Type II Diabetes is a plague. It unnecessarily affects so many Canadians and is a completely preventable condition. Although genetic risks are involved, the cause of type II diabetes is not elevated blood sugar, this is merely a response by the body to insulin resistance. By definition, insulin resistance is diabetes, and the initial management drugs (metformin) that help insulin bind to their receptors in the liver are how we manage this resistance, medically. Therefore, the actually cause of diabetes is liver resistance to insulin and in almost every case of diabetes I have seen, except for two, subclinical liver pathology is found to be underlying this condition.
Most often clients are dealing with a condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD, for short. NAFLD is a tough one to eliminate, which is why it’s not a primary target for helping to treat people with diabetes. Simply put, NAFLD is the accumulation of liver fat from sources of unopposed fructose and damaged fats in the diet. In other words, to much pop, candy bars, vitamin/energy drinks, fruit and fruit juice. This condition also comes from to many french fries, potato chips, chicken wings, egg rolls and anything else you can think of that has been fried in vegetable fat … including chicken fingers!
To treat this condition, first requires the elimination of all sources of fructose, including table sugar, and fried foods. Following this elimination we have a fighting chance of reversing diabetes and NAFLD.
One strategy that I suggest for clients battling metabolic syndrome or diabetes is lecithin granules on a daily basis. These can be purchased in most grocery and health food stores. People should be able to find a cheep source, as lecithin is also used to make preserves.
I provide a lot more solutions for the treatment of diabetes and fatty liver disease in my office, based on the individual, but I hope you enjoy the following article about the frustrated pharmacist. He’s almost figured it out, as lot of people with fatty liver also need thiamine to flush it out!
Diabetes symptoms linked to acute thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency
Posted at Natural News on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 by Paul Fassa
Stuart Lindsay is a PharmD (PhD in pharmacy) who contributed an article to orthomolecular.org entitled “Confessions of a Frustrated Pharmacist.”
He wrote of his frustrations of being ostracized from members of the medical community as he became aware of how drugs were not working to cure much of anything.
Orthomolecular medicine involves the appropriate application of high dose nutraceutical supplements for treating diseases.
As a pharmacy manager, Stuart was observing people on pharmaceutical drugs not getting better, and he was hearing vitamin users talk of their improved health conditions. He began reading more about supplements and questioning his superiors at the New Mexico pharmacist’s graduate school he was attending.
Stuart managed to obtain his PharmD degree despite occasional conflicts and disagreements with the teaching staff.
Then he was diagnosed with diabetes 2. His vision was good and other common diabetes 2 symptoms were not unbearable. His main symptom of concern was the neuropathy affecting his feet, sometimes numb and sometimes painful.
The frustrated pharmacist takes another path
Realizing the pain pills for his feet and other drugs prescribed by his doctor wouldn’t help his condition, Stuart decided to go with his non-mainstream medical research and use supplements.
After researching several studies, most importantly UK Dr. Paul Thornalley’s theory of diabetes as an acute thiamine deficiency, Stuart started taking 300 mg three times a day using benfotiamine, a fat soluble or lipid form of thiamine.
Having researched Dr. Thornalley’s theory of diabetes being an acute thiamine deficiency and other supporting studies, he started a regimen of vitamin and mineral supplements.
He told his doctor that if it didn’t work out, he’d succumb to the doctor’s list of prescriptions, which included pain killers and statin drugs. But that didn’t happen. Within a week the intense foot pain was gone, and withing three weeks all peripheral neuropathy sensations had ceased.
They would come back when he stopped taking them, but he wasn’t suffering from the side effects of expensive drugs’ temporary relief. Diabetics lose thiamine with their usually increased urination issues.
Stuart states, “If you go to PubMed and enter the keywords “thiamine deficiency” and “diabetes” you will get dozens of references that describe how many symptoms of diabetes are caused by a thiamine deficiency it generates.”
An integrative MD concurs
Dr. Jeffrey Dache, a holistic MD based in South Florida, concurs with Stuart’s decisions except for one item, Stuart’s rejection of Metformin, which Dr. Dache asserts is a rare “good drug” for diabetics.
He lists the supplements used with Stuart’s nutraceutical approach:
* Benfotiamine thiamine – 300mg 3X daily
* Pyridoxal-5-phosphate – 100 mg daily
* Magnisium citrate – 300 mg 3X daily with meals
* Acetyl-L-Canitine – 1,000 mg between meals daily
* Buffered vitamin C – 2,000 to 3,000 mg with meals
Dr. Dach added a few of his own recommendations:
* Alpha Lipoic Acid
* Vanadium with Chromium
* Dietary Fiber
* Tocotrienol Vitamin E
* Exercise and weight reduction program, for which he advises calling his office
Dr. Dach concludes in his article linked below that benfotiamine thiamine should be included for all diabetes patients. He cites several academic sources in addition to his report on the diabetic symptom reduction by the “frustrated pharmacist”.
Both Stuart and Dr. Dach refer to the ACCORD (Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes) five year study failure that proved the opposite of their stated aim.
Essentially they agree that diabetes or it’s symptoms are not sufficiently handled by mainstream medicine, and that nutritional medicine does at least handle the symptoms that even lowering blood sugar does not.
Sources for this article include:
(1) http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v08n05.shtml
(2) http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v08n19.shtml
(3) http://jeffreydach.com
(4) http://www.diabetes.org
(5) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/health/07diabetes.html?_r=1&
http://www.naturalnews.com/040853_type_2_diabetes_vitamin_B_thiamine_deficiency.html#ixzz2WjBnLanr