Tag: endocrinology

May11201811th May 201811th May 201815Commentsby Marika

TYPE 1 DIABETES STUDY: LOW-CARB DIETS DISH UP RADICAL NEW HOPE

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By Marika Sboros

Type 1 diabetes is usually a terrifying diagnosis, more so for parents when doctors diagnose it in their children. A lifetime dependency on increasing use of insulin and other drugs looms large.

If diabetics don’t manage their condition properly, the spectre of life-threatening complications also looms large. These include kidney failure, blindness, limb amputation and premature death

Now, US scientists offer type 1 diabetics a radically different approach to conventional treatment and management of type 1 diabetes. Their study just published in the journal, Pediatrics, suggests that a very low-carb, higher-protein (VLC) diet can achieve “exceptional” blood sugar control.

And it can do so by significantly reducing use of insulin and other drugs. Better still, it does so with “low rates of adverse events”. They suggest that current treatment protocols should change. Top global experts agree.

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Sep13201713th September 20178th March 20183Commentsby Marika

CANCER: FUNG ON WHY IT’S NOT JUST GENETIC!

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By Marika Sboros

Divergent views on cancer treatment make some oncologists green around the gills. It’s as if specialists believe it’s their way or the highway to certain death.

Yet patients still die from complications of conventional treatment. That’s when they aren’t complaining that treatment is worse than the disease. Of course, treatment can be lifesaving. But you have only to read Siddhartha Mukkerjee’s The Emperor of all Maladies to know how hit-and-miss orthodox medicine can be against cancer.

Canadian nephrologist (kidney specialist) Jason Fung says aspects of the genetic model of cancer are as unlikely as humans mutating and gaining the ability to shoot laser beams out of their eyes or to stick to walls like a spider. Yet we accept unlikely feats from cancer cells daily. Here, Fung argues for cancer as not just a genetic but also an endocrine disease.

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May26201626th May 201630th June 20170Commentby Marika

Real diabetes cure: diet or trimming your innards?

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diabetesBy Marika Sboros

Doctors across the globe believe that bariatric surgery is a “breakthrough” treatment for type 2 diabetes. They say that it’s the closest that modern medicine has come yet to a cure.

Bariatric surgery is an invasive procedure to reduce the size of the stomach or intestines or change the way the body absorbs food. Doctors use it to treat morbid obesity that is sometimes a close companion of diabetes. For that reason,  they often refer to the co-existing conditions of obesity and diabetes as diabesity.

So far, most obesity specialists have recommended bariatric surgery as last resort for people who can’t lose weight by conventional means. Now some say that even if diabetics are only mildly obese, bariatric surgery should be first option. 

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May11201611th May 201612th June 201711Commentsby Marika

Low-carb works for diabetes – why don’t more doctors advise it?

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By Marika Sboros

Diabetes treatment is quietly undergoing transformation.

Diabetes treatment is quietly undergoing transformation.

Here’s food for thought: there is evidence to show that low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets work very well for people with type 2 diabetes. Growing evidence shows that  LCHF diets can reverse the symptoms of diabetes completely. Many diabetics can also come off all medication altogether.

Yet many doctors, dietitians and government health services still won’t advise LCHF for diabetics. 

Why ever not, you might well ask?

The writer of an article on diabetes.co.uk asks that question and suggests answers.

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Apr23201623rd April 201618th May 201845Commentsby Marika

A ‘cure’ for type 1 diabetes? Dr Eli Lewis on holy grail trail

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Prof Eli Lewis

(EDITOR’S NOTE: For parents of children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, Prof Lewis does not see patients individually. He suggests that parents show this link to the doctor treating their child: http://www.lewislab.net/Teaching/InquiriesAAT.html – if the doctor is willing and can access the medication, the child can receive the treatment.)

DIABETES is not always the chronic progressive condition most doctors and dietitians believe it to be. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are shown to improve with diet. Now Israeli biochemistry and pharmacology professor Dr Eli Lewis could be changing the landscape even further for type 1 diabetics.

Here’s the background to his research on a new compound to treat the condition. It could be as close to a ‘cure’ as modern medicine is able to come. This is an update on a Q&A I had with him earlier this year. 

By Marika Sboros

Dr Eli Lewis, professor of clinical biochemistry and pharmacology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, just may have stumbled across one of modern medicine’s most enduring holy grails: a way to reverse type 1 diabetes safely and effectively. Better still, he says, the natural compound he uses to treat the condition has no negative side effects at the dose and duration he uses in his research.

Lewis’s research is on tissue damage that plays a role in type 1 diabetes. He says scientists have often overlooked and understudied this area. He came across it when he began researching the role of inflammation in injured islets back in 2003.

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Feb26201526th February 201530th November 20169Commentsby Marika

‘Cure’ for type 2 diabetes? A doctor’s personal journey

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Jay Wortman

DIABETES is  chronic, irreversible and incurable, right?  It means that you have to take drugs for the rest of your life, right? Wrong. Only doctors and dietitians stuck in old paradigms will tell you that. Canadian physician Dr Jay Wortman will tell you differently. Thirteen years ago, he had all the symptoms of diabetes. Wortman was about to go the orthodox route but first cut all carbs (sugars and starches) from his diet.  Results were amazing.

In a few days, his symptoms vanished never to return. He doesn’t call it a cure but I’d say it’s the closest medical science is able to come to a cure for diabetes. Wortman is clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s faculty of medicine. He has done extensive research on traditional diets for obesity and type 2 diabetes. It is documented on the hit CBC documentary, My Big Fat Diet (to view it on YouTube, scroll down below). Here’s his personal story in a summary of his presentation to the low-carb, high-fat summit in Cape Town in February 2015. – Marika Sboros

By Jay Wortman

Ketogenic diet for obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes 

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