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The Real Danger Posed by Diabetes
We have a raging epidemic of type 2 diabetes in the United States thanks to our high-carb eating habits and ever-increasing waistlines. The disease currently afflicts one out of ten Americans, with another 85 million on the verge of developing it.

It’s a deadly disease, but not for the reasons you may think.

About three out of four people with diabetes actually die of a heart attack or stroke. Diabetes helps bring on the cardiovascular disease, but diabetes is rarely the final cause of death.

Likewise, diabetes hugely increases your risk of cancer. In fact, preventing or reversing diabetes is one of the best ways to avoid cancer. Keep reading for some useful tips and things you need to know. . .


You don’t have to passively accept your fate as a potential diabetes and cancer victim. It’s not something that just “happens” to you.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admit that simple lifestyle changes can drop your chances of diabetes by up to
71%.1 That estimate is too low, in my opinion, and a lot of holistic health practitioners would agree. Virtually everyone can eliminate the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Hard to do? Yes, it involves changing your habits. But there are powerful reasons to do that.

A large four-year study that involved more than 400,000 people revealed that having diabetes increases a man’s chances of prostate cancer by 86 percent.2 Other cancers that are more likely to be found in men with diabetes include skin cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, kidney cancer and stomach cancer as well as cancers of the liver, pancreas, lungs and colorectal cancer.

For women, the study shows diabetes doubles the risk for nasopharynx cancer – cancer that forms at the back of the nose and mouth. Other cancers linked to diabetes in women include breast cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma and leukemia plus cancers of the cervix, stomach, thyroid, pancreas and stomach as well as colorectal cancer.

Less chance of surviving

Another study connecting diabetes and cancer, this one in Sweden, underlines the urgency of the problem. The results show that having diabetes not only increases cancer risk, but also lowers your odds of surviving cancer.3

This analysis covered seven years and involved the health records of more than two million people. It demonstrated that men with diabetes who get prostate cancer have a 29 percent increased risk of dying from the malignancy.

Meanwhile women with diabetes who get breast cancer face a 25 percent higher risk of death than women without the disease. Both men and women with diabetes who develop colon cancer are nine percent more likely to die from it.

This disease caused by high blood sugar undermines your health in just about every possible way.

Damage at the cellular level

According to scientists from Cornell, one big reason for the higher danger of getting cancer and the increased chances of dying from it stems from how diabetes changes the inner structure of the body.4

The Cornell researchers focused their analysis on how high blood sugar changes what’s called the Extra Cellular Matrix (ECM). The ECM is basically the material between cells – the complicated structure and internal glue – that holds the body together. A significant part of this structure consists of collagen fibers.

The fibers change when the high blood sugar you experience when you have diabetes leads the body to create what are called “advanced glycation end products” (AGEs) – proteins that are linked to sugars.

Now, AGEs are also found frequently in the food we eat. These substances, which are found in large quantities in grilled meats, fast food and junk food, increase your risk of food allergies.

AGEs form when you roast or grill meat at a high temperature and also appear during deep frying. They help make fast food popular because they taste so good. The delicious crust that forms on a grilled piece of meat consists of AGEs. So does the yummy, crunchy crust of a baked brownie. Ditto for many other baked goods.

To add to our woes, it turns out that when your body makes a large number of its own AGEs, as it does when you suffer diabetes, the toxins cause you to age faster and also alter the composition of the ECM.

Without getting into the technical details, all you really have to understand is that the AGE’s generated by diabetes change the matrix material so that cancer cells can more easily travel around the body and get into the bloodstream.

That enhanced spread of cancer cells is a key factor that makes cancer so deadly for people with diabetes. It contributes to metastasis – the formation of new tumors in various parts of the body – and for most cancer patients it is metastatic cancer – not cancer confined to one site – that leads to death.

So – I want to underline this point: Diabetes increases the risk of metastasis, and metastasis is infinitely worse than early-stage cancer.

When doctors cause diabetes

A further complicating factor in the link between diabetes and cancer is that doctors have been dishing out drugs that increase the risk of diabetes.

For instance, a study at the University of Queensland in Australia shows that when older women take statin drugs to lower their cholesterol, their risk of diabetes shoots up by as much as 50 percent.

This is shocking news. First of all, many experts doubt that giving statins to women in this age group – those over the age of 75 – has any benefit for their heart health. I’ve put myself repeatedly on record saying that the whole cholesterol scare is almost surely nonsense and no one should be taking statin drugs.

I’m not a doctor, I don’t give people personal advice, but I have researched the subject extensively.

And overuse of statin drugs is not a small problem. Researchers in Switzerland have found that half of all women in their 70s and 80s were being prescribed statins even though no one is even sure if the benefits outweigh risks. On top of that, as the women got older, doctors were giving them larger and larger doses.5

"What's most concerning was that we found a 'dose effect' where the risk of diabetes increased as the dosage of statins increased,” warns researcher Mark Jones. "Over the ten years of the study most of the women progressed to higher doses of statins.”

Dr. Jones also says that doctors should be made aware of the diabetes risk these drugs present. "Those elderly women taking statins,” he warns, “should be carefully and regularly monitored for increased blood glucose to ensure early detection and management of diabetes."

The drugs used in immunotherapy to fight cancer can also spur the development of diabetes. They can lead to type 1 diabetes which occurs when insulin-creating cells in the pancreas are destroyed.6 The scientists studying this issue haven’t yet been able to identify why it happens. In so far as these drugs seem to be effective for many people, the blood sugar risk has to be carefully weighed against the anti-cancer benefit.

Take these steps to prevent diabetes

As I said in the beginning of this article, the proper lifestyle habits can make it very unlikely you will develop diabetes. In many cases you can even rid yourself of the disease after it starts.

Some of the best ways to lower your risk of diabetes:

  • Restrict the times of day when you eat. Try a technique called intermittent fasting when you only eat during an eight to ten hour period during the day – such as 7 AM to 3 PM, or 9 AM to 5 PM. It’s especially important not to eat late at night. Studies show that intermittent fasting lowers diabetes risk and can also lower your cancer risk.7
  • Ditch sugar, junk food and processed food. Eat more fruits and vegetables, beans and lentils and healthy fats like avocado, raw nuts, and coconut oil.8
  • Exercise every day. Go for walks. Do some resistance training (weight lifting) to build muscle. If you’re out of shape, start slowly and gradually get your strength back.9
Research shows that a 30-minute brisk walk daily – all by itself – drops your risk of diabetes by 50 percent.10 And by dropping your diabetes risk, you’ll also be dropping your chances of cancer.

If you already have diabetes, consult your healthcare practitioner about these types of lifestyle changes. They could save your life.



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Jimi

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Rhianne said:
These are great articles. It’s great to have an entire thread for them. They’ll appreciate good health now, too.
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This is one of the reasons I quit smoking. I couldn’t breathe as well as before. Plus the cost is crazy. Green Med is great, but they took the comments off.
I’ll have to re-charge soon, but I’ll be back. Maybe I’ll see you.
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Thank you Rhianne, I was just posting them as single posts then I thought to make it easy that I would start this thread, there are several articles just under vaping health related. I try to post something for everyone, I love to help people get healthy and avoid chronic illnesses;) just my way of giving back to our community because they have always given me so much:).
 
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inspects said:
Jimi....made a delicious drink last night....Organic coconut water with 85% Organic cacao mixed in the bullet (after melting the chocolate in the coco water)......damn was that good. Going to try some other combos tomorrow.
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That does sound delicious Dale, was the cacao from one of your trees?
 
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Enzyme Therapy for Cancer –
An Old and Honored Treatment
Not a lot of people can explain what the pancreas does – because there’s really no need. In a healthy, functioning body, your pancreas does its job like all your other organs and there’s no need to think deep thoughts about it.

But if you’re fighting cancer, or suffering the side effects of a cancer treatment, you may be surprised by the secret agents hidden within that overlooked organ. . .


Picture a large sweet potato and you’ve got a pretty good idea of what your pancreas looks like. Averaging six inches, it’s nestled behind your stomach and under your liver, connected by a small tube to the top section of your small intestine (called your duodenum).

The duodenum is the first part of your intestine that food enters when it leaves the stomach.

And that’s where one of the chief roles of your pancreas comes into play: helping with digestion. Your pancreas squirts digestive juices into your small intestine to break down the food there.

Those juices are called pancreatic enzymes. There’s a number of different ones, including trypsin, pepsin, and chymotrypsin to digest proteins, amylase for the digestion of carbohydrates, and lipase to break down fats. The protein-digesting enzymes are called proteases or proteolytic enzymes.

That particular blend of enzymes serves as the basis for proteolytic enzyme therapy – one of the most famous of all alternative cancer protocols. When I was first learning about enzyme therapy I was a huge enthusiast and I even wrote a book about it in 2006 called The Missing Ingredient for Good Health.

That was then, this is now

My early enthusiasm stemmed from the work of Nicholas Gonzalez, a medical doctor who was so impressed with the power of enzyme therapy he made it his life’s work. A graduate of Cornell University’s med school, he was a conscientious scientist and a courageous man who fought to bring alternative therapies to the public.

I’m not as gung ho for enzyme therapy as I was years ago, mostly because it seems Dr. Gonzalez’s clinical results were not as impressive as I had hoped, and his approach also involved taking quantities of enzymes – as much as 150 pills a day, from what I’ve read -- which seemed unreasonable to me.

Long story short, I learned of other therapies and moved on from this one. But I do think that all cancer patients should consider enzyme supplements as part of their treatment. Here’s why. . .

The case for enzyme supplements

Proteolytic enzymes are powerful, natural anti-inflammatories, ones that your own body makes (if you’re healthy), so there is little or no risk in taking them. Setting aside cancer, I’ve seen many case studies of people who reported full recoveries from terrible pain as a result of taking enzymes.

This was probably because those patients were severely deficient. And they were severely deficient because cooked and processed food contains almost no enzymes. And I don’t need to tell you that cooked and processed food is what most Americans eat, most of the time.

When your enzyme levels are healthy, they keep inflammation at bay, give the immune system a boost, and serve as a closed gate to a host of diseases.

Enzymes do this by prompting countless daily reactions that keep your body alive and thriving, including breaking down food for energy. Along with helping to break down and digest food, proteolytic enzymes (remember – the ones that digest proteins) help with blood clotting and immune function, and assist with cell division, among other things.

Some natural sources of proteolytic enzymes

You can add to the enzymes your own pancreas produces by eating certain foods or taking supplements. Papaya and pineapple are two of the best food sources of proteolytic enzymes.

Papaya produces the enzyme papain, which has been used for thousands of years as a meat tenderizer thanks to its ability to break down protein. And pineapples have bromelain, which has been used for centuries by indigenous populations in South and Central America as a treatment for multiple ailments.

If you’re a savvy supplement buyer, you already know that papain and bromelain pills can be purchased at most health food stores. They don’t cost much – a cheap pain-killer and cancer-fighting aid.

Other natural sources of proteolytic enzymes include kiwi, ginger, asparagus, sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt, and kefir.

The studies say enzymes are effective

Multiple studies back the efficacy of proteolytic enzymes. For example, bromelain and trypsin are just as effective as anti-inflammatory drugs when it comes to alleviating pain from osteoarthritis. Likewise, they help lower post-workout tenderness and pain.

Proteolytic enzymes have also been proven to help relieve the inflammation, bloating and discomfort caused by chronic diseases like irritable bowel syndrome.

Papain and bromelain even speed up wound healing and promote new tissue growth.

I point all of this out because the sum of these individual processes – inflammation, tissue growth, pain reduction, improved immune function, and so forth – are all top-of-the-list of things your body needs to prevent or fight off cancer.

This list of benefits is also helpful with fighting the symptoms of pain and discomfort from the cancer itself or from the side effects of mainstream cancer treatments. I’m not going to tell you enzymes are as powerful as an opioid drug but they can sure help. Meaning a cancer patient may need less of the dangerous pharmaceuticals.

This point is echoed by early stage research. In a test-tube study, bromelain stopped the growth of human stomach cancer cells and colon cancer cells and even prompted cell death. Another study showed both bromelain and papain halted the growth and caused cell death in bile duct cancer cells. Test tube studies like these are not the last word, but they are indicative.

I’ll mention here that proteolytic enzymes are also potent blood thinners, so take heed if you are on a blood-thinning medication. My vote would be to taper off the medications and use the enzymes, which are safer and, of course, all-natural. Fish oil is another blood-thinner. You don’t NEED the drugs. Talk to your doctor.

When your pancreas needs a little extra help…

All these benefits would come as no surprise to a Scottish embryologist named John Beard, who worked at the University of Edinburgh back in 1906. He was the founding father of proteolytic enzyme therapy for cancer.

Dr. Beard believed that the combination of a high-dose pancreatic enzyme therapy and a holistic diet created a self-healing environment inside the body of anyone trying to overcome cancer.

Dr. Gonzalez took that concept and explored it further starting in the 1980s. His approach focused more on how food affects the autonomic nervous system, which breaks down into your sympathetic/parasympathetic branches and is responsible for your digestive system, immune function, cardiovascular activity, and endocrine function.

Dr. Gonzalez viewed the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems as having opposing actions on specific organs, and explains that disease happens when there’s an imbalance in the autonomic function.

For example, he maintained that tumors, like those found in breast, lung, colon, and pancreas cancer, occur in people with weak parasympathetic nervous systems and over-strong sympathetic nervous systems.

In contrast, people with blood-based cancers like leukemia and lymphoma develop in people with an overly strong parasympathetic nervous system and a weak sympathetic nervous system.

Based on those findings, Gonzalez typically treated patients with tumors by administering proteolytic enzymes and putting them on a largely plant-based diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and minimal or no animal protein.

In contrast, if the patient suffered from a blood or immune-based cancer, the protocol was different. It involved a blend of proteolytic enzymes and a diet that was high in fat and high in animal protein with minimal to moderate amounts of plant-based foods. The animal protein consisted of fish up to two times a week, with daily yogurt and one to two eggs daily.

In the end, I think this whole approach was unique to Dr. Gonzalez and I don’t know that anyone is now carrying on his work. My sense of things – just my opinion – is that Dr. Gonzalez became married to the enzyme concept and perhaps lost perspective.

But – to repeat – I do think that quite large doses of enzymes can be valuable to cancer patients (not to mention people with inflammation, which is nearly all of us).

The largely forgotten weapon
against cancer and everything else

Several diets similar to those recommended in proteolytic enzyme therapy are popular as complementary treatments for diagnosed cancer.

And this approach has the virtue of being harmless. It does nothing but good things for the body (although I wouldn’t take such massive doses as enzyme advocates recommend). Enzymes are effective against heart disease, arthritis, and even in the treatment of autism. Anecdotally, I know of a woman who got rid of high cholesterol using just bromelain.

But you’re not likely to hear about this at a typical doctor’s office.

And one more thing: If you’re taking proteolytic enzyme supplements as a cancer treatment, you take them on an empty stomach. Very important.

Don’t forget, you can get them naturally by eating a healthy diet with plenty of plant-based foods, most of which are ideally organic, fresh, and raw (the cooking process usually breaks down the enzymes too far for them to be of use). But you’ll need the pills to get to the enzyme levels that have been effective in cancer-treatment case studies.
 
Rhianne

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Jimi said:
Thank you Rhianne, I was just posting them as single posts then I thought to make it easy that I would start this thread, there are several articles just under vaping health related. I try to post something for everyone, I love to help people get healthy and avoid chronic illnesses;) just my way of giving back to our community because they have always given me so much:).
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You are so nice, Jimi. These are great articles and I hope folks read them. It’s a way of paying it back (and forward for good health.) Maybe I’ll see you later at Wolf’s thread. :wave: :hug:
 
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