Big Pharma and Big Media making Diabetics worse?

A Diabetes story featured on aol.com stealthily pushes insulin therapy and diabetic drugs as a first line of defense for diabetes.  The title 11 tips for good diabetes foot care starts out providing very smart and helpful tips about how diabetics should care for their feet to possibly ward off or detect any complications associated with diabetes.  On the surface a great service is being provided for the diabetic community, however embedded in the story another possible motivation is revealed.  Contained within tip 11 of 13 “Control Your Blood Sugar” a link is provided where a diabetic can learn exactly how to control their blood sugar. In my next few blogs I will break down this article and show you how “the medical machine” and the complicit media work to shape how you think about healthcare and how you care for yourself as a diabetic.  STAY TUNED!

Under the category “what causes high blood sugar”…The first reason given in this article is“YOU DIDN’T TAKE YOUR MEDICATION WHEN YOU WERE SUPPOSED TOO.” In yet another section titled “diabetes: handling your blood sugar” the article makes in my opinion a stunning statement…”The most obvious way to correct high blood sugar is with insulin.” Obvious to whom?

You may say…”What is the big deal?”  Here is my point.  The mass marketing of “anit-diabetic drugs” and insulin has created a standard of care in medicine that promotes a one-drug-after-another approach that often leads a diabetic down a dark and frustrating path.  A path that is often fraught with uncontrolled blood sugars, perpetual weight gain, less quality of life , premature death and the potential for serious diabetic complications.

Shockingly the article does not give you the real skinny on the potential risks of insulin therapy.  Insulin is a fat-storing hormone.  So while the doctor tells you to diet and exercise to lose weight they recommend a fat-storing hormone.  Insulin promotes one of the most common causes of type II diabetes, insulin resistance.  After all what sense does it make to give someone insulin who is insulin resistant?  Insulin also increases the risk of heart disease, cancer, and stroke only to name a few possible side effects.

Here is a novel idea.  How about finding out for each diabetic the root cause or mechanism involved in creating a situation where a person can no longer regulate their blood sugar.  Once those issues are diagnosed, allowing a “comprehensive diagnosis” to be achieved, then customize a plan for each diabetic that addresses each individuals root issues.  When this is done type II diabetics in most cases and in very short order are able to reverse their diabetes.

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Yours in Health,

Dr. C