Diabetes Hotline Newsletter
"Helping you to control and improve the quality of your life."

Issue #9

In This Issue... ... ...

1) Diabetic Symptoms – What are the symptoms that accompany diabetes?
2) Neuropathy – Now, a solution for this common diabetic complication!
3) Another Diabetic Success – My doctor is now a firm believer!
4) A Healthful Recipe: Steamed Chinese Style Fish

Dear Reader,

By learning more about the causes of diabetes you can decrease or eliminate your dependency on drugs and/or insulin, while at the same time naturally reducing your blood sugar levels.

This newsletter will provide you with information, based on medical, clinical and scientific research to help you better understand the diabetic condition, and what is true and what is false. This is so you can better judge for yourself what you can do to improve your condition.

The most important actions you can take to improve your diabetic condition are adopting a low carbohydrate diet, using effective nutritional supplements, and getting some exercise.

If you have questions, email me at bob@realfoodnutrients.com or call our toll free number (888) 580-9390. Our website address is: www.realfoodnutrients.com

I wish you the best of health.


President

The Symptoms Surrounding Type 2 Diabetes!

Diabetes is a condition caused by a diet that is too high in carbohydrates over a long period of time. Ultimately, the high carbohydrate diet brings about a condition known as insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance occurs as a result of the body continuously producing increased insulin in an attempt to maintain normal blood sugar levels. The body does this because the digestive process converts carbohydrates into sugar that goes directly into the blood stream.

Insulin resistance as it progresses results in many symptoms, one of which is high blood sugar levels called “diabetes.”

Not everyone experiences all of these symptoms and there is no specific sequence in which these symptoms appear. Some symptoms may appear before the blood sugar levels rise above normal and others may not show up until after the blood sugar levels have gone up.

“High insulin levels, not low insulin levels, are the problem originally associated with Type II diabetes, and high insulin levels are harder to detect because it is normal for insulin levels to rise under many circumstances. The slightly higher insulin level causes slow weight gain, small increases in blood pressure, slow changes in cholesterol numbers and the beginning of artery plaque formation.

“One by one, diagnoses of obesity, hypertension, cholesterol abnormalities, and heart disease are made without taking into account that these are all related to higher insulin levels and to each other. If the underlying physiology is not corrected, Type II diabetes will likely be the next diagnosis.

“The physical changes that occur when you have higher insulin levels are so subtle and cause damage over so many years that it takes approximately ten to thirty years for your blood sugar-levels to rise after the initial changes in insulin levels begin. By the time Type II diabetes is diagnosed, chronic high insulin levels have done a lot of metabolic damage – though it will seem to happen overnight.”

excerpted from The Schwartzbein Principle II, The Transition
by Diana Schwartzbein, M.D.

In an attempt to reduce the symptoms of insulin resistance or hold them in check, the symptoms are often treated by drugs, medications or insulin. Addressing symptoms does nothing to handle the underlying condition causing it, and so the condition continues to get worse, resulting often in more and more medications to keep the symptoms “under control.”

It can get so crazy that diabetics can wind up being prescribed for several drugs for high blood sugar, as well as another drug for high triglycerides, and another for high cholesterol, and another one for high blood pressure. Yet none of these drugs addresses or corrects the underlying cause of the diabetic condition, insulin resistance!

If you have not yet done so, you can turn your diabetic condition around and improve your overall health by getting onto a high protein/low carbohydrate diet, taking the correct nutritional supplements, and putting a little exercise into your life!

This is the first in a series of articles that will discuss in more detail each of the symptoms resulting from insulin resistance. Each article will give you a better understanding of what is causing these symptoms to occur and how to effectively reverse them.

Diabetic Neuropathy
Now, A Real Solution!

One form of diabetic neuropathy is a condition where the nerves of the body are damaged. It is called “Diabetic Peripheral (referring to the outer part of the body) Neuropathy”. This type of neuropathy affects the feet and legs, hands and arms, and it can occur on both sides of the body. In fact, 40 percent of type 2 diabetics experience Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy.

Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy shows up as one or more of the following symptoms:

* Tingling or numbness in the fingers, toes or legs.
* Feeling cold, burning or pain in the hands, feet or legs.
* Extreme sensitivity to touch, even a light touch.
* Sharp pains or cramps.
* Loss of balance and coordination.

These symptoms are often worse at night.

The Cause!

Higher than normal sugar levels in the body cause the outer sheathing (protective covering) of nerve cells to degenerate. This is similar to an electrical wire that is covered with insulation, and the insulation is beginning to crumble. Without insulation the unprotected wire will start short-circuiting.

In the same way, when the sheathing of nerve cells degenerate, the signals being transmitted are scrambled, resulting in your body receiving signals that are interpreted as numbness, heat, cold, tingling, pain, etc.

It has been known for some time that increased levels of Tiamine (vitamin B1) in the blood stream are very effective in reducing and reversing diabetic neuropathy. Unfortunately, the oral intake of vitamin B1 does not greatly increase the levels of B1 in the blood stream. Previously, the way that blood stream levels of B1 were increased was through periodic intravenous feeding or through injections every few weeks.

The reason that methods like this had to be used is that Tiamine (sometimes spelled Thiamine), like all of the B vitamins, is water-soluble. It cannot be stored in the body and flushes out within 4 to 5 hours. Oral intake of Tiamine over 5 mg results in greatly reduced bioavailability and immediate flushing from the body (this is why urine frequently turns yellow when taking larger doses of B vitamins).

A Solution to the Problem!

Now, a new type of vitamin B1 has been produced, called Benfotiamine. It is a fat-soluble version of vitamin B1. What this means is that this new form of vitamin B1 can be taken orally in large dosages and it will not flush out of the body the way ordinary Tiamine (vitamin B1) does.

The result is that the blood stream levels of vitamin B1 can now be greatly increased, enabling a rapid and effective decrease or elimination of the symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy.

Many of our diabetics now using Benfotiamine report a lessening of their neuropathy symptoms within 4 to 7 days, and Benfotiamine has been shown to be non-toxic and without any side effects even in very high dosages.

If you are experiencing:

* Tingling or numbness in the fingers, toes or legs.
* Feeling cold, burning or pain in the hands, feet or legs.
* Extreme sensitivity to touch, even a light touch.
* Sharp pains or cramps.
* Loss of balance and coordination.

Start using Benfotiamine and decrease or eliminate these problems!

Another Diabetic Success

"I had my regular doctor visit today and I wanted to see what he had to say.

"If you remember, back in February I was quite sick with pneumonia and the flu. I was on Prednisone for nearly two months, which caused me some bad side effects, a 30 lb weight gain that also threw my asthma into a frenzy. But things are looking up, I lost 5 lbs in the last two weeks and the weight will slowly go away now that I am not on Prednisone.

"Well today the doctor told me that I was finally back to the point when this first started. My blood sugars are back to normal, my A1C level is back to normal and the asthma is as close to normal, for what is normal for asthma.

"I have continued using the WSN® Diabetic Pack* through the whole mess and the doctor told me I would have been in far worse shape with out it. He now is a firm believer in your product and has been recommending it to some of his other patients that have a real problem with blood sugar control. The diet goes well, I never have had many problems with it, seeing as I can eat so many things.

"Thanks, and God bless you folks for your help."

Bill Waycaster, Michigan

A Healthful Recipe for the Diabetic

Steamed Chinese Style Fish
1. Use fish chunks or whole fish.

2. Cut shallow slices into fish and insert garlic slices.

3. Place in top of steamer or on lettuce leaves in top of steamer. [I've
also used a wok: place wooden chopsticks across bottom of wok and a
heat-proof dish on chopsticks. Water in wok underneath chopsticks] Fish on
plate and cover.]

4. Place sliced green onions over fish and any other seasoning wanted.
Cover.

5. When fish is tender/soft/flaking remove and quickly pour sauce over.

6. Add fresh sliced green onions to serve.

Sauce:
While fish is steaming warm 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup soy sauce together, add chopped/sliced/mashed garlic… however you like it.

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