Re: debate (& type 1 diabetics getting off insulin)
I appreciate what you’ve shared, and I think there’s much wisdom in your
words above.
Could you give any more detail/info about them, Brock? Specifically, what
they did that enabled them to get off insulin.
I met 1 Type 1 diabetic woman who said she was able to get off insulin as
long as she stayed on a raw foods diet.
Also, "Type I diabetics who have gotten completely off of their insulin
by.raw food vegan diet. Every [such] person I have talked to.learned this
program at the Optimum Health Institute"
www.startthehealing.com/Q_diabetes.html
I wouldn’t call any of these people "cured".
And these successes don’t indicate that a raw or vegan diet’s best for
everyone w/type-1 diabetes. Raw diets and vegan diets have tons of pros and
cons (for diabetics and nondiabetics), and so much depends on individual
variables.
> Well I can add some others.
Do you know of any people w/type 1 diabetes who’ve gotten off insulin. If
so, how? I’m interested in learning everything I can about type 1 people
getting off insulin.
I won’t enter into the pro- vs. anti-vegetarian debate, other than to say
that my views are middle-of-the-road. I think there’s much truth/validity
and much exaggeration/overgeneralization/dogamatism in both camps.
1 source of eye-opening and mythbusting info (as well as much exaggeration,
overgeneralization, and dogma) on the anti-vegetarian, pro-saturated fat,
pro-animal-fat, pro-raw-dairy side is www.westonaprice.org (based indigenous
cultures diets). They don’t discuss diabetes much, but I believe they
mention a study showing great results in type 2 diabetes from a
high-saturated fat diet (perhaps largely coconut oil, which is different
than animal fats), and Ron Schmid’s milk book mentions recovery from
diabetes via a raw milk diet. Like all other schools of thought, I have
plenty of agreements and disagreements w/them. There are plenty of equally
persuasive and scientifically-based websites w/many differing perspectives.
July 16th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Leonard,
Almost every instance I have found are people who have gotten onto a
raw foods vegetarian diet.
Dr Christopher sites the same diet with the addition of a herbal
preparation containing cedar berries. (this info is available on the
web.)(Christopher also allows for extremely low heat cooking of whole
grains)
Robert Young outlines an entire protocol in this book "The PH miracle
for diabetes". 33% of his type 1’s were off insulin in 90 days, the
rest had decreased insulin consumption by over 80%.
In the book "Raw Family," the Boytenko family goes on an all raw diet
and their son’s type 1 diabetes is cured as well as numerous other
health conditions that the family was suffering from.
David Wolfe’s "Sunfood Diet Success System" relates the story of a
type 1 diabetic who went raw vegan and was off insulin in 7 months.
Wolfe referred the lady to Dr Bernarr Zovluck, who helped her. I have
contacted him personally and his approach is 100% raw foods, as much
anaerobic exercise as possible and as much rest, lying down and
closing the eyes as possible. (lying down and watching tv does not
work)(he claims the eyes must be closed) He does not advocate herbs.
Dr Richard Schulze in his book "There are no Incurable Diseases" puts
forth a fantastic program of vegan foods, juices, herbal teas and
tinctures, exercise, laughter, hydrotherapy and other protocols for
healing any disease. For diabetics he recommends cutting the juices
with water to adjust for the sugar content and blood sugar spikes.
On a personal note, I believe rest is one the most important aspects
to curing type 1 diabetes. The vegan, raw food, juicing diet causes
the body to get a lot of rest from the digestive perspective. It is
my observation that the digestive process takes a lot of energy from
the body. When the body is not expending so much energy digesting, or
dealing with allergens, or toxins, it has more time to fix the system.
I have long believed that the average non diabetic has their beta
cell population wiped out on occasion. The difference between them
and Type 1 diabetics is for whatever reason, the type 1’s system did
not quickly regenerate the beta cells.
Good luck,