HOLISTIC DIABETES TREATMENT
by Walter Last
Based
on my experience and published literature I believe that all type 2 and most
type 1 diabetics can be healthier by using an appropriate diet rather than
insulin or other drugs. The recommended starting point for both types is a one
to two week changeover period and restricted basic diet. This is followed by
testing of individual foods for allergy and blood sugar reactions in order to
establish an individualized maintenance diet.
I
am convinced that these instructions are safe but cannot take legal
responsibility for any undesirable outcomes. Preferably use these protocols
under the guidance or supervision of a health professional experienced in
nutritional therapies with an understanding of diabetes treatment. For a
theoretical discussion of diabetes see the related article ‘The Truth About Diabetes.’
Caution: This is an old file, still good for a general
overview but do not use for treatment, instead see OVERCOMING
DIABETES.
TYPE 1 DIABETES
The
Changeover
For
insulin-dependent diabetics it can be more difficult and even dangerous to
improve the diet gradually as this poses a constant threat of insulin overdose
with resulting shock. While it is possible to change the diet gradually, in my
opinion a sudden changeover is an easier and safer option, especially for
someone on high doses of insulin. If you are employed, take a one or two week
holiday. Alternatively, if you have to keep working, use the changeover diet on
several consecutive weekends and continue with an improved but stable diet
during the week.
The
main purpose of the changeover diet is to start cleansing the body and
especially the arteries and capillaries, discover and eliminate any food
allergies and chemical sensitivities, and use it as a stable base from which to
develop a suitable maintenance diet that requires the least amount of insulin
or other drugs.
On
the changeover day leave off all insulin and any other glucose lowering drugs
but closely monitor your blood sugar level. If the sugar level remains
reasonably low or steady, you may reduce the amount of testing. On the
changeover diet there are usually no strong fluctuations in the blood sugar
level. If the blood sugar generally remains above 10 mmol/l
or 180 mg/100ml, then you may use an appropriate but generally low dose of
long-acting insulin in the morning and evening to keep the blood sugar mostly
below this level. Do not normally use short-acting insulin during this time as
this may cause insulin shock.
A
Cleansing Trial
If you are on high doses of insulin or are concerned
for other reasons, or just want to see how your blood sugar reacts, I suggest
that you make a cleansing trial for 4 to 6 hours to see how it goes.
After rising measure your blood
sugar (except if you know from experience what it will be). Then drink a
large glass of water (free of chlorine and fluoride) with the addition of fresh
lemon juice at the ratio of
An hour after the first lot, take another large glass
of lemon juice and spirulina, and 45 minutes later check again the blood sugar.
Again, use insulin only if you feel it is much too high. Continue drinking hourly
glasses of diluted lemon juice with spirulina for several more hours until you
have an understanding of how your blood sugar level behaves. Children may
sweeten the drink with half a teaspoon of xylitol.
Adults may experiment to see what effect xylitol has
on their blood sugar regulation. Do not use any synthetic sweetener. Stevia is acceptable but xylitol
is preferred. You may also test how you react to eating a tart apple, and if
your sugar level remains elevated, also add up to half a teaspoon of cinnamon
powder to a lemon juice-spirulina drink.
If the lemon drinks taste too
acid, partly neutralize the lemon juice so that it is only mildly acid. A good
way is by keeping the juice of a lemon in contact with a spoonful of dolomite
powder for about on hour or two. When needed for a
drink, pour off the required amount. From time to time add more lemon juice to
the dolomite. With a longer cleanse use fresh dolomite powder each day. If
occasionally you do not have lemon juice at hand, you may use a tablespoonful
of (organic) cider vinegar in a glass of water. With raised blood pressure also
magnesium oxide or magnesium carbonate, and potassium bicarbonate may be used
as alkalizers. For children or with low blood
pressure sodium bicarbonate may sometimes be used.
Keep
a detailed record of all the blood sugar results, and how much insulin was used
and when, and any problems that you may have encountered. This may give you
confidence to repeat it for a full day or a weekend.
The Cleanse
Eat
only apples for several days, as many as you like. Do not try to fast, eat at
least 6 apples a day. Use mainly tart varieties, such as Granny Smith, and eat
them spaced out during the day instead of in meal portions. Try to obtain
organic apples, otherwise scrub them in warm soap water and rinse well.
Preferably ingest the peels as well.
In
addition, every waking hour or 12 times during the day drink a glass of diluted
lemon juice with spirulina and possibly xylitol as
described for the Cleansing Trial.
Each
morning for the duration of the cleanse take a large glassful of water with
about a tablespoon of Epsom salts, more or less as required to clean out the
bowels. Add to this a clove of garlic crushed in some lemon juice; drink more
water or herb tea immediately afterwards. Any water for drinking and cooking
should be free of chlorine and added fluoride, use a water filter if necessary
or buy suitable water. (Normal water filters do not remove fluoride). For
children or adults who cannot tolerate it, you do not need to use the Epsom
salts, instead just use the garlic in lemon juice, possibly slightly sweetened.
About
one hour later take with a glass of water with lemon juice either several
teaspoons of milk-free acidophilus culture or several high-potency acidophilus
capsules, preferably also containing bifido bacteria,
possibly also other lactobacteria. If available you may also use a cupful of
acidophilus yoghurt made from goats' milk. All cultures should be free of cows’
milk protein. Continue with the acidophilus therapy for much longer, taking
high-potency cultures with liquid before breakfast and other meals or several
times daily.
If
your blood sugar level is not normal after the first week, continue with this
cleanse for a second week, and possibly even for a third week.
The
Basic Diabetes 1 Diet
Children,
depending on age, may remain for one to several days on this changeover
cleansing routine, while adults may continue for one to two or three weeks, or
until the blood sugar stabilises at an improved level. Start with one meal a
day of the foods allowed in the basic diet. A day or two later increase this to
two meals. If your blood sugar level is now reasonably low and stable without
insulin, then start with allergy-testing the individual foods of the
maintenance diet. If you still require insulin, remain for several weeks on the
basic diet before you start allergy testing new foods.
The
basic diet is a ‘safe’ diet with a minimum of glucose or foods such as starch
that yield glucose during digestion. Suitable foods are meat, fish and other
seafood, eggs, goats’ milk products (preferably fermented), Brazil nuts, ground
linseed, avocados, lettuce and other leaf vegetables, celery, cucumber, some
fresh tomato and raw onion for flavouring a salad, tart apples, lemon and lime
juice. Green beans are especially good.
For
normalising or stabilising the blood sugar level meat and fish may be
conventionally cooked. However, the higher the cooking temperature, the greater
will be the long-term health damage. Therefore, boil or steam but do not heat
the food to above the boiling point. Nevertheless, much greater benefit in
overall health will result from eating these foods predominantly raw. Use
additional digestive enzymes with all cooked foods, but especially with cooked
flesh foods.
Raw food and digestive enzymes are especially
important for those who like to re-generate their insulin production, or for
anyone with damage to their eyes, kidneys or blood vessels. Raw meat or fish
are quite safe if you take suitable precautions. Try to find a source of
organic meat and fowl, or otherwise grass-fed beef and free-range chicken.
According to the Australian Department of Primary Industries freezing meat for
about 10 days at minus 8°C or colder will kill any tapeworm cysts. Avoid any
meat from feedlots, or fish from fish farms. Minimise eating large predatory
fish, such as shark or tuna, because of their high mercury content. In addition
use parasite remedies as outlined below.
Besides
using raw minced meat, you may marinate diced meat or fish, or blend fish or
chicken with water. Fresh fish often is sufficiently tender and tasty as it is.
To marinate you immerse diced meat or fish in lemon juice or diluted cider
vinegar and keep it refrigerated overnight.
Use
raw onion, lime or lemon juice, ginger or chilli or any other herbs or spices
for flavouring meals. If trying out raw flesh foods start using small amounts
and increase gradually. Minimise the use of salt, and avoid it if you have a
kidney problem, except if your blood pressure is rather low. Small amounts of
magnesium chloride or potassium chloride are beneficial instead of salt. Egg
yolk is best eaten raw and mixed with other food, while the white may be
cooked; as a compromise you may soft-boil or lightly poach the egg, in any case
the yolk should remain soft.
In
addition to meat, fish or other seafood, egg or non-pasteurised goats’ cheese,
eat a salad with each meal using the mentioned low-carbohydrate vegetables and
possibly yoghurt. You may use virgin coconut oil and extra virgin olive oil.
Avoid tinned fish with any kind of sauce, sausages or other manufactured meat.
Besides
one or two meals, have apples or possibly pears and frequent drinks with
diluted lime or lemon juice. Whenever you feel hungry, mix a teaspoon of
spirulina (or chlorella) powder, a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, and a
pinch of lecithin with water (warm or cold) or with diluted lime or lemon juice
as an appetite suppressant and energiser.
Finally,
several times a day before or between meals mix a teaspoon of psyllium hulls in
a large glass of water and drink immediately. This is to help clean out the
intestinal tract and ensure two to three easy bowel movements each day.
If
your blood sugar level remains more or less normal, or after several weeks on
this basic diet you may use allergy testing as described below to see how you
react to additional foods as suggested for type 2 diabetics. Continue to use
only non-reacting or safe foods.
TYPE 2 DIABETES
It
is highly recommended to have a one to two-week cleansing period on tart
apples, diluted lemon juice, Epsom salt-garlic flush and acidophilus culture as
described for type 1 diabetes. During this time it is advisable to leave off
all blood sugar lowering drugs to avoid an insulin shock. If your blood sugar
level is not normal after the first week, continue for a second week, and
possibly even for a third week. When your blood sugar has normalised, or if you
cannot immediately do this cleanse, use the following diet.
Initially
eat only lentils, chickpeas (hommos), fenugreek, peas and beans (cooked or
sprouted), fresh vegetables (cooked and raw), nuts (except cashews) and oily
seeds, eggs, goats’ milk products (preferably fermented), fish and other
seafood, apples, lemons, limes and grapefruit, avocados, virgin coconut oil and
extra virgin olive oil. Use lecithin with all meals, and frequently spirulina
or chlorella powder. After several weeks you may also add lean meat.
Also,
several times a day before or between meals mix a teaspoon of psyllium hulls in
a large glass of water and drink immediately. This is to help clean out the
intestinal tract and ensure two to three easy bowel movements each day.
ALLERGY TESTING
If
the blood sugar level becomes again too high after introducing the foods of the
basic diet, or when introducing additional foods, test the blood sugar level
before and after each new meal composition. If the rise in the sugar level
remains within normal limits, the same ingredients do not normally need to be
tested again. However, if there is an unusual rise, test the ingredients of
that meal individually, especially any new additions.
Furthermore,
try to take your pulse before each test meal and about 30 and 60 minutes after
the meal. If the pulse rises much higher than after eating apples only or after
a safe meal, an allergy must be suspected even if the blood sugar level does
not show an unusual rise. Usually that means that the pulse rises by more than
10 per cent.
If
either blood sugar or pulse shows an unusual rise, avoid the food to which this
may be attributed for several weeks before testing it again. However, a certain
food may not cause a problem if used in small amounts or only once a week,
while frequent exposure to larger quantities or combined with other stresses
may upset the sugar level. You may discover such pattern from a well-kept
diary.
Make
a column each for the time, the tested food or ingredient or the composition of
the meal, the blood sugar and pulse before and after the meal, and finally any
unusual reactions; also keep a record of any blood sugar lowering medication.
Even nutritional supplements may react and need to be tested. For further
information on allergy testing see Addictions &
Allergies.
THE MAINTENANCE DIET
FOR BOTH TYPES
Long-term
type 1 diabetics may require a longer period of additional therapies as
described below before they can safely diversify their diet. However, there is
no harm in trying. Some foods may be fine in small amounts, and only increase
the blood sugar level in larger amounts or if eaten together with other
carbohydrate containing foods.
Preferably
much of the food intake should be fresh and raw. Fenugreek tends to delay the
absorption of foods and this improves the sugar regulation. If it tests all
right for you and you find that it improves your sugar level, then take 1
tablespoonful at the beginning of each meal that contains glucose-yielding
carbohydrates together with the water in which it has been soaked overnight.
Immediately before drinking you may in addition stir into it a tablespoon of
freshly ground linseed. These may be freshly ground in a coffee grinder, or in
a larger quantity in a blender, and kept in the freezer.
As
long as the sugar level is too high, eat between meals either a tart apple or
drink some fresh lime or lemon juice, later you may also try grapefruit juice.
If you have elevated ketone levels greatly increase
the intake of lime or lemon juice; also cider vinegar can be helpful.
If
the blood sugar level remains elevated or problems remain with clogged arteries
and the blood circulation system in general, go for several days on a lemon
juice fast: ten to twelve times during the day in hourly intervals drink a
large glass of purified water or herb tea with the juice of a quarter of a
lemon, no other food. This is a good way to restore sensitivity to insulin, or
normalise the blood sugar regulation, or if you want to lose weight. However,
it will be more effective if you combine it with a program of intestinal
sanitation: first thing in the morning take a tablespoon of Epsom salt and
crushed garlic in a glass of water, and an hour later some acidophilus culture
with your first lot of lemon juice. If you cannot use the Epsom salt and
garlic, then take instead a teaspoon of psyllium hulls in a large glass of
water once or twice a day to ensure continued bowel movements during the fast.
Citric
acid reacts with fatty acids to produce energy. As long as you have fatty
deposits, you can easily live on lemon juice. This is not fanciful as basically
all of our food is internally converted into citric acid before it is converted
into energy. However, to convert citric acid completely into energy, it needs
to react with the breakdown products of fatty acids, see The Cellular Energy Metabolism for a diagram of
this process. The late Dr Carey Reams reputedly cured thousands of diabetics of
both types with a 3-week lemon juice fast that cleared the body of unhealthy
fat deposits. Every hour or ten times daily patients would drink a glassful
with one part of lemon juice and 9 parts of water, followed after 3 weeks by an
allergy-tested natural diet. For more information on restoring the blood
circulation system to good health also see Cardiovascular
Disease and the Cholesterol Saga.
Jerusalem
artichoke in small amounts has a beneficial effect on liver, pancreas and
kidneys. If available, eat one about the size of an egg grated in salad every
other day or less with mild diabetes. In larger amounts it may cause wind due
to the indigestible, fructose-based polysaccharide inulin. Store J. artichokes
in moderately dry soil, they quickly deteriorate in the refrigerator.
Liver
can be helpful for lowering the sugar level. Possibly try eating several slices
of liver (not fried) a week and see how you react. Type 2-diabetes can usually
be normalised within weeks on a temporary raw-food diet.
Generally
have small meals only. When the blood sugar level remains normal try additional
varieties of fruit and vegetables but continue to avoid or minimise grain
products. Do not cook in aluminium or with microwave, even stainless steel is
not really good. Glassware is best, otherwise enamel. Eat your food freshly
cooked and not reheated from the refrigerator, do not fry or otherwise heat
food to more than 100°C.
If
blood sugar levels become again elevated while normalising the diet, which may
also be due to stress or an infection, return again to the basic diet, possibly
with Epsom salts and garlic followed by acidophilus.
Restricted
Food
Initially
avoid the following foods completely and after the blood sugar level has become
normal, minimise their use.
·
Sweeteners,
sweetened foods, including fruit juice, soft drinks, dried fruit, honey,
artificial sweeteners. Avoid 'diet' foods, such as 'diet marmalade' or 'diet
drinks'. About health problems associated with Aspartame (Nutrasweet)
or other artificial sweeteners see www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/.
·
Breakfast
cereals, oats, bread and other grain or flour products.
·
Processed yeasts
such as vegemite, initially avoid all yeast products (except selenium yeast),
also hydrolysed proteins.
·
Fried food,
commercial chicken, smallgoods and other manufactured meat.
·
Margarine,
shortenings and other hydrogenated products such as some brands of peanut
butter, commercial polyunsaturated oils and especially canola oil.
·
Tinned, preserved
or highly processed food or food with added non-biological chemicals (colours,
flavours, preservatives), frozen vegetables.
·
Read food labels
to avoid processed food with suspect additives.
·
Chlorinated or
fluoridated water.
·
Tobacco, alcohol
and drugs, fluoridated toothpaste, test any cosmetics before use.
·
Restrict soy
products as they are high in enzyme inhibitors and other anti-nutrients, except
lecithin or if they are properly fermented such as Miso
or Natto.
In
regard to sweeteners, the best solution is to forget your sweet tooth, and
learn instead eating and loving savoury food. However, if you cannot do that,
then small amounts of xylitol or the herbal sweetener
Stevia may be used.
Type
2 diabetics generally need to be less strict than type 1 diabetics. Therefore,
after normalising the blood sugar level, they may test and use potential
problem foods in small amounts much sooner than insulin-dependent diabetics.
Be
cautious with restaurant food, even normally harmless food may have been
prepared with ingredients that drive the sugar level up. Minimise the use of
non-organic fruit and vegetables, especially those most heavily sprayed, such
as tomatoes, fruits and leaf vegetables. The best commercial bread is organic
spelt or rye sourdough bread. The least harmful grains, which may be used
combined with legumes, are millet, buckwheat (not really a grain) and brown
rice.
SUPPLEMENTS
The
following supplements may help and can be taken in the indicated amounts,
usually during meals, until the blood sugar is normal. Then reduce them
gradually. Also introduce and increase high levels of supplements gradually
with testing to assess their effect on the blood sugar level.
During
each meal take a medium potency multi-vitamin-mineral tablet, preferably
providing a high level of chromium, at least 10 mg of vitamin B6 and 5-10 mg of
zinc. Otherwise take additional zinc and chromium. The best form of chromium is
as Glucose Tolerance Factor or as picolinate. Except
where the soil is high in selenium, take 100 - 200 mcg of selenium. Try
freeze-dried liver and MSM.
Cod
liver oil is recommended in all cases. To emulsify shake a tablespoonful with
some lecithin and diluted lemon juice in a jar. During periods when you have
much sun exposure use other fish oils instead (except if you frequently eat
cold-water fish).
Normally
500 mg (2 x 250 mg) of natural vitamin E in tablet form are sufficient per day
but with problems from poor circulation to the legs try 3x500 mg; better than
the common d-alpha tocopherol are mixed tocopherols.
Take
1-3 g of vitamin C with meals, e.g. half a teaspoonful of sodium or calcium ascorbate or mixed ascorbates 3
or 4 times daily with food or drink (vitamin C may cause non-specific urine
tests to show a false positive).
If
sugar levels remain elevated, try up to 5 x 500 mg of nicotinamide.
This is recommended for most type 1 diabetics. Plenty of antioxidants are
beneficial in all conditions. In addition to vitamins C and E, you may use
grape seed extract or pycnogenol, lipoic acid, Microhydrin, electrolytically
reduced ionised water or air (Geomed) as well as
fresh juice of grass and green vegetables, as well as foods that yield purple
juice (eg beetroot, blueberries).
Approximately
500 mg of additional magnesium will be beneficial, more if the blood pressure
is high. Mix one quarter of a teaspoon of magnesium chloride with most meals,
or alternatively stir one quarter to one half of a teaspoon of magnesium
carbonate (from a chemist) with twice that amount of ascorbic acid in some
water or juice for a fizzy drink. If the blood pressure is low, below 120/80, (especially
for children and young women) take dolomite powder dissolved or neutralised
with lemon juice instead of magnesium.
Gymnema
is an Indian herb that has been shown to regenerate the insulin-producing
pancreas cells when used for 2 years. It also helps to prevent the onset of
diabetes and to lower elevated blood sugar levels. Shortly before every meal that is likely to
elevate the blood sugar level take an extract of about 200 mg or 1-2 g of
powdered leaves.
Calcium
arginate, the calcium salt of the amino acid arginine, effectively transports glucose into cells and
helps to normalise type 2 diabetes. Also magnesium arginate
may help. Daily doses of calcium arginate range from
2.5 to 3.5 g and of magnesium arginate from 2 to 2.5
g.
Use
plenty of freshly ground linseed (keep frozen or refrigerated) and take 1
teaspoon of lecithin granules with meals. With poor circulation try 100 mg of
niacin after meals. Even better is a niacin flush by taking it on an empty
stomach. This helps to clean out and regenerate the capillaries. Do this about
twice a week.
With degenerative eye changes take with meals up to
10,000 IU of vitamin A (as emulsion, halibut liver oil or cod liver oil), 100
mg of vitamin B2 in addition to increased vitamin E, zinc and ground linseed;
also digestive enzymes and thyroid extract are helpful with diabetic
retinopathy, as are evening primrose oil, fish oil and the bioflavonoids
lutein and zeaxanthin. Try
the herbs bilberry and eyebright.
With
nerve damage (neuropathy) try 3x100 mg each of vitamins B1 and B6, hydrochloric
acid, weekly vitamin B12 injections, later vitamin B12 tablets absorbed under
the tongue or through the nostrils, and 500 mcg of folic acid.
Suitable
herbs are bean pod tea, ginger, blueberry leaves, dandelion roots and vinca rosea. Also try liver herbs
such as centaury, devil's claw, gentian and milk thistle. Goat's rue (Galega officinalis) has in animal
studies been shown to have regenerative effects on the beta cells of the pancreas.
Cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, bay leaves and hops increase the natural insulin
activity.
Cinnamon
is helpful for both types of diabetes. With type 1 it may allow a reduction in
the daily insulin dose. Generally take 1 teaspoonful daily in divided doses
with meals. If taking more than 1 teaspoonful daily it has been recommended to
boil the cinnamon in water. After some cooling pour off the solution for use
and discard the solid residue.
Insulin-dependent
diabetics who continue to need insulin on the basic low carbohydrate diet may
try adding gradually increasing amounts of fructose to their lemon drinks. This
may help to provide muscle cells with sufficient carbohydrate for normal
metabolic functions; otherwise muscle protein may be used to generate glucose
from amino acids. Start with half a teaspoon several times daily and increase
up to a teaspoonful five to six times daily. Let yourself be guided by your
blood sugar and energy level. Fructose is only harmful combined with starches,
or on a diet high in carbohydrates, on a low carbohydrate diet it can be
beneficial.
ADDITIONAL THERAPY
Most
important and essential with type 1 diabetes is intensive intestinal sanitation
and anti-microbial therapy as explained in Additional
Therapy for all Diseases. Other recommend methods are a Beck-type zapper or
blood purifier, see Electronic Zapper
& Magnetic Pulser, Oxygen
Therapy as well as herbal parasite
cure with wormwood, cloves and tincture of green hulls of black walnuts.
All of these measures are mainly important for type 1 diabetics who are still
on insulin to regenerate the beta cells in the pancreas. Also use anti-microbial
remedies as a maintenance program when you consume raw flesh foods.
An
additional way to stimulate the liver and pancreas is with magnets.
You may keep the south pole of a strong ceramic or neodymium magnet towards the
skin over the liver and at other times over the pancreas as long as there are
signs of inflammation or tenderness when pressed.
Even better is a fast magnetic pulser with a strong field and up to 10 pulses per
second, see Resources in
Use
additional therapies to stimulate the liver and the pancreas, the two most
important organs for the blood sugar regulation. If your sugar level remains
elevated, you may, for instance, see an acupuncturist, homoeopath, osteopath,
energy healer or another health specialist for additional stimulation of these
organs.
After
1 – 3 weeks on the cleansing program the
blood sugar level should be much improved, and in many cases more or less
normal. However, overweight individuals and long-term type 1 diabetics may
still have high early morning sugar levels that may come down after some
exercise or other muscle activity.
Another
measures you can take yourself is reflexology.
Strongly press under the soles of your feet wherever you find a sore spot. The
area connected to the liver is between the middle and the upper outer side of
the right foot, the pancreas is near the insteps of both feet just above the
midline, the kidneys are near the centre of each sole and the eyes at the base
of the second and third toes of each foot.
You
may press the soles against a rock, stone or golf-ball, onto the corner of a
table or other furniture, or press with a thumb, knuckle or the blunt end of a
stone or pen or pencil. Press each area for several minutes, repeat frequently
or find a helper to press your feet.
To
stimulate the spinal reflexes a helper may rapidly tap or vibrate
the spine from between the shoulder blades to the small of the back, also press
any tight and painful muscles in this area. You may try to hang upside-down
from inversion equipment and do gentle spine-twisting exercises.
Strongly
recommended are hot castor oil packs over the liver and upper
abdomen. Liberally apply castor oil to this area, cover with a woollen rag and
keep warm with a hot water bottle for about two hours. Add more layers of rag
or newspaper as required to prevent the skin becoming too hot. Do this on and
off for several weeks. It helps further to take a tablespoon of olive oil at
bedtime to stimulate the release of bile and accumulated toxins, which are then
flushed out the next morning with Epsom salts and garlic drink.
With
colour therapy you shine a strong yellow light for about an hour
or longer at close range onto the skin over the upper abdomen and the middle of
the back. Instead of a yellow light bulb in a dark room you may use a normal
bulb or daylight and cover these areas with yellow cellophane.
Exercise is very
important for both types of diabetics, the more so the higher the weight or the
blood sugar level. Start with gentle rebounding, and gradually increase the
duration and vigour of the exercises to include jogging or aerobic dancing or
other aerobic exercises but always with strong breathing so that you do not get
out of breath. Exercise lowers sugar levels by channelling glucose into muscle
cells even in the absence of insulin, or in type 2 diabetics by making cells
more sensitive to insulin. In contrast, additional insulin or blood sugar
tablets lower blood sugar levels mainly by converting glucose into fat, which
is highly undesirable.
Sunshine can increase
insulin production and improve blood sugar regulation. Preferably expose your
unprotected skin to sunlight for 5 - 15 minutes several times a week. Do not
use sunscreen during this time and leave off glasses or sunglasses.
Stress
increases adrenalin levels and this in turn reduces the effectiveness of
insulin. Therefore, try to avoid obvious stress and in addition learn
relaxation and meditation exercises and practise daily. Also use suitable affirmations
in a relaxed or meditative state. A frequent stress is exposure to
electromagnetic radiation in the bedroom, see Electromagnetic Pollution.
If
increased insulin production is desirable, you may use the following guided
imagery while in a state of induced relaxation or meditation. Visualise
clumps of cells in your pancreas which you know are beta cells, you may look
beforehand at an anatomical picture of the pancreas. See them greatly increase
in numbers and produce a substance, which you know is insulin. Imagine them
releasing the necessary amount into the bloodstream and storing the rest for
future use. In addition imagine your breath going in and out of the pancreas;
feel the abdomen, including the pancreas, becoming warm. Maintain this feeling
of warmth as long as you can and frequently repeat this exercise. You may also
send feelings of love to your pancreas and imagine it shining as a bright
light.
In
your affirmations you may say: "The beta cells in my pancreas proliferate
and reach normal numbers, they produce more and more insulin to regulate my
blood sugar level perfectly. My liver and my pancreas are healthy and
strong". To strengthen the liver meridian you may say and feel: "I am
happy and cheerful" and for the pancreas mentally or with voice say:
"I am secure and have faith and confidence in my future". For further
information on using mind methods see Mind Tools.
Be positive and expect to be how you really want to be and that is how you most
likely will be.