| If, however, you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer or type 1 diabetes, you should see a doctor and review all your treatment options.
Finally, become an active health-care consumer. Question your doctors, other health-care providers, insurance companies, your senators, and your Congresspeople. Become a vigorous participant in your own health and don't just mindlessly follow "doctor's orders." We have a lot more control over our health and well-being than we've been led to believe. |
| It is an immune-system disorder that is related to an insulin deficiency caused by an autoimmune attack on pancreatic (3-cell islets; treatment with daily insulin shots is required. type 1 diabetes is a condition that needs to be treated for life, and at this time it is not preventable. However, it is actually fairly uncommon: Only 10% of people who have diabetes have type 1. |
| Those dealing with type 1 diabetes treat it with insulin therapy, meal planning (carbohydrates need to be carefully balanced), regular exercise (because activity lowers the amount of sugar in the blood), and careful monitoring of overall health. This last because diabetes alters the body's immune system and decreases the body's ability to fight infection. Foot injuries in particular have to be watched, since diabetes causes damage to the blood vessels and nerves that can decrease a person's ability to sense trauma to or pressure on the foot. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Broadly, diabetes is classified into two major forms. type 1 diabetes is characterized by a complete inability of the beta cells of the pancreas to produce insulin. It most commonly occurs during childhood and young adulthood and accounts for about 10% of all persons diagnosed with diabetes. Most of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2, characterized by a combination of a defect in insulin secretion and insulin resistance at the site of insulin action in the muscle, liver, and adipose tissue [2]. |
| Plasma homocysteine and microvascular and macrovascular complications in type 1 diabetes: a cross-sectional nested case-control study. /. Intern. Med. 258, 450-^159.
332. Sun, J., Xu, Y., Zhu, Y., et al. (2003). The relationship between MTHFR gene polymorphisms, plasma homocysteine levels and diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Chin. Med. J. (Engl.) 116, 145-147.
333. Aksoy, H, Akcay, F., Kurtul, N., Baykal, O., and Avci, B. (2000). Serum 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D (l,25(OH)2D3), 25 hydroxy vitamin D (25(OH)D) and parathormone levels in diabetic retinopathy. Clin. Biochem. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 While in type 1 diabetes there is insufficient insulin production, requiring daily insulin therapy, in type 2 diabetes insulin levels are typically initially elevated, indicating a loss of sensitivity to insulin by the cells of the body. With the Hunger Free Forever program we help to restore insulin sensitivity, thereby potentially reversing the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes.
ARE YOU A DIABETIC IN TRAINING? |
Hyla Cass
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 Symptoms may slowly begin to creep in: extreme thirst and hunger, skin infections, fatigue, weight loss (generally in type 1 diabetes), cuts
Dangerous Curves
Ideally, when you've been fasting overnight or for a few hours, your blood glucose levels will be between 80 and 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). After a meal, they should gently rise no higher than 139 mg/dL, with a gradual drop no lower than 65 mg/dL. |
Dan Buettner
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 Some of their unique traits are negative, such as higher incidences of type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. But others are positive, such as resistance to malaria and high longevity rates, especially among males.
When we finished our beers, I needed a break. Interviewing Francalacci was a bit like witnessing a verbal volcano; I hadn't had to prompt him at all. He invited me back to the small rooftop apartment he shared with his lovely Greek wife, Christina. The view from their kitchen window looked out across a jumbled plateau of red clay shingles to the sea. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Considerations
Q To compensate for the lack of insulin production, a person with type 1 diabetes must inject insulin on a daily basis. Injections are necessary because insulin cannot be absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract into the bloodstream if taken orally. Insulin pumps and pens (individual, disposable prefilled insulin syringes in the form of a pen) are also available for the delivery of insulin. Because the management of type 1 diabetes is such a complex challenge, it is imperative that a person with this condition have a good relationship with the physician prescribing the insulin. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) showed that people with type 1 diabetes can reduce their risk of developing diabetic complications by 50 percent or more if they take aggressive measures to control their disease, while the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) revealed that people with type 2 diabetes can also enjoy significant reductions in the risk of complications if they are diligent about making changes in their treatment as the disease progresses. |
| Studies show that mental and emotional stress causes blood glucose levels to rise in people who have type 2 diabetes and can cause glucose levels to rise or fall in people who have type 1 diabetes.
Georgia, a forty-nine-year-old marketing manager with type 2 diabetes, noticed that she was having an increasingly hard time keeping her glucose levels in a healthy range with diet and her oral medication. The trouble all began, she said, when she took on a major project at work that required her to take work home with her every night. |
| The vitamin may also be instrumental in reducing the incidence of type 1 diabetes. The benefit was illustrated in a study, published in Lancet, in which investigators followed nearly eleven thousand children for more than ten years. They found that the incidence of diabetes was nearly 80 percent lower in children who had taken 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily during their first year of life compared with children who had not.
When vitamin D supplements are paired with calcium, we see impressive metabolic health improvements as well. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene polymorphism is a determinant of HDL cholesterol and of the lipoprotein response to a lipid-lowering diet in type 1 diabetes. Diabetes 46, 2082-2087.
239. Kuivenhoven, J. A., Jukema, J. W., Zwinderman, A. H., et al. (1998). The role of a common variant of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene in the progression of coronary atherosclerosis. The Regression Growth Evaluation Statin Study Group. N. Engl. J. Med. 338, 86-93.
240. Carlquist, J. F., Muhlestein, J. B., Home, B. D., et al. (2003). |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Normal vitamin D levels in childhood ensure development of a healthy immune system, and that lowers your risk of immune-mediated diseases later in life, such as thyroid disease, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. A healthy immune system also helps you fight or prevent cancer. Normal vitamin D levels during your childhood build more bone so that you are more likely to reach peak bone mass. Reaching optimal bone mass lowers your risk of fractures for life. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| If you have type 1 diabetes or you are pregnant and taking insulin, we recommend aggressive monitoring of blood sugar levels (see "Fasting Blood Glucose Levels Defined," page 82).
Generally, people who have type 2 diabetes and want to achieve tight glycemic control need to monitor their glucose levels very frequently. You should also increase your monitoring frequency any time you add to, or otherwise change, your treatment strategy. |
| Both are the result of a dysfunction in metabolism that causes abnormally high levels of glucose to accumulate in the bloodstream. In type 1 diabetes, which usually develops during childhood or early adolescence, the pancreas does not produce insulin. Therefore, those with the disease must take insulin every day for the rest of their lives. This form of diabetes affects about 5 percent of those who have the disease and is currently believed to be autoimmune in nature, which means the body produces antibodies that destroy its own cells; in this case, the beta cells. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| Autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and lupus are diseases in which tolerance has failed, and vitamin D deficiency appears to be the culprit behind this failure. Susceptibility to chronic or recurrent infections such as tuberculosis, hepatitis C, HIV, and even influenza all have ties to D- deficiency.
It's smart to simplify your life by giving your immune system a big boost via the Vitamin D Cure. |
| Vitamin D can prevent the development of type 1 diabetes if fetuses and young children have adequate levels of D while the immune system is developing. It all starts during fetal development when D-cells introduce islet-cell proteins to T-cells and scream "protection needed!" But lacking sufficient vitamin D to suppress these D-cells or to dumb down this interaction, the T-cells spur B-cells to make antibodies to the islet cells. These antibodies trigger an inflammatory response, which activates more D-cells and M-cells in the pancreas and the lymph system. |
| Vitamin D and Diabetes
With type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease, early in childhood development your immune system begins to make antibodies to islet cells that manufacture insulin in the pancreas. These antibodies destroy the islet cells, and the production of insulin declines, producing diabetes symptoms.
Type 2 diabetes is characterized by impairment in insulin release as well as insulin resistance in muscles, fat cells, and the liver. Insulin resistance often accompanies obesity, and dietary factors and inactivity can make it worse. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 But it has only been with the help of more recent and sophisticated lab techniques that scientists have been capable of pinpointing how certain viruses, called enteroviruses, second only to the common cold as the most common cause of viral infections, incite some cases of type 1 diabetes. Enteroviruses, those ordinary viral infections that keep young children home from day care or school with cold and flulike symptoms and sometimes fever and muscle aches, cause an estimated 10 to 15 million infections a year in the United States. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| A: If you already have type 1 diabetes or multiple sclerosis, taking vitamin D won't cure your disease. This is true of all autoimmune diseases that have a vitamin D deficiency connection. The events that triggered your diabetes or MS are history that you can't change. However, you can improve glucose control, insulin sensitivity, and probably the frequency and intensity of MS attacks by correcting vitamin D after you develop the disease. In other words, optimizing vitamin D and diet will reduce your disease activity and/or slow progression of your disease. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Study dose: 150 minutes spread throughout the week
Downside: Requires motivation to maintain the regimen
Cost: Approximately $60 twice a year for a pair of good walking shoes
People with type 1 diabetes need to monitor their blood sugar closely when they exercise to make sure they don't overshoot and go into the low-blood-sugar condition called hypoglycemia.
Those with type 2 diabetes have a little more leeway, but still should be monitoring to see how exercise influences their glucose control. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 None of this is really talked about in the news about this so-called cure for type 1 diabetes. The press headlines simply call it a 'Cure for diabetes' thereby misleading type 2 diabetics while providing very limited information to type 1 diabetics.
We don't need cures for these diseases as much as we need to start preventing them, because type 1 and type 2 diabetes are both preventable... almost universally so. And prevention is free, by the way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Holick: It's almost incalculable, because like I said if you just think about the study that was done in Finland where it can reduce your risk of getting type 1 diabetes by 80%. Studies that have been done in the United States and Europe show it can decrease risk of getting colon cancer and dying of colon cancer by 50%, prostate cancer by 50%, ovarian cancer and breast cancer by almost the same amount. The amount of not only money saved, but the amount of grief and pain and suffering that people go through with these serious chronic diseases, potentially could be avoided. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In reality, these headlines are talking about type 1 diabetes, the type that is increasingly rare in proportion to the number of people suffering from adult-onset type 2 diabetes. There is no cure for type 2 diabetes, because type 2 diabetes isn't technically a disease. It's just a metabolic side effect of a lifetime of consuming refined carbohydrates, added sugars, and avoiding physical exercise. So for those out there who are hoping for an instant cure for their type 2 diabetes, this isn't it.
So what breakthrough is this news talking about? |
James A. Howenstine, MD
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 Immunization with vaccines can be promptly followed by the onset of type 1 diabetes in children. Approximately 80% of children with type 1 diabetes are believed to have developed the illness from an adverse reaction to a vaccine. The mechanism is believed to be an autoimmune injury to the pancreatic islet cells precipitated by a vaccine. If my child developed type 1 diabetes from a vaccine, I would give the child a trial of two to three months of thymic extract.
Thymic extract has been shown to be very effective in treating autoimmune disorders, (see Chapter 3 Immune Illnesses). |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 The most studied are multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, type 1 diabetes and rheumatic heart disease.2 These are also the primary autoimmune diseases that have been studied in reference to diet.
Others not listed in Chart 9.1 include inflammatory bowel disease,4 Crohn's disease,4 rheumatic heart disease3 and (possibly) Parkinson's disease.3
Each disease name may sound very different, but as one recent review points out,2 "... it is important to consider... these disorders as a group. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| It may also be advisable for those with type 1 diabetes to avoid milk and wheat gluten (see p. 581).
Weight loss, in particular a significant decrease in body fat percentage, is a prime objective in treating the majority of type 2 diabetics; it improves all aspects of diabetes and may result in cure. And for both type 1 and type 2 diabetics, there are some specific foods that have been shown to produce positive effects on blood sugar control. These foods include olives, soybeans and other legumes, nuts, artichokes, bitter melon, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, mangoes, and onions. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 The study was sponsored by the US government and included 1,441 people with type 1 diabetes. Some of the participants took insulin once or twice daily, as is common practice. The remaining participants were asked to follow a more intensive program. They took insulin three or four times daily, either by injection or via an insulin pump. They checked their blood glucose several times a day and adjusted their insulin doses accordingly. Over 17 years of follow-up, the extra care these individuals took paid off dramatically. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There is a strong correlation between the consumption of milk and dairy products and the development of type 1 diabetes. Certainly, there are other causes, but this is one of the more preventable causes of this disorder. The mechanism at work has to do with the milk proteins (casein, among others) that human bodies have difficulty digesting. The presence of these proteins confuses the immune system, causing it to attack its own cells. |
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