You might
have heard the advertisements lately about controlling diabetes while getting
off the drugs used to treat it.
In the
scientific literature, the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania reported
that it saved 300 heart attacks, 140 strokes, and 160 cases of retinopathy for
25,000 patients over 3 years by treating them with a “bundle”.
This included measuring the HBA1C every 6
months and maintaining it at less than 7%, measuring the LDL and urine protein
annually and keeping the former below 100, maintaining BP <140 and="" avoiding="" date="" flu="" keeping="" pneumococcal="" span="" style="mso-spacerun: yes;" to="" tobacco="" up="" use.="" vaccines="">
14.5% of patients complied with all points of
the “bundle”.
The results were reported
as “fabulous”.
Getting off oral drugs,
if possible, is a laudable goal since some might even increase the risks for
diabetes.
Monitoring the biomarkers is
certainly useful.
But patients will get
far better results if they also lose weight with a low carb diet, get regular
exercise, take the natural products, berberine, chromium, and cinnamon, and
especially take IV chelation.
See Family Practice News, Feb. 2014, p. 1, 32.
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