Sorry, it’s been a while, I’m trying to find a better blog program that actually has instructions, not just FAQs.
OK, so now we have the basic principles of avoiding diabetic complications, by 1) Getting to normal everyday, by whatever means necessary, to avoid acidosis, and 2) not eating when your sugar is high, at least not anything with readily absorbable calories. On top of that, there are the general health principles, especially important for anyone with a compromised system, which are; 1) Eat less, about 1/2 – 2/3 of what most people normally eat, to minimize free radical damage. As Arnold Schwarzenegger said, ’stay hungry!’ 2) Breath properly, that is abdominally, to get as much oxygen into the blood as possible. 3) dilate the blood vessels by any or all the means described above; heat, exercise, cannabis, to get as much blood to the tissues as possible.
One extra factor I’d like to mention is Tea.
Tea, whether black or green, is loaded with free-radical-fighting antioxidants, as well as having been shown to prevent cancer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1916798.stm
Having been born in England, I’ve been drinking tea all my life, and strongly feel it contributes to my health. Drink Tea!
Osteoporosis:
After I had been on Humulin(TM) less than 3 years, I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. This was odd, since only 6 years earlier, my calcium levels had been high normal. In that time, I changed my diet, after I started on Humulin, from frozen and prepared meals to cooking with fresh foods as much as possible, and increased the number of times I ate vegetables from monthly to daily, particularly broccoli and celery, so if anything my calcium levels should have risen not fallen. I knew the only medical change that had taken place was switching from animal insulin to biosynthetic Humulin(TM), so it didn’t take long to suspect a link. At that time I began searching online for any study taking note of a rise in osteoporosis among diabetics. After 3 years I found one. In February 2004, an study appeared in the Journal of Pediatrics titled ‘Type 1 Diabetes and Osteoporosis (Type 1 diabetes and osteoporosis
Stephen R. Daniels MD, PhD , The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 144, Issue 1 , January 2004, Page A3 ) in which a previously unseen relationship was noted between osteoporosis cases and type 1 (ONLY) diabetes. The mechanism of the relationship, that is, an understanding of what actually was going on, what steps occurred, what was causing the relationship was unidentified, that is to say, not yet known.
The observation that the link was only between type 1s, not type 2s is significant. What is the difference between them? Obviously, the majority of type 2s do not take Humulin(TM), whereas all type 1s do.
When I was diagnosed with osteoporosis, my spine had begun to collapse. An MRI confirmed two vertebrae were crushed to one third their original thickness, and I was referred to a specialist, who told me I would have a hump and there was no way around it. I learned quickly, that was only the start, that I could expect my spine to continue collapsing until it was stopped only by my ribs running into my hips.
There is one main drug used to counter osteoporosis and its incipient version, osteopenia, and that is Fosamax(TM) which is the brand name for the chemical alendronate, one of a class of compounds called biophosphonates. Alendronate costs around $90/ month but only works for about half the people taking it, and it takes months to years to make that determination. The specialist I saw told me he would prescribe it to me if i wished, but that he was tired of telling people who couldn’t afford it to take it, only to tell them a year later that he was sorry they had spent all that money, but the drug hadn’t done them any good.
I was familiar with chelation, mostly as a means of ridding the body of heavy metals, and knew that minerals could be chelated. I looked it up and found that chelated clacuium had absorption rates roughly equivalent to alendronate, and worked for anyone who took it. It was also a fraction of the cost. Currently I buy it from CVS at less than $10 for a bottle of 250 caplets, of which I take 6 a day, that is a gram and a half of chelated calcium. It’s important not to get slack and stop taking it, I have broken bones since the diagnosis, but only when I had been out of chelated calcium for at least 6 weeks. After the first few times, I made sure I refreshed my supply regularly, and since then have not broken a single bone, compared to 10 breaks in the 4 years preceding.
The effectiveness of the calcium replacement can be remarkable. The last bone I broke was the lateral condyle of the right femur. This is the horseshoe end that wraps around the kneecap. I fell off my bike (it was more complicated but I won’t go into that here), landed on my knee and completely broke off the extension at the end of the largest bone in the human body. The break was quite clear on the x-ray. I told my doctor I would be taking chelated calcium and he expressed interest in whether it would speed healing.
Four weeks later I was already walking again, and drove back in for another x-ray. When he saw it he whistled and called for a few other doctors in the area to come and look at it. He turned to me and said ‘this is quite astonishing.’ He pointed out that the area between the separated portion of bone was already filled in quite substantially with a whitish mass which was clearly bone regrowth. He told me ‘whatever you’re doing, keep doing it.’
Everybody suffering from or in danger of calcium loss needs to be taking chelated calcium. It is usually sold as calcium citrate or calcium tartrate, depending on which amino acids are used. Either is fine. The calcium is bound to amino acids that the cell seeks, and in drawing in the acids, the calcium is also absorbed into the cell. There are many brands available. It’s not expensive. It works.
And BTW, 7 years later: No Hump!
Back soon.
P.S. If anyone’s reading this, please leave a comment. This is basically a trial run for the blog, so I can organize ideas and get used to posting regularly. I’m not expecting it to be read right now, except by a handful of friends, but if there’s anyone else out there, please let me know. Questions or critiques are always welcomed!
