November 14 is United Nations World Diabetes Day (UN WDD).  The World Diabetes Day (WDD) website states…

“Diabetes is a chronic, potentially debilitating and often fatal disease. The disease occurs as a result of problems with the production and supply of insulin in the body. Either the body produces no or insufficient insulin or the body cannot use the insulin it produces effectively.”

The fact is, this “potentially debilitating” disease will be chronic only as long as the root cause of diabetes doesn’t get fixed.

Unfortunately, our “modern” medical system doesn’t appear to be interested in solving these underlying causes.

They instead focus their efforts on “controlling” diabetes, by merely suppressing the symptoms associated with this disease through expensive medication and/or insulin… By artificially keeping certain diabetes indicators (such as glucose and insulin levels) within “acceptable” ranges, it appears as though the diabetes is being “managed”.

The truth, however is that underneath it all, the disease itself keeps getting — little by little — worse. That’s why virtually all diabetics keep getting more and more medications prescribed… to “control” the ever-increasing number of complications and serious “side effects”.

It’s also the reason why diabetics face a grim 80% risk of death by heart disease or stroke (in addition to a lengthy list of other grim complications), even when they continue to use drugs and/or insulin to “control” their diabetes.

- Trevor K. Neuman

Over the last number of decades, diabetologists had been highly optimistic that tight control of blood sugar levels would lead to greater success rates… less artery disease… lower death-rates… fewer strokes and heart attacks… less blindness and kidney failure.  Yet these hoped-for outcomes have simply not panned out.

Indeed, the situation has become alarmingly more grim.

Even much of the information and many of the guidelines offered by the major diabetes-specific organizations, such as the American Diabetes Association, have proven unhelpful in regulating glucose levels — a key component in keeping diabetes in check.

And government research funding programs have become so politicized, that the integrity of independent research has largely been destroyed.  Moreover, powerful lobby groups have become so influential, that any government grants actually achieve little in terms of practical value to suffering diabetics.

No wonder so many diabetics are becoming increasingly frustrated and disillusioned!

According to the American Diabetes Association, “Diabetes causes 35 million heart attacks, 13 million strokes, 2 million amputations and 62 million deaths. That’s the expected toll from diabetes… unless major action is taken to curb and control it…”

Further, the American Diabetes Association calculates there are 20.8 million diabetics in America; with another 54 million people having pre-diabetes (placing them at high risk for developing Type II diabetes). This equates to 75 million Americans having diabetes, or being at high risk.

Contrast these alarming figures to 100 years ago, when diabetes cases were so rare, most doctors never saw or diagnosed the disease even once in their entire medical careers.

And ten years ago, Type II diabetes was virtually unheard of in children. Yet now, numerous doctors and health professionals predict that by the year 2010, 50% of our children will have Type II diabetes before they turn 20!

Most doctors believe that diabetes is incurable… that’s what they’ve been taught. The best you could hope for – according to what they learned in medical school – is to “control” this disease with medication and insulin.

And they’re right… Diabetes is incurable… At least it’s incurable if you follow most doctors’ advice of merely suppressing your diabetes symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs.

That’s because most doctors’ advice – taking ever-increasing doses of medications – doesn’t solve the root problem of diabetes. These drugs merely attempt to “control” the symptoms of high glucose levels, insulin resistance, etc.

And because these medications cause other health problems (side effects), your doctor ends up prescribing more drugs to “control” those new symptoms… which cause yet further “side effects”… and/or render your original medications less effective, so your doctor doubles or quadruples your original dosages… and this vicious cycle just goes on and on…

You’re caught in the “Diabetes Trap”!

In fact, millions of diabetics are stuck in this trap of continually “needing” more and higher doses of medications. And what awaits them is an implicit death sentence of heart disease… stroke… obesity… kidney failure… debilitating nerve damage… blindness… impotence… and/or some of the many other seemingly inescapable diabetes complications.

Simply because the underlying cause of their diabetes was never addressed.

If we just learn the rules of health and show our body the respect it deserves, it is perfectly capable of efficiently managing the details, and there will be absolutely no reason to stress about all those levels.

Although many people tend to believe that disease is just the result of getting older, that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. Disease is normally the result of an unhealthy condition in the body, (not the result of our age), and something we all can control.

We just need to learn what our body really needs and then provide it, and stop abusing it with all those potentially dangerous and unnecessary drugs.

- Dr. David W. Tanton

You can’t always blame your doctor for lack of effective diabetes treatments, since doctors only knows what they were taught in medical school. Most medical doctors were trained to treat symptoms with drugs, rather than using natural nutrients for prevention. Your doctor likely devoted many years of his or her life, and a great deal of money, getting a medical degree.

If an M.D. chose to use a natural therapy (unapproved by the American Medical Association), he or she could help save a life… yet jeopardize their license to practice medicine in doing so. Conversely, if a patient dies as the result of a therapy or drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it would be considered perfectly acceptable (since the doctor followed “proper protocol”).

Avoiding disease by prevention obviously makes much more sense, and thus should be our first line of defense, as well as the primary objective of medicine.

A friend of mine once told me, her doctor indicated that he was taking a statin (cholesterol lowering) drug just for prevention, even though his cholesterol was not elevated. He suggested that she also take the drug just for prevention.

That is definitely not preventative medicine! (Because statin drugs — like virtually all other medications — have a long list of serious “side effects”… definitely NOT something you want to gamble with your health.)

She decided that a change of doctors was in order (a wise decision, I might add).

Another concern regarding modern medicine today is the approximate 7-10 minutes many clinics allot doctors to spend with their patients, and they normally schedule appointments accordingly. It’s obviously very profitable, and certainly makes good business sense… but what about the patients’ welfare?

Although it doesn’t take long to write a prescription, it would normally take a medical doctor considerably longer to adequately diagnose and properly resolve a particular health issue, as well as evaluating the potential interactions of the drugs the patient might already be taking.

Most natural practitioners normally spend approximately one hour on the patient’s first visit, and allow approximately thirty minutes on follow up visits. This approach may not be nearly as profitable, but is obviously much more effective. The same also applies to natural supplements versus drugs. The ingredients in natural supplements normally cost more than prescription drugs for the company, although they sell for far less to the consumer.

Serious Implications Associated With Many Drugs

I believe that many doctors are totally unaware of the serious implications associated with many of the drugs they prescribe daily.

The drug commercials imply that your doctor will know if you should be using their particular drug, and that he is basically an authority with all the answers. They then focus on convincing your doctor that many patients could benefit from their drug (even for unapproved uses).

There are more drugs being continually added, and many are just variations of the same basic class of drug. Although similar, they often vary in potency and potential for interactions with other drugs.

Unfortunately, your doctor is normally so busy with his practice, and dealing with many different patients on a daily basis that he has very little time left to research or evaluate the “side effects” of drugs, and the interactions of multiple drugs.

Natural medicine is in my opinion a true science, as the basic ingredients normally used were created by Our Creator, (who is much more brilliant than man), and whose major concern is our welfare, rather than the most profitable solution. Natural foods are far more complex than any drug produced in a laboratory, and organic (as is our body)… and therefore much less harmful to our bodies.

We must basically decide where we will place our trust, in man or in Our Creator who also created our body. He is obviously in a far better position to understand our body’s needs, and has provided many natural resources for our benefit.

Our body always knows exactly what it is doing and why. The only thing we need to concern ourselves with is providing adequate resources to allow it to do the job it was very efficiently designed by Our Creator to do. We must stop trying to second-guess our body’s intentions by using drugs to override our body’s very efficient functions.

Modern medicine seems to hypothesize that our body somehow has some major design flaws that must be suppressed and controlled at all costs through the use of high-tech drugs.

Our bodies were obviously designed to withstand a tremendous amount of abuse, but there is a limit. Unfortunately, we sometimes exceed that threshold, and many diseases continue to evolve as a result.

This basic problem will not go away unless we drastically change our course of action. One thing that should be obvious to all of us is: We cannot continue doing the same things, and somehow expect to get different results!

- Dr. David W. Tanton

Unfortunately, far too many doctors have only a superficial knowledge of the many medications they prescribe daily, both when it comes to diabetes prescriptions, or drugs for other health problems.

All too often, drugs are prescribed in potentially dangerous combinations, where apparent oversight seems to be obvious.

Now, with the assistance of the late news anchor Peter Jennings, we will evaluate the opinions of some medical experts that appear to have a conscience.

These are medical doctors who are totally aware of the corruption in the very powerful and profitable (legal) drug industry, and are not afraid to express their opinion. The following excerpts were taken from the ABC News Special Report - Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the Public Health. This report by Peter Jennings aired on Wednesday, May 29, 2004 on ABC.

Peter Jennings – …Dr. Drummond Rennie is an editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association. He says researchers who are critical get attacked all the time. Do you actually believe, Dr. Rennie, that drug companies are intent on keeping the consumer on drugs, which are not as good as older drugs, for the simple requirement of profit?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Yes. Yes, very much so. Absolutely. …They’ve got to be prevented.

Peter Jennings – … The top 10 drug companies combined made profits of more than $37 billion in the year 2001. And you, the taxpayer, are subsidizing research that benefits the drug industry.

Peter Jennings – The majority of the drugs approved by the FDA are simply modifications of old drugs…Consumers spend $90 billion more on prescription drugs last year than was spent just six years ago. And are we $90 billion healthier? …But what critics call this ‘gaming of the system’ may have a much more damaging result.

Dr. Sharon Levine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group – If I’m a manufacturer, and I can change one molecule and get another 20 years of patent life and convince physicians to prescribe and consumers to demand … then why would I be spending money on a lot less certain endeavor, which is looking for brand new drugs?

Peter Jennings – The pharmaceutical industry has more registered lobbyists than the number of senators and congressmen combined.

Dr. Jerry Avorn, Brigham and Women’s Hospital – I think there’s a sense that, for example, when the FDA approves a drug, everything that needs to be known about it is known. I think patients believe that. I think doctors sometimes believe that. And that is not true.

Dr. Matt Handley, Group Health Cooperative – I would personally wait years for long-term safety from the FDA’s monitoring program before I’d consider taking them. If they were free, I would do that same thing.

Peter Jennings – What does this say about the social responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry? Or is the pharmaceutical industry supposed to have a social responsibility?

Dr. Sharon Levine – That’s a very good question that the American people need to answer, do we want to entrust critical elements of the public health to an industry whose purpose, whose mission is to earn return for shareholders?

Peter Jennings – Congress has never required the FDA to routinely compare new drugs with older drugs. This is costing consumers billions of dollars that we do not need to spend. And in some cases, it could be costing lives. …There is no law that says new drugs have to be proven 100 percent safe. … The government says they must be relatively safe, which means that every drug comes with risks. And the result of that is that sometimes new drugs turn out to be more dangerous than old drugs.

Dr. Jerry Avorn, Harvard Medical School – If patients were aware of the limitations that all of us physicians have in terms of what we know and what we wish we knew and what we don’t know, they would be more scared than they are at present. …The saying that a lot of doctors use sometimes in jest is, ‘Always wait a year before prescribing a new drug. And if it’s for a family member, wait five years.’ And that’s an awful thing to say, but it reveals a perception that we really don’t know as much as we would like to know about a drug until it’s been around. INSERT: In other words, tested on the public.

Peter Jennings – The fact is, drugs can be used for years before we really know how safe they are. …Dr. Drummond Rennie is an editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association. He says researchers who are critical get attacked all the time. Why do you think the industry is able to get away with what you have in the past called ‘bullying tactics’?

Dr. Drummond Rennie, Journal of the American Medical Association – Money. Because if the shareholders are happy, whom else do they have to answer for? These are multinationals. They have no masters.

Peter Jennings – Can we trust studies funded by companies that have a vested interest in the results? …Will the pharmaceutical industry do whatever it takes to get the results it wants from research?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – The temptation to spin those results is always there, and it’s frequently used. Frequently.

Peter Jennings – For nearly every drug on the market, doctors must wrestle with conflicting and sometimes inaccurate information.

Dr. Drummond Rennie – If only the good news about a drug is published, and never the bad news, then a false impression is given of the quality, effectiveness of that drug. It may be entirely false.

Peter Jennings – Does the drug industry, on occasion or regularly, suppress data?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Oh, we suspect, and rather know, that this happens all the time.

Peter Jennings – Does a drug company ever not publish the results of a trial because it doesn’t like the results?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Yes.

Peter Jennings – Do you actually believe, Dr. Rennie, that drug companies are intent on keeping the consumer on drugs, which are not as good as older drugs, for the simple requirement of profit?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Yes. Yes, very much so. Absolutely. …They’ve got to be prevented.

Peter Jennings – There is one last thing this evening which we believe is important for all of us. The questions about what we are getting for our money cannot and must not be answered only by the drug companies. Virtually everyone we talked to for this broadcast agrees on that. The rules by which this hugely profitable industry operates do not always serve consumers adequately. And nothing is going to happen, no matter how angry consumers get, unless the Congress and the president decide that the time is come. The country can do better. I’m Peter Jennings. Thank you for joining us. Good night.

I can’t help but respect Peter Jennings for conducting the interview to help us better understand the corruption in medicine that I am fully aware of, although many in the nation are not. All too often we see announcements in the national news promoting the use of drugs in deceptive ways, and at times for unapproved uses.

A prime example is the woman who was interviewed on the national news, claiming that after stopping Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), she discovered that Paxil™ seemed to help reduce her hot flashes. That announcement was aired shortly after it was announced that HRT had many potential associated problems, so many women stopped their HRT drugs. Although there are natural supplements proven to resolve the hot flashes, taking Paxil™ is much more of a serious threat than HRT.

Paxil™ is a very serious antidepressant never approved for hot flashes, or anything other than depression. Paxil™ is the same basic class of antidepressants as Prozac™, but an even more potent version.

One woman was actually prescribed Paxil™ to help her stop biting her fingernails! She soon discovered that biting her nails was minor compared to the major problem she experienced from the use of Paxil™. For over a year she could no longer control her movements, and as a result was unable to work.

I would guess that after the interview on the national news indicating that Paxil™ might possibly help prevent hot flashes, many women likely asked their doctor if they could try Paxil™. Unfortunately, many doctors would likely accommodate them, and write a prescription for Paxil™, just like the doctor did for the lady who was biting her fingernails. Hot flashes are basically a walk in the park compared to the many potential side effects associated with this serious class of antidepressants (diabetes being just one of many).

- Dr. David W. Tanton

About 80% of diabetics suffer from a hypothyroid (low thyroid) condition. In fact, according to clinical trials done by Dr. Broda Barnes, even when many of his diabetic patients were able to stabilize their blood sugar, most of the other symptoms of diabetes wouldn’t go away until they were given effective thyroid therapy.

He also notes: “Thyroid therapy prevented complications in Dr. Eaton’s diabetic patients twenty years ago and has been preventing the same complications in my patients, diabetic and non-diabetic, for twenty-four years” (Hypothyroidism – The Unsuspected Illness, 1976, p. 227). That was in my opinion, quite an amazing discovery, with tremendous potential for diabetics.

When the thyroid is suppressed, the metabolism is reduced, requiring less sugar to be used for energy. Less glucose would obviously be required to maintain a lower-than-normal body temperature, than if the body temperature was maintained at the appropriate 98.6 degrees.

If a person were still consuming the same foods, as well as the same amount, the result would be an excess of unused sugar in the bloodstream. This would then result in increased insulin production, leading to insulin resistance, increased fat storage, and eventually Type II diabetes.

Possibly the worst combination that could contribute to obesity would be an excess of insulin (which is very efficient in storing fat), plus a deficiency of the thyroid hormone (which is responsible for fat removal), combined with an excess of unused sugar. The elevated blood sugar can be potentially dangerous, so it must be converted and stored as abdominal fat (another contributor to insulin resistance).

Modern Medicine’s Flawed Thyroid Evaluation and Treatment

Many of the symptoms associated with hypothyroidism are very similar to those associated with hypoglycemia, and both are often experienced by diabetics, with depression, mood swings, and behavioral disorders being the most common. The question is: Could these symptoms possibly be even more pronounced, when experiencing both conditions concurrently?

If that holds true (which seems logical), depression would probably be even more serious, and a prescription for an antidepressant, (or possibly an additional antidepressant), would all too often be many doctors’ solution.

There are also other symptoms associated with hypothyroidism, such as: brittle nails, dry skin and hair, low metabolism or inability to lose weight, fatigue or low motivation, headaches, fluid retention, heat or cold intolerance, as well as depression and mood swings to help identify the condition. Unfortunately, most medical doctors fail to take the time necessary to properly diagnose the underlying problem, thus a prescription for an antidepressant is all too often the typical response.

If you went to your doctor, who like most medical doctors studied traditional (allopathic) medicine, a hypothyroid condition could easily be misdiagnosed to begin with.

Standard procedure practiced by most medical doctors (even endocrinologists, who specialize in hormonal disorders such as thyroid), would rely on the standard blood test evaluating your Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) and possibly T4 thyroid levels. In many cases, the TSH and T4 thyroid levels would be considered as normal, and you would thus be notified that your thyroid is not a concern (although it very well could be).

Then, even if your doctor decided that thyroid supplementation might possibly be in order, he like most allopathic doctors, would likely prescribe Synthroid™, Levothroid™ or Levoxyl™, one of the artificial forms of T4 thyroid. The problem is you are likely not experiencing a T4 thyroid deficiency, and thus your medication will seldom work, and could at times make matters even worse, by shutting down even more of the active T3 thyroid that would normally be produced by the thyroid.

Following The Money Trail…
Why Thyroid Conditions Likely Remain Unresolved

The basic problem is: A low thyroid condition can potentially lead to many different of symptoms (thirty or more), which are likely due to a reduction in the enzyme action of all 3,000 enzymes in the body.

This then opens the door for a lot of prescriptions to deal with each of the potential symptoms. One of the most common symptoms associated with a hypothyroid condition is depression, and thus unnecessary prescriptions for antidepressants.

Unfortunately, the most common class, known as SSRI antidepressants such as Prozac™, Paxil™, Zoloft™, and Celexa™, etc., stimulate the adrenals to produce the stress hormone cortisol, which actually leads to elevated blood sugar.

The SSRI antidepressants can thus not only worsen existing diabetes, but are also known to contribute to the development of diabetes in non-diabetics, from their long-term usage. That’s not the only problem, as they also contribute to another serious condition known as adrenal fatigue, which is seldom properly diagnosed by most medical doctors.

- Dr. David W. Tanton

Although most doctors’ typical resources (drugs and surgery) seldom provide an effective solution, that doesn’t necessarily hold true when the proper natural approach is taken. Just because a “disease” is considered as incurable by traditional medicine, doesn’t necessarily hold true if true when proper healing principles are applied.

Natural solutions are often so surprisingly simple that it’s difficult to believe they could possibly be effective (but they are).

Although Our Creator provided us with a very complex yet extremely efficient body, He in turn provided us with many simple solutions for maintaining its health.

Even though the various nutrients are relatively easy to use, they are actually very complex, (just like our body). Fortunately, we don’t have to fully understand their complexity in order to benefit from their use. Many herbs and plant extracts have hundreds of constituents, many that scientists are still unable to identify, although they have proven benefits.

Diabetes, particularly as it progresses, brings with it other serious health problems such as heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, etc. As you learn the root causes of diabetes, you’ll quickly discover that there are surprisingly similar underlying factors which contribute to all these other diseases.

Thus, this site is not merely about reversing your diabetes. Our goal is to also help you reverse any of those other health problems and risks that most commonly accompany this deadly disease.

According to the American Diabetes Association, nearly 75% of people with diabetes die from heart disease and stroke.

I bet you didn’t know you can stop either a stroke or heart attack in a matter of minutes (sometimes seconds), and do so very easily! I learned this amazing discovery from a brilliant doctor who claimed that it worked 100s of times with his patients, and never once failed.

I also discovered some additional supplements that would provide the further benefit of rapidly increasing the delivery of oxygen to both the heart and brain. I call this the “Stroke & Heart Attack Emergency Kit” (and will write about this some time in the future).

- Dr. David W. Tanton

The problem with the vast majority of diabetes information out there, is that much of it is the same old re-hashed stuff that’s put out by the “official” diabetes sources. However, as is revealed throughout this website (with clearly-documented evidence), a substantial portion of that information is based on seriously flawed research, and out-dated theories about diabetes treatments.

Granted, a small handful of these diabetes books and resources are indeed rather good. Nonetheless, they still don’t successfully address the deep underlying issue of what actually causes diabetes in the first place. Yes, they may talk about different ways to control insulin and blood glucose levels through:

• diet and nutrition;
• exercise;
• weight loss;
• eliminating toxins;
• etc.

Yet while these are all unquestionably important factors in overcoming diabetes, they still don’t truly get to the heart of what causes this destructive disease. As a result, many diabetics who follow the advice from those books may still fail to beat diabetes.

Millions of diabetics world-wide are desperately hoping for a way to break free from the Diabetes Trap. Many have already begun to recognize the appalling truth, that most doctors have no real answers for them.

That’s why the meticulously-researched information on this website is so helpful to diabetics everywhere.

- Dr. David W. Tanton

No two people will actually assimilate, and thus receive the same amount of any medication as another person might, even on the very same dosage.

This is an issue the companies producing your medications are actually fully aware of, although it’s something they have absolutely no way of controlling. Even your own effective dosage can easily vary considerably, based on several factors.

How many drugs you might be taking, as well as how many other toxins (such as alcohol) your body is dealing with on
a particular day, will have an influence.

This is why you see so many potential side effects associated with many medications. How many you might experience depends upon how much of each drug is able to effectively get around your best friend – your liver (the detoxifier).

Many other variables, such as your size, your gender, your age, and especially your metabolism, will play a part as well, although most doctors seldom consider these issues when drugs are prescribed.

Plus, diabetes drugs - as do pretty well ALL medications - also deplete your body of vital nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

That’s why drugs are inherently unpredictable, basically unhealthy, and most importantly, seldom necessary.

More details, research and medical proof to follow…

- Dr. David W. Tanton

Poor dietary habits are an obvious contributor to diabetes (and less than optimum health).

Yet a lousy diabetic diet isn’t the only contributor to diabetes. In many instances, your medications are quite often the greatest concern of all. Your body immediately recognizes them as the toxic chemicals they are. Drugs are typically designed to override important bodily functions in order to suppress symptoms.

Only when we begin employing natural organic substances that our body instantly recognizes as beneficial, can true healing possibly take place.

It’s important you understand that the symptoms we may experience are an important part of our body’s communication system, (or its cries for help), and thus symptoms should never be suppressed with any drug!

If it weren’t for pain or discomfort, how could we possibly know when a problem exists, or when it is finally resolved? If we were not somehow alerted when a concern exists, the condition would gradually continue to worsen, although we would obviously be totally unaware of the fact.

That is exactly what we are doing when we resort to symptom-suppressing drugs, which basically makes a bad condition even worse. Unfortunately, when medications suppress or mask the symptoms of our health problems, we soon forget that a problem ever existed, thus allowing the problem to continually worsen undetected.

When you take insulin or other diabetes medications to “control” your health problems related to this disease, you’re not addressing the root problem(s) that caused your diabetes in the first place. In fact, as you’ll discover very soon in this book, they actually slowly make matters worse, by blocking your body’s natural healing powers.

That’s why virtually all diabetics will progressively be prescribed more and more medications in an attempt to “control” their diabetes. It just becomes an ever-escalating (and losing) battle.Medications are notorious for creating other uncomfortable symptoms (side effects), which normally results in one or more prescriptions for additional medications (basically the domino affect). Drugs not only create many side effects, but in the process they also deplete many important nutrients critical to our health. The more medications you are relying on, the greater the risk will be.

Virtually every doctor has in his/her office a very large textbook called the Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR), which lists prescription drugs, their potential side effects, and their many interactions with other drugs (and occasionally even some foods or natural supplements). Yet they hardly ever refer to it. That’s one big reason why most doctors don’t know any of this critical diabetes information (other reasons are listed elsewhere on this website).

- Trevor N.