Thank you for this informative article which is another warning about the excessive use of medications. Profit-based Medicine is dangerous to our health!!!
The real evil about these health issues is they are preventable. By an overwhelming margin, we can blame one source, and that is the food industry. But, our Congress is captured by the food industry, and we have little chance of seeing any change. The only way to overcome these diseases is through individual effort and a successful campaign to reach others on making good food choices.
I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes about 30 years ago. My doctor advised me to alter my diet and sent me to a nutritionist. I wasn’t satisfied after a few years and asked him to refer me to a specialist. Big Mistake! All the specialist kept doing was prescribing new and more expensive drugs with lots of side effects. The one that said it wasn’t a weight loss drug but you may lose weight made everything I ate and my cigars taste horrible, no wonder you might lose weight! I went back to my doctor who recommended old generic metformin with a small amount of basal insulin. Unfortunately, he also recommended triglyceride meds and statins because all the literature said that I needed them.
After several years, I dropped the triglyceride meds as I did my own research and a few years later dropped the statins as well. Most people, even diabetics, don’t meet the risk to benefit ratio for those meds, but they automatically prescribe them for diabetes.
I’m now on a modified KETO diet and have cut the metformin in half and dropped the insulin from 35 units to just 15 which I expect to drop soon to 0.
Two books I read recently, Rethinking Diabetes and Life Without Diabetes, opened my eyes to the insanity that has been going on with diabetes research and treatment. It’s almost all for the financial health of big pharma and only tangentially for the physical health of the patient!
Thanks for the opportunity to rant, I feel better now.
carnivore, low carb diet. jo grains. no sugar. no poisonous seed oils. type 2 diabetes cured. done. easy. eat meat. beef butter bacon and eggs. Dr Anthony Chaffee. Dr Ken Berry. Dr Eric Westman. Dr Sarah Halberg. Dr Jason Fung.
Helicobacter pylori, Hepatitis C virus, and Toxoplasma gondii are associated with diabetes. Conclusion: The present meta-analysis study indicates a remarkable prevalence of IPs in diabetic individuals; the association between IPs and diabetes was found to be significant, therefore, the prevalence of IPs in diabetics should not be neglected. It is suggested that future studies with larger sample sizes and more details and Homogeneity of case and control group be designed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841285/
I just finished "Rethinking Diabetes" by Gary Taubes. Taubes criticizes current diabetic treatments which focus only on controlling sugar by injecting insulin or taking medications that reduce blood glucose levels. Prior to 1920 when Frederick Banting purified insulin from the pancreas of dogs, not all diabetic patients died. Many survived by following a ketogenic diet. Insulin freed patients--especially children--to eat whatever they wished and rely on insulin to decrease the levels of sugar.
However, this approach hasn't avoided all the negative effects of the disease. First of all, the insulin is only applied twice daily. Normally our bodies are constantly releasing insulin. It is common for patients to take inadvertent overdoses of insulin and have to go to the hospital emergency room to cope with hypoglycemia. Secondly focusing only on sugar levels neglects the effect of diabetes on fat metabolism.
We need studies to compare the effects of low carb ketogenic diets vs. standard American diet. Just as pharmaceutical companies do not fund studies to compare effects of vaccine vs. no vaccine, these companies also refuse to fund studies to examine the role of ketogenic diets. It seems that once "the science" decides what is reasonable/believable it's almost impossible to change their mind.
I recall that Taubes stated that studies were performed to test whether high fiber diets decreased the effect of carbs on the sugar level. He states that these studies all showed no effect. Yet the medical professionals couldn't surrender their belief in the efficacy of higher fiber. This reminds me of the same way that numerous studies show that masking is ineffective in reducing incidence of Covid. It seems that studies can be dismissed if they don't prove what they are supposed to prove.
It seems that medicine and pharmaceutical companies are behaving in similar ways for treating diabetes and treating Covid by privileging drugs and vaccines. But there is hardly any controversy about the treatment of diabetes. We don't have insulin mandates. Maybe it's because diabetes is not regarded as a communicable infection.
Here is another cause: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9202701/
Thank you for this informative article which is another warning about the excessive use of medications. Profit-based Medicine is dangerous to our health!!!
it was originally called patent medicine, and people knew it was bad news. real medicine actually cures things, like scurvy and ricketts.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9303945/
The real evil about these health issues is they are preventable. By an overwhelming margin, we can blame one source, and that is the food industry. But, our Congress is captured by the food industry, and we have little chance of seeing any change. The only way to overcome these diseases is through individual effort and a successful campaign to reach others on making good food choices.
Yes, indeed!
Inflammation ….. our bodies hate it
I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes about 30 years ago. My doctor advised me to alter my diet and sent me to a nutritionist. I wasn’t satisfied after a few years and asked him to refer me to a specialist. Big Mistake! All the specialist kept doing was prescribing new and more expensive drugs with lots of side effects. The one that said it wasn’t a weight loss drug but you may lose weight made everything I ate and my cigars taste horrible, no wonder you might lose weight! I went back to my doctor who recommended old generic metformin with a small amount of basal insulin. Unfortunately, he also recommended triglyceride meds and statins because all the literature said that I needed them.
After several years, I dropped the triglyceride meds as I did my own research and a few years later dropped the statins as well. Most people, even diabetics, don’t meet the risk to benefit ratio for those meds, but they automatically prescribe them for diabetes.
I’m now on a modified KETO diet and have cut the metformin in half and dropped the insulin from 35 units to just 15 which I expect to drop soon to 0.
Two books I read recently, Rethinking Diabetes and Life Without Diabetes, opened my eyes to the insanity that has been going on with diabetes research and treatment. It’s almost all for the financial health of big pharma and only tangentially for the physical health of the patient!
Thanks for the opportunity to rant, I feel better now.
You are very informed, thank you for sharing!
You’re very welcome, James!
Loved your rant. So informative. Thank you.
You’re very welcome, Lyn!
I enjoyed your rant and also felt better after I experienced it!
Happy to be of service, Diana, have a great day!
Well, diabetes and dying suddenly.....
carnivore, low carb diet. jo grains. no sugar. no poisonous seed oils. type 2 diabetes cured. done. easy. eat meat. beef butter bacon and eggs. Dr Anthony Chaffee. Dr Ken Berry. Dr Eric Westman. Dr Sarah Halberg. Dr Jason Fung.
some people think parasites in the pancreous play a role.
Helicobacter pylori, Hepatitis C virus, and Toxoplasma gondii are associated with diabetes. Conclusion: The present meta-analysis study indicates a remarkable prevalence of IPs in diabetic individuals; the association between IPs and diabetes was found to be significant, therefore, the prevalence of IPs in diabetics should not be neglected. It is suggested that future studies with larger sample sizes and more details and Homogeneity of case and control group be designed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841285/
I just finished "Rethinking Diabetes" by Gary Taubes. Taubes criticizes current diabetic treatments which focus only on controlling sugar by injecting insulin or taking medications that reduce blood glucose levels. Prior to 1920 when Frederick Banting purified insulin from the pancreas of dogs, not all diabetic patients died. Many survived by following a ketogenic diet. Insulin freed patients--especially children--to eat whatever they wished and rely on insulin to decrease the levels of sugar.
However, this approach hasn't avoided all the negative effects of the disease. First of all, the insulin is only applied twice daily. Normally our bodies are constantly releasing insulin. It is common for patients to take inadvertent overdoses of insulin and have to go to the hospital emergency room to cope with hypoglycemia. Secondly focusing only on sugar levels neglects the effect of diabetes on fat metabolism.
We need studies to compare the effects of low carb ketogenic diets vs. standard American diet. Just as pharmaceutical companies do not fund studies to compare effects of vaccine vs. no vaccine, these companies also refuse to fund studies to examine the role of ketogenic diets. It seems that once "the science" decides what is reasonable/believable it's almost impossible to change their mind.
I recall that Taubes stated that studies were performed to test whether high fiber diets decreased the effect of carbs on the sugar level. He states that these studies all showed no effect. Yet the medical professionals couldn't surrender their belief in the efficacy of higher fiber. This reminds me of the same way that numerous studies show that masking is ineffective in reducing incidence of Covid. It seems that studies can be dismissed if they don't prove what they are supposed to prove.
It seems that medicine and pharmaceutical companies are behaving in similar ways for treating diabetes and treating Covid by privileging drugs and vaccines. But there is hardly any controversy about the treatment of diabetes. We don't have insulin mandates. Maybe it's because diabetes is not regarded as a communicable infection.