I will back up Ellis on his insulin use. As long as you don't
endanger yourself with significant hypogycemia, the lower you
keep your hemoglobin A1C, the better off you are.

Insulin is the most natural adjunct to facilitate this. It
obviously needs advanced monitoring and consistency.

My glucose stays low because I have fasted every other day for
years. True anti-aging takes effort.

James R Hughes, MD




Ellis: [Hello Dr. Hughes! Hey, it's good to hear from you!

For those who do not know who is Dr. James Hughes, he was one
of my first TEACHERS about HGH... and I never forget my teachers
to who I owe a debt of gratitude for what I know today...

I still remember my first grade teacher in elementary school...

I even remember my Kindergarten teacher, before elementary school...

So of course I remember Dr. Hughes, who really helped me VERY
MUCH when I knew very little about using growth hormone and I
didn't have a doctor yet... but I was using HGH anyways...
Viva Mexico, as I always say.

Thanks, again for all you taught me.

I owe to Dr. Hughes one bit of knowledge which was crucial at
that time, and that bit of knowledge is: What level of IGF-1
should I shoot for?

Dr. Hughes told me that I should shoot for 350 to 500, and that
has always been what I try to shoot for since then. At one point
I was taking 3 iu of HGH every day, and my IGF-1 came out about
720 (if I remember correctly...)

I was not getting any side effects of any kind, but I didn't
want to have an IGF-1 that was so much higher than Dr. Hughes'
recommendation... So... I lowered my dose to 2 iu per day,
and it has been 2 iu per day for about 7 or 8 years, which
gives me IGF-1 of about 500 to 550...

And I am convinced that this recommendation is correct. I
know many doctors recommend about 280, but I have had my
IGF-1 between 500 and 550, so I can tell you that if the
best dose is the HIGHEST dose that you can take and get
good benefits WITHOUT getting side effects, then 2 iu per
day is perhaps that dose.

But the important thing about this recommendation is that I
also recommended it to thousands of persons who have read my
pages or contacted me throughout the years... And it is
correct, until somebody demonstrates that I have any side
effect, or until somebody demonstrates that another range of
IGF-1 is better.

So... getting back to your post... Thanks for backing me up
that my use of insulin is good because it helps to keep blood
glucose levels controlled. (Optimal: 70 to 85 mg/dl
Normal: 86 to 90 mg/dl) There is NO WAY for me to get
hypoglycemia if I take the right dose of Lantus (very steady,
and very low dose of insulin...) as long as I also eat
SOMETHING... anything...

I think 10 iu Lantus is equivalent to perhaps 1 iu of fast
acting insulin, for 24 hours (supposedly) so it is really
impossible to get hypoglycemia even if I would FORGET to eat.

So it needs some monitoring, but after I learned what my
dose is, and how I react to it, today I can really play it
by ear. I inject 10 iu Lantus in the morning, and 5 iu
Lantus at night (instead of 15 iu Lantus once a day...) that
will never give me hypoglycemia... and I also inject a tiny
dose of 3 iu Humulin "R" or Humalog, if I think I should take
it before a big meal.

And of course I agree that the lower you keep your average
blood glucose, the better off you will be 30 or 40 years from
today.

This is, in fact, the single most important anti-aging therapy:

Eat good food that keeps your blood glucose levels between
70 and 85 mg/dl all day, every day, for as long as you can.

Thanks for writing,

Ellis]



-----Original Message-----
From: Ellis Toussier Bigio <etoussier@...>
To: Rejuvenation@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 2:59 am
Subject: [Rejuvenation] Still alive







I have gotten a lot of e-mails recently asking me if I am
alive (yes) or alright (yes) or if I am sick (no)... And
several commenting that I haven't sent out any posts in the
past month... That is true... but I am well, thanks.

Sometimes, I just don't come to Rejuvenation for a while.
That's just the way Rejuvenation is.

Unfortunately, that also means that Yahoo erases posts that
I don't send off in a period of 14 days, so that means that
a lot of good posts have been erased and I never saw them.

Please bear with me for a moment, I am having a new website
set up, with a forum, and I will become active again once it
is ready.

Today I approved the subscription to Rejuvenation of nearly
70 persons... Reading the comments that they write, we have
many persons who are interested in diabetes and/or why do I
use insulin if I am not a diabetic? I am glad to discuss this,
so please send in your questions about discussions about diabetes
or about how to "control" your blood glucose.

("According to Ellis" your blood glucose is not well controlled
if it rises to 100 mg/dl or higher at any time during the day.)

Today I happened to eat with some friends, and one of them
is a DOCTOR who IS a diabetic type II. But... par for the
course for DOCTORS... he thinks he has his diabetes under
control because he drinks a pill of metformin... "According
to Ellis" he has ZERO idea of the correct way to treat any
diabetes, including his own diabetes.

He is 67 years old... chubby... wrinkled... in general he looks
about 67, so he is satisfied with his health.

I think that if he could have a written guarantee that he will
live only 10 more years, he would be very happy with that. Like
a typical doctor, he is more than happy if we have an average
lifespan, which is about 74 years for men.

If I could get through to him that he can control his blood
glucose much better with insulin, I have no doubt that he
would improve his health... But of course I can't get through
to him. He is a doctor. It is too radical to think that you
should take INSULIN, since 99.999% of all doctors are stuck on
the belief that insulin is very dangerous. They think it is
better to take and prescribe metformin, or Byetta, or other
medicines that are not INSULIN.

Fortunately, he does not pretend to know about diabetes, and he
does not say he is an expert in diabetes... that is good, to find
a doctor who is slightly humble.

He has an open mind, but he has brain damage because he is
programmed to believe "conventional medical wisdom" to
the effect that INSULIN IS DANGEROUS and that his diabetes
is WELL CONTROLLED because he takes METFORMIN! He has a glucose
meter, but unfortunately he doesn't use it. So... how can you
control blood glucose, if you don't use a glucose meter at least
a few times every day...

But this doesn't bother him. He ate second servings of rice,
bread, beans, potatoes, etc. I think his blood glucose
probably went above 200 mg/dl... which will kill him in 20
years or sooner... there is no way to KNOW what was his blood
glucose, without taking a blood glucose test.

And of course, he doesn't believe in growth hormone, testosterone,
or EPO... and of course not, insulin.

So... please send in questions or discussions about diabetes,
using insulin, blood glucose, metformin, etc.

I will be in Can Cun from Dec. 1 to Dec. 8... I will stay at the
Royal Mayan... In case anybody subscribed to Rejuvenation is going
to be there in that week, I will be happy to meet you.

I feel fantastically lucky to have met a famous Greek singer and
his lovely wife, who flew to Mexico City specifically to meet with
me. Sometimes I feel like my life is charmed... it gives me so
much pleasure to meet people who find me on the internet and then
learn from me... it gives me so much pleasure to teach people to
improve their health, in particular with my ideas about growth
hormome, insulin, and EPO... many of which are original ideas.

I owe it to all of you, because I learned and developed my ideas
as the moderator of Rejuvenation.

- Ellis





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