Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Following a meal, glucose levels rise sharply, and the pancreas responds by releasing insulin, a substance that helps the cells absorb glucose from the blood. In healthy people, the release of insulin acts to keep blood sugar levels fairly constant; when the pancreas produces too much insulin, however, blood glucose levels drop suddenly, depriving the brain of needed fuel.
A diet high in simple sugars and refined carbohydrates can lead to nighttime hypoglycemia. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The causative factors often times are a pancreas where the beta cells are shot, maybe because of virus, maybe because of genetics, maybe because of toxins. Who knows? Those classic Indian herbs, the Gymnema sylvestre, the Pterocarpus marsupium, and not so much the bitter melon, but those first two are well known for regenerating the beta cells in the pancreas. They do not do it right away. In other words, it is a long-term therapy, and that is part of the problem with diabetes.
First, people do not know they have it. They do not feel it. It certainly is a major problem. |
| They do not know their pancreas is not putting out enough insulin and that their beta cells are going south on them. The first thing I did was to put in therapeutic doses of those that will help to regenerate the beta cells in the pancreas.
The bitter melon actually has an insulin-like effect. It is an extract, so you do not have a lot in there, but it is actually enough to get some insulin-like effect. The vanadium is the same. Vanadium has an insulin-like effect. If the insulin is not opening up the cells to allow the nutrients in, you will have an insulin resistance. |
| Those classic Indian herbs, the Gymnema sylvestre, the Pterocarpus marsupium, and not so much the bitter melon, but those first two are well known for regenerating the beta cells in the pancreas. They do not do it right away. In other words, it is a long-term therapy, and that is part of the problem with diabetes.
First, people do not know they have it. They do not feel it. It certainly is a major problem. They do not know their pancreas is not putting out enough insulin and that their beta cells are going south on them. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Your blood glucose level is monitored by cells in your pancreas that are the lone producers of insulin, the hormone that transports glucose from the outside to the inside of your cells so your body can transform that glucose into usable energy (see Figure 7.1).
Figure 7.1 Compartment Of Energy When you overeat blood sugar rises. This prompts the & cells in the pancreas to secrete insulin. Insulin transports glucose from the outside to the inside of your cells (especially the muscles, if you are using any) so that your body can use it for energy.
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Stop kidding yourself. |
| But watch the sugar: People who add sugar to coffee or tea don't benefit and run a higher risk of developing cancer of the pancreas. The risk of developing pancreatic cancer is related in part to the amount of sugar in the diet. Studies show that people who drink fizzy or syrup-based drinks twice a day or more run a 90 percent higher risk of getting cancer of the pancreas than those who never drink them.
YOU Tip: See the Chia. Chia pets may have no apparent purpose, but chia seed? Now, that's something to get excited about. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When this happens to you, you're put in a very difficult spot as the patient because the thing that's typically suggested to you to solve this problem of your pancreas producing "too much insulin" is to surgically remove part of your pancreas.
How's that for brilliant? The surgeons harm your body with the first surgery, and then they create a condition where they get repeat business because they have to remove part of your pancreas to balance your blood sugar. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 A third, important energy cenrer encompasses the digestive system, pancreas, and liver. This is where we store emotion and hold our sense of personal power. When people have problems in this energy center, they often manifest as eating disorders, intestinal disorders, or diseases of the pancreas or liver.
The fourth energy center surrounds the heart. This is where we store energies and emotions relating to love, family relationships, and long-term friendships. The heart is also a center for human virtue (honesty, loyalty, trustworthiness, courage, and so forth). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you consume refined carbohydrates on a regular basis, your pancreas will become overstressed. It's just like if you run your car 24 hours a day and keep revving the engine -- eventually something's going to wear out and break. This is what happens with the pancreas, and people who have adult onset diabetes often have an overstressed pancreas. You could call it a worn-out pancreas, although technically that's not an accurate metaphor.
The other problem is that type 2 diabetics have decreased insulin sensitivity in the cells of their body. |
Hyla Cass
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 Enter the pancreas, a small organ that's tucked away in a curve near the top of the long, winding small intestine. It pumps digestive enzymes into the small intestine, and it also makes the hormone insulin. It senses rising blood sugar. The steeper that rise, the more abrupt the pancreas's insulin response. A burst of insulin is pumped into your blood.
"Insulin has several jobs in the sugar department: First of all, it moves glucose from the bloodstream into the cells, where it can be used to make energy; it also promotes the storage of extra sugar in muscle, and of any extra calories as fat. |
Jack Challem
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 This greater risk applies mostly to cancers of the cervix, the colon and rectum, the endometrium, the esophagus, the kidneys, the liver, the pancreas, and the stomach. The odds of developing cancer of the liver and the pancreas, the two organs most involved in regulating insulin and blood sugar, are also especially high among people with diabetes.
Obesity accounts for more than a hundred thousand new cases of cancer each year in the United States. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Enter the pancreas, a small organ that's tucked away in a curve near the top of the long, winding small intestine. It pumps digestive enzymes into the small intestine, and it also makes the hormone insulin. It senses rising blood sugar. The steeper that rise, the more abrupt the pancreas's insulin response. A burst of insulin is pumped into your blood.
"Insulin has several jobs in the sugar department: First of all, it moves glucose from the bloodstream into the cells, where it can be used to make energy; it also promotes the storage of extra sugar in muscle, and of any extra calories as fat. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This process of storing sugar as glycogen or converting it to body fat is initiated by a hormone produced by the pancreas. This hormone, of course, is called insulin. If you consume refined carbohydrates on a regular basis, your pancreas will become overstressed. It's just like if you run your car 24 hours a day and keep revving the engine -- eventually something's going to wear out and break. This is what happens with the pancreas, and people who have adult onset diabetes often have an overstressed pancreas. |
Bill Sardi
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 Anticancer Research 23: 617-26, 2003]
An analysis of patients treated in England for a high thyroid condition (hyperthyroidism), found a reduced risk for lung cancer, along with a small decreased risk for cancer of the pancreas, bladder and other sites, thus concluding that there was a link between low-thyroid and increased ability to fend off cancer growth and subsequent mortality. [The Lancet 353: 21 1 1-15, 1999] This wasn't an absolute cure. Researchers expected to find 761 cancers in the group of 7,417 patients treated for high-thyroid and detected only 634 cases. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 COMPOUNDS
Anthracene derivatives: including harunganin, madagascin, madagascinanthrone, haronginanthrone, chrysophanol, phys-cione, hypericin, pseudohypericin, madagascarine
Volatile oil (traces)
Oligomeric procyanidins
Flavonoids (in the leaves): including quercetin-3-O-arabin-soide, quercetin-3-O-xyloside, quercitrin
EFFECTS
Haronga has a digestion regulatory effect through stimulation of the excretory function of the pancreas and gastric juice secretion. In animal experiments, it has demonstrated a choleretic, cholecystokinetic, and antihepatoxic effect. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 High levels of islet cell antibodies show that the body is destroying the islet cells in the pancreas.
Tests developed in the mid-1990s found that a combination of two newly recognized autoantibodies—GAD65 and IA-2—could also predict type 1 diabetes over time. However, researchers found that—as with prediagnostic lupus biomarkers—there were some patients who were positive for some of these biochemical markers but still did not develop type 1 diabetes. In 2005, Dr. |
| Over the next fifteen years, Faustman struggled, with a dedicated crew of eleven PhDs, to identify the exact group of pathological T cells that were misbehaving in type 1 diabetes and destroying islet cells in the pancreas. These errant T cells, she found, produced completely different proteins within their cells than did normal cells. In fact, these rogue T cells ought not to have been circulating in the body in the first place.
Normally, our bone marrow and thymus produce millions of T cells, which are the foot soldiers that work diligently to serve the immune system. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Effect of licorice extract (FmlOO) on release of secretin and exocrine pancreatic secretion in humans. Pancreas; l(6):483-7. 1986.
Suzuki H, Ohta Y, Takino T, Fujisawa K, Hirayama C, Effect of glycyrrhizin on biochemical test in patients with chronic hepatitis. Double blind trial. In: Asian Med J 26:423-438. 1983.
Takahashi K & Kitao M. Effect of TJ-68 (Shakuyaku-Kanzo-To) on polycystic ovarian disease. Int J Fertii; 39(2):69-76. 1994.
Takeuchi T, Nishii O, Okamura T et al. Effect of paeoniflorin, glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetic acid on ovarian androgen production. . |
| The herb's potent effects on the inflammatory cascade are described, and reference made to Ginseng's long, traditional use in countering cancers of the stomach, liver, pharynx, color, and pancreas (Hofseth, 2007).
The main active component in Ginseng consists of the ginsenosides, a diverse group of steroidal saponins. There are 25 ginsenosides that have been separated and detected based on the sugar unit sequences and aglycone moieties (Attele, 1999; Fuzzati, 1999; Wang, 1999). |
Bill Sardi
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| Medical Pregl 57: 65-68, 2004]
¦ Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland report that tuberculosis of the pancreas and pancreatic lymph nodes is an extremely
¦ rare disorder that has been reported with increased frequency in the past several years. [Journal Gastrointestinal Surgery 9: 254-62, 2005]
¦ Researchers in France report that the diagnosis of tuberculoma is difficult because of its tumor-like aspects. A man with a suspected brain tumor was found to have a tubercular malignancy. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Cohort and case-control studies indicate Green Tea exerts anticancer properties on cancers of the gastrointestinal tract, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, colon, lung, and estrogen-related cancers, including most breast cancers. Mouthwashes made with Green Tea have been shown to decrease dental plaque formation and inhibit the growth of caries-producing bacteria (Yamamoto et al, 1997). Green Tea displays thermogenic and fat-oxidizing properties and may thus be a useful adjunct in the treatment of obesity. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Saccharine Disease
Overloading with sugar throws an extra burden on the pancreas to release enough insulin to deal with the amount absorbed, which is stressful to the pancreas. There is a direct association between the annual consumption of all the sugars and the incidence of diabetes mellitus. T.L. Cleave, in his book The Saccharine Disease, pointed this out some time ago. Dr Cleave formulated the 20 -year rule: It takes about 20 years after any group of people go onto the high-sugar diet before its health effects begin to show up in population statistics. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| JAMBOL SEED
Unproven Uses: Jambola seed is used for diabetes and in combination preparations for atonic and spastic constipation, diseases of the pancreas, gastric and pancreatic complaints, and nervous disorders.
JAMBOLAN BARK
Approved by Commission E:
¦ Diarrhea
¦ Inflammation of the mouth and pharynx
¦ Inflammation of the skin
Unproven Uses: Preparations are used internally for bronchitis, asthma, and dysentery, and externally for ulcers.
Indian Medicine: The drug is used for diabetes, leukorrhea, stomachache, fever, dysuria, and inflammation of the skin. |
| The types of cancer that Green Tea has been shown to prevent as demonstrated in well-controlled clinical studies include cancers of the pancreas, colon, small intestine, stomach, breast, and lung. Several in vitro studies have demonstrated a dose-dependent decreased proliferation and/or increased apoptosis in a variety of cancer cell lines (lung, epidermoid, keratinocyte, prostate, Ehrlich ascites, colon, stomach, oral, and breast). |
Shannon Brownlee
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 A thirty-seven-year-old man was admitted to Allegheny General Hospital, in Pittsburgh, with pancreatitis, an inflammation of his pancreas. Treatment seemed to be going well until four days into his hospital stay, when the staff discovered that an intravenous line delivering fluids and medicine into his groin was infected. The man developed a massive, systemic infection that couldn't be stopped, even with intravenous antibiotics. Abscesses in his abdomen required repeated surgeries to drain the infection. The man finally went home, after eighty-seven days in the hospital. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| It stimulates the excretory function of the pancreas and gastric juice secretion. It is a cholagogue and a cholecystokinetic. It also has an antihepatoxic effect. A protective effect for the liver was observed in animal experiments. An antimicrobial effect has also been observed.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
¦ Dyspeptic complaints
¦ Liver and gallbladder complaints
¦ Loss of appetite
Haronga is also used for mild exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. |
| In folk medicine, the leaves are used internally for respiratory disorders, liver, gallbladder or pancreas disorders, as a prophylaxis for agitation and to induce sleep. Externally, the leaves are used to heal wounds and as a poultice for malignant ulcers.
PETASITIDIS RHIZOMA
¦ Kidney and bladder stones
Petasitidis root is used as an adjunct in the treatment of acute spastic pain in the efferent urinary tract, particularly if stones are present. It is also used for respiratory disorders, particularly for coughs, whooping cough and bronchial asthma. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Saccharine Disease
Overloading with sugar throws an extra burden on the pancreas to release enough insulin to deal with the amount absorbed, which is stressful to the pancreas. There is a direct association between the annual consumption of all the sugars and the incidence of diabetes mellitus. T.L. Cleave, in his book The Saccharine Disease, pointed this out some time ago. Dr Cleave formulated the 20 -year rule: It takes about 20 years after any group of people go onto the high-sugar diet before its health effects begin to show up in population statistics. |
Andreas Moritz
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 To deal with the dangerously high concentration of protein in the blood, the pancreas secretes extra insulin, but in doing so, the insulin may further injure and weaken the blood vessel walls. The cells making up the capillary walls start to absorb some of the excessive protein, convert it into collagen fiber, and deposit it in the basal membranes. Although this has a much-needed thinning effect on the blood, it also reduces proper nutrient delivery to the cells. |
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