"At a certain point in the process, when your body can no longer produce any insulin and resists even the insulin you take through injection, you begin to experience the ravages of diabetes:
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- Neuropathy
- Amputation
- Kidney failure (dialysis)
- Heart disease
- Blindness
- Death
Although the situation may sound grim, it’s not hopeless. It does, however, present the limitations of the medical approach and shows why the Baseline of Health Program, which deals with the whole body, is likely to produce significantly better results. Standard medical treatment (i.e., drugs) offers several flawed approaches to treating diabetes:
Drugs like metformin seek to inhibit the absorption of high-glycemic carbohydrates in the intestinal tract and enhance insulin sensitivity in the body, thereby reducing the need for extra insulin. The major problem with metformin is its effect on the gastrointestinal system, ranging from a mild loss of appetite to nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, cramps, flatulence, and diarrhea. Many patients find these symptoms impossible to cope with and discontinue the medication. Lactic acidosis, a serious condition in which the cells of the body do not get enough oxygen to survive, is a rare but dangerous side effect of metformin. It is caused by a buildup of lactic acid in the blood. Most of the cases have been in people whose kidneys were not working well (an inevitable problem with diabetes).
Drugs like glyburide work by stimulating the pancreas to release more insulin. Glyburide is so effective that you need to carry glucose pills with you in case you produce so much insulin that your blood sugar drops too low and you fall into a diabetic coma. Although this rarely happens, it is indicative of the larger problems with glyburide. It raises insulin levels so high that your body faces all of the problems of high insulin levels discussed above. It doesn’t repair beta cells but just forces them to work harder, thus speeding up the day when they break down and become totally dysfunctional. Also, extra insulin covers you when the beta cells in your pancreas have burned out and can no longer produce sufficient insulin (by themselves or when stimulated by drugs such as glyburide)--until, that is, your body’s insulin resistance is so high that no amount of insulin is adequate for the task at hand. At that point, your body goes into rapid decay."
Drugs like metformin seek to inhibit the absorption of high-glycemic carbohydrates in the intestinal tract and enhance insulin sensitivity in the body, thereby reducing the need for extra insulin. The major problem with metformin is its effect on the gastrointestinal system, ranging from a mild loss of appetite to nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, cramps, flatulence, and diarrhea. Many patients find these symptoms impossible to cope with and discontinue the medication. Lactic acidosis, a serious condition in which the cells of the body do not get enough oxygen to survive, is a rare but dangerous side effect of metformin. It is caused by a buildup of lactic acid in the blood. Most of the cases have been in people whose kidneys were not working well (an inevitable problem with diabetes).
Drugs like glyburide work by stimulating the pancreas to release more insulin. Glyburide is so effective that you need to carry glucose pills with you in case you produce so much insulin that your blood sugar drops too low and you fall into a diabetic coma. Although this rarely happens, it is indicative of the larger problems with glyburide. It raises insulin levels so high that your body faces all of the problems of high insulin levels discussed above. It doesn’t repair beta cells but just forces them to work harder, thus speeding up the day when they break down and become totally dysfunctional. Also, extra insulin covers you when the beta cells in your pancreas have burned out and can no longer produce sufficient insulin (by themselves or when stimulated by drugs such as glyburide)--until, that is, your body’s insulin resistance is so high that no amount of insulin is adequate for the task at hand. At that point, your body goes into rapid decay."
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