Diabetes mellitus

Category: Illness or disabilities

Type

Involuntary

Introduction and description

Diabetes mellitus is a type of Diabetes.  A person with Diabetes mellitus has high blood sugar.  It is generally a result of:

• Damage to pancreas - Insulin is produced in the pancreas and is the hormone regulating glucose levels.  Low levels of circulating insulin, or its absence, will prevent glucose from entering cells, any cells.  If there is low insulin it can be because of the pancreas.  
• Cell damage - Alternatively there may be a decrease in the sensitivity of cells to insulin, resulting in decreased glucose absorption.

In each case, there is 'cell starvation' and elevated blood glucose levels.  Thus there are two main types of diabetes mellitus:

• Type 1 diabetes - Type 1 diabetes mellitus is caused by loss of the insulin-producing beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas leading to insulin deficiency. This loss may be the result of incomplete development of the cells, damage to the cells or diseases of the cells.  Type 1 diabetes can affect children or adults.  This type of diabetes requires the person to inject insulin and became treatable when insulin became available in 1921, before that people would die.

• Type 2 diabetes -  results from' insulin resistance', a condition in which 'cells fail to use insulin properly'. The defective responsiveness of body tissues to insulin is believed to involve the insulin receptor. I will have more to say about this belief by our medical profession shortly.  Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes. 

Both type 1 and 2 are chronic conditions.  In 2000, according to the World Health Organization, at least 171 million people worldwide suffered from diabetes, or 2.8% of the population. Its incidence is increasing rapidly. Diabetes mellitus occurs throughout the world, but is more common (especially type 2) in the more ‘developed’ countries. 

In 2010, nearly 26 million people had diabetes in the United States alone.  The Centers for Disease Control termed the change an ‘epidemic’.  It has predicted that between 1 in 5, or 1 in 3 Americas will have diabetes by 2050.  Given the causes, I think these estimates may be on the conservative side and I am not scaremongering. 

Symptoms

The main signs and symptoms of diabetes mellitus are:

• Polyuria – a large amount of sugary urine is excreted because the blood glucose concentration becomes so high that the kidneys are unable to reabsorb all the glucose filtered into the tubules back into the blood. 
• Diabetic nephropathy, the impact of diabetes on the kidneys, can lead to scarring changes in the kidney tissue, loss of small or progressively larger amounts of protein in the urine, and eventually chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis.
• Polydipsia  - In order to excrete the glucose, the kidneys use water to dilute the glucose and excrete it in the urine, this then leads to excessive thirst as the person tries to drink more and more water in order to help the kidneys excrete the sugars.  It is not uncommon for people with untreated diabetes to suffer from dehydration.
• Polyphagia – the cells are not getting the glucose they need and the consequence is that the person has a craving for sweet things and more food to try to get the glucose the cells crave.  They will be always hungry, but also always tired.  As the brain uses glucose to help it to function, the person may also suffer badly from confused thinking because the brain is being starved of essential fuel.
• Weight gain/weight loss - In Type 1 diabetes, the lack of insulin causes weight loss and muscle wasting because insulin also acts as a ‘body building’ hormone.
  
  

  Diabetes sufferer, Wendy Gaye
  But people with type 2 diabetes do not have a lack of insulin, instead their cells cannot process it, so the insulin in their blood functions normally.  Insulin has two additional functions besides that of a transporter of glucose into cells:
  • Insulin helped the body store excess glucose as ‘adipose tissue’. Insulin increases the rate of conversion of glucose to fat in fat storing cells [adipose tissue]
  • Insulin increased the rate of conversion of glucose to glycogen in the liver and muscle cells. Glycogen is used by the body as a sort of reserve supply of energy

But only a limited amount of glycogen can be stored in the body, beyond this limited amount the glucose is either excreted or turned to fat.  Thus where the body’s cells have lost their responsiveness to the glucose produced, the insulin tends to turn the excess glucose into fat – the person can become obese.

• Cardiovascular disease - The massive amounts of glucose swishing about in the person’s blood vessels can also damage them over the longer term and produce hardening of the arteries and cardiovascular disease.  Diabetes  - excess glucose - doubles the risk of cardiovascular disease -  atherosclerosis of larger arteries and peripheral vascular disease, as well as "microvascular" complications—damage to the small blood vessels. Diabetic retinopathy, which affects blood vessel formation in the retina of the eye, can lead to visual symptoms, reduced vision, and potentially blindness.
  This same hardening of the arteries and other blood vessels also results in shortness of breath and all the other well known symptoms of cardiovascular disease.

• 

  George Lucas, the inventor of Star wars

  was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1998
  Ketoacidosis – People with type 1 diabetes may also get ‘diabetic ketoacidosis’.  Ketoacidosis is a metabolic state marked by extreme and uncontrolled ketosis. In effect, the body perceives it cannot get the energy it needs from the glucose so it starts to use the body itself for fuel - the liver breaks down both fat and proteins in response to the perceived need for ‘respiratory substrate’ – fuel. In extreme cases ketoacidosis can be fatal. Ketoacidosis can be smelled on a person's breath. This is due to acetone, a direct byproduct of the spontaneous decomposition of acetoacetic acid. It is often described as smelling like fruit or nail polish remover. The person may also suffer from nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain; [and altered states of consciousness].
• Diabetic neuropathy  - is the impact of diabetes on the nervous system, most commonly causing numbness, tingling and pain in the feet and also increasing the risk of skin damage due to altered sensation. Together with vascular disease in the legs, neuropathy contributes to the risk of diabetes-related foot problems (such as diabetic foot ulcers) that can be difficult to treat and occasionally require amputation.

Causes

 

Insulin is a naturally occurring hormone released by beta cells in the pancreas in response to food [or drink]. 

Thus anything that attacks the pancreas, or the liver with which it is closely associated is likely to produce diabetes. 

So this is one root cause, damage to the pancreas and liver.

The other main cause is damage to the cells.  There is a third root cause - the balance between the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.

Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter released from the sympathetic neurons.  An increase in norepinephrine from the sympathetic nervous system increases the rate of contractions in the heart.  It is part of the fight-or-flight-response and is released in times of stress, fear, danger, anxiety etc  to prepare us for the flight or the fight.  As we are unlikely to meet any dinosaurs or tyrannosaurus rexes in this day and age, we neither fight or flight, which means that our whole body becomes geared up to do something which doesn't happen.

Norepinephrine, along with epinephrine [adrenaline], directly increases heart rate, and triggers the release of glucose from energy stores, increasing blood flow to skeletal muscle.  The glucose will stay in our system much longer if we aren't actually doing anything to dissipate it - like fighting or flighting.  Whilst there it may do permanent damage to our cells.

Thus anything that causes us stress and fear - like the dentists, the doctors, the hospital ... is going to cause a massive rush of glucose in our blood stream, as such none of us may be suffering from diabetes at all, we are actually suffering from a well justified fear of doctors, or as the Americans say physicians.

Let us assume, however, that doctors, dentists, hospitals and the entire medical fraternity with the exception of healers are not the cause, what else have we got?

Stress

Continuous stress means continuous fight or flight response.  Continuous fight or flight response means high noradrenaline and adrenaline.  High noradrenaline means constantly swilling glucose in our blood stream, which after a while will simply destroy the cells or the ability of the cells to use it.  And this cell death occurs all over the place............

Like warm baths and loving dogs.... see Suppression.

Pharmaceuticals

Any pharmaceuticals that release norepinephrine on a permanent basis inhibit insulin and raise blood glucose levels, including release agents and reuptake inhibitors.   

Stimulants - Norepinephrine is often released by pharmaceutical drugs used in the treatment of ADHD - attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, manic depression, narcolepsy, obesity and hypotension. So as we can see there is a long term risk of diabetes from:

• ADHD drugs
• SNRIs
• Anti-depressants
• Anti-anxiety drugs
• TCAs are particular culprits in this. 
• Amphetamines and stimulants
• Narcolepsy drugs
• Obesity treatments

and

and perhaps the most impressive of all

Pharmaceuticals that compromise the immune system - But numerous pharmaceuticals also destroy gut flora and interfere with the protective defence systems in our body, the stomach acid and the enzymes that process food, for example.  In some cases [like the statins] they interfere with the cell repair cycle thus preventing any repair work needed as a result of attack.  By doing this they enable viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, food particles [including sugars] and other toxins such as heavy metals to enter the system. All these attack organs and one of the organs they attack is the pancreas.

The eHealthme site has now established an extremely impressive list of pharmaceuticals that cause diabetes mellitus - hundreds and hundreds - and this is because so many attack our natural immune defences.  These are not anecdotal reports they are reports submitted as Adverse Drug reports to the FDA and SEDA.  

• Follow the LINK to the eHealthme website
• Using the ‘All conditions’ index find the appropriate entry
• Now scroll down until you get to the section marked ‘Drugs that could cause ”

As of October 2016, about 2,050 pharmaceuticals were in this list.  Very high numbers of adverse drug reports seem to exist for

• Antipsychotics
• Asthma and COPD treatments
• Insomnia treatments
• Epilepsy treatments
• NSAIDs and pain killers - including ones we might regard as 'harmless' like Ibuprofen and aspirin
• Statins - which have a truly impressive record of producing diabetes
• Benzodiazepines
• Anti-diabetes drugs - yes believe it or not some drugs actually make the diabetes worse, there are literally thousands and thousands of adverse drug reports from many drugs in this category and with no particular type of drug being especially more prevalent than the others, although many of the anti-diabetic drugs from the sulfonylurea class seem to be particularly prominent.  Newer ones appear all the time - like the insulin analogues, for example [Metformin is a drug supposedly used to treat diabetes not give it to you]

• Multiple sclerosis treatments
• Anti-anxiety drugs
• 

  Larry King had a heart attack in 1987. In 1998 he

  was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
  ACE inhibitors - which have a truly impressive record of producing diabetes and include drugs heavily prescribed like Ramipril
• Calcium channel blockers - very high numbers of ADRs
• Vasodilators
• Anti-depressants
• Smoking cessation treatments
• Hypertension drugs - such as clonidine
• Hypotension drugs
• Migraine treatments
• Parkinsons disease drugs
• Blood thinners - not just drugs like Wafarin or nitroglycerine, but frequently prescribed drugs like Clopidogrel
• Analgesics in the opioid class - including a range of over the counter cough medicines that contain these drugs, including many given to childen
• Immunosuppressants
• Antibiotics
• Hepatitis B and HIV drugs
• Antacids and heartburn treatments - including a large number sold over the counter under brand names like Pepcid
• 

  Sir Steve Redgrave

  Olympic rowing star, Sir Steve Redgrave, was diagnosed

  with diabetes in 1997. Sir Steve has since become an

  inspiration to other people with diabetes, proving

  it is possible to pursue a high level of sport with the condition.
  Fibromyalgia treatments
• Prostate medicines
• Osteoporosis treatments
• Diuretics
• Cholesterol lowering drugs - like fibrates
• Post traumatic stress drugs
• Autism drugs
• Anti-emetics
• Diarrhoea treatments
• Constipation treatments - laxatives, especially it seems, if used frequently
• Anti-histamines
• Proton pump inhibitors
• Thyroid disease drugs
• Lithium
• Beta blockers
• Cancer treatment drugs
• Ectopic pregnancy drugs
• 

  Tennis legend, Billy Jean King, was

  diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in

  2007. She said as an athlete she was

  always diligent about diet and exercise
  Drugs to induce medical abortions
• Morphine
• Neuropathic pain drugs
• Drugs to treat restless leg syndrome
• 'Mood stabilisers'
• Anti-viral drugs
• Hormone replacement therapy treatments
• Contraceptive pill
• Multiple myeloma treatments
• Asthma and allergy drugs

There are more, but you can find the complete list on eHealthme of the actual drugs, this should give a flavour for just how many are implicated by ADRs, which in all cases will be but the tip of the iceberg, as there will be numerous doctors who do not bother to report, or who never make the link between the drugs and diabetes.

 This is but one example of the statin effects from eHealthme

eHealthme: On Oct, 21, 2016, 177,999 people reported to have side effects when taking Lipitor.  Among them, 3,002 people (1.69%) have Diabetes Mellitus

Oxazolines: - Another class of pharmaceutical known to have the effect of releasing norepinephrine on a permanent basis inhibit insulin release via α₂-receptors -  are the

Oxazolines: such as  Clominorex, Cyclazodone, Fenozolone, Fluminorex, Pemoline or  Thozalinone.

• Pemoline is a stimulant drug sold under the trade names Betanamin, Cylert, Tradon, and Ceractiv it was used as a medication to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy.  "It is no longer generally available in the United States as a result of the FDA withdrawing approval of pemoline as an indicated treatment for ADHD, due to its implication in liver failures among children who were receiving the medication".
• Clominorex is sold as an 'appetite suppressant', as is Fluminorex
• Cyclazodone is a centrally acting stimulant drug developed by American Cyanamid Company in the 1960s.  It is a banned stimulant under the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited list, which means it is still available
•  Fenozolone (Ordinator) was developed by Laboratoires Dausse in the 1960s and is a 'psychoactive drug and stimulant' which acts as a norepinephrine-dopamine releasing agent (NDRA).
• Thozalinone (Stimsen) is a psychostimulant that has been used as an antidepressant in Europe. It has also been trialed as an anorectic. "Thozalinone likely acts [sic] via inducing the release of norepinephrine and dopamine as with its analogues pemoline and aminorex"

Finally we have one last class of pharmaceuticals which have a heady record for producing diabetes - Glucocorticoids (GC).

Immunosuppressants - Glucocorticoids (GC) are a class of steroid hormones that bind to the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), which is present in almost every human cell. The name glucocorticoid (glucose + cortex + steroid) derives from their role in the regulation of the metabolism of glucose, their synthesis in the adrenal cortex, and their steroidal structure.  Cortisol (or hydrocortisone) is the most important human glucocorticoid. It regulates or supports a variety of important cardiovascular, metabolic, immunologic, and homeostatic functions.

Various synthetic glucocorticoids are also available.  Synthetic GCs are used either as replacement therapy in glucocorticoid deficiency or to suppress the immune system. GCs are part of the feedback mechanism in the immune system that turns immune activity (inflammation) down.  In the flawed and mistaken belief that the immune response is somehow acting incorrectly, this class of drugs are used for illnesses and I quote which " are caused by an overactive immune system, such as allergies, asthma, autoimmune diseases, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, various skin disorders such as psoriasis and eczema and sepsis".  Except that none of these diseases is caused by 'an over active immune system', they are caused by a pathogen unidentified by the medical fraternity, which the immune system is doing its level best to deal with.

Glucocorticoid drugs currently being used act nonselectively, so in the long run they impair many healthy anabolic processes.  And one of the principle side effects experienced with GCs include hyperglycemia due to increased gluconeogenesis, insulin resistance, and impaired glucose tolerance – leading to diabetes.  For example

eHealthme:  On Oct, 19, 2016,  139,345 people reported to have side effects when taking Prednisone.  Among them, 1,489 people (1.07%) have Diabetes Mellitus

Waxed fruit and vegetables, chocolate candies, dental floss and vitamin pills

Any pharmaceuticals that release norepinephrine on a permanent basis inhibit insulin release via α₂-receptors.   Another class of chemicals that do this are the Morpholines such as Fenbutrazate, Morazone and Phendimetrazine. 

The name will be meaningless to most people but morpholines are used by the food industry. 

Morpholine is used as a chemical emulsifier in the process of waxing fruit. Naturally, fruits make waxes to protect against insects and fungal contamination, but this can be lost as the fruit is cleaned. A small amount of new wax is applied to replace it. Morpholine is used as an emulsifier and solubility aid for shellac, which is used as the wax for fruit coating.  The European Union has forbidden the use of morpholine in fruit coating, but other countries haven't.

Taking drugs

When is a drug a drug and when is it a pharmaceutical?  The definition over time has often been arbitrary - in the past we have been prescribed cocaine for toothache, opium for teething pains, LSD for psychological problems.  So the dividing line is meaningless - some drugs are sold to you by dealers on the streets and some drugs are sold to you in so called health food stores and some drugs are sold to you by the drug dealers we know as doctors as part of the approach known as symptom based medicine - mask the symptom don't find the cause.

Any illegal drug can also be a legal drug when sold to you by a doctor.  ADHD drugs are amphetamines.  So what remains of the pharmaceuticals that release norepinephrine on a permanent basis, thereby inhibiting insulin release via α₂-receptors?  The main ones are:

• Phenethylamines - amphetamines, cathinones, phentermines, etc such as  Amphetamine (Dextroamphetamine, Levoamphetamine) ,  BDB,  BOH,  Butylone,  Cathine,  Cathinone, Clobenzorex, Ephedrine, Ethcathinone, Hordenine,  MBDB, MDA, (Tenamfetamine), MDEA, MDMA, MDMPEA, MDOH, MDPEA, Mephedrone,  Methamphetamine (Dextromethamphetamine, Levomethamphetamine),  Methedrone, Pseudoephedrine 

• Piperazines: such as 2C-B-BZP, BZP, MBZP, etc and of course lest we forget ....

• Cocaine. 

Toxins

Toxins are implicated in diabetes in a rather complex cause effect chain, which may be difficult to prove using the current mechanisms of research which rely largely on heuristical evidence and not logic based analysis of the process involved.  There are papers on PubMed which implicate all the usual suspects such as insecticides, fungicides, dioxins, heavy metals, pesticides and so on, but in some senses these use the same heuristical approach.

This is crude science and one would have hoped we had moved on beyond the 'red sky in the morning shepherd's warning' methods of connecting things, which are still little better than superstition, and in many cases a good deal worse, as in the olden days it took far more shepherds to come up with theories than it appears to need for science to think it has found the answer.

Using the process based approach to detemining cause and effect, any toxins that enters the blood stream via the intestine, lungs, stomach or nose, for example can damage the pancreas or liver.  In order for those toxins to have got into the blood stream, the immune system defences must have been breached.  At overdose levels this can happen - so we have a short cause effect chain here.  But even at smaller doses, if the immune system has been compromised by pharmaceuticals, nutritional deficiency, radiation, [and so on, other means do exist] then the toxins can enter the system. 

Note that dental amalgam fillings may be a risk factor if there has been poor dental work coupled with for example gingivitis allowing entry of mercury from bleeding gums. Mercury is an insulin mimic.

Long term exposure to inhaled lead via 'gas guzzler' cars can do much the same damage, as can short or longer term high levels of lead exposure.  A bit of heuristical research now .........

One toxin is of course the smoke from cigarettes, but this is the least of our worries these days given the number of toxins released into the environment.

Another source of mercury is the Thiomersal in some Vaccines of which more shortly.

Viruses

A vast and increasing number of viruses are being implicated in the development of diabetes types 1 and 2.  The viruses attack cells in such a way that they don't respond to either insulin or glucose and thus insulin can be left unused or glucose.  Alternatively the viruses attack the insulin producing mechanisms in the body, the pancreas and liver meaning they malfunction.  For example

and

There are many more papers like this on PubMed implicating numerous viruses, as such we may find in the long term that it will be easier to list the viruses that don't cause diabetes than those that do.

For the viruses to have entered the immune system must have been compromised.

Vaccines

 There are three main ways in which vaccines may cause diabetes.

1.  Live viruses and bacteria

Where the vaccine used in the injection is a live virus or bacteria, there are instances where it, although apparently vanquished by the immune system, lays low and continues to attack, albeit at a much reduced rate.  One example is the herpes virus, read on:

This is not the only virus to do this. 

thus any vaccine containing a live virus carries great risk with it.

2.  Thiomersal

Some vaccines contain Thiomersal, which is mercury based.  For a full list see this LINK.  As a consequence, there is the risk of mercury poisoning and mercury poisoning can cause diabetes as well as blindness and sight degeneration.

3.  Vaccine excipient

Vaccines contain three main substances. 

• The agent is the active virus or bacteria against which we are being vaccinated
• The adjuvant is a booster which tells the immune system to fight like a thing possessed against anything in the vaccine - agent adjuvant and excipient
• The excipient is like a sort of holding fluid for the other two.  It contains stuff for the virus to feed on, preservatives to give the vaccine a long shelf life, plus other things

And some vaccines contain sugars  .... in fact some vaccines contain glucose and substances just like glucose.  Here is the LINK to the Wikipedia entry showing the contents of vaccines.  What do we find?  Well some examples of the vaccines containing sugars include:

• Adenovirus vaccine
• DTaP/Hib (TriHIBit)
• Hib vaccine (ACTHib)
• Influenza vaccine (FluMist)
• MMR vaccine (MMR-II)
• MMRV vaccine (ProQuad)
• Rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq)
• Rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix)
• Typhoid vaccine (oral – Ty21a/Vivotif)
• Varicella vaccine (Varivax) - - chicken pox and shingles vaccine
• Zoster vaccine (Zostavax) - chicken pox and shingles vaccine

What is the vaccine telling the immune system to do?  'Fight the contents of the vaccine develop an immune response every time you come into contact with this substance'.  So what does the immune system do when we eat anything that produces sugars that enter the blood stream? The immune system responds.  It is doing exactly what it was told to do - a perfect response - it fights the substance and the way it appears to do it is by closing off every cell to ensure the substance does not get in. 

So we are left with unused  glucose swilling around our system, starved cells, and weakness of an unimaginable seriousness and .......

• Kidney failure - Since the kidneys have the job of getting rid of all this glucose but themselves will be weakened by a lack of fuel

• Brain failure - Oh yes, and as the brain uses glucose to help it to function, the person may also suffer badly from confused thinking because the brain is being starved of essential fuel, this will look like dementia.

• Blindness - Oh yes, and since the eyes are based on cells too - blindness.

• Heart failure - Oh yes, and  since our heart is a cell based organism eventually probably sooner rather than later - heart failure.

Nuff said

 

Nutritional deprivation

In many of the developing countries where food is of poor quality or low in minerals and vitamins - like the USA [sorry I jest - or maybe I don't], nutritional deprivation in children can result in malformation of the pancreas. 

It also appears, however, that mineral and vitamin supplements also have a very clear record for producing diabetes, presumably at overdose levels, for example, the following is from eHealthme, note that the trend is increasing as one would expect as these drugs take a while to do the damage:

and

eHealthme:  On Nov, 14, 2016:  13,816 people reported to have side effects when taking Vitamins.  Among them, 205 people (1.48%) have Diabetes Mellitus

One known mineral which does truly severe damage to the pancreas in excess is iron.  Researchers have dubbed the problem 'iron overload' - an accumulation of iron in the body from any cause. I have called it iron imbalance.  The two most common causes of iron overload are iron tablets and lack of roughage in the diet [an excess of bran is just as bad incidentally - moderation in all things].  

It is very easy to overdose on iron supplements.  Both adults and children can be poisoned by 'over consuming' ferrous sulfate tablets. This is one of the most common toxicological causes of death in children under six and one of the most common causes of diabetes.  Bran in its natural form, serves to remove excess iron and zinc, now anyone who eats only 'refined' foodstuffs is at risk from overdosing on iron [and zinc].

Clearly overdosing on sugary or glucose filled food and drinks, is going  to put an enormous strain on the system and eventually kill off the receptors that are used for the intake of glucose into the cells.  If we overdose on anything, the body adjusts the number of receptors to cope.  Once we reduce the amount of sugar, or the foods that supply sugar - glucose - then we are in a sense suffering from withdrawal symptoms because our cells have become adjusted to deal with the overdose levels.   This is why people get sugar cravings - sugar is like a drug in this respect.  Crash diets are dangerous for this reason, the cells become totally starved of any input [not enough receptors for the glucose] and you could easily die of heart failure.  All adjustments to food type and intake needs to be gradual so that the body can readjust gradually.

Parasites

There are literally hundreds of parasites and depending on the site and circumstances of infection, they can get everywhere from the intestine to the brain, from the lungs to the pancreas.  And they do, in high numbers.  Their presence is known from cysts, which form around the parasites if your immune system is working well.  But the presence of cysts is a sure indicator of damage.

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite infects most genera of warm-blooded animals, including humans, but the primary host is the felid (cat) family - see Being with cats.

Another serious carrier of parasites is the fox which spreads Echinococcosis.  In countries where dogs and cats are not wormed and their faeces safely disposed of, domestic dogs and cats can also be a problem.  This parasite can also cause brain damage [strokes, dementia, haemorhages, tumours] and blindness.

Fungal infection

Up until recently there were few studies done on post mortem patients of the pathogens infecting and causing pancreatic damage.  All this has changed and a significant body of evidence is emerging of the role of fungi plus parasites, viruses and bacteria - of which more shortly.  Here is but one example of many

Enterococcus is a genus of lactic acid bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes.  The Enterobacteriaceae are a large family of Gram-negative bacteria that includes many of the more familiar pathogens, such as Salmonella, Escherichia coli, Yersinia pestis, Klebsiella and Shigella. Other disease-causing bacteria in this family include Proteus, Enterobacter, Serratia, and Citrobacter.  Which brings us on neatly to the next cause - bacteria.

Bacterial infection

There are very clear links between pancreatic damage and bacterial infection.  Thus bacteria are another cause [though as should be clear, not the only one].

 Radiation

All radiation whether 'cosmic' or electromagnetic impacts our bodies and depending on its frequency it resonates different parts of us.  The reason that nuclear radiation is so dangerous is that it impacts cells, but what we appear to have overlooked is that all radiation impacts some part of us.

Every aggregate in our bodies - organs, cells, the body itself, has natural ‘resonance’.  Resonance is a substance’s natural tendency to oscillate – vibrate – at maximum amplitude at certain frequencies, known as the thing’s resonant frequency.

And long term exposure at the resonating frequency, or short term high intensity exposure to the resonating frequency of the insulin receptors on cellsleads to their death.

Physical injury and surgery

Injury as a result of some form of physical trauma or surgery which affects the pancreas or liver may result in damage to the insulin producing cells.  Note that damage may be a by-product of surgery to other organs - a form of friendly fire.  Gastric by-pass surgery, even heart surgery, which involves the removal of the rib cage,  has been known to result in damage to the pancreas.

Removal of the gall bladder, which itself is risky, and results in the compromising of the immune system, can cause damage.  I have not put 'unnecessary removal' of the gall bladder, because removal of the gall bladder is nearly always unnecessary.

The gall bladder is where bile is stored, before it is released into the small intestine. Without bile the intestinal flora and protective defences of the intestine are compromised.  Wikipedia that fount of all human knowledge says "Humans can live without a gallbladder", what they have not added is the key phrase "but not for long".

Genetic damage

Geneticists, because they are geneticists, are keen to link diabetes with inherited genes and gene damage.   And indeed the genes of some babies are severely damaged in the womb by all the things in the list above - fungi, parasites, viruses, bacteria, toxins, heavy metals, and pharmaceuticals.  But there is one truly nasty toxin which appears to be particularly key to genetic damage -  the nanoparticle - invented by scientists and being released into the environment by scientists in the belief that they do no harm, except that yet other researchers have realised they do a lot of harm......

Genetic engineering of humans on a vast scale.

Treatment

Find the CAUSE

References and further reading

• 

Papers

• Impact of videogame playing on glucose metabolism in children with type 1 diabetes -Phan-Hug F, Thurneysen E, Theintz G, Ruffieux C, Grouzmann E - Endocrinology-Diabetology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland  Abstract ...This pilot study suggests that VG playing could induce a state of excitation sufficient to activate the sympathetic system and alter the course of glycemia. Dietary and insulin dose recommendations may be needed to better control glycemic excursion in children playing VG

 Video

This is a wonderful video Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?

 

Observations

All the observations for diabetes mellitus have been grouped under the general heading of diabetes, as, although scientific papers are usually precise about which form is being described, people simply say they have 'diabetes'.

 

Related observations

Healing observations

• A Beneficial Role of Rooibos in Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 027375
• Abelmoschus moschatus (Malvaceae), an aromatic plant, suitable for medical or food uses to improve insulin sensitivity 027877
• Acupuncture heart failure and diabetes 006234
• Anti-Diabetic Potential of Murraya Koenigii (L.) and its Antioxidant Capacity in Nicotinamide-Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats 027513
• Antidiabetic effects of Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats 027889
• Antioxidant, anti-diabetic and renal protective properties of Stevia rebaudiana 020836
• Capparis spinosa L. (Caper) fruit extract in treatment of type 2 diabetic patients: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial 022056
• Chia seeds 006749
• Cinnamon cholesterol and diabetes 005402
• Coffee DON'T BOIL and diabetes 005620
• Croll, Oswald - Preface of Signatures – 15 016033
• Dandelion and its healing potential 006776
• Diabetes society and the benefits of bilberries 029574
• Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride - Food is the Best Medicine 027894
• Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride - Heart attack through 'evil fats'? 027893
• Effect of Carthamus tinctorius (Safflower) on fasting blood glucose and insulin levels in alloxan induced diabetic rabbits 020849
• Effect of low-calorie versus low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet in type 2 diabetes 026608
• Effects of chard (Beta vulgaris L. var. cicla) extract on oxidative injury in the aorta and heart of streptozotocin-diabetic rats 021350
• Hagman, Larry – Conquering diabetes 025839
• Hallucinations from hyperglycemia: magnetic resonance imaging 012993
• Histidine, histamine and diabetes 019130
• Hypolipidemic effect of Cuminum cyminum L. on alloxan-induced diabetic rats 019914
• Ketogenic diet in neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases 026609
• Molecular evidence of insulinomimetic property exhibited by steviol and stevioside in diabetes induced L6 and 3T3L1 cells 020834
• Nutritional Composition of Stevia rebaudiana- A sweet herb and its Hypoglycaemic and Hypolipidaemic Effect on Patients with Non Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus 020833
• Osteopathy and Diabetes mellitus 006192
• Sunlight and health 006223
• Sunlight and health III 006226
• The beneficial effect of yoga in diabetes 016544
• The Effects of Tai Chi on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Meta-Analysis 027639
• The Healing Power of Sleep 026790
• Therapeutic Chinese exercises (Qigong) in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus 016633
• Therapeutics Education Collaboration - Hitler shits wicker furniture 012495
• Therapeutics Education Collaboration - Tom Hanks and Type 2 Diabetes 012490
• Treat hallucinations from hyperglycaemia with insulin 012995
• Tree, Isabella - Wilding - Milk and beef facts 029101

Hallucination

• A case of argyria: multiple forms of silver ingestion in a patient with comorbid schizoaffective disorder 024198
• A case of Cushing's disease, hallucinatory paranoid state preceding physical symptoms 023525
• Actoplus Met 017945
• Actrapid 017946
• Byetta 018134
• Case report: hallucinations and weight gain, from lack of control of diabetes and olanzapine 012990
• Case study of acute stroke victim with auditory hallucinations 012629
• Effects of glucocorticoids on mood, memory, and the hippocampus. Treatment and preventive therapy 017713
• Hallucinations and epilepsy seizures caused by hyperglycaemia 012994
• Hallucinations from hyperglycemia: magnetic resonance imaging 012993
• Metformin and Metformin Hydrochloride 019519
• Olanzapine induced hallucinations and diabetes 012991
• Olanzapine-induced diabetes in a seven-year-old boy 012992
• Parlodel 015650
• Precose and Acarbose 019856
• Sitagliptin Phosphate 020034
• Starlix 020047
• Stress and the genesis of diabetes mellitus in schizophrenia 012625
• Treat hallucinations from hyperglycaemia with insulin 012995

Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss

• Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Diabetes induced by powerful emotions – stress and anxiety 026055
• Wells, H G - Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, November 20th, 1936 015488
• Wells, H G - On Capitalism, Socialism, Communism and society 015490
• Wells, H G - On education 015489
• Wells, H G - On the need for continuous education 015491
• Wells, H G - The Door in the Wall 000885

Enlightenment

Kundalini, Ecstasy, Moksha, Nirvana and Annihilation

• Wells, H G - Quote from The Last Voyage of the Karluk 015487

In time

Synaesthesia, Pure or enhanced perception, Inter composer communication, Vision, Dream, Perception recall, Exploring group perception

• Case study of acute stroke victim with auditory hallucinations 012629

Prophecy

• Wells, H G - Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, November 20th, 1936 015488
• Wells, H G - On Capitalism, Socialism, Communism and society 015490
• Wells, H G - On the need for continuous education 015491

Dying

• Spiritual Development and Death Attitude in Female Patients With Type II Diabetes 015589

Other observations

• Diabetes mellitus associated with atypical antipsychotic medications 012622
• Radiation-induced inflammation and autoimmune diseases 029355
• The Roles of Inflammation, Nutrient Availability and the Commensal Microbiota in Enteric Pathogen Infection 020515
• Toxic wheat in the USA and UK 013096