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Type 2 Diabetes Shock for 42 Year Old Man

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Type 2 Diabetic Shocker for 42 Year Old Man

I'm about to tell you the story of a 42 year old man I saw in my office recently who was suffering with fatigue, weight gain, and low libido. Lab test results revealed exactly why he felt terrible....Type 2 Diabetes. He was shocked to discover that he was a Type 2 diabetic.  I'll explain how I found his diabetes...and why I must treat the PERSON, not their DISEASE.

I don’t treat the Type 2 diabetes because that’s a mistake. Instead of treating the disease I treat the person. I look at the person from a functional, nutritional and physiological perspective.

A person suffering with Type 2 Diabetes slowly and surely marches on a downward spiral of taking medication...then injecting insulin every day...feeling terrible...taking more medication....

The day you start injecting insulin you can pretty much just circle the calendar because you're on the way down from that point. Why?

Because insulin is inflammatory. 

Any time there’s a surge of insulin, (such as when you inject it) you get a surge of of a cyotkine (immune system messenger) called IL- 6. IL-6 is inflammatory.  Insulin --even if injected--promotes inflammation. 

Most of people that come to see me that are struggling with pre-diabetes or metabolic syndrome mistakenly think that Insulin is their savior.  And maybe for some people it is. Because, you know, you must have insulin in order to get blood sugar into your cells. But the inflammation from insulin can be a real Catch-22. 

It’s like the "cure" is worse than the disease sometimes.

Adam presented to me complaining of fatigue and half self-diagnosing himself with Type 2 diabetes.  So I did a full metabolic workup on Adam: 

• Comprehensive blood chemistry
• Adrenal Stress Index (measures Cortisol amount and rhythm, DHEA). 
  
• Food Sensitivity Tests. 
  

I did these tests because I always want to find out what’s causing this particular person’s Type 2 diabetic presentation. 

So I’m gonna show you some pictures taken from his actual lab resutls.  I’ll show you what I found...

So the first thing that you notice when you look at his blood work is that his fasting glucose is normal by the lab range.  (It’s also normal if I use a narrower "functional" range.) 

Now the next thing you look at here is hemoglobin A1C. Adam's  6.6 and that’s lab high.

And high Hemoblobin A1c says increased risk for diabetes.  Yes, greater than 6.4.  Well, that’s the lab’s value for that and, remember, we use a functional range.  And the functional range is usually narrower.  But I can tell you that he's got 6.6.  That means that, over the last 90 days, his blood sugar has been consistently high.

He’s developing  "glycosylated end products."   We call them GEP’s. These GEP’s will damage brain tissue.  They will cause brain inflammation.

Remember, Alzheimer’s is called Diabetes of the brain.

Adam knows that he has a problem because he’s got fatigue...and he also has a lot of stress...and he has some erectile dysfunction.  Here’s one of the reasons why.  He has elevated hemoglobin A1C.

Now if you looked at his total Bilirubin....it is Lab High.

We have to do a little differential on that.  That could be either a gall bladder or a liver problem.  And we have to do a little further testing to know for sure.

NOTE: After running an Indirect Bilirubin, it is clear that Adam's high Bilirubin is a sign of a "sluggish" liver.

Now if we look over here at his ferritin...

Ferritin is a marker that we look at for iron deficiency--- but, ferritin is also elevated when you have inflammation.  Let me show you how I know that Adam has a lot of inflammation, why this could be devastating for his wife and young children.

Look at the LDL----I’m not going get into that today, but his HDL is certainly low. It needs to be higher.  I would like to see it in the 50’s, possibly even the 60’s before I start to get a little less worried for him. 

Now, C-Reactive Protein cardiac – you see that?  That’s 9.75; that’s lab high.  That’s 3X the lab's forgiving high end.  C-Reactive Protein is a measure of inflammation.  It’s a marker of inflammation.  So Adam has a wildfire burning in his body!  He has increased risk for a heart attack, stroke and atherosclerosis.

Inflammation could kill him.

The next marker is homocysteine. 

Now this is interesting.  The lab's range for Homocysteine is 0-15. Adam's is 13.1.  So they say it's "normal."  But here’s the thing...

When read the research on homocysteine and cognitive aging, Alzheimer’s and loss of brain function, and dementia...

...those research studies show that a homocysteine level higher than 7 is linked to ACCELERATED BRAIN AGING. 

And that’s what I go by.  So, for me, looking at this particular patient from a functional perspective, 13 is not gonna fly.  In fact, that’s almost double what I would like to see.

  Homocysteine is a marker for inflammation directly linked to brain atrophy (wasting away)...This is why Type 2 Diabetes causes brain problems.)

Look at this:

It’s 25-hydroxy Vitamin D.  Adam's Vitamin D is Lab Low.  Vitamin D is an important regulator of the immune system...an important regulator of inflammation. 

Adam has several strikes against him:

• Low Vitamin D
• High Homocysteine
• HIgh C-Reactive Protein
• High Hemoglobin A1c
• High Total Bilirubin

When I was explaining what was happening to him, Adam said: 

“I’ve got to do something.  I mean, this is “not negotiable.  I’ve got to do whatever it takes.”  (his words)

When you see someone like this or if you are someone like this, there’s a couple of different things you can do to try to get yourself back on track and avoid the hell of injecting insulin.  I’ll talk about those in some future post.

Those are the types of blood chemistry markers that I think are important to look at (and I'll go over his Adrenal Stress Index in another post).

So does this guy meet the criteria for Type 2 Diabetes?  Well, depending on who you talk to, yeah. 

But, I don’t care about the label, or the "name" of the "disease." 

What I do care about is that Adam has long-term elevated blood sugar...he has scary inflammation....and something’s got to be done or Adam may not be around to watch his children grow up.

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Gardasil HPV Vaccine Side Effects Story

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I want to share with you today some information about how the HPV vaccine can cause blindness and stroke symptoms. 

And I don’t have to do any creative thinking because there was a study published in The Journal of Child Neurology this year in which a 16 year old girl who was previously healthy came to the Emergency Room after she had loss of vision. Sadly, she was injured by the HPV Vaccine.

The article reveals how a vaccine can devastate your body. 

Now am I telling you you shouldn’t get a vaccine?  No, because that would be practicing medicine.  I’m not telling you that.  I’m telling you you need to think about this issue as if it were a life and death choice.

This article is one of many that’s starting to fill up the research literature of people and women that are having demyelinating or autoimmune symptoms or other catastrophic symptoms after they get this HPV vaccine. 

If you’re reading this because your child has had this vaccination and is now suffering symptoms, you better find someone very quickly who can help you...someone who understands what’s going on, understands the physiology.

And the physiology is...

Vaccines are designed to do one thing---stimulate your immune system. 

This stimulation can be push a person over the edge, and cause a catastrophic autoimmune attack on the body, brain and nervous system.

There’s a lot of girls of all ages who are the walking wounded...the walking dead...all from this vaccine. 

It makes me very, very angry that this  is  crammed down people’s throats and the public doesn't think about it. 

And I don’t want to see any comments like, “Well, this is a rare reaction.”  No, it’s not.  It’s not a rare reaction.  It’s a very common reaction.  There are thousands of women and girls, that are suffering. This vaccine has bombarded their immune system and now they have to endure a lifetime of side effects

See, autoimmune conditions are like a light switch being flipped on.  You can’t just turn them off. That’s why my practice is full of people like this who can’t go anywhere else because no one else knows what to do with them. 

So I guess to get off my soapbox today, if you want to read this study it’s in The Journal of Child Neurology of this year and you can read it for yourself.

That’s what a lot of people don’t realize---this stuff that I’m telling you I didn’t make this up.  I didn’t like, you know, get it from some crazy unsubstantiated, un-peer reviewed site.  This is science. 

You want to talk about evidence-based medicine? 
This is evidenced-based medicine....and the evidence says that this medicine stinks.

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Omega 3 Fatty Acids Prevent Psychiatric Illness

Today, I wanna share with you the relationship between fatty acids, or fish oils, in the prevention of psychiatric disease. 

It's a great study that was just published in February, in the Archives of General Psychiatry.  The title of the study is "Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids of Indicated Prevention of Psychotic Disorder."

Now, here's the story behind what they did...

(This came from Austria.)  Essentially, they took 81 young patients, and they monitored them over a year.  These people were – are – were being monitored because they had been showing signs of psychotic behavior, not like killing people, but disorganized thinking, delusional thinking, psychiatric types of symptoms. 

Essentially what they did is all they did is they took 12 weeks of fish oil.  That's it. 

They took twelve weeks of about a gram a day of omega-3 fatty acids.  Not every day.  Not for the whole 12 months.  Just for twelve weeks.  

There were two groups;

1. the group that took the fish oil
2. the group that got psychotherapy alone.  

You got your omega-3 fatty acid group, and you got your psychotherapy alone group. 

Over the next 12 months, here's what happened...

Out of the group that got the fish oils, they had --as measured by the clinicians---less delusional thinking, more motivation, less disorganized thinking.  12 months later....here's the really cool part....

...Some of these people still progressed on to psychosis.  That did happen..... 

But check this out.---Out of the treatment group, only 5% progressed to full-blown psychosis.  In the psychotherapy group 28% progressed to full-blown psychosis. 

I think that's a pretty significant different, 5% versus 28%.

What I want you to think about is--- why would that happen? 

Why would omega-3 fatty acids prevent someone from having full-blown psychosis? 

Well, there's a bunch of different reasons, but the main reason is every cell in your body is made up of these fats.  Every cell has a cell membrane (like a wall).  I don't care if it's your muscle cell or your eye cell or your brain. This membrane is made of phospholipids (fats). 

If you don't have the right fats, the membrane and the cell are not going to work correctly. On a basic foundational level, cells can't work right without Omega-3 fats.

Now, from a neurological perspective...

...about 70% of your brain is fat.  If you don't have the adequate intake of the right kinds of fats, once again, your brain can be a specific targeted for malfunction. 

It doesn't mean that if you don't have enough fats, you're gonna develop a psychiatric disorder.  This does mean, in this study particularly, that these people benefited from only twelve weeks of supplementing with omega-3 fatty acids.

Let me give you a third reason why Omega 3 Fatty Acids  work. 

The third reason is inflammation.  Omega-3 fats are known to down-regulate inflammation. 

Inflammation is pretty much the hallmark of any psychiatric disorder.  I'm talking about Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia--you name it--- these all feature inflammation in the brain. 

Their brain is on fire.  So when you use omega-3 fatty acids, it's like putting a fire extinguisher and putting out the fire. 

Same thing In this study group of 81 people--5% (not 28%), progressed to full-blown psychosis.  I mean this is a fantastic study.

CAUTION: I don't recommend that you rush out and go buy fatty acids.  Number one, a lot of them aren't very good.  That's going to irritate a lot of the people that are watching this right now, but a lot of the fatty acids that are available commercially aren't very good.  They can be rancid.  You don't how they're being made (and boy, that's a whole 'nother story about how these things are made.) 

When it comes to pyschiatric conditions, I don't recommend you try to treat yourself.  I want you to find someone who can evaluate you both neurologically and metabolically. And find out if Omega 3 Fatty Acids are even appropriate for you in the first place. 

Now, it's not that they're dangerous...but you could be wasting time and money trying to self-medicate.  There's no shortcuts.  I mean, if you've got a problem, you want to have it investigated.  Find out what's really going on.

This study from  the Archives of General Psychiatry is a fantastic demonstration, a profound demonstration, that nature is very powerful.

If we listened to Nature and tried not to muck around with it too much... give Nature a helping hand when it needs it... we could enjoy great health. 

Imagine the change in the life of these people.  Omega 3 Fatty Acids prevented psychosis.  That's huge. 

This should be standard of care for anyone that's being monitored for psychiatric concerns

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