Hi there
I wrote this article for our clients so they could get a better understanding of the alternative view of diabetes.
When food enters the mouth, taste buds on the tongue send messages via the vagus nerve to the brain as to the biochemistry of the food. If the brain recognizes the biochemistry it triggers the release of digestive enzymes. If the brain does not recognize the biochemistry the immune system is activated because the brain considers it a foreign invasion. There is no third option. It is either food or an invasion of a foreign agent.
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. the trouble is, we don't know when!!!!.
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, of course, includes the islets in the pancreas.
This means that the various organs related to digestion are not being activated and the metabolic waste products are stored in the cells.
Dr Linda Frasetto of the University of California studied the eating habits of 1000 people and found that, to save already overloaded kidneys and liver, test subjects’ body's accumulated acid wastes in the body rather than pass more toxin through these organs. These wastes are stored as adipose tissue or fat and, because most of us sit down a lot guess where these fats are stored? You are sitting on it!!
So diabetes 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 a variety of foods, such as peanuts, dairy, potato, onions, and a bewildering variety of dangerous chemicals that have infiltrated the food(?)chain.
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.
To summarise;
Diabetes 1 is caused by the pancreas not being triggered to produce insulin because of allergies.
Diabetes 2 is caused by the pancreas producing insulin which is ineffective in converting undigested sugars (lactose) into glucose.
That dairy is the causative agent in diabetes has been known for a long time, witnessing the following article;
"Studies have suggested that bovine serum albumin is the milk protein responsible for the onset of diabetes... Patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus produce antibodies to cow milk proteins that participate in the development of islet dysfunction... Taken as a whole, our findings suggest that an active response in patients with IDDM (to the bovine protein) is a feature of the autoimmune response."
New England Journal of Medicine, July 30, 1992
Good luck
Kinetico
