I have been a type II diabetic for around ten years.
I have been on Metformin off and on for years. At one point my doctor had me up to 2000 mg per day. Early on the Metformin seemed to work, but as the years have gone by I realized it does nothing for me. If I stay on a strict diet I can keep the blood sugar down somewhat but not into what the medical industry says is an acceptable level.
I have my A1C tested on a fairly regular basis and with a controlled diet I am usually around a 7. On a daily basis my blood sugar can fluctuate between high 130s all the way up to 190 when I’ve been bad. One day of going nuts skyrockets the fasting blood sugar the next morning.
About four weeks ago I started on the carnivore diet, and even with that I was still popping a fasting blood sugar in the 140 to 160 range on many days.
I started researching on nitrogen oxide’s affects on the body, and during that research came upon a video about iodine and its affects on the body. I decided to start taking iodine to see what it would do. Mind you I was not looking for something to combat the diabetes.
However, within about three days the fasting blood sugar was going down. At about one week I couldn’t explain why that was happening because I wasn’t necessarily sticking to my carnivore diet strictly, and I would usually see a large spike when I had been bad. Those large spikes were not happening.
I sat down and started contemplating what had changed. The only thing that changed was that I had started taking four drops of iodine daily. I have come to the conclusion that my insulin resistant diabetes is the result of an iodine deficiency. I still try to watch my diet, but I have had about three days that I knew I had gone overboard, and yet the highest fasting blood sugar I have popped is 130. For me that is a nothing burger. I am also off the worthless Metformin.
I have since learned that because of the depletion of iodine in our soils 80 to 85 percent of the US is iodine deficient. If you are Type II Diabetic due to insulin resistance iodine would be worth a try in my opinion. You have nothing to lose by giving it a shot. The iodine I am taking is one of the Lugol's 2% solution brands. I have read the Nascent Iodine is a better option, and I have some coming but have not tried the ionized version yet.
I hope this can help some of those in the community. If you give this a try and works or doesn't work for you let us know.
DON'T JOIN THE IODINE CULT. It has been known for a hundred years that iodine causes autoimmunity. I know from personal experience. Do yourself a favor and watch this video: https://youtu.be/0e9-YwS1S_s
Do yourself a bigger favor if you are diabetic. You'll know the truth in less than a week if it works for you.
Um, so Inuit, Japanese and other high seafood diet peoples all have autoimmune diseases? News to me.
A couple years ago I had extreme brain fog, the doctor at the time useless and “restricted” in their allowed diagnostic methods. I kept searching for solutions online and came across iodine deficiency as the cause of brain fog, cancers and a plethora of various other ailments, the addition of bromide in commercial bread and flour production being a contributing factor. From what I can tell this was deliberate, the outcome of a faulty “study”.
Anyway, I got liquid iodine and within TWO DAYS my brain fog cleared and has never returned.
FYI: I have had labs drawn many many times, and my thyroid hormones do not show that I am iodine deficient.
The US daily recommended dose is .056 for iodine. According to the doctor I was watching. That recommended level is way to low.
The Japanese because of their high seafood diet do not have near the health problems like heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer et al as do Americans and their diet gives them 100 times the American recommended .056 level of iodine.
There are two types of blood tests.
The best one for determining if you have diabetes is the A1C which has to be taken by a lab, and order by a doctor. The A1C will show what your blood sugar has ranged for about the last month.
There is also a daily test that you can do at home. You insert a test strip in a blood glucose meter, and prick your finger to put a drop of blood on the end of the strip. That will give you the blood sugar level at that time. Most diabetics will do that at least once a day. I do it every morning to get my fasting blood sugar levels, which is a fair indicator of what it should normally run before eating anything. When you eat, according to what you eat the blood sugar will spike.
The test kits and strips can be bought at Walmart. They are sold separate. I think they come with a set of test strips for about 30 days, and the little device to prick your finger. I use the Prime brand, and I think the kit is still less than $20. The strips are about $9 for 50 strips.
If you think you are diabetic but not sure, the A1C test is the way to go.
If can't get them to run the A1C you can use the Walmart glucose meter daily and get a 30 day average on the meter. The only problem with that is that it is just a snap shot in time every day, and doesn't really indicate what is going on when you eat. If the levels are always good on the daily reading you are likely fine.
This is the true meaning of this ‘board’ a ‘community’. I wish my Dad was still alive to take this advice… he was diagnosed w/ Type 2 in his late 60’s ; he followed the whole protocol - lived a clean life and died beholden to diabetes shots and 20+ medications to keep him alive… by the end - he couldn’t do it by himself! Big PHARMA kills people - Killed my father, my sister, my cousin, my brother … we let it happen….
I’m so sorry …way to young
I totally agree. As you no doubt discovered in your dig, iodine was added to salt because there was very little iodine in the American diet. Adding iodine to salt solved all sorts of health problems. Now with people avoiding salt, it make sense that we would start to see those health problems returning.
I was borderline diabetic with mild hypertension, but the real driving force for my change was ulcerative colitis (UC). When I was researching alternative treatments to get it under control, I learned that lots of people had discovered that increasing their salt intake and reducing their vegetable intake made a massive improvement in their over health. It worked for me too. Now my UC is under control and my blood work comes back fine so my doctor doesn't nag me about my diet anymore.
When I was researching, someone pointed out that the hospital gives you way more saline than we're supposed to have based on dietary guidelines without regard for diabetes, high blood pressure, pregnancy, or any other health conditions. This being the case, I think the fear mongering about salt is nefarious in nature and the drop in iodine may be a part of the underlying health issues that we're seeing across the country.
Iodized salt is not enough iodine to be effective against an iodine deficiency, but you are right about the fear mongering on salt.
Before the 1970's iodine was added to most of the baked breads in this country. During the 1970's they changed over to bromide. Bromide is counter productive to good health.
In my opinion they already knew that bromide was bad and that iodine was good, and the switch was intentional. That move alone probably increased the Type II diabetes in this country.
https://borntobeboomers.com/the-truth-about-bread-bromines-iodine-deficiency-and-your-thyroid/
I had a re-occuring problem with A-fib. The heart doctor put me on amiodarone for a while. Guess what is in amiodarone? Iodine!
Thanks for the new info fren. I'm glad we're both doing better.
Vegetables should be good for us too, but like mass-produced meat, they are criminally deficient in the nutrients they used to have, while high in toxins like Roundup's glyphosate.
Don't get me wrong, they're good for most people and should be good for me too. My health problems make me unable to digest them the way I should be able to. I'm convinced that those of us with UC and other health issues are victims of the unnatural crap that's in our environment. Kind of like the canaries in the coal mine.
Oh my bro believe me I know. Many have been so poisoned by what should have been good for us that their digestive systems are permanently hosed. We've added you to our prayers, 3rdkey. If you don't mind, please add my young relative with lupus, her kidneys are failing and she's been in and out of the hospital, so much pain. TIA
Congratulations for not giving up, and finding something that works! Good for you and for everyone around you.
Thanks for the info. Will pass it on.
My friend. I was diagnosed with type II diabetes about ten years ago. I dug in and researched it, because I lost all faith in doctors about 30 years ago, when I realized that they were mostly drug dealers. After looking at all my options, I decided to try the Ketogenic diet. Within 3 months, I lost close to 30 pounds, and my blood sugar levels had returned to within acceptable parameters. Not everyone has the same metabolism, but it sure worked for me. I still try to minimize refined carbohydrates in my diet, with cheat days now and then, but I've managed to keep my weight down all this time, which I have been fighting with all my life. I encourage you to check it out.
Glad you're better! I know someone who came off her meds for type II Diabetes by following Dr. Jason Fung's protocol. (He can be found on youtube.) Basically, I think it was the keto diet. There might be a bit more to it, like probably some intermittent fasting, but if you'd care to look it up, I can tell you it worked for her.
Great info. Thanks for sharing.
It's always best to get micronutrients from real food, rather than questionable pills and such.
Eggs are high in iodine, and many other micronutrients.
6 eggs per day would be enough for most people.
I usually eat 12+.
No problems.
Farm fresh eggs might have enough iodine from free range chickens although I doubt it, and unless the pellets used in the laying houses have iodine added the store bought eggs likely won't have enough iodine. I eat three eggs almost every morning, and I'm a heavy egg eater. I don't know anyone that eats six.
The crops grown in the US are grown in iodine depleted soils, and the grains do not have enough iodine. Commercial chicken feed is primarily processed corn with some alfalfa added as greens.
Well, they have to have enough total nutrients to produce a healthy baby chick.
So, they obviously have enough total nutrients.
Chickens are not humans, so their dietary requirements are not the same.
So, your speculation seems irrelevant regarding iodine in eggs.
You are not seriously saying that you NEED a fake supplement more than REAL food, are you?
That's a rhetorical question, btw, if you are even reading this still. But others who come across this thread should ponder that question.
So tell me exactly what is fake about the element iodine?
5 brasil nuts a day will keep you iodine balanced. also D3+K2 supplementation is good for Type 2
best nuts. Do they retain iodine after roasting? OP also mentions soil depletion so maybe less iodine in brazil nuts?
I've actually been conducting some personal research on Type 1 and 2 diabetes as well as kidney disease. I found an interesting discussion about using SLGT2 inhibitors (such as Farxiga) to treat Type 2 diabetes. The good news is that they may speed up the treatment process, but are ultimately not necessary. The treatment in this case relies on a combination of intermittent fasting and a low-carb diet.
Here's a presentation I found that outlines this treatment methodology:
https://youtu.be/6KS7M0s2fJM?si=M_OztKhxwbwSBZG4
I hope that this helps you out.
Note: I'm not a doctor. I'm a buff in non-pharmaceutical treatment and my goal is to help fix diseases that many used to consider incurable.
My current project is aimed to cure type 1 diabetes by remodeling a defective gut biome to support immune regulation. Along the way I think I've found ways to reverse kidney damage too.
Please share some ways to reverse kidney damage
So the kidney damage is also intertwined with diabetes. If you have Kidney disease and diabetes things become much more complicated.
I'll share solutions for people with kidney disease only to keep it more clear. Here is the step by step process
Step 1: stop the bleeding
Kidney disease is progressive because the body can't keep up with the damage being done to the kidneys through several mechanisms. The result is that many of the glomeruli are converted into scar tissue. The goal to this step is to stop the mechanisms that cause this
First, control blood pressure This is a 2-fold process. The first part is standard health concepts by dieting and exercise. Aim for non processed foods and get that daily cardio. A 30-60 minute brisk walk is a good start point. Second you can utilize natural substances to further control blood pressure. One of the best I've seen is beet root powder.
If you're hyperglycemic, that'll need to be addressed too. Again nutritional control is key, however some natural supplements support this. For example chlorophyll. Personally I would aim for a diet in complex (non-starchy) carbs.
Next, you need to get that creatinine under control. This is where low protein diets are typically recommended by neurologist. However the diet alone won't fix this. The creatinine levels are rising typically through disuse of large metabolic processes. Organs account for a lot, of these processes, but in this case I'm referring to your musculoskeletal system because you have direct control over that.
If you aren't appropriately stimulating your muscles through anaerobic exercise, then the muscles have no need to hold onto the tissue containing their creatinine. The result is that it gets broken down and sent into the blood stream which causes problems for the kidneys. The solution? Hit the weights bruh!
Also you may notice that I didn't mention sodium control. The reason is because most people with kidney damage have already been advised to control their sodium (and phosphorus) intake by their neurologist. I was just trying to avoid redundancy.
So here's a summary to step 1:
Be sure to include that red beet powder!
Control blood sugar by getting carbs from complex non starchy sources (such as sweet potatoes and white button mushrooms. Those contain mannitol which is a natural sugar alcohol which is great at reducing inflammation)
Reduce creatinine by getting regular lifting exercise. (cardio won't fix this, you gotta lift). Stick with moderate intensity and mid-high range reps (ie. 15-45 reps before you need to rest)
On to the next Step!
Step 2: Weed out invading organisms
If you've been following GAW, then you're probably already familiar with the idea that parasites cause far more diseases than people thought.
However you may notice that despite treating yourself with things like Ivermectin and Fenbendazole, you kidneys aren't getting better.
Why is that?
Well, the reason is that you may also have molds that are hiding within your body (similar to parasites, but different in their treatment)
You see, the problem is that molds release mycotoxins which damage the kidneys progressively over time. In addition they have the ability to hide from your immune system via biofilms
What is a biofilm? Essentially it's a protein structure that acts as a protective maze that your immune cells can't navigate.
So what's one to do?
In this case you need to prevent these biofilm-forming proteins from being produced and in addition, you need to break down the existing protein structures.
Typically people would suggest using natural cleansers like NAC or cilantro, however these powerful antioxidants aren't exactly kidney disease friendly. (they also don't break biofilms)
Instead, I would use Modified Citrus Pectin (MCP) to help deal with the proteins
Combating the biofilms is a little more tricky but I've found some information suggesting that seaweed alginates can do this.
Once the proteins that build the biofilms are reduced and the biofilms are broken up, the molds that are hiding will finally be exposed.
This allows your natural immune system to go to work eliminating them and thereby addressing the potential mycotoxins problem.
So to quickly summarize step 2:
Weed out molds by breaking their protective structures.
Do this by supplementing with:
This process could take a couple months, and you will undoubtedly experience herxheimers reactions (It'll feel like you have the flue, but you want actually have the flu. It's a result of your body flushing out toxins produced by white blood cells destroying mold).
It'll suck, but it is a predictive part of the process. If the her reactions are too much, then slow down supplementation so that it's more manageable.
With that done, you can finally start step 3
Step 3: Kidney Repair
This is where things get speculative, but they can potentially restore kidneys to full function. I'll also take several months to a few years of consistency depending in the amount if damage.
First, you need to reduce any potential scar tissue on your glomeruli. This is accomplished potentially through a process called autophagy which is triggered by intermittent fasting (see where I found this through type 2 diabetic treatment?)
Autophagy is your body's way if recycling unused tissue. With the blood pressure, sugar, and creatinine under control, and a nice lack if molds, your kidneys will have no more use of the scar tissue, so it will recycle it.
It does this because of the basic rules of homeostasis that we learned in high school biology.
However the real magic comes from replacing glomeruli themselves.
To this I point to a recent realization in the medical community. This concept is called neurogenesis or the creation of new neurons in the brain.
Until recently it was believe that neurons couldn't be replaced, but studies are starting to show this isn't the case.
Now I'm going to speculate, so take this with a grain of salt (not literally, low sodium plz)
If neurons, an extremely specialized type of cell within the body, can be produced, then why can't nephrons (kidney tissue cells) do the same?
So what would they need to regenerate and proliferate?
The answer? Literally the same damn thing as your neurons.
You see, both of these types of cells rely heavily on extracellular activity taking place through their cell membranes (whether it's nerve related synaptic impulses, or kidney related filtration)
Therefore, you need to give your body what it needs to support and developer these membranes.
In this case, I'm referring to Omega-3 Fatty acids (more specifically EPA)
This type of fat is important for building the special fatty membranes of these cells. You may recognize the term phospholipid bilayer.
In neurons this building process is called myelination.
I don't believe there has been a named version for this in the kidneys, but it's essentially the same thing.
So all you need to do is increase your omega-3 intake. I would suggest supplementing omega 3s rather than fish oils because it'll be easier for your body to process and you'll be able to get larger quantities.
So to summarize Step 3:
Reduce scar tissue by intermittent fasting.
Potentially proliferate kidney cells with by increasing Omega-3 fatty acids (EPA specifically)
This process theoretically can halt and even reverse kidney disease.
Like I said, a lot of this is speculation, so be sure to do your own research . If you also have diabetes, then that takes precedence in the order of treatment.
I hope this helps you out. I'm also open to any additional information that can help my studies.
I'm T1D. No kidney damage afaik. Recently started looking for diatomaceous earth to break up biofilms. Also discovered cases where newly diagnosed T1D was staved off / cured by antiparasitics, specifically mebendazole. Figured to do diato. earth combined with ivermectin for a bit. Any opinion on diatomaceous earth versus seaweed alginates? Also, never heard of seaweed alginates: is that the name how they are sold? Any ideas on quantities/dosage? Thanks.
So DE is more related to the gut biome and ridding yourself of invasive organisms. As a matter of fact it is part if the treatment protocol I've come up with for T1D. The alginates is more internal based. I'm still trying to find information to give me an idea on natural sources or dosages, but you can find more information from the same backers of Pectisol-c.
Here's a link to the article I used to help my research. It's commercial in nature, but the information is still useful.
https://draxe.com/health/how-to-detox-your-body-from-mold-without-stressing-out-your-kidneys-liver/
This article should answer your questions about the Alginates.
As For T1D that has it's own treatment structure. The good news is that it's also relatively straight forward.
There's a lot of emerging study connecting immune dysfunction (source of T1D) and the gut biome. Therefore, if you treat the gut biome, you can potentially treat/cure T1D.
Step 1: Remove the garbage from the gut Step 2: Remodel the gut biome to support a healthy bacterial environment Step 3: Repopulate the gut biome with good bacteria.
By doing this, it'll bring the immune system under control by allowing the proliferation of regulatory T cells (Treg) mostly located in the thymus. These Tregs are responsible for controlling your natural killer (NK) cells.
When the NK cells are brought back under control, your body will stop attacking itself. The result?
Reduced inflammation Reduced allergies Pancreatic Beta Cell proliferation (leading to a restoration in insulin production)
Diatomaceous Earth helps accomplish step 1 of the process (removing the garbage) which is why it helps fix newly diagnosed T1D. Since it's early in the process, typically all one needs to do is get rid of the crud. More advanced cases will require the other steps to reverse more extensive damage.
There are many more "ingredients" to the protocol I've hypothesized, but if you'd like, I can go into depth on that a little more.
Thank you. I'd really appreciate the depth. I've had it for about 30 years, and am still looking to kick it.
Also curious if you've seen the work of Dr. Denise Faustman (Faustmanlab.org) whose published works in 2020 laid out a good case of how it's a metabolic shift correlated to specific versions of TB vaccines. She's a contrarian doctor who has been ostracized by the JDF (juvenile diabetes foundation) after having reversed it successfully ... with another vaccine. According to her it seems to be a lack of exposure to the TB bacteria at a certain developmental stage, for which the reaction to weak TB vaccines don't compensate for enough. Her papers are very straightforward. Obviously a different approach, and stonewalled by the FDA, but it has also been demonstrated.
In the meantime I'll get some DE. Thanks.
Very interesting, thank you.
excellent!
Inositol, chromium and Quercetin also lower blood glucose. as does garlic, sage, and green beans.
I wrote several papers about the keto diet in college. The gist of it all is that all carbs (no matter the source outside of fiber and sugar alcohols, of course) are converted into sugar during digestion. Some break down more rapidly than others causing a rapid increase in blood sugar levels followed by a rapid increase in insulin as a response. Some break down much slower causing a gradual increase in blood sugar with a gradual insulin response.
Causing a sharp raise in blood sugar/insulin response repeatedly over time is what leads to insulin resistance and subsequently type 2 diabetes if nothing changes. Over time, your body has to produce and release an increasing amount of insulin in order for it to have the same effect that a little bit used to. Eventually, this wears out your pancreas and it becomes unable to continue producing insulin.
Your body breaks down carbs first, converts them to glycogen, and uses it to repair your body as well as replacing depleted energy that was stored in your body. Whatever is leftover is then stored inside of your fat cells for use later. If you're constantly consuming large amounts of carbs and fat, then the leftover carbs, protein, and fat all get stored in your fat cells for later.
The ketogenic diet reverses this. The carnivore diet would be a form of ketogenic diet. It doesn't happen immediately, just like getting to where you are didn't happen immediately. A doctor in the 1910s to 1920s stumbled upon it when trying to come up with a way to help his patients with epilepsy. He found that a fast followed by a carb restricted diet either reduced the frequency of seizures or eliminated them altogether. It wasn't until many years later that the weight loss effect became known.
Carbs are inflammatory and cause many health issues. The tin foil hat version of history points towards the 50s and 60s as the turning point in history leading to the obesity epidemic seen today. What changed? A congressional committee was looking into why so many of their colleagues were starting to have heart attacks. Using bad science (or purposefully bad science), fat was given the blame.
What was the recommended diet after that study? Think about the food pyramid introduced in the early 90s. Their recommendations were for a little bit of fat, moderate protein, and a heavy dose of oats and other carbs as the majority. Remember, all carbs except fiber and sugar alcohols are turned into sugar inside of your body. Does fat make you fat? Nope. Carbs do. The pyramid is upside down from what it should be.
Think about all of the diseases that are increasingly seeing record numbers since then. What changed? We replaced fat with sugar. What does cancer love? Sugar.
If you want to reverse type 2 diabetes/pre-diabetes and lose a massive amount of body fat and keep it off, then follow a keto diet. 50g or less of carbs per day, moderate protein, and as much fat (preferably good fats) as you can stomach. As long as you limit your carbs (I do 20-30 per day), get some protein and enough fat, calories won't matter so much. Your body will stop using sugar for fuel and begin breaking body fat down into ketones for fuel. Your body will break down its fat stores, and your fat cells will shrink as a result. You won't get sugar highs and crashes. Your labs will improve drastically. You'll feel the best you ever have once the sugar withdrawals subside.
As a side note, type 1 diabetics shouldn't do this at all. Following a keto diet will lead to a fatal condition for type 1 diabetics called ketoacidosis, though I'm sure you all are already aware of that.
This is as brief as possible of an overview of keto as well as the obesity epidemic. It goes much deeper if you're interested in learning more about it. I'm super ADD, so hopefully I wasn't all over the place 😁
^ Adding to this:
Correct.
More specifically, the congressional committee was headed by Sen. George McGovern, who was a vegetarian.
Most of the experts the committee heard from said fat is NOT the problem, but carbs ARE the problem.
McGovern ignored them, and the result was the inverted food pyramid (you should invert it and do the opposite of what it suggests).
But before McGovern ...
Was in the 1950's, a man named Ancel Keys. Perhaps one of the most disgusting and dishonest people who ever lived.
He claimed to have done a study called the "7 Country Study" (or 6 countries, depending on if you count England and Wales as 1 or 2).
He claimed to show that there was a direct correlation between high fat consumption and high heart disease/heart attacks in a country.
This was the 50's. There were only 3 TV stations, all in NYC. He went on all the TV shows and pushed his narrative.
Americans suddenly became afraid of fat and started eating more carbs and fake foods (margarine instead of butter, etc. -- margarine is made from plant oils, not animal fats).
BUT ... Ancel Keys lied. He actually studied 22 countries, and cherry picked just a few to show his correlation. When other researchers noticed this, they called him out and showed that there was actually no correlation at all between eating saturated fat and heart disease.
But there IS a strong correlation between eating sugar and heart disease, and smoking (a big thing in the 50's) and heart disease.
We learned later than Ancel Keys was funded by Rockefeller.
He was also funded by the sugar industry -- documents have since surfaced proving this.
Ancel Keys was also the one who came up with the Mediterreanan Diet. He pushed it has a great diet because he took a vacation to Italy and thought everyone looked good. No other reason. No research at all!
Finally, guess who came up with the Daily Recommended Allowances for the various vitamins and minerals?
Ancel Keys.
Even today, his false ideas are taught as gospel in medical schools, which is a primary reason why medical school graduates become doctors who have no clue at all about the connection between nutrition and health (or sickness).
Protip to others: New to keto? You need lots of water and you'll probably be pissing every 2-3 hours if not more. Also fun side effect: Less pooping + cleaner pooping! * YMMV
Too much water will create an electrolyte/sodium imbalance. If your pee is clear you’re drinking too much.
Yep keto is an electrolyte balance diet.
When you did carnivore did you eliminate all carbs? I think I am borderline type 2 and keto makes me feel 10x better than eating the normal carb rich diet.
I did eliminate all carbs when I was on the carnivore diet, and it did lower my blood sugar.
Now I am eating more paleo with some carbs. We attended a wedding and reception recently and I went totally off any diet. I had a crown and coke, cake, tortillas, beans, and more. I expected to take a hit from the excess. The fasting BS the next morning was a shock. It tested 122. I was already fairly certain at that point that the iodine was removing the insulin resistance, but the result from that night was really the clincher for me.
I believe the diets are a great aid, but I am not sure the very strict regime is really necessary if you take the iodine. I don't know if it is the diet or getting enough iodine, but I know the literature credits iodine with some weight loss, and I have notice a very definite reduction in craving for food. I really think that always craving something to eat may be the body's way of trying to get iodine.
I could have written these exact words. I am weaning myself off Metformin because it isn't doing anything. My wife and I are cutting our portion sizes and eating more sensibly, baking chicken and occasionally having a steak. Haven't felt this way since I was in the Navy forty years ago. Getting good sleep helps. Also, a big thing IMO is the blood pressure - mine is notoriously low but not in the danger range. A lot of it has to do with what I choose to let bother me and recognizing stress triggers. We're also doing the scalar wave thing, and that helps, in addition to listening to a lot of classical music. Just my two cents.
Steak is better for you than mashed potatoes, veggies and carbs. None of which will matter if you eat sugar. Carbs, veggies, fruits, starbucks, desserts…..Americans eat like pigs.and they feed their animals and children like pigs.
The natural fats from animals are the healthy fats we need, by the way.
Congrats & thanks for the tip. I didn't know that about the iodine. I'll have to do some research.
I went from 300 plus blood sugar plus 3 metformin/day down to 90's on daily basis & 0 metformin. First, I quit alcohol & then I made my own plan - vegetables (no root veg or starch), meat, berries, & dairy. Finally, no fried food & 100 % zero tolerance for sugar. I feel better than i have in at least 20 yrs.
"" Cinnamon may help support blood sugar management by increasing insulin sensitivity, decreasing blood sugar levels after eating, and reducing the risk of diabetes-related complications. ""
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cinnamon-and-diabetes
Go on an all meat diet
Berberine
You might listen to Dr. Shawn Baker on a recent Joe Rogan. He advocates carnivore diet. He talks about deficiencies being a cause of many things. He cured Dana White of something.
Thanks for posting this. Very very interesting.
Kindred soul!
Valuable info! Thanks fren!
I know a medical scientist who told me they have lowered the number a couple of tome in the past 5 years
Thanks fren - newly diagnosed with insulin resistant t2D along with hypothyroidism and other stuff so this is very useful to know
GREAT STORY...I too started on Iodine when my reading came back 2 years ago as "high"...I researched and found, YEP, Iodine was what was missing...I also eat meat...AND it has NOT gone UP at all....so, what you have espoused has happened to me and probably many others...Thank you for this!!!!!!!!
Are the iodine drops effective for t1d?
I have never seen any information indicating that iodine would be of any benefit for Type 1.
Thank you. My daughter was diagnosed 4 years ago. And I would sure love to know how to fix it.
The absolute first strategy for T2D is to fix your broken circadian mechanism. This is what all recent research in circadian biology points to.
That means addressing toxic blue light exposure, especially at night. Blue light alone, without the food variable, is 100% able to raise blood glucose and insulin.
Look at these diagrams below carefully. If you don't know what certain terms, concepts, or acronyms are, look them up and get familiar with them. This is how our biology works with the spectra of light in the environments we choose to put ourselves in.
Pathways Mediating the effects of Blue Enriched Light on Obesity and Diabetes
The VIsual pathway of Blue Enriched Light effecting Hormones and Blood Levels
Sunlight working on POMC and Melanin, the Antidote
But if you ignore the impact of light physics on biology and think diabetes is just about taking the right foods/compounds and avoiding others, you'll have to wait and see where that gets you down the road.
I think all that blue light shit is a just another load of disinformation put out by the cabal and big pharma. They love to baffle the little people with bullshit to keep them guessing.
If what I am seeing works out I am fairly certain the obesity epidemic and diabetes is the result of our bodies trying to get enough of the rare earth minerals that is lacking in the cabal constructed diet which is intended to destroy your health, drain your wallet, and kill you in that order. The body is craving those minerals it is is missing, and the only solution it knows to get them is to eat more. As for hormones, the thyroid is a major controller of hormones and the thyroid is an iodine hog. The use of iodine in the thyroid is the reason when they test they tell people they are getting enough iodine. The thyroid is getting enough iodine, but every internal organ, in fact every cell of the body needs an adequate amount of iodine. Excess just like any other mineral or vitamin is eliminated in the kidneys. With 80 to 85 percent of Americans being iodine deficient there isn't much excess being passed off.
As for sunlight, I am retired and have been for close to ten years, and my hobby puts me out in the sunlight most of the day at least five days a week. And yet I am a diabetic.
The physics of organisms doesn't consult with speculations about disinfo campaigns.
It is the mark of an educated mind to take something you fundamentally don't believe, and examine it for yourself. It may take work, but you don't know what you don't know right?
In the meantime, let me break this down a little more, regarding cancer. same pathway same cause:
Circadian phase shifting results in chronic melatonin suppression.
Blue enriched light causes circadian phase shifting.
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/213445023.pdf
Melatonin suppression significantly raises the risk of early mortality cancers. This has been known for at least 15 - 20 years.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bright-lights-big-cancer
Now let's go back to T2D. Some little known history:
In 1922, Banting and Best found that insulin was the pancreatic hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism. What many people do not know about the insulin story is that ophthalmologist, in 1950 Fritz Hollwich, conducted functional tests of carbohydrate control on blind subjects based upon the methods described by Staub and Traugott. Their method involved a double alimentary glucose tolerance test given within 60-90 minutes. They found in healthy people the second dose of grape sugar, which was given when the blood sugar was already falling had no effect or a slight effect on plasma glucose levels.
In his first run of experiments on ten blind subjects using the above methodology, Hollwich obtained negative results deviating from what earlier experiments showed in sighted people. Hollwich demonstrated that light via the eye had an unknown effect on insulin physiology. His work was confirmed in 1953 by Fuchs et al, and von Schumann (1953) and by Wassner in 1954. Hollwich repeated his own experiments with larger numbers of blind patients in 1963, and again with the help of Diekhues in 1967.
After these finding in Europe, the insulin tolerance test of Radoslav became the gold standard. These experiments showed in all cases that in blind patients who received the insulin tolerance test, the blood sugar levels dropped far below the physiologic threshold they expected compared to sighted patients. Hollwich was the first person in the world who showed that the results of both tests indicated a connection between blindness and a dysfunction of the hypophyseal portion of blood glucose regulation. This finding is still not well known in modern diabetic research and diabetics with cataracts should be EXPECTED to have substantially different plasma glucose changes than patients without eye disease. This is also true for diabetics with AMD.
We now know, because of Hollwich et al, that insulin is a solar hormone and has a diurnal rhythm independent from glucose intake. Those studies were done in 1974 and 1975 with radioimmune assays by Jarrett in 1974, Lakatuna et al in 1974 and Lestradet et al in 1974, Reinberg et al in 1974, and Thum in 1975. Thum’s paper in 1975, in particular, provides the possibility of assessing the precise means of light experiments with normal-sighted and blind subjects that should be done. None have because of the food-blaming perspective. Most are not even aware of this work in nutrition research because they only see what they want to see. What happens in the eye and skin when you eat is more important than what you eat.
Very few know about ambient light’s effect via the eye and skin, but we now know the non visual photoreceptor "melanopsin" is in both eye and skin tissues, and the melanopsin system radically effects the diurnal rhythms of insulin without ANY FOOD in the alimentary tract. T2D is not purely a metabolic story tied to food, as you’ve been led to believe. It has more to do with light via the eye and skin because of Hollwich’s experiments in the blind versus sighted humans from the 1960’s. It has been seriously upgraded by the news we found on melanopsin in recent years. Most people still believe diabetes is tied to food and a gut problem. It is not. When the circadian mechanism is off, the eneterocytes do not turn over every 24-48 hours and this allows deuterium to enter the liver and this is what really causes diabetes problems most are familiar with. The process, however, begins with blue light exposure in the eye and skin, and this ruins the peripheral clock mechanism in the gut and liver.
Artificial blue light stimulates the anterior hypothalamus via the central reitnal pathways, by activating the PVN. Normally sunlight with blue light and red in the AM can help activate the parasympathetic nervous system while stimulating the anterior pituitary hormones. Subtracting out the red light and adding the blue is our modern problem. This means that all colors in the bluish spectrum – from blue/green through blue to violet at 400nm is a problem for the gut because of melanopsin and the Vitamin A link to melatonin function. Blue light via the eye or skin activates digestion and stimulate insulin secretion in the gut without the need for any food in the gut because of how melanopsin lowers melatonin by altering retinol function to ruin photoreceptor function that controls the human circadian mechanism.
Resources
Hollwich, F.: The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in Animal. Berlin, 1985.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-diabetes-results-breakdown-epigenetic.html
http://www.jbc.org/content/171/2/767.full.pdf
http://www.biotopics.co.uk/as/insulinproteinstructure.html
Szent-Gyorgyi, A.: Introduction to a Submolecular Biology. Academic Press: N. Y., 1960.
Wurtman, R.: The Effects of Light on the Human Body. In: Scientific American, July 1975, Vol. 233, Nr. 1, S. 68-79.
Gabel, S.: Information Processing in Rapid Eye Movement Sleep: Possible Neurophysiological, Neuropsychological, and Clinical Correlates. In.: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175, 1987, S. 193-200.
Toupin, A.: Photic Avtivation and Experimental Data Concerning Colored Stimuli. In: Neurology (Minneap.), 16, 1966, S. 269
I take 2 drops in the morning and 2 drops before bed in the evening.
You might want to add berberine once a day too. It works like metformin, but without the side effects.
You might want to stay away from processed foods, sugar too.
You might want to look into Chromium and Vanadium supplements as well. They're minerals that are required for blood sugar metabolism and insulin production and regulation.