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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (216)	12/24/2006 4:04:38 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356

Controlling blood sugar can sometimes be done by exercise, diet and some supplements. Avoiding simple carbs, too many carbs, eating several small meals a day, and supplementing with fenugreek, alpha lipoic acid, chromium-vanadium, and some others in a balanced way could help. If they need insulin, it is unlikely they are a simple type II diabetic. Going forward they need to do frequent blood glucose tests, including probably the 5 hour hypoglyemic test. Few people cannot do exercise. Rowing machines, bowflex. swimming, static tension exercise, walking. Unless they are bed ridden it is hard to imagine a person who cannot do the basics. If they have intermittent claudication, or arrythmia, they may benefit by a regime of 2000 mcgs B12, 2 mgs folate, doses of COQ10, B6, B1, zinc, Quercetin, 1000 mgs magnesium, and appropriate varying doses of no flush niacin/pantethine, garlic, celery, willow bark, and balanced gamma vitamin E. (400 - 800 IU's) Coumadin has a stabilizing effect on the heart but it is dangerous to take it with aspirin, dark chocoloate, and garlic. Vitamin E has no effect in general. No flush niacin should not effect a diabetic, but some physicians fear its possible complicating effects. In fact there is almost no clinical support for this conclusion. Pantethine is not in this category and may be an acceptable substitute. A type two diabetic must lose weight. It's that simple. They must adjust diet, avoid vegetable oils, inorganic pastries and bread, (high fructose sweeteners put on weight and veg oils and insecticides interfere with arterial health. ) -- cut out sugars and carbs. Fruit is beneficial, as it is high fibre and will not cause an insulin reaction. A program to reduce reactive hypoglycemia should be undertaken with the help of a physician and naturopath. It may not be measurable with a fasting blood glucose test. I recommend reading Michael T. Murray's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine on this subject. EC<:-}

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (216)	12/24/2006 8:05:20 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 356

I meant that "Vitamin E has no effect in general" on coumadin ingestion vis a vis making the blood too thin, and thus possibly inducing bleeding stroke. Watch garlic and dark chocolate when on warfarin and coumadin. The combination of the three elements in excess could be dangerous. Aspirin as well may be contraindicated. This underscores the assertion that the combination of enteric coated aspirin, dark chocolate and garlic is as effective as coumadin at thinning the blood. If these three elements were combined with 1000 mgs of elemental magnesium per day and 500 mgs of inostitol and choline, it should be as effective at reducing arrythmia, as the drug. Coumadin however has been observed to be anomalously protective of serious cardiovascular events statistically quite apart from its blood thinning effect. This may be because it may have a strong anti-oxidative effect. The cholesterol reducing drug Lipitor, while not seriously reducing triglycerides nor increasing HDL, is also seen as protective of serious CVD events quite apart from its observed reduction in serum cholesterol levels. Because of its decreasing these levels, it is probably advised to take COQ10 to offset the possibly deleterious effects of reducing the liver enzymes that are so vital to cell energy production and do-oxidization. Since cholesterol itself is an anti-oxidant, a viral and bacterial disease protector, a digestive aid, and vascular repair mechanism it is hard to see how a reducer of cholesterol is beneficial to health. It (Lipitor) may be (beneficial) in cases where otherwise the CV system is seriously impaired, but you pay a price. To protect against possible rhabdomyolysis (muscle wasting and paralysis), transient global amnesia or even the sub-clinical "mental fog" that often accompanies statin use, one should take COQ10 religiously when on Lipitor, any other statin (the HMG co -reductase inhibitors), or even red yeast rice, guggulipid, and niacin. If one wanted arterial plaque reduction, coupled with platelet disaggregation, and sugar balance in order to also reduce the risk of bleeding AND thrombotic stroke, the best way it appears to naturally achieve this would be to combine the follwing elements moderately: dark unsweetened chocolate, enterically coated aspirin or willow bark, garlic, vitamin B12, vitamin C, Vitamin D3, selenium, no flush niacin or pantethine, vitamin b6-B1, folate, R+alpha-lipoic acid, fermented soy, fish/and/or fish oils, conjugated linolenic acid, citrus bioflavonoids and insoluble fibre. In addition cut out all sugars, vegetable oils except olive oil, and most high glycemic simple carbohydrates. In addition reduce protein intake by half. Increase solid animal fast slightly and increase moderate sub-aerobic exercise by 600 calory units per day. *****************************************