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Did you ever here the one about the drunk who lost his keys.
“Hey Frank, what looking for under that street lamp?”
“Well John, lost my car keys, tryin’ to find em’ here”
“OK Frank, let’s trace your steps, where do you last remember having them?”
“Well, John, that’s easy, they fell out of my pocket over yonder in the shadows.”
“Frank, what are you doing looking over here then!”
“John, the light’s better over here.
A friend foprwarded me an abstract from a research paper published in the New England Journal of medicine, whcih you can view at : http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/356/15/1517
The title of the paper is Interleukin-1–Receptor Antagonist in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
After thirteen weeks of injections of anakinra, a substance generally reduced in insulin producing cells of people with type II diabetes. The results were at best interesting, but when compared to the work Dr. Gabriel Cousins did with a raw foods diet, an active lifestyle and the introduction of self development technologies, the research seems flacid. A film on Cousins research is at http://www.rawfor30days.com/about.html
I am not a raw foodist, nor am I even a significant advocate. (Though I love many things about the movement). But the demonstrated benefit of Dr. Cousin’s work has to be seriously considered here.
The factors that I see limiting the speed at which the development of significant treatment options for people with type II diabetes depends on the following factors:
1. Patients taking personal responsibility for their health.
2. Type II diabets gets recontextualized as primarily lifestyle and diet related.
3. An agreed upon standard that treating an imbalance by fortifying the imbalance (in the case of taking medication as the primary treatment for type II diabetes) instead of treating the cause, is an erroneous perspective.
4. Recognize that significant economic factors maintain the current emphasis on medication and technology driven treatment plans (which are not bad or wrong, mearly misplaced and overused), including the inability to patent a healthy diet and lifestyle and the subsiquent deluge of investment into proprietary research resulting in treatments that can be owned, licensed and sold.
If you are suffering from the effects of type II diabetes. I invite you to consider the above contextual reference points. If you are in the medical profession, please consider the significance that diet and lifestyle can have for your patients. I am not anti-medicine, I am pro DO WHAT WORKS…