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Stuff About Diabetes

I just wanted to start a thread where I could post stuff about diabetes as I run across it.

Nerve Changes Due to Diabetes

Nerve changes from diabetes begin earlier than previously known:

http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/ht...s_from_di.html

Possible Cause of Diabetic Neuropathy

Malfunctioning bone marrow cells sabotage nerve cells in diabetes:

http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/ht...arrow_cel.html

Could a similar process be involved in other, non-diabetic neuropathy?

Benefits of Benfotiamine

Benfotiamine blocks three major pathways of hyperglycemic damage and prevents experimental diabetic retinopathy (benfotiamine is a synthetic variation of thiamine or vitamin B1 - being fat soluble it seems to be more readily usable):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

Vegus Nerve Activity and Diabetes, Hypertension

Interfering with vagal nerve activity in mice prevents diabetes and hypertension.

"'Mice that can't make Ppara don't develop diabetes or hypertension in response to glucocorticoids," says Semenkovich, who also is chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research. "The use of steroids is very common in medicine. People with asthma, arthritis, organ transplants and others rely on those steroid drugs, and many of them go on to develop insulin resistance that can advance to diabetes and hypertension.'

But in these most recent experiments, the researchers showed that both Ppara and the vagus nerve seem to play important roles in the development of these disorders."

http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/ht...l_nerve_a.html

Experiment to Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes

The Apple Figure and Insulin Sensitivity

http://www.diabetesnet.com/irtips.php

It seems to me that lowering blood triglyceride levels is one of the healthiest things one can do in general. Lowering blood triglycerides will also help one to deal with many of the negative effects of diabetes. Here is a good website to check out.

http://www.healingdaily.com/conditio...glycerides.htm

In addition to exercising and reducing sugars and starches, one should also reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption. This is because alcohol significantly reduces the body's ablility to burn fat.

cinnamon for diabetics

here is a small article:

http://www.healthbulletin.org/diabetes/diabetes4.htm

Cinnamon for Diabetes
It tastes good, especially with a pinch of sugar.It smells good, even purported to have male-arousal effects.

Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) began studies on cinnamon ten years ago. It was then found to make fat cells much more responsive to insulin (that's positive.) They are still working on an ingredient in the plant, but have already found that this substance (MHCP,) prevented the formation of "damaging oxygen radicals...."
As Dr. Richard A. Anderson of ARS states, "[it] could be an important side effect, [since] other studies have shown that antioxidant supplements can reduce or slow the progression of various complications of diabetes."

This MHCP ingredient, the ARS found, is water soluble and is not found in the spice oils sold as food additives. Anderson added that this substance reduced blood pressure in animals with high pressure readings.

NOTE: The way to use it, it would seem, is to buy sticks of cinnamon, grind it if you can and add it to bread recipes and as a tea with sugar.

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i am not diabetic, but i sure do crave sweets. i use atleast 1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon a day. i have no cravings unless i miss a few days. now i eat my brownies...cuz i want to :D which honestly hasn't been very often...but don't tell anyone.

i had other links about cinnamon, but they they have expired or something. i'll try and find some new ones.

Curious,

Thanks for the cinnamon post. I've gotten my diabetic father-in-law to take cinnamon regularly. I believe it is helping him. I take cinnamon to help control my blood pressure. Two great benefits in one.

Insulin Resistance

New Insights and New Therapies for Insulin Resistance:

http://academic.sun.ac.za/medphys/insulinresistance.htm