Posted on 09/06/2021 2:34:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
…19TH CENTURY: DIETS AND DIABETIC DOGS
Diet became the rage around 1800 after John Rollo confirmed the existence of excess blood sugar in people with diabetes, concluding that low-carb, high-protein diets worked best. Seventy years later, French physician Appolinaire Bouchardat discovered during a food shortage that starvation worked well for his patients. By the 1880s, periodic fasting and starvation were the norm.
German medical student Paul Langerhans first identified islet cells in the pancreas in 1869. In 1889, Josef von Mering and Oskar Minkowski removed the pancreas of a dog and voilà! — instant diabetes. Scottish endocrinologist Edward Sharpey-Shafer made the leap in 1910, suggesting that the pancreas secreted an “antidiabetic” chemical, which he dubbed insulin.
1922: THE YEAR IT ALL CHANGED
In 1922, Canadians Frederick Banting and Charles Best injected their purified pancreatic extract into a young boy suffering from juvenile diabetes. His virtually immediate recovery declared that diabetes treatment had been revolutionized. The following year, the first commercial preparations of bovine insulin appeared.
1940S AND ’50S: SANGER AND SULFONYLUREAS
By the late 1940s, insulin syringes became available, and in the 1950s, people with diabetes could easily monitor the sugar in their urine, thanks to tablets and test strips. In 1958, people with type-2 diabetes caught a big break when oral sulfonylureas — which stimulate the pancreas to release more insulin — hit the market.
Englishman Frederick Sanger was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1958 after identifying the structure of insulin, laying the groundwork for synthetic insulin….
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I just read where Berberine is supposed to help diabetes.
A cult ... or a racket.
Thanks for the info everyone. Made my walk today. Blood sugar 106. Moving on...
“Became much less trusting of the medical community in general after reading this.”
At this point, I’ve had 7 surgeries, all successful. So if it’s time for #8, I’m not worried.
Having said that, I now know that Statins and related Cholesterol numbers are a scam, Salt intake limits are bogus, the high-carb diet they recommend is poison, and meat, particularly Red Meat with FAT is the healthiest food a human can eat.
I also have suspicion regarding numbers for blood sugar, blood pressure, and probably other crap are BS. Just too much money to be made in telling people they’re unhealthy, regardless of whether true or not. No different than Scientology ‘personality tests’, that everyone, somehow, failed. Hmmm.
And for those who aren't familiar with the term "visceral", it means fat wrapped around your internal organs. It is possible to have a relatively flat midsection, and still have visceral fat.
As I understand it, fat builds up around your liver over time. Eventually it starts marbling inside the liver, reducing it's ability to perform it's many functions. Then the fat around your pancreas starts marbling inside THAT organ, reducing it's ability to produce insulin.
For those interested in learning more about the how and why of diabetes, and how to reverse it, I'd recommend two books by Dr. Jason Fung, The Obesity Code, and The Diabetes Code. I'd bet a pile of money that you'll learn more from those books than you will by asking questions of your doctor.
I fasted 5 days a week (almost every week) for a couple years and my diabetes is in remission. My wife did Keto for that time period and she, too, is in remission.
You must really have loved that cat. A one way trip to the vet would have been my “treatment”..What a pita doing the shots would ahve been!
In many people wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) mimics insulin in that it plugs into cellular insulin receptors. However, WGA doesn’t transport glucose into cells like insulin does. The blood fills with glucose, causing pancreas islet cells to flood the blood with insulin. The immune system can mount a response, attacking WGA and attacking the cells which WGA attaches to.
If you cut back on carbohydrates? Well, wheat is a carbohydrate, isn’t it? Don’t believe me. Search the terms for yourself, “wheat protein mimics insulin”.
BFL
I have been doing intermittant fasting myself based in part from Dr Jung. Lost 40 lbs since March. A1C is from 9.1 to 7.9. However the time period for that test included when I was still on meds. I went off meds without telling doctor. Doctor curious to see the results from next test at end of month as it will reflect no meds. I could sense she was a bit taken back from my progress. I told her “going against the orthodoxy arent I” and she agreed.
Diabetic cookbook from 1917:
https://archive.org/details/diabeticcookeryr00oppeiala/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater
The “High-carb, low-fat” diet is a Crime Against Humanity.
Brother don't we know it. Never eat a potato or a slice of bread, even KFC is off limits. In fact if you enjoy it don't eat it. well it is almost that hard, but it is doable. There are some excellent Keto cooks on YouTube. Some are dedicated to treating diabetes others seem geared toward weight loss, but Keto does both well.
What kind of fasting?
You are an idiot. Until the discovery of insulin most diabetics died at a young age.
Diet alone will not cure diabetes.
Go to YouTube and search intermittent fasting. Actually confining eating to an eight hour period carries some advantage. I think if you do bot fasting and Keto you will find that very effective.
Very true.
I think we need to differentiate between Type I and Type II diabetes...
Sounds good! Fat weights 7.4 pounds per gallon, so if the weight you took off was all fat, that's over five gallons of it. Picture that.
That shows using almond flour for recipes! In 1917, or so. Also, saccharin was available.
Amazing, and it saved lives even then.
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