I’ve wanted to write this post for a while now and when I read the news about the TV chef and cookbook author Paula Deen today announcing that she has type 2 diabetes and became the spokesperson for Novo Nordisk, I said: enough is enough!
Apparently, Paula Deen has had diabetes for 3 years now, but she didn’t make it public until now. Considering that the recipes of her TV show are full of high fat and calorie foods, one might think, she should have said something before and maybe started reeducating her audience with better and healthier food choices, instead of continuing being part of the problem by encouraging people to cook such hyper-caloric meals.
As many doctors and scientists affirm, diet is one of the leading causes of diabetes (clic that link to know other 21 possible causes of diabetes), so being diabetic and keeping cooking that way on her TV show may have been a bit contradictory or unethical. The worst of all, as she said live on TV, is that she’s not going to change the way she cooks on her shows.
Her show and popularity would be a great opportunity for her to help many people make better food choices. However, she seems to ignore that possibility or maybe she has already been brainwashed by big pharmaceutical companies. By the way, as spokesperson of Novo Nordisk (a pharmaceutical company that makes a non-insulin injectable diabetes drug) she is getting paid probably millions to spread the word about this medication, so no wonder that her “sponsors” want to keep the diabetic-making machine at top speed.
Why is it that as soon as celebrities announce that they have diabetes they are already spokesperson for some pharmaceutical company? Of course, for those companies, having a popular person, respected and followed by millions, making propaganda for their products helps hiding the possible negative effects of those drugs and make them seem normal, useful, necessary and good. The return on investment of these companies is humongous, even after having paid millions to these celebrities!
What other cases of celebrities as spokesperson for pharmaceutical companies do we have? Well, an important recent one, especially for young people, is the popular music sensation Nick Jonas who teamed up with Bayer and now sells glucometers through a website (it’s not that I don’t find those glucometers useful, it’s the implications behind celebrities helping keep the number of diabetics around the world as high as it is).
Another case was the well-known actress Halle Berry, who after being in a coma for a week she was told that she had type 1 diabetes. Novo Nordisk convinced her as well to be spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company. Although this case is somehow different, since Halle took full action and was able to manage diabetes without insulin or other drugs by changing diet, doing exercise, yoga… After having announced her healing, the whole health community and media went on to say that she must have been missdiagnosed because type 1 diabetes was “incurable”. WTH?!
It’s amazing how doctors lack curiosity nowadays (and I can confirm this everytime I visit my doctor for my regular diabetic checks). Most of them studied medicine to be able to understand how the body works and to find cures for diseases and help as many people as possible. Then, some time after graduation most of them just sit there and prescribe drugs instead of being curious and trying to find what could be causing this or that symptom (they are forced in this direction by our health system that works the way it works) and why someone could be cured of diabetes and others don’t.
Back to my initial question:
why shouldn’t celebrities be spokesperson for pharmaceutical companies.
Let me explain this with a similar example:
Let’s assume pollution caused by car gases indirectly makes people very sick (lung cancer for instance). Since the whole auto industry is based on oil-driven cars, because that’s the standard and what big oil companies want us to buy, we hardly have any other option but buy and drive this kind of cars.
Some day a celebrity is diagnosed with lung cancer and a multinational oil company reaches that celebrity and pays him/her millions to be their spokesperson for their “environmental efforts” like cutting down the use of paper at headquarters and those kind of campaigns.
Since the automobile industry’s main goal is to sell as many conventional cars as they can there is only one way they can stop being part of the problem and start being part of the solution: to stop producing cars that use oil and start making cars run by renewable clean energies, for instance.
In this case, the celebrity would be “greening” that industry’s or company’s polluting actions by making people pay attention to something else.
For me, the case about diabetes, celebrities and pharmaceutical companies is more or less the same.
Since the main goal of those companies is to make as much money as possible by selling loads of drugs, lancets, needles, glucometers… they need a continuous and growing number of patients to sell those products to. There is IN NO WAY a pharmaceutical company (or profit-driven association or foundation) that can seriously and sincerely do efforts to stop or cure diabetes, be it type 1 or type 2. Period! It goes against the natural laws of economy.
According to a research report coducted recently by the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance from the over 330 diabetes type 1 human clinical trials that are underway right now, only 18% can be considered to aim for a cure to diabetes (according to the JDCA requirements).
That means, that the majority of the donations and foundations are funding research that is not even looking for a cure. Now, do you understand why big pharmaceutical companies “buy” those celebrities? So that money goes to the wrong foundations, researchers and purposes (and this applies to some of the main diabetes associations and foundations as well).
Why are those celebrities not becoming spokesperson for research laboratories that are actually getting close to find a cure (or already did it but lack the funds to take it forward) like Dr. Faustman’s project www.faustmanlab.org?
I’m fed up reading news about researchers that, during their clinical trials with humans, achieved a total cut-back of insulin for the majority of their patients for a period of 3 to 4 years, and then had to stop investigation due to the lack of funds.
And, as Sharon Ornsby, a member of the FBI financial crimes unit said, “pharmaceutical fraud is one of our top three threats” So, again, why shouldn’t any prominent person or celebrity promote and be spokesperson of pharmaceutical companies? For me is more than evident.
I think, if those celebrities funded and spread the word about research investigations addressing a cure for diabetes, we could find a cure for type 1 diabetes earlier than we think. For type 2 diabetes they could educate people about healthier food choices and encourage them to exercise regularly instead of encouraging them to take this or that drug.
As some personal development gurus say, we are only 5 people away from anyone in the world (through connections, family and friends). Could anyone please, reach out to those celebs and convince them that they could do much better and REALLY help the world?
Sigue leyendo Why shouldn’t celebrities be spokesperson for pharmaceutical companies?
It seems to me that most people are totally unaware of diabetes facts. It is shocking how many people actually suffer from diabetes in the world today. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing rapidly especially in developing countries like China and India. The WHO (World Health Organization) attributes this partly to increased obesity, changes in traditional eating habits and a more sedentary lifestyle (you can also read my post “The 21+1 Causes of Diabetes“). If diabetes statistics continue at their present levels of acceleration, the WHO predict diabetes will be the 7th leading cause of death in the entire world within 20 years.
Here are 9 diabetes facts you should keep in mind:
Diabetes Fact #1: In 2010, there were an estimated 346 Million people suffering from diabetes worldwide according to the WHO. Of these, 25.8 million live in the USA. The USA ranks number 3 in the world for countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes. There were over 2 million new cases of diabetes confirmed in the USA in 2010. Of these, nearly a quarter of a million were children and young people under the age of 20 years.
Diabetes Fact #2: Prevalence by type: There are two major types of diabetes.
- Insulin dependent or Type 1 diabetes is caused by insufficient amounts of insulin being produced. Officially, there is no preventative measure for Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes usually becomes evident in childhood or in young adulthood. It is the most severe type of diabetes.
- In the non-insulin dependant diabetes or Type 2 Diabetes, the body produces insulin, but uses it ineffectively. The non-insulin dependant group is by far the largest group. Approximately 90% of all diabetes sufferers are Type 2 diabetics. Type 2 diabetes occurred traditionally in older people, but the worrying fact now is that younger people and even children are suffering from Type 2 diabetes. The consens now is that Type 2 diabetes occurs predominantly in people with incorrect eating habits, obesity and those who lack exercise.
- A third type of Diabetes is the gestational diabetes. In these cases, blood sugar levels are raised during pregnancy. The blood sugar levels usually revert to normal after the baby is born. Gestational diabetes could be a precursor for developing Type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes Fact #3: There are many millions of diabetics who have never been diagnosed. In USA the figure is estimated at 7 million. In poorer countries, specially if they copy the more industrialized lifestyle, where there are often no facilities for diagnosis or treatment, the numbers could be much higher.
Diabetes Fact #4: Ethnicity does play a role in your chances of suffering from diabetes. In USA the Hispanic Puerto Rican group have the highest prevalence at 13.8% and the non-Hispanic white group the lowest at 7%.
Diabetes Fact #5: Diabetes has many health consequences, especially when blood sugar levels are not kept under control. Diabetic sufferers are very prone to develop the following illnesses if not controlled:
- Heart disease causes more than 50% of premature deaths in diabetic sufferers (WHO)
- High blood pressure is extremely common in overweight Type 2 diabetics.
- Dental and oral problems and fungal infections occur frequently.
- Raised blood sugar levels affect the eyes and might cause blindness.
- Goat and problems with kidney.
- …and the list can go on and on…
Diabetes Fact #6: Diabetes is the number one cause of kidney disease and kidney failure. Almost half of the cases of kidney failure are diabetics. Many of these can end up needing dialysis if sugar is not controlled. Life quality and span are adversely affected.
Diabetes Fact #7: Diabetes causes damage to the nervous system. More than half of all amputations are as a result of diabetes. More than half of all diabetic patients suffer from neuropathy in some form, usually in the limbs. Some of the common symptoms experienced are, pain, numbness, lack of strength or ‘pins and needles’.
Diabetes Fact #8: Treating and living with diabetes, is very costly, both to yourself in terms of lost work, medical expenses and much more, but also to the State in the form of health care and Disability Grants. People suffering from diabetes cost the Government more than twice as much as people without diabetes.
Diabetes Fact #9: Large numbers of diabetes sufferers and complications could have been prevented very simply by:
- maintaining a healthy body weight
- eating a healthy diet with fresh fruit and vegetables and avoiding highly refined, fatty, fried and processed foods, sodas…
- following a regular exercise program
- avoiding tobacco and high alcohol consumption
- early diagnosis (if you then do the things mentioned above)
I think it is good thing to be aware of diabetes facts. Although they can be depressing at first sight, they can also be the motivation to do something different to what we have always done in terms of health.
It is just as important to make up your mind you are not going to be part of these diabetes statistics while you are healthy. Prevention is far better (and cheaper) than cure.
Diabetes facts should act both as a warning and as a motivation for a healthier lifestyle.
Photo: IDF Diabetes Atlas
Hi there,
I just wanted to send a quick note to let you know that if you are interested in The 30 Day Diabetes Cure plan or want to know a little bit more about it, they have created 30 days of diabetes-healing giveaways (one for each day of November and each day of The 30 Day Diabetes Cure plan.)
You can sign-up here: http://30daydiabetescure.com
Once you sign-up (for free), each day of november you will receive sneak peeks into corresponding days of The 30 Day Diabetes Cure in your email, so you get an idea of the content of the book before buying it.
They also give away prizes each day, but that is not my point and should not be the reason why you sign up.
If you haven’t heard about this book yet, you can read my review of the 30 day diabetes cure plan.
Throughout the 13 years that I have lived with Type 1 Diabetes, I read a lot about the subject, visited different types of physicians, and tried different diets and alternative treatments.
My research and experience made it clear to me that there are many possible causes for diabetes and, therefore, there are many types of therapies or treatments for it.
I am providing a list of all possible causes (of either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes) that I’ve heard of or read about. Many of them will not be “officially” recognized as causes of diabetes, but if you know me you also know that “official” matters little to me! Since no one seems to know the exact causes, the list is more of a collection of hypotheses of possible causes.
Many doctors and websites say that the main cause of diabetes is the body’s inability to produce insulin or even insulin resistance. In my opinion, these are symptoms, not actual causes.
21 Possible Causes of Diabetes
1. Hereditary: this is one of the main hypotheses for causes of diabetes, which appears to have a consensus among allopathic doctors, naturalists, and scientists. In some countries diabetes may be more prevalent than in others, since several members of one family might have the disease.
The thing about having a hereditary disease is that you don’t know for sure if it will develop; it depends on other factors that trigger the gene that activates diabetes. There are cases of twins, one of them developed diabetes and the other did not. Therefore, if you have a family member who has or had diabetes, you should take care of proper nutrition, exercise, and avoiding stress (or developing good coping mechanisms!) to ensure the lowest chance of developing diabetes.
2. Lifestyle: this is another one of the most acknowledged causes of diabetes. This term refers to the type of life one leads. That is to say the food you eat (your diet), whether or not you exercise, if one has other habits that impact one’s health such as obesity, poor sleep, smoking, drinking alcohol and other habits.
While some say that the food itself (e.g., eating too many sweets) does not cause diabetes directly, they could cause it indirectly. By eating sweets or refined flours one is constantly bombarding one’s pancreas with simple sugars, which pass very quickly into the blood. As a result, the pancreas is constantly strained to keep glucose levels under control. In addition, too much glucose in the blood causes inflammation of internal tissues, which could contribute to causing diabetes or other associated diseases.
Obesity is also directly associated with diabetes. The epidemic levels of cases of diabetes in the world parallel to the increase of obese people. Indeed, it seems clear that today poor nutrition in industrialized societies, the lack of regular exercise, combined with high levels of stress in our daily lives, are causing 50% of humanity to be in worse health than they were 50 or even 100 years ago! Given all the scientific and educational advancements, statistics should be the other way around: people should be in better health.
3. Autoimmune processes: this is a cause mainly associated with Type 1 diabetes.
Insulin-producing cells in the pancreas of people with Type 1 diabetes are destroyed by cells that normally protect us from invading organisms. What triggers this is still not clear, but there is some evidence suggesting that a virus infection or cow’s milk can start the process of the body to attack its own cells.
There seems to be evidence that the pancreatic beta cells (responsible for the production of insulin) have significant inflammation, leading the immune system to create a type of antibody which is responsible for destroying these cells. Others say it’s some kind of virus that directly attacks the beta cells of the pancreas. Still others associate this process to emotional states, as an autoimmune disease is a metaphor for an “allergy to himself,” so continued long-term psychological or emotional issues could cause the problem of self-attack.
4. Environmental factors: in different countries there are different incidence rates of diabetes according to race, climate, diet, latitude, etc. Which makes one suspect that unidentified environmental factors act as predisposing to diabetes. (1)
5. Glucose intolerance: 1/4 of people with glucose intolerance developed diabetes. Some patients‘ intolerance actually experienced it to be reversed. Modifying your diet and adding exercise may slow -or even stop!- the process that leads to diabetes.
Glucose intolerance may last 7 to 10 years before the onset of Type 2 diabetes. The intolerance often goes undiagnosed, until it develops into full-blown diabetes.
6. Stress: there are scientific studies suggesting that depression, general emotional stress, and anxiety (along with sleep disturbances, anger/hostility) are associated with an increased risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.
Stress can cause diabetes because in that state the body produces the adrenaline and cortisol hormones, which result in increased blood sugar. Stress can also cause you to make wrong eating choices. Some scientists believe that stress is the cause of 95% of diseases.
7. Age: a clear fact is that diabetes, especially Type 2, is much more prevalent in adults from the age of forty. The older the age group, the higher the incidence of diabetes. A shocking 80% percent of diabetes cases occur after age 45! This could be because, as a person ages, they become less active and tend to gain weight, causing dysfunction of the pancreas.
8. Virus or illness: some research suggests that viral infections may trigger diabetes in genetically susceptible individuals.
Among the suspected viruses are enteric viruses that attack the intestinal tract. Coxsackie is an enteric virus of particular interest. Epidemics of the coxsackie virus (as well as mumps and congenital rubella) have been associated with the incidence of Type 1 diabetes.
In a scientific study, 73 pancreatic samples of young people who had died from diabetes were examined. The results found that 60% of the organs contained evidence of beta cell infections from entero viruses.
By contrast, researchers barely found any infected beta cells in tissue samples taken from 50 children without diabetes (2).
9. Vaccines: “Currently, vaccines are related to increased cases of allergy (rhinitis, conjunctivitis, asthma, …) and autoimmune diseases (diabetes mellitus or multiple sclerosis). This is because in the people receiving innoculations, the vaccines stimulate a reaction of the defense system (immune system), which then protects one from getting the diseases to which they were vaccinated. While vaccinations can cause allergic reactions and various types of diseases (such as autoimmune), the same alteration of the immune system, can instead cause the immune system to protect us against external aggressors such as bacteria and other kinds of germs. However, this change of the immune system can also result in attacks on our own body, either by producing an excessive response (allergy) or affecting specific organs (diabetes or multiple sclerosis).
It is assumed that vaccines could alter the functioning of the defense system, favoring the emergence of these diseases.”(3)
10. Accident or trauma: a chiropractor and an osteopath I visited a few years ago told me that my diabetes could have been caused by a car accident that I had a year before discovering my diabetes. This might come into play: the strong emotional stress of the moment, the emotional guilt later on, trauma, or blockage of any vertebrae in the backbone through which passes the energy/communication that connects with the pancreas.
11. Parasites in the pancreas: recently I found that research shows that many diabetics have a parasite known as Eurytrema (Eurytrema pancreaticum) or pancreatic fluke.
Through the repeated consumption of beef and derived products (especially when raw or semi raw), the pancreas is continually re-infected with the parasite. It has also been shown that the accumulation of wood alcohol (methanol) in the pancreas provides a good breeding ground for this parasite in the pancreas. Surprisingly, methanol is found in many popular foods, either through packaging or preparation, including water bottled in plastic, cans of soft drinks, artificial sweeteners and even baby formula. “By killing this parasite and removing wood alcohol from the diet, the need for insulin can be cut in half in three weeks (or sooner!).”(4)
12. Poor cellular communication: cellular communication is receiving a lot of attention from many scientific magazines in recent years. As I wrote in another article on glyconutrients and cellular communication, we can not be healthy without good cellular communication. Every cell in every body’s systems needs to constantly communicate to do its job. If this communication is broken or blocked in some way, there will be some organ or tissue that won’t get the necessary nutrients to function properly, and the cell won’t know what is missing or needed.
13. Lack of vitamin D: for years naturopaths have warned about the impact of Vitamin D deficiency. Finally, it seems that this issue is being taken more seriously. After observing more than 5,000 people over 5 years in an ongoing study conducted in Australia, researchers found that those with Vitamin D levels lower than the average, had a 57% higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes than those people with levels in the recommended range.
Previous studies have shown that Vitamin D may also help to keep blood sugar levels under control, helping Vitamin D release more insulin.
Vitamin D has also been associated with reduced risk of asthma, heart disease, and certain forms of cancers.
The main source of Vitamin D is the sun. That is to say that when we’re in the sun we get charged with this vitamin. It is estimated that in some societies, like the United States, 90% of the population is Vitamin D deficient. Some studies are relating this deficiency to the Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes epidemic.
Researchers from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported in May 2004 that Vitamin D improves insulin sensitivity up to 60%! (5)
14. Pregnancy: As with other types of diabetes, the causes of gestational diabetes are unkown. Gestational diabetes may be due to insulin resistance by cells in the body, which is of equal amounts in non-diabetic pregnant women as when they are not pregnant, but in diabetics is found to be three times higher than when not pregnant. The placenta is responsible for providing nutrients and water to the growing fetus, and produces several hormones to maintain pregnancy, which in turn can have a blocking effect or act against insulin (6).
15. Medications: Certain drugs or medications (such as steroids and Dilantin) can raise the blood sugar through a variety of mechanisms. Other medications (such as alloxan, streptozocin, and thiazide diuretics) are toxic to pancreatic beta cells and, thus, may cause diabetes. Clozapine (Clozaril), olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel) and ziprasidone (Geodon) are known to induce this lethal disease. (7).
16. Toxins: the results of a research study (“Toxins and Diabetes Mellitus: An Environmental Connection?”) suggests that two environmental toxins, arsenic and dioxin (dibenzo-p-dioxins), may have some association with increased risk of diabetes. It should be noted that the results only indicate a possible link between diabetes and environmental toxins (8).
It is also known that long-term exposure to pesticides may increase the risk of Type 1 diabetes, lupus, and other autoimmune diseases (9).
17. Alcohol: alcohol use disrupts the pancreas and can cause pancreatitis, diabetes, peritonitis, and so on.
18. Infant exposure to cow’s milk: the protein in cow’s milk directly harms the pancreas of some babies by causing a complicated autoimmune reaction where the baby’s own immune system attacks the pancreas. The result will almost always be Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Several clinical studies indicate that children with Type 1 diabetes drank cow’s milk at a younger age than other children without diabetes. (10)
19. Pancreatitis: “Pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas. It occurs when the enzymes that digest food are activated in the pancreas instead of the small intestine. Pancreatitis may be acute or chronic. Acute pancreatitis is very sudden and lasts for a few days while chronic pancreatitis occurs over many years. Chronic pancreatitis has multiple causes and painful symptoms.”(Wikipedia)
20. Hypothyroidism: Hypothyroidism is a condition that affects the thyroid gland. While this causes many complications in itself, hypothyroidism can lead to other health problems, one of them being diabetes. Hypothyroidism is a condition where the thyroid gland does not produce enough hormones to stimulate the metabolism, causing all the body systems to slow down.
When a disease such as hypothyroidism is involved, the pancreas decreases its ability to convert blood sugar into energy. This complication can lead to diabetes.
21. Polycystic ovary syndrome: Polycystic ovary syndrome is a disorder that affects up to 10% of women in the age of fertility.
Common symptoms include infertility, menstrual irregularities, obesity, excess facial and body hair. Up to 10% of women with POS develop Type 2 diabetes at 40 years and more than half of women with POS will develop both Type 2 diabetes or prediabetes at that age. (11)
22. Gluten intolerance (Celiac disease): between 5 and 10% of people with type 1 diabetes also have gluten intolerance, although many do not know. In fact gluten intolerance may be what is causing their diabetes, especially in young children and if you act fast and find to have celiac disease, go to a gluten-free diet as soon as possible. It could stop and even reverse the process of diabetes (or at least use less drugs, insulin …) Therefore, ask your doctor to take a test of gluten intolerance as soon as possible after having been diagnosed type 1 diabetes (it also works if a long time passed by, but the reversal of diabetes could be easier the sooner you know it and act on it), especially if there’s family history with diabetes or celiac disease.
As you can see, there are many possible causes of diabetes, some with more scientific rigor, others less, but even if there was only one person whose diabetes was caused by one of the hypotheses mentioned above, it is worth mentioning and studying. At the end of the day, not just large study groups have value; each of us is important and worth to consider the cause(s) or optional treatment(s) of the disease in each case.
Chances are that in most cases several factors combine to cause diabetes.
So, my questions to you are:
Did any of these causes speak directly to your gut?
What will you do with the information/statistics/data you just read?
Are you going to try to find the most likely cause of your diabetes?
Are you going to seek a remedy to that cause?
Please share your ideas below.
Sources:
(1)http://www.hormone.org/diabetes_symptoms.cfm
(2)http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/05/us-diabetes-viruses-idUSTRE5246GM20090305
(3)http://www.naturalnews.com/023902.html
(4)http://www.drclark.net/en/drclark_protocol/illnesses/diabetes.php
(5)http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/27/us-vitamind-diabetes-idUSTRE73Q6VH20110427
(6)http://www.babycenter.com/0_gestational-diabetes_2058.bc
(7)http://visionmissionfoundation.org/cause_of_diabetes.htm
(8)http://spectrum.diabetesjournals.org/content/15/2/109.full
(9)http://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/Blog/Flashpoints/diabetes_the_toxin_connection/
(10)http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajmg.10340/full
(11)http://www.health.com/health/condition-article/0,,20187970,00.html
This time I come with good news, especially for those with type 2 diabetes.
Two days ago newspapers and online news sites started publishing news referencing the discovery that British researchers have made in which diet can cure type 2 diabetes.
In my opinion, this shouldn’t really be news today, because there are several methods (in this blog you can read about some of them) who long claim that with proper diet and sport diabetes type 2 can be reversed. Anyway, all the hype that is being given to this news will be good too.
In a nutshell, they have discovered that taking a 600 calories diet for 2 months, type 2 diabetes disappears with the elimination of fat around the pancreas. This is also what they are doing in some hospitals to remove obesity (and diabetes) in obese people. Of course, such a treatment costs about $20,000. With the diet, however, the cost is reduced to almost zero.
They say they will have to continue doing experiments to see if the cure of diabetes is permanent or only temporary, and apply it to many more patients.
The question I bear in mind is if such a diet is only applicable to obese people or it may be used by non obese or thin individuals with type 2 diabetes. I would also like to know what kind of supplements have been used to energize the body, since I find 600 calories very little to the average person.
For a long time I’ve been an advocate of using a proper diet and sport (ie a change in lifestyle) to treat type 2 diabetes.
If you want to cure your type 2 diabetes but 600 calories seem too little for you, I recommend the book “The 30 Day Cure Diabetes” by Dr. Ripich, which reveals how to eliminate diabetes (especially type 2) in 30 days, step by step.
In this link I reviewed Dr. Ripich’s book and why I love it so much.
Here the news source.
Go find your way to cure your type 2 diabetes!
After some years of research, trying and writing about all possible treatments to cure diabetes, I recently stumbled upon a magnific source of information for all of us, searching hopelessly for guidance and/or a therapy to heal our diabetes, be it type 1 or type 2.
The book is called “The 30 day diabetes cure” (The drug-free solution to America’s #1 health crisis), by Dr. Stefan Ripich, ND, CNP.
In this post I’m going to review said book, explain what I like about it and what I don’t, and hope that this will help you decide whether you too want to give it a try or not.
First of all, I don’t know anything about you, but I do care a lot about my health and the potential consequences of my diabetes.
For many years (soon it will be 13 years since I was diagnosed with diabetes type 1) I’ve purposely tried to say to myself that I’m not going to suffer all those horrible complications associated with diabetes, and therefore didn’t want to read about the “dark-side” of diabetes.
I’ve tried to eat healthy with few carbohydrates and a minimum of sugars, exercise regularly and keep a possitive attitude.
Although that’s already more than what 90% of the people with diabetes do, after having read Dr. Ripich’s book I realized that this was not enough, at least in some aspects.
“The 30 Day Diabetes Cure” helped me accept that diabetes can be a terrible disease if not properly controlled, leading to a possible loss of mobility, eyesight, independence and 10-20 years of your life. And that’s one of the things I’m gratefull for, thanks to this book, I’m more motivated than ever to fight for my health and my life.
What I like most about the treatment to cure diabetes exposed in this book is that it’s a step by step guide, one day at a time, with great practical tips and written in a language that anyone can understand.
With this “diet” or “way of living” you don’t go from 0 to 100 overnight, but you are accompanied by professional medical guidance (allopathist, naturopath and nutrition specialist) step by step, gradually making the necessary changes in your life in order to control and reverse diabetes.
Although I’m aware that this treatment mainly addresses people with type 2 diabetes, I was encouraged by the testimonial of a type 1 diabetic who could reduce his insulin dose by 80% following the advice given in the book. Each chapter has a case study or testimonial showing the before-and-after numbers concerning A1C, weight, triglicerides, blood pressure and medicines taken and eliminated.
For people with type 2 diabetes, this sentence from the book speaks for itself: “I have never had a type 2 diabetes patient who hasn’t gotten completely off their medications and returned to a normal, healthy, drug-free life.”
Encouraging, isn’t it?
I really like the holistic approach, connecting the right food, exercise, emotions, natural vitamins, relaxation, sleep, elimination of toxins, avoidance of stress… That’s what most of the treatments lack, just considering one approach.
And, there are lots of scientific studies behind his approach mentioned in the book.
Now let’s turn to the two things I’m a bit skeptic about: on the back cover of the book it says “…It’s virtually a FREE solution…” Although lots of the things recommended are so cheap that you could consider it almost a free therapy, there are also some natural vitamins/suplements recommended, and we know that those aren’t cheap.
But I have to agree, that compared with the costs of drugs, medical insurance and hospital visits when diabetes complications arise, it really is a cheaper and safer option.
The second thing I don’t really agree with is the claim that “This is the best and only viable alternative you have to surrendering your life to diabetes.” My years of research on healing diabetes treatments made me clear that there are many approaches in different cultures and through different means to cure diabetes, some of them easier to follow than others and some very difficult to follow. But it’s true, that this the most comprehensive, hollistic, well-structured treatment that has come to my hands, and which is not as restrictive as other “diets”.
Since I’m really taken by The 30 Day Diabetes Cure, I wanted to finish this review with another aspect that I like about this book: it doesn’t make you believe this is a magic bullet, where you take a natural pill and your diabetes is reversed. On the contrary, Dr. Ripich is very open in this regard and states that it will take commitment, determination and persistence.
I highly recommend this book to any person suffering diabetes (specially if you have type 2 diabetes you’ll see faster positive results). Do yourself a favor and don’t wait too long for science to discover and market the next new transplant solution or drug for diabetes. You can do something for your health NOW.
And if you are backed up with a 100% positive results achieved by The 30 Day Diabetes Cure, you don’t have anything to loose, but a LOT to win: your life and health!
If you are more a visual person who prefers to see and listen to the doctor instead of reading what he has to say in a book, you can pay a little bit more and get access to “The 30 Day Diabetes Cure Video Coaching Program“, where Dr. Ripich guide you via video on every step of the process.
In future posts I’ll write about my experiences following this plan. Until then, you can take a look at Dr. Ripich’s site and consider buying the book for yourself or a loved one: www.30daydiabetescure.com
Update July 4, 2011: I just published a new post with a detailed overview of how “The 30 Day Diabetes Cure” plan works.
Please, don’t forget to comment here how you are doing following this book’s plan. We may all learn from you and get motivated.
In my nearly 13 years with type 1 diabetes I’ve tried many things, diets, therapies … without total success (which does not mean they couldn’t work for others.) I am convinced that each of us is different and what works for you may not work for another and vice versa.
But my recent researches are leading me toward something that seems to be common to all, as it is on the biological basis of our body as a human species.
I mean the glyconutrients.
Many scientists believe that research on glyconutrients is the greatest advance in health and nutrition.
Science, the world’s most popular magazine for researchers and scientists, dedicated one of his runs entirely on educating the medical and scientific community about Glyconutrients, Glycobiology and glycoscience (March 23, 2001 issue: Carbohydrates and Glycobiology)
It also demonstrates the importance of the fact that 4 out of the last 9 Nobel laureates in medicine have been associated with cell communication and its importance to our health. As we shall see, the main function of glyconutrients is enabling and improving cellular communication.
MIT Research Institute cited the 10 new technologies that will change the world, being the first in the list glyconutrients, that is, the study of sugars.
What are glyconutrients?
They are the most important discovery in the last 100 years for your immune system. Some scientists go even further by proclaiming that it is the most important discovery in the history of medicine: the secret to a long and healthy life.
The Glyconutrients are vegetal carbohydrates (monosaccharides). There are over 200 carbohydrates or sugars but only 8 are essential for the functioning of the body.
The main function of these special carbohydrates is not to be used by the body to generate energy (as is normal in carbohydrates), but for other uses way more specialized and important.
These 8 saccharides are: D-Glucose, D-galactose, D-Mannose, L-Fucose, N-acetylgalactosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylneuraminic acid and Xylose.
Scientists believe that the main role of glyconutrients in the human body is to create glycoproteins for cellular communication. Every cell in all body systems (immune system cells, cells of the digestive system, nervous system cells …) need to communicate constantly to do its job.
The problem is that without good cellular communication, we can’t be healthy. In other words, to be healthy, we need optimal cellular communication.
Worst of all, in my opinion, is that we can’t (or it is hard) get these 8 carbohydrates from food the way Nature (or God, as you wish to put it) put them at our disposal.
Scientists say that the typical modern diet is highly deficient in 6 of 8 saccharides that the body needs to create glycoproteins.
Fresh fruits and vegetables we buy today have few glyconutrients (or any nutritional value at all) because they are usually grown in nutrient-deficient soil, collected from the tree before natural ripening, are irrigated with pesticides, are stored for days, weeks or months, cooked, frozen, processed, pasteurized, genetically modified … Cooking and processing food eliminates further glyconutrients.
For example, tomato, after going through the whole process from planting to our table, has just 2.39% of their original nutrient content (here’s a little hint for us to start eating more ecological vegetables and fruits from our area).
Glyconutrients and Degenerative Diseases
While our food has been declining nutrients, a number of diseases such as autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic degenerative diseases have increased at an alarming rate even at young ages.
There is more and more evidence that these diseases are caused by a single deficiency in the diet: glyconutrients. Among the nutrients that are missing from our diet, are also antioxidants, which help control free radicals and support our body to deal with toxins.
The scientific evidence makes clear that if your body suffers from an autoimmune system disorder or a degenerative condition, can benefit greatly from the 8 essential glyconutrients. They help the body to exercise his incredible ability to heal, repair, regenerate, regulate and protect itself by giving the raw material is already preprogrammed for use.
Some scientific studies were carried out to test the effect of adding glyconutrients to the diet (with supplements), and tests showed significant improvements in health.
Role of Glyconutrients
Glyconutrients are not focused on a single body system or organ, but on improving the health of the entire body. Therefore, do not look at the glyconutrients as a cure or solution for a given health problem (that’s what drugs from the pharmacy do, if anything). They are rather the essential nutrient that the body needs for optimal general health.
No matter how good (or bad) allopathic medicine could be, it has no answer or solution to the alarming increase of autoimmune diseases, cancers and degenerative diseases in western societies. Time will tell whether glyconutrients will soon be part of standard medical care for these diseases or if the pharmaceutical industry is also going to want to delay as much as possible their use in health centers and hospitals. In any case, it would be a paradigm shift, as it would treat the root of the problems instead of symptoms, and unfortunately I do not see the medical community ready for this yet.
The responsibility for our health is only ours.
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I liked it so much that I registered as a distributor of the product, since I have the opportunity to help many people through this website.
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Although I try to focus my posts about my research and experiences concerning the cure of diabetes, and I never tried to explain what is diabetes, what types of diabetes are there, which are the symptoms of diabetes…(mainly because there are lots of other webs already explaining and defining that) I realized that some visitors of this blog could not know that yet and that it would be easier for them to find all that information in one place.
Well then, I start today with the topic: types of diabetes.
The four main types of diabetes are type 1, type 2, type 1.5 (LADA) and gestational diabetes.
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes was formerly known as “Juvenile Diabetes” due to its propensity to affect a person during their childhood up to their early adulthood. It is also known as “Insulin Dependent Diabetes” since the person with this type of diabetes is contingent upon insulin injections in order to stay alive. Type 1 Diabetes is the most serious and least common of all three diabetes.
The reason for Type 1 Diabetes is normally pancreatic malfunction due to an autoimmune break down. With Type 1 Diabetes, the pancreas is attacked until it is left permanently damaged and unable to produce insulin on its own. Since an individual with Type 1 Diabetes does not generate any insulin (or not enough), their intake of insulin is measured meticulously.
Risk to those who suffer with Type 1 Diabetes is a condition called hyperglycemia or high blood-sugar. Hyperglycemia is a surplus of blood sugar and symptoms include hunger, excessive thirst, tiredness, blurred vision, nausea, increased urination, yeast infections, genital inflammation, and perhaps vomiting. Another condition known as hypoglycemia is also a risk of Type 1 Diabetes. This is where there is a lack of blood sugar (maybe caused by an excess of insulin dosis). Symptoms include confusion, anxiety, lethargy, dizziness, and fever like symptoms.
Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes used to be called “Adult Onset Diabetes“, but not anymore. Today, children around the globe are developing Type 2 Diabetes every year. Fast food, lack of exercise, and childhood obesity can be the main culprits. The key cause for Type 2 Diabetes is not the breakdown of the pancreas, but because of unhealthy lifestyles. When an individual has persistently overloaded their body with sugar and refined flours and fats, this creates consistent blood sugar levels that the insulin and pancreas have to tussle with. The insulin leads the sugar into the muscles, however, the muscles cannot get rid of the glucose due to lack of exercise. The consequence is an accretion of blood sugar for extended amounts of time. This leads to “Insulin Resistance“, which is the chief cause of Type 2 Diabetes.
When an individual becomes insulin resistant, their muscles and other possible passages for the glucose, start to oppose entry of the insulin, so no glucose is delivered. Although the main treatment for this type of diabetes is metformin or other drugs, many doctors are saying now that Type 2 Diabetes requires no medication but more exercise and keep-up a healthy diet in order to manage their blood sugar levels (read “The 30 Day Diabetes Cure” for a reference).
Latent Autoinmune Diabetes of Adults (LADA)
This type of diabetes, also know as Type 1.5 diabetes, refers to a slow-onset Type 1 autoimmune diabetes in adults.
LADA is an hereditary autoimmune disorder that results in the body mistaking the pancreas as foreign and responding by attacking and destroying the insulin-producing beta islet cells of the pancreas: some kind of an “allergy to self.”
Adults with LADA are frequently initially misdiagnosed as having Type 2 diabetes, based on age, not etiology.
A way that doctors have to determine if a non-obese adult has LADA instead of Type 2 diabetes is by performing islet cell, insulin, and GAD antibodies testing.
Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes is a temporary type of diabetes that affects around 2-3% of pregnant women, and usually goes away after the pregnancy is over. This type of diabetes can be very complicated to diagnose because many symptoms are similar to those of a normal pregnancy. Symptoms like blurred vision, tiredness, increased appetite and urination, in addition to thirst, are all potential symptoms of a standard pregnancy.
However, Gestational Diabetes is a serious form of diabetes. If it is not diagnosed, Gestational Diabetes can have harsh injurious effects on the baby, which could lead to the baby being either stillborn, or possible death not long after birth. Gestational diabetes could also leave the child and mother with an increased risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes later on in their lives.
More about the possible causes of diabetes here.
It is November 14 again, known by many as World Diabetes Day. On this day, we try to join forces to inform the population about diabetes prevention and education.
On one hand, I feel strongly about prevention, that is, educating people (particularly at risk for diabetes, but also in general) and taking actions like those carried out today may help somehow.
On the other hand, what about the millions of people who already have diabetes? If you take a look at the statistics, it is entirely right to draw conclusions as: if medicine is supposed to advance (or so they say), then why are more people with diabetes? Perhaps medicine is moving in the wrong direction? Could it be that some companies/agencies are not interested in curing diabetes?
And why those studying and researching alternative treatments for diabetes that are getting positive results are not allowed more space and freedom?
Anyways, as you have seen in the title of this article, I only changed one word, one preposition, to the official name. But, wouldn’t it be nice to celebrate a day like this?: World Without Diabetes Day 2010.
This year I intend to try some treatments/foods that are supposed to greatly help to improve health by lowering the dose of insulin needed, helping my body to regenerate itself:
- PXP Forte
- Yacon
- Cayenne (chili compressed-natural cayenne)
- Alpiste (Canary grass or birdseed) (I hear some laughing because this superfood is known as parakeets food, but perhaps this seed grows in the wild with a label that says: “bird food”?. Perhaps we are deprived of one of the most powerful seeds on the planet just for that ridiculous assumption)
And what are you going to do this year to improve your diabetes or even eradicate it (remember, the reins of our lives are only in our hands)?
A new case of successful stem cell therapy to cure diabetes type 1 and type 2. This time in China, carried out with people, not animals. Are we closer to find a cure for everyone? What do we, patients with diabetes, relatives and friends worldwide must do to make pharmaceutical companies and governments to take our lives seriously and to let us heal?
Cellonis Diabetes Stem Cell Therapy: A Chance for Insulin Independence and the Reversal of Complications
The second link is a video of a doctor who worked many years for Eli Lilly & Co., one of the largest manufacturers of insulin and pills for people with diabetes, in which he speaks of how dirty and corrupt the health-system is, and how naive and gullible we are all to obey doctors/pharmacists without questioning.
Videos of Dr. John Virapen about corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, governments and doctors:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Here we are again, November 14th, World Diabetes Day.
Seems like yesterday when I wrote an article for this day last year. Another year has passed by and I don’t see any changes on the horizon for those who have diabetes. Instead of getting better every year, things are getting worse at times, with alarms of global epidemics of diabetes and obesity.
And I wonder, what is being done to improve the situation, not just “trying to control” it but to cure diabetes permanently? What is being done with the money devoted to research in this field?
With this background, I intend to write my “Letter to Santa Claus” on World Diabetes Day to ask for what I want. (After all, things shouldn’t be so difficult. Aren’t the government, ministries of health, health centers, doctors… supposed to work for us, for our well-being, for our health? Like a father does everything in his power for his son, so the son has all he needs to grow up healthy and happy.)
Well, if we put them in power, we should require them to do the things we need.
My personal letter, rather than asking for the obvious, that is, making all efforts to find a cure for diabetes, would focus more on asking for things like:
- Why did they change from animal insulin to human insulin in most cases without asking permission, and even worse, without explaining the pros and cons of both? Human insulin (which almost everyone is using), for example, can produce significant hypoglycemia without clear symptoms of hypoglycemia, so it can be dangerous. Why don’t they tell us about that?
- Why do we have to go every other week to the health center to get the items we need (needles, strips…)? We have lives to live and do not want to waste it on health centers.
- Why don’t we have a choice about the type of therapy that we want in our own cases of diabetes? Furthermore, the only treatment that we are given by the public health system is one that doesn’t contribute a bit to the healing process; rather our condition worsens with the recommended diet. Did not we pay our taxes? Aren’t there any other options for successful treatments in the improvement and cure diabetes? Yes, there are, yet they are so expensive that only a few can benefit from them.
- Why in health centers don’t our doctors give us information about foods and plants that help lower blood sugar levels naturally, and why, when they recommend something, is it always drugs?
- Why aren’t they spending more money on stem cell research that has been so successful (patients after self transplantation of adult stem cells could be up 3 to 4 years without insulin)? Why does a transplant of this kind cost around $15,000, not being covered by insurance, but the public health system spends more than that in keeping us sick?
- And something that I would ask to those who suffer from diabetes, how long will we let them do with us and our health as they like? When will we rise up together to demand what we deserve?
Anyways, I hope that prevention and education campaigns about diabetes that will start with the World Diabetes Day 2009 are successful in preventing more cases of diabetes.
Feel free to write in the comments section, how can we stop them playing with us and our health.
Update June 2011: my guess is that if more and more people follow the recommendations and easy steps from Dr. Ripich to cure diabetes in 30 days (especially diabetes type 2), many people could be really celebrating World Diabetes Day soon, from the “already cured” perspective.
Sigue leyendo World Diabetes Day 2009 with letter to Santa Claus
Stem cell transplant as a possible cure for type 1 diabetes has been under investigation for a few years. I try to follow the evolution of these treatments closely, and just today I read a story that made my day.
A study by scientists from the universities of Chicago and Brazil has shown that auto-transplant of stem cells freed 20 of the 23 patients enrolled in the study from having to inject insulin.
These scientists showed that stem cell transplants from the bone marrow of the patient (auto-transplant) can help to keep blood sugar levels controlled for years in people with type 1 diabetes without using insulin (according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association).
The study was carried out in Brazil from 2004 to 2008, involving 23 people with type 1 diabetes, aged between 13 and 31 years old. 20 participants are still without insulin or immunosuppressive treatments or any other type of medication.
The study consisted of extracting stem cells from the patient’s blood and then freezing them. Then the participants were medicated to decrease the incorrect responses of their immune systems (which attacks its own pancreatic cells). Later they were injected with stem cells. Best of all is that they were not embryonic stem cells, but adult stem cells from the patient themselves.
Although the study was small in size, the results are very encouraging for a possible scientific cure or for more effective treatments of people with type 1 diabetes.
The pros in my opinion were that this was achieved with adult stem cells from the patient, and the 87 percent resounding success rate of the study.
The con may be that slowing down or stopping the immunosuppressive activity leaves the body defenseless against other diseases. I don’t know how far they removed or just slowed down the immune activity, but in any case, great news for everyone.
Here a video about it:
Sigue leyendo New Developments in Stem Cell Self Transplant: Hope for people with Type 1 Diabetes
Hi, everyone. Due to other personal projects I have been neglecting this blog a little.
I will take today, World Health Day, to write a few lines.
Just today I read some news that comes in handy to reflect on the current status of the health care system.
The news can be summarized as follows:
“The costs of care for this disease (diabetes), should appropriate interventions not be established, could bankrupt the health system of the country in the next decade.”
The article refers to Mexico, but I think it is a situation that is affecting most countries and cities around the world, especially the “developed” world. It seems unbelievable, but the more money governments spend on treating some disease, the more cases of the disease (like diabetes) appear. According to the news I read, “In the last three years about 17 billion pesos have been invested in the construction and equipping of 800 medical units of different sizes.”
The relationship should be inverted, don’t you think? The more you spend on treating disease, the fewer cases of the disease. But not so.
In my humble opinion, the problem is that they are spending all that money just to “treat” diseases, not to prevent them or cure them. Treating a disease means that you develop a system to keep the disease at the same point, i.e. neither improving or worsening. And this is how the pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars, Euros or whatever currency you choose: by maintaining the disease.
Things would be different if the patients themselves were the people who decide where to spend public money (the money we are all paying).
But hey, they say there’s an ill wind that blows no good, so probably we “need” a total breakdown of the healthcare system in order to get a change in the way we treat our citizens’ illnesses.
I leave you with what UNICEF says about this topic:
“Health is a state of complete physical and mental well being. Health is not only absence of disease, but an appropriate balance between the physical, mental, cultural and social conditions of humans. This means that sometimes, good health is beyond what medicine can achieve. The World Health Day was created to raise awareness of health issues and generate action to encourage greater and better access to healthcare worldwide. “
A few weeks ago I read an interesting story that was again hopeful for many diabetics who are waiting for a scientific cure for type 1 diabetes.
The journal Cell published a new Canadian study with animals, where mice were injected with capsaicin, the substance that makes chili peppers spicy, and they were quickly cured of type 1 diabetes.
Researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto believe that Type 1 diabetes — the most serious form of the disease that usually appears in childhood — is caused by malfunctioning pain nerves that surround cells in the pancreas.
In patients suffering from Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas fails to produce sufficient levels of insulin, causing inflammation and death of insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas. Experts have long believed that the condition was caused by the body’s immune system turning against itself, but the Toronto researchers — immunologist Dr. Hans Michael Dosch and pain expert Dr. Michael Salter — theorized faulty pancreatic pain neurons could be to blame.
Dosch had observed in previous research that islet cells in diabetics were surrounded by an “enormous” number of pain nerves that signaled the brain that the pancreatic tissue was damaged.
To test their theory, Dosch and Salter injected capsaicin into mice that had Type 1 diabetes, to kill the animals’ pancreatic pain nerves. The researchers said they were stunned to discover that the injected mice’s islet cells began producing insulin normally almost immediately.
”I couldn’t believe it,” Salter said. “Mice with diabetes suddenly didn’t have diabetes anymore.”
Dosch and Salter discovered on further research that the pancreatic nerve cells were a vital part of the functioning of islet cells, by secreting neuropeptides that tell the islets to release insulin. The nerves weren’t secreting enough neuropeptides, causing a “vicious cycle” of stress on the islets.
The researchers then injected the neuropeptide — dubbed “substance P” — into the pancreases of the diabetic mice. The mice’s islet inflammation rapidly cleared up, and the animals’ diabetes disappeared. According to Dosch and Salter, some mice have remained “cured” for up to four months with a single injection.
The researchers also found that their capsaicin/”substance P” treatments helped curb the insulin resistance that causes Type 2 diabetes.
According to consumer health advocate Mike Adams, author of “How to Halt Diabetes in 25 Days,” Dosch and Salter’s study proves that Type 1 diabetes — like Type 2 diabetes — is “a disease of cellular miscommunication.
It also shows that diabetes can, indeed, be cured, and that’s a fact that the conventional medical community simply does not want to acknowledge, Adams said. Treating diabetes is far too lucrative. Embracing a cure would devastate the drug companies and health care businesses that depend on a diabetes epidemic.
Dosch and Salter expect to complete human trials of the treatment in the next year.
Original story
Interesting, don’t you think? Let’s see how far these investigations go and how many years do we have to wait until this reasearch is applied to humans.
Today I want to share with you some of the plants or foods that I have recently learned help improve the health of diabetics, or even help cure diabetes.
Yacon (Peruvian ground apple)
Yacon is a root vegetable grown in Peru that has some fabulous properties for diabetics.
Yacon root is the edible part of the tuber and is composed mostly of water and fructo-oligosaccharides (carbohydrates metabolized by the digestive system). That means it has a sweet taste but in doesn’t cause blood sugar to rise due to the type of carbohydrates it contains.
Its hypoglycemic action makes it an ideal food for diabetics.
In addition, fructo-oligosaccharides act as probiotics to improve gastrointestinal health, the immune system and to prevent the development of various diseases.
Thanks to the bifidobacteria stimulated by the consumption of yacon, fewer toxin are created and therefore there is a lower risk of colon cancer.
Yacon leaves also have medicinal properties, since taking an infusion or tea of yacon leaves stimulates the pancreas and lowers blood glucose levels.
It seems that the root of yacon is hard to find as such, but more and more health food stores and tea shops are offering teas or other products made from this root.
Silymarin
Silibinin, also known as silybin, is the major active constituent of silymarin, the mixture of flavonolignans extracted from milk thistle, one of the most powerful and protective substances known.
The most prominent effect of silymarin on the liver seems to be its ability to stimulate protein synthesis. This supports the liver’s ability to replace damaged cells with new ones. It is also interesting to know that silymarin does not have the same stimulating effect on malignant tissue.
This substance has a strong antioxidant effect.
Silymarin accelerates the recovery of liver inflammation caused by viruses, drugs and toxic substances. Its cellular regeneration action is so powerful that it has managed to heal livers of cirrhosis. It can prevent the formation of gallstones and lower cholesterol levels in bile.
“It can help people with type 2 diabetes to control their glucose levels and reduce the level of glycation. In a study related to diabetes it was found that after four months at a dose of 200 milligrams of silymarin three times a day, Type 2 diabetes patients achieved a considerable reduction in their levels of blood glucose. There were also significant reductions in other measures such as glycosylated hemoglobin, total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (the so-called ‘bad cholesterol’) and triglycerides.”
Dr. Claudia Angélica Soto Peredo found that SILYMARIN:
- Regenerates ß-cells, (beta), which produce insulin in the pancreas
- Restores the normal gradient of blood glucose, lowers blood sugar
- Makes cells permeable to insulin again
This implies that the silymarin can improve all types of diabetes.
This revolutionary discovery earned her the award Canifarma 2003.
Neem (Azadirachta indica)
Among the thousands of plants used in ayurvedic medicine, one in particular has aroused interest in studying its traditional uses, verify them and magnifying them. the plant is named Neem. Neem has now emerged as not only “The Village Pharmacy,” as the Indians call it, but also as a wonder plant for today and of the future.
Compounds found in the seeds, bark and leaves have been tested as being antiseptic, fever reducing, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and antifungal. The effectiveness of neem has been demonstrated many times.
One outcome of its application in diabetic patients was that oral doses of neem leaf extract reduced the insulin needs between 30 and 50% for patients with type I diabetes.
Based on the many existing studies of the effects of neem to reduce the need for insulin, the Indian government approved the sale of neem tablets for use by diabetics (some of these products are just crushed neem leaves).
I hope this information will be useful for someone. As always, if anyone has had any experience taking these substances, a comment would be appreciated so that others can benefit from your experience.
Sigue leyendo Yacon, Silymarin and Neem: allies against diabetes
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