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Just got the Terry Wahls book (she is the MD with multiple sclerosis who got a lot better after researching what nutrients support the mitochondria), and feeling emotional after reading this, at the end. The point is, Just because established medical practice takes no account of non-medical ways of reasserting control over our blood sugar, it doesn't mean that we who want to be well and are prepared to work hard for it should be put off improving our lives. We have very little to lose. And established medical practice will probably mainly catch up, in the end.
Here she is:
Here she is:
"You know my story of decline. You know I got out of my wheelchair. Now I’d like to finish that story. When my body began to heal, I didn’t fully understand what was happening at first. In spite of the changes occurring with amazing speed, I still did not consider that I might recover. I had accepted for years that people with secondary progressive MS did not improve. It did not occur to me that the improvements I was experiencing could continue. It was not until nearly six months after my symptoms began to reverse that I first dared to wonder if recovery might be possible.
"I began to dream of biking again. On Mother’s Day weekend in 2008, I was feeling so much better and my mobility had improved to such a great degree that I decided to try riding a bike. I went to the garage, picked up a helmet, and walked to my bike. Five years earlier, when I got the wheelchair, I’d given my bike to my son, Zach. Now I wondered if I was ready to take it back. I adjusted the seat downward, clicked on my helmet, and began rolling the bike out.
"My kids heard me in the garage and came to investigate. Zach grabbed the bike from me and called out for Jackie to stop me. We all looked at one another. I told Jackie that if she thought I wasn’t ready, I wouldn’t attempt it. She responded by getting out her bike helmet and bike and told Zach and Zebby to jog alongside me.
"We all got into position. Jackie gave the all-clear that there was no traffic. I pushed off. The bike wobbled, but I did not fall. My kids cheered as they ran behind me. Tears streamed down my cheeks as Jackie and I pedaled around the block. When I stopped, Zach, Zebby, Jackie, and I all stood together, holding one another and crying. I had a new future ahead. I had proof: I had ridden my bicycle. My steady decline was not the rule, not anymore. I was rewriting my future and who knew what it might become! I still have tears in my eyes when I tell that story. It is and always will be miraculous to me.
"Doctors and scientists don’t often believe in miracles. My getting up from that chair wasn’t really a miracle from a scientific perspective, even though it felt like one to me at the time. My getting out of the chair and onto a bicycle was just the facts related to my body’s ability to regain strength and health. We may not fully understand all the facts … Scientific inquiry is a long and complex process, often taking twenty to thirty years for proven successful treatments to become accepted clinical practice or the standard of care. Why wait for accepted clinical practice to catch up when you want to begin turning your health around today using the commonsense things under your control, like the food you eat and what you choose to do every day? Let the public choose whether to take back their own health by learning how to adopt the many wonderful health behaviors embedded within [her paleo-based diet] ... "
"I began to dream of biking again. On Mother’s Day weekend in 2008, I was feeling so much better and my mobility had improved to such a great degree that I decided to try riding a bike. I went to the garage, picked up a helmet, and walked to my bike. Five years earlier, when I got the wheelchair, I’d given my bike to my son, Zach. Now I wondered if I was ready to take it back. I adjusted the seat downward, clicked on my helmet, and began rolling the bike out.
"My kids heard me in the garage and came to investigate. Zach grabbed the bike from me and called out for Jackie to stop me. We all looked at one another. I told Jackie that if she thought I wasn’t ready, I wouldn’t attempt it. She responded by getting out her bike helmet and bike and told Zach and Zebby to jog alongside me.
"We all got into position. Jackie gave the all-clear that there was no traffic. I pushed off. The bike wobbled, but I did not fall. My kids cheered as they ran behind me. Tears streamed down my cheeks as Jackie and I pedaled around the block. When I stopped, Zach, Zebby, Jackie, and I all stood together, holding one another and crying. I had a new future ahead. I had proof: I had ridden my bicycle. My steady decline was not the rule, not anymore. I was rewriting my future and who knew what it might become! I still have tears in my eyes when I tell that story. It is and always will be miraculous to me.
"Doctors and scientists don’t often believe in miracles. My getting up from that chair wasn’t really a miracle from a scientific perspective, even though it felt like one to me at the time. My getting out of the chair and onto a bicycle was just the facts related to my body’s ability to regain strength and health. We may not fully understand all the facts … Scientific inquiry is a long and complex process, often taking twenty to thirty years for proven successful treatments to become accepted clinical practice or the standard of care. Why wait for accepted clinical practice to catch up when you want to begin turning your health around today using the commonsense things under your control, like the food you eat and what you choose to do every day? Let the public choose whether to take back their own health by learning how to adopt the many wonderful health behaviors embedded within [her paleo-based diet] ... "
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