Our
Deadly Diabetes Deception
by
Thomas Smith
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 voices 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 it’s 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 symptoms
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 on supplying 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
the product 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 maintenence.
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 power cellular 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.
In 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.
1 “Fast
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2 In response to a question from
Senator Edward Long about the FDA during US Senate hearings
in 1965.
3 David M. Eisenberg MD,
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4 The American Diabetes
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1, 1998 McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
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