Our Deadly Diabetes Deception
by Thomas Smith © 2004
Summary
If you are an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you that
most cases of diabetes are curable.
If you have diabetes and depend your medical doctor's orthodox treatment,
sooner or later your disease and symptoms will worsen. Type II diabetes
is curable.
Greed and dishonest science have promoted a lucrative worldwide epidemic
of diabetes that honesty and good science can quickly reverse by naturally
restoring the body's blood-sugar control mechanism
By the time you get to the end of this article, you are going to know
that. You're going to know why it isn't routinely being cured. And, you're
going to know how to cure it.
Introduction
If you are an American diabetic, your physician will never tell you
that most cases of diabetes are curable. In fact, if you even mention
the "cure" word around him, he will likely become upset and
irrational. His medical school training only allows him to respond to
the word "treatment". For him, the "cure" word does
not exist. Diabetes, in its modern epidemic form, is a curable disease
and has been for at least 40 years. In 2001, the most recent year for
which US figures are posted, 934,550 Americans died from out-of-control
symptoms of this disease.1
Your physician will also never tell you that, at one time, strokes,
both ischaemic and haemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well
as both ischaemic and haemorrhagic coronary events, obesity, atherosclerosis,
elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, elevated triglycerides,
impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver failure, polycystic ovary
syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic candida, impaired carbohydrate
metabolism, poor wound healing, impaired fat metabolism, peripheral neuropathy
as well as many more of today's disgraceful epidemic disorders were
once well understood often to be but symptoms of diabetes.
If you contract diabetes and depend upon orthodox medical treatment,
sooner or later you will experience one or more of its symptoms as the
disease rapidly worsens. It is now common practice to refer to these symptoms
as if they were separable, independent diseases with separate, unrelated
treatments provided by competing medical specialists.
It is true that many of these symptoms can and sometimes do result from
other causes; however, it is also true that this fact has been used to
disguise the causative role of diabetes and to justify expensive, ineffective
treatments for these symptoms.
Epidemic Type II diabetes is curable. By the time you get to the end
of this article, you are going to know that. You're going to know
why it isn't routinely being cured. And, you're going
to know how to cure it. You are also probably going to be angry
at what a handful of greedy people have surreptitiously done to the entire
orthodox medical community and to its trusting patients.
The Diabetes Industry
Today's diabetes industry is a massive community that has grown
step by step from its dubious origins in the early 20th century. In the
last 80 years it has become enormously successful at shutting out competitive
voices that attempt to point out the fraud involved in modern diabetes
treatment. It has matured into a religion. And, like all religions, it
depends heavily upon the faith of the believer. So successful has it become
that it verges on blasphemy to suggest that, in most cases, the kindly
high priest with the stethoscope draped prominently around his neck is
a charlatan and a fraud. In the large majority of cases, he has never
cured a single case of diabetes in his entire medical career.
The financial and political influence of this medical community has
almost totally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies.
They routinely approve death-dealing, ineffective drugs with insufficient
testing. Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Herbert Ley, in testimony
before a US Senate hearing, commented: "People think the FDA is protecting
them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's
doing are as different as night and day."2
The financial and political influence of this medical community dominates
our entire medical insurance industry. Although this is beginning to change,
in America it is still difficult to find employer group medical insurance
to cover effective alternative medical treatments. Orthodox coverage is
standard in all states. Alternative medicine is not. For example, there
are only 1,400 licensed Naturopaths in 11 states compared to over 3.4
million orthodox licensees in 50 states.3 Generally, only approved
treatments from licensed, credentialled practitioners are insurable. This,
in effect, neatly creates a special kind of money that can only be spent
within the orthodox medical and drug industry. No other industry in the
world has been able to manage the politics of convincing people to accept
so large a part of their pay in a form that often does not allow them
to spend it as they see fit.
The financial and political influence of this medical community completely
controls virtually every diabetes publication in the country. Many diabetes
publications are subsidized by ads for diabetes supplies. No diabetes
editor is going to allow the truth to be printed in his magazine. This
is why the diabetic only pays about one-quarter to one-third of the cost
of printing the magazine he depends upon for accurate information. The
rest is subsidized by diabetes manufacturers with a vested commercial
interest in preventing diabetics from curing their diabetes. When looking
for a magazine that tells the truth about diabetes, look first to see
if it is full of ads for diabetes supplies.
And then there are the various associations that solicit annual donations
to find a cure for their proprietary disease. Every year they promise
that a cure is just around the corner-just send more money! Some
of these very same associations have been clearly implicated in providing
advice that promotes the progress of diabetes in their trusting supporters.
For example, for years they heavily promoted exchange diets,4
which are in fact scientifically worthless-as anyone who has ever
tried to use them quickly finds out. They ridiculed the use of glycaemic
tables, which are actually very helpful to the diabetic. They promoted
the use of margarine as heart healthy, long after it was well understood
that margarine causes diabetes and promotes heart failure.5
If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been suppressed
for 40 years, these associations will soon be out of business. But until
then, they nonetheless continue to need our support.
For 40 years, medical research has consistently shown with increasing
clarity that diabetes is a degenerative disease directly caused by an
engineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health. Although
the diligent can readily glean this information from a wealth of medical
research literature, it is generally otherwise unavailable. Certainly
this information has been, and remains, largely unavailable in the medical
schools that train our retail doctors.
Prominent among the causative agents in our modern diabetes epidemic
are the engineered fats and oils that are sold in today's supermarkets.
The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the
disease is incurable.
Diabetes History
In 1922, three Canadian Nobel Prize winners, Banting, Best and Macleod,
were successful in saving the life of a fourteen-year-old diabetic girl
in Toronto General Hospital with injectable insulin.6 Eli Lilly
was licensed to manufacture this new wonder drug, and the medical community
basked in the glory of a job well done.
It wasn't until 1933 that rumors about a new rogue form of diabetes
surfaced. This was in a paper presented by Joslyn, Dublin and Marks and
printed in the American Journal of Medical Sciences. This paper,
"Studies on Diabetes Mellitus",7 discussed the emergence
of a major epidemic of a disease which looked very much like the diabetes
of the early 1920s, only it did not respond to the wonder drug, insulin.
Even worse, sometimes insulin treatment killed the patient.
This new disease became known as "insulin-resistant diabetes"
because it had the elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes but responded
poorly to insulin therapy. Many physicians had considerable success in
treating this disease through diet. A great deal was learned about the
relationship between diet and diabetes in the 1930s and 1940s.
Diabetes, which had a per-capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of
the century, had by 1933 zoomed 1,000% in the United States to become
a disease seen by many doctors.8 This disease, under a variety
of aliases, was destined to go on to wreck the health of over half the
American population and incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990s.9
In 1950, the medical community became able to perform serum insulin
assays. These assays quickly revealed that this new disease wasn't
classic diabetes; it was characterized by sufficient, often excessive,
blood insulin levels.
The problem was that the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce
blood sugar. But since the disease had been known as diabetes for almost
20 years, it was renamed Type II diabetes. This was to distinguish it
from the earlier Type I diabetes, caused by insufficient insulin production
by the pancreas.
Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the medical
scene from this point and into the late 1960s, diabetes would have become
widely recognized as curable instead of merely treatable. Instead, in
1950, a search was launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type
II diabetes problem.
Cure versus Treatment
This new, ideal, wonder drug would be effective, like insulin, in remitting
obvious adverse symptoms of the disease but not effective in curing
the underlying disease. Thus it would be needed continually for the
remaining life of the patient. It would have to be patentable; that is,
it could not be a natural medication because these are non-patentable.
Like insulin, it would have to be highly profitable to manufacture and
distribute. Mandatory government approvals would be required to stimulate
physicians to prescribe it as a prescription drug. Testing required for
these approvals would have to be enormously expensive to prevent other,
unapproved, medications from becoming competitive.
This is the origin of the classic medical protocol of "treating
the symptoms". By doing this, both the drug company and the doctor
could prosper in business, and the patient, while not being cured of his
disease, was sometimes temporarily relieved of some of his symptoms.
Additionally, natural medications that actually cured disease
would have to be suppressed. The more effective they were, the more they
would need to be suppressed and their proponents jailed as quacks. After
all, it wouldn't do to have some cheap, effective, natural medication
cure disease in a capital-intensive monopoly market specifically designed
to treat symptoms without curing disease.
Often the natural substance really did cure disease. This is why the
force of law has been and is being used to drive the natural, often superior,
medicines from the marketplace, to remove the "cure" word from
the medical vocabulary and to undermine totally the very concept of a
free marketplace in the medical business.
Now it is clear why the "cure" word is so vigorously suppressed
by law. The FDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that prohibit the
use of the "cure" word to describe any competing medicine or
natural substance. It is precisely because many natural substances do
actually both cure and prevent disease that this word has become so frightening
to the drug and orthodox medical community.
The Commercial Value of Symptoms
After the drug development policy was redesigned to focus on ameliorating
symptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent the
way drugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a major
epidemic of insulin-resistant diabetes.
So, in 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms of diabetes10
along with many other disease symptoms into diseases in their own right.
With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis, competing medical
specialty groups quickly seized upon related groups of symptoms as their
own proprietary symptoms set.
Thus the heart specialist, endocrinologist, allergist, kidney specialist
and many others started to treat the symptoms for which they felt responsible.
As the underlying cause of the disease was widely ignored, all focus on
actually curing anything was completely lost.
Heart failure, for example, which had previously been understood often
to be but a symptom of diabetes, now became a disease not directly connected
to diabetes. It became fashionable to think that diabetes "increased
cardiovascular risk". The causal role of a failed blood-sugar control
system in heart failure became obscured.
Consistent with the new medical paradigm, none of the treatments offered
by the heart specialist actually cures, or is even intended to cure, their
proprietary disease. For example, the three-year survival rate for bypass
surgery is almost exactly the same as if no surgery was undertaken.11
Today, over half of the people in America suffer from one or more symptoms
of this disease. In its beginnings, it became well known to physicians
as Type II diabetes, insulin-resistant diabetes, insulin resistance, adult-onset
diabetes or, more rarely, hyperinsulinaemia.
According to the American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans
suffer from one or more symptoms of this disease. One third of the US
population is morbidly obese; half of the population is overweight. Type
II diabetes, also called adult-onset diabetes, now appears routinely in
six-year-old children.
Many degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure of the
endocrine system. This was well known to the physicians of the 1930s as
insulin-resistant diabetes. This basic underlying disorder is known to
be a derangement of the blood-sugar control system by badly engineered
fats and oils. It is exacerbated and complicated by the widespread lack
of other essential nutrition that the body needs to cope with the metabolic
consequences of these poisons.
All fats and oils are not equal. Some are healthy and beneficial; many,
commonly available in the supermarket, are poisonous. The health distinction
is not between saturated and unsaturated, as the fats and oils industry
would have us believe. Many saturated oils and fats are highly beneficial;
many unsaturated oils are highly poisonous. The important health distinction
is between natural and engineered.
There exists great dishonesty in advertising in the fats and oils industry.
It is aimed at creating a market for cheap junk oils such as soy, cottonseed
and rapeseed oils. With an informed and aware public, these oils would
have no market at all, and the USA-indeed, the world-would
have far fewer cases of diabetes.
Epidemiological Lifestyle Link
As early as 1901, efforts had been made to manufacture and sell food
products by the use of automated factory machinery because of the immense
profits that were possible. Most of the early efforts failed because people
were inherently suspicious of food that wasn't farm fresh and because
the technology was poor. As long as people were prosperous, suspicious
food products made little headway. Crisco,12 the artificial
shortening, was once given away free in 21 - 2 lb cans in an unsuccessful
effort to influence American housewives to trust and buy the product in
preference to lard.
Margarine was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states
in the USA. With the advent of the Depression of the 1930s, margarine,
Crisco and a host of other refined and hydrogenated products began to
make significant penetration into the food markets of America. Support
for dairy opposition to margarine faded during World War II because there
wasn't enough butter for the needs of both the civilian population
and the military.13 At this point, the dairy industry, having
lost much support, simply accepted a diluted market share and concentrated
on supplying the military.
Flax oils and fish oils, which were common in the stores and considered
dietary staples before the American population became diseased, have disappeared
from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil to the major distribution
chains was Archer Daniels Midland, and it stopped producing and supplying
the product in 1950.
More recently, one of the most important of the remaining, genuinely
beneficial, fats was subjected to a massive media disinformation campaign
that portrayed it as a saturated fat that causes heart failure. As a result,
it has virtually disappeared from the supermarket shelves. Thus was coconut
oil removed from the food chain and replaced with soy oil, cottonseed
oil and rapeseed oil.14 Our parents and grandparents would
never have swapped a fine, healthy oil like coconut oil for these cheap,
junk oils. It was shortly after this successful media blitz that the US
populace lost its war on fat. For many years, coconut oil had been our
most effective dietary weight-control agent.
The history of the engineered adulteration of our once-clean food supply
exactly parallels the rise of the epidemic of diabetes and hyperinsulinaemia
now sweeping the United States as well as much of the rest of the world.
The second step to a cure for this disease epidemic is to stop believing
the lie that our food supply is safe and nutritious.
The Nature of the Disease
Diabetes is classically diagnosed as a failure of the body to metabolize
carbohydrates properly. Its defining symptom is a high blood-glucose level.
Type I diabetes results from insufficient insulin production by the pancreas.
Type II diabetes results from ineffective insulin. In both types, the
blood-glucose level remains elevated. Neither insufficient insulin nor
ineffective insulin can limit post-prandial (after-eating) blood sugar
to the normal range. In established cases of Type II diabetes, these elevated
blood sugar levels are often preceded and accompanied by chronically elevated
insulin levels and by serious distortions of other endocrine hormonal
markers.
The ineffective insulin is no different from effective insulin. Its
ineffectiveness lies in the failure of the cell population to respond
to it. It is not the result of any biochemical defect in the insulin itself.
Therefore, it is appropriate to note that this is a disease that affects
almost every cell in the 70 trillion or so cells of the body. All of these
cells are dependent upon the food that we eat for the raw materials they
need for self repair and maintenance.
The classification of diabetes as a failure to metabolize carbohydrates
is a traditional classification that originated in the early 19th century
when little was known about metabolic diseases or processes.15
Today, with our increased knowledge of these processes, it would appear
quite appropriate to define Type II diabetes more fundamentally as a failure
of the body to metabolize fats and oils properly. This failure results
in a loss of effectiveness of insulin and in the consequent failure to
metabolize carbohydrates. Unfortunately, much medical insight into this
matter, except at the research level, remains hampered by its 19th-century
legacy.
Thus Type II diabetes and its early hyperinsulinaemic symptoms are whole-body
symptoms of this basic cellular failure to metabolize glucose properly.
Each cell of the body, for reasons which are becoming clearer, finds itself
unable to transport glucose from the bloodstream to its interior. The
glucose then remains in the bloodstream, or is stored as body fat or as
glycogen, or is otherwise disposed of in urine.
It appears that when insulin binds to a cell membrane receptor, it initiates
a complex cascade of biochemical reactions inside the cell. This causes
a class of glucose transporters known as GLUT4 molecules to leave their
parking area inside the cell and travel to the inside surface of the plasma
cell membrane.
When in the membrane, they migrate to special areas of the membrane
called caveolae areas.16 There, by another series of biochemical
reactions, they identify and hook up with glucose molecules and transport
them into the interior of the cell by a process called endocytosis. Within
the cell's interior, this glucose is then burned as fuel by the mitochondria
to produce energy to power cellular activity. Thus these GLUT4 transporters
lower glucose in the bloodstream by transporting it out of the bloodstream
into all the cells of the body.
Many of the molecules involved in these glucose- and insulin-mediated
pathways are lipids; that is, they are fatty acids. A healthy plasma cell
membrane, now known to be an active player in the glucose scenario, contains
a complement of cis-type w=3 unsaturated fatty acids.17 This
makes the membrane relatively fluid and slippery. When these cis- fatty
acids are chronically unavailable because of our diet, trans- fatty acids
and short- and medium-chain saturated fatty acids are substituted in the
cell membrane. These substitutions make the cellular membrane stiffer
and more sticky, and inhibit the glucose transport mechanism.18
Thus, in the absence of sufficient cis omega 3 fatty acids in our diet,
these fatty acid substitutions take place, the mobility of the GLUT4 transporters
is diminished, the interior biochemistry of the cell is changed and glucose
remains elevated in the bloodstream.
Elsewhere in the body, the pancreas secretes excess insulin, the liver
manufactures fat from the excess sugar, the adipose cells store excess
fat, the body goes into a high urinary mode, insufficient cellular energy
is available for bodily activity and the entire endocrine system becomes
distorted. Eventually, pancreatic failure occurs, body weight plummets
and a diabetic crisis is precipitated.
Although there remains much work to be done to elucidate fully all of
the steps in all of these pathways, this clearly marks the beginning of
a biochemical explanation for the known epidemiological relationship between
cheap, engineered dietary fats and oils and the onset of Type II diabetes.
Orthodox Medical Treatment
After the diagnosis of diabetes, modern orthodox medical treatment consists
of either oral hypoglycaemic agents or insulin.
- Oral hypoglycaemic agents
In 1955, oral hypoglycaemic drugs were introduced. Currently available
oral hypoglycaemic agents fall into five classifications according to
their biophysical mode of action.19 These classes are: biguanides;
glucosidase inhibitors; meglitinides; sulphonylureas; and thiazolidinediones.
The biguanides lower blood sugar in three
ways. They inhibit the normal release by the liver of its glucose stores,
they interfere with intestinal absorption of glucose from ingested carbohydrates,
and they are said to increase peripheral uptake of glucose.
The glucosidase inhibitors are designed to
inhibit the amylase enzymes produced by the pancreas and which are essential
to the digestion of carbohydrates. The theory is that if the digestion
of carbohydrates is inhibited, the blood sugar level cannot be elevated.
The meglitinides are designed to stimulate
the pancreas to produce insulin in a patient that likely already has an
elevated level of insulin in their bloodstream. Only rarely does the doctor
even measure the insulin level. Indeed, these drugs are frequently prescribed
without any knowledge of the preexisting insulin level. The fact that
an elevated insulin level is almost as damaging as an elevated glucose
level is widely ignored.
The sulphonylureas are another pancreatic
stimulant class designed to stimulate the production of insulin. Serum
insulin determinations are rarely made by the doctor before he prescribes
these drugs. They are often prescribed for Type II diabetics, many of
whom already have elevated ineffective insulin. These drugs are notorious
for causing hypoglycemia as a side effect.
The thiazolidinediones are famous for causing
liver cancer. One of them, Rezulin, was approved in the USA through devious
political infighting, but failed to get approval in the UK because it
was known to cause liver cancer. The doctor who had responsibility to
approve it at the FDA refused to do so. It was only after he was replaced
by a more compliant official that Rezulin gained approval by the FDA.
It went on to kill well over 100 diabetes patients and cripple many others
before the fight to get it off the market was finally won. Rezulin was
designed to stimulate the uptake of glucose from the bloodstream by the
peripheral cells and to inhibit the normal secretion of glucose by the
liver. The politics of why this drug ever came onto market, and then remained
in the market for such an unexplainable length of time with regulatory
agency approval, is not clear.20 As of April 2000, lawsuits
commenced to clarify this situation.21
- Insulin
Today, insulin is prescribed for both the Type I and Type II diabetics.
Injectable insulin substitutes for the insulin that the body no longer
produces. Of course, this treatment, while necessary for preserving the
life of the Type I diabetic, is highly questionable when applied to the
Type II diabetic.
It is important to note that neither insulin nor any of these
oral hypoglycaemic agents exerts any curative action whatsoever on any
type of diabetes. None of these medical strategies is designed to normalize
the cellular uptake of glucose by the cells that need it to power their
activity.
The prognosis with this orthodox treatment is increasing disability
and early death from heart or kidney failure or the failure of some other
vital organ.
Alternative Medical Treatment
The third step to a cure for this disease is to become informed and
to apply an alternative methodology that is soundly based upon good science.
Effective alternative treatment that directly leads to a cure is available
today for some Type I and for many Type II diabetics. About 5% of the
diabetic population suffers from Type I diabetes; about 95% has Type II
diabetes.22 Gestational diabetes is simply ordinary diabetes
contracted by a woman who is pregnant.
For the Type I diabetic, an alternative methodology for the treatment
of Type I diabetes is now available. It was developed in modern hospitals
in Madras, India, and subjected to rigorous double-blind studies to prove
its efficacy.23 It operates to restore normal pancreatic beta
cell function so that the pancreas can again produce insulin as it should.
This approach apparently was capable of curing Type I diabetes in over
60% of the patients on whom it was tested. The major complication lies
in whether the antigens that originally led to the autoimmune destruction
of these beta cells have disappeared from or remain in the body. If they
remain, a cure is less likely; if they have disappeared, the cure is more
likely. For reasons already discussed, this methodology is not likely
to appear in the United States any time soon, and certainly not in the
American orthodox medical community.
The goal of any effective alternative program is to repair and restore
the body's own blood-sugar control mechanism. It is the malfunctioning
of this mechanism that, over time, directly causes all of the many debilitating
symptoms that make orthodox treatment so financially rewarding for the
diabetes industry. For Type II diabetes, the steps in the program are:24
- Repair the faulty blood sugar control system.
This is done simply by substituting clean, healthy, beneficial fats
and oils in the diet for the pristine-looking but toxic trans-isomer
mix found in attractive plastic containers on supermarket shelves. Consume
only flax oil, fish oil and occasionally cod liver oil until blood sugar
starts to stabilize. Then add back healthy oils such as butter, coconut
oil, olive oil and clean animal fat. Read labels; refuse to consume cheap
junk oils when they appear in processed food or on restaurant menus. Diabetics
are chronically short of minerals; they need to add a good-quality, broad-spectrum
mineral supplement to the diet.
- Control blood sugar manually during the recovery cycle.
Under medical supervision, gradually discontinue all oral hypoglycaemic
agents along with any additional drugs given to counteract their side
effects. Develop natural blood-sugar control by the use of glycaemic tables,
by consuming frequent small meals (including fibre-rich foods), by regular
post-prandial exercise, and by the complete avoidance of all sugars along
with the judicious use of only nontoxic sweeteners.25 Avoid
alcohol until blood sugar stabilizes in the normal range. Keep score by
using a pinprick-type glucose meter. Keep track of everything you do with
a medical diary.
- Restore a proper balance of healthy fats and oils when the blood
sugar controller again works.
Permanently remove from the diet all cheap, toxic, junk fats and oils
as well as the processed and restaurant foods that contain them. When
the blood sugar controller again starts to work correctly, gradually introduce
additional healthy foods to the diet. Test the effect of these added foods
by monitoring blood sugar levels with the pinprick-type blood sugar monitor.
Be sure to include the results of these tests in your diary also.
- Continue the program until normal insulin values are also restored
after blood sugar levels begin to stabilize. in the normal region. Once
blood sugar levels fall into the normal range, the pancreas will gradually
stop overproducing insulin. This process will typically take a little
longer and can be tested by having your physician send a sample of your
blood to a lab for a serum insulin determination. A good idea is to wait
a couple of months after blood sugar control is restored and then have
your physician check your insulin level. It's nice to have blood sugar
in the normal range; it's even nicer to have this accomplished without
excess insulin in the bloodstream.
- Separately repair the collateral damage done by the disease.
Vascular problems caused by a chronically elevated glucose level will
normally reverse themselves without conscious effort. The effects of retinopathy
and of peripheral neuropathy, for example, will usually self repair. However,
when the fine capillaries in the basement membranes of the kidneys begin
to leak due to chronic high blood glucose, the kidneys compensate by laying
down scar tissue to prevent the leakage. This scar tissue remains even
after the diabetes is cured, and is the reason why the kidney damage is
not believed to self repair.
A word of warning...
When retinopathy develops, there may be a temptation to have the damage
repaired by laser surgery. This laser technique stops the retinal bleeding
by creating scar tissue where the leaks have developed. This scar tissue
will prevent normal healing of the fine capillaries in the eye when the
diabetes is reversed. By reversing the diabetes instead of opting for
laser surgery, there is an excellent chance that the eye will heal completely.
However, if laser surgery is done, this healing will always be complicated
by the scar tissue left by the laser.
The arterial and vascular damage done by years of elevated sugar and
insulin and by the proliferation of systemic candida will slowly reverse
due to improved diet. However, it takes many years to clean out the arteries
by this form of oral chelation. Arterial damage can be reversed much more
quickly by using intravenous chelation therapy.26 What would
normally take many years through diet alone can often be done in six months
with intravenous therapy. This is reputed to be effective over 80% of
the time. For obvious reasons, don't expect your doctor to approve
of this, particularly if he's a heart specialist.
Recovery Time
The prognosis is usually swift recovery from the disease and restoration
of normal health and energy levels in a few months to a year or more.
The length of time that it takes to effect a cure depends upon how long
the disease was allowed to develop.
For those who work quickly to reverse the disease after early discovery,
the time is usually a few months or less. For those who have had the disease
for many years, this recovery time may lengthen to a year or more. Thus,
there is good reason to get busy reversing this disease as soon as it
becomes clearly identified.
By the time you get to this point in this article, and if we've
done a good job of explaining our diabetes epidemic, you should know what
causes it, what orthodox medical treatment is all about, and why diabetes
has become a national and international disgrace.
Of even greater importance, you have become acquainted with a self-help
program that has demonstrated great potential to actually cure this disease.
About the Author:
Thomas Smith is a reluctant medical investigator, having been forced
into curing his own diabetes because it was obvious that his doctor would
not or could not cure it. He has published the results of his successful
diabetes investigation in his self-help manual, Insulin: Our
Silent Killer, written for the layperson but also widely
valued by the medical practitioner. This manual details the steps required
to reverse Type II diabetes and references the work being done with Type
I diabetes. The book may be purchased from the author at PO Box 7685,
Loveland, Colorado 80537, USA (North American residents send US $25.00;
overseas residents should contact the author for payment and shipping
instructions).
Thomas Smith has also posted a great deal of useful information about
diabetes on his website,
http://www.healingmatters.com. He can be contacted by telephone at
+1 (970) 669 9176 and by email at
valley@healingmatters.com.
Endnotes:
- National Center for Health Statistics, "Fast Stats", Deaths/Mortality
Preliminary 2001 data
- Dr Herbert Ley, in response to a question from Senator Edward Long
about the FDA during US Senate hearings in 1965
- Eisenberg, David M., MD, "Credentialing complementary and alternative
medical providers", Annals of Internal Medicine 137(12):968
(December 17, 2002)
- American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association,
The Official Pocket Guide to Diabetic Exchanges, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Distributed Products, newly updated March 1, 1998
- American Heart Association, "How Do I Follow a Healthy Diet?",
American Heart Association National Center (7272 Greenville Avenue,
Dallas, Texas 75231-4596, USA),
http://www.americanheart.org
- Brown., J.A.C., Pears Medical Encyclopedia Illustrated, 1971,
p. 250
- Joslyn, E.P., Dublin, L.I., Marks, H.H., "Studies on Diabetes
Mellitus", American Journal of Medical Sciences 186:753-773
(1933)
- "Diabetes Mellitus", Encyclopedia Americana, Library
Edition, vol. 9, 1966, pp. 54-56
- American Heart Association, "Stroke (Brain Attack)", August
28, 1998,
http://www.amhrt.org/ScientificHStats98/05stroke.html; American
Heart Association, "Cardiovascular Disease Statistics", August
28, 1998,
http://www.amhrt.org/Heart_and_Stroke_A_Z_Guide/cvds.html; "Statistics
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