Our Deadly Diabetes Deception

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Our Deadly Diabetes DeceptionGreed and dishonest science have promoted a lucrative worldwide epidemic ofdiabetes that honesty and good science can quickly reverse by naturallyrestoring the body's blood-sugar control mechanism.--Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 11, Number 4 (June-July 2004)PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editorTelephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.comby Thomas Smith © 2004PO Box 7685Loveland, CO 80537 USAEmail: ValleyWebsite: http://www.Healingmatters.com--IntroductionIf you are an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you thatmost cases of diabetes are curable. In fact, if you even mention the "cure"word around him, he will likely become upset and irrational. His medicalschool 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 acurable disease and has been for at least 40 years. In 2001, the most recentyear for which US figures are posted, 934,550 Americans died fromout-of-control symptoms of this disease.1Your physician will also never tell you that, at one time, strokes, bothischaemic and haemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as bothischaemic and haemorrhagic coronary events, obesity, atherosclerosis,elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, elevated triglycerides,impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver failure, polycystic ovarysyndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic candida, impaired carbohydratemetabolism, poor wound healing, impaired fat metabolism, peripheralneuropathy as well as many more of today's disgraceful epidemic disorderswere once well understood often to be but symptoms of diabetes.If you contract diabetes and depend upon orthodox medical treatment, sooneror later you will experience one or more of its symptoms as the diseaserapidly worsens. It is now common practice to refer to these symptoms as ifthey were separable, independent diseases with separate, unrelatedtreatments provided by competing medical specialists.It is true that many of these symptoms can and sometimes do result fromother causes; however, it is also true that this fact has been used todisguise 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 thisarticle, you are going to know that. You're going to know why it isn'troutinely being cured. And, you're going to know how to cure it. You arealso probably going to be angry at what a handful of greedy people havesurreptitiously done to the entire orthodox medical community and to itstrusting patients.The Diabetes IndustryToday's diabetes industry is a massive community that has grown step by stepfrom its dubious origins in the early 20th century. In the last 80 years ithas become enormously successful at shutting out competitive voices thatattempt to point out the fraud involved in modern diabetes treatment. It hasmatured into a religion. And, like all religions, it depends heavily uponthe faith of the believer. So successful has it become that it verges onblasphemy to suggest that, in most cases, the kindly high priest with thestethoscope 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 diabetesin his entire medical career.The financial and political influence of this medical community has almosttotally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies. Theyroutinely approve death-dealing, ineffective drugs with insufficienttesting. Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr Herbert Ley, in testimony beforea US Senate hearing, commented: "People think the FDA is protecting them. Itisn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are asdifferent as night and day."2The financial and political influence of this medical community dominatesour entire medical insurance industry. Although this is beginning to change,in America it is still difficult to find employer group medical insurance tocover effective alternative medical treatments. Orthodox coverage isstandard in all states. Alternative medicine is not. For example, there areonly 1,400 licensed naturopaths in 11 states compared to over 3.4 millionorthodox licensees in 50 states.3 Generally, only approved treatments fromlicensed, credentialled practitioners are insurable. This, in effect, neatlycreates a special kind of money that can only be spent within the orthodoxmedical and drug industry. No other industry in the world has been able tomanage the politics of convincing people to accept so large a part of theirpay in a form that often does not allow them to spend it as they see fit.The financial and political influence of this medical community completelycontrols virtually every diabetes publication in the country. Many diabetespublications are subsidised by ads for diabetes supplies. No diabetes editoris going to allow the truth to be printed in his magazine. This is why thediabetic only pays about one-quarter to one-third of the cost of printingthe magazine he depends upon for accurate information. The rest issubsidised by diabetes manufacturers with a vested commercial interest inpreventing diabetics from curing their diabetes. When looking for a magazinethat tells the truth about diabetes, look first to see if it is full of adsfor diabetes supplies.And then there are the various associations that solicit annual donations tofind a cure for their proprietary disease. Every year they promise that acure is just around the corner-just send more money! Some of these very sameassociations have been clearly implicated in providing advice that promotesthe progress of diabetes in their trusting supporters. For example, foryears they heavily promoted exchange diets,4 which are in factscientifically worthless-as anyone who has ever tried to use them quicklyfinds out. They ridiculed the use of glycaemic tables, which are actuallyvery helpful to the diabetic. They promoted the use of margarine as hearthealthy, long after it was well understood that margarine causes diabetesand promotes heart failure.5If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been suppressed for40 years, these associations will soon be out of business. But until then,they nonetheless continue to need our support.For 40 years, medical research has consistently shown with increasingclarity that diabetes is a degenerative disease directly caused by anengineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health. Althoughthe diligent can readily glean this information from a wealth of medicalresearch literature, it is generally otherwise unavailable. Certainly thisinformation has been, and remains, largely unavailable in the medicalschools that train our retail doctors.Prominent among the causative agents in our modern diabetes epidemic are theengineered fats and oils that are sold in today's supermarkets.The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that thedisease is incurable.Diabetes HistoryIn 1922, three Canadian Nobel Prize winners, Banting, Best and Macleod, weresuccessful in saving the life of a fourteen-year-old diabetic girl inToronto General Hospital with injectable insulin.6 Eli Lilly was licensed tomanufacture this new wonder drug, and the medical community basked in theglory of a job well done.It wasn't until 1933 that rumours about a new rogue form of diabetessurfaced. This was in a paper presented by Joslyn, Dublin and Marks andprinted in the American Journal of Medical Sciences. This paper, "Studies onDiabetes Mellitus",7 discussed the emergence of a major epidemic of adisease which looked very much like the diabetes of the early 1920s, only itdid not respond to the wonder drug, insulin. Even worse, sometimes insulintreatment killed the patient.This new disease became known as "insulin-resistant diabetes" because it hadthe elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes but responded poorly to insulintherapy. Many physicians had considerable success in treating this diseasethrough diet. A great deal was learned about the relationship between dietand diabetes in the 1930s and 1940s.Diabetes, which had a per-capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of thecentury, had by 1933 zoomed 1,000% in the United States to become a diseaseseen by many doctors.8 This disease, under a variety of aliases, wasdestined to go on to wreck the health of over half the American populationand incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990s.9In 1950, the medical community became able to perform serum insulin assays.These assays quickly revealed that this new disease wasn't classic diabetes;it was characterised by sufficient, often excessive, blood insulin levels.The problem was that the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce bloodsugar. But since the disease had been known as diabetes for almost 20 years,it was renamed Type II diabetes. This was to distinguish it from the earlierType I diabetes, caused by insufficient insulin production by the pancreas.Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the medicalscene from this point and into the late 1960s, diabetes would have becomewidely recognised as curable instead of merely treatable. Instead, in 1950,a search was launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type IIdiabetes problem.Cure versus TreatmentThis new, ideal, wonder drug would be effective, like insulin, in remittingobvious adverse symptoms of the disease but not effective in curing theunderlying disease. Thus it would be needed continually for the remaininglife of the patient. It would have to be patentable; that is, it could notbe a natural medication because these are non-patentable. Like insulin, itwould have to be highly profitable to manufacture and distribute. Mandatorygovernment approvals would be required to stimulate physicians to prescribeit as a prescription drug. Testing required for these approvals would haveto be enormously expensive to prevent other, unapproved, medications frombecoming competitive.This is the origin of the classic medical protocol of "treating thesymptoms". By doing this, both the drug company and the doctor could prosperin business, and the patient, while not being cured of his disease, wassometimes temporarily relieved of some of his symptoms.Additionally, natural medications that actually cured disease would have tobe suppressed. The more effective they were, the more they would need to besuppressed and their proponents jailed as quacks. After all, it wouldn't doto have some cheap, effective, natural medication cure disease in acapital-intensive monopoly market specifically designed to treat symptomswithout curing disease.Often the natural substance really did cure disease. This is why the forceof law has been and is being used to drive the natural, often superior,medicines from the marketplace, to remove the "cure" word from the medicalvocabulary and to undermine totally the very concept of a free marketplacein the medical business.Now it is clear why the "cure" word is so vigorously suppressed by law. TheFDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that prohibit the use of the "cure"word to describe any competing medicine or natural substance. It isprecisely because many natural substances do actually both cure and preventdisease that this word has become so frightening to the drug and orthodoxmedical community.The Commercial Value of SymptomsAfter the drug development policy was redesigned to focus on amelioratingsymptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent the waydrugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a major epidemicof insulin-resistant diabetes.So, in 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms ofdiabetes10 along with many other disease symptoms into diseases in their ownright. With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis, competingmedical speciality groups quickly seized upon related groups of symptoms astheir own proprietary symptoms set.Thus the heart specialist, endocrinologist, allergist, kidney specialist andmany others started to treat the symptoms for which they felt responsible.As the underlying cause of the disease was widely ignored, all focus onactually curing anything was completely lost.Heart failure, for example, which had previously been understood often to bebut a symptom of diabetes, now became a disease not directly connected todiabetes. It became fashionable to think that diabetes "increasedcardiovascular risk". The causal role of a failed blood-sugar control systemin heart failure became obscured.Consistent with the new medical paradigm, none of the treatments offered bythe heart specialist actually cures, or is even intended to cure, theirproprietary disease. For example, the three-year survival rate for bypasssurgery is almost exactly the same as if no surgery was undertaken.11Today, over half of the people in America suffer from one or more symptomsof this disease. In its beginnings, it became well known to physicians asType II diabetes, insulin-resistant diabetes, insulin resistance,adult-onset diabetes or, more rarely, hyperinsulinaemia.According to the American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans sufferfrom one or more symptoms of this disease. One third of the US population ismorbidly obese; half of the population is overweight. Type II diabetes, alsocalled adult-onset diabetes, now appears routinely in six-year-old children.Many degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure of theendocrine system. This was well known to the physicians of the 1930s asinsulin-resistant diabetes. This basic underlying disorder is known to be aderangement of the blood-sugar control system by badly engineered fats andoils. It is exacerbated and complicated by the widespread lack of otheressential nutrition that the body needs to cope with the metabolicconsequences 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 distinctionis not between saturated and unsaturated, as the fats and oils industrywould have us believe. Many saturated oils and fats are highly beneficial;many unsaturated oils are highly poisonous. The important health distinctionis 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, cottonseedand rapeseed oils.With an informed and aware public, these oils would have no market at all,and the USA-indeed, the world-would have far fewer cases of diabetes.Epidemiological Lifestyle LinkAs early as 1901, efforts had been made to manufacture and sell foodproducts by the use of automated factory machinery because of the immenseprofits that were possible. Most of the early efforts failed because peoplewere inherently suspicious of food that wasn't farm fresh and because thetechnology was poor. As long as people were prosperous, suspicious foodproducts made little headway. Crisco,12 the artificial shortening, was oncegiven away free in 21?2 lb cans in an unsuccessful effort to influenceAmerican housewives to trust and buy the product in preference to lard.Margarine was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states in theUSA. With the advent of the Depression of the 1930s, margarine, Crisco and ahost of other refined and hydrogenated products began to make significantpenetration into the food markets of America. Support for dairy oppositionto margarine faded during World War II because there wasn't enough butterfor the needs of both the civilian population and the military.13 At thispoint, the dairy industry, having lost much support, simply accepted adiluted market share and concentrated on supplying the military.Flax oils and fish oils, which were common in the stores and considereddietary staples before the American population became diseased, havedisappeared from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil to the majordistribution chains was Archer Daniels Midland, and it stopped producing andsupplying the product in 1950.More recently, one of the most important of the remaining, genuinelybeneficial, fats was subjected to a massive media disinformation campaignthat portrayed it as a saturated fat that causes heart failure. As a result,it has virtually disappeared from the supermarket shelves. Thus was coconutoil removed from the food chain and replaced with soy oil, cottonseed oiland rapeseed oil.14 Our parents and grandparents would never have swapped afine, healthy oil like coconut oil for these cheap, junk oils. It wasshortly after this successful media blitz that the US populace lost its waron fat. For many years, coconut oil had been our most effective dietaryweight-control agent.The history of the engineered adulteration of our once-clean food supplyexactly parallels the rise of the epidemic of diabetes and hyperinsulinaemianow sweeping the United States as well as much of the rest of the world.The second step to a cure for this disease epidemic is to stop believing thelie that our food supply is safe and nutritious.The Nature of the DiseaseDiabetes is classically diagnosed as a failure of the body to metabolisecarbohydrates properly. Its defining symptom is a high blood-glucose level.Type I diabetes results from insufficient insulin production by thepancreas. Type II diabetes results from ineffective insulin. In both types,the blood-glucose level remains elevated. Neither insufficient insulin norineffective insulin can limit post-prandial (after-eating) blood sugar tothe normal range. In established cases of Type II diabetes, these elevatedblood sugar levels are often preceded and accompanied by chronicallyelevated insulin levels and by serious distortions of other endocrinehormonal markers.The ineffective insulin is no different from effective insulin. Itsineffectiveness lies in the failure of the 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 is a disease that affectsalmost every cell in the 70 trillion or so cells of the body. All of thesecells are dependent upon the food that we eat for the raw materials theyneed for self repair and maintenance.The classification of diabetes as a failure to metabolise carbohydrates is atraditional classification that originated in the early 19th century whenlittle was known about metabolic diseases or processes.15 Today, with ourincreased knowledge of these processes, it would appear quite appropriate todefine Type II diabetes more fundamentally as a failure of the body tometabolise fats and oils properly. This failure results in a loss ofeffectiveness of insulin and in the consequent failure to metabolisecarbohydrates. Unfortunately, much medical insight into this matter, exceptat the research level, remains hampered by its 19th-century legacy.Thus Type II diabetes and its early hyperinsulinaemic symptoms arewhole-body symptoms of this basic cellular failure to metabolise glucoseproperly. Each cell of the body, for reasons which are becoming clearer,finds itself unable to transport glucose from the bloodstream to itsinterior. The glucose then remains in the bloodstream, or is stored as bodyfat or as glycogen, or is otherwise disposed of in urine.It appears that when insulin binds to a cell membrane receptor, it initiatesa complex cascade of biochemical reactions inside the cell. This causes aclass of glucose transporters known as GLUT4 molecules to leave theirparking area inside the cell and travel to the inside surface of the plasmacell membrane.When in the membrane, they migrate to special areas of the membrane calledcaveolae areas.16 There, by another series of biochemical reactions, theyidentify and hook up with glucose molecules and transport them into theinterior of the cell by a process called endocytosis. Within the cell'sinterior, this glucose is then burned as fuel by the mitochondria to produceenergy to power cellular activity. Thus these GLUT4 transporters lowerglucose in the bloodstream by transporting it out of the bloodstream intoall the cells of the body.Many of the molecules involved in these glucose- and insulin-mediatedpathways are lipids; that is, they are fatty acids. A healthy plasma cellmembrane, now known to be an active player in the glucose scenario, containsa complement of cis-type w=3 unsaturated fatty acids.17 This makes themembrane relatively fluid and slippery. When these cis- fatty acids arechronically 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, andinhibit the glucose transport mechanism.18Thus, in the absence of sufficient cis omega 3 fatty acids in our diet,these fatty acid substitutions take place, the mobility of the GLUT4transporters is diminished, the interior biochemistry of the cell is changedand glucose remains elevated in the bloodstream.Elsewhere in the body, the pancreas secretes excess insulin, the livermanufactures fat from the excess sugar, the adipose cells store excess fat,the body goes into a high urinary mode, insufficient cellular energy isavailable for bodily activity and the entire endocrine system becomesdistorted. Eventually, pancreatic failure occurs, body weight plummets and adiabetic crisis is precipitated.Although there remains much work to be done to elucidate fully all of thesteps in all of these pathways, this clearly marks the beginning of abiochemical explanation for the known epidemiological relationship betweencheap, engineered dietary fats and oils and the onset of Type II diabetes.Orthodox Medical TreatmentAfter the diagnosis of diabetes, modern orthodox medical treatment consistsof either oral hypoglycaemic agents or insulin.. Oral hypoglycaemic agentsIn 1955, oral hypoglycaemic drugs were introduced. Currently available oralhypoglycaemic agents fall into five classifications according to theirbiophysical mode of action.19 These classes are: biguanides; glucosidaseinhibitors; meglitinides; sulphonylureas; and thiazolidinediones.The biguanides lower blood sugar in three ways. They inhibit the normalrelease by the liver of its glucose stores, they interfere with intestinalabsorption of glucose from ingested carbohydrates, and they are said toincrease peripheral uptake of glucose.The glucosidase inhibitors are designed to inhibit the amylase enzymesproduced by the pancreas and which are essential to the digestion ofcarbohydrates. The theory is that if the digestion of carbohydrates isinhibited, the blood sugar level cannot be elevated.The meglitinides are designed to stimulate the pancreas to produce insulinin a patient that likely already has an elevated level of insulin in theirbloodstream. Only rarely does the doctor even measure the insulin level.Indeed, these drugs are frequently prescribed without any knowledge of thepre-existing insulin level. The fact that an elevated insulin level isalmost as damaging as an elevated glucose level is widely ignored.The sulphonylureas are another pancreatic stimulant class designed tostimulate the production of insulin. Serum insulin determinations are rarelymade by the doctor before he prescribes these drugs. They are oftenprescribed for Type II diabetics, many of whom already have elevatedineffective insulin. These drugs are notorious for causing hypoglycaemia asa side effect.The thiazolidinediones are famous for causing liver cancer. One of them,Rezulin, was approved in the USA through devious political infighting, butfailed to get approval in the UK because it was known to cause liver cancer.The doctor who 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 Rezulingained approval by the FDA. It went on to kill well over 100 diabetespatients and cripple many others before the fight to get it off the marketwas finally won. Rezulin was designed to stimulate the uptake of glucosefrom the bloodstream by the peripheral cells and to inhibit the normalsecretion of glucose by the liver. The politics of why this drug ever cameonto market, and then remained in the market for such an unexplainablelength of time with regulatory agency approval, is not clear.20 As of April2000, lawsuits commenced to clarify this situation.21. InsulinToday, insulin is prescribed for both the Type I and Type II diabetics.Injectable insulin substitutes for the insulin that the body no longerproduces. Of course, this treatment, while necessary for preserving the lifeof the Type I diabetic, is highly questionable when applied to the Type IIdiabetic.It is important to note that neither insulin nor any of these oralhypoglycaemic agents exerts any curative action whatsoever on any type ofdiabetes. None of these medical strategies is designed to normalise thecellular uptake of glucose by the cells that need it to power theiractivity.The prognosis with this orthodox treatment is increasing disability andearly death from heart or kidney failure or the failure of some other vitalorgan.Alternative Medical TreatmentThe third step to a cure for this disease is to become informed and to applyan alternative methodology that is soundly based upon good science.Effective alternative treatment that directly leads to a cure is availabletoday for some Type I and for many Type II diabetics. About 5% of thediabetic population suffers from Type I diabetes; about 95% has Type IIdiabetes.22 Gestational diabetes is simply ordinary diabetes contracted by awoman who is pregnant.For the Type I diabetic, an alternative methodology for the treatment ofType I diabetes is now available. It was developed in modern hospitals inMadras, India, and subjected to rigorous double-blind studies to prove itsefficacy.23 It operates to restore normal pancreatic beta cell function sothat the pancreas can again produce insulin as it should. This approachapparently was capable of curing Type I diabetes in over 60% of the patientson whom it was tested. The major complication lies in whether the antigensthat originally led to the autoimmune destruction of these beta cells havedisappeared from or remain in the body. If they remain, a cure is lesslikely; if they have disappeared, the cure is more likely. For reasonsalready discussed, this methodology is not likely to appear in the UnitedStates any time soon, and certainly not in the American orthodox medicalcommunity.The goal of any effective alternative program is to repair and restore thebody's own blood-sugar control mechanism. It is the malfunctioning of thismechanism that, over time, directly causes all of the many debilitatingsymptoms that make orthodox treatment so financially rewarding for thediabetes industry. For Type II diabetes, the steps in the program are:24. Repair the faulty blood sugar control system. This is done simply bysubstituting clean, healthy, beneficial fats and oils in the diet for thepristine-looking but toxic trans-isomer mix found in attractive plasticcontainers on supermarket shelves. Consume only flax oil, fish oil andoccasionally cod liver oil until blood sugar starts to stabilise. Then addback healthy oils such as butter, coconut oil, olive oil and clean animalfat. Read labels; refuse to consume cheap junk oils when they appear inprocessed food or on restaurant menus. Diabetics are chronically short ofminerals; they need to add a good-quality, broad-spectrum mineral supplementto the diet.. Control blood sugar manually during the recovery cycle. Under medicalsupervision, gradually discontinue all oral hypoglycaemic agents along withany additional drugs given to counteract their side effects. Develop naturalblood-sugar control by the use of glycaemic tables, by consuming frequentsmall meals (including fibre-rich foods), by regular post-prandial exercise,and by the complete avoidance of all sugars along with the judicious use ofonly non-toxic sweeteners.25 Avoid alcohol until blood sugar stabilises inthe normal range. Keep score by using a pinprick-type glucose meter. Keeptrack of everything you do with a medical diary.. Restore a proper balance of healthy fats and oils when the blood sugarcontroller again works. Permanently remove from the diet all cheap, toxic,junk fats and oils as well as the processed and restaurant foods thatcontain them. When the blood sugar controller again starts to workcorrectly, gradually introduce additional healthy foods to the diet. Testthe effect of these added foods by monitoring blood sugar levels with thepinprick-type blood sugar monitor. Be sure to include the results of thesetests in your diary also.. Continue the program until normal insulin values are also restored afterblood sugar levels begin to stabilise in the normal region. Once blood sugarlevels fall into the normal range, the pancreas will gradually stopoverproducing insulin. This process will typically take a little longer andcan be tested by having your physician send a sample of your blood to a labfor a serum insulin determination. A good idea is to wait a couple of monthsafter blood sugar control is restored and then have your physician checkyour insulin level. It's nice to have blood sugar in the normal range; it'seven nicer to have this accomplished without excess insulin in thebloodstream.. Separately repair the collateral damage done by the disease. Vascularproblems caused by a chronically elevated glucose level will normallyreverse themselves without conscious effort. The effects of retinopathy andof peripheral neuropathy, for example, will usually self repair. However,when the fine capillaries in the basement membranes of the kidneys begin toleak due to chronic high blood glucose, the kidneys compensate by layingdown scar tissue to prevent the leakage. This scar tissue remains even afterthe diabetes is cured, and is the reason why the kidney damage is notbelieved to self repair.A word of warning. When retinopathy develops, there may be a temptation tohave the damage repaired by laser surgery. This laser technique stops theretinal bleeding by creating scar tissue where the leaks have developed.This scar tissue will prevent normal healing of the fine capillaries in theeye when the diabetes is reversed. By reversing the diabetes instead ofopting for laser surgery, there is an excellent chance that the eye willheal completely. However, if laser surgery is done, this healing will alwaysbe complicated by the scar tissue left by the laser.The arterial and vascular damage done by years of elevated sugar and insulinand by the proliferation of systemic candida will slowly reverse due toimproved diet. However, it takes many years to clean out the arteries bythis form of oral chelation. Arterial damage can be reversed much morequickly by using intravenous chelation therapy.26 What would normally takemany years through diet alone can often be done in six months withintravenous 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's a heart specialist.Recovery TimeThe prognosis is usually swift recovery from the disease and restoration ofnormal health and energy levels in a few months to a year or more. Thelength of time that it takes to effect a cure depends upon how long thedisease was allowed to develop.For those who work quickly to reverse the disease after early discovery, thetime is usually a few months or less. For those who have had the disease formany years, this recovery time may lengthen to a year or more. Thus, thereis good reason to get busy reversing this disease as soon as it becomesclearly identified.By the time you get to this point in this article, and if we've done a goodjob of explaining our diabetes epidemic, you should know what causes it,what orthodox medical treatment is all about, and why diabetes has become anational and international disgrace.Of even greater importance, you have become acquainted with a self-helpprogram that has demonstrated great potential to actually cure this disease.?About the Author:Thomas Smith is a reluctant medical investigator, having been forced intocuring his own diabetes because it was obvious that his doctor would not orcould not cure it.He has published the results of his successful diabetes investigation in hisself-help manual, Insulin: Our Silent Killer, written for the layperson butalso widely valued by the medical practitioner. This manual details thesteps required to reverse Type II diabetes and references the work beingdone with Type I diabetes. The book may be purchased from the author at POBox 7685, Loveland, Colorado 80537, USA (North American residents send$US25.00; overseas residents should contact the author for payment andshipping instructions).Thomas Smith has also posted a great deal of useful information aboutdiabetes on his website, http://www.Healingmatters. com. He can be contactedby telephone at +1 (970) 669 9176 and by email at valley.Endnotes:1. National Center for Health Statistics, "Fast Stats", Deaths/MortalityPreliminary 2001 data2. Dr Herbert Ley, in response to a question from Senator Edward Long aboutthe FDA during US Senate hearings in 19653. Eisenberg, David M., MD, "Credentialing complementary and alternativemedical providers", Annals of Internal Medicine 137(12):968 (December 17,2002)4. American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association, TheOfficial Pocket Guide to Diabetic Exchanges, McGraw-Hill/ContemporaryDistributed Products, newly updated March 1, 19985. American Heart Association, "How Do I Follow a Healthy Diet?", AmericanHeart AssociationNational Center (7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75231-4596, USA),http://www.americanheart.org6. Brown., J.A.C., Pears Medical Encyclopedia Illustrated, 1971, p. 2507. Joslyn, E.P., Dublin, L.I., Marks, H.H., "Studies on Diabetes Mellitus",American Journal of Medical Sciences 186:753-773 (1933)8. "Diabetes Mellitus", Encyclopedia Americana, Library Edition, vol. 9,1966, pp. 54-569. American Heart Association, "Stroke (Brain Attack)", August 28, 1998,http://www.amhrt.org/ScientificHStats98/05stroke.html;American Heart Association, "Cardiovascular Disease Statistics", August 28,1998, http://www.amhrt.org/Heart_and_Stroke_A_Z_Guide/cvds.html;"Statistics related to overweight and obesity",http://niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/pubs/statobes.htm;http://www.winltdusa.com/about/infocenter/healthnews/articles/obesestats.htm10. "Diabetes Mellitus", Encyclopedia Americana, ibid., pp. 54-5511. The Veterans Administration Coronary Artery Bypass Co-operative StudyGroup, "Eleven-year survival in the Veterans Administration randomized trialof coronary bypass surgery for stable angina", New Eng. J. Med.311:1333-1339 (1984); Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS), "A randomizedtrial of coronary artery bypass surgery: quality of life in patientsrandomly assigned to treatment groups", Circulation 68(5):951-960 (1983)12. Trager, J., The Food Chronology, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1995(items listed by date)13. "Margarine", Encyclopedia Americana, Library Edition, vol. 9, 1966, pp.279-28014. Fallon, S., Connolly, P., Enig, M.C., Nourishing Traditions, PromotionPublishing, 1995;Enig, M.C., "Coconut: In Support of Good Health in the 21st Century",http://www.livecoconutoil.com/maryenig.htm15. Houssay, Bernardo, A., MD, et al., Human Physiology, McGraw-Hill BookCompany, 1955, pp. 400-42116. Gustavson, J., et al., "Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake involves thetransition of glucose transporters to a caveolae-rich fraction within theplasma cell membrane: implications for type II diabetes", Mol. Med.2(3):367-372 (May 1996)17. Ganong, William F., MD, Review of Medical Physiology, 19th edition,1999, p. 9, pp. 26-3318. Pan, D.A. et al., "Skeletal muscle membrane lipid composition is relatedto adiposity and insulin action", J. Clin. Invest. 96(6):2802-2808 (December1995)19. Physicians' Desk Reference, 53rd edition, 199920. Smith, Thomas, Insulin: Our Silent Killer, Thomas Smith, Loveland,Colorado, revised 2ndedition, July 2000, p. 2021. Law Offices of Charles H. Johnson & Associates (telephone 1 800 5355727, toll free in North America)22. American Heart Association, "Diabetes Mellitus Statistics",http://www.amhrt.org23. Shanmugasundaram, E.R.B. et al. (Dr Ambedkar Institute of Diabetes,Kilpauk Medical College Hospital, Madras, India), "Possible regeneration ofthe Islets of Langerhans in Streptozotocin-diabetic rats given Gymnemasylvestre leaf extract", J. Ethnopharmacology 30:265-279 (1990);Shanmugasundaram, E.R.B. et al., "Use of Gemnema sylvestre leaf extract inthe control of blood glucose in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus", J.Ethnopharmacology 30:281-294 (1990)24. Smith, ibid., pp. 97-12325. Many popular artificial sweeteners on sale in the supermarket areextremely poisonous and dangerous to the diabetic; indeed, many of them areworse than the sugar the diabetic is trying to avoid; see, for example,Smith, ibid., pp. 53-58.26. Walker, Morton, MD, and Shah, Hitendra, MD, Chelation Therapy, KeatsPublishing, Inc., New Canaan, Connecticut, 1997, ISBN 0-87983-730-6