| Each year, more than 82,000 amputations are performed among people with diabetes. Furthermore, foot complications are the most frequent reason for hospitalization in patients with diabetes, accounting for up to 25 percent of all diabetic admissions in the United States and Great Britain. With ulcers one must stop all smoking, because nicotine causes arterial constriction, and this further decreases peripheral circulation.
DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
Diabetic retinopathy is another serious complication and is the leading cause of blindness. | | As with peripheral vascular disease going to amputations, there may be a vascular dementia that is triggered by low blood flow to the brain.
New research linking diabetes and Alzheimer's suggests that the high blood sugar of diabetes can lead to the formation of advanced glyca-tion end products, or AGEs.141 AGEs are sugar-derived substances that form in the body through an interaction between carbohydrates and proteins, lipids, or nucleic acids such as DNA. AGEs adversely affect the structure and function of proteins and the tissues that contain proteins. | | People with Syndrome X are more likely to develop obstruction to the arteries and therefore increased or decreased blood flow to the extremities, which creates increased rates of amputations. Up to 70 percent of people with Syndrome X have some form of nerve damage. It is even worse in smokers. Some people feel the metabolic syndrome is not reversible, but with the Tree of Life program, we have seen a high frequency of the reversal of this syndrome over a three-week cycle. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Astonishingly, honey was even shown to remove dead tissue from persistent wounds, helping some patients avoid skin grafts or amputations.
According to the European Journal of Medical Research, topical honey proved to have positive effects on post-operative wound infections due to gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria17 following Caesarean sections and hysterectomies.
"Honey provides a moist healing environment yet prevents bacterial growth even when wounds are heavily infected," notes Dr. Peter Molan of the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  In her seventh year of residency, she realized that she spent most of her time delivering a laundry list of bad news to patients about the progress of their disease: bodily systems that were breaking down, amputations that needed to be performed, and other grim tidings that it was her personal daily duty, as resident, to deliver. She wanted to be able to tell those suffering something good and was disturbed by the uneasy feeling that she wasn't "making a dent" in anyone's disease. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Surgery is the prototype, and its dramatic progress— light-years removed from the cathartics, bloodletting, and amputations that dominated medicine in previous centuries—is nothing short of breathtaking. But surgery has serious flaws. It is expensive, painful, and frightening, often disabling and disfiguring, and too often merely a temporary stopgap against the disease it is intended to treat. It is a mechanical approach to a biological problem.
Perhaps no area of medicine better illustrates the mechanical approach to disease than cardiology and cardiac surgery. |
Hyla Cass
See book keywords and concepts |  It requires multiple medications, possibly including daily insulin injections; blood-glucose monitoring equipment; frequent doctor's visits; and, as complications mount, is likely to lead to surgeries (including open heart surgery or amputations), dialysis, and increasing disability. As you can see, this progressive condition causes damage to the body in many ways.
The good news, if caught early, diabetes can be controlled without medications. | | Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. For greatest benefit, thiamine must be taken in supplement form and as benfotiamine, which is lipid (or fat) soluble—a form that is better at getting into the cells than the water-soluble form.
Dose: Take vitamin Bj as benfotiamine, 320 mg daily in divided doses (meaning 160 mg, twice daily).
Chromium
This mineral is found in foods such as romaine lettuce, onions, tomatoes, Brewer's yeast, oysters, liver, whole grains, and bran cereals. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Diabetes is the leading cause of lower-extremity amputations in the United States.
• 86,000 amputations a year are related to complications from diabetes.
• The five-year mortality rate after amputation is 39—68 percent.
• Diabetics are two to four times more likely to have heart disease.
• Heart disease is present in 75 percent of diabetes-related deaths.
• Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of kidney disease.
• Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults.
• Each year, 12,000—24,000 people lose their sight because of diabetes. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  About half of the more than 82,000 lower limb amputations performed in the United States each year are for people with diabetic neuropathy. The tragedy of amputation can be prevented in many cases if more attention is paid to the first signs of infection in the feet (see "Caring for Your Feet," page 58).
Sensory neuropathy can also result in muscle weakening or wasting (amyotrophy). If the nerve cells responsible for stimulating certain muscles are destroyed, the muscles decrease in strength and size. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Horror stories of Staph infections and amputations can make the hospital stay after surgery scarier than the procedure itself.
Post-surgery recovery can be another time of great concern. Did the staff sterilize the medical equipment carefully? Did they follow guidelines to prepare properly for the surgery? Even when medical staff follow procedures by the book, something as simple as your doctor's necktie - which an Israeli study found to be an unknown source of contamination in hospitals - can derail your recovery. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts |  Sadly, in surgery, I became quite adept at performing amputations on so many diabetics who lost toes, feet, or legs to gangrene.
All in all, this was a moving experience in many ways and it motivated me to take lifestyle counseling, early diabetes detection, and aggressive diabetes management very seriously in all of my overweight patients. I am quite sure that I (now in my late forties would be a diabetic if I had let my "bad" genes dictate my fate, but I have avoided this by always paying close attention to my way of life and what goes in my mouth. |
Jacky Law
See book keywords and concepts |  Instead, glucose accumulates in the blood leading to complications of the disease that include heart problems, blindness, ulcers and amputations.
As with obesity cures, the tens of billions of dollats in failed development costs are factored into a drug's 'average development cost' when the industry pleads its case for higher prices from healthcare systems.
The reward is that diabetics should get a better product from all this spend. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
See book keywords and concepts |  Amputation
• Over 60% of all lower limb amputations occur with diabetics.
Dental Disease
• Increased frequency and severity of gum disease that can lead to tooth loss.
Pregnancy Complications
Increased Susceptibility to Other Illnesses
Death
Modern drugs and surgery offer no cure for diabetics. At best, current drugs allow diabetics to maintain a reasonably functional lifestyle, but these drugs will never treat the cause of the disease. As a consequence, diabetics face a lifetime of drugs and medications, making diabetes an enormously costly disease. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Clinical Nutrition
Inositol Hexaniacinate: This supplement is also effective in peripheral vascular disease, including threatened foot amputations, gangrene, atherosclerosis, and hypertension.79
General Infections
Like antibiotics, the natural treatments listed here should show symptomatic improvement within 2 days and need to be continued until 5 days after all symptoms have subsided. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
See book keywords and concepts |  Soon there followed an epidemic of thousands of newborns with phocomelia—seal-like congenital amputations, previously almost unheard of. After rounds of denials from the drug's various manufacturers, the persistence of Professor Widikund Lenz, a German geneticist, made clear the causal association of the drug. Only then, in 1960, was thalidomide banned around the world. There were up to 12,000 cases worldwide. But the US was spared. Reviewing the world's literature on thalidomide, Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In fact, the majority of amputations in this country are due to diabetes, but at least there's a point beyond which they can justify it. They can say, "This leg isn't going to make it. You can't feel it, you can't move it, and it's getting infected." In such a case, an amputation is medically justified. But let's say that they said, "You're diabetic? Hmm, I think we should take your legs now before they get infected as a preventative measure" -- that's what they're saying about breast cancer. "Take them off now to prevent breast cancer. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
See book keywords and concepts |  Each year, among people with diabetes:
~ 12,000-24,000 become blind due to diabetic eye disease
~ more than 100,000 experience kidney failure ~ 86,000 undergo lower-extremity amputations cancer
• One out of every 2.5 people will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime — that's almost half the population.
• Over the next 5 years, cancer is predicted to surpass heart disease as the number one cause of death.
• 53% of Americans believe that most cancers are the result of genetic factors, while in reality only 5-10% of most types of cancer result from genetic factors. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A leading cause of heart and kidney diseases, blindness, and limb amputations, diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., responsible for 210,000 deaths per year. An estimated 16 million people have pre-diabetes.
The following list shows the potential problems that can arise from a high-glycemic diet. The items marked with an asterisk (*) were compiled and listed by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D., author of Lick the Sugar Habit, and published in Health Freedom News, June 1994. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | The patient had poor
CLINICAL TRIAL mine if they prevented amputation or if amputations was
Neuroinfected Diabetic Feet needed as the final resort.80
A study at the National Institute of Angiology and Vascular Surgery in Havana examined the effect of various treat-
Treatment
No Amputation
Amputation ments on patients suffering from neuroinfected diabetic
Group 1
93.8%
6.2% feet. Group one patients (15) we treated exclusively with
(ozone therapy) ozone treatments, group 2 patients (13) were treated with
Group 2
81.3%
18. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | The glycated proteins are too big and sticky to get through small blood vessels and capillaries, including the small vessels in the kidneys, eyes, and feet, which is why so many diabetics are at risk for kidney disease, vision problems, and amputations of toes, feet, and even legs. The sugar-coated proteins become toxic, make the cell machinery run less efficiently, damage the body, and exhaust the immune system. Scientists gave these sticky proteins the acronym AGES—which stands for advanced glycolated end-products—partially because these proteins are so involved in aging the body. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Traumatic Form After wounds, splintered bones, or amputations. If by nail or instrument wound puncturing the foot or hand, allow to bleed a bit to flush foreign matter; wash and cleanse with soap; then apply antibiotic Honey or herb ointments. Take mega Vitamin C, and antibiotic herb teas. *See aphysician for an immunizing tetanus vaccine. Acute Form* Usually from an accident, affects respiration muscles, of rapid course, andusuallyfatal.
Idiopathic Form* From constitutional nerve or Brain affections, less dangerous than Traumatic Lockj aw. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  This has been the cause of numerous amputations. It is possible that the application of a tourniquet is more dangerous than the snakebite itself.
• Do not pack the entire bitten area in ice. This can block circulation and cause injury to tissue, or even gangrene. An ice pack or some cubes wrapped in cloth, applied periodically to the skin, is the maximum you want to use.
• Do not cut the wound with a knife or razor. Older first-aid kits often contain cutters, but excessive bleeding can cause more damage. If you happen to cut an artery, the victim can bleed to death. | | Consistently high blood sugar levels can, over time, lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, limb amputations, and nerve damage. In fact, diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in adults between the ages of twenty and seventy-four, and it accounts for 40 percent of the people who have kidney failure. Cardiovascular disease is two to four times more common among people with diabetes, and is the leading cause of diabetes-related deaths. The risk of stroke is also two to four times higher in people with diabetes, and 60 to 65 percent have high blood pressure as well. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts |  It is the leading cause of kidney failure, limb amputations, and new blindness, and it contributes to heart disease and stroke—two of today's major killers.7
Exercising, even moderately, can significantly reduce the risk of Syndrome X (metabolic syndrome), a condition that increases heart disease and diabetes risk among older adults, according to a study. Some 43 percent of participants had metabolic syndrome when the study began. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  Diabetic foot ulcer. Ulceration is caused by several factors acting together, but particularly by neuropathy.
Every 30 seconds a leg is still lost because of diabetes somewhere in the world.44
It is very painful to look at these pictures and imagine ourselves or a loved one with foot ulcers, gangrene, and eventual foot amputation. One can get indignant knowing that just a little bit of applied medical intelligence could avoid much of this. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | Half of all amputations in the United States result from diabetes. Diabetic foot infections are generally more severe and more difficult to treat than infections in nondiabetics. This is due to impaired microvascular circulation, neuropathy, anatomical alterations, and impaired immune capacity in diabetic patients. Most moderate-to-severe soft-tissue diabetic foot infections are polymicrobial (i.e., due to gram-positive, gram-negative, aerobic, and anaerobic pathogens). |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts |  Sadly, in surgery, I became quite adept at performing amputations on so many diabetics who lost toes, feet, or legs to gangrene. All in all, this was a moving experience in many ways and it motivated me to take lifestyle counseling, early diabetes detection, and aggressive diabetes management very seriously in all of my overweight patients. I am quite sure that I (now in my mid forties) would be a diabetic by now if I had let my "bad" genes dictate my fate, but I have avoided this by always paying close attention to my way of life and what goes into my mouth. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | Neuropathy and vascular disease account for the high incidence of diabetic foot amputations. Pathological examination shows axonal destruction due to the complications of sorbitol buildup.
Mononeuropathies come on with a sudden onset and leave usually spontaneously. They may affect the third, fourth, sixth, and seventh cranial nerve. Truncal neuropathy in the T4 -T12 area also exists. The pain is constant, unrelenting, worse at night, and is often confused with cardiac or gastrointestinal disease.
Diabetic neuropathy, like all illnesses, can cause depression. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts | | You can also dramatically reduce the risk of serious complications of diabetes, such as heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and amputations. Failure to use natural medicine in the treatment and prevention of diabetes is a mistake you can't afford to make.
Diabetes is not a new disease, but its relative rarity prior to the twentieth century coupled with its rather recent emergence as a major disease has led many experts to classify it as a disease of modern living. There are compelling reasons to justify this classification. |
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