Diabetes - The Real Epidemic

Unfortunately, This Epidemic is REAL!

Unlike the H1N1 epidemic that only affected a few thousand people, Diabetes now affects 24 million people in the United States.

Below is an article by Dr. Bruce West that appeared in his Health Alert newsletter. I thought it was important enough to pass on to all of you because of how prevalent diabetes is in our society. With the right information you can make sure you do not develop diabetes in your lifetime.


The Impact of Diabetes on America
By Dr. Bruce West

We don't need enemies. We are our own.

In over 90% of type 2 diabetes cases, the food processing industry creates the man-made, sugar laden, diabetes-causing non-foods that set the stage for diabetes. But they are not the cause of more than 24 million cases of diabetes. We are—by buying and eating these obnoxious concoctions that the human digestive tract, including the pancreas, was never designed to digest.

The daily onslaught of diabetes-inducing, processed non-foods, combined with little to no exercise, and an almost total lack of the nutrients needed by the pancreas to maintain sugar balance is the reason that within 25 years, there will be more than 44 million Americans with diabetes.!

And the cost to treat this group will triple, to close to $400 billion annually. There is so much money in this disease, that there are regular ads on the radio. They tell you to call a FREE number, so you can get all your diabetes supplies FREE, and all the paperwork will be done for you FREE, and even the shipping to your door is FREE. They will even bill Medicare for you. What they don't say is how to really cure diabetes—that would cut off the money tree. And what they neglect to mention is that they will bill Medicare for as long as it remains financially solvent—which is not for long!

To say that diabetes can break the bank is an understatement—it can bring down a country! Of the 44 million Americans who will have diabetes, one in five will be morbidly obese, most will be on Medicare, and few will ever try to cure the disease naturally. Instead, they will be completely addicted to fast, processed, and sweetened, diabetes-inducing "foods."

They will be addicted to an almost totally sedentary lifestyle. And they will be addicted to their doctors' prescriptions that treat the symptoms, do nothing about the cause, carry a litany of side effects (some deadly), but keep most of them alive and able to continue their deadly habits. The conditions that the prescriptions cannot eliminate are the inevitable blindness, amputations, kidney failure, heart and blood vessel disease, and early death.

Medical researchers have it almost all right when they say that we need to transform the way we eat and increase the amount of exercise we do. And they have it completely right when they say that the growth in diabetes is substantial and ever increasing, and that the costs of diabetes are also substantial and ever increasing. Yet amazingly, just as type 2 diabetes is a disease caused by our own selves, it is also a disease that we can easily cure ourselves—almost for free! If this is your situation, all you need to do is look in the mirror, break some bad habits, and utilize the simple three steps that allow you to cure your diabetes in 120 days!

Three Simple Steps to a Cure

"His rewards were a 60-point drop to normal blood pressure. His blood glucose dropped over 200 points to normal. His triglycerides dropped over 300 points to normal. He lost 40 pounds of fat. And he is now stronger than he was 25 years ago. All without drugs or surgery. Can diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, and abnormal blood fats be reversed? You bet. "

I wrote that about one of our physician patients who followed my three steps—three steps that he had never taken in his first 65 years of life, and three steps that he had never planned to take. But he was faced with the diabetic inevitable—a life of misery, heart disease, kidney failure, and an early death. Or he could follow the three steps. He chose the latter, and so can you.

Diabetes can bring down this country. Or rather, the combination of abominable non-foods produced by the bloated food-processing industry, prescription drugs to treat symptoms caused by these abominations, and our own poor health habits can destroy our nation's health and economy. The numbers are already forecast and we need to wake up. I do not want you to be one of these statistics. Or if you already are, I don't want the inevitable for you. It is easy to change, easy to get healthier, and easy for you to cure your diabetes.

To learn about the three-step approach to curing diabetes in 120 days, you can find an in-depth discussion in my article, "How to Cure Diabetes, Heart Disease, High Cholesterol, and Obesity," found in my Encyclopedia of Pragmatic Medicine (page 88). (Note: Jim can provide this information if needed)

All you need to do is follow my three steps: diet, exercise, and the right glyconutrients for your pancreas and insulin response. And you can start right now...

The best book for the proper and easy diet is The GI Mediterranean Diet, by Fedon Lindberg. Another good book is the classic, Protein Power, by Michael and Mary Dan Eades, MD. Another great book is Good Calories, Bad Calories, by Gary Taubes. All are available in bookstores and online. Any of them will work for you. These life changing eating plans are easy and anyone can follow them. No one can cure diabetes without this kind of diet change.

Exercise can also be easy for you—no more 3 to 4 days a week in a gym for a couple hours each day. How about working out with weights for about one hour, once weekly?! Anyone can do it. And aside from transporting glucose out of the blood and into cells in a normal manner (the definition of a diabetes cure), this kind of exercise will make you stronger, more independent, younger, healthier, and provide you with the best odds of avoiding a nursing home—now or in the future.

Just get a copy of the book The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution, by Fredrick Hahn and Michael and Mary Dan Eades, MD. It is also readily available, and it is easy to read and follow.

Remember that nothing lowers blood glucose faster and longer than resistance exercise (weight lifting). Nothing! And you can prove it to yourself quickly by using your glucose monitor before and after exercising.

And as for glyconutrients, the protocol is also simple. You will need the glucose tolerance factor, which is a combination of specific B vitamins, trace minerals, and the biologically active form of chromium. We use Cataplex GTF from Standard Process, which contains these nutrients and more (2x3 daily with meals). You will also need Diaplex (3x3 daily with meals). In addition to a host of nutrients, Diaplex contains pancreatic extract for pancreas support—critical for diabetics.

Minerals are essential for those with diabetes, so you will need to take Min-Tran (3x3 daily with meals). Min-Tran is a calming mineral supplement that contains calcium lactate, magnesium, iodine, and more—primarily from kelp and alfalfa. And I always use Blue Ice™ High Vitamin Cod Liver Oil (1x3 capsules daily with meals) to provide the omega-3 nutrition, including the real vitamin A and D complexes. These four products comprise the glyconutrient factors, and are all you need unless you also have heart or blood vessel disease.

If this is the case, you also need the cardiotonic nutrients to help overcome your heart and blood vessel problems while normalizing your blood sugar. These nutrients are in Cardio-Plus and Cataplex B. Take Cardio-Plus at a dose of 3x3 daily with meals. This remarkable nutritional complex is the most powerful heart nutrient on earth. It is a combination of heart extract, the real vitamin C complex, the vitamin E2 complex (the oxygen-sparing portion of the whole vitamin E complex), the vitamin G complex (the calming side of the B vitamin complex), and calcium lactate, the most usable form of calcium available.

And you will also need to take Cataplex B (2x3 daily with meals). Cataplex B is the perfect partner to Cardio-Plus and it is a critical cardiofactor nutritional complex. It contains the full biologically active form of the B complex, including the critical vitamin B4. All products except the cod liver oil are from Standard Process.

Use your glucose monitor to judge your results. I guarantee that if you follow these easy instructions, you will be absolutely amazed. In addition to controlling your diabetes, you can also resolve and cure your obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, and high cholesterol and triglycerides—all at the same time!

My physician friend did not know what to do. When I discussed the three steps, he did not want to do them. But when he started, he was amazed. He stuck with it, found it easy, got stronger and younger, and cured his diabetes. Three years later, he is still strong and healthy with no diabetes (or heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood fats). He was classically trained in medicine and prescription drugs. He knew nothing else, and everything else was quackery to him. But he knew that he was headed to an early grave with his lifestyle and standard medical care. He changed, the rest is history. And if he can do it, you can too!

Medicine likes to call new drug treatments, such as statin drugs, a sea change in medical treatment. Without a real sea change in thinking, attitude, and approach to diabetes, the inevitable is going to happen—to you, our economy, and our country.”

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As always, if you need additional information about diabetes or anything else just send me a note and I will get it for you.

Until next time, stay healthy and happy

JD Roma