Stomach bypass cures Diabetes...........

[AliB]

I'm sure this has been seen before but I wanted to post an observation.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 113659.htm

I was doing some (more) research earlier on SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth), and it occurred to me that perhaps the reason why the bypass reversed the Diabetes was because it took the food supply away from rogue bacteria in the Upper Intestine.

It is known that certain bacteria and microbes have the ability to switch off (and on) all sorts of things - hormones, enzymes, elemental processes and even genes. If they manage to migrate to where they shouldn't be then who knows what mayhem they could cause? They gobble up all our nutrients, causing deficiency issues and leave their toxic waste matter lying around all over the place causing other nasty health problems.

As the article pointed out, Medical Science does not actually know why the Diabetes was reversed. There was a fair bit of speculation floating around but nothing of any real substance.

So the low-carb diet does two things. Not only does it keep the blood sugar more stable, but it also can help to get the beasties under control if we are disciplined enough with it.

Perhaps Diabetes has absolutely nothing at all to do with genes, and everything to do with the wrong bugs in the wrong place.

Just maybe the indiscriminate use of anti-biotics left our guts undefended and let the 'baddies' in, and the lovely, scrummy, carb-ridden Western Diet has given them a ticket to breed prolifically.

As Hippocrates rightly said, "all disease begins in the gut".

We have food going in one end and fecal waste coming out the other. If anything goes wrong in between, is it any wonder that we get sick???

 

[Patch]

Great post, Ali. I wish they would offer surgery as an option to all of us! The problem is, there are ALWAYS risks with surgery, and if suddenly Diabetics were rolled into surgery one after another a number of them WOULD develop complications, and some might even die as a result of the surgery.

I'm sure the medical profession would prefer to keep on treating diabetes the way it always has - it seems they are happier allowing the disease to progress over a period of many years. Then, when complications arise, the finger of blame can be pointed at the patient for poor control.

It seems the medical profession are less interested in the quality of life of the people they treat, and more interested in prescribing expensive drugs that only slow down (at best) the progression of the disease.

I didn't mean for this to turn into a rant about the medical profession - sorry about that.

I've done A LOT of reading about surgery. Seems like a great option for many of us. Shame it's so expensive (although I believe the cost will reduce HUGELY when it is touted as a cure for Diabetes - economies of scale, and all that!) I'd gladly pay £2k for it - but at the moment, £8K+ is out of the question!

 

[AliB]

The trouble is Patch, that surgery takes 'bits' away. That seems to be one of the only two options from the Medical Profession (I don't mind you turning this into a rant at them at all!!), either cutting you up, or throwing toxic muck at you that doesn't actually ever get to the root of the problem.

I want to keep all my bits, thank you very much.

The trick here seems to be to try and claw back your 'territory' from the beasties. It is no co-incidence that so many of our Western diseases seem to have a link somewhere to the gut. And those that don't probably do somehow.

I have just been sorting my bookmarks on my browser. Under the 'Health' folder I have supplemental folder for several other things - Candida, Coeliac, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Diet, Food Intolerance, etc. As I was sorting the bookmarks I found it increasingly difficult to figure out the best place to put them because so many seem to link across them all.

As Bee Wilder (Healing by Bee) puts it, Doctors always label these different health problems as 'Diseases' when in reality they are actually just different symptomatic manifestations of the same problem.

Is there a way of putting a poll on to a topic on here? Can't say I've ever looked. It might be interesting to see how many people were exposed to antibiotics before their health problems kicked off. Although they may be necessary sometimes, it is of concern that many have been given them over the years totally unnecessarily - I know I was. The MP have clamped down on it now, but a lot of damage has already been done.

 

[cugila]

Hi Ally.

This is the instructions from the FAQ section on this site.

How do I create a poll?
When posting a new topic or editing the first post of a topic, click the “Poll creation” tab below the main posting form; if you cannot see this, you do not have appropriate permissions to create polls.

Enter a title and at least two options in the appropriate fields, making sure each option is on a separate line in the text area. You can also set the number of options users may select during voting under “Options per user”, a time limit in days for the poll (0 for infinite duration) and lastly the option to allow users to amend their votes.

Try creating a new Topic and see ?

 

[AliB]

As I have mentioned on a couple of other threads, it seems that SIBO is an issue for many (if not all) of those with gut-related (and indeed other) health issues. Certainly diabetics have problems with it (try Googling 'diabetes SIBO) and whilst the Medical answer is, of course, antibiotics, it does seem that they do not deal with it permanently. After a few weeks or months it will come back - and then you have the worrying scenario that it may well then be resistant to further treatment.

I have made the decision to get back into taking probiotics, and especially yoghurt (I might even try and get hold of some Kefir) to eradicate it. I read on an IBS forum of one chap who had got rid of his by taking Kefir - it had taken him a year, but it worked and continues to work as long as he continues to take the probiotic food.

We don't do that much, if anything in our Western Diet - eat fermented foods. We have lost those age-old traditional food sources - we with our ultra-sterilised dairy produce that is enzymatically and bacterially dead. Yes, the move has been towards probiotics, but how good are they? Most of these so-called probiotic drinks contain sugar which seems pretty counter-productive to me, as pathogenic microbes luuuurve sugar!

After just one days' use of plain live yogurt and probiotics I feel a bit better and will continue to monitor this.

If that chap mentioned in the above article had his diabetes reversed by having part of his small intestine taken away (and along with it a load of bugs) then I will be interested to see, if I can manage to achieve it, what effect eradicating these little beggars from my gut will have on my diabetes and its control.