My husband has an upcoming journal article based on analyzing the
Framingham data, discussing blood glucose in men and women
separately, either with or without heart disease....

Apparently men ARE from Mars and women from Venus... until it's
actually published, that's all I can say.

[Good. I always say I'm a Martian, anyways... and there's no
doubt that I love Venutians... I'm all for Peace always between
Mars and Venus.

Please do me a favor and ask your husband for permission to
paste his article here on Rejuvenation after it is published, so
we can all read his article... and maybe we can all interview
your husband and ask him questions about the article.

Since you say that men ARE from Mars and women are from Venus, I
think this means that the two sexes show different blood glucose
and rates of heart disease. But the point is:

KEEP YOUR GLUCOSE LEVELS UNDER CONTROL, BY HOOK OR BY CROOK,
WHATEVER THE REASON, AND HOWEVER YOU CONTROL IT.

I will bet that would be the same for both sexes. In any case,
congratulate him from my part for getting his article published
in a journal. I'll bet that's not so easy to do, and it'll be a big
honor if he'll let us interview him.

Thanks for writing,

- Ellis]


----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Brown
To: Rejuvenation@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:57 PM
Subject: [Rejuvenation] * * * RE: Low testosterone levels


Hi:

I also enjoy Ellis' comments. They have certainly helped me in
a lot of areas, especially in terms of careful monitoring of blood
glucose, etc.

[Good, I'm glad you are monitoring your blood glucose. In my
opinion, that is the single most important anti-aging therapy
you can do... and the least expensive, too...

Why do I think monitoring and controlling blood glucose is the
single most important anti aging therapy? Because I think it will
make a difference in the long run, to postpone diabetes or not to
get it forever in your lifetime.

And what proof do I have of this? No proof, my friends, just
circumstantial evidence: The best way for DIABETICS to avoid or
retard the advance of diabetes side effects which will eventually
kill most diabetics is to control their blood glucose levels.

So why would controlling blood glucose levels not work also on
"non-diabetics" to slow or postpone the point where we are finally
declared to be diabetics? They would... That's why I believe I
should... that is also why I believe we should move that point
where we are declared to be diabetics way forward, so that we
should have the privilege of being called "diabetic" so that we
start to take care of our "diabetes" NOW, and not later.

So why haven't we heard this, and read this a thousand times
in every book written by "experts"? I dunno. If I would have
read this ever before, I really would have started to do it at a
much younger age, especially since BOTH of my parents were
diabetics.

I was aware of blood glucose testing since the 1970's... Since I
studied in Tulane University, my parents went to New Orleans for
my graduation, and while they were there they took a check up at
the Oschner Clinic, and they found out they were diabetic. That
was followed at some point to a visit to Boston, to the Joslin
Clinic which specializes in diabetes. (pretty hip, my parents...
they were both always in the front.)

Although I tested my blood glucose once or twice in those days, all
it showed was that I did not have high blood glucose. And it never
occurred to me that if I am not a diabetic I should test my blood
glucose before and after eating... And... I had never heard the term
"glycosilation" which means a molecule of glucose stuck onto a
molecule of protein which essentially damages that molecule of
protein. When I put all the parts of the puzzle together, here
on Rejuvenation, that is when I realized the "experts" are
mistaken about the Food Guide Pyramid because they advise you to
eat the foods that raise blood glucose levels. See this page:

The Good Guide Pyramid vs. The Food Guide Pyramid
http://www.rajeun.net/goodguide.html


So... Scott... The next thing you have to do is to DO SOMETHING
ABOUT HIGH blood glucose, whenever you get it. By "high" I mean
anything above 100 mg/dl which requires attention. I do mean
100 mg/dl. which is VERY EASY to get, in fact it is pretty
"normal" to be at or around 100 mg/dl. But it is BETTER to be
lower, if more glycosilation occurs at higher blood glucose levels,
which it does... so shoot for "better."

Many diabetes specialists believe 140 mg/dl is acceptable for their
patients. That view causes their patients to be satisfied with a
level that is totally unacceptable for me, and Dr. Bernstein, and I
urge you to reject such levels and be as strict as I am, and not as
lax as the American Diabetes Association advises.

It is incredible and sad that there are doctors that are happy to
keep their patients in a state of chronological illness, which is
good for the doctor, rather than to really crack down and control
their diabetes, which would be good for the patient.

If I was a doctor I would resign from such an Association, or never
join them at all, or I would start another competing association of
doctors interested in their patients.

Read Dr. Bernstein's comments about this:

http://www.rajeun.net/bernstein.html

To bring down "high" glucose levels is as simple as: "drink two
glasses of water" or "walk around the block"... or inject insulin,
if you know how to inject insulin. Do whatever it takes to lower
blood glucose. As I like to say, bring high glucose levels down
"by hook or by crook." There is no such thing as "cheating"...
any way you bring high glucose down is valid... just bring it down.

But the FIRST step to lower blood glucose is to MONITOR blood
glucose. So... congratulations... the more you monitor, the
more you learn... and there are always surprises, aren't there?
- Ellis]