Guest guest Posted May 12, 2001 Report Share Posted May 12, 2001 Bob, Saul Pressman has answered this question several times with a short list of things found beneficial. He is away til the 18. I remember one of the things was the herb gymnema sylvestre. It stimulates the Isle of Langerhans (sp?) in the Pancreas to produce insulin. I also believe you should read Dr. Batmanghelidj's book, Your Body's Many Cries For Water. In it he deals with diabetes & its cellular causes, which involve not drinking enough water, or not taking salt with it, lack of exercise & why that is important to getting tryptophan across the blood-brain barrier, and how tryptophan helps regulate cellular water transfer, etc. Also, to read Enzyme Nutrition by Dr. Howell. Amazon has it. Between these two books you will come to understand why your life & diet habits have created type II diabetes, known as sugar diabetes before the PC days. What it comes down to is that your pancreas needs plenty of water to make bicarbonate of soda for every meal you eat, to buffer the stomach acid when it enters the duodenum. This is a more important function to the pancreas than making insulin. Go argue with your pancreas. Cellular dehydration, even in people who drink a lot of water, can exist when the diet is deficient in tryptophan or the subject doesn't get enough exercise. Unless you eat at least 70% raw food, or eat a lot of bean sprouts daily, it is almost certain you are not getting enough aminos, virtually no tryptophan, no balanced amino acids, and an imbalanced amino acid pool is called disease! You can buy tryptophan and take it as a supplement, but then you will further imbalance your aminos. It is a fools errand to take amino supplements, which will certainly imbalance the body's pool. Only bean sprouts will easily give you BALANCED aminos. Even if you have the tryptophan in your diet, it has to compete with a lot of other aminos to piggyback on whatever carries them across the BBB. Exercise comes into play because the muscle repair necessary after exercise pulls away many amino acids competing with the tryptophan. Tryptophan is not only the precursor to four of the most important neurotransmitters (indolamine, tryptamine, serotonin, melatonin) it is critically involved in cellular hydration balance. Everybody who takes antidepressants or tranquilizers can assume this is them, because they are serotonin deficient, which means they are tryptophan deficient! That is why SSRI meds (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) are so popular now. SSRI's raise the serotonin levels in the brain, as would taking tryptophan supplements, or 5-HTP, which is 2 metabolic steps past tryptophan, toward serotonin. Tryptophan supplements were banned by the FDA a few weeks before SSRI's hit the market. Now, isn't that a coincidence!?! We can also almost assume that you have a lot of stress in your life, because if you have developed type II diabetes then you are cellularly dehydrated, so we can assume you are tryptophan deficient. I have no idea if there are exceptions to this scenario, but they would be rare. That's about all that occurs to me off the top of my head. You will get some other good answers too. jim BOB RATLIFF wrote: > > Anyone have success with diabetes? I'm a new case, researching alternatives. > > Best Regards, Ratliff > bobratliff@... > ICQ 1495914 > AIM mtncurr22 > Msn Msgr. Ratliff > SE Tenn. > Get Paltalk at www.paltalk.com and look for TennRascal. Text and great voice > chat. See you there. > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ----- The TRUTH in 11 words: Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened! -- anon jlambert@... http://www.entrance.to/madscience http://www.entrance.to/poetry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 again, my questions are not clearly stated. my question is: what ARE the steps for getting cure for diabetes? thanks, diana ======================= Don: i took the super tonic again today and my blood sugar was even > lower, in fact, the lowest. unbelievable!!! >> i thought it was working towards a cure. if not, then what is? >> thanks, diana>=======================Working towards a curing, yes. It is working towards you regaining your full health and vitality. It is really great that you have found something that is helping you. Keep up with it. One step at a time and you will get there.__________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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