Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Disturbances in glucose metabolism had been reported in Alzheimer's disease decades ago, with scientists theorizing that either the brain of a diabetic person lacks sufficient glucose to function properly or excess sugar in a diabetic person's bloodstream does vascular damage that affects blood flow to neurons.
In Madrid, evidence was presented to suggest that antidiabetic drugs could be used as a treatment for AD. |
Jack Challem
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 If you are diabetic or prediabetic and averse to taking a lot of pills, including nutritional supplements, consider taking alphabetic. This once-a-day vitamin/mineral supplement was formulated for people with prediabetes and diabetes. The overall dosage of ingredients is modest, so it is unlikely to interact with any diabetic medications. (See ordering information in the appendix.)
Alpha-lipoic acid. This vitaminlike nutrient has been used for decades in Germany to treat the complications of diabetes. It improves the efficiency of insulin, allowing less of the hormone to do its job. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Medically known as diabetic acidosis or diabetic ketoacidosis, this is a medical emergency. If your blood sugar isn't promptly regulated, coma and death may follow.
Bad breath was considered a serious disorder in the Talmud, the ancient Jewish scripture. Holy men with halitosis were forbidden to carry out holy rites. Bad breath was even considered grounds for divorce, a law that still exists in Israel today.
WARNING SIGN
When their blood sugar is out of control,diabetics may have a distinctive breath odor that smells like alcohol. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| Disturbances in glucose metabolism had been reported in Alzheimer's disease decades ago, with scientists theorizing that either the brain of a diabetic person lacks sufficient glucose to function properly or excess sugar in a diabetic person's bloodstream does vascular damage that affects blood flow to neurons.
In Madrid, evidence was presented to suggest that antidiabetic drugs could be used as a treatment for AD. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Food would probably be limited, so dietary blood-sugar load would already be low, and brown fat would convert most of that to heat, so the ice age "diabetic's" blood sugar, even with less insulin, might never reach dangerous levels. Modern-day diabetics, on the other hand, with little or no brown fat, and little or no exposure to constant cold, have no use—and thus no oudet—for the sugar that accumulates in their blood. In fact, without enough insulin the body of a severe diabetic starves no matter how much he or she eats. |
| Essentially, they become what we would call diabetic in response to the cold.
In areas with cold weather, more diabetics are diagnosed in colder months; in the Northern Hemisphere, that means more diabetics are diagnosed between November and February than between June and September.
Children are most often diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when temperatures start to drop in late fall.
Fibrinogen, the clotting factor that repairs ice-damaged tissue in the wood frog, also mysteriously peaks in humans during winter months. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Olanzapine, for example, increases the risk of developing diabetes melli-tus and, as a result, schizophrenic patients using it become diabetic. Which is the more acceptable risk to patients, preventing them from becoming normal and allowing them to become diabetic, or taking then off olanzapine when they are well without it and increasing their risk of relapsing, especially when they can be easily treated for schizophrenia again?
In Canada, enforced medication is now enshrined in law. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 The difference is that your diabetic pickle doesn't exactly go all that well with a sandwich and some chips.
Diabetes serves as a microcosm of the aging process. In people with poorly controlled diabetes, a variety of degenerative diseases—such as arterial disease, heart disease, premature loss of teeth, and many other conditions—occur earlier and with greater severity than in nondiabetics. How did we get ourselves in this pickle?
In the Stone Age, sugar, fat, and salt were in short supply; our bodies had to store them when we came across them. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Researchers have concluded that if a person were to do all the things laid out in Chapter 6 of the book, most if not all diabetic conditions would dramatically improve if not be "cured" fully. Over fifteen million people suffer from diabetes in just the U.S. It's estimated that over thirty to fifty million are pre-diabetic. It's estimated that perhaps at least fifty million are diabetic and don't even know it. Recent studies on cinnamon suggest that it can help maintain blood sugar levels at a consistent area. I also interviewed Dr. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 One of the main problems diabetics face are the long-term serious health complications associated with this condition, such as diabetic retinopathy, kidney failure, heart disease, and diabetic neuropathy.
How Chemicals Can Trigger Diabetes
Many chemicals are not only able to trigger diabetes in those with an inherited tendency to the disease, they can also induce diabetes in those with no family history. Several synthetic chemicals are even used to trigger diabetes in animals to create models of the disease. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations. þAmputations: More than 60 percent of lower-limb amputations in the United States occur among people with diabetes. þPeriodontal disease: Almost one third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal (gum) disease. þPain: Many diabetics fall victim to chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or fibromyalgia. þDepression is a common accompaniment of diabetes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's nothing like high-fructose corn syrup to keep a diabetic in constant need of medication. This fact, combined with the fact that the American Diabetes Association continues to recommend things like ice cream to diabetics (as long as they regulate their blood sugar with medication!), shows you just how important it is for corporate America to keep the American population just sick enough to need medication, but not so sick that they all keel over and die. |
Jack Challem
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| Sleep apnea, which is common among overweight, diabetic, and prediabetic people, interferes with normal breathing and interrupts sleep. The consequence is that we go to bed tired, wake up tired, and muddle through the day feeling tired, cranky, and like zombies.
J. Todd Arnedt, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, has found that working very long hours produces the same slow reflexes and poor judgment as when we drink too much alcohol. A lack of restful sleep increases levels of Cortisol, the body's chief stress hormone, which helps to store fat around the belly. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In a second phase of the study, researchers will inject diabetic volunteers with a compound called BCG, which, like the compound given to mice to kill off errant T cells, stimulates the human immune system in a way that eliminates only the faulty T cells that attack beta cells. The study, which will include forty patient volunteers, will be double-blind—patients will either receive a placebo (no drug) or BCG. The researchers will evaluate whether BCG reduces the number of defective cells that attack and kill the insulin-producing cells in type 1 diabetics. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 The high insulin levels of type 2 diabetes contribute to diabetes complications, including cholesterol abnormalities, diabetic eye disease, diabetic kidney disease, and vascular disease.
Type 2 diabetes is like a car trying to pull a trailer that's too large. The car overheats, isn't fuel efficient, and wears out faster. You'd trade your car in for a truck that has towing capacity, but the problem is, you can't just go out and buy a larger pancreas to handle your diabetes.
In animal studies, Dr. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Peabody began to see doctors making decisions that were based not on what was best for the patient but on what kind of plan the patient was in. If a diabetic was in a PPO, for instance, which paid a fee for every office visit, the doctor would tell him to come back every few weeks in order to have his blood sugar monitored more closely. (The less a diabetic's blood sugar fluctuates, the more slowly he will develop the downstream effects of the disease, including heart disease, kidney damage, and blindness. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| The high insulin levels of type 2 diabetes contribute to diabetes complications, including cholesterol abnormalities, diabetic eye disease, diabetic kidney disease, and vascular disease.
Type 2 diabetes is like a car trying to pull a trailer that's too large. The car overheats, isn't fuel efficient, and wears out faster. You'd trade your car in for a truck that has towing capacity, but the problem is, you can't just go out and buy a larger pancreas to handle your diabetes.
In animal studies, Dr. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Research suggests that many of these individuals will eventually become diabetics when their pancreas finally tires and is unable to produce the massive amount of insulin required to keep their blood sugar out of the diabetic range. Moreover, we now realize that insulin resistance?even if diabetes never develops—brings with it a whole host of serious health problems. Restoring insulin sensitivity is the only real answer to this dilemma and one of the principal goals of the Hunger Free Forever program.
Our program is especially beneficial if you have type 2 diabetes. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Although it is not the first-line treatment for diabetes, green tea may provide some benefits to the diabetic beyond those brought by diet and drugs. Epicatechin has been shown to bring high blood sugar levels in diabetic animals back down to normal values. In addition, the beta cells of these animals, which were previously found to be inactive, were regenerated with the polyphenol and regained their proper function. Other researchers report that epicatechin, besides promoting the secretion of insulin, also acts with insulin-like properties in the body. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| They aren't paid to coordinate the care of diabetics or heart failure patients, to hire nurses to track a patient's weight or make sure his lungs aren't filling up with fluid, or a nutritionist to help a diabetic understand what she can and cannot eat. In order for programs like Pursuing Perfection to succeed, hospitals must work with all local doctors, not just those who are willing to lose money in order to help their patients. The way to do that is to pay them as if they were a single, integrated group, hospitals and doctors working together. But that's not how we do it. |
Melody Petersen
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 She made this disclosure in a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine in which she argued that a group of German researchers had been wrong to conclude in their clinical trial that Pfizer's medicine Lipitor did not help diabetic patients who were on dialysis. In the German study, fewer diabetic patients taking Lipitor had heart attacks or died from heart disease, but more of them died from stroke than those who had taken sugar pills. Dr. Robinson argued that the researchers should have looked only at the heart disease data and ignored the slightly higher death rate from stroke. |
Marshall Editions
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 Insulin and other diabetic agents may need to be adjusted if herbal remedies are used in a complementary manner, because of many herbs' hypoglycemic effect. All recommended herbs are safe for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics.
Gymnema: This woody plant, also called urine honey, was traditionally used to treat diabetes long before its positive results were discovered in clinical trials. Gymnema discourages sugar consumption by inhibiting the taste of sugar placed on the tongue. Studies have also shown that gymnema effectively lowers blood sugar when taken at 400 mg per day. |
| Take 300-600 mg of alpha lipoic acid a day to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce the symptoms of diabetic neuropathy. Vanadyl sulfate improves glucose tolerance; take 100-300 mg a day. Take 3 g of fish oils a day to support the nervous system and assist in proper insulin function. B-complex vitamins are involved in glucose metabolism, and should be taken at 50 mg a day. Biotin, taken at 7,000-15,000 meg a day, reduces the changes of diabetic neuropathies. This is a B vitamin so consider the amount included in your B-complex vitamin and adjust the dosage accordingly. |
Jack Challem
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| In a twelve-month study of seriously ill diabetic patients, 600 mg daily of silymarin reduced glucose in diabetics by 9.5 to 15 percent. The patients also benefited from lower levels of sugar in the urine, glycated hemoglobin, and insulin requirements.
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Dealing with Down Days, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder
Depression is the most widely recognized mood disorder, thanks to the widespread advertising of antidepressant medications. Unfortunately, these medications don't correct the underlying biochemical or psychological causes of depression, and they often pose serious side effects. |
Jack Challem
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 You don't have to be a full-blown diabetic to boost your risk of having a heart attack. Several studies have shown that modest elevations in blood sugar—within the normal range—can significantly increase your risk of suffering a heart attack. People with prediabetes or those who are overweight tend to have high levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and inflammation—all are known risk factors for heart disease. |
| She, too, would develop diabetic complications if nothing changed, and that fact turned out to be her motivator.
Liz was determined not to suffer the same medical fate as her family members. She greatly reduced her intake of sweets and breads, while eating smaller meals, more vegetables, and a couple of healthy snacks each day. She took a janitorial job to be more physically active, in addition to her daily two-mile walk.
Dr. Ron asked her to take alpha-lipoic acid (300 mg twice daily), biotin (10 mg daily), and an extract of red yeast rice (600 mg twice daily, to help lower blood fats). |
| High levels of C-reactive protein are common in people who are diabetic or overweight.
Similarly, an abnormal tendency toward coagulation—that is, blood clotting—is commonly found in people with prediabetes and diabetes, and it is also a risk factor for developing heart disease. Doctors can measure clotting speeds through a variety of tests. High levels of fibrinogen, one of the clotting compounds, points to a greater tendency toward clots developing within blood vessels. |
| Now she definitely was not diabetic.
Catherine's improvements occurred so quickly that she started to wonder whether her original doctor's diagnosis of diabetes was even correct. Nonetheless, she was delighted that she felt so much better, and she made it clear that she would continue to improve her health.
Protein for Vegetarians
People often ask us about adapting our recommendations for vegetarians. Eggs, fish, hard cheeses, and yogurt can substitute for meat and fowl. If you do not eat fish, dairy products, or eggs, it becomes much more difficult to follow our eating plan. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Applying these principles to your own life will significantly improve your diabetic control. You should watch your blood sugars closely when you begin these lifestyle adjustments; if the blood sugars drop too much, you need to consult your doctor so he can adjust your medication.
As I said earlier, diabetes mellitus is increasing at epidemic proportions. In spite of the billions of dollars spent on this disease, we are losing the battle. Physicians and laypeople alike must refocus their attitudes and attack insulin resistance rather than elevated blood sugars. |
| Four out of five diabetic patients eventually will die—not from diabetes itself, but from cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke, or peripheral vascular disease) initiated by the diabetes. Did you know that diabetes is the leading cause of amputations and one of the leading causes of blindness in the elderly?2
Diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions. With more than 90 percent of these cases known as type-2 diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes), we must seriously consider what is going wrong! Type-1 diabetes used to be called juvenile diabetes. |
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