This is a long one, so keep on reading when you think it might
be over, because there is something really funny after you
think it ended... - Ellis

=======
Debbie: Hi Julie - and Ellis,

Debbie: Julie, sounds like you react to sugar like I do. And I do
so love sugar! I do pretty well most of the time on the low carb,
but sometimes I do so long for chocolate or a donut. And once I
start, there is no stopping... so I usually don't even start. But
once in a while I do.

Ellis: Hello Debbie. What you have to do is not feel guilty
about it, you have to try to go in the right direction as much
as you can. So... you KNOW that chocolate and donuts are not
good for you... so next time you are going to eat that chocolate
or donut, go ahead and eat it, but try NOT TO EAT A LOT OF IT.

And if you would like to REALLY do something useful for your
long term health: take the opportunity to MEASURE YOUR BLOOD
GLUCOSE 30 minutes and then again 60 minutes AFTER you ate the
chocolate and donut. Let me tell you: it scares the pants out
of me to get a 180!!! Try to memorize this table, and even if
you don't memorize the exact words, memorize how to intrepret
blood glucose "according to Ellis" and it is:

70 to 85 is Optimal, where 70 is better than 85, but 85 is more
usual than 70.

100 is a bit high

110 is not so good.

120 is BAD

140 is TERRIBLE

160 is HORRIBLE

180 is DEATHLY

200 and more is ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

So let me explain my reasoning here: 120 is BAD because DR.
BERNSTEIN SAYS he has SEEN patients who are NOT diabetics
with a 120 mg/dl average with some complications of Diabetes.

What are those complications? Probably not very terrible:
maybe wrinkles, and dry skin, perhaps fat around the belly,
maybe others that we call "normal aging"...

They are not very terrible, but they are AVOIDABLE, so why not
avoid them? So I call 120 "BAD"... you can live a "normal"
lifespan... but that is only about AGE 75... If you don't mind
kicking the bucket at age 75, then go ahead, don't worry about
120, as doctors from the American Diabetes Association will
be HAPPY if their patients have a 120 mg/dl AVERAGE.

So... if 120 is BAD, then 140 is WORSE... so I called it
"TERRIBLE"... Terrible what? For me, erectile dysfunction
would be TERRIBLE... For me, not as good eyesight would be
TERRIBLE... For me, 30 or 40 pounds overweight would slow me
down when I walk, and it would tire me out, so I would not be
able to have as much FUN in this world, so that would be
TERRIBLE...

And 160 has to be even WORSE than 140, so I called it HORRIBLE.
For me, LOSING A LOT OF NEURONS IN MY BODY would be HORRIBLE,
because I equate NEURONS with BEING... I AM MY BRAIN, I AM MY
NEURONS, and I DON'T WANT TO BECOME AN OYSTER... And I am
pretty sure that if you have 160 AVERAGE, at some point it was
180 or maybe higher, and you were DAMAGING NEURONS...

Now, what do NEURONS DO? They FEEL THE WIND... THEY SEE THE
STARS... THEY FEEL HEAT, THEY FEEL COLD, THEY REMEMBER YOUR
FRIEND'S NAME, etc. Hey, I don't want to lose my NEURONS!
So I call 160 HORRIBLE, and I think I am correct.

And 180 is DEATHLY because if you have 180 AVERAGE, that means
you were DAMAGING THE KIDNEYS... Your kidneys are pretty strong,
but you can mistreat them only so much... If you mistreat them
for 15 or 20 years, then you get KIDNEY DAMAGE... At that point,
I say you are DEAD even if you are ALIVE. Because your KIDNEYS
are in charge of keeping your blood CLEAN... and if your kidneys
aren't working right, then your blood is full of toxins and
sugar and bad stuff that MAKES YOU FEEL CRAPPY. To me, life is
not worth living if I am going to feel crappy, 24 hours a day.

And kidneys are in charge of releasing EPO, which causes the
bone marrow to make RED BLOOD CELLS. The ONLY function of
red blood cells is to CARRY HEMOGLOBIN, which carries OXYGEN.

So if your kidneys are damaged, then they don't release as much
EPO as they should, and then the number of red blood cells in
your body goes DOWN, and if the number of red blood cells in your
blood goes DOWN, then YOU HAVE LESS OXYGEN circulating through
your body! And THAT affects your ENTIRE BODY.

- Ellis


Debbie: Ellis, I have a question for you. When I got the copy of
the CT Scan report when I had appendicitis it says there is an
adrenal adenoma. Now I know that's a growth, or a tumor, usually
non cancerous.

Ellis: I suggest you should get an A.M.A.S. blood test, which
will answer if it is cancerous or not, without need of a
biopsy or a CT scan. I would avoid CT scans as much as possible,
because they work with radioactive material, and you really don't
want radioactive materials INSIDE your body unless it is really
absolutely necessary. See more about the AMAS test, here ...
Oncolabs:

http://www.oncolabinc.com/

Debbie: No one even told me that was on the report - the dr. only
had one page that didn't even have that info on it!

Ellis: The doctor doesn't really care. It is your life, not his.

Debbie: I asked my doctor for a 24 hr. urine cortisol and DHEA
levels which I have been waiting for for 2 weeks. I think they sent
it to Texas, so it could be all over the state after Ike, I suppose!
It seems one really has to take things into one's own hands these
days.

I would like to find a good dr. to work with, though, who didn't
charge an arm and a leg. Fat chance!

Anyway, I am trying to research and see what effect that could have
on my being diabetic.

Ellis: Don't wonder about why you are diabetic. Get your diabetes
under control and you won't have to worry about it. But you are
going to have to become as strict as Dr. Bernstein is on himself
and his patients, or else you are going to have a "normal"
lifespan... and that's not good!


Debbie: It seems everything talks about high Blood pressure, and
mine often runs low - sometimes in the mornings even in 70's over
50's.

And I feel like crap! I have been doing patient summaries at work
and I go back the next week and find out I have left out a bunch of
stuff or put it in the wrong place. It is very frustrating.

So my thinking is often fuzzy. I probably need to read more of your
website :-)

Ellis: Yes, you do. You have the SYMPTOMS of LOW RED BLOOD
CELLS... and you have diabetes, so you might be ANEMIC caused
by your diabetes having caused your kidneys to be overworked...

Debbie: My blood sugar is almost always under 100 fasting and 2 hrs
after eating it is usually under 120, but not always under 100.

I know you say I should be on insulin, but I haven't found a
diabetic dr. I did talk to a dr. with a friend who is a diabetic
dr. and he just lost his sight and is now in kidney failure.

I really don't know where to look and w/o insurance it limits me
in where I can afford to go. I would try Cleveland Clinic, but I
don't know how to tell who is good and who is a jerk.

The one endocrinologist about 40 mi. from here wants almost $300
for a first visit. Do I just call around and ask dr. offices if
they use insulin for mild diabetes or what?

Ellis: Call ME by telephone. I am not a doctor, and I don't have
a diploma that says I know how to do it, but I have helped several
persons including doctors to control their blood glucose much
better with insulin, which they previously thought was out of
the question. 011 5255 5280 3644

Debbie: They would think I'm crazy, I'm sure.

Ellis: Don't worry about what anybody thinks, especially if
they are doctors and they think you are crazy. That is everyday
fare, for me. What do you care what an ignoramus says about you?

Debbie: Also I wanted to ask which glucose meter you recommend. I
know Dr. Bernstein recommends the Aviva. I did 4 readings one
after the other and they varied by 17%. It also reads about 10-20
mg/dl higher than the Contour.

The REliOn from Walmart matched the lab within 1 point, but when I
do the 4 strip test (1 after the other) that Dr. B recommends,
it varies too much as well. Like the old Chinese proverb says, "She
with 2 meters never knows what her blood sugar is."

Ellis: That is an old Chinese proverb? When did the Chinese
start to use meters, to have such a proverb? Ha !!!

Debbie: 20 mg is a big difference! - Debbie

Ellis: I use the AccuCheck Sensor, which is pretty old technology
compared to the new ones, because it takes 40 seconds to give a
result instead of 5 seconds, and it takes a larger drop of blood,
which to me is the same if it is one tiny drop of blood or one
tenth of one tiny drop of blood. I have also used the AccuCheck
Performa, which is of the new technology. It takes 5 seconds to
give a result, and it uses a very tiny drop of blood (I see very
little benefit in that...) but it consistently gives me LOWER
results than the AccuCheck Sensor to which I have become accustomed
to reading and interpreting...

So... as long as it is CONSISTENT, I don't mind so much, and it
is CONSISTENT... so I have learned to interpret my blood glucose
with BOTH the AccuCheck Sensor and now the AccuCheck Performa.
A 65 on the Performa means about an 80 on the Sensor... A 110
on the Performa means about a 125 on the Sensor, etc.

The TEST STRIPS are a bit less expensive for the Performa, so I
have used it for a while, but I also double check with the
AccuCheck Sensor sometimes, and I am satisfied that the Performa
is consistent... consistently LESS...

Dr. Bernstein recommended the Freestyle meter when I went to see
him, in April 2007... I think the Freestyle is made by Abbott
laboratories... The reason he recommended it is because he said
that it was pretty accurate, close to his laboratory standard
glucose meter.

But the fact is that it doesn't really matter which blood glucose
meter you use... It doesn't even matter if it gives results that
are similar to the lab standard... What you want is for it to be
CONSISTENT so that you can learn to INTERPRET what it means.

If you want ME to be able to interpret it with you, then you
should get the Accucheck Sensor or the AccuCheck Performa, and
I understand what a 70 or a 120 or 150 means on these.

And by the way... My INTERPRETATION of blood glucose was done
using an AccuCheck Sensor, so if I was to readjust it for the
AccuCheck Performa, I would call a 160 DEATHLY... a 120 would
be HORRIBLE... 85 is a bit HIGH... etc.




--- In Rejuvenation@yahoogroups.com, "juliekalajian"
<juliekalajian@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Debbie,
>
> Julie: I was just reading your story which is not dissimilar to
> mine. I started by nearly blacking out and thinking it was maybe
> my blood pressure but then when my doc sent me for some tests it
> appears I have a sugar problem which is still not sorted.
>
> Ellis: You are not eating correctly, and you definitely have
> "a sugar problem".... you are diabetic, that is your sugar
> problem...
>
> Julie: My doc went away the day I got my bloods and glucose tests
> back for three weeks and I spent that time monitoring myself with
> a meter. I now know that when I dip below 70 that's when I am close
> to passing out...
>
> Ellis: I am curious to know which is your blood glucose meter.
> Different meters give slightly different results... I don't
> know anybody else who feels dizzy when she feels he is studying
> the Torah.

Ellis: ????!!! What ??? Did I write that??? I must have been
falling asleep... What was I dreaming about? That's crazy... I
can't believe I wrote it. It makes no sense! Ha! Fortunately,
it seems I woke up again, because the rest of what I wrote makes
sense. Ha! I can't believe I sent this to the forum.

Unbelieveable... - Ellis

> Julie: And as someone who is not a great eater I missed the
> breakfast I normally have now and went to work.
>
> Ellis: Big mistake. You MUST have breakfast... Your breakfast
> has to be mostly "Animal Origin" and "Vegetables"... For example,
> my breakfast is three eggs (any style) and perhaps a slice of
> turkey... maybe, white unsweetened yoghurt... See my
> Carbohydrate Thermometer. Memorize how to use it so that you will
> be able to look at ANY food and know at a glance approximately how
> much sugar it contains.
>
> http://www.rajeun.net/carbotherm.html
>
> Julie: By 1 P.M. I thought I was going to pass out so some kind
> soul went and bought me a small burger with a bun and a small
> milkshake to bring my blood sugar up as I was shaking and feeling
> so bad.
>
> Ellis: Good intention, but mistaken choice of food... again,
> it should have been meat, chicken, eggs, fish, unsweetened
> yoghurt, and any vegetables. The bun (about 50 grams of sugar)
> and the milk shake (perhaps another 50 grams of sugar, depending on
> the size, which I did not see, and depending on how much syrup they
> used to prepare it with...)
>
> Julie: In only 10 mins after eating, it threw me straight into a
> reading of about 210 which made me feel worse the other way,
> and that has never happened before... so in only 3 weeks this
> thing has gotten worse.
>
> Ellis: The 210 shows that you are diabetic.
>
> Julie: My readings are not as bad as some people with Diabetes
>
> Ellis: You are going to have to start to think of yourself
> as a Diabetic, or you will never start to take care of your
> diabetes...
>
> Julie: But I experience all the effects, my eye sight has started
> going down and I fall on the stairs a lot thinking I am placing my
> feet somewhere safe and missing the steps. This I am told is due to
> the nerves in the legs caused by sugar.
>
>
> Ellis: What else does it take than that to convince you that you
> are already a diabetic? You LOOK like a diabetic and you QUACK
> like a diabetic, so you ARE a diabetic.
>
> Julie: I know when I am becoming high because I cannot quench my
> thirst and go to the loo a lot.
>
> Ellis: More symptoms of diabetes... I bet if you take an
> HbA1c it would be way above 6.0... probably above 7.0
>
> Julie: I also have a thyroid problem that they only put me on T4
> for and this is not working either so I have joined this site to
> try and gain some insights and advice about everything I can do
> for myself. The other thing that really annoys me is in 6 months
> I have gone up 2 dress sizes and I can't get it off despite only
> eating small amounts of meat and vegetables for my meals. I have
> no clue if it's the diabetes that's caused it or something else
> as even with a thyroid problem I managed to keep my dress size
> down for 2 years before that.
>
> Ellis: I think it is the thyroid that is causing it... but I
> also think you are not controlling your diabetes, which also
> contributes. It is not enough that you should eat correctly
> (apparently you are trying to eat correctly, but sometimes you
> are also eating incorrectly, as you did when you ate the bun
> and the milk shake...)
>
> Julie: I have to say I am totally miserable with it all at the
> moment trying to solve it all and I wish you luck with your own
challenges. Warm Regards - Julie
>
>
> Ellis: Julie, you are diabetic, and you have to bring your high
> blood glucose levels down. I suggest that you should learn to
> use insulin, because there is nothing at all, no pills, no gila
> monster saliva, nothing at all that will control your blood glucose
> as well as INSULIN.
>
> What you need to do now is to FIND A DIABETES DOCTOR WHO IS
> ALSO A DIABETIC HIMSELF. I know a lot of doctors will disagree
> with this, but that is precisely why you have to find a doctor
> who is also a diabetic. Doctors who are not diabetics will
> prescribe metformin to you, and metformin is not what you
> need. They might prescribe Gila Monster saliva, and Gila
> monster saliva is not what you need. You need insulin, plain
> and simple... and cheap...
>
> Do NOT go to a doctor who is NOT a diabetic, no matter how
> handsome and polite he is, that is not who you want to see, because
> he is afraid of using insulin. I have proven to myself over and
> over that the doctors who know the most about using growth hormone,
> for example, are the doctors who use growth hormone themselves and
> prescribe it to their patients. And doctors who do not use
> growth hormone and do not prescribe it to their patients are
> the doctors that write and tell us how dangerous growth
> hormone is.
>
> Next step for you: take an HbA1c blood test, and let us know
> what is the result. I am guessing that it will be higher than
> 6.0% and maybe higher than 7.0% See my HbA1c to Glucose
> table, so that you will understand how to interpret the results
> of the HbA1c blood test.
>
> http://www.rajeun.net/HbA1c_glucose.html
>
> And see my Glucose Theory of Aging, so you will understand how
> to interpret your blood glucose tests (above 200 is "attempted
> suicide"... excuse me for using scary language, but that is what
> I intended to do...)
>
> http://www.rajeun.net/HbA1c_glucose.html
>
> Also, see my pages, Using Insulin and Using Lantus...
>
> http://www.rajeun.net/usinginsulin.html
>
> http://www.rajeun.net/usinglantus.html
>
> Although I am not a diabetic and I think you are a diabetic,
> I think that what you can learn from reading these two pages
> will help you very much. The one rule to remember when you
> inject insulin is this: ALWAYS EAT SOMETHING when you inject
> insulin. If you do that, you can be very sure that LANTUS
> will not cause you to get hypoglycemia, and it will bring your
> blood glucose under relative control, right away...
>
> Since hypoglycemia is the only side effect you want to avoid, and
> you will avoid it if you eat something (something "good" or
> something "bad"... better "good," of course...) And THE RIGHT
> DOSE of fast acting insulin will not cause hypoglycemia, especially
> not if you also take a bite to eat... (take a bite to eat, even
> if your blood glucose is above 100 mg/dl... the bite to eat is
> your "insurance" against hypoglycemia...)
>
> Thanks for writing... Keep us informed... - Ellis]
>
>
>
> --- In Rejuvenation@yahoogroups.com, "Deborah Walker Caple"
> <DCAPLE@> wrote:
> >
> > Debby: I had appendicitis a few weeks ago and my FBS was 175!
> >
> > Ellis: [What is "FBS" ? - Ellis]
> >
> > Debby: My urine glucose was 1000.
> >
> > So ASAP I bought a glucometer. I did the "Poor man's GTT" and
> > don't quite understand my results. My blood sugar went to 219
> > in 30 minutes, but at one hour it was 122 and at 2hrs 76, then
> > at 2.5 hrs 66, 3 hr, 70, 4hr 70, 5hr 88 and 6hr 87.
> >
> > It surprised me that it went up again since I didn't eat anything.
> >
> > I have been checking my BS for certain foods (to see what I've
> > been doing to myself for who knows how long) and 1 hr after cake
> > and ice cream it went to 252! Down to 147 at 2hrs, then back to
> > 155 after a lamb chop.
> >
> > My A1C last week was 6.8.
> >
> > I tried pancakes this a.m. with peanut butter, banana and maple
> > syrup, also a small piece of turkey sausage. I guess the protein
> > helps keep it down, because at 30 min it was 120, 1hr 112, 90 min
> > 117, and 2hr 111.
> >
> > I felt quite shaky after about 45 min. and thought my sugar was
> > dropping, but it was 111.
> >
> > I think it's strange that it went up higher with my famous chicken
> > soup (134) and pizza (153).
> >
> > Just wondering, do I classify as prediabetic, diabetic... or just
> > odd?
> >
> > Debbie
> >
> >
> > Ellis: [Hello Debbie... You definitely classify as diabetic. But
> > I would say you also classify as a LUCKY diabetic because now you
> > know that you are diabetic...
> >
> > So.. You are mild diabetic... You are like an airplane with 4
> > engines that is crossing the Atlantic, and TWO engines have conked
> > out. You will PROBABLY make it across the Atlantic without any
> > problem, but now that you know that two engines have conked out
> > you will have to fly carefully, and avoid all storms.
> >
> > I will tell you how I arrive to this conclusion: You are DIABETIC
> > because you got a 219 in the Poor Man's GTT... that is enough...
> > but there is more... You got a 252 after cake and ice cream...
> > That confirms that you are diabetic... And your HbA1c is 6.8%
> > which means it is as if blood glucose averaged 165, according to
> > my HbA1c to Average Blood Glucose Conversion Table... which also
> > means and confirms that you are diabetic.
> >
> > http://www.rajeun.net/HbA1c_glucose.html
> >
> > I don't think your AVERAGE blood glucose really averaged 165, as
> > the table says... but 6.8% is too high anyways, so it doesn't
> > matter what figure it really corresponds to, 6.8% definitely
> > corresponds to DIABETES.
> >
> > (Note: MY INTERPRETATION of HbA1c is DIFFERENT than the one that
> > is shown on my blood glucose conversion table, above. It doesn't
> > really correspond to AVERAGE blood glucose... but it shows you
> > that you have had very high PEAKS in blood glucose, like the ones
> > that you show in your tests... and it is these high peaks that
> > have caused damage AS IF your blood glucose had averaged 165...
> >
> > But that is discussion for another day.)
> >
> > And how do I know you are only MILD diabetic and not a very
> > advanced case of diabetes? Because your blood glucose still goes
> > DOWN, after it has gone as high UP as it has... so this means
> > your pancreas is still producing some insulin.
> >
> > So you are LUCKY. Now you know you are a diabetic.
> >
> > There. Accept it. And now take care of it, as if you are
> > diabetic, because I say you ARE definitely diabetic... mild
> > diabetic, but diabetic.
> >
> > The BEST frame of mind that you can have is to ACCEPT that you
> > are Diabetic. SAY that you are diabetic. TELL OTHERS that you
> > are diabetic. THINK that you are diabetic. And from now on
> > TAKE CARE OF YOUR DIABETES.
> >
> > That means: from now on, Thou Shalt Not Eat Sugar or High Carbs
> >
> > Also... You should check for "INSULIN" to see if you are insulin
> > resistant... you probably are... I bet you will get about 10 or 12
> > or maybe higher when you check "INSULIN"... Probably not as high
> > as 20 or 25... So... don't worry about it, we'll fix everything,
> > if you accept to take care of yourself as you should.
> >
> > If I were you... I would really tighten up on eating carbs...
> > From now on: Goodbye Bread... Goodbye Spaghetti... Goodbye
> > Potatoes, Pizza, Rice, Candies, Pop Corn, Breakfast Cereals...
> >
> > Adios dry fruits... Adios Sweets and Candies
> >
> > And of course: Goodbye SUGAR.
> >
> > Hello Chicken and Fish and Vegetables.
> >
> > Also... You should find a DOCTOR who is DIABETIC himself, and
> > who takes insulin.
> >
> > The WORST THING that can happen to you right now is that you would
> > find a really nice and friendly doctor who is scared of insulin
> > and goes through extraordinary measures to keep you from taking
> > insulin, as if injecting insulin is such a terrible tragedy...
> > and he is SUCH A NICE GUY that you LIKE him, and he seems so
> > smart...
> >
> > But he keeps you from taking insulin, so you will get more and
> > more sick for the next 20 years... at which time you will have to
> > find the doctor that you should have found now.
> >
> > You need a doctor who is no-nonsense, and does not bend. He does
> > not want to be popular, and he doesn't mind if you hate what he
> > tells you, because he tells it to you anyways.
> >
> > Read my pages:
> >
> > http://www.rajeun.net/usinginsulin.html
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://www.rajeun.net/usinglantus.html
> >
> > - Ellis