FAKE INSULIN (Diabetes Drugs)

October 27, 2006

FAKE INSULIN

The discovery of insulin was supposed to be the big savior. The 1923 Nobel Prize went to Sir Frederick Grant Banting and John Macleod for the discovery of insulin.

At first, insulin was difficult to make, and expensive. Only rich diabetics could afford to have glandular extracts from animals injected into their blood to compensate for their own spent pancreases.

But with the arrival of synthetic insulin, which a diabetic would have to inject daily for the rest of his life, all the alarms at the drug companies went clang.

Fake insulin could be patented, mass produced and sold from now till the end of time! This was a very big deal, especially with the unstoppable rise in white sugar consumption, which would insure an endless stream of new diabetics.

Dufty tells of a much more important discovery that occurred the year after insulin was discovered, which was kept quiet. In 1924 a top researcher named Dr. Seale Harris discovered the connection between too much insulin in the blood and hypoglycemia.

He found out the obvious: all that daily white sugar called up too much insulin.

Too much insulin in the blood got rid of too much glucose in the blood, making the patient weak and dizzy when the blood sugar got too low. But what sentenced Dr. Harris to the Hall of Obscurity for all time is that his solution was not some manmade pill that would make billions for the drug companies.

No, Harris's solution to hypoglycemia was obvious: stop overloading on white sugar, and thus "normalize" natural insulin production.

No Nobel Prize for Harris.

The medical approach is always the same: if an imbalance cannot be corrected by a new drug, any natural remedy, like sensible eating, is called "unscientific."

Do doctors want to screen people by repeated Glucose Tolerance tests, just to make sure they're really diabetics before they're sentenced to a life of fake insulin?

Are you kidding? Some people are put on insulin after a single lab test with a borderline high reading of blood glucose.

Or at least given the prescription for the two G drugs.

WHAt's WRONG WITH THESE DRUGS?

First off, fake insulin.

Synthetic insulins are of three main types:

- rapid acting - intermediate acting - long acting

Some fake insulin comes from yeast.

Scientist have found how to get a compound that is structurally identical to human insulin from baker's yeast. (Physicians Desk Reference, p 1917)

Or from E. coli bacteria (p. 1463)

Or from pigs: pork pancreas! (p 1477).

There can be many different combination prescriptions depending on the doctor's opinion (guess), mixing the three types of insulin at certain times during the day.

For each type - rapid, intermediate, and long acting - there is a multitude of different brands to choose from.

Like Baskin-Robbins.

The main problem is that even though they pretend it's the same exact thing as the insulin the body produces, it really isn't.

It's the usual science/numbers game, pretending that the body is just a car, and if we figure out the parts, we can replace anything.

Or like if you dumped all the ingredients for a cake into a mixing bowl and just stirred it all up, what kind of a cake could you expect?

The catch here is timing.

The body knows precisely when to put out exactly the type and amount of insulin from the pancreas that is needed.

The whole blood sugar regulation process is an extremely sophisticated affair, involving the adrenals, the liver, and the thyroid in addition to the pancreas.

We only know part of the story.

There's a lot more to the swirling mystery of blood sugar than just figuring out the structure of insulin.

Proof of that is diabetes has risen to the #7 cause of death in the U.S. today. (Centers for Disease Control)

Secondly, glucophage.

This is a pill given to patients who are first diagnosed with diabetes.

Glucophage artificially controls blood glucose by "interfering" with the body's normal rates of glucose absorption.

Although the manufacturer warns that "diet restriction" should be the primary means of controlling diabetes, (PDR,, p. 797)

in practice glucophage often may be prescribed after a single high blood sugar reading, without the certainty that the patient actually is diabetic.

And rarely are diet choices evaluated.

Glucophage has several major side effects, which are seldom mentioned:

- kidney damage - lactic acidosis (fatal 50% of the time) - nausea - vomiting - abdominal bloating - anorexia - p 798 PDR

Glipizide is the other popular diabetic pill.

This drug requires a functioning pancreas.

Glipizide artificially kick- starts the pancreas to produce more insulin. (PDR,, p.2182) The actual way the glipizide lowers blood glucose is unknown.

Perhaps that's why it has "major" side effects, listed by the manufacturer:

- increased risk of cardiac mortality - kidney disease - liver disease - hypoglycemia(!) - loss of control of blood glucose - constipation - skin rashes - anemia - dizziness - headache

Outside of that it should be "fine".

All you guys out there on these G drugs --your doctor ever tell you any of this?

Whether you're talking about manmade insulin or diabetes drugs in pill form, one fact has not changed since 1923:

these drugs have never "cured" one person of diabetes.

Think about it.

Did you ever in your life know of a diabetic who shot insulin or took these drugs for many years, who eventually recovered and was fine, with a normal life? Of course not.

Did you ever hear of a diabetic who was told to stop eating white sugar? Of course not - instead they tell the diabetic to eat more sugar when he feels weak!

That's the game:

the point of diabetes drugs is never health or recovery or curing the disease.

It's always aimed at one target: sell more drugs.

What's the goal of medical therapy?

As always, cover up the symptoms. Since most doctors have no background in nutrition, they generally tell the patient that diabetes is a disease which he will now have for life, that it was genetic, and the only way to control it is with drugs.

The doctor won't even ask about the patient's recent diet - such information is irrelevant in making the drug sale.

Many actually go so far as to say that what the patient eats will have no effect on the disease, now that the pancreas is worn out.

This is why "dietary advice" is absent after a diagnosis of diabetes is given.

The absurdity and error of such recommendations are appreciated by the thousands of patients, initially diagnosed as diabetic, who have cured themselves completely, simply by cleaning up their diet.

Dr. Stephen Gyland proved in the 1950s, like dozens of other healers after him, that the only way diabetes can be actually cured is to change the diet radically. (Gyland letter)

There are many holistic programs which demonstrate consistent success in reversing adult onset diabetes, the most common type.

Take a wild guess what the first step is, in the healing process.

That's right; no more refined sugar. Including alcohol.

This sounds very simple, but in reality it's incredibly difficult. Look what the patient has to overcome:

1. He doesn't want to give up sugar. He's addicted to it, loves the taste, and needs the short-lived euphoria.

2. The doctors don't say the patient has to give up sugar. In fact, the doctor will tell the patient to eat candy when he feels light headed, to "bring his blood sugar up."

3. Sugar is everywhere: in most foods, in a thousand forms, and it lines the checkout aisles that people have to wait in to buy groceries.

4. There's going to be an unpleasant withdrawal period.

This is where medicine is so well-positioned.

Medicine is saying, Don't worry about a thing. We'll take care of everything. Give us the responsibility for your health, and go on eating whatever you want. Your sugar-binges for the past 20 years didn't bring on your diabetes; it's genetic

For a weakening, softening society with declining health, diabetes medication is the perfect solution.

It delays the decision, takes the pressure off, and avoids unpleasant pro-action.

Great! I can keep on drinking coke, like everyone else! All I have to do is take these pills and the doctor says I'll be fine. Lots of people are doing it.

That's for sure. Lots of Americans are on diabetic medication. And the fact that medication has never cured anyone of diabetes has made us a country where diabetes is now, did I mention, the 7th leading cause of death! _________________

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