5 Definitions and 8 Treatments

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5 Definitions and 8 Treatments

How many people do you know with some form of diabetes? Do you even know anyone unaware of what diabetes is?

With all the banter back and forth, it’s shocking how much misunderstanding there is about the actual root problem of diabetes!

Many people do not realize that some diabetes is not only preventable, but also reversible!!!

In this report, gain understanding in the following.

  • The terms used
  • Conventional Treatments and why they don’t work
  • The root cause of diabetes
  • Eight easy solutions to prevent and/or reverse diabetes.

Statistics Expose Skyrocketing Problem

According to the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC), Great Britain has seen a remarkably rapid rise in pre-diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes over the last decade. According to a recent report, more than one-third of British adults are now pre-diabetic.

In 2003, 11.6 percent of Britons had pre-diabetes. By 2011, that figure had tripled, reaching 35.3 percent! Researchers warn that this will lead to a massive avalanche of Type 2 Diabetics in upcoming years!

In the United States, nearly 80 million people. This is one-fourth of the USA population has some form of diabetes or pre-diabetes.

Among children and teens both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes has also skyrocketed. Between 2001 and 2009, incidence of Type 1 Diabetes among children under the age of 19 rose by 21%. Type 2 Diabetes among children 10-19 years old rose by 30% during those years.

Statistics like this highlight that conventional norms are not solving our problem! First, diabetes cannot be primarily caused by genetics, and secondly, consistently worldwide we are doing something wrong!

This storm of diabetes will have serious consequences for the entire health care industry and medical insurance, as well as life expectancy and therefore pensions, life insurance and social security!

Definitions of Terms

Before we get into the nitty-gritty of causes and treatments for diabetes, let’s clarify the terms.

  1. Pre-diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance

These terms are used to describe an earlier state of progressing insulin resistance. It is conventionally diagnosed by having a fasting blood sugar between 100 and 125 mg/dl.

Treatment: Pre-diabetes is very easy to turn around. Simply swapping processed foods for whole organic foods lower in sugar and sugar-forming carbohydrates. Combine this with a few minutes of daily exercise and we can begin reversing this condition.

  1. Metabolic Syndrome or Syndrome X

As our insulin resistance progresses, our liver makes too much sugar and fat. Our skeletal muscles are less able to burn that sugar and fat and thus make glycogen. Glycogen is how glucose is stored in our muscles and liver.

When this happens, there is an increase in sugar and fats in our bloodstream. This increase leads to high triglyceride levels and increased body fat, especially abdominal fat, and higher blood pressure.

Having three or more of the following symptoms caused by insulin and leptin resistance is referred to as Metabolic Syndrome. Previously this was referred to as Syndrome X.

1) High triglycerides

2) Low HDL

3) Higher blood glucose

4) Higher blood pressure

5) Increased belly fat

  1. Type 1: insulin-dependent diabetes

Traditionally, Type 1 Diabetes develops before the age of 20, however it is no longer uncommon for adults over 20 to be diagnosed with Type 1. Type 1 Diabetes incidence is rapidly rising.

Type 1 Diabetes is classically an autoimmune disease. With Type 1 Diabetes our immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells of our pancreas. When these cells are destroyed the result is an inability to produce any significant insulin.  If this lack of insulin production is left untreated, it will cause death in days to weeks from a hyperglycemic coma!

This deficiency of insulin is why Type 1 is called “insulin-dependent” Diabetes. There is currently no known way to completely reverse this.

However recent research suggests glimmers of hope. For example, Columbia University scientists claim that by turning off a particular gene, human gut cells can be converted into cells that produce insulin in response to dietary sugar.

  1. Type 2 Diabetes

A Type 2 Diabetic is non-insulin-dependent. The pancreas is producing some insulin, in fact usually too much insulin! However, the pancreas is unable to recognize the insulin and use it properly. This is an advanced stage of insulin resistance. This is typically caused by a diet that is too high in sugars and sugar-forming foods.

When we have inadequate insulin signaling, sugar cannot get into your cells and instead builds up in our blood. While anyone can get Type 2 Diabetes, we are typically considered at highest risk if we are overweight and/or sedentary. Often women who had gestational diabetes, have family members with Type 2 Diabetes, or have metabolic syndrome.

ALL of these really have the same underlying root of insulin and leptin resistance. Type 2 Diabetes represents the vast majority of all diabetics.

Contrary to conventional medical teaching and our media,  Type 2 Diabetes is 100% curable through lifestyle changes alone!

It is essential to institute lifestyle changes before conventional medical therapy and/or drugs kill pancreatic cells that produce insulin.

  1. Type 3 Diabetes or Brain Diabetes

Research studies have recently shown that our brain also produces insulin. Improper brain insulin is thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and reduced cognitive functioning.

Conventional Medicine Treats Symptoms…not Roots!

For the most part, we have a seriously flawed diet and lack physical activity. This however, is changing as more and more people are choosing nutrition over “fillers’, vegetables over carbohydrates and salads instead of fast food hamburgers.

Dr. Ron Rosedale wrote in 2005 from flawed prescriptions, doctors could actually exacerbate the problem. Treating the symptoms is very different than treating the root causes of a problem. All too often, our medical system focuses more on the symptoms than the roots!

Conventional medicine views Type 2 Diabetes as a problem with blood sugar. However, blood sugar is a symptom of a much deeper problem. The underlying problem is improper insulin and leptin signaling.

The reality is that diabetes is a disease rooted in insulin resistance and perhaps more importantly, a malfunction of leptin signaling. This is caused by chronically elevated insulin and leptin levels. Therefore, treating Type 2 Diabetes by adding more insulin is actually one of the worst things to do!

Recent research concludes that treating Type 2 Diabetes with insulin not only does not heal someone of diabetes but also can lead to the development of Type 1 Diabetes.

Doctors are experts in treating immediate symptoms, but they are not experts in nutrition and sometimes long-term treatments. Sometimes they give seriously flawed nutritional information as well, accelerates the disease.

Prevent and Treat Diabetes!

We can choose to not be a statistic! We can choose by our lifestyle to not be a part of the diabetes epidemic that is taking place today! We can choose lifestyle changes.

The following changes will prevent us from heading down the diabetes path, and/or help us to make a U-turn! These strategies are not expensive or overly time consuming, but they require a measure of commitment.

In summary, Type 2 Diabetes involves loss of insulin and leptin sensitivity. This is easily preventable and nearly 100% reversible without drugs.