What do you do with diabetes?

Live it up and hope for the best?

We assume you just found out you have diabetes and you are at a loss to figure out:

• What it is?
• How you got it?
• What likely happens to you now?
• What you should and can do about it?
• What happens if I ignore it?
• Any chance it will go away?
• I feel okay right now, what is the big deal?
• Can I get control of this disease?
• Did I inherit this? My relatives have it, Any chance I can cure it and get back to normal?

You may have no outward symptoms whatsoever and it was discovered accidentally, you are lucky. We cannot emphasize the importance of stopping the progression immediately, even if no symptoms outward. It is a progressive ailment that damage accumulates and is almost impossible to reverse; it took a lot of reading and research before I realized this.

Even if you do everything, my research indicates it still progresses (no one tells you that) and you will eventually develop complications. Complications means effects that do apparent damage you are aware of. Examples are kidney damage and/or kidney failure (far more common than most realized), blindness, neuropathy, damage to feet and legs that often wind up with amputation, sores that will not heal, etc.

So taking every action you can to control blood sugar levels, triglycerides, etc., immediately holds off (delays) the advent of these and other unlisted “complications.” Prompt action is crucial. Medication has an immediate effect (such as metformin), but has side affects. The things you do yourself to bring your diabetes under control takes weeks or even months to take full affect. You may want to go on medication and work getting off that gradually as you learn to and get control with diet, exercise, supplements, etc.

You need to understand how you got it and that you need to immediately stop all of this that caused your body to “accumulate” defensive damage over many years. (This includes loss of muscle mass and exercising now to regain its ability to absorb sugar.)

This all happened because you have a body and survival system designed for another time. As civilization has progressed, we have refined and concentrated food that our body (we call it "caveman" model) was never designed to handle.

In the case of diabetes and other degenerative disease (where your body defense system inadvertently kills you - do it to yourself) like cardiovascular events, heart attacks, cancer, etc., your body tries to defend itself from this “wrong” input and continued high insulin levels to compensate for high sugar (and flour) inputs.

Cells develop over 40 to 60 years a resistance to this damaging high insulin levels from high blood sugar and when there is buildup of resistance and there is no longer a place or way to handle all this sugar, you have diabetes.

Your body can no longer compensate for high sugar. It goes overboard and causes all sorts of damage that cannot be reversed and you are blind for life. For example, it is imperative that you get your blood sugar under control.

One of the ways is to stop all fast release sugar and starch input. We suggest a complete diet change; other suggests you keep doing what you have been doing only to “control it.” Keep close tabs, adding, subtracting, substituting, taking medications to allow you to continue at least some of your old ways.

My research is that this is a tedious night mare, is impractical in practice, rarely works, and it accumulates further problems that are progressive leading to an early grave statistically.

You accumulated this body resistance since you were a child. You and your siblings were on the same diet for your first 18 years and what damage “accumulated during that time” means it all continued on that same diet over their lifetime (likely) and will arrive at diabetes stage at about the same age of accumulation.

We have uncovered startling statistics that you will likely not die of diabetes (only 14%). 86% of diabetics will die of degenerative diseases (self-destruct illness including diabetes), which it appears diabetes is just the tip of the accumulated iceberg.

You have a survival system that has worked for your ancestors (leading down to you) for 100,000 years. It works very well with everything except civilization. It has no defense for what civilization has caused you to expose your body to. It tries to defend with its “known” systems and after 40-60 years usually has built up resistance and it resorts to a more “severe” defense that advances and winds up damaging DNA or killing your own cells inadvertently.

Thus, your big project, when you are over 60 is getting your body resistance immune systems pacified, that all is well, stop trying to “save you,” halt the progressive defense system turned on by “civilized” modern man inputs.

What this newspaper has become is not just a halt to the progression of diabetic complications, but how to halt the simultaneous progression of degenerative disease, which is what most likely to kill you prematurely. The name of the game is to keep you and me alive and active for quite a while yet.

That is why we are now researching and reporting on “what works to accomplish that” as we uncover it and learn to understand it, clarified more and more in each issue. Maybe you should subscribe and “catch up” with back issues.

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