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1.Neuropathy, A Diabetic Side Effect: How to Decrease or Eliminate
This Problem
2. Diabetes - Handle Symptoms or Reverse It?
3. Probiotics Benefit Metabolic Syndrome Patients
4. Presidential cancer advisors find courage to warn about
environmental risks of cancer chemicals
Neuropathy, A Diabetic Side Effect: How to Decrease or Eliminate This Problem
One diabetic side effect is neuropathy. This is a condition where the nerves of the body are damaged. It is called “Diabetic Peripheral (referring to the outer part of the body) Neuropathy”. This type of neuropathy affects the feet and legs, hands and arms, and it can occur on both sides of the body. In fact, 40 percent of type 2 diabetics experience Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy.
Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy shows up as one or more of the following symptoms:|
* Tingling and numbness in the toes, fingers, or legs.
* Feeling cold, pain or burning feet, hands or legs.
* Extreme sensitivity to touch, even a light touch.
* Sharp pains or cramps.
* Loss of balance and coordination.
These symptoms are often worse at night.
Causes of nerve damage
Higher than normal sugar levels in the body cause the outer sheathing (protective covering) of nerve cells to degenerate. This is similar to an electrical wire that is covered with insulation, and the insulation is beginning to crumble. Without insulation the unprotected wire will start short-circuiting.
In the same way, when the sheathing of nerve cells degenerate, the signals being transmitted are scrambled, resulting in your body receiving signals that are interpreted as numbness, heat, cold, tingling, pain, etc.
What can be done about it?
It has been known for some time that increased levels of Tiamine
(vitamin B1) in the blood stream are very effective in reducing and
reversing diabetic neuropathy. Unfortunately, the oral intake of vitamin
B1 does not greatly increase the levels of B1 in the blood stream.
Previously, the way that blood stream levels of B1 were increased was
through periodic intravenous feeding or through injections every few
weeks.
The reason that methods like this had to be used is that Tiamine
(sometimes spelled Thiamine), like all of the B vitamins, is
water-soluble. It cannot be stored in the body and flushes out within 4
to 5 hours. Oral intake of Tiamine over 5 mg results in greatly reduced
bioavailability and immediate flushing from the body (this is why urine
frequently turns yellow when taking larger doses of B vitamins).
Now, a new type of vitamin B1 has been produced, called Benfotiamine. It is a fat-soluble version of vitamin B1. What this means is that this new form of vitamin B1 can be taken orally in large dosages and it will not flush out of the body the way ordinary Tiamine (vitamin B1) does.
The result is that the blood stream levels of vitamin B1 can now be greatly increased, enabling a rapid and effective decrease or elimination of the symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy.
Many of our diabetics now using Benfotiamine report a lessening of their neuropathy symptoms within 4 to 7 days, and Benfotiamine has been shown to be non-toxic and without any side effects even in very high dosages.
You can start using Benfotiamine and decrease or eliminate these problems!
Diabetes - Handle Symptoms or Reverse It?
Ron Rosedale, M.D., is an internationally recognized expert in nutritional and metabolic medicine [metabolic: of or having to do with the series of processes by which food is converted into the energy and products needed to maintain life] and an anti-aging specialist. In this excerpted article he reviews the incorrect approach “conventional medicine” is taking towards diabetes. He says:
“As I have stated previously, and one concept that I would like to make well-known to save thousands and perhaps millions of lives as soon as possible, is that diabetes is not a disease of blood sugar, but a disease of insulin and perhaps more importantly leptin [a hor mone produced by the fat stored in the body].”
“Until that concept becomes well-known in the medical community, articles will continue to be published revealing the inadequacy of current conventional medical treatment for chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, and the falsity of their advice about nutrition.”
“Typically treatment concentrates on fixing a symptom, in this case elevated blood sugar, rather than the underlying disease.”
“Treatments which concentrate merely on lowering blood sugar for diabetes while raising insulin levels can actually worsen rather than remedy the actual problem.”
“Elevated insulin levels are highly associated and even causative of:
*heart disease,
*peripheral vascular disease [blockage of blood vessels to the arms or
legs],
*stroke,
*high blood pressure,
*cancer,
*obesity and many other so-called diseases.”
”Since most treatments for type 2, insulin resistant diabetes, utilize drugs which raise insulin or actual insulin injections itself, the tragic result is that the typical, conventional medical treatment for diabetes contributes to the obvious side effects and the shortened lifespan that diabetics experience.”
A proper diet with reduced carbs, effective nutritional supplementation and adding just a bit of regular exercise is a very effective and natural way of reversing the diabetic condition.
Probiotics Benefit Metabolic Syndrome Patients
What can be done for those with Insulin Resistance or Metabolic
Syndrome?
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