Treating Diabetes: Practical Advice for Combatting a Modern Epidemic

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Our Deadly Diabetes Deception

Greed and dishonest science have promoted a lucrative worldwide epidemic of

diabetes that honesty and good science can quickly reverse by naturally

restoring 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. editor

Telephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381

From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com

 

by Thomas Smith © 2004

PO Box 7685

Loveland, CO 80537 USA

Email: Valley

Website: http://www.Healingmatters.com <http://www.healingmatters.com/>

 

Introduction

If you are an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you that

most cases of diabetes are 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 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

ischaemic and haemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as both

ischaemic and haemorrhagic 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 often to 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

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 20th century. In the last 80 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

diabetesin 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 1,400 licensed naturopaths in 11 states compared to over 3.4 million

orthodox licensees in 50 states.3 Generally, only approved treatments from

licensed, credentialled 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 often does not allow them to spend it as they see fit.

The financial and political influence of this medical community completely

controls virtually every diabetes publication in the country. Many

diabetespublications are subsidised 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

one-quarter to one-third of the cost of printing the magazine he depends

upon for accurate information. The rest is subsidised by

diabetesmanufacturers 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 diabetessupplies.

And then there are the various associations that solicit annual donations to

find a cure for their proprietary disease. Every year they promise that 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 ridiculed the use of glycaemic 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

diabetesand promotes heart failure.5

If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been suppressed for

40 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 increasing

clarity that 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 that are 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 rumours about a new rogue form of

diabetessurfaced. 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 epidemic of a

disease which looked very much like the diabetes of the early 1920s, 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 treating this disease

through diet. A great deal was learned about the relationship between diet

and diabetes in the 1930s and 1940s.

Diabetes, which had a per-capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the

century, had by 1933 zoomed 1,000% in the United States to become a disease

seen by many doctors.8 This disease, under a variety of aliases, was

destined to go on to wreck the health of over half the American population

and incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990s.9

In 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 blood

sugar. 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 earlier

Type I diabetes, caused by 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 1960s, diabetes would have become

widely recognised as curable instead of merely treatable. Instead, in 1950,

a search was launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type II

diabetes problem.

 

Cure versus Treatment

This new, ideal, wonder drug would be effective, like insulin, 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 have to be highly profitable to manufacture and distribute. Mandatory

government approvals would be required to stimulate physicians to prescribe

it 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 has been and is being used to drive the natural, often superior,

medicines from the marketplace, to remove the " cure " word from the medical

vocabulary and to undermine totally 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 the drug development policy was redesigned 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.

So, in 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms of

diabetes10 along with many other disease symptoms into diseases in their own

right. With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis, competing

medical speciality groups quickly seized upon related groups of symptoms as

their own proprietary symptoms 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.

Heart failure, for example, which had previously been understood often to be

but a symptom of diabetes, now became a disease not directly connected to

diabetes. It became fashionable to think that diabetes " increased

cardiovascular 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 became well known to physicians as

Type II diabetes, insulin-resistant diabetes, insulin resistance,

adult-onset diabetes or, more rarely, hyperinsulinaemia.

According to the American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans suffer

from one or more symptoms of this disease. One third of the US population is

morbidly obese; half of the population is overweight. Type II diabetes, also

called adult-onset diabetes, now appears routinely in six-year-old children.

Many degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure of the

endocrine system. This was well known to the physicians of the 1930s 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 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 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

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 21â„2 lb cans in an unsuccessful effort to influence

American housewives to trust and buy the product in preference to lard.

Margarine was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states in the

USA. With the advent of the Depression of the 1930s, margarine, Crisco and a

host of other refined and hydrogenated products began to make significant

penetration into the food markets of America. Support for dairy opposition

to margarine faded during World War II because there wasn't enough butter

for the needs of both the civilian population and 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

dietary staples before the American population became diseased, have

disappeared from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil to the major

distribution chains was Archer Daniels Midland, and it 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 rapeseed oil.14 Our parents and grandparents 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 our most effective dietary

weight-control agent.

The history of the engineered adulteration of our once-clean food supply

exactly parallels the rise of the epidemic of diabetes and hyperinsulinaemia

now 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 the

lie that our food supply is safe and nutritious.

 

The Nature of the Disease

Diabetes is classically diagnosed as a failure of the body to metabolise

carbohydrates properly. Its defining symptom is a high blood-glucose level.

Type I diabetes results from insufficient insulin production by the

pancreas. Type II 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 II diabetes, these elevated

blood sugar levels are often preceded 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 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 affects

almost every cell in the 70 trillion or so cells of the body. All of these

cells are dependent upon the food that we eat for the raw materials they

need for self repair and maintenance.

The classification of diabetes as a failure to metabolise carbohydrates is a

traditional classification that originated in the early 19th century when

little was known about metabolic diseases or processes.15 Today, with our

increased knowledge of these processes, it would appear quite appropriate to

define Type II diabetes more fundamentally as a failure of the body to

metabolise fats and oils properly. This failure results in a loss of

effectiveness of insulin and in the consequent failure to metabolise

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 hyperinsulinaemic symptoms are

whole-body symptoms of this basic cellular failure to metabolise glucose

properly. Each cell of the body, for reasons which are becoming clearer,

finds itself unable to transport glucose from the bloodstream to its

interior. The glucose then remains in the bloodstream, or 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 GLUT4 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 cell's

interior, this glucose is then burned as fuel by the mitochondria to produce

energy to power cellular activity. Thus these GLUT4 transporters lower

glucose in the bloodstream by transporting it out of the bloodstream into

all the cells of the body.

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 GLUT4

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 elucidate fully 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 II diabetes.

 

Orthodox Medical Treatment

After the diagnosis of diabetes, modern orthodox medical treatment consists

of either oral hypoglycaemic agents or insulin.

 

• Oral hypoglycaemic agents

In 1955, oral hypoglycaemic drugs were introduced. Currently available oral

hypoglycaemic agents fall into five classifications according to their

biophysical mode of action.19 These classes are: biguanides; glucosidase

inhibitors; meglitinides; sulphonylureas; and 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 the pancreas and which are essential to the digestion of

carbohydrates. The theory is that if the digestion of carbohydrates is

inhibited, the blood sugar level 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 the insulin level.

Indeed, these drugs are frequently prescribed without any knowledge of the

pre-existing insulin level. The fact that an elevated insulin level is

almost as damaging as an elevated glucose level is widely ignored.

The sulphonylureas are another pancreatic stimulant class designed to

stimulate the production of insulin. Serum insulin determinations are rarely

made by the doctor before he prescribes these drugs. They are often

prescribed for Type II diabetics, many of whom already have elevated

ineffective insulin. These drugs are notorious for causing hypoglycaemia 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 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 Rezulin

gained 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 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

onto 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, lawsuits commenced to clarify this situation.21

 

• Insulin

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 for preserving the life

of 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

hypoglycaemic agents exerts any curative action whatsoever on any type of

diabetes. None of these medical strategies is designed to normalise 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.

 

Alternative Medical Treatment

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.

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; about 95% has 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 is now available. It was developed in modern hospitals in

Madras, India, and subjected to rigorous double-blind studies to prove its

efficacy.23 It operates to restore normal pancreatic beta cell function so

that the pancreas can again produce insulin as it should. This approach

apparently was capable of curing Type I diabetes in over 60% of the patients

on whom it was tested. The 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. For reasons

already discussed, this methodology is not likely to appear in the United

States 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 supermarket shelves. Consume only flax oil, fish oil and

occasionally cod liver oil until blood sugar starts to stabilise. 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

minerals; they need to add a good-quality, broad-spectrum mineral supplement

to the diet.

 

• Control blood sugar manually during the recovery cycle. Under medical

supervision, gradually discontinue all oral hypoglycaemic 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 (including fibre-rich foods), by regular post-prandial exercise,

and by the complete avoidance of all sugars along with the judicious use of

only non-toxic sweeteners.25 Avoid alcohol until blood sugar stabilises in

the normal range. Keep score by using a pinprick-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 as well as 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

pinprick-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 stabilise in the normal region. Once blood sugar

levels fall into the normal range, the pancreas will gradually stop

overproducing 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, there may be a temptation 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 therapy.26 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's a heart specialist.

 

Recovery Time

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 work quickly 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

national and international disgrace.

Of even greater importance, you have become acquainted with a self-help

program that has demonstrated great potential to actually cure this disease.

∞

 

About the Author:

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 cure it.

He has published the results of his successful diabetes investigation in his

self-help manual, Insulin: Our Silent Killer, written for the layperson 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. The book may be purchased from the author at PO

Box 7685, Loveland, Colorado 80537, USA (North American residents send

$US25.00; overseas residents should contact the author for payment and

shipping instructions).

Thomas Smith has also posted a great deal of useful information about

diabetes on his website,

http://www.Healingmatters.com<http://www.healingmatters.com/>.

He can be contacted by telephone at +1 (970) 669 9176 and by email at

valley.

 

Endnotes:

1. National Center for Health Statistics, " Fast Stats " , Deaths/Mortality

Preliminary 2001 data

2. Dr Herbert Ley, in response to a question from Senator Edward Long about

the FDA during US Senate hearings in 1965

3. Eisenberg, David M., MD, " Credentialing complementary and alternative

medical providers " , Annals of Internal Medicine 137(12):968 (December 17,

2002)

4. American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association, The

Official Pocket Guide to Diabetic Exchanges, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

Distributed Products, newly updated March 1, 1998

5. American Heart Association, " How Do I Follow a Healthy Diet? " , American

Heart Association

National Center (7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75231-4596, USA),

http://www.americanheart.org

6. Brown., J.A.C., Pears Medical Encyclopedia Illustrated, 1971, p. 250

7. Joslyn, E.P., Dublin, L.I., Marks, H.H., " Studies on Diabetes Mellitus " ,

American Journal of Medical Sciences 186:753-773 (1933)

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