DIABETES - It's Reversible

Both juvenile and adult-onset diabetes can be successfully treated once you bring the pancreas, adrenals, and liver into balance again using diet and herbs.

About 95% of the country's 15 million diabetes cases are preventable and can be treated successfully with diet, nutrition, and herbs. While juvenile diabetes can have a genetic factor, adult-onset diabetes, in most cases, is produced by a combination of factors such as high stress, faulty diet, impared digestion, and an overworked pancreas. That is why I maintain that diabetes is primarily a dietary disease.

UNDERSTANDING DIABETES Diabetes mellitus is a degenerative illness involving the pancreas and the hormone insulin. Normally, the pancreas releases insulin to regulate the level of blood sugar, or glucose, absorbed from meals, and to move it into the body's cells and tissues for nourishment. In people with diabetes, the pancreas is unable to fulfill its function and normal glucose blood levels cannot be maintained.

Insulin is a protein comprised of 51 amino acids (protein building blocks); its chief role is to enable the body to use glucose as energy. About 25% of diabetics requiring insulin receive daily injections of insulin derived from pigs or cows; the remaining diabetics can use any of 38 different types of genetically engineered human-based insulin (called "humalin"), also by injection.

There are two forms of diabetes. In Type I diabetes, also called insulin- dependent juvenile diabetes (which represents 5% -10% of diabetes cases), the pancreas is unable to make insulin. Clucose builds up in the bloodstream, but cannot be delivered to the body's cells, which begin to "starve."

Type II diabetes, also called non-insulin-dependend adult-onset diabetes, represents 90% - 95% of all cases and develops in middle age. Statistics indicate that about 85% of all Type II diabetics are overweight when diagnosed. Here the pancreas produces insulin, but the body's cells do not respond to its action and cannot absorb the glucose from food. When the glucose levels in the blood continue to rise because the body does not respond to insulin, the pancreas releases even more insulin to deal with the excess blood sugar. The result is bot a state of low blood sugar (in that the cells cannot receive energy) and too much insulin (hyperinsulinism).

Both types of diabetes, if not controlled, can lead to even more serious health conditions, such as heart and kidney disease, high blood pressure, strokes, nerve damage, cataracts, blindness, coma, and even death.

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