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Charlotte Gerson founded the Gerson Institute in 1976 to
make Gerson Therapy available to people across the world. In
1977, she helped establish the first Gerson Therapy hospital
in Mexico.

She also helped create the Gerson Therapy Training Program
for Licensed Health Professionals. She continues to train
physicians, caregivers and patients.

Charlotte Gerson has kept the flame of her father's
discoveries alive, lecturing internationally, selling his
books, writing and publishing her own books, producing
documentaries and conducting TV and radio interviews.

She continues to make weekly visits to the Gerson Clinic in
Mexico to personally counsel each patient.

She continues to guide hundreds of people along their healing
journey and inspire thousands around the world.

CHARLOTT GERSON INTERVIEW
 

Dr Andrew Wakefield Interview 1

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New Evidence Clearing Dr Andrew Wakefield

New documents have emerged that clear Dr Andrew Wakefield of the allegations of fraud recently made by the British Medical Journal and its reporter Brian Deer. This new evidence "completely negates the allegations that I committed scientific
fraud. Brian Deer and Dr. Godlee of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) knew or should
have known about the facts set out below before publishing their false allegations," says Dr Andrew Wakefield (see sources, below).

Newly-revealed documents show that on December 20th, 1996, a meeting of The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group based at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School featured a presentation by Professor Walker-Smith on seven of the children who would later become part of the group of patients Dr Wakefield wrote about in his 1998 The Lancet paper (which was later retracted by The Lancet).

Remember, Dr Wakefield has been accused of completely fabricating his findings about these same children in his 1998 paper, but these documents reveal that fourteen months before Dr Wakefield's paper was published, two other researchers -- Professor Walker-Smith and Dr Amar Dhillon -- independently documented the same problems in these children, including symptoms of autism.

Thus, Dr Wakefield could not have "fabricated" these findings as alleged by the British Medical Journal, which now finds itself in the position of needing to issue a retraction, or it must now expand its accusations of fraud to include Professor Walker-Smith and Dr Dhillon... essentially, the BMJ must now insist that a "conspiracy of fraud" existed among at least these three researchers, and possibly more, in order to back up its allegation that Dr Wakefield's study results were fabricated.

The smoking-gun evidence
Professor Walker-Smith's 1996 presentation at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School was entitled, "Entero-colitis and Disintegrative Disorder Following MMR - A Review of the First Seven Cases."

His presentation notes began with the following text: "“I wish today, to present some preliminary details concerning seven children, all boys, who appear to have entero-colitis and disintegrative disorder, probably autism, following MMR. I shall now briefly present
their case history [sic]."

He then went on to detail the clinical history of these seven children as derived from his medical team as well as senior pathologist Dr Amar Dhillon. Importantly, Dr Andrew Wakefield was not part of this investigation. This means that Dr Wakefield's findings were independently replicated by another medical research team.

The British Medical Journal's accusations against Dr Wakefield -- that he fabricated his findings -- are therefore false. The mainstream media accusation that Dr Wakefield's findings have "never been replicated" is also blatantly false.

CHEMIST SHOWS HOW YOUR HEALTH IS BEING SABOTAGED

By Shane Ellison M. Sc. The People's Chemist March 5, 2011

NewsWithViews.com One Nation Under Drugs As a medicinal chemist, I ignored my suspicion that an insidious and deliberate effort to get each and every American hooked on drugs, while at the same time bankrupting them, existed between Big Pharma and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). I enjoyed my work. Drug design paid well and kept me comfortably isolated in a high-tech lab, fully equipped to help me bend and twist matter at will. The last thing I wanted to think of was a plot designed to sabotage health and wealth using my chemistry skills. But over time, experience confirmed my suspicion as fact and revealed something even scarier. My passion for drug design arose from the miracle of emergency medicine, one of man’s greatest scientific achievements.

Sadly though, medicine is no longer exclusive to emergency use. Today it’s being used in a deadly game of profiteering. Herein lies a story of deceit and a chemist’s abandonment of modern medicine. My suspicion of modern medicine began while I was employed by Eli Lilly to design a new generation of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs, a class which includes tamoxifen and raloxifene. Initially, they were thought to block estrogen receptors and thereby halt breast cancer. As time progressed, it was learned that they were also capable of activating estrogen receptors and boosting cancer growth. The Journal of the American Medical Association recognized this trend and published, “Our data add to the growing body of evidence that recent long-term use of HRT is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and that such use may be related particularly to lobular tumors.” My task was made clear: Design HRT ‘knock-offs’ that are effective without causing cancer.

My attempt to design safer alternatives began with small alterations to the two-dimensional structure of tamoxifen. It was unsuccessful. All chemical cousins acted as cancer fertilizer and after one year, the project was ended. Access to tamoxifen and other HRT meds however, was not. Despite its ability to inflame cancer, tamoxifen continued to be used as the Gold-Standard in breast cancer treatment. As a young naïve chemist, I was determined to learn how such a dangerous drug could get through the prestigious FDA approval process. Pink Ribbon Campaign doesn’t Fight Cancer Tamoxifen was developed by British company Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), whose pharmaceutical division was later spun off as Astra Zeneca. Knowing that “demand drives drug approval,” ICI established National Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Fueled by fear, women worldwide began pushing for more choices in cancer drugs, and in Big Pharma language, that means more drug approvals. Tamoxifen demand was successfully created and expanded every subsequent year thanks to ICI’s self-serving pink ribbon campaign. But, how did tamoxifen sail past the protective blood-brain barrier of the FDA?

A quick lesson in statistical contortionism shows how. Just like chemists manipulate the properties of matter, Big Pharma manipulates studies using “checkbook science.” This allows them to pay for the design and interpretation of clinical trials. Tamoxifen studies were conveniently stopped at five years, the minimum amount of time required for cancer to develop. This successfully hid its cancer causing problem. But just like their pink campaigns, there’s more stink. In 1992, tamoxifen evangelist Dr. Bernard Fisher, working for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), received $68 million in federal money to assess whether the drug could prevent breast cancer. In an effort to make tamoxifen appear safe and effective, Fisher failed to report falsified data and enrollment fraud to the NCI, casting further stench over the study and resulting in his termination as director. The smoke and mirrors showed that tamoxifen reduced breast cancer by 50%. In reality, it was an insignificant 1.3%, absolute difference. Checkbook science isn’t illegal by FDA standards. It’s been going on for over 20 years. Known as the Bayh-Dole Act, U.S law was amended in 1980 to permit flagrant conflicts of interest, ones that allow the industry to design drug trials and hire experts to conjure up favorable results at will. One Study Gets FDA Approval Once demand was created, and checkbook science in place, the FDA only needed one study to approve tamoxifen in record time – 30 days. They did this by hiring advisors with Big Pharma financial ties to sit on its review committee. Failing to do their homework, only ten percent of the case reports from women enrolled in the tamoxifen trials were reviewed by the committee. But, most alarming to me as a chemist, it was still given a green light as a preventive cancer treatment for healthy women! Aiming for wealth, not health, Big Pharma hit the financial bull’s eye. As the Gold-Standard for breast cancer treatment today, generic tamoxifen rakes in billions every year with few noticing its “ little cancer problem,” as it became known in our lab. Big Pharma Pays for Drug Review I thought I was getting paid well as a new drug chemist; I was driving a brand new PT Cruiser (which my wife hated), had $15,000 in stock options and was offered a $10,000 incentive to buy a new house. Heck, if I was really good, I would get a $4,500 dollar raise after a year, which equated to a weekly burrito at Chipotle, with guacamole (which is extra) and Mountain Dew included.

A closer look at the real drug profits however, revealed I wasn’t even making pennies on the pharmaceutical dollar and neither were the biology researchers. Drug profits were going to the pharmaceutical titans, their shareholders and to the FDA. Rather than being funded solely by taxpayers, our drug administration is being paid by the very industry it’s supposed to regulate. This is legal—courtesy of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. Today, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA is dependent on drug companies for nearly half of its funding. 502 Million Children Could Be Fed… Drug lobbying is another slimy practice that greases the “FDA revolving door,” and blurs the line between the drug industry and the U.S. government. According to a report by the Center for Public Integrity, congressmen are outnumbered two to one by lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry. And many are later put onto the government payroll and vice -versa. Total pharmaceutical lobbying in 2009 came to a whopping $267,893,947, enough to feed 502 million starving African children.

Instead, it pays to grease the drug approval pipe-line via 450 lobbying organizations, 1,743 lobbyists, and 1,113 revolvers (congress and senior congressional staffers who revolve in and out of the private and public sectors). Why Doctors can’t keep up with Safety Doctors can’t keep up with safety and efficacy of tamoxifen or any other drugs being used today. But this hasn’t changed their prescribing habits. Medical ghost writing, the slimy practice of hiring PhD’s to crank out drug reports that hype benefits and hide negative side effects, has successfully brainwashed most physicians into thinking that “the benefits of drugs outweigh risks.” Once completed, drug companies recruit doctor’s to put their name on the report as authors. These reports are then published in prestigious medical journals.

The dangling carrots for this deceitful practice are money and prestige. Ghostwriters earn up to $20,000 per report and . doctors receive the acclaim of being published. Ultimately, patients get bad drugs disguised as good medicine resulting in carnage like the Vioxx™ body count – 55,000 people died from taking “the safest pain killer,” as it was lauded in ghost written articles. As deplorable as medical ghostwriting sounds, it’s more common than you might think. Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, editor for the New England Journal of Medicine, insists that he can’t find drug review authors who don’t have financial ties to drug companies. The editor of the British Journal of Medicine admitted that, “We are being hoodwinked by the drug companies. The articles come in with doctors’ names on them and we often find some of them have little or no idea about what they have written.” The Prescription Drug Leviathan The conspiracy pays well.

Annual global drug profits, if stacked in cash, would occupy two thousand “towers” of bills, each one as high as the Empire State Building. In 2009, global revenues from prescription drugs topped $837 billion, and the United States took the largest bite out of the pharmaceutical pie, consuming $300.3 billion in prescriptions. Big Pharma, with the collusion of the FDA, is now half way to its goal of marketing the entire country into drug dependence. According to a government survey released in 2010, 150 million Americans are taking one or more prescription drugs per month, with 37 percent of those over 60 years old taking five or more. If John Galt—the noble, fictional scientist in Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged — symbolizes the power and glory of the human mind, FDA approval is his biggest threat. Sloppy FDA standards have created a corporate drug leviathan that is robbing every man, woman and child in its path of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This profit pulling monster has no checks or balances, which makes it almost impossible to fight and scary as hell to witness through the eyes of a chemist. Athletes and Families: Nobody is Safe Toxic drugs are being consumed daily, as if they were vitamins.

Women, adorned in pink ribbons, are asking for tamoxifen by name thanks to cancer “awareness campaigns” founded by its maker. Men are being overdosed with cholesterol lowering drugs. Children are being labeled with psychiatric disorders at breakneck speeds so our tax dollars can get them hooked on drugs even faster. Athletes are being poisoned with drugs disguised as artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose courtesy of energy drinks and sport bars. And soccer moms are unknowingly compromising the health of their families by buying synthetic drugs disguised as multivitamins. And all of this is occurring under the “watchful” eye of the FDA. Subscribe to the NewsWithViews Daily News Alerts! Enter Your E-Mail Address: Every year, prescription drugs kill more people than the Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars combined. And the trend has been going on for about 35 years according to researchers writing in The Journal of the American Medical Association. As a drug chemist, I had to face the cold, hard facts: Western Medicine has become a billion dollar empire not out of keen science, but rather deceit. The end result has been one nation under drugs, with slavery and sickness for all. This subjugation has set a standard of health in America that is sick care disguised as health care thanks to the FDA.

© 2011 Shane Ellison - All Rights Reserve  

You can't overdose on homeopathic remedies; Why won't homeopathy skeptics
drink their own medicine? Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031297 

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It's really quite hilarious to see this unfold: Homeopathy skeptics and vicious
Big Pharma attack dogs are running around the globe in ludicrous demonstrations where they consume huge doses of homeopathic remedies in public and then claim that because they don't die of an "overdose," these medicines therefore don't work.
Notice that they never consume their own medicines in large doses? Chemotherapy? Statin drugs? Blood thinners? They wouldn't dare drink those. In fact, today I'm challenging the homeopathic skeptics and other medical fundamentalists to a "drink-a-thon" test to see which medicines will kill you faster. But we'll get to that in a minute... First, let's get to the understanding of why the idea that you could "overdose" on homeopathic remedies is ridiculous to begin with. It requires an elevated worldview Teaching the so-called "skeptics" about how homeopathic medicine really works is a bit like trying to convince flat Earthers that the planet is really spherical. These skeptics, you see, approach homeopathy as if it were a drug (because that's all they really know). And in their world, all drugs are dangerous if you overdose on them, which makes sense
from their point of view because they're educated solely in dangerous, synthetically-derived chemicals that are incompatible with the human body.
So it may be understandable at some level that since this is all the medical fundamentalists (skeptics) know, they have probably not attained the level of sophistication required to understand the far more advanced mechanisms of homeopathy. It's a bit like trying to teach a five-year-old child how to play Mozart. And while that may have worked if your child was Mozart,
it probably doesn't work for anyone else.

Homeopathy isn't a drug Homeopathy, you see, isn't a drug. It's not a chemical.
So you can drink all you want and you won't overdose on it. That's not a defect in homeopathy -- it's a remarkable advantage It means that while 200,000+ Americans are killed each year by toxic pharmaceutical drugs, no one is harmed by homeopathy. Not even those who are desperately trying to be harmed by it! It seems these skeptics really want everything to be more
dangerous because the world of toxicity is so much more familiar to them. What these not-so-amazing skeptics would like to see, it seems, is more people dropping dead from dangerous side effects. Then they would believe homeopathy was real. That's the way ignorant conventional medicine operates today: You know the drugs are kicking in when you start getting worse.
Toxicity and conventional medicine go hand in hand. But homeopathy isn't a chemical. It's a resonance. A vibration, or a harmony. It's the restructuring of water to resonate with the particular energy of a plant or substance. We can get into the physics of it in a
subsequent article, but for now it's easy to recognize that even from a conventional physics point of view, liquid water has tremendous energy, and it's constantly in motion, not just at the molecular level but also at the level of its subatomic particles and so-called "orbiting electrons" which aren't even orbiting in the first place. Electrons are vibrations and not physical objects. But, oh yeah, I forgot. The skeptics don't know that yet. That won't be taught that in universityphysics classes until probably 2020, at which point most of them will probably be dead from taking pharmaceuticals to treat their own diseases.For now, they've all convinced themselves that electrons are -- get this -- tiny "particles" flying around atomic nuclei
and tremendous speeds which just happen to stay in their little orbits like little perpetual motion machines (which they say are impossible), until all of a sudden, these electron "particles" inexplicably leap to a higher or lower orbit without occupying the space in-between those orbits at any moment. Yep, magic teleporting particles! That's the "scientific" explanation of these folks. No wonder so many of them are magicians: Believing their explanations requires that you believe in particle magic! But getting back to water and vibrations, which isn't magic but rather vibrational physics, you can't overdose on a harmony. If you have one violin playing a note in your room, and you add ten more violins -- or a hundred more -- it's all still the same harmony (with all its complex higher frequencies, too). There's no toxicity to it. Homeopathy works much the same way: You can drink a few drops or a few gallons.
It's the same harmony being introduced into your body's living cells, regardless of the quantity. And drinking a few gallons of it will only make you urinate a whole lot, which I suppose the skeptics have been doing a lot these days, staring down into the toilet bowl with their pants unzipped, declaring, "I was right! I can't overdose on it!" Talk about expensive urine, eh? It's hilarious, in fact, that those who would try to disparage homeopathy would even
think that attempting to "overdose" on it proves anything at all. What it really shows is that they utterly lack any understanding of the underlying theories of how homeopathy works -- theories that Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier --
the discovered of the AIDS virus -- now publicly supports, by the way. (http://www.naturalnews.com/031210_L...)
Bent on their own destruction What really drives the skeptics crazy is that no matter how hard they try, they just can't seem to kill themselves. To be so out of touch with the beautiful, loving and holographic nature of the universe around us is to retreat to a self-loathing worldview that can only be resolved through self destruction. These skeptics just want to kill themselves... and they wouldn't mind taking a few of you along with them, too. Hence their
promotion of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy and water fluoridation. These public demonstrations of chugging what they call "drugs" can only be called psychopathic "public suicide attempts" -- and they can't even get that right, either. (They're drinking the wrong stuff...) I would suggest they try a few fluid ounces of their own medicines if they want to achieve the overdoses they're looking for. A few ounces of chemotherapy would do the trick nicely.

Let me know if one of them tries that, and we'll carry the news: "Skeptic dies after drinking his own medicine. Story at eleven..." In fact, if these skeptics are looking to kill themselves, they need look no further than the tens of thousands of toxic drugs, vaccines, chemotherapy agents, radiation procedures and barbaric surgical procedures that they claim will heal you! Yep, the stuff they say is good for you is the stuff they won't drink. And therein lies my challenge... Why I'm challenging skeptics to drink a gallon of chemotherapy I am hereby challenging the skeptics to a public drink-a-thon, each drinking the medicines we advocate. I'll meet them in a public place, and we'll each drink the medicines we believe in the most. I'll bring a gallon of homeopathic remedies and healing raw juices, and the medical fundamentalists and their supporters
(the more, the merrier) can each bring a gallon of the liquid forms of chemotherapy,
blood pressure medications, coumadin, or statin drugs. We'll chug them in public and see who's left standing.

The results get posted on YouTube for the whole world to see. We'll title the video,
"SKEPTICS COMMIT MASS SUICIDE BY DRINKING PHARMACEUTICALS AS IF THEY WERE KOOL-AID."
Jonestown, anyone? Do you have any doubt which of us will be left standing?
Sure, I may need to pee a whole lot, but the restrooms won't be crowded, because all the skeptics won't be needing them anymore. That outcome, my friends, would be sad, but newsworthy.
More importantly, it would prove an important point: Medicine should be safe for people to consume, not so deadly that you drop dead after consuming it, which is what often happens with pharmaceuticals. But, alas, my challenge will certainly never be accepted. None of the magicians, skeptics of medical fundamentalists will be publicly chugging chemotherapy any time
soon, nor any other large doses of liquid pharmaceuticals. Why? Because they know how toxic those chemicals are. Do you notice the irony here? The only medicines they're willing to consume in large doses in public are homeopathic remedies! They won't dare consume large quantities of the medicines they all say YOU should be taking! (The pharma drugs.) And therein rests the truth in all this: Even the skeptics know that homeopathy is inherently safer than their own medicines. No wonder they keep attacking it: If people found out about safe medicine, where would all
of Big Pharma's repeat business come from? After all, the best thing aboutchemotherapy (from Big Pharma's point of view) is that it creates repeat business from liver damage, kidney damage and brain damage. All these pharmaceutical poisons are so damaging to the human body -- and brain -- that these is probably one of the main reasons why the skeptics who take all
these drugs are incapable of understanding high-vibration advanced medicine. A vaccine shot every year does wonders for lowering the IQ and killing off the creative thinking portions of the brain, after all. So if you're looking for safe medicine, definitely take a look at homeopathic remedies. They so safe that even the critics can't overdose on them... but you have to admit the attempt makes for great entertainment.

Oh, by the way, speaking of homeopathy, did you know that Dana Ullman recently joined NaturalNews as a featured contributing writer?
Check out his stories
at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Author_D... Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031297_homeopathy_overdose.html#ixzz1E1iQ25Od 

Flaxseeds as good as a drug for lowering cholesterol 07 April 2010

A few tablespoons of flaxseeds every day can be as effective as a powerful drug in lowering your cholesterol levels, a new study has discovered. The seeds, which are rich in omega 3 fatty acids and in lignans, a phytoestrogen, reduced cholesterol levels in a group of men by around 10 per cent in just three months. Cholesterol-lowering drugs usually achieve a reduction of between 10 and 20 per cent, but often with side effects. For the study, 90 men with high cholesterol consumed 150 milligrams – that’s three tablespoons – of flaxseeds every day for the three months, usually by sprinkling the seeds on the food they were eating. Strangely, the flaxseeds didn’t help women reduce their cholesterol levels. The researchers from Iowa State University reckon that the lignans in the flaxseeds are the active ingredient, and their ability to protect the heart has been proven in earlier studies, too. (Source: American Society for Nutrition annual meeting, April 24-28, Anaheim, California).  

Controversial Anti-Smoking Drug Makes Headlines Yet Again

Dear Reader,

I was shocked when I read the following newspaper headline recently: ‘Actor cleared of beating girlfriend and throwing her naked into street after he blames behaviour on anti-smoking drug.’

The culprit behind this terrifying story?

Champix, of course.

Dangerous mix

For those of you who might have missed this story, here’s the background information:

A television actor was accused of assaulting his girlfriend but escaped trial after blaming the attack on the anti-smoking drug, Champix.

The actor was found not guilty of assault and causing actual bodily harm, after experts said the drug, combined with alcohol and a history of depression, could have caused him to lose control.

So, in this instance, it seems that ‘other factors’ also came into play... However, this does not clear this smoking cessation drug from it’s already severely tainted reputation.

Bad boy on the block

The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been reviewing Champix’s (Chantix in the US) safety since 2007, after receiving hundreds of reports of unpredictable, aggressive and suicidal behaviour following its use.

From May 2006 through to December 2007, the FDA received 227 domestic reports of suicidal acts, thoughts or behaviours, 397 cases of possible psychosis and 525 reports of hostility or aggression. These totals included 28 cases of suicide and 41 mentions of homicidal ideation, 60 cases of paranoia and 55 cases of hallucination. The categories were not mutually exclusive.

Champix contains varenicline that helps smokers stop smoking. It is designed to stimulate a type of nicotine receptor in the brain while preventing nicotine from binding to another receptor.

In the 4th quarter of 2007 alone, varenicline accounted for 988 serious injuries in the US according to reports received by the FDA, more than any other individual drug in this period.

Consequently, almost exactly a year ago, the FDA ordered Pfizer Inc – the manufacturer of Champix - to add a strong "black box" warning on its anti-smoking drug to highlight the risk of serious mental health problems.

Yet, in spite of this, the drug is still widely available. In the UK, it is approved for use on the NHS with a recommendation to be prescribed ‘only as part of a programme of behavioural support’. Pfizer insists that a direct link between Champix and psychiatric problems has not been established in clinical trials. I wonder how it explains away all the adverse effects that have been reported following its use????

Word on the street

Here at the Daily Health we’ve reported on the adverse side effects of Champix on numerous occasions. In fact, our article ‘Champix Side Effects – Dangers of Popular Drug Used to Quit Smoking’ published back in January 2008, caused quite a stir (to put it mildly!) among our readers... and up to 1,000 of you wrote in to share your experiences of the drug.

Diabetes: Most of What You’ve Been Told May Be Wrong
Posted By Dr. Mercola

Much of what you have probably heard about diabetes from your health care provider may be incorrect. There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating from seemingly knowledgeable sources about this epidemic disease.

The vast majority of diabetics are clueless about how to reverse it, and many don’t even realize that they can. They believe their fate has been sealed and all they can do now is “control” it. More than 50 percent of type 2 diabetics are also not even aware they have diabetes. Diabetes rates for both adults and children are climbing out of control and one in four Americans either have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Unfortunately, by following conventional medical advise, you could be putting yourself on the path toward life-threatening health problems—and even premature death.

We are in the Midst of a Diabetes Epidemic The latest statistics indicate the U.S. now has up to 24 million people with diagnosed diabetes, which is 8 percent of our total population. However, the picture is even grimmer when it comes to the prevalence of pre-diabetes (impaired fasting glucose). Almost 26 percent of U.S. adults over the age of 20 and more than 35 percent of seniors (age 60 and older) are pre-diabetics. In total, that’s 57 million Americans walking around with pre-diabetes, in addition to the 24 million who have already crossed the line. That means more than one in four Americans has either pre-diabetes or the full-blown disease!

Not only is type 2 diabetes completely preventable, it is usually curable if you are willing to make some simple, inexpensive lifestyle adjustments that will restore your insulin and leptin sensitivity. Diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2: What’s the Difference? Diabetes (also known as diabetes mellitus) is a chronic condition traditionally marked by high levels of glucose in your blood (high blood sugar). Type 1 is called insulin-dependent diabetes (also known as juvenile onset diabetes), and Type 2 is called non-insulin-dependent diabetes (or adult onset diabetes).

Type 1: “Insulin Dependent” Diabetes In Type 1 diabetes, your body’s own immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas, resulting in a complete deficiency of the hormone insulin. This deficiency of insulin is why Type 1 is called “insulin-dependent”—because more often than not, Type 1 Diabetics must give themselves supplemental insulin. Type 1 is relatively uncommon, affecting only about 1 in 250 Americans. It usually occurs in people before the age of 20. There is no known cure. However, recent research has shown that our preoccupation with sun avoidance may play a major role in the development of type 1 diabetes. The further you move away from the equator, the greater your risk for this disease. Women can help reduce their children’s risk of type 1 diabetes by optimizing their vitamin D levels prior to, and during their pregnancy as vitamin D has been shown to suppress certain cells of the immune system that may play a role in the development of the disorder.

Type 2: “Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes” Type 2 diabetes is by far the more common form of the disease, affecting 90 to 95 percent of diabetics, and is completely preventable and nearly 100 percent curable. If you have type 2, your body is producing some insulin but is unable to recognize insulin and use it properly. This is an advanced stage of insulin-resistance. Since your insulin is inadequate, sugar can’t get into your cells and instead builds up in your blood, causing a variety of problems. This is why diabetics have elevated blood sugar levels. Symptoms of type 2 diabetes include: Excessive thirst Extreme hunger (even after eating) Nausea and possible vomiting Unusual weight gain or loss Increased fatigue Irritability Blurred vision Slow healing of wounds Frequent infections (skin, urinary, vaginal) Numbness or tingling in hands and/or feet Medications and supplements are NOT the answer for type 2 diabetes; restoring your sensitivity to insulin and leptin is what’s needed. Diabetes is NOT a Disease of Blood Sugar Diabetes is a disease of insulin and leptin signaling, not a disease of blood sugar, which is why the medical community’s approach to its treatment is not getting us anywhere.

In addition to diabetes, elevated insulin levels are associated with a number of diseases, including: * Heart disease * Peripheral vascular disease * Stroke * High blood pressure * Cancer * Obesity Diabetes, like all chronic disease, results from cellular miscommunication. Leptin: Is It the Missing Link Between Obesity and Diabetes? Leptin is a hormone produced in your fat cells. One of leptin's primary roles is regulating your appetite and body weight. It tells your brain when to eat, how much to eat, and most importantly, when to stop eating. And leptin tells your brain what to do with the energy it has. Leptin is largely responsible for the accuracy of insulin signaling and whether or not you become insulin resistant. The only known way to reestablish proper leptin (and insulin) signaling is through proper diet.

When your blood sugar becomes elevated, insulin is released to direct the extra energy into storage. A small amount is stored as a starch called glycogen, but the majority is stored as your main energy supply—fat. Therefore, insulin's major role is not to lower your blood sugar, but rather to store the extra energy for future times of need. Insulin’s effect of lowering your blood sugar is merely a “side effect” of this energy storage process. This is why diabetes treatments concentrating merely on lowering blood sugar can actually worsen, rather than remedy the actual problem of metabolic miscommunication.

Taking insulin is one of the WORST things you can do for type 2 diabetes, since it will actually worsen your insulin and leptin resistance over time. Fructose—One of the Major Culprits in Obesity and Diabetes The presence of massive amounts of fructose in today’s Western diet is a driving force behind our diabetes epidemic. Regular table sugar is 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose, and the two are metabolized very differently. Nearly every cell in your body was designed to use glucose for energy—especially your brain cells—but fructose breaks down into a variety of toxins that can have devastating effects on your health.

Fructose has the following adverse metabolic effects: * Fructose does not stimulate a rise in leptin, so your satiety signals are suppressed. * Fructose raises your insulin and your triglycerides, which effectively reduces the amount of leptin crossing your blood-brain barrier. This interferes with the communication between leptin and your hypothalamus. Your brain senses starvation and prompts you to eat more. * Fructose does not suppress ghrelin like glucose does. Ghrelin is the “hunger hormone,” making you want more food. All of this also sets the stage for overindulgence and hence overweight, placing you on the path toward diabetes. I strongly advise keeping your total fructose consumption below 25 grams per day. However, it would be wise for most people to limit fructose to 15 grams or less as it is virtually guaranteed you will be getting “hidden” sources of fructose from just about any processed food you eat.

This includes fruits, which also need to be carefully measured to make certain that you’re not inadvertently going over the fructose limit. For a helpful chart listing the fructose content of several common fruits, please see this previous article. Diabetes Drugs Miss the Mark, and are Dangerous Regardless of what you may have heard, you cannot successfully treat the underlying cause of diabetes with drugs.

For example, consider Avandia. Avandia works by making diabetes patients more sensitive to their own insulin, helping to control blood sugar levels. In fact, most conventional treatments for type 2 diabetes utilize drugs that either raise insulin or lower blood sugar. Avandia, for example, reduces your blood sugar by increasing the sensitivity of your liver, fat and muscle cells to insulin. The problem is, diabetes is not a blood sugar disease, as I have already explained. So, drugs that focus on the symptom of elevated blood sugar, rather than addressing the underlying cause, are doomed to fail in most cases. Not only that, but drugs like Avandia have dangerous side effects, including causing extensive heart problems that have killed literally thousands of people. In fact, Avandia has been linked to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death compared to patients treated with other methods!

The good news? Nearly 100 percent of type 2 diabetics can be successfully cured without medications. Preventing or Reversing Diabetes in Six Simple Steps Here are my top six actions to take for increasing your insulin and leptin sensitivity, thus reducing your chances for developing diabetes—or reversing it if you already have the disease:

1. Exercise Exercise is an absolutely essential factor, and without it, you’re unlikely to get this devastating disease under control. It is one of the fastest and most powerful ways to lower your insulin and leptin resistance. If you’re unsure of how to get started, I recommend reviewing my exercise program for tips and guidelines. It is also critical to work your way up to include some Peak 8 exercises

. 2. Eliminate Grains and Sugars, Especially Fructose A large reason for the failure of conventional diabetes treatment over the last 50 years has to do with seriously flawed dietary recommendations. Fructose and grains are largely responsible for your body’s adverse insulin reactions. You will want to eliminate ALL sugars and grains—even “healthful” grains such as whole, organic or sprouted ones. This means avoiding all breads, pasta, cereals, rice, potatoes, and corn (which is in fact a grain). You might even need to avoid fruits until your blood sugar is under control.

3. Eat Right for Your Nutritional Type Exercising and avoiding grains and sugars might not be enough unless you balance your protein, carbohydrate and fat ratios for your specific genetic biochemistry. The first step is finding out your nutritional type, which then gives you information about your optimal protein/carbohydrate/fat ratio. I now offer the full nutritional typing program for FREE, so you can get started today!

4. Monitor Your Fasting Insulin Level This is every bit as important as your fasting blood sugar. You’ll want your fasting insulin level to be between 2 and 4. The higher your level, the worse your insulin sensitivity is.

5. Optimize Your Vitamin D Interestingly, optimizing your vitamin D levels not only treats type 2 diabetes but as already mentioned, can virtually eliminate your children's risk for type 1 diabetes if you are pregnant. It’s also vital for infants to receive the appropriate amounts of vitamin D in their early years for the same reason. Ideally, you’ll want to do this by exposing a large amount of your skin to appropriate amounts of sunshine (or a safe tanning bed) on a regular basis, year-round. Your body can safely create up to 20,000 units of vitamin D a day by direct UV exposure. If you are not getting regular sun exposure on large amounts of your skin you may need anywhere from 5 to 20,000 units of oral vitamin D3 per day. However, if neither of these options is available, you may want to use an oral vitamin D3 supplement. But remember, if you choose to take an oral supplement, it’s essential that you get your level tested regularly by a proficient lab to make sure it’s in the therapeutic range, which is 60 to 80 ng/ml.

6. Probiotics Your gut is a living ecosystem, full of both good bacteria and bad. Multiple studies have shown that obese people have different intestinal bacteria than lean people. The more good bacteria you have, the stronger your immune system will be and the better your body will function overall. Fortunately, optimizing your gut flora is relatively easy. You can reseed your body with good bacteria by eating fermented foods (like natto, raw organic cheese, miso, and cultured vegetables) or by taking a high quality probiotic supplement.

For Further Information This is just a brief overview of the causes, prevention, and treatment of diabetes. Over the years, I have posted many articles that go into far greater detail on this subject. Below you will find a list of these articles, and I encourage you to do some further reading. Knowledge is power, and with that you can arm yourself against ignorance and misinformation—bringing you one step closer to taking charge of your health.

# Diabetes Articles/Links: What You Know About Diabetes May Be All Wrong

* Diabetes is Not a Disease of Blood Sugar! - Startling as that may seem, find out the real cause of diabetes from one of the country's leading experts in this original exclusive article.

* The Diabetes Conundrum: What Physicians Are Teaching You May be Killing You - Read the surprising conclusion Dr. Rosedale, one of the leading diabetic doctors in the country, reaches about the current state of knowledge in diabetes.

* Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked - Leptin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar in your body, may be the "missing link" between obesity and diabetes. Learn why normalizing leptin and insulin levels reduces your obesity-diabetes risk.

* Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects - One of the most read articles on the entire web site; Great foundation for understanding how controlling insulin and leptin is the key to defeating diabetes.

* 5 Reasons Why Type One Diabetes is on the Rise

* Diabetes Epidemic Expected to Double

* Mayo Clinic DEAD Wrong on Diabetic Recommendations

* This Hormone Makes Counting Calories Irrelevant

* Is Insulin Condemning You to a Premature Death?

* A Possible Cure for Diabetes Ignored by Big Pharma * Diabetes or Pre-Diabetes Now Strikes One in Four Americans The Fructose/Uric Acid/Diabetes Connection

* Is this Popular Natural Sweetener Worse than High Fructose Corn Syrup? How Probiotics Can Help Diabetics

* Diabetes Alert: Your Gut Microflora May Be Out of Balance

* Friendly Bacteria Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes Vitamin D Against Diabetes

* Type 2 Diabetics Need More Sunshine

* Vitamin D Lowers Risk of Type 1 Diabetes The Benefits of Exercise

* Diet and Exercise Beat Drugs for Diabetes Heart Risks

* Beat Teen Diabetes With Exercise

* Two Foods You Should Never, Ever Eat After Exercise Choose Slow Carb Foods to Control Diabetes

* How Carbohydrates & Obesity are Linked: The Kind, Not the Amount - Learn how achieving your optimal weight lies in the kind of carbs you consume, not the amount.

* Eat Fast Food and Fight Diabetes? - Is a new compound to protect against high-fat food & diabetes all that it is cracked up to be?

* Corn Syrup Linked to Diabetes - The startling jump in diabetes in America is mirrored by our growing consumption of refined carbohydrates.

* Infants Fed Cereals May Have an Increased Risk of Diabetes - Although many pediatricians recommend starting young infants on cereal, the grain may present a number of problems, including an increased risk of diabetes. Find out what's a better option to feed your child.

* Shocking! This 'Tequila' Sweetener is Far Worse than High Fructose Corn Syrup

* Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener is Far More Deadly

* This Common Food Ingredient Can Really Mess Up Your Metabolism

* Why High-Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Insulin Resistance

* The Mediterranean Diet Can Stop Diabetes

* Breast-Feeding Curbs Type 2 Diabetes

* Insulin-Dependent Diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis Improved by Food Choices How Diabetic Drugs Can Make Your Diabetes Worse and Further Endanger Your Health

* Diabetes Drug Causing Deaths

* 8 Drugs Doctors Would Never Take

* Deaths Halt Diabetes Study

* Not Again! More Diabetes Drug Dangers...

* Green Tea -- Beats Avandia for Diabetes, and No Deadly Side Effects

* Diabetes Drug Avandia -- Side Effect Reports Triple

* Merck's Latest Drug Scam a Worthless Diabetes Drug

* Dangerous Antidepressants Elevate Diabetes Risk

* Diabetes Doubles Among American Children \  

Pesticides

could be a major cause of ADHD 19 May 2010 Pesticides could be a major cause of the alarming rise in ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) in our children. The worrying factor about the latest study is that the children who were monitored were not all living in farms or in rural areas. Some of the 1,139 children who participated in the study were from urban areas, which suggest that the pesticides – and especially the organophosphates – are in the air we breathe, as well as on the foods we eat. Previous studies have found that pesticides may contribute to hyperactivity and cognitive problems in animals, but the new study, from the University of Montreal and Harvard University, is one of the first to demonstrate that it affects humans, too. (Source:Pediatrics, 2010. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-3058).  

Statins

Doctors urged to lower statin dose after new health scare 26 May 2010 Doctors are being urged to choose the lowest-possible dose when they prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins after a study discovered the drugs cause a range of health problems, including serious liver and kidney failure. Statins have been considered to be a safe drug group, and are routinely prescribed to the over-50s to prevent heart disease – but a new study from Nottingham University has discovered that they are an unsuspected cause of serious liver and kidney dysfunction and failure, and they can also be a cause of myopathy, the muscle disease, and cataracts. The risks were similar across the whole range of statins, although the risk of liver disease was highest among patients taking fluvastatin. (Source: British Medical Journal, 2010; 340: c2197).  

Probiotic drink

Reduces infections in small children 26 May 2010 A probiotic yoghurt drink can dramatically reduce the number of common sicknesses and infections in children. The children who had the drink every day suffered fewer outbreaks of ear infections, flu, diarrhea and sinusitis. The drink, DanActive, was tested on a group of 638 healthy children, aged between three and six, who attended school every day. They either drank DanActive every day or a standard yoghurt drink that did not contain any probiotics. The DanActive children had 19 per cent fewer infections overall, including 24 per cent less gastro-intestinal problems, and 18 per cent fewer ear infections, sinusitis or strep. DanActive contains the probiotic strain L.casei DN-114 001. (Source: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2010; May 19: doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2010.65).  

Red Wine

How red wine protects you from a stroke 12 May 2010 A glass of red wine can protect you against a stroke – and now researchers think they know how it works. While scientists already know that resveratrol in red wine – and in the seeds and skin of red grapes – has a protective effect, they have now discovered that it increases the levels of an enzyme that shields nerve cells from damage. As well as protecting against stroke, moderate red wine drinking may also reduce your chances of cardio-vascular disease. And it seems to be the wine that helps deliver the amounts of resveratrol that matter. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who carried out the latest research, say that you may not get the same benefits from taking resveratrol supplements or by eating red grapes. (Source: Experimental Neurology, 2010; doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.03.032).  

Hunger May Simply Be Thirst--For Water, That Is

Have you ever considered the fact that the diet sweeteners keep you hungry, and that your hunger may simply be thirst--for water that is, not drinking more diet soda?

Those extra calories you save with that diet cola won't make much difference if you eat chocolate chip cookies three hours later because you're starving - again or worse yet, consuming more diet products. If constantly using diet sweeteners is actually increasing your appetite, why use them? Common sense tells me that proper diet and exercise are more beneficial than dieting for losing body fat and maintaining a low body weight. Even if you believe that artificial sweeteners help your dieting, is this worth risking your health?

Drinking water can often satisfy that chronic hunger according to Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, M.D. In his book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water, he writes, "Many persons confuse their thirst as hunger. Thinking they have consumed enough 'water' from their soda, they assume they are hungry and begin to eat more than their body needs for food. In due time, dehydration will cause a gradual gain in weight from overeating as a direct result of confusion of thirst and hunger sensations.

"It is primitive and simplistic thinking that one could easily lace water with all sorts of pleasure-enhancing chemicals and substitute these fluids for the natural and clean water that the human body needs. Some of these chemicals, caffeine, aspartame, saccharin and alcohol, through their constant lopsided effect on the brain ... [program] the body chemistry with results opposite to the body's natural design."

Ellington Darden, PhD, states in his book, A Flat Stomach ASAP, that super hydration through sipping large amounts of water each day is an important dietary guideline.

Rumor has it that the diet sweeteners actually cause weight gain because you never feel satisfied or full. That's correct, and scientific research has proven why:

So, the next time you think that you want a "sugar-free snack" or another diet cola, drink a glass of water instead and see if your hunger goes away. I bet it does. Then go snack on a carrot.

Dear Reader,

Consuming even modest amounts of a sweetener commonly found in food and drink products could increase your risk of high blood pressure by as much as 77 per cent, researchers have found. Scientists from the University of Colorado examined nutritional data for 4,500 adults with no history of hypertension. They found that men and women who consumed 74 grams of High Fructose Corn Syrup experienced a 77 percent increased risk of Stage 2 hypertension (160/100 mmHg) To put it simply, this means that drinking two and a half cans of fizzy or fruit drinks a day containing HFCS will almost guarantee that one day you'll develop seriously high blood pressure. And, for many of us, that day may be a lot closer than you think. According to a major study last year, men who consumed a diet high in fructose experienced a spike in blood pressure after just TWO weeks. Yes, after just 14 days of eating foods filled with this sweetener, many of the men had serious blood pressure issues. Yet, when the men eliminated the fructose from their diets, their blood pressure returned to normal. More and more manufacturers are sneaking HFCS into their food products - anything from bread, cereal, biscuits