DIABETES The Cause and Cure of Diabetes

SVEN PETER MORITZ, M.D. TRANSCRIPT OF HIS LECTURE AT ‘THE GOVERNMENTAL HEALTH FORUM’ IN WASHINGTON D.C., USA, MARCH 28TH—30TH, 2003

We can change the medical paradigms of Diabetes. Healing, not only for the individual, but also for the common good is possible. Natural is the key. All “sweet addiction” leads to disease. There is no need for artificial sweeteners with a few hundred times greater than natural sugar. Healing is mainly a question of understanding. To get the help of Nature we need to communicate with our body. The more that so-called facts or details, numbers or specialized advice come between our consciousness and our body, the more difficult is it to find the way back to our God-given Health.

our point of view. These situations, usually filled stand. One main problem for our bodies is to with discomfort, are called dis-eases. handle things we take into his or her “inner sphere”. We have to understand that from the very For example there is no other way for a beginning. Looking for the basic reasons leading human body to smoke except by human will, to diabetes is only a small part of a whole which forces him or her to put the cigarette into endeavour. It is an endeavour to ground the mouth and to let the body inhale it. The medicine in a natural way, to ground medicine reaction of the body itself is very well known as part of a service for the whole evolution. during the first few times that people are so Carbohydrates and natural are abusive to their bodies: vomiting, diarrhoea, essential for our bodies. We need the natural It is not the sugar that is killing man! circulatory problems and so on… gift of sweetness to stay healthy. We are responsible for working together To understand diabetes, we have to radically with our own bodies, not in the sense of change our point of view. It is not the sugar explaining to it what to do, because the body We are used to seeing medical problems that is killing man! It is impossible for natural knows much better than we do, but in the as disease. So we spend a lot of money to find sugar to kill our bodies. Our bodies as a part of this disease, giving us concern. Most of the time nature are provided to serve as natural vehicles we expect medical doctors to give us an answer for our consciousnesses and they know very that fits the symptoms we don’t like. well how to handle natural sugar. So people coming to medical doctors are This seems to be easy, maybe too easy? … very often treated “as patient” in a “medical- and it is easy, because it is part of natural law: system” of its own. If we take a closer look at No natural material used with good common these facts, we would realize that we know very sense will harm our bodies. If natural material well what it is all about. In the field of medicine harmed the physical human body, this would we would call a similar system an “abscess” be against natural law. within an “abscess-cavity”. As a living organism our body is able to To understand the basics of diabetes we control the concentration or quantification of have to look beyond that “closed cage”. We have “the sugar-substance” within very narrow to search for reasons why such a situation ranges. The body is intelligent enough to know becomes a threatening challenge to so many how to handle the concentration with the help people. Most of the time we don’t take into of two different hormonal systems: the insulin account people’s experiences. and the glucagon. But the system only works As human beings we have the indescribable with the natural substance sugar. right to inhabit a physical body, serving us as a It is not the sugar that causes the problem, part of nature. There is no chance of under- but it is a question of natural or unnatural sub- standing our bodies, as long as we look from stances and regulation. It is obvious that there the point of view of a self-established island is some problem with what we are taking in, or “abscess-cavity” made by human will. and what is happening in our bodies in taking Regulation of sugar plays an important role To find the real causes of most uncomfortable that substance. Even when it seems to be easy, in our well-being. Two antagonistic hormones situations within our bodies, we have to change there are a few basic rules we have to under- keep the blood sugar at suitable levels.

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sense of taking responsibility nucleic acids. The hexoses, for what we want it to take , , into its inner sphere. and mannose are physio- logically most important. We have to face a are two worldwide problem bound together. Examples are The diagnosis “diabetes (milk sugar) and mellitus” is a worldwide (table sugar)”. challenge. The prevalence of The chemical structure of diabetes in the United States glucose is that of a mono- is about 17 million Americans. saccharid. I don’t want to go That means 6.2% of America’s too deeply into the chemical population suffers from dia- analysis, because we will betes. Out of this number only come to a dead-end road. 11.1 million people are diag- Natural sugar contains trace elements, minerals, and vitamins. The changes from But to underline how nosed diabetes and the other natural sugar to crystallized during industrial processing is the easily one can be fooled, I 5.9 million don’t even know key to understand the beginning of Diabetes. (l.: sugar cane; r.: ) want to show that chemi- that they suffer from diabetes. cally there is no difference Worldwide we have more than 135 million Maybe most of the scientifically trained between the raw-sugar and the crystallized people diagnosed with diabetes (in 1995) and people these days are used to looking for white sugar we usually use. the World Health Organization estimates that chemical changes. We are talking about carbohy- The original sugar cane contains 14% trace worldwide around 300 million people will have drates: “Plants manufacture the structural carbo- elements, minerals and vitamins, plus diabetes in 2025. hydrate cellulose and the storage form starch chlorophyll. The sugar we can buy in the The incidence of diabetes in the United from the energy captured during photo-synthesis. supermarkets is chemically the same sugar. It States is one million people aged 20 years or In animals, the carbohydrates glucose and is sugar cane heated up in chalk-milk to older diagnosed as “new cases” a year. This glycogen are sources of energy. Carbohydrates extract calcium and protein. During this step incredible number might be part of the problem are aldehyde or ketone derivatives of alcohols all vitamins are destroyed and most of the of “not understanding” what is happening. having more than one OH-group. minerals are washed out. Because of this unimaginable number most The simple sugars (monosaccharides) are Then the product is mixed with acid chalk, people accept the situation as unchangeable. the simplest form of carbohydrate and include carbonic gas, sulphur dioxide and sodium The problem seems to be far beyond bicarbonate. This mixture is heated and our understanding and we think that cooled off several times, and there- others have to find a solution. after crystallized and centrifuged. It is Even physicians just believe in what chemically still a carbohydrate or they are told, not searching for the basic C12H22O11. That’s the chemical way of reasons behind such a situation. And looking at it. most so-called patients are just waiting So there are no significant chemical to be one more suffering from the long- changes. Much more interesting is that term effects of diabetes. Having those there is a physical process going on symptoms a few years later seems to be that might change the quality and so a victory. For comparison the incidence we might not get the sugar quality of heart failure in the United States is originally contained in the sugar plants. “only” about 400,000 to 700,000 a year. Sugar as we usually use it, is in- Our bodies know very well how to dustrialized crystal or granulated sugar. handle natural sugars as we find them And we can show very important in many fruits and naturally occurring differences in energy. nutrition. But that very well known way Studies with GDV-photography to handle sugar doesn’t work when it The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that show that difference. Gas Discharge isn’t a natural sugar any more. there will be worldwide over 300 million people diagnosed Visualization is a computerized form of Diabetes in the year of 2025. It’s presumed that only half the Kirlian photography that uses But what happens to the sugar? of the affected people are diagnosed. photography to show the same effect. Dr. Konstantin Korotkov of Saint If the thesis of “sugar-changes” is true we the pentose, ribose and the hexoses, glucose Petersburg, Russia, is professor of Physics at have to find significant changes between sugar (blood sugar) and fructose (fruit sugar). Pentose the State Technical University and the leading provided by Nature and sugar used by man. sugars are important parts of nucleotides and head of the GDV-research.

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This technique, called the Gas Discharge for a raw-sugar solution and the white-crystallized To our highly sensitive body-systems it Visualization technique (GDV), is a breakthrough sugar solution. makes a significant difference to get one or beyond Kirlian photography. GDV can do direct, So I can come to the conclusion that the the other form of sugar! That is one of the real-time viewing and capturing the energy changes of energy are the result of the centri- important facts we have to focus our attention emanating to and from an individual, plants, fuging process and we don’t have the same on, for the understanding of diabetes. liquids and other things and translate this into sugar after processing! This conclusion shows a computerized model. The system used was a that looking at things in a different way than usual What is the “sugar story?” GDV-Camera for digitalized Kirlian-photography may be the right way to understand the problem. built by Dr. Korotkov. The different solutions But, hopefully I believe that many scientifi- The natural components our bodies need were examined using the cup device from the cally trained people realize that we can always are carbohydrates. We all know that this is “THE material testing kit. arrive at an understanding as long as we go ENERGY” for our cells. But not only this! There is a whole new branch of scientific research called glucosciences. This is because the scientific world is starting to realize that all major infor- mation-systems of our bodies work with polysaccharides. As the American Diabetes Association writes: “Sugar is the basic fuel for the cells in the Modern Gas Discharge-Camera shows energetic body”. But it is much more a images known as Kirlian-Photography. basic quality our bodies really need. Real sweetness provided by natural sugar without changes of energy is what we need. And what is enough, is enough! Our bodies are well trained friends. They take whatever they need to do their job and that’s it! As we can see Raw-sugar Raw-sugar white sugar in many situations, our bodies centrifuged are intelligent enough to do the best possible with the least The water-device enables the camera to Even though there are no significant chemical changes, possible use of natural resources. examine fluids pictures taken with the GDV-Camera do show different But there are certain groups energetic fields, because of the industrializing process of that want us to use more and What we can see are the different shining- natural sugar. The energetic loss by processing is made more sugar. Marketing strategies areas reproduced with plain water and different visible by the decrease of the shining areas (light blue). make us believe that “a sweet life” solutions. When we analyse it by mathematical needs sugar. But what they offer reproduction we see the difference between raw with natural laws! Maybe the questions are not us is not the natural sweetness we find in sugar and white crystal sugar. the right ones or maybe we do not understand Nature. They sell us a modified substance we get So the question becomes more and more the answer we get. addicted to, without getting the quality we need. evident: What happens to the sugar? Although But always there is wisdom in Nature and The world-sugar production of today is more we still have the same chemical structure you when we start to understand Nature we start than 135 million metric tons. The U.S. sugar definitely see a significant difference of energy. to understand our bodies and we also will production expanded from 6.1 million short tons, So I looked at the processing of raw sugar understand medical problems. raw value in 1986 to 9 million tons in 2000 into white crystal sugar. Water and calcium Therefore, in this case, I had to go beyond meaning an increase of one third in 14 years. carbonate are the main substances added to the first idea about chemical changes, because (see diagram ‘World Sugar Balance’, page 5). the raw sugar. Then the liquid is centrifuged. what happens in the body showed that there And all this sugar is centrifuged sugar! The The hypothesis was that centrifuging is the had to be a significant difference, that could sugar we are offered for nutrition has gone main destabilizing factor during this processing. not be found that way. The only question was through the whole industrializing process and When we take the same raw-sugar solution how and where to find that little factor that differs from natural sugar. as before and centrifuge it for 20 minutes we makes all the difference. And in this case it is Yes our bodies need to have carbohydrates. can see that the shining area of the GDV-gram the physical processing that seems to change But not as excessively as we might desire. We shrinks. The result is just between the results the energetic value of natural raw-sugar. have been trained by marketing strategies to

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different look at the world and start to understand. In the 1940’s researchers recognized the link between diabetes and the long-term compli- cations. It was proclaimed that people with diabetes have a high incidence of vascular and neurological damage with consecutive damage to kidneys, feet and eyes. In the late 1950’s diabetologists found that there are two types of diabetes. And they described that overweight is one of the main risk factors for type 2 diabetes. That is the beginning of another story:

The story of non-caloric sweeteners and artificial sweeteners Today the worldwide artificial-sweetener market is estimated to be more than 1.2 Billion US $ a year. And the artificial sweeteners are much more of a problem than denaturalized sugar itself. All over the world there are three Dr. Banting with his assistant Dr. Best discovered insulin in 1921. From this time on the major substances used: common opinion that insulin is the key to the understanding of diabetes was established, Saccharin, which has no calories yet is 300 and no further attention was paid to the actual cause of the disease. Nobody realized the times sweeter than sugar and the oldest artificial energetic “sugar-changes” which are caused by industrializing processes of natural sugar. sweetener. Aspartame, which has the same amount of get used to large amounts of sugar, far more responsible for the disease but the insulin. calories as sugar (four per gram) yet is 180 to than our bodies need. It is a typical “not me” reaction, which is 200 times as sweet, is available to help satisfy It is not only the “sugar-industry” that is the prevailing attitude until today. This reaction Americans’ twin cravings for sweets and making a profit. There is an even greater is responsible for most of the physical problems slimness. business with all the , food-stuff industry people have to face. We proclaim that we are Cyclamate, calorie-free yet 30 times sweeter and merchandising machinery. But by selling and not responsible for the situation. than sugar, was banned by the Food and Drug consuming more and more sugar one problem In the case of sugar, medical research has Administration in 1970 because of concerns over becomes more and more evident: Diabetes. started to show that it is the body which is no its safety. Medical research scientists started to warn longer capable of producing that there is a creeping disease. Because there insulin. Do not blame the is no direct symptom in the beginning, the sugar-production or the in- disease goes unnoticed with fatal damage to the dustry providing mankind whole body. And very early in the 1900’s the with sweetness in a way they link between sugar and diabetes was described. never knew before. The body A problem occurred for the industry: You can is blamed for the disaster. not sell large amounts of sugar if it’s obviously So until today in the the cause of so serious a disease! How to continue medical world researchers making profits? are looking at the insulin and First you have to make sure that there is no hardly anyone is starting to link between the production you are responsible look at the product leaving for and this horrible disease. Who else is involved the factories. in the story and where can we find other But as said before: No reasons for this situation? natural material will harm The sells more industrialized sugar every year. An immense research was started regarding our body. That’s how we have Our bodies cannot handle the large amounts of energetically all the problems experienced by the human to look at Nature! Our bodies changed sugar and are still starving for the right quality of sugar. body, with regards to diabetes. During this as a part of Nature will work research the centre of attention would be on together with it because of the strong link of Beside all the side-effects, one of the major everything, except the production itself. So step love between all parts of nature. problems is that these substances are up to 300 by step you focus on the body’s insufficiency That is the ground on which you will find a times sweeter for our body taste. So for the same and make sure that it is not the sugar that is firm stand again and from which you can take a amount of carbohydrates we get so much more

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sweetness. Our bodies need natural diabetes is characterized by the carbohydrates and that is what they following symptoms: are looking for. And what do they O unusual thirst get? The same illusionary feeling of O frequent urination sweetness that natural sugars would O unusual weight loss provide. But at the same time our O extreme fatigue or lack of energy bodies get no carbohydrates and O blurred vision no quality of sweetness! From our O frequent or recurring infections bodies’ point of view they try to get O cuts and bruises heal slowly used to the unnatural sweetness. O tingling, numbness in hands or feet. They do it in their never-ending loving way as they try to do their The word “diabetes” comes from job in spite of all the addictive things the roots of the Greek and Latin we do to them. For our bodies get language. diabetes derives from the used to it, it is their only chance to The symptoms of the body show the way to be healed. Greek word “Diabainein” standing survive and thereby serve mankind! for “to the siphon (flowing off)”. This I don’t want to refer to all the numerous systems of the pancreas. The outer secretory- means the characteristic signal of a diabetic is problems Aspartame, as one of the most system for the digestion function of the intestine frequent urination. The necessary water runs commonly used artificial sweeteners, has and the inner-secretory function was not yet through the body of a person and is flushed brought into our lives. That is well documented understood. But later they named these specific down the toilet. and can be easily found for example on many pancreas-cells after this man as “islands of And the word “mellitus” comes from Latin internet sites. Langerhans”. And the medical world looked and means “Sweet as ”. The urine of a Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of more and more for these details and didn’t diabetic contains glucose and so it tastes sweet. the adverse reactions of food additives reported realize the relation between a person’s life and That’s the difference to other forms of diabetes to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). the changes in his or her body. (“diabetes insipidus”). Many of these reactions are very serious Now the World Health Organisation (WHO) In former years this sweet urine was THE including seizures and death as reported in a explains: “The term diabetes mellitus describes SYMPTOM showing the practitioner very strongly February 1994 Department of Health and Human a metabolic disorder of multiple aetiology the relation to sweetness. Today the diagnosis Services report. characterized by chronic hyperglycaemia with will be made in laboratories by blood-testing. In relation to diabetes we have to face the disturbances of carbohydrate, fat and protein fact that artificial sweeteners are no solution metabolism resulting from defects in insulin Blood test for diagnosis to the described link between diabetes Type II secretion, insulin action, or both.” and overweight. They do not reduce weight! The reason is established: “…resulting from Blood tests are taken for diagnosis and the In truth they are part of the problem, because defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or glucose will be estimated. There are several of weight gain and tricking the body. both…” As a medical doctor you are not even different tests to obtain information: asked to interpret the symptoms to understand O The fasting plasma glucose test: Is done in From symptom to disease the morning before eating. Normal fasting plasma glucose levels are less Most of the medical knowledge than 110 milligrams per decilitre (mg/ starts because of symptoms we feel dl). Fasting plasma glucose levels of within our bodies. Then during medical more than 126 mg/dl on two or more examination more and more related tests on different days indicate diabetes. facts are added to the “basic-symptoms” O Random plasma glucose test: Differs and we get the diagnosis. The history from situation to situation and is done of diabetes is very quietly related to the same way as the fasting glucose such a change of perspective. test but without fasting. It shows The earliest known records from different levels depending on the 1552 B.C. mention the symptom time difference of food-intake. polyuria which is one of the major Because of more and more problems symptoms we find related to diabetes. of low-level glucose by diabetics in the So physician Hesy-Ra in the 3rd Egyptian morning, medical doctors change from Dynasty was very right with the symptom as what is behind them. You should make the tests after fasting to this kind of testing. we find it until today. diagnosis by the later on explained different O Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT): For the During the following centuries details were blood tests and after that you have to know oral glucose tolerance test (or Impaired Glucose added until in 1869 Paul Langerhans from what the disease results from. Tolerance Test, IGT), you must fast overnight Germany described two different excretion But the symptoms are still the same and (at least 8 but not more than 16 hours) and go

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to your doctor’s office or the laboratory in the morning. First, your fasting plasma glucose is tested. After this test, you receive 75 grams of glucose. Blood samples are taken up to four times during the following hours to measure your blood glucose. There are many known conditions with false positive testing. So be sure: For the test to give reliable results, you must be in good health (not have any other illnesses, not even a cold). Also, you should be normally active (for example, not lying down as an in-patient in a hospital) Insulin substitution is the basic treatment in the case of Diabetes Type I, mainly caused and taking no medicines that could affect your by so-called “auto-allergic reactions”. To overcome this ten percent of all diagnosed blood glucose. For 3 days before the test, you Diabetes, we have to change the technologies which lead to immune-suppression. should have eaten a diet high in carbohydrates (150-200 grams per day). The morning of the know what will happen when you go to your diabetes. It was usually diagnosed in children test, you should not smoke or drink coffee. physician and when you have one or more risk and young adults, and was previously known Diabetes will be diagnosed when two factors for diabetes. You will be examined and as juvenile diabetes. In Type I diabetes, the body diagnostic tests done on different days show it might be a question of numbers whether you does not produce any insulin. And as the Ameri- that the blood glucose level is high. get diagnosed having diabetes. Don’t take this can Diabetes Association says: “Insulin is neces- O The blood test with a memory: The blood test system for more than it is: a system of numbers sary for the body to be able to use sugar. Sugar is with memory is the so called AIC test, or a to establish different groups. the basic fuel for the cells in the body, and insulin glycated haemoglobin (GHb) test. This test And beside this “number-system” don’t lose takes the sugar from the blood into the cells.” requires only one sample of blood, which can your relationship to your body. It is because of Type I diabetes without any production of be taken at any time of the day, even right after the symptoms that you have a chance to insulin is according to this understanding a a meal. Although a high glycated haemoglobin understand your way back to being healed again. severe problem for the body and will lead level almost always means IGT or diabetes, people definitely to death. Today the most commonly with IGT or diabetes can have normal levels. Different Types of Diabetes discussed relation is an auto-allergic reaction Haemoglobin is the protein in red blood against beta-cells of the pancreas. cells that carries oxygen. Glycated haemoglobin There are different types of diabetes. Besides To understand the real importance and forms when glucose in the blood attaches to the gestational diabetes we know the Type I reason for this disease we have to understand the haemoglobin. Because blood cells stay in the different circumstances leading to auto circulation for 2-3 months, the glycated haemo- allergic reactions. It is not enough to describe globin level is a good measure of a person’s the destruction of pancreatic cells without average blood glucose level over the previous 2-3 looking for the cause! months. The rate of formation of GHb is directly This presentation refers mainly to diabetes proportional to the ambient glucose concen- Type II and so I can only mention a few ideas tration. Since erythrocytes are freely permeable about auto-allergic reactions. Artificial sweet- to glucose, the level of GHb in a blood sample eners are depressing our immune system as a provides a glycaemic history of the previous 120 side effect of their use. days, the average erythrocyte life span. Dr. Batmanghelidj refers to the self- This test is not used to diagnose diabetes destructive system of the body in case of but to monitor blood glucose control. dehydration and shows the beginning of insulin-dependent diabetes. After all, In addition our so called “modern life” is Diagnosis will be a matter of numbers! full of unnatural things, stressing our immune system until it breaks down. We also have to From this moment on, the focus is no longer mention here the most destructive technologies on the symptoms that help us to understand of microwaves used in ovens and as the situation. The symptoms would help a telecommunication systems with their person to understand the changes in relation expansion all over Planet Earth. to his or her body. But that is not our body’s fault. It does not Now we have reached a point when the decide to incorporate microwave ovens or “controlled examination” shows who you are. So called modern technologies like micro- alternating current supplies or to produce all the Don’t worry about realizing this. It is just wave and power lines are supplementary useless food additives. It is our body that has important to understand the system, so you burdens to our body’s immune-system. to handle all these unnatural things! Do not

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Treatment of Diabetes With a great amount of resources today’s medical science is looking for better medicine. One of the main pathways being followed in relation to diabetes Type I is the protection of the body from it’s own immune system. There are new drugs being researched for preventing the fragmentation of insulin. So we can go on believing that the body is destroying itself without any deeper cause. We have to ask what are the reasons for this self-destruction and not just take it as given. Yes there might be situations when it is impossible for bodies to see the difference between his or her own cells and foreign cells. blame it when the immune system breaks O You might not have realized it But that’s always a reaction of a former down and when it doesn’t recognize anymore O You have to take serious care not to incur treatment that creates this immune-deficiency. the difference between its own and other terrible damage And it is the short cut to a way of ignoring these foreign tissues. O Most of the people in the same situation as facts and searching for new synthetics that block Anyhow, we definitely know that this type you will experience severe damage the body once again. of diabetes has nothing to do with “sugar” itself. O You have to be very careful about everything For a real cure we have to support all forms you eat and do of strengthening the immune-system. In that Type II Diabetes O You have to stop all use of sugar way we can give the body an understanding O and so on … of reasons, or in other words, we give the body Diabetes Type II accounts for 90 to 95% of a chance to learn and to get healed. That’s the diagnosed diabetes cases in the major group The link to long-term effects is in the main way of the inner nature of a body, serving human of “sweet-diseases”. Today’s most common focus of today’s medical treatment. So most beings! So please don’t believe in quick, some- interpretation is that the body reacts to higher strategies try to reduce sugar-level-changes for times simple medical solutions. blood-glucose by producing more and more this reason. So the patient insulin and the pancreas will be exhausted after has to undergo a strict a few years of intensified production. At the control of blood sugar same time the insulin-corresponding cells get measurements and adapted less and less effective so the body needs more diet. insulin for the same reaction. These long-term effects The concept of an exhausted organ must be which are said to be based on the belief in a “fixed maximum attached to nearly every amount” of insulin. After using most of the “diabetes-case” after 15 to 30 insulin the body will not produce any new years are the major cause for insulin. Think about it! When you use your a lot of suffering. Isn’t it common sense you will immediately under- horrible that this disease stand that this is against normal experience. called diabetes is respon- The other part is the effectiveness of the sible for so many people receptor site. Here is the linking to body-weight. suffering? Because of quick changes in a favorable direction, we often The idea that more weight means “relatively Yes indeed! As long as confuse relief of symptoms with healing. less” receptors is now being discussed. This you are dependent on “closed might be a real cause explaining why a wrong cage thinking”. One of the problems is the de- Yes it is seductive to have a medicine you understanding of Nature, one of the inner causes pendence on information from people making might only take once a day and your physician of diabetes, is related to diabetes Type II. profits out of a situation they brought you into. can say to you: “Now, there is no more need to There is no need to produce an over- fear the long-term effects of diabetes”. Strategies to cure Diabetes whelming artificial sweetness. There is no sense This is one of the main traps so-called in producing artificial sweeteners to stop over- modern medicine can lead us to: Because of Whenever “a new Diabetic” is diagnosed weight at the same time as you depress the the quick relief of symptoms and the change the medical doctor will take several minutes immune system. And if that’s not enough, the from dis-comfort to “well-being” we in our of his or her time to explain to the “new patient” same industry produces pharmaceutical and personality confuse it with proper healing. what it is all about. So you normally will hear: health care products for diabetics. Sometimes to be truly “healed” requires a little

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detour. And it is important not the person with diabetes Type I to lose confidence at any time. will have the full aspect of emaciation. We see the full Pancreas Transplantation image of a starving body unable It is like a competition to be one to build any kind of physical of the first to transplant islet substance. It is not the sugar that cells successfully for a longer is killing this person. It is as an time. But the idea is limited by “inner starvation” of the body the immune system of our while at the same time we have bodies. Whenever surgeons im- an overflow of carbohydrates in plant foreign tissue they have the blood stream. to block the immune system. The inability to use sugar as And all these drugs have very the natural provider of energy uncomfortable side effects. So within the body-cells causes the maybe the winner of the problem. So the body is dying competition will not be the best although there is enough sugar! surgeon but the one with the best That is the key to under- connections to the pharma- standing the diabetic constitution. ceutical industry. And the side Prevention of Diabetes on a “global level”: Stop the production of It is the inability to use the effect on the immune system denaturalized sugar and artificial sweeteners. On a “personal level”: Coming natural gift of sweetness. We find will be worse from deliberate into motion, realizing new horizons and working together with Nature. overflowing sugar or carbo- synthetic immune-suppressors hydrates in the blood stream and than it would be from artificial sweeteners. searchers. So different authors in the March at the same time the body will die because of It is the same delusion we find by using 2003 edition of “Diabetes Research and Clinical the so-called “sugar-disease”! so-called self-protecting medicine to prevent the Practice” wrote repetitively: “Lifestyle inter- The main difficulty for the body in this body from her or his own reactions. It is a quick vention studies have consistently shown that situation is not knowing how to use the way to stop symptoms but it is a pathway to quite modest changes can reduce the pro- overwhelming energy. So some of the basic addiction and to blocking healing. In this case gression from IGT to diabetes by 50-60%”. inner reasons for the symptoms you find within medical science will look forward to new Lifestyle changes is one area individuals diabetes Type I are: problems likely to be related to the symptoms can focus on to help their bodies in preventing O Excessive Amount we see with diabetes Type I. or delaying the onset of the disease. This advice O Inability to use the surplus includes most commonly a healthy diet, weight O Lack of the required quality Dietetic Treatment control, exercise and reduction in stress as In the past, avoidance of sugar has been the important prevention steps. We find the same symptoms on different major focus of nutritional advice for people with I might add that you have to start to levels in the so called developed countries. diabetes. The other parts deal with a long list understand your body’s needs and messages. There is an inner starving alongside over- of nutritional facts you have to learn. Mostly To respect the body’s own intelligence gives whelming new chances and possibilities. But you get trained in calculating carbohydrates and you the chance for a revolutionary new point how to use this freedom without inner wisdom? fat. So your decision what to eat will be more of view and the possibility to satisfy its needs. In the macrocosm as in the microcosm, this is and more a question of your state of intellectual a hint to the links to so-called prosperity-diseases. training. Your body can try whatever it can to give Reasons behind you any help but you will not realize that help. so-called Diabetes Besides this basic problem of separation between a human being and his or her body, To understand more of the medical research clearly shows that sugars are basic reasons behind the an acceptable part of a healthy diet for those diabetic constitution we have with diabetes, particularly sugars obtained from to understand what will fruits and vegetables. Up to 10% of total daily happen without treatment. In energy requirements may consist of added case of a “non-functional” sugars, such as table sugar and sugar-sweetened pancreas, when the hormone products, without impairing glycaemic control production of the pancreas in people with Type I or Type II diabetes. stops, we get the full symp- toms of a Type I diabetes. Prevention of Diabetes The symptoms are as A large range of fruits provide Fructose, a natural The link between lifestyle and Type II diabetes shown previously. After a short sweetener that provides our body not only with sweetness, has been shown by different medical re- while without any treatment, but also with colorful taste.

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When we come to understand the one, we are amount of natural sugar, e.g. maple or We have to go the individual path to health, on the right track to solving the other. unrefined sugar. You also need a balanced and medicine has to be the first advice-giver Diabetes Type I is aggravated by the poor amount of minerals and vitamins. without forcing us to go in only one direction. quality of sugar or by artificial sweeteners So there is no other way than to which don’t have the quality your body become friends with your body and to needs. They suppress the immune system. learn to talk with it as well as finding a doctor willing to work with you. For Better Health The following paragraphs may give you a few guidelines about possible To understand the necessary changes natural pathways to prevention and in regard of diabetes Type II we have healing of so-called diabetes. to primarily focus on prevention. Changes are possible. There is a per- Chinese Wisdom sonal level where every individual has to start prevention. On this level we also According to Chinese wisdom, sweet- have to face the question: what can I do ness is one of the necessary flavours to when I have been diagnosed with diabetes. maintain balance within the body. And there is a “global level” where The traditional Chinese medicine we find it necessary for changes to be describes different factors in association made by responsible statesmen, industry with diabetes: and health-care systems. 1. The spleen and stomach are Thank you to all of you who have damaged by overeating greasy food or been going along with the ideas of this by over-consuming alcohol, causing text. You have taken the first step in a failure of the spleen in transporting and new direction to overcome this so-called transforming which, in turn, causes disease. Maybe you have been challenged interior-heat to be accumulated and food by your thoughts, while you were reading, and body fluids to be consumed, finally and so you might now see things in a resulting in diabetes. different light than before. And this will Chinese wisdom: “There are many ways you come from, 2. Anxiety, anger, mental depression, not be restricted only to diabetes, as so there are as many ways to go back.” etc. injure the liver, causing the liver Qi “diabetes” is very much related to many to stagnate. Protractedly stagnated liver other subjects. The Cure for Diabetes Qi turns into detrimental heat which consumes So the first medical advice is to change the body fluids and eventually leads to diabetes. way you look at life. That’s the best way not to There are as many forms of advice as people 3. Deficiency in the kidneys caused by starve whilst immersed in abundance and it who may get diabetes. It’s one of the great intemperance in sexual life or congenital definitely is the best way to start loving Nature “wrong-ways”. There are no common forms of essence defect causes the kidney Qi to wane; and the body that has been given to you. This advice you have to fulfil and that have as a result, the kidney Qi fails to maintain the will be the shortest and safest way to prevent guaranteed wellness. That focuses on one of functioning of the bladder in restraining urine you from having diabetes. the problems with synthetic medicine: because discharge, thus polyuria occurs. Besides you have to give your body physically of their strong mandatory power they urge our So we have to avoid greasy food (not because the sweetness it needs. So take the desired bodies to go in one direction. of the calories!), excessive eating and alcohol. We have to avoid anxiety, anger and mental depression. There are specific Chinese herbs or Acupuncture for those who are diagnosed with diabetes. For indi- vidual treatment you need to look for a trained and experienced person.

Minerals Because of the immense loss of water (Polyuria) the body loses all water-soluble minerals and vitamins. So we will certainly find only a low- level concentration of those important

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and vital substances. It was found that Type 1 a non-carotene source such as fish-liver oil. diabetics generally had deficiencies in zinc, Other Vitamins: Also recommended is calcium, magnesium and the more active form a vitamin E supplement and a vitamin C of vitamin D. supplement to help prevent small vessel- Those with Type 2 diabetes generally were disease of the extremities. found to be low in zinc and magnesium and often low in vitamins B6 and C. So we have to Homeopathy add these vitamins and minerals. Magnesium: For magnesium it is shown to Many homeopathic remedies have been have a relationship to long-term retinopathy. applied to the treatment of diabetes melli- There might be evidence that the long-term effect tus. The specific way of homeopathy is, how- is more related to the low level of mineral than ever, to treat YOU, and not just your disease. to diabetes. It is a very individual medicine that does Chromium: Also chromium is one of the not primarily looks at the fixed diagnosis, important minerals. It has been shown that but at the individual’s symptoms and Many common plants have remarkable benefits trivalent chromium, given on a daily basis could situation. The homeopathic physician must for our bodies. The European Blueberry reduces improve blood sugar metabolism. carefully assess your entire symptom picture, excess sugar in the blood in a natural way. Brewer’s yeast: Brewer’s yeast has also been figure out your personality, your hopes and shown to have significant benefits for diabetics. fears, and so on... properties. Charantin seems to be the key Both brewer’s yeast and trivalent chromium are Going on with that treatment will not only ingredient and is said to be more effective than helpful to lower elevated total cholesterol and lead you to an improvement in diabetes but the often used synthetic drug Tolbutamide. total lipids. Very often you find lipid-disorders also in your total well-being. Onion and Garlic: The common bulbs, onion accompanying diabetes. So you can improve both and garlic, have significant blood sugar-lowering disorders. Plants action as well as lowering lipids, inhibiting Vanadium: It has been shown that vanadium platelet aggregation, and reducing blood pressure. is helpful, because it lowers blood sugar by It seems as if today’s medicine has for- Salt Bush: Rich in fibre, protein, and numerous mimicking insulin and improving the cells’ gotten the roots of medicine. Long before trace minerals, including chromium. Studies in sensitivity to insulin. Vanadium compounds, most chemistry took over, men and woman of Israel have demonstrated improved blood notably vanadyl sulfate, consistently improve medical science knew about plant medicine glucose regulation and glucose tolerance in fasting glucose and other measures of diabetes. and how to use it for mankind’s benefit. Type 2 diabetes. So also diabetes has been treated with Ginkgo biloba: Gingko biloba extract improves Vitamins different plant remedies. There blood flow in the peripheral tissues and it has are reports about the following: also been shown to prevent diabetic retinopathy. B-Vitamins: Most of the B-vitamins European Blueberry: Ginseng: Ginseng could show reducing will be washed out due to poly- Results have shown fasting blood sugar levels. uria. So you have to add the that the leaves and vitamins B-1, B-6, B-12. berries have an Other natural sugar substances Vitamin D: There is evidence active ingredient that vitamin D is essential for with a remarkable There are also other natural sugars that might the islet cells in the pancreas to be ability to reduce be better to use than the sugar cane or sugar able to secrete insulin properly. excess sugar in the beet we use today. They need less industrialized A study has shown that individuals blood. It is a natural processing before we use them. with the lowest vitamin D levels method of controlling or Xylitol: Xylitol was first manufactured in 1891 experienced the worst blood sugar- lowering blood sugar levels by a German scientist. But it was during World handling problems and had a greater risk when they are slightly elevated. War II when Finland was suffering from an of developing diabetes. acute sugar shortage; that it was re-discovered: It is recommended to give at least those Gingko is not only one of the oldest Xylitol is a low-calorie sugar made from birch people with the greatest risk of developing trees, but also improves blood flow, bark. Researchers discovered at that time the vitamin D deficiency, including the preventing diabetic retinopathy. insulin-independent nature of Xylitol, because elderly who are either institutionalized it metabolises in the body without using insulin. or staying indoors, up to 800 IU/day Gymnema sylvestre: This plant is found in It is even produced naturally in our bodies vitamin D3 supplements. the tropical forests of India. It is used to lower during normal metabolism. It builds immunity, Vitamin A: Researchers have blood sugar and help repair damage to protects against chronic degenerative disease found that the diabetic is unable to pancreatic cells. and has anti-ageing benefits. convert carotene into vitamin A. It is advisable Bitter melon: Is a mixture of several Xylitol is an antimicrobial, preventing the therefore for the diabetic to ingest vitamin A from compounds with confirmed antidiabetic growth of bacteria and it is alkaline enhancing.

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need the processing of our widely used refined tendency to increase body weight to detoxify. sugars. And because of their lower carbohydrates Others need the surplus for protection. Others they are also a natural source of low-caloric but are not sure whether they can trust the human not-artificial sweeteners. being to give the needed resources, so they build up reserves from whatever they can. Widest possible variety of foods There is a way to overcome that overweight as well as the problems of diabetes. First of all There are many natural ways to find help. it is necessary to learn how to use the over- A global “nutrition-advice” may be to eat the whelming richness of Nature in harmony and widest possible variety of foods so you ensure with respect. Nature provides us with all the that you get the full range of trace elements and substances our bodies need. vitamins. There is a good chance of stimulating Mainly it is a question of asking. How can production of insulin within the body by taking Nature help us when we don’t communicate enough minerals and vitamins along with small with our bodies? The more so-called facts or frequent meals containing some carbohydrate. details, numbers or specialized advice come But besides all these natural ways to prevent between our consciousness and our bodies, the or cure diabetes we have to realize that it is more difficult it will be to find our way back to not only a different path we have to go on, but our God-given health. N we have to understand and get rid of the real cause.

Beside all individual or well balanced healing The inconceivable there is no other way to prevent diabetes number of people than the use of natural sugar diagnosed diabetes has to be changed In the 1960s, Xylitol was being used in Germany, Switzerland, the Soviet Union and We have to change the Japan in diabetic diets and as an energy source medical paradigms of dia- for infusion therapy in patients with impaired betes from saying that it is an glucose tolerance and insulin resistance. inevitable outcome. It has been relatively unknown in the USA Healing not only for the and Australia, primarily because cheap supplies individual but also for the There is the beginning of new light in medical science when of cane sugar made the more expensive Xylitol common good is possible. we start realizing that everything our bodies need is already less economically viable. Natural sugar is the pathway. provided as a part of creation. Approved by the US Food and Drug All “sweet addiction” has to Administration (FDA) in 1963, Xylitol has no be stopped. There is no need for artificial Sven Peter Moritz, M.D. known toxic levels. sweeteners with sweetness a few hundred earned his ‘Practicing : The raw sugar cane is crushed to times greater than natural sugar. Certificate’ as medical extract the juice. The juice is boiled to evaporate There is no sense even in taking those doctor from Freiburg the water leaving pure whole unrefined non- artificial sweeteners to lose weight. Therefore University, Germany in centrifugal sugar cane called Panela. it will be better to understand the reason 1987. Besides his work None of the natural minerals or vitamins behind overweight. It is always the same: we in hospitals and doctors’ are removed and Panela retains all of the natural have to understand the situation’s cause to get offices, he finished his training in nature ingredients making it a wholesome and healthy rid of the dis-ease. cure and acupuncture in 1996. Since 1994 food. It is also known under the names of “Gur” So if you are overweight and are frightened he has been teaching nurses and physio- or “Gur Jaggarey” in India or “Raspadura” in because of the link to diabetes … ask your body therapists at different places and schools. Ecuador and Brazil. for the cause for its need to be overweight. There Since March 2003 he has been working in There are natural sweeteners which do not is a reason behind it. Many bodies have a his own office for nature cure.

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