They are mistaken, to the detriment of many of us whose diabetes happened with no relationship to diet whatever.
SO while diabetics ALL need to watch diet (or lose limbs, kidneys, have heart attacks, etc - it is a simple choice we make), it is a separate issue from what *caused* the diabetes.
In my case for example the cause is cortisol (a catabolic stress hormone from tumors but cortisol can be high for many reasons). There is zero diabetes in my family.
Cortisol is high in for example:
PTSD
People on steroid "therapy".
People with central obesity - as that central fat is metabolically active and produces cortisol.
Other high stress situations.
Central obesity is an interesting issue as it is also an effect of cortisol - so it is a self-perpetuating cortisol source.
It is possible to start thin and eat to central obesity and get a cortisol machine that way - but it is far more likely that some stress caused the overeating which caused the central obesity which results in excess cortisol. In THESE cases of diabetes, if the central fat can be lost (which is not easy as the cortisol produced by it blocks fat burning) then the diabetes from central obesity cortisol will go away.
If the cortisol which induces type 2 (insulin-resistant) diabetes is not from central obesity but is directly from another source (tumors, an epigene in the "wrong" switch position, PTSD etc), then the person can be thin or not, but they will still have diabetes triggered by cortisol.
Cortisol causes diabetes this way:
Cortisol causes diabetes essentially because high cortisol causes protein to convert to glucose, inducing insulin release and after ding it often, there is insulin resistance:
FIrst cortisol steals amino acids from the body protein, and takes them to the liver to be made into glucose by glycolysis - in order to supply fast blood glucose needed for "fright or flight". This happens regardless why the stress level is high. Cortisol is the "flight and fright" hormone designed to give us glucose for energy "to run from the tiger back to the cave" - even if some other sedentary stress or tumor or toxin or allergy or injury or whatever, is causing the cortisol release. It's a primitive hormone that has not adjusted how it works, with modern stresses which are less likely to be the "run from the tiger" kind and more likely to involve emotional, chemical or other modern stress.
When the glucose made by cortisol is NOT used to "run from tigers back to the cave", the body then releases insulin to turn the excess glucose to central fat. Insulin ONLY deposits central fat. And Central fat is the only metabolically active fat - it is a factory for making more cortisol! (Other fat - subcutaneous fat - is inert - it just stores energy. Central fat is stored in the omentum, and is very active metabolically.)
The result is that cortisol turns each *one* pound of muscle or other body protein converted into *five* pounds of metabolically active central fat (an unkind ratio indeed!) - which makes MORE cortisol. Cortisol indiscriminately takes protein from anywhere it can find it, including muscles, gut lining protein hence stress ulcers, or hair protein, hence thin hair when stressed, etc.)
All the glucose made from protein by cortisol results in MORE insulin released.
Which results in insulin resistance, pancreas damage, glycation of cells/vessels of the body, etc.
Which is called Type 2 diabetes.
I cannot think of a case of type 2 diabetes that would not involve cortisol as part of the cause, however the high cortisol comes about.
As a result, it is fair to say that those supplements and foods that lower cortisol, will also help diabetes.
I believe this explains why people are so individual in their glucose response to foods. Different foods are stressors to different bodies - and some foods are directly beneficial to some individuals but not others. (Blood type and genotype research has also shown this). Rochelle also notices her individual responses - mine are that way as well. (example: Mango helps and broccoli makes it worse for me, which is contrary to glycemic index predictions).
The rest of my diabetes theory (the above regarding cortisol is MY theory based on my scientific observations - t me it looks awfully obvious) has to do with adverse reactions. As Rochelle mentioned, when there is an infection, the glucose level goes up - it's due to raised cortisol during infection. But there is also raised cortisol during other adverse reactions such as allergies. I just had that proved to me again. I had my diabetes under good control till a few months ago, and since then it has been wildly out of control with no explanation I could see, though I have been getting sicker by the day without understanding why - till yesterday it hit me. I was feeling much worse a halfhour after swallowing prescription magnesium supplements. I checked the ingredients:
There is a long list of excipients (the "other" ingredients) one of which is acacia - a known allergy for me. I stopped taking them 24 hrs ago and already the asthma is much less, and the pain is a bit better, and my glucose has improved a bit. I can't believe I did not realize I was poisoning myself for so long, it's been months since they changed the brand I was given when my health insurance company was changed - but it certainly confirms the stress hormone higher due to allergy, as well as due to infection - basically any stress thus any raised cortisol - IS relevant to blood glucose management.
They do. The epigene switch will predispose higher cortisol release than average, to a specified stress stimulus level.
This can lead to insulin resistance just the same as any other cortisol issue - with or without any central obesity.
There's a recorded case of a 76 year old woman, a skinny lady, admitted to hospital for symptoms of diabetes, who died two days later in hospital to their surprise. An autopsy showed up the cortisol-making tumor that killed her.
Cortisol does a lot more harm than just diabetes. Diabetes is actually a milder and controllable side effect of excess cortisol. (Tumor-driven cortisol can be 30 or more times higher than the level needed to cause diabetes.)
Tumor-driven cortisol is KNOWN to result in diabetes. It just seems so obvious to me that cortisol is the common denominator in type 2 diabetes.
Yes. The body responds to ALL kinds of stress with cortisol. Chemical stress, physical stress (overexercise, surgery, injury), any form of shock, emotional stress, exhaustion stress, lack of sleep stress, malnutrition stress, you name it.
We have only ONE stress-response hormone - cortisol. We do not have different ones for different kinds of stress.
[Adrenaline is a hormone forced to be released by cortisol. When we get a fright, the AMOUNT of adrenaline released - is determined by the AMOUNT of cortisol we have. SO cortisol is the key. If you run out of adrenaline and have adrenal exhaustion - the real issue is still cortisol... for causing so much adrenaline to be used each time it is triggered.]
Well adding MORE glucose to a glucose-overloaded system is not useful so yes diet matters, especially carbohydrates.
Also if you run out of adrenaline due to excess cortisol releasing too much, you need to eat foods/supplements that help reduce cortisol (long list) and increase adrenaline (Short list: ascorbic acid, it B6 and pantothenic acid)
But the diet must be geared to remove stress/cortisol -
and not to *add* to the stress/cortisol (such as by mild allergy, lectins, foods that "disagree", chemical preservatives, GMO, poor nutritional balance, etc)
Yes. It can for example get rid of cortisol producing tumors, acetylate a methylated epigene related to diabetes/cortisol or methylate an acetylated epigene related to cortisol/insulin/etc, and it can help the emotional stressors that cause the cortisol............
Once the cortisol is controlled, any diet works, short of extreme excess carbs.
But controlling the cortisol is not always easy by homeopathy and I suspect we need to address it as the cause of T2D more universally.
It's not easy because cortisol destroys so much of the body - for example it destroys the thymus gland - which must be restored for health to occur. Thymus is VERY hard to restore.
I've seen full reversal of diabetes in cats with homeopathy - mostly because they are seldom victims of PTSD or overwork or emotional work stress etc as a cause, and their diabetes is almost always diet or chemical caused...both usually removable causes though the thymus damage is challenging if it is longterm. So addressing damaged thymus and damaged pancreas (cats make amyloid deposits that destroy their beta cells), plus individual aspects, leads to the right remedy ....plus diet and environment correction....and diabetes is gone.
Namaste,
Irene
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P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
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