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.
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.
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