(NaturalNews) New research shows that the low-cost vitamin
Thiamine (vitamin B1) reverses kidney damage in diabetics, restoring the ability of the kidneys to function without allowing proteins to spill over into the urine.
The finding proves that a very low-cost treatment is highly effective and could serve as a low-cost nutritional therapy for diabetics, ultimately saving tens of millions of dollars a year in medical treatment costs in the U.S. alone.
The research was conducted at Warwick University in the UK. Predictably, the UK version of the American Diabetes Association (called "Diabetes UK") took the new
evidence as an opportunity to tell people to avoid nutritional therapies. As reported by the BBC, Dr. Iain Frame said, "We would like to stress that it's still too early to come to any firm conclusions about the role of
vitamin B1 and we would not advise that people look to vitamin supplements to reduce their risk of kidney complications at this stage."
In other words, it's the same advice
diabetics get in the United States: Don't you dare use
vitamins to enhance and protect your
health... use pharmaceuticals instead!
More than three-fourths of the populations in both the U.S. and U.K. are deficient in
thiamine. The deficiency can be easily corrected with nutritional supplementation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, does not believe there is any vitamin or nutrient in the known universe that prevents or treats any
disease or health condition. This is actually the official position of the
FDA, and thus anyone selling vitamin B1 who also claims the vitamin could reverse diabetic
kidney damage would be violating FDA regulations and subjected to arrest at gunpoint. Any
doctor recommending vitamin B1 for the same purpose could be stripped of his license to practice
medicine.
Why orthodox medicine opposes nutrition
The entire orthodox medical system in both the U.S. and U.K. is dead set against the use of vitamins to prevent or treat any disease. Rather than embracing vitamins that could greatly ease human suffering and save billions of dollars in health care
costs, the corrupt medical authorities of both nations conspire to discredit vitamins and limit
patients to the use of highly-profitable, yet dangerously toxic
drugs.
And each time new
research surfaces, showing the remarkable health benefits of a vitamin, these same medical authorities immediately denounce those vitamins, insisting that "more research is needed."
That's code for "we'll never advocate it." Whether we're talking about vitamin D (which prevents cancer), vitamin E (which prevents heart disease) or any of the B vitamins, conventional medicine remains unconditionally opposed to any patient using vitamins for any purpose whatsoever.
This isn't based on evidence, and it isn't about science; it's about politics and
profits. Vitamins are discredited precisely because they threaten the profits of Big Pharma and strip power from
doctors by allowing patients to prevent and treat their own health conditions are home (for pennies on the dollar).
Most conventional medical practitioners literally believe that vitamins are nutritionally worthless in the human body, but that people suffer from "pharmaceutical deficiencies" that can only be corrected through the lifetime use of prescription drugs (statin drugs, for example).
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