Dennis,
I'm back briefly again. Having problems with bereavement, post mortems, funerals and dentistry.
I'm not the originator as I have said before. I'm a messenger and I do subscribe to much of what I have posted and linked to in terms of the cis oil/ EFA diet / trans fats. The *******ysis of treatment policy in the UK is entirely my fault.
"Much of"? You may be thinking? Yes. I think we have proven on this site that trans fats are the cause of diabetes as people have been cured by removing trans fats from their diets and taking a couple of decades worth of the long time missing fatty acids over the course of a year or less. However I am not convinced that everyone is being cured in terms of glucose regulation. It has been noticable to me that glucose regulation normalises very quickly (with shrieks of delight) in some people in a short time and on relatively low spammulative intake of EFAs whereas some people don't seem to have much if any improvement. I guesstimate (because of the lack of supplied data) that regulation is normalised in about a third of cases. Other people have reported other improvements such as to neuropathy and well being and some have experienced massive weight loss.
I have been reviewing my thoughts on what is happening and currently believe that the model of glucose regulation given by T. Smith is only part of the picture. While his model is internally consistent and aparently correct where bg regulation significantly improves or cures it cannot be the case where it does not. In these other cases we often find weight loss and other improvements over the longer term. Weight loss is a sign that the metabolic syndrome is curing and in my interpretation of Smith's model metabolic syndrome is part of the bg control loop. While I have no doubt this is the case I now believe it is not the whole story and that is what I have been looking into. For people who have cured there are two possibilities:
1) Either their bg control was entirely caused by the metabolic syndrome loop.
2) There is a second interruption to the control loop which cures with the application of EFAs in some people.
I currently believe that (2) gives us the right answer because I also believe that "The Cure" completely cures metabolic syndrome in all cases. Note that the word "believe" means "strongly biased towards but I do not know for certain" - but if I had all your data I probably would.
As I have mentioned and as some of you know the metabolic syndrome is the worst part of diabetes which gets intensifies over the years and leads to obesity, weakness, depression and pure hell. No nice ideas of "controlling" diabetes with excercise and a few pills when the quacks have given you that.
The thing about (2) is it explains how you can be thin and get type 2. It also explains why some people don't get a massive weight loss when they try the cure as they do not have a significant metabolic syndrome (yet). Of course people who try the cure and go away disappointed may very well have prevented their condition from worsening and massively reduced any developing metabolic syndrome but they wouldn't know this if they don't have much metabolic syndrome yet. (2) would also allow the possibility of improving bg regulation quickly and with just capsules. Has this happened? The 4 tablespoon regime is aimed at curing metabolic syndrome and it effect on bg regulation. The idea is to give the body as much chance as is possible not to have to re-use trans fatty acids in cell construction. Fish oils are used to give you a broad base of EFA types as trans fats inhibit inter-conversion. The average body cell replaces every two years but some are much quicker, some slower. Brain cells repair rather than replace.
I'm fairly convinced we are dealing with almost two diseases in a sense. I have been looking at the literature and I think I know what is going on. There are possible ways forward. They need to be looked into and tried out where it is safe.....
Which is where I am coming from or perhaps going to at the moment. People do not seem in the main willing to contribute their data to this excercise. As this site is the only place I am aware of where significant numbers of people are being improved or cured of diabetes or related conditions the data would be of enourmous value and when combined with what we have learned could lead the honest research onto the correct path.
A useful question example: If you have cured or significanlty improved your blood glucose regulation, do you have hypothyroidism in your family?
If the answer to this was "no" in all cases the field would narrow markedly.
"...or perhaps going to". I talk of moving on because there are possibilities of taking this further elsewhere. I don't think I can be of much further service here. I started off very sick and not well enough to write or think coherently much of the time. I recovered a great deal with the EFA treatment and believe I have helped a number of people and almost certainly upset a few along the way. I am not as unwell as I once was and I am just about fit enough to get into the research side now. There was no chance of this a couple of years back. My involvement is evolving is what I am saying. I didn't invent "The Cure" but I could take it further...
My main interest in spending time here would be to collect data and *******yse the data wrt the research literature and see how much further we can take this thing. But this demands your co-operation, I cannot do it without and if it happens I wont be doing it alone either.
Is anyone (or several) on this site prepared to run a data collection service to extract, present and collate data from people who are trying The Cure? I can tell you how to do it, just email me. Its not difficult apart from trying to persuade people to save their own skins, that is.
Putting all the data in one place would be very helpful to visitors to this site who have heard about this treatment and want to know what is happening. I myself have little idea as to what is going on. Its all over the place. It makes me squirm. What could have been!
John
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<br />Hello John,
First let me say how good it is to see you back and posting on here. You have been greatly missed by many of us. Not everyone may agree with your hypotheses, but your posts always provoke thought and debate.
On the omega-3 and omega-6 capsules, what I was trying to say, and looking back not very well, is that after 12 weeks on the recommended high dose level of capsules (2400mg of omega-3 and 600mg of omega-6), and provided you are no longer taking trans-fats, the body's efa levels should be high enough for all new cell production to utilise "good" oils.
I wasn't aware that muscle cells have as long a shelf life as 2 years, but on that basis we certainly would be carrying a good amount of compromised cells. But surely your higher doses of flax oil (omega-3) and hemp oil (omega-6) will not remove the cells that have been corrupted by trans fats any quicker?
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