Living with Diabetes

Colleen said:
I think there are situations you can just "medicate" yourself with supplements and it works for you, but I also believe that something like diabetes is nothing to experiment with and spin the wheel of chance and see what happens.

Several months ago, there was a discussion on here about supplements and so I tried some of them and gave them to my husband because we went off our statins. What a HUGE mistake that was! Those supplements upset my stomach so much and kicked up my GERD that I couldn't lay down to sleep or hardly eat anything without being sick. My husband had a terrible case of diarrhea for weeks. Yes, we stopped taking them but didn't start taking statins again.

What I'm saying is...if it works for you...great, but it doesn't for everyone.
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I mix it all and avoid pharma drugs as best I can...I've had enough damage from their drugs and this is my experience and where I choose to do my healing.
 
jaminhealth said:
Here is an important consideration to the diabetic epidemic:

https://www.naturalnews.com/036038_gluten-free_diet_celiac_disease.html
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I read the article as well as the article on which is was based. The amount of spin (or poor reporting) by Natural News is astounding. All emphasis is mine.

Natural News first sentence:
"New research finds that almost one in four adolescents in the United States have diabetes or pre-diabetes, according to The New York Times."

The NY Times first sentence:
"Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be diabetic, representing a sharp increase in the disease’s prevalence among children ages 12 to 19 since a decade ago, when it was estimated that fewer than one in 10 were at risk for or had diabetes, according to a new study."

Deeper in the NY Times article it states:
"Researchers said the data should be interpreted with caution because the prediabetes and diabetes status of the adolescents was based on a single test of each participant’s fasting blood glucose level, which could be unreliable in children if they had not fasted for at least 8 hours before taking the test. In addition, children this age are going through puberty, a process that induces insulin resistance."

Most of the Natural News cited links are broken with 404 errors or refer back to other pages on Natural News. This is one of the reasons that the information presented by many websites should be take with a huge grain of salt.
 

With diabetes, heredity has a lot to do with if you'll develop it or not. Like StarSong said, she has a family history of it. I was adopted so I don't have any idea if it's part of my family DNA or not. Anything that comes my way as I get older will be a total surprise.

I think "natural" supplements have a place for some things, but diabetes isn't one of them.
 
Colleen said:
With diabetes, heredity has a lot to do with if you'll develop it or not. Like StarSong said, she has a family history of it. I was adopted so I don't have any idea if it's part of my family DNA or not. Anything that comes my way as I get older will be a total surprise.

I think "natural" supplements have a place for some things, but diabetes isn't one of them.
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That's fine, we'll just agree to disagree as I feel supplements are good adjuncts for just about everything people deal with or are working to prevent. I've been studying and taking supplements for over 25 yrs so some years I'd say.

24 yrs of taking Grape Seed Extract has been a real salvation in my life and one issue it addresses is reduction of diabetes issues.

http://naturalsociety.com/grape-seed-extract-superior-anti-diabetes-drug/
 
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