Posted on 09/06/2021 2:34:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
…19TH CENTURY: DIETS AND DIABETIC DOGS
Diet became the rage around 1800 after John Rollo confirmed the existence of excess blood sugar in people with diabetes, concluding that low-carb, high-protein diets worked best. Seventy years later, French physician Appolinaire Bouchardat discovered during a food shortage that starvation worked well for his patients. By the 1880s, periodic fasting and starvation were the norm.
German medical student Paul Langerhans first identified islet cells in the pancreas in 1869. In 1889, Josef von Mering and Oskar Minkowski removed the pancreas of a dog and voilà! — instant diabetes. Scottish endocrinologist Edward Sharpey-Shafer made the leap in 1910, suggesting that the pancreas secreted an “antidiabetic” chemical, which he dubbed insulin.
1922: THE YEAR IT ALL CHANGED
In 1922, Canadians Frederick Banting and Charles Best injected their purified pancreatic extract into a young boy suffering from juvenile diabetes. His virtually immediate recovery declared that diabetes treatment had been revolutionized. The following year, the first commercial preparations of bovine insulin appeared.
1940S AND ’50S: SANGER AND SULFONYLUREAS
By the late 1940s, insulin syringes became available, and in the 1950s, people with diabetes could easily monitor the sugar in their urine, thanks to tablets and test strips. In 1958, people with type-2 diabetes caught a big break when oral sulfonylureas — which stimulate the pancreas to release more insulin — hit the market.
Englishman Frederick Sanger was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1958 after identifying the structure of insulin, laying the groundwork for synthetic insulin….
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Ask yourself why.
A FReeper mentioned this on a thread in the past week or so, causing me to look this up.
Hence the Islands of Langerhans in the pancreas.
Nope.
Only a vaccine will do.
Only a vaccine with a patent that hasn’t run out.
WE had a Cat that had diabetes , I had to give her a shot of insulin twice a day
Dr Fung plan book very good.
But hard to comply with if you have a lifetime of different dietary habits.
That seems like fair payback for all the times the cat sun her claws into you.
Type 1 cannot be cured.
And by not eating, that means starving until you die.
Read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss.
Why? I am assuming you mean why hasn't the medical establishment told people how to cure diabetes (or put it into 'remission' as you alluded to). Vices exist because life is hard, pretty much for all of us, and people find different ways to cope. For some it is a chocolate cake. For others a pack of Marlboro's.
I want everyone to avoid all of this, and I want everyone to be healthy. That said, everyone has personal choice (or should), and no one else knows exactly what another person is going through.
Victoza costs about $1000 (or more) for a three week regimen. Fasting costs very little.
I think they are called the Islets of Langerhans.
Big Pharma makes oodles of money on Type II diabetes.
Yes, the medical establishment, including the ADA and the AMA, have known diabetes was able to be put into remission, or even “cured,” since 1800.....
Same with high cholesterol and other “diseases.”
Most physicians still advocate the “balanced diet.”
Plenty of evidence low carb works but from the interviews I’ve seen, few MD’s have faith their patients will stay on it.
Hence they order the meds.
The Islands of Langerhans are off the coast of Greenland, discovered by the Viking; Erik "The Dyspeptic" Langerhans, in 910 AD.
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Number one cause of diabetes (II) is visceral (belly) fat. Not fat anywhere else but specifically around the belly. Get rid of belly fat and it will greatly improve insulin sensitivity. You will almost never see a type II diabetic with a flat stomach. Second is lack of exercise or a sedentary lifestyle. It’s well studied and documented that exercise promotes insulin sensitivity and lack of it causes insulin resistance . Start working out and /or going for long brisk walks and it will do wonders to your blood glucose. Just taking care of these two will reverse type II diabetes in most otherwise healthy people.
So does Coke a Cola and Lays potato chips.
>> Big Pharma makes oodles of money on Type II diabetes.
The medical industry is a cult
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I think they are called the Islets of Langerhans.
Correct.
Gary Taubes wrote a couple good books on this. Highly recommend.
Cholesterol Myths is also great. Here’s the PDF: https://www.ravnskov.nu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CM.pdf
Became much less trusting of the medical community in general after reading this.
When you say fasting are you talking a day, multiple days or weeks?
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