
The glucosidase inhibitors are designed to inhibit the amylase enzymes
produced by our pancreas and which are essential to the digestion of
carbohydrates.
The theory is that if the digestion of carbohydrates is inhibited the
blood sugar cannot be elevated.
The meglitinides are designed to stimulate the pancreas to produce
insulin in a patient that likely already has an elevated level of
insulin in their bloodstream. Only rarely does the doctor even measure
insulin levels.
This drug is frequently prescribed without any knowledge of preexisting
insulin levels.
The fact that elevated insulin levels are almost as damaging as
elevated glucose levels is widely ignored.
The sulfonylureas are another pancreatic stimulant class designed to
stimulate the production of insulin. Serum insulin determinations are
rarely made by the doctor before prescribing this drug. This drug is
often prescribed for type II diabetics, many of whom already have
elevated ineffective insulin.
These drugs are notorious for causing hypoglycemia as a side effect.
The thiazolidinediones are famous for causing liver cancer. One of them,
Rezulin, was approved in the USA through devious political infighting
but failed to get approval in England because it was known to cause
liver cancer.
The first doctor that had responsibility to approve it at the FDA
refused to do so. It was only after he was replaced by a more
compliant official that Rezulin gained approval by the FDA. It went on
to kill well over 100 diabetes patients and cripple many others before
the fight to get it off the market was finally won.
Rezulin was designed to stimulate the uptake of glucose from the
bloodstream by the peripheral cells and to inhibit the normal
secretion of glucose by the liver. The politics of why this drug ever
came to market and then remained in the market for such an
unexplainable length of time with regulatory agency approval is not
clear. [20] As of April 2000 law suits commenced to clarify this
situation [21]
Today insulin is prescribed for both the Type I and Type II diabetics.
Injectable insulin substitutes for the insulin that the body no longer
produces.
Of course, this treatment, while necessary to preserving life for the
Type I diabetic, is highly questionable when applied to the Type II
diabetic.
It is important to note that neither insulin nor any of these oral
hypoglycemic agents exert any curative action whatsoever on any type
of diabetes.
None of these medical strategies are designed to normalize the
cellular uptake of glucose by the cells that need it to power their
activity.
The prognosis with this orthodox treatment is increasing disability
and early death from heart or kidney failure or the failure of some
other vital
organ.
The third step to a cure for this disease is to become informed and to
apply an alternative methodology that is soundly based upon good science.
Alternative medical treatment
Effective alternative treatment that directly leads to a cure is available
today for some Type I and for many Type II diabetics. About 5% of the
diabetic population suffers from Type I diabetes; the remaining 95%
suffer from Type II diabetes.[22] Gestational diabetes is simply
ordinary diabetes contracted by a woman who is pregnant.
For the Type I diabetic an alternative methodology for the treatment
of Type I Diabetes was the subject of intensive research in the early
1990’s with
several papers presented in the scientific journals.
This was done in modern hospitals in Madras, India and subjected to
rigorous double-blind studies to prove its efficacy.[23] The protocol
operated to restore normal pancreatic beta cell function so the
pancreas could again produce insulin as it should.
This approach was, apparently, demonstrated to be capable of restoring
pancreatic beta cell function where it had been lost. A major
complication lies in whether the antigens that originally led to the
autoimmune destruction of these beta cells have disappeared from or
remain in the body. If they remain, a cure is less likely; if they
have disappeared, the cure is more likely.
This early work in Madras India has been continued in a number of
laboratories throughout the world and much of it has been published in
scientific journals.
If a patent search is conducted to discover research work done on type I
diabetes that never seems to make it to the marketplace, a number of
patents on herbal remedies will be found. These patents typically make
strong claims about the regeneration of pancreatic beta cells and the
restoring of them to normal function. In particular, patent number
5,886,029 entitled "Method and composition for treatment of diabetes"
claims to restore pancreatic beta cell function by regenerating the
pancreatic beta cells.
This particular patent states in part:
The unique combination of components in the medicinal composition
leads to a regeneration of the pancreas cells which then start
producing insulin on their own. Since the composition restores normal
pancreatic function, treatment can be discontinued after between four
and twelve months.
For reasons which, while understandable, are not at all acceptable, this
promising line of research never matured and today can be found only
in the archives of a few obscure scientific journals and in the patent
office. Since absolutely no financial incentive exists to cure type I
diabetes, this
methodology is not likely to reappear any time soon and certainly not
in the American orthodox medical community.
The goal of any effective alternative program is to repair and restore the
body’s own blood sugar control mechanism. It is the malfunctioning of this
mechanism that, over time, directly causes all of the many
debilitating symptoms that make orthodox treatment so financially
rewarding for the diabetes industry.
For Type II Diabetes, the steps in the program are: [24]
Repair the faulty blood sugar control system. This is done simply by
substituting clean healthy beneficial fats and oils in the diet for
the pristine looking but toxic trans-isomer mix found in attractive plastic
containers on room temperature supermarket shelves.
Consume only flax oil, fish oil and occasionally cod liver oil until
blood sugar starts to stabilize. Then add back healthy oils such as
butter, coconut oil, olive oil and clean animal fat. Read labels;
refuse to consume cheap junk oils when they appear in processed food
or on restaurant menus. Diabetics are chronically short of vitamins
and minerals; they need to add a good quality broad spectrum
supplement to the diet.
Control blood sugar manually during the recovery cycle. Under medical
supervision, gradually discontinue all oral hypoglycemic agents along
with any additional drugs given to counteract their side effects.
Develop natural blood sugar control by the use of glycaemic tables, by
consuming frequent small meals, by the use of fiber, by regular post
prandial exercise, and by a complete avoidance of all sugars along
with the judicious use of only non-toxic sweeteners [25]. Avoid
alcohol until blood sugar stabilizes in the normal range.
Avoid caffeine as well as other stimulants; they tend to trigger sugar
release by the liver. Keep score by using a pin prick type glucose
meter. Keep track of everything you do with a medical diary.
Restore a proper balance of healthy fats and oils when the blood sugar
controller again works.
Permanently remove from the diet all cheap toxic junk fats and oils
and the processed and restaurant foods that contain them. When the blood
sugar
controller again starts to work correctly, gradually introduce
additional healthy foods to the diet. Test the effect of these added
foods by monitoring blood sugar levels with the pin prick type blood
sugar monitor. Be sure to include the results of these tests in your
diary also.
Continue the program until normal insulin values are also restored after
blood sugar levels begin to stabilize in the normal region. Once blood
sugar levels fall into the normal range the pancreas will gradually stop
over producing insulin.
This process will typically take a little longer and can be tested by
having your physician send a sample of your blood to a lab for a serum
insulin determination. A good idea is to wait a couple of months after
blood sugar control is restored and then have your physician check
your insulin level. It’s nice to have blood sugar in the normal range;
it’s even nicer to have this accomplished without excess insulin in
the bloodstream.
Separately repair the collateral damage done by the disease. Vascular
problems caused by a chronically elevated glucose level will normally
reverse themselves without conscious effort. The effects of
retinopathy and of peripheral neuropathy, for example, will usually
self repair. However when the fine capillaries in the basement
membranes of the kidneys begin to leak due to chronic high blood
glucose, the kidneys compensate by laying down scar tissue to prevent
the leakage. This scar tissue remains even after the diabetes is cured
and is the reason why the kidney damage is not believed to self repair.
A word of warning: when retinopathy develops a temptation will exist
to have the damage repaired by laser surgery. This laser technique stops the
retinal bleeding by creating scar tissue where the leaks have developed.
This scar
tissue will prevent normal healing of the fine capillaries in the eye
when the diabetes is reversed. By reversing the diabetes instead of
opting for
laser surgery, there is an excellent chance that the eye will heal
completely.
However if laser surgery is done, this healing will always be
complicated by the scar tissue left by the laser.
The arterial and vascular damage done by years of elevated sugar and
insulin and by the proliferation of systemic candida will slowly
reverse due to
improved diet. However, it takes many years to clean out the arteries
by this form of oral chelation. Arterial damage can be reversed much
more quickly by using intravenous chelation [26] therapy.
What would normally take many years through
diet alone, can often be done in six months with intravenous therapy.
This is reputed to be effective over 80% of the time. For obvious
reasons, don’t
expect your doctor to approve of this, particularly if he is a heart
specialist.
The prognosis is usually swift recovery from the disease and
restoration of normal health and energy levels in a few months to a year
or more.
The length of time that it takes to effect a cure depends upon how long
the disease was allowed to develop.
For those who quickly work to reverse the disease after early
discovery, the time is usually a few months or less. For those who
have had the disease for many years, this recovery time may lengthen to
a year
or more.
Thus, there is good reason to get busy reversing this disease as soon
as it becomes clearly identified.
By the time you get to this point in this article, and, if we’ve done
a good job of explaining our diabetes epidemic, you should know what causes
it, what orthodox medical treatment is all about and why diabetes has
become a disgrace both in the US and world wide. Of even greater
importance, you have become acquainted with a self help program that
has demonstrated great potential to actually cure this disease.
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Thomas Smith is a reluctant medical investigator having been forced into
curing his own diabetes because it was obvious that his doctor would
not or could not not cure it. He has published the results of his
successful diabetes
investigation in his self help manual entitled "Insulin: Our Silent
Killer" written
for the layman but also widely valued by the medical practitioner.
This manual details the steps required to reverse Type II Diabetes and
references the work being done with Type I Diabetes. In the US, the
book may be purchased by sending $29.00 US to him at PO Box 7685,
Loveland, Colorado 80537. Outside of the US email us for the special
payment and shipping instructions required for international transactions.
He has also posted a great deal of useful information about this
disease on
his web page at: www.Healingmatters.com He can be contacted by email at
valley@h… and in the US by telephone at: 1 (970) 669-9176
November 15th, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Greetings All
Thank you for your responses.
I am happy that the message…Re: Our Deadly Diabetes Deception" [long,
but very INSIGHTFUL]… was not moderated.
I sent it to the group/s so I could have a conversation about the
content of the article.
Yes, I could see the bait and switch at the end…( I did not speak of
it so I could get the honest understanding)
If there is anyway to look at the data and find the information that
might really be there, that is what I needed to understand.
This person stated many many things some of which some of you find good,
the good is what I am interested in.
I do not want to throw the baby out with the bath water.
You group members know much much more then I do about the ideas of a
cure so, if there is a way to discuss these possibilities raised, I
would love to learn!!!
Good Health to all and the means to maintain it.
Thank you all for your time.
Oh yes, if the topic is not going to be discussed and you have some
ides, please do email me personally, I would really like to have the
discussion.
November 16th, 2005 at 3:11 am
nieema wrote:
I agree with most of it. I disagree, however, on some very important
points.
First, my first line of defense is low carb diet. This immediately
brings down blood sugar and stops ongoing damage from excess glycation
of body tissues.
Secondly, I feel that I have been helped a great deal by one drug -
metformin, which has no dangerous side effects, except for possible
(never documented, to my knowledge) lactic acidosis, which only affects
people with concomitant heart failure, and is associated with a related
drug, not with metformin. It has been used for many years, provided
lots of help, very little harm (gastric disturbance, maybe), and to me
is worth using. It is also available as a generic and quite cheap.
Third point. I use lots of supplements not mentioned in the article,
some to control bg (cinnamon extract, glucotrim, alpha lipoic acid, for
example), some as antioxidants (oxidation damage is a big problem for
diabetics), some for controlling cholesterol and reversing vascular
damage. All this is in addition to the extra vitamins and minerals
needed to maintain good nutrition and lots of fiber as well.
Last, the article mentions exercise, but doesn’t make much of a point of
it, and I think it is tremendously important.
The author’s main point about the trash advice we all get from the
mainstream medical community is all true, in my opinion, and truly
horrible. I also believe this disease is curable, and think I’m darn
close, after twenty years of doing it wrong, even. I have a doctor who
doesn’t advise the treatment I’ve worked out for myself, but marvels at
my condition and doesn’t try to stop me. I’d love to force the American
Diabetes Association to change, but don’t think that’s gonna happen.
Jean
>
December 2nd, 2005 at 3:26 am
I’m not such a big fan of the Health Industry conspiracy theories
like in the article that started this, but David’s description of
myself and circumstances surrounding the onset of my Type I is
eerily accurate, down to the choice between parents.
I’m new to the group. Anyone else with a similar story?
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:01 am
I Know it speeaks the truth. Sandy
"There is only One Moment. It is eternal. It is this moment. There is only
One Self. It is infinite. It is the self that experiences this moment" from
THE DIVINE MOMENT by James Prior
http//oneflynangel.com
In the Name of ONE , Sandy
Greetings I got this article from another group.
What do you think about the things stated???
Good Health and the means to maintain it!!!
nieema
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Our Deadly Diabetes Deception" [long, but very INSIGHTFUL]
Our Deadly Diabetes Deception
By Thomas Smith
10-18-4
Diabetes introduction
If you are an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you
that most diabetes is curable.
In fact, if you even mention the cure word around
him, he will likely become upset and irrational. His medical school
training only allows him to respond to the word treatment.
For him, the cure word does not exist. Diabetes, in its modern
epidemic form, is a curable disease and has been for at least 40 years.
In 2001, the most recent year for which figures US figures are posted,
934,550 Americans died from out of control symptoms of this disease.[1]
Your physician will also never tell you that at one time strokes, both
ischemic and hemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as
both ischemic and hemorrhagic coronary events, obesity,
atherosclerosis, elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol,
elevated triglycerides, impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver
failure, polycystic ovary syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic
candida, impaired carbohydrate metabolism, poor wound healing,
impaired fat metabolism, peripheral neuropathy as well as many more of
today’s disgraceful epidemic disorders were once well understood to
often be but symptoms of diabetes.
If you contract diabetes and depend upon orthodox medical treatment,
sooner or later you will experience one or more of its symptoms as the
disease rapidly worsens. It is now common practice to refer to these
symptoms as if they were separable independent diseases with separate
unrelated proprietary treatments provided by competing medical
specialists.
It is true that many of these symptoms can and sometimes do result
from other causes; however, it is also true that this fact has been
used to disguise the causative role of diabetes and to justify
expensive, ineffective treatments for these symptoms.
Epidemic Type II Diabetes is curable. By the time you get to the end
of this article you are going to know that. You’re going to know why it
isn’t
routinely being cured. And, you’re going to know how to cure it.
You are also probably going to be angry at what a handful of greedy
people have
surreptitiously done to the entire orthodox medical community and to
its trusting patients.
The diabetes industry
Today’s diabetes industry is a massive community that has grown step
by step from its dubious origins in the early twentieth century. In
the last eighty years it has become enormously successful at shutting
out competitive
voice that attempt to point out the fraud involved in modern diabetes
treatment.
It has matured into a religion. And, like all religions, it depends
heavily upon the faith of the believer. So successful has it become
that it verges on blasphemy to suggest that, in most cases,
the kindly high priest with the stethoscope draped prominently
around his neck is a charlatan and a fraud.
In the large majority of cases he has never cured a single case of
diabetes in his entire medical career.
The financial and political influence of this medical community has almost
totally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies. They
routinely approve death dealing ineffective drugs with insufficient
testing.
Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Herbert Ley, in testimony before a
US Senate hearing, commented "People think the FDA is protecting them.
It isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks its doing
are as different as night and day."[2]
The financial and political influence of this medical community
dominates our entire medical insurance industry.
Although this is beginning to change, in America, it is still difficult
to find employer group medical insurance to
cover effective alternative medical treatments.
Orthodox coverage is standard in all states. Alternative medicine is
not. For example there are only 1400 licensed naturopaths in 11 states
compared to over 3.4 million orthodox licensees in 50 states.[3]
Generally, only approved treatments from licensed credentialed
practitioners are insurable.
This, in effect, neatly creates a special kind of money that can only
be spent within the orthodox medical and drug industry.
No other industry in the world has been able to manage the politics of
convincing people to accept so large a part of their pay in a form
that does not allow them to spend it on health care as they see fit.
Insurance money can only be spent within an industry that has banned
the cure word from its vocabulary.
The financial and political influence of this medical community completely
controls virtually every diabetes publication in the country.
Many diabetes publications are subsidized by ads for diabetes supplies.
No diabetes editor is going to allow the truth to be printed in his
magazine.
This is why the diabetic only pays about 1/4 to 1/3 of the cost of
printing the magazine he depends upon for accurate information. The
rest is subsidized by ads purchased by diabetes manufacturers with a
vested commercial interest in preventing diabetics from curing their
diabetes. When looking for a magazine that tells the truth about
diabetes, look first to see if it is full of ads for diabetes supplies.
And then there are the various associations that solicit annual
donations to find a cure for their proprietary disease.
Every year they promise a cure is just around the corner;
just send more money. Some of these very same
associations have been clearly implicated in providing advice that
promotes the progress of diabetes in their trusting supporters.
For example, for years they heavily promoted exchange diets [4] which
are in fact scientifically worthless, as anyone who has ever tried to
use them quickly finds out. They have ridiculed the use of glycemic
tables which are actually very helpful to the diabetic.
They promoted the use of margarine as heart healthy long after it was well
understood that margarine causes diabetes and promotes heart failure.
[5] Why everyone expects that these tax free associations will really
self destruct by eliminating their proprietary disease and thereby
destroy their only source of income is truly amazing.
If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been
suppressed for forty years, these associations will soon be out of
business. But until then, they nonetheless continue to need our support.
For forty years medical research has consistently shown, with increasing
clarity, that type II diabetes is a degenerative disease directly
caused by an
engineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health.
Although the diligent can readily glean this information from a wealth
of medical research literature, it is generally otherwise unavailable.
Certainly this information has been, and remains, largely unavailable
in the medical schools that train our retail doctors.
Prominent among the causative agents in our modern diabetes epidemic
are the engineered fats and oils sold in today’s supermarkets.
The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the
disease is incurable.
Diabetes history
In 1922, three Canadian Nobel prize winners, Banting, Best and Macleod
were successful in saving the life of a fourteen year old diabetic
girl in Toronto General Hospital with injectable insulin. [6] Eli
Lilly was licensed to manufacture this new wonder drug and the medical
community basked in the glory of a job well done.
It wasn’t until 1933 that rumors about a new rogue diabetes surfaced. This
was in a paper presented by Joslyn, Dublin and Marks and printed in
the American Journal of Medical Sciences. This paper "Studies on
Diabetes Mellitus" [7], discussed the emergence of a major US epidemic
of a disease which looked very much like the diabetes of the early
1920’s only it did not respond to the wonder drug, insulin. Even
worse, sometimes insulin treatment killed the patient.
This new disease became known as Insulin Resistant Diabetes because it
had the elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes, but responded poorly
to insulin therapy.
Many physicians had considerable success in treatment of this disease
by diet. A great deal was learned about the relationship between diet and
diabetes in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Diabetes, which had a per capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the
century, had by 1933, zoomed 1000% in the US to become a disease faced
by many doctors [8]. This disease, under a variety of aliases, was
destined to go on to wreck the health of over half of the American
population and to incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990’s. [9]
In 1950 the medical community became able to perform serum insulin assays.
This quickly revealed that the disease wasn’t classical diabetes. This new
disease was characterized by sufficient, often excessive, blood
insulin levels.
The problem was that the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce
blood sugar.
But, since the disease had been known as diabetes for almost twenty
years it was renamed Type II Diabetes. This was to distinguish it from
the earlier Type 1 Diabetes which was due to insufficient insulin
production by the pancreas.
Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the
medical scene from this point and into the late 1960’s, diabetes would
have become widely recognized as curable instead of merely treatable.
Unfortunately this didn’t happen and so, in 1950, a search was
launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type II Diabetes
problem.
Cure vs treatment
This new ideal wonder drug would be, like insulin, effective in remitting
obvious adverse symptoms of the disease, but not effective in curing the
underlying disease. Thus, it would be needed continually for the
remaining life of the patient. It would have to be patentable; that
is, it could not be a natural medication because these are
non-patentable.
Like insulin, it would be highly profitable to manufacture and
distribute. Mandatory government approvals would be required to
stimulate the use by physicians as a prescription drug. Testing
required for these approvals would have to be enormously expensive to
prevent other, unapproved, medications from becoming competitive.
This is the origin of the classic medical protocol of "treating the
symptoms".
By doing this, both the drug company and the doctor could prosper in
business and the patient, while not being cured of his disease, was
sometimes temporarily relieved of some of his symptoms.
Additionally, natural medications that actually cured disease, would
have to
be suppressed. The more effective they were, the more they would need
to be suppressed and their proponents jailed as quacks. After all, it
wouldn’t do to have some cheap effective natural medication cure
disease in a capital intensive monopoly market specifically designed
to treat symptoms without curing disease.
Often the natural substance really did cure disease. This is why the force
of law was used to drive the natural, often superior, medicines from the
market place, to remove the cure word from the medical vocabulary and
to totally undermine the very concept of a free marketplace in the
medical business.
Now it is clear why the cure word is so vigorously suppressed by law.
The FDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that prohibit the use of
the cure word to describe any competing medicine or natural substance.
It is precisely because many natural substances do actually both cure
and prevent disease that this word has become so frightening to the
drug and orthodox medical community.
The commercial value of symptoms
After this redesign of drug development policy to focus on ameliorating
symptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent
the way drugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a
major epidemic of insulin resistant diabetes.
In 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms of
diabetes, [10] along with many other disease symptoms, into diseases
in their own right.
With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis, competing
medical specialty groups quickly seized upon related groups of symptoms as
their own proprietary symptom set. Thus the heart specialist,
endocrinologist, allergist, kidney specialist, and many others started
to treat the symptoms for which they felt responsible.
As the underlying cause of the disease was widely ignored, all focus
on actually curing anything was completely lost. By this new focus on
treating symptoms, instead of curing disease, disease was now allowed
to run rampant without any effective check on its progress.
While not a very smart idea from the patients viewpoint, it did
succeed in making the American medical community amongst the
wealthiest in the world because of the continuing high volume of
repeat business that it promoted Heart failure for example, which had
previously
been understood to often be but a symptom of diabetes, now became a
disease not
directly connected to diabetes.
It became fashionable to think that diabetes "increased cardio-vascular
risk." The causal role of a failed blood sugar control system in heart
failure became obscured. Consistent with the new medical paradigm, none
of the
treatments offered by the heart specialist actually cures, or is even
intended to cure, their proprietary disease.
For example, the three year survival rate for bypass surgery is almost
exactly the same as if no surgery was undertaken. [11]
Today over half of the people in America suffer from one or more
symptoms of this disease. In its beginnings, it has become well known
to physicians as Type II Diabetes, Insulin Resistant Diabetes, Insulin
Resistance,
Adult Onset Diabetes, or more rarely Hyperinsulinemia.
According to the American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans suffer
from one or more symptom of this disease.
One third of our population is morbidly obese. Half of our population is
overweight. Type II Diabetes, also called Adult Onset Diabetes, now
appears routinely in six year old children.
Many of our degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure
of our endocrine system that was well known to the physicians of the 1930’s
as Insulin Resistant Diabetes. This basic underlying disorder is known
to be a derangement of the blood sugar control system by badly
engineered fats
and oils.
It is exacerbated and complicated by the widespread lack of other
essential nutrition that the body needs to cope with the metabolic
consequences
of these poisons.
All fats and oils are not equal. Some are healthy and beneficial; many,
commonly available in the supermarket, are poisonous. The health
distinction is not between saturated and unsaturated, as the fats and
oils industry would have us believe. Many saturated oils and fats are
highly beneficial; many unsaturated oils are highly poisonous. The
important health distinction is between natural and engineered.
There exists great dishonesty in advertising in the fats and oils
industry. It is aimed at creating a market for cheap junk oils such as
soy, cottonseed and rape seed oil. With an informed and aware public
these oils would have no market at all and the US, and indeed the
world, would have far less diabetes.
Epidemiological Life style link
As early as 1901, efforts had been made to manufacture and sell food
products by the use of automated factory machinery because of the
immense potential profits that were possible. Most of the early
efforts failed because people were inherently suspicious of food that
wasn’t farm fresh and because the technology was poor.
As long as people were prosperous, suspicious food products made
little headway. Crisco, [12] the artificial shortening, was once given
away free in 2 1/2 lb cans in an unsuccessful effort to influence the US
wives to trust and buy the product in preference to lard.
Margarine was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states.
With the advent of the depression of the 1930’s, margarine, Crisco and a
host of other refined and hydrogenated products began to make significant
penetration into the US food markets. Support for dairy opposition to
margarine faded during WW II because there wasn’t enough butter for
both the civilian population and the needs of the military. [13] At
this point, the dairy industry having lost much support, simply
accepted a diluted market share and concentrated onsupplying the military.
Flax oils and fish oils, which were common in the stores and considered a
dietary staple before the American population became diseased, have
disappeared from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil to the major
distribution chains was Archer Daniel’s Midland and they stopped
producing and supplying theproduct in 1950.
More recently, one of the most important of the remaining genuinely
beneficial fats was subjected to a massive media disinformation
campaign that portrayed it as a saturated fat that causes heart
failure. As a result, it has virtually disappeared from the
supermarket shelves.
Thus was coconut oil removed from the food chain and replaced with soy
oil, cottonseed oil and rape seed oil. [14] Our parents would never
have swapped a fine healthy oil like coconut oil for these cheap junk
oils. It was shortly after this successful media blitz that the US
populace lost its war on fat.
For many years coconut oil had been one of our most effective dietary
weight control agents.
The history of the engineered adulteration of our once clean food supply
exactly parallels the rise of the epidemic of diabetes and
hyperinsulinemia now sweeping the US as well as much of the rest of
the world.
The second step to a cure for this disease epidemic is to stop
believing the lie that our food supply is safe and nutritious.
Nature of the disease
Diabetes is classically diagnosed as a failure of the body to properly
metabolize carbohydrates. Its defining symptom is a high blood glucose
level. Type 1 Diabetes results from insufficient insulin production by
the pancreas. Type 2 Diabetes results from ineffective insulin. In
both types, the blood glucose level remains elevated. Neither
insufficient insulin nor ineffective insulin can limit post prandial
(after eating) blood sugar to the normal range.
In established cases of Type 2 Diabetes, these elevated blood sugar
levels are often preceded by and accompanied by chronically elevated
insulin levels and by serious distortions of other endocrine hormonal
markers.
The ineffective insulin is no different from effective insulin. Its
ineffectiveness lies in the failure of our cell population to respond
to it. It is not the result of any biochemical defect in the insulin
itself. Therefore, it is appropriate to note that this disease is a
disease that affects almost
every cell in the seventy trillion or so cells of our body. All of these
cells are dependent upon the food that we eat for the raw materials that
they
need for self repair and maintenance.
The classification of diabetes as a failure to metabolize
carbohydrates is a traditional classification that originated in the
early 19th century when
little was known about metabolic diseases or about metabolic processes. [15]
Today, with our increased knowledge of metabolic processes, it would
appear quite appropriate to define Type 2 Diabetes more fundamentally
as a failure of the body to properly metabolize fats and oils. This
failure results in a loss of effectiveness of insulin and in the
consequent failure to metabolize carbohydrates.
Unfortunately, much medical insight into this matter,
except at the research level, remains hampered by its 19th century legacy.
Thus Type II Diabetes and its early hyperinsulinemic symptoms are
whole body symptoms of this basic cellular failure to properly
metabolize glucose.
Each cell of our body, for reasons which are becoming clearer, find
themselves unable to transport glucose from the blood stream to their
interior. The glucose then either remains in the blood stream, is
stored as body fat or as glycogen, or is otherwise disposed of in urine.
It appears that when insulin binds to a cell membrane receptor, it
initiates
a complex cascade of biochemical reactions inside the cell. This causes a
class of glucose transporters known as GLUT 4 molecules to leave their
parking area inside the cell and travel to the inside surface of the
plasma cell
membrane.
When in the membrane, they migrate to special areas of the membrane
called caveolae areas. [16] There, by another series of biochemical
reactions, they identify and hook up with glucose molecules and
transport them into the interior of the cell by a process called
endocytosis. Within the cells interior, this glucose is then burned as
fuel by the mitochondria to produce energy to powercellular activity.
Thus these GLUT 4 transporters lower glucose in the blood stream by
transporting it out of the bloodstream into all of our bodily cells.
Many of the molecules involved in these glucose and insulin mediated
pathways are lipids, that is they are fatty acids. A healthy plasma
cell membrane, now known to be an active player in the glucose
scenario, contains a complement of cis type w=3 unsaturated fatty
acids. [17] This makes the membrane relatively fluid and slippery.
When these cis fatty acids are chronically unavailable because of our
diet, trans fatty acids and short and medium chain saturated fatty
acids are substituted in the cell membrane.
These substitutions make the cellular membrane stiffer and more sticky
and inhibit the glucose transport mechanism. [18]
Thus, in the absence of sufficient cis omega 3 fatty acids in our
diet, these fatty acid substitutions take place, the mobility of the GLUT 4
transporters is diminished, the interior biochemistry of the cell is
changed and
glucose remains elevated in the bloodstream.
Elsewhere in the body, the pancreas secretes excess insulin, the liver
manufactures fat from the excess sugar, the adipose cells store excess
fat, the body goes into a high urinary mode, insufficient cellular
energy is available for bodily activity and the entire endocrine
system becomes distorted. Eventually pancreatic failure occurs, body
weight plummets and a diabetic crisis is precipitated.
Although there remains much work to be done to fully elucidate all of the
steps in all of these pathways, this clearly marks the beginning of a
biochemical explanation for the known epidemiological relationship
between cheap engineered dietary fats and oils and the onset of Type 2
Diabetes.
Orthodox medical treatment
After the diagnosis of diabetes, modern orthodox medical treatment
consists of either oral hypoglycemic agents or insulin.
n 1955, oral hypoglycemic drugs were introduced. Currently available oral
hypoglycemic agents fall into five classifications according to their
biophysical mode of action.[19] These classes are:
Biguanides Glucosidase inhibitors Meglitinides Sulfonylureas
Thiazolidinediones
The biguanides lower blood sugar in three ways. They inhibit the normal
release, by the liver, of its glucose stores, they interfere with
intestinal absorption of glucose from ingested carbohydrates and they
are said to
increase peripheral uptake of glucose.
The glucosidase inhibitors are designed to inhibit the amylase enzymes
produced by our pancreas and which are essential to the digestion of
carbohydrates.
The theory is that if the digestion of carbohydrates is inhibited the
blood sugar cannot be elevated.
The meglitinides are designed to stimulate the pancreas to produce
insulin in a patient that likely already has an elevated level of
insulin in their bloodstream. Only rarely does the doctor even measure
insulin levels.
This drug is frequently prescribed without any knowledge of preexisting
insulin levels.
The fact that elevated insulin levels are almost as damaging as
elevated glucose levels is widely ignored.
The sulfonylureas are another pancreatic stimulant class designed to
stimulate the production of insulin. Serum insulin determinations are
rarely made by the doctor before prescribing this drug. This drug is
often prescribed for type II diabetics, many of whom already have
elevated ineffective insulin.
These drugs are notorious for causing hypoglycemia as a side effect.
The thiazolidinediones are famous for causing liver cancer. One of them,
Rezulin, was approved in the USA through devious political infighting
but failed to get approval in England because it was known to cause
liver cancer.
The first doctor that had responsibility to approve it at the FDA
refused to do so. It was only after he was replaced by a more
compliant official that Rezulin gained approval by the FDA. It went on
to kill well over 100 diabetes patients and cripple many others before
the fight to get it off the market was finally won.
Rezulin was designed to stimulate the uptake of glucose from the
bloodstream by the peripheral cells and to inhibit the normal
secretion of glucose by the liver. The politics of why this drug ever
came to market and then remained in the market for such an
unexplainable length of time with regulatory agency approval is not
clear. [20] As of April 2000 law suits commenced to clarify this
situation [21]
Today insulin is prescribed for both the Type I and Type II diabetics.
Injectable insulin substitutes for the insulin that the body no longer
produces.
Of course, this treatment, while necessary to preserving life for the
Type I diabetic, is highly questionable when applied to the Type II
diabetic.
It is important to note that neither insulin nor any of these oral
hypoglycemic agents exert any curative action whatsoever on any type
of diabetes.
None of these medical strategies are designed to normalize the
cellular uptake of glucose by the cells that need it to power their
activity.
The prognosis with this orthodox treatment is increasing disability
and early death from heart or kidney failure or the failure of some
other vital
organ.
The third step to a cure for this disease is to become informed and to
apply an alternative methodology that is soundly based upon good science.
Alternative medical treatment
Effective alternative treatment that directly leads to a cure is available
today for some Type I and for many Type II diabetics. About 5% of the
diabetic population suffers from Type I diabetes; the remaining 95%
suffer from Type II diabetes.[22] Gestational diabetes is simply
ordinary diabetes contracted by a woman who is pregnant.
For the Type I diabetic an alternative methodology for the treatment
of Type I Diabetes was the subject of intensive research in the early
1990’s with
several papers presented in the scientific journals.
This was done in modern hospitals in Madras, India and subjected to
rigorous double-blind studies to prove its efficacy.[23] The protocol
operated to restore normal pancreatic beta cell function so the
pancreas could again produce insulin as it should.
This approach was, apparently, demonstrated to be capable of restoring
pancreatic beta cell function where it had been lost. A major
complication lies in whether the antigens that originally led to the
autoimmune destruction of these beta cells have disappeared from or
remain in the body. If they remain, a cure is less likely; if they
have disappeared, the cure is more likely.
This early work in Madras India has been continued in a number of
laboratories throughout the world and much of it has been published in
scientific journals.
If a patent search is conducted to discover research work done on type I
diabetes that never seems to make it to the marketplace, a number of
patents on herbal remedies will be found. These patents typically make
strong claims about the regeneration of pancreatic beta cells and the
restoring of them to normal function. In particular, patent number
5,886,029 entitled "Method and composition for treatment of diabetes"
claims to restore pancreatic beta cell function by regenerating the
pancreatic beta cells.
This particular patent states in part:
The unique combination of components in the medicinal composition
leads to a regeneration of the pancreas cells which then start
producing insulin on their own. Since the composition restores normal
pancreatic function, treatment can be discontinued after between four
and twelve months.
For reasons which, while understandable, are not at all acceptable, this
promising line of research never matured and today can be found only
in the archives of a few obscure scientific journals and in the patent
office. Since absolutely no financial incentive exists to cure type I
diabetes, this
methodology is not likely to reappear any time soon and certainly not
in the American orthodox medical community.
The goal of any effective alternative program is to repair and restore the
body’s own blood sugar control mechanism. It is the malfunctioning of this
mechanism that, over time, directly causes all of the many
debilitating symptoms that make orthodox treatment so financially
rewarding for the diabetes industry.
For Type II Diabetes, the steps in the program are: [24]
Repair the faulty blood sugar control system. This is done simply by
substituting clean healthy beneficial fats and oils in the diet for
the pristine looking but toxic trans-isomer mix found in attractive plastic
containers on room temperature supermarket shelves.
Consume only flax oil, fish oil and occasionally cod liver oil until
blood sugar starts to stabilize. Then add back healthy oils such as
butter, coconut oil, olive oil and clean animal fat. Read labels;
refuse to consume cheap junk oils when they appear in processed food
or on restaurant menus. Diabetics are chronically short of vitamins
and minerals; they need to add a good quality broad spectrum
supplement to the diet.
Control blood sugar manually during the recovery cycle. Under medical
supervision, gradually discontinue all oral hypoglycemic agents along
with any additional drugs given to counteract their side effects.
Develop natural blood sugar control by the use of glycaemic tables, by
consuming frequent small meals, by the use of fiber, by regular post
prandial exercise, and by a complete avoidance of all sugars along
with the judicious use of only non-toxic sweeteners [25]. Avoid
alcohol until blood sugar stabilizes in the normal range.
Avoid caffeine as well as other stimulants; they tend to trigger sugar
release by the liver. Keep score by using a pin prick type glucose
meter. Keep track of everything you do with a medical diary.
Restore a proper balance of healthy fats and oils when the blood sugar
controller again works.
Permanently remove from the diet all cheap toxic junk fats and oils
and the processed and restaurant foods that contain them. When the blood
sugar
controller again starts to work correctly, gradually introduce
additional healthy foods to the diet. Test the effect of these added
foods by monitoring blood sugar levels with the pin prick type blood
sugar monitor. Be sure to include the results of these tests in your
diary also.
Continue the program until normal insulin values are also restored after
blood sugar levels begin to stabilize in the normal region. Once blood
sugar levels fall into the normal range the pancreas will gradually stop
over producing insulin.
This process will typically take a little longer and can be tested by
having your physician send a sample of your blood to a lab for a serum
insulin determination. A good idea is to wait a couple of months after
blood sugar control is restored and then have your physician check
your insulin level. It’s nice to have blood sugar in the normal range;
it’s even nicer to have this accomplished without excess insulin in
the bloodstream.
Separately repair the collateral damage done by the disease. Vascular
problems caused by a chronically elevated glucose level will normally
reverse themselves without conscious effort. The effects of
retinopathy and of peripheral neuropathy, for example, will usually
self repair. However when the fine capillaries in the basement
membranes of the kidneys begin to leak due to chronic high blood
glucose, the kidneys compensate by laying down scar tissue to prevent
the leakage. This scar tissue remains even after the diabetes is cured
and is the reason why the kidney damage is not believed to self repair.
A word of warning: when retinopathy develops a temptation will exist
to have the damage repaired by laser surgery. This laser technique stops the
retinal bleeding by creating scar tissue where the leaks have developed.
This scar
tissue will prevent normal healing of the fine capillaries in the eye
when the diabetes is reversed. By reversing the diabetes instead of
opting for
laser surgery, there is an excellent chance that the eye will heal
completely.
However if laser surgery is done, this healing will always be
complicated by the scar tissue left by the laser.
The arterial and vascular damage done by years of elevated sugar and
insulin and by the proliferation of systemic candida will slowly
reverse due to
improved diet. However, it takes many years to clean out the arteries
by this form of oral chelation. Arterial damage can be reversed much
more quickly by using intravenous chelation [26] therapy.
What would normally take many years through
diet alone, can often be done in six months with intravenous therapy.
This is reputed to be effective over 80% of the time. For obvious
reasons, don’t
expect your doctor to approve of this, particularly if he is a heart
specialist.
The prognosis is usually swift recovery from the disease and
restoration of normal health and energy levels in a few months to a year
or more.
The length of time that it takes to effect a cure depends upon how long
the disease was allowed to develop.
For those who quickly work to reverse the disease after early
discovery, the time is usually a few months or less. For those who
have had the disease for many years, this recovery time may lengthen to
a year
or more.
Thus, there is good reason to get busy reversing this disease as soon
as it becomes clearly identified.
By the time you get to this point in this article, and, if we’ve done
a good job of explaining our diabetes epidemic, you should know what causes
it, what orthodox medical treatment is all about and why diabetes has
become a disgrace both in the US and world wide. Of even greater
importance, you have become acquainted with a self help program that
has demonstrated great potential to actually cure this disease.
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Thomas Smith is a reluctant medical investigator having been forced into
curing his own diabetes because it was obvious that his doctor would
not or could not not cure it. He has published the results of his
successful diabetes
investigation in his self help manual entitled "Insulin: Our Silent
Killer" written
for the layman but also widely valued by the medical practitioner.
This manual details the steps required to reverse Type II Diabetes and
references the work being done with Type I Diabetes. In the US, the
book may be purchased by sending $29.00 US to him at PO Box 7685,
Loveland, Colorado 80537. Outside of the US email us for the special
payment and shipping instructions required for international transactions.
He has also posted a great deal of useful information about this
disease on
his web page at: www.Healingmatters.com He can be contacted by email at
valley@h… and in the US by telephone at: 1 (970) 669-9176
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