Dibetes and toxic metals

[Guest guest]

Thanks for inviting attention to a basic fact which creates malfunction or

inadequate function in cells.

 

These ideas were also discussed in:

 

http://health.ayurveda/message/5886

http://health.ayurveda/message/5940

http://health.ayurveda/message/6021

 

http://health.ayurveda/message/6074

 

Not only diabetes, but every disease has its root in cell membranes

getting caked up, choked up, dehydrated, suffocated by reduced

cellular oxygen. That is why the new therapies like ozone therapy,

electromagnetic resonance therapy are

finding acceptance.

 

The root cause of diabetes amongst metro/rich population is to

be searched in lifestyle only, other than toxic environment. As we

consume air 20 times more than food, and while life starts with

breathing, ends with last breath, the air is the diet to be examined

with greatest emphasis. That is the fact which propelled Baba Ramdev

to the title " Yogrishi " today.

 

Author attended an event in a big air-conditioned science research centre in

Bangalore few years back. When he visited the canteen for lunch

along with group of other participants, he put a single question to

group: " How hungry you are? " few of the answers:

 

" I dont feel much, with high tea at inagural session, containing

cake, rasmalai etc. But i wish to taste the chicken. Craving for it. "

 

" The spice aroma has kindled my agni doctor. I will take just rice,

curries and salad though " .

 

" I missed inagural session, as i was attending a meeting, but two

cups of tea with few buiscuits at meeting have given me fullness. But

unles i eat now, i am afraid what will happen, snacks will be served

only at 4 pm, I cant work if there is a feeling of hunger " .

 

" Eating in a crowd kills my appetite. But still i would like to have

a dabble at Pulao, chicken and ice-cream " .

 

" Since wife too working, difficult to cook such a lunch in home,

hence i did not bring lunch box, knowing well that lunch will be

served here. "

 

Conclusions: All who work in environment not needing physical labour,

eat by schedule rather than hunger. Rich dinner does not make one hungry at

breakfast time, but breakfast must be eaten to ward off the fear that what will

happen at say 11 am? Calorie rich foods is the

routine. Aroma of the spices, artificial flavours, free food kindles

mental cravings rather than real agni. When food is eaten without

lord agni's blessings, excess fat, sugar in the blood is the only

outcome. Insulin receptors get covered with ama, how they can work.

Another reason is the lack of adequate cellular oxygen. Energy cant

be produced only by insulin and sugar. Oxygen is major variable

forgotten when discussing diabetes or cancer or anyother deadly

disease. Even acharyas would not have imagined so much pollution by

transportation alone. Author experimented with this idea and found that certain

breathing techniques after neti and nasya which enrich cellular

oxygen, create more demand for blood sugar. Grands get revitalized and insulin

supplimetation requirement reduced. Science tells us there is a hormone leptin,

which helps burn fat when one is deficient in food intake. BUt hopw it will get

secreted if cells are caked up.

 

Author has seen people

who eat sweets and are able to use them, without any significant rise

in blood sugar or showing any signs of diabetes. Blodo sugar FS/PP of

the order of 65/85! Their health secret is getting up at 5 am, doing

yoga, walk, cycling, and being happy, prayers, music, playing with

grand children, contented life!

 

Few elderlies have eaten milk and khitchri ( incompatible diet as

protein and milk combined) for dinner for lifetime and are now past

80, walking erect and helping in household duties in addition to

social work. No diabetes, arthritis, hypertension.

 

As long as calories are limited

to what you consume and essential inputs to body are obtained in entire

spectrum discussed in above links, we take living food as a

duty to the body rather than craving for taste, contents etc, no disease can

visit. But since disease originates in mind, craving

itself is a Vikara and also points to nutritional deficiency.

Rajasik nature also causes craving, but satisfying the

curiosity " only once " and becoming victim of addiction are two

different things.

 

It will take at least half a century before science can map spiritual energies

of the man, animals, diet etc and prove that we become what we eat. After that,

no more arguments need to be offered about diet. The view that a certain diet

can better control blood sugar treats body as a chemical plant where

input-output equations can be written as a set of differential equations.

Coontrary to the undetrstanding of this author some years ago, he found that

much more sugar is consumed by brain in thinking!! when blood sugar is reduced,

craving is the signal. Unfortunately, this sugar-hunger-craving-satisfcation

feedback loop becomes weak in diabetics. It becomes operational again when they

underatake early morning walk, pranayama, do meditation, yoga, listen to music

etc. Now their medication can be reduced, they learn " listen to body technique " ,

refuse food unless agni is kindled, and now it does not matter what they eat.

Key is when to stop eating. They need not keep a diary of GI figures in pocket.

When such a stage arrives, even bitter gourd is seen adequate to control the

diabetes symptoms. Author is not just offering some theory. He has seen that

some of the detoxification techniques could reduce insulin from 37 units to 6

units per day in a patient whose diabetes was detected 20 years ago. This is

best reduction, even worst was from 30 units to 10 units. Since these were past

age 50 case, more pressure on patient life style was not possible.

 

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> I was reading an article at another site today which was making the

> point that the rise of heavy metal toxicity is responsible for the

> rise of type 2 diabetes. The point this article makes is no doubt

> relevant - I had made a similar point about generalized mitochondria

> disease in a recent post here.

[Guest guest]

ayurveda , " Shirish Bhate "

<shirishbhate wrote:

>

 

> Not only diabetes, but every disease has its root in cell membranes

> getting caked up, choked up, dehydrated, suffocated by reduced

> cellular oxygen. That is why the new therapies like ozone therapy,

electromagnetic resonance therapy are

> finding acceptance.

 

A couple of thoughts came to mind when reading this excellent article

by Dr Bhate.

 

In regard to the paragraph above - many disease processes are caused

by this accumulation of Ama (especially dried or dehydrated Ama) but a

catagory of disease processes that are often overlooked in this regard

are the many so called autoimmune diseases. For the past several years

I have been questioning the theory of Dr Denis Wilson who named a

thyroid syndrome after himself - the disease had already been defined

for many years - it was called by several names - Thyroid Resitance is

the main concept and is a good name since the primary symptom of the

syndrome is that the Thyroid receptor sites are blocked - this is

often called an autoimmune process - Dr Wilson not only named this

after himself but proposed a therapy - a very dangerous therapy -

which was to give timed release T3 in an attempt to break through the

block. Actually most people can not do his therapy (it causes all of

the expected symptoms of excess thyroid hormone - rapid heart rate -

anxiety and feeling over whelmed - high blood pressure - palpatations

- etc.) - but of those who have taken the therapy many have gotten

into serious trouble including a few cases of stroke and heart attack.

I had said from the beginning of this concept being presented that it

is not valid. In my opinion there are two factors at play here - one

is that the receptor sites have shut down for the same reasons that

the Insulin receptor sites shut down in Insulin Resistance - the cells

do not need this excess hormone so they shut down - this is not a

disease this is a normal defense mechanism of the body - this type of

syndrome occurs in very lethargic people who get very little exercise

and therfore do not need even normal amounts of hormone. A major

factor in these processes is Ama which even further complicates the

issues at the mitochondrial level by blocking many of the normal

metabolic processes - creating even more hypometabolism - this

hypometabolism is not caused by Thyroid hormone defeciency (these

people do not have elevated TSH)it is caused by metabolic malfunction

caused by Ama block and the accumulating kapha and pitta in the

interrcellular fluids - which also cause inflammatory processes.

 

Such mechanisms are at play in all autoimmune processes. Breaking the

Ama and correcting the causes of this Ama are an essential step in

resolving all so called autoimmune processes. In these processes the

immune system is not actually attacking the cells it is attacking the

toxins especially the stuck proteins in the Ama which is creating a

film over every cell - cells may become damaged in this process.

 

Dr Vinod Kumar

[Guest guest]

> but there is

an underlying issue which makes the toxic metal accumulations more

harmful than they would otherwise be and this is Ama. Ama acts not

just as a sticky film (the Chinese call this 'phlegm mist')over the

mitochondria acting as a barrier to metabolism - nourishment and

elimination - but it also absorbs local toxins of all kinds - those

taken in from outside and those created by the body in ordinary

metabolism. This decreased metabolism leaves the cells drowning in a

toxic soup - including excess fluids, excess acids, heavy metals,

hydrocarbons, etc. Because of the sticky quality of Ama these toxins

are firmly bound and many of them eventually get absorbed into the

cell walls and become a part of the cells further interfering with

their function.>

 

 

yes ama is one of the five basic factors that vitiate the doshas and

cause disease

we are discussing the substance of the actual shlokas on prameha,

specifically madhumeha

rather than waxing philosophical i would like to hear _your_

protocol, what do _you_ do about this ama?

what effective treatment do you give?

 

i say this because today i had 2 physically active longtime

vegetarian WASP pts who live on cold and rainy vancouver island with

thyroid disorders

and i would really, really like to hear what you would do

 

 

 

 

> When one has a 'pet' theory and trys to get all facts to conform to

this they are bound to run up against the facts that simply will not

conform to that theory. Example the argument that such people make

against vegetarianism - their assertions are laughable - since we all

know many people who have had the highest human success eating

vegetarian diet.

 

 

ah, yes my pet theory that bioregionalism in diet is an ayurvedic

imperative for health?

 

are you familiar with the traditional UK diet? you mentioned you

lived there

however, you probably would have had a hard time finding the

traditional UK diet, as the diet in post-war britain (WW1/WW2) has

become different from what it used to be, in large part, ruined by a

national nostalgia for canned, preserved and food that has otherwise

had the living bahjeezles cooked out of it

 

if you traveled out of london, maybe toured the the rural areas and

looked at what the old folk ate, what is what everybody used to eat

back before the great wars (like my great grandfather godrey who

lived till he was 97, or my great grandmother olivine who was 103

when she died), you will find that the traditional rural diet in the

UK is actually a fairly low carb diet, like the typical steak and egg

breakfast

 

and, if you look deeper, you might have also noted that the rates of

diabetes (and CVD) in the UK since then have skyrocketed, as they did

in the US, when people were convinced that the typical high fat, high

protein foods were somehow bad for them (cholesterol hypothesis), and

switched to a higher carb diet

 

you will also note that the vegetative capacity of the earth is

affected by latitude, and that the further north (or south, from the

equator) that you travel, the local availability of high carb foods

becomes less and less, until to you reach the extreme among the inuit

who _must_ subsist entirely on flesh

 

ultimately, dr. vinod, your argument is called a false dichotomy: it

is either A or B, but because B cannot it exist, it must be A

in this case the false dichotomy is that either carbohydrates are

good, or carbohydrates are bad

 

we all know however that the primary energy currency of the body is

glucose, so therefore the argument that carbohydrate is bad is wrong

ergo, mr. todd has pet theory and everyone should ignore him

 

first off, it is impossible to eat a zero carbohydrate diet, which is

why even type 1 diabetics that try to eliminate all carb-containing

foods still have to take insulin

for example, muscle contains glycogen, glycogen is a sugar, and thus

even lean animal protein will contain sugar

 

secondly, it should be very clear to everyone that when we refer to

" carb " foods we are referring to foods that contain a high density of

starches and sugars, everything from white sugar to brown rice - but

it doesn't mean that they don't also contain protein, fats, trace

minerals, or the occasional insect - it means that they contain

mostly carbohydrate

 

thirdly, my argument isn't that carbohydrate is bad, my argument is

that basic macronutrient ratios (i.e. high " carb " foods) need to be

adjusted according to various factors, including geography, climate

and ancestry

 

this is apart from the obvious

 

diabetes is a disease of excess sweetness

 

am i wrong?

 

so WHY on earth would one want continue to emphasize the one

macronutrient group (high " carb " foods) in the diet that absolutely

requires one specific function of a failing organ (the pancreas)?

 

why not take a load off the pancreas, give it a chance to heal, and

stop overstimulating it with high carb foods?

 

my purpose and intent is to prevent and treat disease - i believe

that everything i have said is easily explained by ayurveda

 

indians can choose to be vegetarian and strive to be healthy by

rigorously following an austere peasant diet that can be grown

locally, but they SHOULD NOT expect this in everyone else, especially

where the indian diet could never be sustainably replicated

 

if this is required for ayurveda, well, i am speechless

 

 

Caldecott, Dip. Cl.H, RH(AHG)

Ayurvedic practitioner, Medical Herbalist

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