3.Lumpy Breasts; Help!!
Dear Dr,
I think my problem is peculiar-- I have lumps in my breasts that are there even when I'm not in my menstrual cycle. They're really big... kind of. And they're disturbing me. What should I do?
Worried
Dear Worried,
I must commend the fact that you know your body well enough to say categorically that he lumps are there all the time—menses or no menses. That’s a simple benefit of a woman doing regular breast self-exams. She not only gets to know her "normal" body well, but she also becomes as familiar as to be able to identify and document any change(s). Since you've noticed something that concerns you, this is the right time to see your doctor/gynecologist to have your breasts examined. The doctor will want to know, among other things, the date of your last period when you first noticed the lump(s) ; whether the lump has grown larger or smaller since you first discovered it ; whether you notice a change in the number of lumps you can feel ; whether you or your family have a history of breast problems ; whether you've noticed any nipple discharge ; whether you're on any medication .
There are basically a number of types of breast when we talk consistency—some ladies have quite lumpy breasts; others are smoother. It’s normal for some women's breasts to have an uneven consistency. The time of life when we consider a woman’s breast matters – whether at menopause when she has ended fertility or during pregnancy or at puberty when she is just beginning or during her menses. Most breast lumps are definitely not cancerous—they are usually harmless stuff we call cysts or fibro adenoma or fibrous tissue.
But because distinct and/or new lumps or growths in or on the breast can be physically uncomfortable and/or psychologically upsetting, even frightening and also because women often associate breast lumps with cancer, it's most important to check with the doctor/gynecologist. The doctor will likely order a special Xray for breasts called Mammogram to help him better determine the dangerous or cancer potentials of any suspicious lumps. However, all of us – relatives, the woman herself and her doctor must at the same time remember that the majority of breast growths turn out to be benign (non-cancerous).
Monthly breast self-exams are essential to keep breasts healthy, and noticing new growths or lumps is a good reason to schedule an appointment with a health care provider. While your Blackberry and easy internet access can be a good source of general information about breast health, allowing you to make informed decisions about your health, nobody is able to get specific answers or advice about their health or breasts without seeing a health care provider. If you are in any form of fear or doubt, just call the help lines and we’ll be most pleased to answer your queries. Please schedule an appointment with your doctor/gynecologist now to get o know for sure the cause and any potential effects of the lumps in your breasts.
Cheers
Dr. Caleb Bibbi Oluranti
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Saturday, 17 March 2012
What's Progesterone?
Q.Please doctor, what's hormone progesterone and what could cause it to be low?
A.Progesterone is a hormone --a special chemical messenger produced from very special factories--or glands-- in the human body whose job is to help a woman get pregnant and keep the pregnancy till delivery. (You see, just like testosterone makes and keeps a man a man and estrogen makes and keeps a woman a woman, progesterone makes a pregnant woman to get and keep her pregnancy). When progesterone levels are low, a woman miscarries or has a tendency to do so; which tendency shows up by such signs as bleeding during pregnancy either at the set time of periods or outside such times.This is the reason a woman may be pregnant and still be bleeding as if she is not. Again low progesterone can cause early miscarriages that oftentimes, the patient or the doctor erroneously refers to as "delayed menses". The key is to discern that such bleeding is, in a small or big way, different from the woman's normal menses. We do not know why progesterone may be low, but the good news is, low progesterone can be detected and what is more, successfully treated.
Cheers
A.Progesterone is a hormone --a special chemical messenger produced from very special factories--or glands-- in the human body whose job is to help a woman get pregnant and keep the pregnancy till delivery. (You see, just like testosterone makes and keeps a man a man and estrogen makes and keeps a woman a woman, progesterone makes a pregnant woman to get and keep her pregnancy). When progesterone levels are low, a woman miscarries or has a tendency to do so; which tendency shows up by such signs as bleeding during pregnancy either at the set time of periods or outside such times.This is the reason a woman may be pregnant and still be bleeding as if she is not. Again low progesterone can cause early miscarriages that oftentimes, the patient or the doctor erroneously refers to as "delayed menses". The key is to discern that such bleeding is, in a small or big way, different from the woman's normal menses. We do not know why progesterone may be low, but the good news is, low progesterone can be detected and what is more, successfully treated.
Cheers
Monday, 12 March 2012
Vaginal Discharge; Quack Doctors
Dear Doctor,
I'm a young Christian woman and a virgin but there is something I want to clarify.
I have this vaginal discharge which is whitish in colour -- atimes colurless . I have been to
hospital thrice to see doctors; was tested and specimens sent to lab but no result of any
infection-- however I was just treated in case of any infection.
My question is -- is it natural to have this discharge all the time without the presence
of any infection whatsoever? Because I have heard of fungus infection without any sexual contact.
Thanks.
Young Christian Virgin, Benue
Dear Young Christian Virgin,
I cannot but first of all greatly commend your great courage in being and remaining a virgin in
these times when to do so is becoming more and more unpopular.
Congratulations.
You can be assured --as a virgin -- of the following dozen benefits--a) A proud confidence--
"the righteous are as bold as a lion"; b) No STD's -- no AIDS from promiscuity; c) No
unwanted pregnancies; d) No abortions and it's complications which can include death; e)No
infertility secondary to STD's; f) No spiritual complications and contamination -- covenants,
bond ages and yokes; g) The admiration, respect and appreciation of your future husband;
h)Satisfaction and high self esteem that you can control yourself; i) Joy by your parents that
you were well trained and that they did their job well; j) The joy and example you are to others;
k) And to your future children; l) The greatest joy that you are pleasing your conscience and
your God. Congratulations once again and please keep it up.
I must say that much as I seriously commend you, I must seriously sanction your three doctors
or quacks--I do not really believe they are or can be doctors --on three different counts. 1) They
are ignorant. 2)They are careless 3) They are dangerous. I'll explain.
In all my almost 20 years of media medicine I almost have never condemned any doctor --it's not
good for either the doctor or the profession; for the patient or for myself. And that is why I
refuse to agree you really saw true doctors--they must be quacks you saw--all three of them. I
mean, seriously.
Because, for goodness' sake, a true doctor--not a quack (you sure you really saw three true
doctors and not quacks? --people who never trained at medical school but are practicing what
they don't know) ought to know that all adult women secrete and produce from their vaginas a
normal discharge whose colour is white like ogi, akamu or the inside of a coconut? Surely all
doctors ought to know this elementary fact?Your ignorant quacks obviously did not know this
and for that reason I doubt their certificates. Full stop.
But then --if they did not know and they now did the next best (and incidentally commendable)
thing -- sent a specimen to the lab; when the results came back to show that you are infection
free-- why, for God's sake, did they go ahead to give you UNNEEDED antibiotics anyway? For
this, they must suffer the accusation of carelessness of the highest order. If there is no infection--
bacterial-- to treat, why would you be giving antibiotics?
The dangers of this move are far--reaching. a) You can, because of the use of unnecessary
antibiotics, upset the very delicate balance of organisms in your system and thus develop fungal
infection of yeast which you mentioned --this is one way a virgin can get this problem.; how,
without sexual exposure a lady can get infected with fungi b) Again,
unneeded antibiotics help bacterial germs to become resistant to antibiotics thus causing
resistant germs to prevail in the community such that when indeed we really need the antibiotics
to treat some actual (not imaginary) infection or the other in you or in someone else in the
community who has become infected by that particular strain of bug, WE FIND THEM
SURPRISINGLY INEFFECTIVE OR NOT AS EFFECTIVE AS THEY SHOULD BE
--WHICH IS A BIG PITY AND A GRAVE DANGER TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY
Be all that as it may. Now let's listen and learn, shall we?
Just like all mouths produce a liquid called saliva and this liquid is colourless and
harmless, so also all adult vaginas produce this white, offwhite or sometimes
colourless (during ovulation) liquid that is harmless and does not need
investigation or alarm.Okay? The distinction that you, all women and your quacks need to know is this --
Once your discharge as a woman is too plenty, itches or
smells then there is disease and this must be investigated properly and treated.
The knowledge of the above is the beginning-- the very foundation or the most
elementary part of gynecological wisdom.
Cheers
Dr Caleb Bibbi Oluranti
Dear Doctor,
I'm a young Christian woman and a virgin but there is something I want to clarify.
I have this vaginal discharge which is whitish in colour -- atimes colurless . I have been to
hospital thrice to see doctors; was tested and specimens sent to lab but no result of any
infection-- however I was just treated in case of any infection.
My question is -- is it natural to have this discharge all the time without the presence
of any infection whatsoever? Because I have heard of fungus infection without any sexual contact.
Thanks.
Young Christian Virgin, Benue
Dear Young Christian Virgin,
I cannot but first of all greatly commend your great courage in being and remaining a virgin in
these times when to do so is becoming more and more unpopular.
Congratulations.
You can be assured --as a virgin -- of the following dozen benefits--a) A proud confidence--
"the righteous are as bold as a lion"; b) No STD's -- no AIDS from promiscuity; c) No
unwanted pregnancies; d) No abortions and it's complications which can include death; e)No
infertility secondary to STD's; f) No spiritual complications and contamination -- covenants,
bond ages and yokes; g) The admiration, respect and appreciation of your future husband;
h)Satisfaction and high self esteem that you can control yourself; i) Joy by your parents that
you were well trained and that they did their job well; j) The joy and example you are to others;
k) And to your future children; l) The greatest joy that you are pleasing your conscience and
your God. Congratulations once again and please keep it up.
I must say that much as I seriously commend you, I must seriously sanction your three doctors
or quacks--I do not really believe they are or can be doctors --on three different counts. 1) They
are ignorant. 2)They are careless 3) They are dangerous. I'll explain.
In all my almost 20 years of media medicine I almost have never condemned any doctor --it's not
good for either the doctor or the profession; for the patient or for myself. And that is why I
refuse to agree you really saw true doctors--they must be quacks you saw--all three of them. I
mean, seriously.
Because, for goodness' sake, a true doctor--not a quack (you sure you really saw three true
doctors and not quacks? --people who never trained at medical school but are practicing what
they don't know) ought to know that all adult women secrete and produce from their vaginas a
normal discharge whose colour is white like ogi, akamu or the inside of a coconut? Surely all
doctors ought to know this elementary fact?Your ignorant quacks obviously did not know this
and for that reason I doubt their certificates. Full stop.
But then --if they did not know and they now did the next best (and incidentally commendable)
thing -- sent a specimen to the lab; when the results came back to show that you are infection
free-- why, for God's sake, did they go ahead to give you UNNEEDED antibiotics anyway? For
this, they must suffer the accusation of carelessness of the highest order. If there is no infection--
bacterial-- to treat, why would you be giving antibiotics?
The dangers of this move are far--reaching. a) You can, because of the use of unnecessary
antibiotics, upset the very delicate balance of organisms in your system and thus develop fungal
infection of yeast which you mentioned --this is one way a virgin can get this problem.; how,
without sexual exposure a lady can get infected with fungi b) Again,
unneeded antibiotics help bacterial germs to become resistant to antibiotics thus causing
resistant germs to prevail in the community such that when indeed we really need the antibiotics
to treat some actual (not imaginary) infection or the other in you or in someone else in the
community who has become infected by that particular strain of bug, WE FIND THEM
SURPRISINGLY INEFFECTIVE OR NOT AS EFFECTIVE AS THEY SHOULD BE
--WHICH IS A BIG PITY AND A GRAVE DANGER TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY
Be all that as it may. Now let's listen and learn, shall we?
Just like all mouths produce a liquid called saliva and this liquid is colourless and
harmless, so also all adult vaginas produce this white, offwhite or sometimes
colourless (during ovulation) liquid that is harmless and does not need
investigation or alarm.Okay? The distinction that you, all women and your quacks need to know is this --
Once your discharge as a woman is too plenty, itches or
smells then there is disease and this must be investigated properly and treated.
The knowledge of the above is the beginning-- the very foundation or the most
elementary part of gynecological wisdom.
Cheers
Dr Caleb Bibbi Oluranti
Sunday, 11 March 2012
New Research Finds Diabetes Can Be Reversed
By Mark Hyman, MD on 08/09/2011
I have recently spent more time in drugs stores than I would like helping my sister on her journey through (and hopefully to the other side of) cancer. Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens all had large diabetes sections offering support for a “diabetes lifestyle”—glucose monitors, lancets, blood pressure cuffs, medications, supplements and pharmacy magazines heavily supported by pharmaceutical advertising.
Patients are encouraged to get their eye check ups, monitor their blood pressure, track their blood sugars, have foot exams and see their doctor’s regularly for better management of their blood sugars—all apparently sensible advice for diabetics.
But what if type-2 diabetes could be completely reversed? What if it wasn’t, as we believe, an inexorable, progressive disease that has to be better “managed” by our health care system with better drugs, surgery and coordination of care? What if intensive lifestyle and dietary changes could completely reverse diabetes?
A ground breaking new study in Diabetologia proved that, indeed, type 2 diabetes can be reversed through diet changes, and, the study showed, this can happen quickly: in 1 to 8 weeks. That turns our perspective on diabetes upside down. Diabetes is not a one-way street.
If we have a known cure, a proven way to reverse this disease, shouldn’t we be focused on implementing programs to scale this cure?
We used to believe that once cells in your pancreas that make insulin (beta cells) poop out there was no reviving them and your only hope was more medication or insulin. We now know that is not so.
Continuing misconceptions about what causes diabetes and our unwillingness to embrace methods know to reverse it have lead to a catastrophic increase in the illness. Today one in four Americans over 60 years old has type 2 diabetes. By 2020, one in two Americans will have pre-diabetes or diabetes. Tragically, physicians will miss the diagnosis for ninety percent with pre-diabetes or diabetes. (Below I tell you exactly what tests to ask your doctor to perform and how to interpret them).
From 1983 to 2008, worldwide diabetes incidence has increased 7 fold from 35 to 240 million. Remarkably, in just the last 3 years from 2008 to 2011, we have added another 110 million to the diabetes roll call. And increasingly small children as young as eight are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (formerly called adult onset diabetes). They are having strokes at 15 years old and needing cardiac bypasses at 25 year old. The economic burden of caring for these people with pre-diabetes and diabetes will be $3.5 trillion over 10 years.
If we have a known cure, a proven way to reverse this disease, shouldn’t we be focused on implementing programs to scale this cure? Unfortunately despite this extraordinary new research, the findings will likely be pushed aside in favor of the latest greatest pill or surgical technique because behavior and lifestyle change is “hard.” In fact, with the right conditions and support, lifestyle diet and lifestyle change is very achievable.
What did research show?
Reversing Diabetes: Can it Be Done in a Week?
The study, entitled Reversal of type 2 diabetes: normalization of beta cell function in association with decrease pancreas and liver triglycerides, was exquisitely done. The bottom line: A dramatic diet change (protein shake, low glycemic load, plant-based low-calorie diet but no exercise) in diabetics reversed most features of diabetes within one week and all features by eight weeks. That’s right, diabetes was reversed in one week. That’s more powerful than any drug known to modern science.
We know from gastric bypass patients that with rapid changes in diet right after surgery, within just a few days, without significant weight loss, diabetes goes away—fatty livers heal, cholesterol levels plummet. Some theorized it was because of changes in the stomach hormones related to the gastric surgery. Others, including the researchers of this new study surmised that maybe it was just the drastic change in diet. So they went about studying just the diet change without surgery.
They studied 11 people with diabetes and compared them to a control group. Through very sophisticated techniques including MRI imaging, they measured their blood sugar and insulin responses, cholesterol levels and fat in the pancreas and liver (some of the hallmarks of diabetes) before and after diet changes at 1, 4 and 8 weeks.
What they found was revolutionary. The beta cells—the pancreas’ insulin producing cells—woke up, and the fat deposits in the pancreas and liver went away. Blood sugars normalized in just one week, triglycerides dropped in half in one week and reduced 10-fold in eight weeks. The body’s cells became more insulin sensitive and essentially, in just 8 weeks, all evidence of diabetes was gone and the diabetic patients looked just like the normal controls on all the testing.
While this may be surprising to most, it is something I see regularly in my medical practice. With focused, strategic, scientifically based nutritional intervention, combined with exercise, stress management and sugar and insulin balancing nutritional supplements, many of my patients completely reverse their diabetes. And the side effects—more energy, better sleep, improved sexual function and weight loss—are all good.
What most don’t realize is that pre-diabetes and diabetes exist on a continuum and both dramatically increase the risk of heart attacks, stroke, cancer, infertility, sexual dysfunction, depression and dementia. You don’t have to get diabetes to be at risk for all those problems. That is why it is so important to get your doctor to diagnose pre-diabetes early and implement an intensive lifestyle program to help you reserve it.
You may be at risk if you have extra belly fat, have a family history of diabetes, gestational diabetes, are in at risk ethnic group (Asian, Hispanic, African American, Native American, Middle Eastern), have high triglycerides (> 150 mg/dl) or a low HDL (< 50 mg/dl) or have high blood pressure.
If any of these apply to you or you have other cause for concern, here is what to do.
How to Reverse Your Diabetes
First, get your doctor to test the following:
1. A 75-gram glucose tolerance test measuring BOTH glucose and insulin fasting and 1 and 2 hours later. Your fasting blood sugar should be less than 100 mg/dl and your 1 and 2 hour sugar levels should be less than 130 mg/dl. Your fasting insulin should be less than 10, and your 1 and 2 hour levels should be less than 35.
2. Triglycerides should be less than 150 mg/dl and HDL (good cholesterol) should be over 50 mg/dl, and the triglyceride to HDL ratio should be less than 4. These ranges are meaningful only if you are on no medication.
3. Newer cholesterol tests measure the size of your cholesterol particles and is very effective in diagnosing problems with pre-diabetes early. In fact, this is the only cholesterol test we should be performing.
And here’s the program I use for my patients to reverse diabetes:
1. Eat a low glycemic load, high fiber, plant-based diet of vegetables, beans, nuts, limited whole grains, fruit and lean animal protein
2. Vigorous exercise (fast walking, running, biking, etc.) 30 minutes 4-5 times a week and strength training 20 minutes 3 times a week
3. Take a good multivitamin, fish oil, vitamin D and blood sugar and insulin balancing nutrients (including chromium and alpha lipoic acid)
Remember, pre-diabetes and diabetes is not a one-way street and the solution is not at the bottom of a pill bottle or the end of an insulin syringe, it is at the end of your fork and in the shoes on your feet!
Now I’d like to hear from you …
Do you think diabetes can be reversed? If so, how?
What methods have you tried to gain control of your diabetes or weight gain? How have those methods worked for you?
Why do you think accessible, scalable, lifestyle solutions like these that actually reverse chronic illness are not more frequently prescribed in conventional doctor’s offices? How can we change this?
Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
Related articles of interest:
Total Cure For Diabetes Rejected By Doctors
Drew Carey Reverses Type 2 Diabetes “The Hard Way”
Diabetes 'cures' you don't need
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Mark Hyman, M.D. practicing physician and founder of The UltraWellness Center is the author of The UltraMind Solution. Dr. Hyman is now sharing the 7 ways to tap into your body’s natural ability to heal itself. You can follow him on Twitter, connect with him on LinkedIn, watch his videos on Youtube and become a fan on Facebook.
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I have recently spent more time in drugs stores than I would like helping my sister on her journey through (and hopefully to the other side of) cancer. Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens all had large diabetes sections offering support for a “diabetes lifestyle”—glucose monitors, lancets, blood pressure cuffs, medications, supplements and pharmacy magazines heavily supported by pharmaceutical advertising.
Patients are encouraged to get their eye check ups, monitor their blood pressure, track their blood sugars, have foot exams and see their doctor’s regularly for better management of their blood sugars—all apparently sensible advice for diabetics.
But what if type-2 diabetes could be completely reversed? What if it wasn’t, as we believe, an inexorable, progressive disease that has to be better “managed” by our health care system with better drugs, surgery and coordination of care? What if intensive lifestyle and dietary changes could completely reverse diabetes?
A ground breaking new study in Diabetologia proved that, indeed, type 2 diabetes can be reversed through diet changes, and, the study showed, this can happen quickly: in 1 to 8 weeks. That turns our perspective on diabetes upside down. Diabetes is not a one-way street.
If we have a known cure, a proven way to reverse this disease, shouldn’t we be focused on implementing programs to scale this cure?
We used to believe that once cells in your pancreas that make insulin (beta cells) poop out there was no reviving them and your only hope was more medication or insulin. We now know that is not so.
Continuing misconceptions about what causes diabetes and our unwillingness to embrace methods know to reverse it have lead to a catastrophic increase in the illness. Today one in four Americans over 60 years old has type 2 diabetes. By 2020, one in two Americans will have pre-diabetes or diabetes. Tragically, physicians will miss the diagnosis for ninety percent with pre-diabetes or diabetes. (Below I tell you exactly what tests to ask your doctor to perform and how to interpret them).
From 1983 to 2008, worldwide diabetes incidence has increased 7 fold from 35 to 240 million. Remarkably, in just the last 3 years from 2008 to 2011, we have added another 110 million to the diabetes roll call. And increasingly small children as young as eight are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (formerly called adult onset diabetes). They are having strokes at 15 years old and needing cardiac bypasses at 25 year old. The economic burden of caring for these people with pre-diabetes and diabetes will be $3.5 trillion over 10 years.
If we have a known cure, a proven way to reverse this disease, shouldn’t we be focused on implementing programs to scale this cure? Unfortunately despite this extraordinary new research, the findings will likely be pushed aside in favor of the latest greatest pill or surgical technique because behavior and lifestyle change is “hard.” In fact, with the right conditions and support, lifestyle diet and lifestyle change is very achievable.
What did research show?
Reversing Diabetes: Can it Be Done in a Week?
The study, entitled Reversal of type 2 diabetes: normalization of beta cell function in association with decrease pancreas and liver triglycerides, was exquisitely done. The bottom line: A dramatic diet change (protein shake, low glycemic load, plant-based low-calorie diet but no exercise) in diabetics reversed most features of diabetes within one week and all features by eight weeks. That’s right, diabetes was reversed in one week. That’s more powerful than any drug known to modern science.
We know from gastric bypass patients that with rapid changes in diet right after surgery, within just a few days, without significant weight loss, diabetes goes away—fatty livers heal, cholesterol levels plummet. Some theorized it was because of changes in the stomach hormones related to the gastric surgery. Others, including the researchers of this new study surmised that maybe it was just the drastic change in diet. So they went about studying just the diet change without surgery.
They studied 11 people with diabetes and compared them to a control group. Through very sophisticated techniques including MRI imaging, they measured their blood sugar and insulin responses, cholesterol levels and fat in the pancreas and liver (some of the hallmarks of diabetes) before and after diet changes at 1, 4 and 8 weeks.
What they found was revolutionary. The beta cells—the pancreas’ insulin producing cells—woke up, and the fat deposits in the pancreas and liver went away. Blood sugars normalized in just one week, triglycerides dropped in half in one week and reduced 10-fold in eight weeks. The body’s cells became more insulin sensitive and essentially, in just 8 weeks, all evidence of diabetes was gone and the diabetic patients looked just like the normal controls on all the testing.
While this may be surprising to most, it is something I see regularly in my medical practice. With focused, strategic, scientifically based nutritional intervention, combined with exercise, stress management and sugar and insulin balancing nutritional supplements, many of my patients completely reverse their diabetes. And the side effects—more energy, better sleep, improved sexual function and weight loss—are all good.
What most don’t realize is that pre-diabetes and diabetes exist on a continuum and both dramatically increase the risk of heart attacks, stroke, cancer, infertility, sexual dysfunction, depression and dementia. You don’t have to get diabetes to be at risk for all those problems. That is why it is so important to get your doctor to diagnose pre-diabetes early and implement an intensive lifestyle program to help you reserve it.
You may be at risk if you have extra belly fat, have a family history of diabetes, gestational diabetes, are in at risk ethnic group (Asian, Hispanic, African American, Native American, Middle Eastern), have high triglycerides (> 150 mg/dl) or a low HDL (< 50 mg/dl) or have high blood pressure.
If any of these apply to you or you have other cause for concern, here is what to do.
How to Reverse Your Diabetes
First, get your doctor to test the following:
1. A 75-gram glucose tolerance test measuring BOTH glucose and insulin fasting and 1 and 2 hours later. Your fasting blood sugar should be less than 100 mg/dl and your 1 and 2 hour sugar levels should be less than 130 mg/dl. Your fasting insulin should be less than 10, and your 1 and 2 hour levels should be less than 35.
2. Triglycerides should be less than 150 mg/dl and HDL (good cholesterol) should be over 50 mg/dl, and the triglyceride to HDL ratio should be less than 4. These ranges are meaningful only if you are on no medication.
3. Newer cholesterol tests measure the size of your cholesterol particles and is very effective in diagnosing problems with pre-diabetes early. In fact, this is the only cholesterol test we should be performing.
And here’s the program I use for my patients to reverse diabetes:
1. Eat a low glycemic load, high fiber, plant-based diet of vegetables, beans, nuts, limited whole grains, fruit and lean animal protein
2. Vigorous exercise (fast walking, running, biking, etc.) 30 minutes 4-5 times a week and strength training 20 minutes 3 times a week
3. Take a good multivitamin, fish oil, vitamin D and blood sugar and insulin balancing nutrients (including chromium and alpha lipoic acid)
Remember, pre-diabetes and diabetes is not a one-way street and the solution is not at the bottom of a pill bottle or the end of an insulin syringe, it is at the end of your fork and in the shoes on your feet!
Now I’d like to hear from you …
Do you think diabetes can be reversed? If so, how?
What methods have you tried to gain control of your diabetes or weight gain? How have those methods worked for you?
Why do you think accessible, scalable, lifestyle solutions like these that actually reverse chronic illness are not more frequently prescribed in conventional doctor’s offices? How can we change this?
Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
Related articles of interest:
Total Cure For Diabetes Rejected By Doctors
Drew Carey Reverses Type 2 Diabetes “The Hard Way”
Diabetes 'cures' you don't need
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Click to add comment
About the author
Mark Hyman, M.D. practicing physician and founder of The UltraWellness Center is the author of The UltraMind Solution. Dr. Hyman is now sharing the 7 ways to tap into your body’s natural ability to heal itself. You can follow him on Twitter, connect with him on LinkedIn, watch his videos on Youtube and become a fan on Facebook.
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Monday, 5 March 2012
Diabetes Reversible
Welcome to this site. The article from BBC about diabetes follows.It contains the researchers' opinion. As for us and what we do and how we will help you with diabetes, WE WILL NOT STARVE YOU -- NOT AT ALL!! IN FACT WE WILL FEED YOU WITH FOODS THAT HELP TO CURE DIABETES.Permanently --in our case. But the article makes our point -- that
"Type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed 'can be reversed'"
Researchers found that blood sugar levels of all participants had returned to normal in one week.
An extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the disease, says a Diabetologia study.
Newcastle University researchers found the low-calorie diet reduced fat levels in the pancreas and liver, which helped insulin production return to normal.
Seven out of 11 people studied were free of diabetes three months later, say findings published in the journal.
More research is needed to see whether the reversal is permanent, say experts.
Type 2 diabetes affects 2.5m people in the UK. It develops when not enough insulin is produced in the body or the insulin that is made by the body doesn't work properly.
When this happens, glucose - a type of sugar - builds up in the blood instead of being broken down into energy or fuel which the body needs.
The 11 participants in the study were all diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes within the previous four years.
They cut their food intake drastically for two months, eating only liquid diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables.
Fat loss
After one week of the diet, researchers found that the pre-breakfast blood sugar levels of all participants had returned to normal.
MRI scans of their pancreases also revealed that the fat levels in the organ had decreased from around 8% - an elevated level - to a more normal 6%.
Three months after the end of the diet, when participants had returned to eating normally and received advice on healthy eating and portion size, most no longer suffered from the condition.
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It offers great hope for many people with diabetes.”
End Quote Prof Keith Frayn University of Oxford
Professor Roy Taylor, director of Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre at Newcastle University and lead study author, said he was not suggesting that people should follow the diet.
"This diet was only used to test the hypothesis that if people lose substantial weight they will lose their diabetes.
"Although this study involved people diagnosed with diabetes within the last four years, there is potential for people with longer-standing diabetes to turn things around too."
Susceptibility question
Dr Ee Lin Lim, also from Newcastle University's research team, said that although dietary factors were already known to have an impact on Type 2 diabetes, the research showed that the disease did not have to be a life sentence.
"It's easy to take a pill, but harder to change lifestyle for good. Asking people to shift weight does actually work," she said.
However, not everyone in the study managed to stay free of diabetes.
"It all depends on how much individuals are susceptible to diabetes. We need to find out why some people are more susceptible than others, then target these obese people. We can't know the reasons for that in this study," Dr Lim said.
Professor Edwin Gale, a diabetes expert from the University of Bristol, said the study did not reveal anything new.
"We have known that starvation is a good cure for diabetes. If we introduced rationing tomorrow, then we could get rid of diabetes in this country.
"If you can catch people with diabetes in the early stages while beta cells are still functioning, then you can delay its onset for years, but you will get it sooner or later because it's in the system."
But Keith Frayn, professor of human metabolism at the University of Oxford, said the Newcastle study was important.
"People who lose large amounts of weight following surgery to alter their stomach size or the plumbing of their intestines often lose their diabetes and no longer need treatment.
"This study shows that a period of marked weight loss can produce the same reversal of Type 2 diabetes.
"It offers great hope for many people with diabetes, although it must be said that not everyone will find it possible to stick to the extremely low-calorie diet used in this study."
Dr Iain Frame, director of research at Diabetes UK, which funded the study, said the diet was not an easy fix.
"Such a drastic diet should only be undertaken under medical supervision. Despite being a very small trial, we look forward to future results particularly to see whether the reversal would remain in the long term."
"Type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed 'can be reversed'"
Researchers found that blood sugar levels of all participants had returned to normal in one week.
An extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the disease, says a Diabetologia study.
Newcastle University researchers found the low-calorie diet reduced fat levels in the pancreas and liver, which helped insulin production return to normal.
Seven out of 11 people studied were free of diabetes three months later, say findings published in the journal.
More research is needed to see whether the reversal is permanent, say experts.
Type 2 diabetes affects 2.5m people in the UK. It develops when not enough insulin is produced in the body or the insulin that is made by the body doesn't work properly.
When this happens, glucose - a type of sugar - builds up in the blood instead of being broken down into energy or fuel which the body needs.
The 11 participants in the study were all diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes within the previous four years.
They cut their food intake drastically for two months, eating only liquid diet drinks and non-starchy vegetables.
Fat loss
After one week of the diet, researchers found that the pre-breakfast blood sugar levels of all participants had returned to normal.
MRI scans of their pancreases also revealed that the fat levels in the organ had decreased from around 8% - an elevated level - to a more normal 6%.
Three months after the end of the diet, when participants had returned to eating normally and received advice on healthy eating and portion size, most no longer suffered from the condition.
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Professor Roy Taylor, director of Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre at Newcastle University and lead study author, said he was not suggesting that people should follow the diet.
"This diet was only used to test the hypothesis that if people lose substantial weight they will lose their diabetes.
"Although this study involved people diagnosed with diabetes within the last four years, there is potential for people with longer-standing diabetes to turn things around too."
Susceptibility question
Dr Ee Lin Lim, also from Newcastle University's research team, said that although dietary factors were already known to have an impact on Type 2 diabetes, the research showed that the disease did not have to be a life sentence.
"It's easy to take a pill, but harder to change lifestyle for good. Asking people to shift weight does actually work," she said.
However, not everyone in the study managed to stay free of diabetes.
"It all depends on how much individuals are susceptible to diabetes. We need to find out why some people are more susceptible than others, then target these obese people. We can't know the reasons for that in this study," Dr Lim said.
Professor Edwin Gale, a diabetes expert from the University of Bristol, said the study did not reveal anything new.
"We have known that starvation is a good cure for diabetes. If we introduced rationing tomorrow, then we could get rid of diabetes in this country.
"If you can catch people with diabetes in the early stages while beta cells are still functioning, then you can delay its onset for years, but you will get it sooner or later because it's in the system."
But Keith Frayn, professor of human metabolism at the University of Oxford, said the Newcastle study was important.
"People who lose large amounts of weight following surgery to alter their stomach size or the plumbing of their intestines often lose their diabetes and no longer need treatment.
"This study shows that a period of marked weight loss can produce the same reversal of Type 2 diabetes.
"It offers great hope for many people with diabetes, although it must be said that not everyone will find it possible to stick to the extremely low-calorie diet used in this study."
Dr Iain Frame, director of research at Diabetes UK, which funded the study, said the diet was not an easy fix.
"Such a drastic diet should only be undertaken under medical supervision. Despite being a very small trial, we look forward to future results particularly to see whether the reversal would remain in the long term."
Why Men Cheat?
Dear Dr,
May the benediction of the Lord be with you.Please I don't want you to publish this but on a personal counseling. I would rather call it a research on an issue that has been bothering me. It is on why married men like or rather prefer extramarital affairs. Am still single but does not want 2 make mistakes when choosing d right person. I will be very glad if my request is granted. Thanks & God bless,
Dobbie-Gal Ogbeh, Benin City
Dear Dobbie-Gal,
Men--like Solomon-- like to have many women to have SEX with. Women look for just one man to LOVE.That's why Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines -- just one man.And ALL MEN would do the same if they could.ONLY WHEN THEY LISTEN TO GOD WHO SAYS ONE MAN ONE WIFE -- THAT IS WHEN THEY FORGET THAT FANTASY.This is why the average man is interested in more than one woman at the same time, okay? Usually only Godly men can control themselves, u understand?
Cheers
May the benediction of the Lord be with you.Please I don't want you to publish this but on a personal counseling. I would rather call it a research on an issue that has been bothering me. It is on why married men like or rather prefer extramarital affairs. Am still single but does not want 2 make mistakes when choosing d right person. I will be very glad if my request is granted. Thanks & God bless,
Dobbie-Gal Ogbeh, Benin City
Dear Dobbie-Gal,
Men--like Solomon-- like to have many women to have SEX with. Women look for just one man to LOVE.That's why Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines -- just one man.And ALL MEN would do the same if they could.ONLY WHEN THEY LISTEN TO GOD WHO SAYS ONE MAN ONE WIFE -- THAT IS WHEN THEY FORGET THAT FANTASY.This is why the average man is interested in more than one woman at the same time, okay? Usually only Godly men can control themselves, u understand?
Cheers
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Pregnant But Still Having Periods – How; Why?
Dear Doctor,
I would be glad if you can provide answers to the following questions. 1) Can sex in the very early stages (1st three weeks) of conception lead to a) Stomach ache and b) eventual miscarriage? 2) Can a lady who has missed her menstrual period for two consecutive months still observe it at the supposed time of the third month? 3) Can a lady who has missed her period for two months still be pregnant even though she has seen a period in the third month? Anticipating a quick and favourable response soon. Thank you for your assistance.
Reginald Marwaffi. Makurdi, Benue
Dear Reginald,
When ladies get pregnant everybody knows that they miss their period. However it has happened before now and still does happen that some ladies bleed and because of this do not recognize that they are pregnant. Why does this happen and how? First the how--If a woman is pregnant and still sees her menses that menses will usually not be normal. That is why doctors and gynecologists, when they refer to the starting point or beginning of a pregnancy, always talk about (not just the last menstrual period but) the last normal menstrual period. These strange periods may actually come but are usually not the normal thing--its either they are too short or long or scanty or something abnormal about them. However because of the confusion they cause, no one tries to define pregnancy any more by the loss of menses alone. We now depend on Urine Pregnancy tests or even Blood pregnancy tests that measure the level of the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin(HCG). When a lady is pregnant, this hormone (which helps her to manufacture a placenta for the baby) is found in large amounts in her blood and the over spill in her urine too can be measured by the Urine Pregnancy Test. So your lady may be pregnant--if she is I will not be surprised. The why of such occurrences, of course is that there is either implantation bleeding which happens in some ladies or the pregnancy is unstable because of a low production of the hormone progesterone. Let her do both the urine and blood tests and even an Ultrasound Scan. Of course she should see an experienced doctor/gynecologist who will first examine her thoroughly and then order the said tests and who (should she truly have an unstable pregnancy) will be able to handle her professionally and preserve the pregnancy until she delivers safely. As for sex we do not dis recommend sex for ladies in early pregnancy or at any other time in pregnancy for that matter. Only if the pregnancy is unstable or there has been a history of habitual miscarriage do we ask the couple to abstain for the first three months because we feel it can contribute to miscarriage (there usually may be some stomach pains before miscarriage).
Cheers
Dr. Caleb Bibbi Oluranti
I would be glad if you can provide answers to the following questions. 1) Can sex in the very early stages (1st three weeks) of conception lead to a) Stomach ache and b) eventual miscarriage? 2) Can a lady who has missed her menstrual period for two consecutive months still observe it at the supposed time of the third month? 3) Can a lady who has missed her period for two months still be pregnant even though she has seen a period in the third month? Anticipating a quick and favourable response soon. Thank you for your assistance.
Reginald Marwaffi. Makurdi, Benue
Dear Reginald,
When ladies get pregnant everybody knows that they miss their period. However it has happened before now and still does happen that some ladies bleed and because of this do not recognize that they are pregnant. Why does this happen and how? First the how--If a woman is pregnant and still sees her menses that menses will usually not be normal. That is why doctors and gynecologists, when they refer to the starting point or beginning of a pregnancy, always talk about (not just the last menstrual period but) the last normal menstrual period. These strange periods may actually come but are usually not the normal thing--its either they are too short or long or scanty or something abnormal about them. However because of the confusion they cause, no one tries to define pregnancy any more by the loss of menses alone. We now depend on Urine Pregnancy tests or even Blood pregnancy tests that measure the level of the hormone Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin(HCG). When a lady is pregnant, this hormone (which helps her to manufacture a placenta for the baby) is found in large amounts in her blood and the over spill in her urine too can be measured by the Urine Pregnancy Test. So your lady may be pregnant--if she is I will not be surprised. The why of such occurrences, of course is that there is either implantation bleeding which happens in some ladies or the pregnancy is unstable because of a low production of the hormone progesterone. Let her do both the urine and blood tests and even an Ultrasound Scan. Of course she should see an experienced doctor/gynecologist who will first examine her thoroughly and then order the said tests and who (should she truly have an unstable pregnancy) will be able to handle her professionally and preserve the pregnancy until she delivers safely. As for sex we do not dis recommend sex for ladies in early pregnancy or at any other time in pregnancy for that matter. Only if the pregnancy is unstable or there has been a history of habitual miscarriage do we ask the couple to abstain for the first three months because we feel it can contribute to miscarriage (there usually may be some stomach pains before miscarriage).
Cheers
Dr. Caleb Bibbi Oluranti
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