Dr. Mercola October 18 2006 6,045 views
Yesterday, in its very finite wisdom, the FDA approved what one official called "an important alternative" to existing treatments for type 2 diabetes: Another probably useless, and maybe dangerous drug called Januvia, coincidently marketed in America by Merck.
Januvia represents the debut of a new class of diabetes drugs that works by enhancing the body's natural process of maintaining a safe level of blood sugar by deactivating the DPP-4 enzyme . Because it works right along with rising blood sugars, FDA officials claim Januvia doesn't cause the sharp drops in blood sugar that occur with insulin and other drugs.
And, pending final FDA approvals, Novartis may launch a second DPP-4 inhibitor, Galvus, by year's end. No doubt, that rosy news about new diabetes drug in the pipeline contributed to Merck and Novartis stocks climbing by about a half-dollar. Of course, that'll happen with any drug costing patients close to $5 per pill, per day as Januvia does...
Just a reminder, even the New England Journal of Medicine acknowledged five years ago a healthier diet -- ideally based on your body's unique nutritional type -- and an exercise program can completely eradicate diabetes, an artifact of poor lifestyle choices.
People are amazing. When the answer is right in front of us, we are even to lazy to look at it. If you look back in history, there was no such thing as Type 2 or even Diabetes. This is something we have created over time.
I have helped many people to help themselves with holistic nutrition and lifestyle principles. Most americans eat the American C.R.A.P (Caffiene, Refinded/Processed foods, Alchohol/Aspartamte, Pasteurized milk) Diet. This diet mostly consists of sugar, sugar and more sugar. Some say, well I eat healthy carbs, I eat lots of vegies, I drink juiced veggies/fruits and so forth. What does that equate to= SUGAR!
When you continuously eat like this, many things happen. You are making your pancreas work overtime. In the end, it will keep spitting out more insulin secondary to all the sugar stored in the body and flowing within the blood. Overtime when there is no muscle left to store the sugar in, it ends up in the blood. To make a long story short, you end up being insulin resistant and at the same time fat (insulin is the key to unlock to door to store fat). As well, you become hyperinsulemic. Your body does not react to the insulin anymore. This is type 2 DM.
Are drugs the answer? Well yes for lazy Americans that don't want to face that facts that they have created this. The answer is taking resp for one self! Following 5 key principle has worked for all of my clients with Type 2 DM: Eat right, Drink right, Sleep right, Move right and Think right. This includes the right nutritional lifestyle, not a diet. Eating organic foods from mother earth, increasing protein intake, increase quality fat intake and so on. Drink right= the only thing our body was designed to drink is water. Sleep right= get to be by 10pm and get up no earlier than 6am. Move right= doing the right amount of exericse and not overtraining, but at the same time working out with proper body mechanics. Think right= You are what you think, having become what you thought. This as well will decrease the amount of stress on your adrenal glands, taking you out of a sympathetic stressed state. This will lower cortisol and insulin levels, balancing out your hormones as well.