A woman I met on a personals site (hot: surprised she clicked yes to me. my blurry picture perhaps?) has diabetes. My Life Extension magazines have many articles on fighting it, so I emailed her a bunch of high lights from the articles. I figured some people here may have diabetes or know someone who does, so here is the info:
Summary of Some Study Results in irst Magazine (I have several to skim through):
1. Sleep quality and duration are significant predictors of blood sugar control in diabetic people.
2. People with pre-diabetes or diabetes are insensitive to insulin, and start producing a lot more as blood sugar levels rise, until the cells making the insulin burn out. Then they are dependent on the insulin. While some cells maintain normal internal glucose levels, others get a build up of glucose at a greater rate than they metabolise it, and it piles up and breaks down on its own, forming intermediates that set off chemical pathways that lots of damage to different parts of the body. Vitamin B1, which is Thiamine, helps regulate glucose metabolism, and can be deficient in alcoholics. It is water soluble. Google Benfotiamine. It is a fat soluble version of B1 which is more absorbable into cells and supposed to protect them from many of glucose intermediate's damaging affects. It upregulates the production of enzymes that break down the glucose intermediates to a non-toxic form. Many studies in this article detailing how it protects different parts of the body. It is cheap. http://www.easycart.net/cgi-bin/BeyondA ... search.cgi
3. Here is cinnamin extract:
http://www.easycart.net/cgi-bin/BeyondA ... search.cgi
4. Some oxidative stress can result from glucose spikes. Look into some of the cheaper anti-oxidants on that site. You can get 50g of green tea extract for $9.
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I'm going to make a myspace group out of this.
Article #2
1. People with diabetes are very likely to get alzheimers.
2. Diabetes is completely preventable and reverseable.
3. Type I: can't produce enough insulin. Type 2: insulin insensitivity leads to too much production, followed by not enough when the pancrease stops working. Most common type. Not all of the 50,000,000 americans with insulin resistance have type 2 diabetes.
4. "Advanced glycation end products" (google it. most doctors don't know about them) can damage every part of your body, and they accumulate. Oxidative stress helps cause the formationof these. Alzheimers has the same chemicals. These chemicals cause the same alzheimer plaques and tangles, and peole with more of these chemicals do significantly worse on cognitive tests.
5. 200-1000 mcg per day of chromium improves blood sugar metabolism in many ways.
6. Exercise improves blood sugar and insulin levels.
7. Avoid greatly reduce saturated fat intake, eat more mono-unsaturated and omega-3's, fiber, fruits, and vegetables.
8. Curcumin, a extract of tumeric powder, has numberous good effects on blood sugar metabolism. I don't want to re-type the whole article, but curcumin does a lot. Just get a variety of these anti-oxidants. Don't load up on just one.
9. Carnosine protects against AGE's too, and does other stuff.
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If you get migraines, you can cure yourself of them by balancing your hormones with the right amount of DHEA, and some other stuff.
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this magazine has an ad for criogenic storage for people until new technology comes out. http://www.alcor.org. Not for you. Just thought it was interesting they had the ad in here.
Summary of Some Study Results in irst Magazine (I have several to skim through):
1. Sleep quality and duration are significant predictors of blood sugar control in diabetic people.
2. People with pre-diabetes or diabetes are insensitive to insulin, and start producing a lot more as blood sugar levels rise, until the cells making the insulin burn out. Then they are dependent on the insulin. While some cells maintain normal internal glucose levels, others get a build up of glucose at a greater rate than they metabolise it, and it piles up and breaks down on its own, forming intermediates that set off chemical pathways that lots of damage to different parts of the body. Vitamin B1, which is Thiamine, helps regulate glucose metabolism, and can be deficient in alcoholics. It is water soluble. Google Benfotiamine. It is a fat soluble version of B1 which is more absorbable into cells and supposed to protect them from many of glucose intermediate's damaging affects. It upregulates the production of enzymes that break down the glucose intermediates to a non-toxic form. Many studies in this article detailing how it protects different parts of the body. It is cheap. http://www.easycart.net/cgi-bin/BeyondA ... search.cgi
3. Here is cinnamin extract:
http://www.easycart.net/cgi-bin/BeyondA ... search.cgi
4. Some oxidative stress can result from glucose spikes. Look into some of the cheaper anti-oxidants on that site. You can get 50g of green tea extract for $9.
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I'm going to make a myspace group out of this.
Article #2
1. People with diabetes are very likely to get alzheimers.
2. Diabetes is completely preventable and reverseable.
3. Type I: can't produce enough insulin. Type 2: insulin insensitivity leads to too much production, followed by not enough when the pancrease stops working. Most common type. Not all of the 50,000,000 americans with insulin resistance have type 2 diabetes.
4. "Advanced glycation end products" (google it. most doctors don't know about them) can damage every part of your body, and they accumulate. Oxidative stress helps cause the formationof these. Alzheimers has the same chemicals. These chemicals cause the same alzheimer plaques and tangles, and peole with more of these chemicals do significantly worse on cognitive tests.
5. 200-1000 mcg per day of chromium improves blood sugar metabolism in many ways.
6. Exercise improves blood sugar and insulin levels.
7. Avoid greatly reduce saturated fat intake, eat more mono-unsaturated and omega-3's, fiber, fruits, and vegetables.
8. Curcumin, a extract of tumeric powder, has numberous good effects on blood sugar metabolism. I don't want to re-type the whole article, but curcumin does a lot. Just get a variety of these anti-oxidants. Don't load up on just one.
9. Carnosine protects against AGE's too, and does other stuff.
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If you get migraines, you can cure yourself of them by balancing your hormones with the right amount of DHEA, and some other stuff.
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this magazine has an ad for criogenic storage for people until new technology comes out. http://www.alcor.org. Not for you. Just thought it was interesting they had the ad in here.
