Diabetes is pretty easy to treat. Biggest thing is to stop listening
to doctors in regard of what you eat. They are telling people to eat
carbs which your body converts right to sugar. Wrrooooong !!!

One needs to stop eating carbs to get rid of diabetes. Here is a
website that tells what is best to eat and you can be over your
diabetes in a sort time.

Its all in the diet in most cases.

http://homodiet.netfirms.com/



Ellis: [I DISAGREE with whoever wrote homodiet.netfirms.com
on EVERYTHING he writes about "curing" diabetes type 1...
And his advice on diet is at best "fuzzy..." mostly correct,
but partly not correct, "according to Ellis" ("Don't
believe ME... Believe the Glucose meter...")

"Insulin does not treat the diabetes, but only lessens its
symptom." - Dr. Jan Kwasniewski

No kidding, Sherlock? Insulin certainly does lessen high
blood glucose, and by doing so it "treats the diabetes"...

I AGREE with Dr. Kwasniewski that the correct diet is a very
low carb diet, because the glucose meter tells me this is
correct... but I disagree that it should be high fat...

You still need to regulate blood glucose with insulin when
the glucose meter tells you that you have eaten INCORRECTLY...
which is OFTEN, for most diabetics. Your blood glucose also
will rise BY ITSELF in the morning, whether or not you have
eaten... So using insulin is IMPERATIVE for most diabetics,
especially Type 1... (Dr. Kwasniewski is AGAINST the use
of insulin, and states that he can "cure" diabetes type 1
with his diet and without insulin. For these reasons I DO
NOT THINK Dr. Kwasniewski is a good doctor to listen to about
how to treat diabetes, and I recommend you search for another
doctor... I agree almost completely with Dr. Bernstein, who
advocates a very low carb diet, and strict control of blood
glucose using insulin or other medication, as necessary...)

As much as I AGREE with you that you have to stop listening to
those doctors who tell their patients to eat a high carb diet,
and I agree absolutely that this advice is "ABSOLUTELY Wrrooooong"


I DO NOT AGREE with your statement that "Diabetes is pretty easy
to treat" because it puts you in THE WRONG FRAME OF MIND. You
should always think that diabetes can be treated, but it is
"pretty difficult to treat" because it requires you to THINK
about it "24 hours a day, every day..." (That is "Ellis speak"
for "all the time that you are awake...")

And I disagree with your statement that "one needs to stop
eating carbs to get rid of diabetes..."

Diabetes cannot be "gotten rid of..." You are stuck with it, and
YOU SHOULD THINK that you are stuck with it, because that is the
ONLY way that you will GIVE YOURSELF the proper treatment. Of
course I agree a diabetic (and everybody who is not a diabetic too)
should eat a very low carb diet... But I also believe in frequent
blood glucose tests to KNOW WHERE YOUR BLOOD GLUCOSE IS, and proper
action whenever your glucose meter tells you that you need to adjust
your blood glucose.

YOU CANNOT TELL where your blood glucose is UNLESS you use a
glucose meter. You don't feel better, you don't feel worse...
Between blood glucose 70 (PERFECT) and 180 (DEATHLY) you feel
THE SAME...

It is INCORRECT to believe that by eating the correct diet you will
EVER "get rid of your diabetes". In fact, if you eat the right
diet and then you reach the conclusion that you have CURED your
diabetes, then you are ASKING FOR TROUBLE.

The CORRECT mindframe for a diabetic is that YOU ARE TREATING your
diabetes... and this requires a day to day 24 hour fight against
high blood glucose levels...

And... "according to Ellis" the CORRECT mindframe for A NON
DIABETIC is to THINK THAT YOU ARE A DIABETIC... I am not, in
fact, a diabetic AS DEFINED BY THE AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION...

But I am a Diabetic "according to Ellis" AS DEFINED BY ELLIS...

That is, I auto-proclaimed myself a diabetic because my blood
glucose level goes UP too much when I eat an amount of carbohydrates
that REQUIRES ME NOT TO EAT THAT AMOUNT because it makes my blood
glucose go UP to 140 mg/dl and higher! ONE LARGE GLASS of
ORANGE JUICE makes my blood glucose go to 160 mg/dl... then it
drops down to below 100 mg/dl in 2 hours or less, which means
I AM NOT A DIABETIC "according to the A.D.A. definition of
diabetic" because my pancreas is still functioning and will bring
my blood glucose down.

But I am not happy if my pancreas allows my blood glucose to
rise to 160 mg/dl because I believe it is HARMING ME, ever so
slightly, but in a cumulative manner... I insist on taking
ACTION when I measure my blood glucose and it is above 100 mg/dl.

I will be 62 years old in August. Supposing I am still alive
at age 92... 30 years from now... I will have kept my blood
glucose levels "lower than they would have been" had I not taken
action for 10 hours per day, 3650 hours per year, 36,500 hours
per decade, MORE THAN 100,000 HOURS WHEN I AM 92 years old...

I AM GUESSING THAT THAT WILL MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE in helping me
be in BETTER HEALTH when I am age 92, given all the BAD things
that I KNOW high blood glucose can cause. So... it is not just
ONE time... It is the cumulative damage, or the cumulative benefit
of not having that damage, over a 30 year period...

And if YOU happen to be 30 years old, then it is TWICE AS TRUE for
you as it is for me.

The best way to combat high blood glucose levels is to EAT A LOW
CARB DIET, and AVOID HIGH CARBS all day every day (ie, avoid cakes,
sweets, popcorn, salted potato chips, spaghetti, pizza, bread,
SUGAR, etc.) AND ALSO MEASURE YOUR BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS BEFORE AND
AFTER YOU EAT, or whenever you are curious to know your blood
glucose.

And... YOU HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO INTERPRET your blood glucose.
MANY DOCTORS are QUITE SATISFIED with blood glucose levels that
I consider to be much too high... and so THEY TEACH this easy
attitude towards diabetes to their patients, which "according to
Ellis" is a great disservice to their patients.

For Your Information: please see MY INTERPRETATION of Blood
Glucose levels, here:

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

The ONLY DOCTOR who I listen to re: diabetes is Dr. Richard
Bernstein. There are many doctors today who agree with Dr.
Bernstein, but I still go straight to The Source: Dr. Bernstein.

I strongly suggest you should buy his book "Diabetes Solution" and
if that is not enough, then also buy his book about the diabetes
diet.

I am happy to say that I recently visited Dr. Bernstein personally
and I interviewed him for half an hour... Although Dr. Bernstein did
not necessarily agree with me on the one-word description that I use
to call the various glucose levels ("BAD" "TERRIBLE" "HORRIBLE"
"DEATHLY" "SUICIDAL") he DID AGREE WITH ME that we age faster when
blood glucose levels are "high"... and 100 mg/dl is HIGH, because
he INJECTS INSULIN to bring it down! (I do too...) So of course
120 and 140 and 160 and 180, and higher, are all also HIGH.

Dr. Richard Bernstein wants his patients (and readers) to maintain
an average blood glucose level of 83 mg/dl, or about there... He
wants (and his HbA1c is 4.5) an HbA1c for himself and for his
patients of 4.5

See my HbA1c to Average Blood Glucose conversion table here :

http://www.rajeun.net/HbA1c_glucose.html

Dr. Bernstein TAKES ACTION if his blood glucose level is 100 mg/dl...
And that action is to inject insulin to get his blood glucose DOWN
to about 83 mg/dl.

This is THE SAME advice that I give (I learned it from Dr. Bernstein)... and I
ALSO inject insulin if my blood glucose is 100
mg/dl. or more (I learned this by myself, following what I
learned from Dr. Bernstein...)

Read Dr. Bernstein's story "My First Fifty Years as a Diabetic"
here:

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

And read why he is fought with the American Diabetes Association,
(which recommends high carb diets to diabetics... and accepts
what I call terribly high blood glucose levels, 140 mg/dl, as
a good level for diabetics to shoot for...) here:

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

Thanks for writing... please write again. I like a good debate,
on a topic that I am passionate about.

Ellis


> Today I approved about 25 new subscribers to Rejuvenation... and
> I want to comment on the comments that the new subscribers now
> write when they request to be subscribed...

> Many have recently been diagnosed with DIABETES, and want to
> find out more how to treat it.

> Well... one way is PLEASE WRITE... AND ASK QUESTIONS... and
> TELL US YOUR EXPERIENCES...

> It is curious and gratifying to me that so many persons are
> subscribing to Rejuvenation because they think of this forum as
> a place to get answers to their diabetes... or they think of ME as
> an "expert" on Diabetes, and I am not a diabetic!

> It gives me great pleasure to think that many people all over the
> world have LEARNED TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR DIABETES in a way that is
> totally different than what their DOCTORS tell them, because of what
> they have learned FROM READING MY PAGES on the internet... and I am
> not a doctor!

> To me, it is just simply incredible...

> One person I know (in Mexico) insists on calling me "doctor"... I
> always correct him and say "I am not a doctor..."

> He answers: "For me, you are a doctor... You know more than my
> doctor, so you are a doctor!"

> Wow! In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is King.

> But the real problem is that SO MANY DIABETES DOCTORS are BLIND!

> I'll tell you where I got my one-eye... Everything I know about
> diabetes, I learned from Dr. Bernstein. I have read other books
> and other doctors about diabetes... But those who advocate a
> high carb diet are all full of baloney. The only solution that is
> correct, according to my glucose meter, is Dr. Bernstein's solution.

> So I shouldn't be a "doctor" but to this person in Mexico, I am...
> because most diabetes doctors don't know about diabetes in the same
> way that Dr. Bernstein knows about diabetes... They learn from
> BOOKS that are mistaken, and Dr. Bernstein learned from using
> insulin and a glucose meter...

> They don't know as much about using insulin as I do, because I use
> insulin and a glucose meter, and they don't.

> It is what Dr. Bernstein taught me (both in his book and in his
> teleconferences, and in my visit to Dr. Bernstein) which has rubbed
> off a little on me, and makes me think I know a little bit about
> diabetes, and makes this person think I know more than his doctor!

> Amazing!

> But... I am also LUCKY to be A BRIDGE... I have one foot in Mexico,
> and the other foot out in space somewhere... I speak Spanish and I
> speak English, both perfectly well, so I am in two different
> planets... and I am the moderator of this great forum, which has
> served TO TEACH ME... I have been LUCKY to have had all this
> stimulating conversation for nearly 9 years now, and I have LEARNED
> FROM DOCTORS, and I HAVE LEARNED FROM ATHLETES, and I HAVE LEARNED
> FROM Life Extension Foundation, and I have learned from Dr. Ward
> Dean and Durk Pearson and Dr. Cranton and Dr. Hughes and Dr.
> Karlis Ullis and Dr. Ronald Rothenberg and Dr. Julio Garcia, and
> Dr. Mike Lenker and my three doctors in Mexico, who have been
> great... and many many others... and each of them has added one
> tiny drop here, and another drop there, to what I now know, or
> think I know...

> So now my WEBSITE (which started with POEMS and Timeshares and
> theater...) now has pages on BONE AGING, and GLUCOSE THEORY OF
> AGING, and USING INSULIN, and the Poor Man's GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST,
> and SARCOPENIA, and an incredible HbA1c to Average Glucose
> conversion table, and one after another of incredible and totally
> ORIGINAL pages related to Anti-Aging...

> And I knew exactly ZERO about all of these topics, 9 years ago!
> Wow! And today I am an EXPERT on all of these, and I HELP thousands
> of people around the world with what they learn from my pages!

> UN-BE_LIEVABLE!!!

> AND I WROTE THEM ??? HOW DID I DO THAT? I can't believe it.

> Anyways... PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS or GIVE US YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH
> DIABETES and/or USING INSULIN and/or the glucose meter...

> - Ellis