I’m not a doctor, therefore I am NOT expected to know about treatments for diabetes. However, I have recently learned that administering insulin to the Type-II versions of this condition is the best way to worsen this condition. And this is not known by many doctors who persist with essentially killing their patients.
Diabetes is a really bad condition. It affects and effects many other conditions involving: kidneys, cancer, heart and vascular, skin, joints, neuropathies, vision, etc. It is the central theme to what is called metabolic syndrome.
As a consequence of metabolic syndrome, my wild-ass guess is that roughly 90% of all Western medical expenses can be linked to Type-II diabetes.
Type-I diabetics—for one reason or another—have no inherent insulin production. They require supplemental insulin. [I italicized supplemental as this word assumes that there is some insulin to begin with—which there is not.] Without supplemental insulin, Type-I diabetics, no matter how much food they ingest, cannot move the glucose from their blood into their cells. They literally starve from their insides. Insulin is absolutely indicated for Type-I.
But Type-IIs produce plenty of insulin. However, their cells have developed a resistance to the insulin due to a continuous over-ingestion of carbohydrates. Their cells have essentially closed and barred their doors to more glucose transport across their cell membranes via insulin. And pushing more insulin into these patients merely worsens the fundamental metabolic problem—insulin resistance. And insulin resistance is caused by the fundamental dietary problem—excessive carbohydrates.
Exercise—as I have defined it and promoted it for improving insulin sensitivity—is useful if increasing sensitivity is part of the cure. But increasing sensitivity is a distant second concern to removing the problem of the carbohydrate-caused insulin resistance.
A patient who is drowning in insulin is not helped by the addition of more insulin—at least from the perspective of insulin resistance.
During my 57 days in the hospital (nearly four years ago), my blood glucose was measured two hours after every meal. Then, depending on the glucose reading, I was given an appropriate number of units of insulin.
What the hell were these people doing to me? I now conclude that they were stupidly increasing my insulin resistance. But let’s also admit that excess blood sugar—beyond a threshold—can lead to diabetic coma—a truly dangerous situation. And let’s also admit that the answer to this in many cases is restricting carbohydrates from the diet—a practice that few patients will comply with and with the administration of some meds—steroids of note—might not work to suppress blood sugar.
Before you write in and answer this question, I strongly advise that you view YouTube presentations on this subject by Ken D Berry, Jason Fung, Robert Cywes, Dennis Pollock, and Sten Ekberg.
Note that the first inklings of diabetes is often picked up by elevated blood glucose readings and often confirmed with elevations of A1C readings. However, doctors rarely order a fasting insulin resistance test, which can show progressively increased insulin resistance a decade or more before the other harbingers.
And how do we find a doctor who understands this new thinking to the extent that this doctor can discard the old? I certainly don’t know how to sort this in my life.
Warning: If you are being medicated—including with insulin—for diabetes, you can’t just suddenly stop these meds. And you are probably trapped within this approach until you can find a suitable replacement for your ignorant doctor.
Type-II diabetes treatment is an additional issue that deserves to be among those in my lead article for this Substack (Doctors Don’t Know Shit from Shinola). My outrage about supplemental insulin administration for Type-II treatment might be unjust as supplemental insulin avoidance is a new paradigm. However, why has this epiphany just now emerged? Hasn’t there been time and experience enough for the omniscient medical community to realize their gargantuan error? [My GP father was making me read endocrinology textbooks on this subject in the 1970s wherein the traditional convention was strongly substantiated.]
[You might enjoy Steve Kirsch’s new article. Vaccines Are Causing Most Type-I Diabetes ]
And the standard treatment for myopia (nearsightedness) -- glasses with negative diopter lenses -- makes that condition worse. Similar dynamic. Similar inability for the perpetrators to reach the obvious conclusion.
See:
http://i-see.org/myopia_correction.html
Ken. Did you mean “units of insulin” at the end of this paragraph rather than units of glucose?
“During my 57 days in the hospital (nearly four years ago), my blood glucose was measured two hours after every meal. Then, depending on the glucose reading, I was given an appropriate number of units of glucose.”