Posts Tagged ‘wellness’

Type 2 diabetes has natural interventions, which work remarkably well and are easy to implement.  With an estimated 366 million of people worldwide who have this condition you would think there would be a better understanding of this approach. The biggest challenge is for the public to understand that pharmaceutical companies have tried different medications to halt the disease and haven’t succeeded. They are dealing with a condition that they have not had much success with. 

Diabetes Epidemic

The International Diabetes Federation described the number of cases as “staggering,” every seven seconds one person succumbs to this condition. The federation is asking for concrete measures to stop the epidemic, urging officials focusing on chronic disease at the United Nations to target ways to prevent cases and to invest in more research. Yes, what we need is more research, we don’t have enough already. We can spend the next decade looking for the magic bullet.

It is estimated that health systems spend $465 billion annually fighting the disease. That includes both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. If that isn’t enough money to find the cause, which is right in front of their faces then lets go for broke.

Real Problem

The abnormalities that they are looking for is in our food supply, the diagnosis and current treatment are not the answer. Our flagging health is due to the deterioration of our food supply. Food orchestrates a complex balance of hormonal, neurochemical, and electrical signals. What makes us think we can face our deteriorating health with pharmaceuticals? As long as we ignore the warning signs that all point to lifestyle, it will be increasingly difficult to stem the tide.

Type 2 Diabetes Causes

The rise in diabetes is not due to an aging population as the medical experts claim. Diabetes is thought to be a disease of middle age, with obesity playing a part in the development of this condition. Yet, younger people are now in this group. Medical strategies haven’t consistently offered substantial improvement for diabetics.

The global number of diabetics more than doubled in the last three decades according to a study published in the medical journal Lancer. We try to manage the disease with diet, exercise and medication. With all that diabetes still results in kidney disease, blindness, heart disease, more cases of cancer, and amputations.

In the last three decades our lifestyle has been altered. This trend started earlier with the advent of pre-packaged foods, larger portions, lack of sunshine, technology advances that translate to less activity. There are multiple causes and none of them are a drug shortage. Insulin resistance is part of the culture. There are very few people who aren’t affected by this way of life. This is becoming a world wide occurrence because we export our way of eating and farming methods.

To say it is because people are living longer is an insult to our intelligence. Healthy adults who are concerned about what they put into their bodies are much less likely to develop diabetes. We are putting the cheapest “foods” on everyone’s table. Virtually everything in most people’s diet was never eaten 40 to 50 years ago. We can document that insulin resistance is a product of our diet, no amount of research will change that fact.

The Challenge

The challenge that we have is we got to deal with this crisis now. Health care will bankrupt America. Curing today’s health care cost crisis means we need natural solutions. What is essential to realize is for survival purposes we have to prevent and reverse these conditions on our own.

How to Reverse Diabetes

The Journal PLoS ONE reported the discovery by Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers that fisetin a flavone found in abundance in strawberries, and in other fruit and vegetables, helped type 1 diabetes in mice. They found Kidney enlargement and urinary protein decreased along with anxiety-related symptoms which are a central nervous system complication that occurs in human diabetics. Type 1 diabetes is harder to reverse, this shows that diet is key.

Diabetics are advised to cut fat, reduce saturated fat and include plenty of carbohydrates in the diet. It is essentially a carbohydrate-centered diet. They may say whole grains, however this is how to feed diabetics a diet that will increase fat. When visceral fat accumulates, the inflammatory signals causes the muscle and liver to stop responding to insulin. Now we are developing insulin resistance. Nice going, since the reduction of carbohydrates improves all the diabetic markers and symptoms. Isn’t it time to look to natural intervention to reverse this condition

There is a cancer study, which may radically transform how you look at this condition. Most research has to do with altering the process through physical means. There are scientist studying cancer cells response to emotional signals. We may be able to emulate and extrapolate these findings to slow or stop cancer from spreading.

A cancer  diagnosis

Many people weren’t feeling that terrible before they heard the news. You are the same person you were before you heard this. The real question is what do you do.

Current Thinking is Changing

When you do the standard treatment it is to survive. However, when you do some alternative methods it takes the apathetic approach and turns it into passionate commitment to living to the fullest. The history of standard treatments shows a system on a collision course with your physical health. There is a quiet revolution, which is making people take notice of a different way to ride the storm. The catastrophic proportions of the condition and the treatment options need to be revisited.

Make a Plan

Its okay to look at other solutions, and then try to tailor your own program. Yes, that can incorporate standard western modalities. The idea is to apply it smart. Most people don’t have an idea of what they are being offered and what the statistical outcome is.  It takes time to research the oncologist recommendation. The one thing to remember is there is no magical fix.

To create a plan you need facts. The best approaches are meant to rebuild and restore your health. This is priceless, there is a relationship between your physical emotional and environmental conditions and cancer. The mission is to put together a program that works for you. The first step is to know what a healthy body needs to function. 

What has been misleading is the fact that once the C word bomb is dropped there is nothing that you can do. This is so far from the truth. You feel like you are in a different world with new rules. The rules are the same follow a healthy lifestyle.

Emotions and Environment

A healthy lifestyle includes and is not exclusive of of one’s emotional makeup. Geneticist Professor Matthew During’s findings published in the Journal Cell offered some powerful evidence that social connections and an individual’s mental state plays a role in cancer development and progression. Matthew has show that animals interaction with the environment has a profound influence on the growth of cancer.

Mice are natural sociable creatures like humans. When in laboratory settings are usually housed in groups of five or so for laboratory experiments. They are provided with all the food they want and allowed to play all day.

Sounds good so far, however, when the mice with tumors, were placed in an enriched environment with between 15-20 mice, and more space and things to do, which included toys, hiding places and running wheels, their disease often went into spontaneous remission. Tumor mas shrunk by an average of 77 percent and the volume by 43 percent. The best part 1 in 20 of the of the Cancer ridden mice showed no evidence of disease.

The animals did show lower levels of a hormone produced by a fat called leptin, indicative of a significant shift in metabolism, Reducing leptin leaves slow down the development and spread of cancer. Cancer cells thrive on leptin.

What this shows: you can’t look at any disease without looking at your life. Those that argue that standard western care is the only course of action aren’t looking at the big picture.

The cancer lifesaving natural interventions are the ones that you do to change your internal environment. Cancer is a multifaceted process that most people don’t realize that they have control of. The things that contribute to pathological conditions, including cancer are the food one eats, the air one breaths, the water one consumes, the amount of radiation one receives, the amount one exercises, and how one handles stress.  There are natural interventions that are capable of putting the odds in your favor. The control of the environment that the cancer cells thrive in can be changed. The only one who could do that is the person themselves.

The Missing Data

On many levels cancer is an environmental and deficiency state. By environment I mean the terrain that your cells live and take a bath in everyday. This is evident by the steady rise in cases. The rapid rise in cases is attributed to people living longer. In some of the long lived people of the world who reside in their traditional culture age doesn’t seem to be a factor. It is a fact that the numbers are going up for all age groups.

The missing data is what can help reverse the trend.  All anyone has to look at is what has changed in the culture to put the population at risk. It is obvious if you just look around at the lifestyle habits that have become the norm.

The Food Supply

The biggest change is in the American diet. This is a critical component of the rise in this condition. Simple carbohydrates may seem like a simplistic response when talking about the initiation and progression of cancer. Taking a careful look at the biological explanation makes this a very logical conclusion.

Low Carbohydrate Diet

According to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of The American Association for Cancer Research and reported on June 15, 2011 eating a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors already present.

This data makes previous generations had a diet that was lower in carbs, and the number of cases were smaller. The information that the public gets is confusing, less red meat, low fat, and breakfast cereals are a healthy diet. If this was true where are all the healthy people. Are they hiding under the layers of fat?

The meat blame game may come from the fact that we are consuming meat in a highly toxic form. From feeding cattle grains, and sometimes cement dust, moldy food sources, giving them hormones and antibiotics and then claiming meat causes all sorts of conditions is really dumb science.

Calorie Restriction

Calorie restriction with optimal nutrition. It has been proven that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition triggers favorable gene expression. A study in the July 20,2011 issue of Carciongenesis points to this conclusion: A diet with reduced calories slowed the growth of mammary tumors and metastases.

Insulin and Leptin

Calorie restriction lowers the levels of insulin, and leptin, while increasing adiponectin in tumors. If you know nothing else about what makes cancer cells survive, this is the information that is a must. Insulin and leptin are involved in the carcinogenesis of breast cancer. Many studies have demonstrated that obesity, frequent snacking increase colon cancer risks. Leptin concentrations are higher in people who are overweight. Insulin releases in response to food, leptin releases in response to insulin.

This process operates well in healthy individuals. The problem is our bodies were never meant to handle the American diet. We have and epidemic of insulin resistance which produces the chronically high levels of leptin.

Colon cancer cells love leptin and thrives on it. Leptin has the ability to encourage colon cancer cells to reproduce. Breast cancer cells express higher levels of leptin and it’ receptor than normal mammary cells. There is significant correlation between leptin levels and lower survival of breast cancer patients.

Adiponectin

Adiponectin is a protein hormone that modulates a number of metabolic processed, including glucose regulation. Adiponectin is exclusively secreted from adipose tissue (fat). The more fat the less adipnectin released. The hormone helps suppress the metabolic conditions that may result, in type 2 diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk factors for metabolic syndrome.

After adjustment for body mass index (BMI) women with higher adiponectin levels had a reduced risk for breast cancer. This was true for post menopausal women, where most of the cases occur.

The next article will tell you how to take the first step in reversing cancer.