Posted on 03/09/2005 2:03:32 AM PST by Crackingham
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My dad was an insulin dependent Type I diabetic, and the onset of his disease was at age 46.
Thanks for posting. Great news for millions of people.
This procedure has been around for several years. I don't know why it is being hyped all over again.
They usually reserve the procedure for adults that can't control their diabetes with insulin injections. Their blood sugar is always too high or too low. They never seem to be able to get it just right. The anti-rejection drugs do a number on the immune system. Several expensive pills a day and they catch more diseases.
If you haven't already explored it for your son, I would recommend looking at an insulin pump. My son's has made a huge difference in his and his whole families life.
The research marches on. I'm type two. I hope my children and grandchildren don't get it or have better treatments. I'm confident they will.
Dan Dunphy, ND (Doctor of Naturopathy), has cured 15 cases of DM of both types, using organ/hormone balancing. His work has implicated overgrowth of Candida albicans (yeast organism that causes thrush) post-antibiotic use in young children who developed DM about the age your child did (they are presumed to be Type I because of their age, etc., but in reality it is arguable that any but a very tiny number of human beings are actually Type I, as cows' milk has been implicated now for years in so-called Type I DM in infants when, in reality, it could be argued to be actually a sub-type II as it is not strictly genetic). In at least one case resulting from antibiotic use, Dunphy was able to rid the child of both Candida and DM in about three years. Many of these cases (early childhood) apparently are related to a history of ear infections followed by antibiotic use followed by Candida overgrowth beginning in the GI tract (where they are normal at the 15% level, versus 85% of other flora). You can find information on one or two of his cases on the internet, or get more information on his work from his medical group at San Francisco Preventive Medical Group on Portola Avenue in San Francisco (415-566-1000), where he works under the auspices of a well-known MD. I don't know whether or not he has used the anti-Candida approach I am about to share with you as it is relatively new and unknown, but it is certainly possible.
The list of side-effects of various levels of Candida in the human body is interesting: like a lot of apparently auto-immune conditions, it's a kind of "Macavity wasn't there" type of thing. Doctors don't believe in it because it isn't easily observed or demonstrated. It can and does change form when challenged or needing more room (single-celled to mycelial), and goes systemic and invades other body cavities when it does, including finger- and toe-nailbeds, head sinuses, lungs, urinary tract, vaginal tract, (probably peritoneum in my elderly dad's case -- he's a peritoneal dialysis patient due to renal failure from diabetes). With my dad, we're discovering that it raises both blood sugars (!) and blood pressure; has given him fungal nails (of course); causes his intermittent or persistent diarrhea; apparently makes him mentally fuzzy, a known side-effect; makes him insomniac to some degree (and snoring); etc. We are discovering that others in our family (myself in particular) may have just a lower level of infestation.
We are coming to the conclusion in this household that anyone who consumes the SAD (Standard American Diet) should probably presume they have some level of Candida and try the following product, which (unlike most therapies, natural and pharmaceutical) basically dissolves the cell wall of the yeast and renders it digestible by either yourself or the remaining flora in your GI tract. The use of the product ranging between 3 days and 30 days will render most people back to their normal 15% level, and has systemic effect as well, and that without toxic die-off, impossible when using any other approach. Toxic die-off reaction with other therapies is unpleasant, I hear, and can even sabotage the therapy. Mercifully, no one in this household will ever experience that just because I happened to be resistant to using pharmaceutical approaches at all, ever and because I happened to spot the new product in a display at my well-stocked local health food store. The name of the product: Candex. Not terribly expensive and well worth the price. You take two capsules in the morning 1 hour before breakfast with 8 ozs. water, and two before bedtime and at least 2 hours after eating, also with 8 ozs. of water.
I am an early (recent) diabetic and now heart attack survivor trying to bring down my cholesterol (yes, Candida can raise that, too), high blood pressure and high sugars, etc., and the first effect I noticed the morning after my first (nighttime) dose was a markedly decreased craving for carbohydrates. (Dunphy interned under Dr. Atkins, I believe.) With my elderly dad, his aggravating diarrhea has immediately responded. (The earlier effects we observed with his blood sugars and blood pressure, diminution of diarrhea, disappearance of purpura blotches on his hands and arms, too! -- were from using probiotics (Goatein 1/2 t. and 1/2-1 capsule of Nature's Sunshine's Bifidophilus Flora Force) in his whey protein isolate shake in the morning, but that is from the same thing that the Candex effects: knocking down the numbers of Candida in your gut and in your system.) I think from my reading that Candida also causes dry eyes, a problem for my dad and for elderly people in general.
Chief ingredients in Candex are the enzymes cellulase and hemicellulase, present in other products as part of a mix of things, but not in the high numbers Candex contains. Effectively, a cow would not have Candida because a cow produces these enzymes as part of her system for digesting greens; you need to take them in a capsule in order to digest the Candida so you get to start benefiting from your designated food instead of the Candida thriving on it. Take note, their favorite foods are simple carbohydrates; I am coming to believe that Candida may be one of the chief mitigators of aging chronic degenerative diseases in this country due to our high consumption of the SAD.
I wish now I hadn't ignored the ongoing discoveries in this arena when I first heard about them; as "Bones" has said in the movie, "Star Trek IV," "[this level of Medicine] is in the Dark Ages." That is a fact. I'm also put in mind of the conclusion of another movie, "War of the Worlds," in which the aliens were defeated by earth's pathogens. That is effectively the difference between older approaches to Candida decimation and Candex, IMHO. Instead of a pitched battle between Nystatin (now resisted) or even probiotics and the entrenched Candida, you lob a hand grenade or a mortar shell at the Candida (or, better yet, liken it to a neutron bomb as it decimates ONLY the Candida and nothing else and doesn't elicit the dreaded Herxheimer's reaction or "die-off.")
I hope this helps everyone who reads it. Note: In addition, you should start juicing (vegetable) massively to change the environment systemically, which helps to reverse all the major disease entities. You have to effect a pH and enzyme change in your internal environment based on your diet to defeat any or all of these things, including cancer. Recommendation on juicers: the Norwalk -- expensive but up to the massive task a cancer patient needs and therefore suitable for juicing for an entire household. Easy cleanup and gets the most out of the produce -- use organic only. Gerson therapy for cancer and other chronic aging diseases recommends only the Norwalk because it is a titurator (similar to the Candex effect, but on vegetables and fruits) and extractor combined. I haven't compared it to Jack LaLanne's juicer, but with the Norwalk (for cancer therapy, at least) you remove the rinds from most vegetables and fruits first due to digestibility and taste issues -- and probably incidental soil/soil pathogen removal. I forgot to mention that Candida induces food allergies, so-called, and many of us are walking around with sub-clinical (undetected) sensitivities to common foods we continue to ingest regularly, setting up inflammatory responses in the body that are akin to what initially causes DM in apparently most cases.
Big changes, but well worth it.
Yes, you would have to use anti-rejection drugs; the one case I am personally familiar with is an adult who had so-called Type I from childhood. He has had the pancreatic islet cell transplant, along with a single kidney (he's a chronic renal failure patient now), and has to use anti-rejection drugs, which cause many other problems. He is also on hemodialysis three times a week to help his (now-ailing) transplant kidney.
Something he has found that has helped him immensely, based on his reading of the book Sugars That Heal, are products from the MLM Mannatech. He is doing very much better than anyone in the medical field expected him to do, and he bases his wellbeing on his daily use of four of their products. He is defying the statistics in several respects. I have written about the product (not Mannatech's) Candex elsewhere in this thread and am about to let him know about our recent results with that, in case he may benefit from it, as well.
I can't remember his history, but he may have developed Type I (so-called) from antibiotic use as a child, as well. I'll ask him about it.
Your posting puts me in mind of something else I need to share on this thread: (apparently) largely unrecognized is the pancreas's role as a first line of defense against environmental poisons, including Agent Orange, the defoliant used in Vietnam during the conflict there, with resulting Diabetes mellitus from the auto-immune impact. Many vets from that era contracted DM based on that exposure.
"He is the third patient to be treated at King’s College Hospital in London using a technique developed at the University of Alberta in Canada by a Leeds-born specialist, James Shapiro"
Ah yes...the joys of socialised medicine! What a backward load of limies we are!
;o)
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