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 It's made of aloe vera, an herb with strong anti-cancer properties that also treats gum disease, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, Crohn's disease, IBS, celiac disease, digestive disorders and even blood disorders (like "sludge blood" or "sticky blood"). Aloe vera is one of the best-known healing herbs in the world, and it's useful for treating a surprising number of afflictions and health conditions (both internal and external).
This new product is made of low-temperature dried flakes of the aloe very leaf gel with a high concentration of medium-weight polysaccharides. |
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 When this ingredient is consumed, it spikes the blood sugar in your body. This sends an emergency signal to your pancreas, which produces increased levels of insulin in order to keep the blood sugar levels from going too high. This insulin signal is picked up by the cells in your body, which then remove blood sugar from your bloodstream and, through a somewhat complex biological process involving the liver, manage to store that blood sugar as body fat. |
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 These are also a form of brain poison, because they alter the availability of blood sugar in your bloodstream, and your brain operates on blood sugar. So, when you have wild swings in your blood sugar, your brain function rises and falls like the tide, and it can suffer greatly because of it. Relatively low blood sugar, for example, can cause forgetfulness, moodiness, aggression and a lot of other problems that will make it difficult for you to keep your job no matter what you look like. |
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 In modern medical lingo, any statement about "controlling high blood pressure" or "controlling high cholesterol" or even "controlling blood sugar" actually means taking pharmaceuticals to control those numbers. So when researchers say that people need to "control their high blood pressure" what they're really saying is that people should take high blood pressure drugs.)
It's a message that might as well have been announced from the Big Pharma Glee Club, or the FDA cheerleading squad. |
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 There are also ways that you can manipulate your own blood sugar levels through activities:
There are really two things that you can do as a human being to lower this blood sugar once it's spiked. First, you can burn it off by using it to contract your muscles -- so if you happen to be running a marathon at the same moment that you drank a soft drink, then the marathon effort will probably counteract the high blood sugar effect of the soft drink. |
| Once your glycogen levels have reached their peak, your body has one more strategy for reducing the blood sugar in your bloodstream.
The second strategy
Before I reveal this, it's important to note that most people walk around 24 hours a day with their glycogen levels already maxed out. Most people never get to a low level of glycogen because they're not on a carbohydrate-controlled diet. Accordingly, the vast majority of people, when they consume refined carbohydrates, are going to be in a physiological state where circulating blood sugar gets quickly converted into stored body fat. |
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 This will hydrate your body and lower blood pressure without any negative side effects. Be careful to avoid hydrating yourself with other drinks that are actually dehydrating in nature. Those would include soft drinks, coffee, sports drinks, and basically any drink containing sugar, such as processed orange drinks.
That's one of the main things you can do. Another thing you can do, and this is generally better known, is to avoid intake of salt or sodium. Obviously high sodium intake causes high blood pressure. |
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 One of the side effects of salmon oil is a reduction in the "stickiness" of your blood cells. That makes your blood flow more smoothly, but it also "thins" the blood at the same time. This biological effect has potentially serious consequences (good or bad, depending on your health situation) that should be reviewed by your doctor or naturopath before you start supplementing with this product (or any salmon oil, for that matter).
Personally, I think thinner blood is better. blood platelets aren't supposed to stick together: they're supposed to flow freely. |
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 Regardless of how it looks, I have no desire to swallow a liquid product that even the USDA openly admits contains pus and blood. The only remaining question in my mind is whether it's organic pus and blood or just conventional pus and blood. Because if consumers are going to drink pus and blood, they have every right to know whether it's organic or not, don't you think?
Glass of "organic" milk, anyone? And while you're pondering whether you should be eating animal liquids or flesh as part of your diet, take a look at these horrifying processed meat photos: http://www.newstarget. |
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 The consumption of refined carbohydrates increases the level of triglycerides in the blood, increases the levels of bad cholesterol (LDL), and can even result in a loss of heart function that is frequently diagnosed as a physical deformity. But on a low-carbohydrate diet, supplemented with healthy oils and adequate protein, all of these symptoms reverse: triglyceride levels fall, bad cholesterol drops while good cholesterol rises, and heart murmurs and other symptomatic disorders often vanish. |
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 And besides, did it really take a government-funded research project to realize that the people in our nation are getting fatter and have higher blood pressure? I figured this out one day just by walking through the Denver Airport. All you have to do is basically look at the people walking around and you can reach the same conclusion the government did without spending $5 million on federally funded research.
So now that 1 in 3 American adults have blood pressure, what are the other two doing? |
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| That makes your blood flow more smoothly, but it also "thins" the blood at the same time. This biological effect has potentially serious consequences (good or bad, depending on your health situation) that should be reviewed by your doctor or naturopath before you start supplementing with this product (or any salmon oil, for that matter).
Personally, I think thinner blood is better. blood platelets aren't supposed to stick together: they're supposed to flow freely. So I take all the salmon oil and astaxanthin I want, and I personally would never ask for health advice from an M.D. |
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| It's not only calcium that gets depleted when people consume refined carbohydrates and sugars, either: chromium - an important mineral for regulating blood sugar levels - is also depleted:
"The amount of chromium in foods decreases with processing. The widespread tendency toward increased consumption of highly processed foods, particularly refined sugar, which stimulates urinary losses of chromium, may result in a marginal intake of chromium and depletion of tissue chromium stores."
- Michael T. Murray, N.D. |
| In other words, they they won't raise your blood sugar in the way that refined carbohydrates do.
They do have another side effect, however: in some people, they can contribute strongly to diarrhea or flatulence. This occurs because even though these sugar alcohols are not converted to carbohydrates, they do pass through your large intestine where your intestinal flora can consume the sugar alcohols and emits various gases as a byproduct of their own metabolism. |
| If diabetes is a disease of too much sugar in the blood, how can you treat it by putting more in? Clearly, you can't. And thankfully, for the sake of diabetic sufferers everywhere, the tide has begun to take a sensible turn toward a diet of higher protein, higher fat, and less carbohydrate. It's simply a matter of applied biochemistry - if excess insulin is causing the problem, reduce the insulin levels, and to and behold, people get better.
This hints at the politics and truly bad science that has been strongly influencing the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for decades. |
| Remember, if you crave fruits and want to minimize the impact on your blood sugar and production of insulin, you can always eat high fiber or high-fat foods before the fruits in order to slow the digestion and assimilation of those fruit sugars. In essence, by frontloading your stomach with fiber or fat, you are decreasing the glycemic index of the fruits you consume.
Organic meat jerky with no MSG
Organic, natural meat jerky products are an excellent food source for healthy lifestyles. The trouble is, it's almost impossible to find jerky that doesn't contain both sodium nitrite and MSG. |
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| Hypertension (high blood pressure) is often caused by chronic dehydration. In fact, in one of the interviews I conducted with Dr. Batmanghelidj, he explains the mechanism by which this takes place. Essentially when the body is lacking water, it attempts to hold on to the available water supplies by resorting to vascular constriction throughout the body. This helps reduce the loss of water through the skin and through respiration. And by doing so, it helps conserve the remaining water in the body.
So if you want to avoid this response to dehydration, just drink a lot of water. |
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| One-third more blood is pumped through injected cows' hearts. This synthetic hormone is so powerful it kills muscle tissue at injection sites.
In early 1990, my newspaper, The Milkweed, published stolen Monsanto animal health research files. Those files showed dramatic increases in weights of many key organs and glands of treated cows, compared to control groups.
What's gone wrong with Monsanto's rbGH? Synthetic hormones used in our food-producing livestock pose risks too serious to cover up. |
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| The only remaining question in my mind is whether it's organic pus and blood or just conventional pus and blood. Because if consumers are going to drink pus and blood, they have every right to know whether it's organic or not, don't you think?
Glass of "organic" milk, anyone? And while you're pondering whether you should be eating animal liquids or flesh as part of your diet, take a look at these horrifying processed meat photos: http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_mystery_meat_1.html
And be sure to read What's In Your Milk by Dr. Sam Epstein. |
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 You might also add cinnamon to your oatmeal or breakfast cereal, since cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar and effectively lowers the glycemic index of anything you eat during the same meal.
However, it should be noted that pomegranate sugars are somewhat unique in that they do not spike blood sugar levels as easily as other fruit sugars. It's a mysterious effect, actually, and scientists are not sure why pomegranate juice seems to be so mild in its blood sugar effects. This makes it the ideal juice for diabetics, as it also helps reduce atherosclerosis risks in diabetics. |
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| That was a long-winded way to answer your question, but the answer is, yes, sugar can be converted into body fat, but it is not the first strategy that your body uses to lower your blood sugar. If you're exercising, that will help lower blood sugar levels automatically, or if your glycogen levels are low, your body will first try to store glycogen. But again, most people are not exercising, and their glycogen levels are already topped out, so when they consume sugars, they are directly promoting the creation of body fat. |
| The conversion of blood sugar to glycogen, of course, involves the liver, and it is a rather complicated physiological function that I'm not going to explain in detail. The short, simple version is that your muscles (and liver) absorbs this blood sugar and store it for use at a later time. So your body has a sort of gas tank where it can store a certain amount of sugar energy and use it later.
But just like in your Toyota Corolla, your body's gas tank can get full. When it's full, it means you have all the glycogen in your system that you can store. |
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| This sends an emergency signal to your pancreas, which produces increased levels of insulin in order to keep the blood sugar levels from going too high. This insulin signal is picked up by the cells in your body, which then remove blood sugar from your bloodstream and, through a somewhat complex biological process involving the liver, manage to store that blood sugar as body fat. If you drink enough soft drinks with enough frequency, you will be well on your way to achieving your goal of gaining 100 lb in 12 months or less. |
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 You get weakened blood vessels when you get glycation of the proteins because you have high blood sugar all the time. If you can cross-link those proteins and collagen, you are going to prevent the blood vessels from just deteriorating. That is some of the design logic that goes into a product like Diabetes Defense.
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 It is also believed by many that this electrification of the blood is useful during any kind of cleansing treatment such as a juice cleanse or a liver detox.
However, there are serious safety implications in using any device to electrically treat your blood. So I strongly recommend that you only pursue this application under the direct supervision of a licensed naturopathic physician. Do NOT electrify your own blood unless you are medically trained and fully understand what you're doing. Seek professional medical guidance for this particular application of the technology. |
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