Jorge: Ellis, can the use of the modern Insulins create blindness
as the older Insulins did??????????? Jorge E. Bredee

Ellis: Hello Jorge... I'm glad you ask this question, because
it gives me a chance to answer a common fear that many people
have and that is: does insulin cause blindness...?

Ellis: "According to Ellis" using insulin does NOT cause blindness...
Not now, and not before they made human insulin in laboratories...

NOT using insulin causes blindness.

And DOCTORS' FEAR OF USING INSULIN causes blindness.

So, if a diabetic type 2 does NOT use insulin because his doctor
is afraid of using insulin, and he wants his patient to AVOID
the use of insulin because he thinks it is DANGEROUS, then he
forces his patient's PANCREAS to produce insulin. This forces
his pancreas to burn out in time... it might take 20 or 30 years,
during which time the patient and his doctor will be happy and they
will both think that his diabetes is "controlled"...

But his diabetes is advancing. It cannot be noticed, but it is
advancing. His blood glucose levels are far higher than I
recommend. This is why most DOCTORS recommend far higher blood
glucose levels than I recommend.. because they think that what
they recommend is good... so if it causes high blood glucose levels,
then they think those high blood glucose levels are not bad, they
are good.

This is why I am frightened if I get blood glucose of 130, and
most diabetic doctors think 130 is super. In fact, most diabetic
doctors are HAPPY if their patient keeps blood glucose BELOW 170,
which I say is criminal because 170 is nearly "deathly"...

What is "nearly deathly" but is not death? Blindness.

Twenty years down the road, the diabetic type 2 has shot his
health. He might have kidney problems. And he is about to
go blind. Then his genius doctor who caused the problem now
says "Now you need to take insulin..."

And the patient starts to take insulin, twenty or thirty years TOO
LATE... and when the patient becomes BLIND, then The Genius Doctor
writes an article that says that INSULIN CAUSED BLINDNESS.

That is really meant to defend himself and to cover up his own
stupidity and incompetence, because the fact is that THE DOCTOR
caused his patient's blindnes, because HE SHOULD HAVE PRESCRIBED
INSULIN many years ago.

I want to point out that not ALL diabetes doctors are incompetent...
only the majority are stupid and incompetent...

In my opinion, correct are those who agree and follow Dr. Bernstein's
recommendation that diabetics should control their blood glucose
levels to be the same as non-diabetics. The single best thing that
a diabetes doctor can do for a diabetic patient is to teach him to
control blood glucose to be the same or better than non-diabetics...
that usually means: teach them to use insulin correctly.

- Ellis