Hi there
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about diabetes, even among the professionals. T'd like to give you a quick rundown from an alternative point of view.
Diabetes is divided into Diabetes 1 and diabetes 2. One is related to the Islets of Langerhans, which are located within the pancreas, not producing insulin and the second one is related to production of insulin which is ineffective in converting sugars into glucose to be absorbed into the blood.
Digestion of sugars (carbohydrates) starts in the mouth with the production of a digestive enzyme called Amylase. Together with the saliva this amylase breaks down sugars into semi-digested bits. The stomach also produces enzymes which break down the partly digested sugars more still. The small intestine does the same thing with another 2 enzymes, after which insulin breaks it down into glucose and galactose to be stored in the liver or absorbed in the blood.
As you can see this is a process of various steps, each step necessary to break sugar down sufficiently for the next step. If one step in this process fails to do its job, the other steps can’t do theirs either.
In this process Maltose needs maltase to be digested. Lactose needs lactase to be digested, sucrose needs sucrase, dextrose dextrase, and so on.
When breastfed, we produce a digestive enzyme called lactase to digest the sugar (lactose) in mothers milk. This sugar is necessary to supply energy to be able to digest the massive amounts of proteins meant to double the weight of infants in less than one year.
Once we are past weaning the production of lactase ceases at some time in our lives. This differs in people. Some of us stop producing lactase early in life and some later in life. But when this production of lactase stops we become unable to complete an important step in the process of sugar digestion. This leads to lactose intolerance and, eventually, allergy to dairy, which depletes the immune system and leads to disease.
We have seen before that insulin can only work with sugars that have undergone ALL steps of the digestive process. Insulin is ineffective with undigested sugars. The brain however recognizes the fact that there is too much (undigested) sugar in the system, and triggers the pancreas to produce more insulin, which is equally ineffective, and so on. This is called Diabetes type 2.
Type 1 diabetes is different in that the pancreatic glands called islets of Langerhans are NOT TRIGGERED BY THE BRAIN TO PRODUCE INSULIN.
As we have seen above, if we have an allergy to a particular food item, the immune system is triggered by the brain to produce histamines and Immuno-Globulins (I.G’s) to fight this foreign invasion.
The digestive system is NOT triggered to do anything.
Dr Carlson, An American Physicist, failed in repeated attempts to produce a digestive response to anything, other than food. This means that the various organs related to digestion are not being activated. This, of course, includes the islets in the pancreas.
It is NOT a malfunction of the pancreas but, rather, the pancreas not being triggered by the brain, the Bio-computer. You can suck on a pebble and produce saliva, but this saliva does not contain any digestive enzymes.
Most people become, at some stage in their lives, allergic to dairy, and related products, and a bewildering variety of dangerous chemicals that have infiltrated the food(?)chain mixed with sugars.
This means that the allergen, plus everything mixed with it, will not be recognized by the brain and can not be digested.
Lactose in milk is often indicated in diabetes for that particular reason. If you don’t have lactase to digest lactose you have a very good chance of developing diabetes, either 1 or 2.
Type 1 is caused by lactose intolerance, and type 2 by an allergy to dairy.
Hope this will give you something to think about.
Good luck, Kinetico
