Robert Ratliff wrote on this RAW-FOOD message board "Dr. Bernarr, have you
treated Diabetes?"
         DIABETES-HOW TO HELP HEAL IT WITHOUT DRUGS OR SURGERY

Diabetes mellitus is now the number 5 cause of death. About 12 million
Americans suffer from diabetes. 200 million world-wide are effected by
diabetes. Most cases of diabetes occurs in people over 40. The word diabetes
is from the Greek word, meaning to siphon and refers to the marked loss of
water by urination, polyuria. The word mellitus is derived from the Latin
word for sweet and thus diabetes mellitus-sweet urine disease.
When you become enervated (fatigued) due to unhealthful living habits, a
state of systemic toxicosis develops. Diabetes is a symptom and result of
this total body toxemia. By toxemia, I mean autogenously poisoned, that is,
poisoned from within by toxins taken in, from without. Only when there is a
deficiency of the excretory function, does body waste accumulate in the
fluids and tissues of the body in sufficient quantity, to constitute a menace
to the integrity of the body. Toxemia arises out of inhibited elimination
(excretion), which in turn, grows out of enervation, a state of lowered nerve
force. Enervation is the result of a mode of living that uses up nerve force
in excess. When the pancreas of an enervated and toxemic individual is
overworked by excessive eating of starches and sugars, there is, first,
irritation, then inflammation, then enlargement and finally degeneration
(destruction) of the islets of Langerhans, with loss of power to oxidize
sugar. This is diabetes. The toxemia of the pancreas is secondary to this
entire bodily toxicosis. Being continually stressed because of these bad
living habits, you become exhausted. This leads to decreased insulin output.
Diabetes is a disorder associated with an impaired metabolism of
carbohydrates.
Diabetes is a degenerative disease wherein the beta cells of the islets of
Langherans in the pancreas have been impaired or destroyed. The beta cells
secrete the sugar carrier called insulin. Impairment or destruction of the
beta cells and the islets of Langherans results from toxic substances or
drugs. The islets of Langerhans are little organs within the pancreas
(sweetbread). The pancreas is a tongue-shaped gland located behind the
stomach.
There are 2 types of diabetes. Diabetes Type 1 is juvenile diabetes, i.e.,
childhood onset diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes in children. Type 1
produces too little insulin. 10% of all diabetics are Type 1. Diabetes Type 2
is adult onset diabetes, i.e., noninsulin-dependent diabetes. This produces
near-normal levels of insulin. 90% of diabetics are Type 2. They both have
high levels of glucose in the blood.
The pancreas secretes a hormone called insulin directly into the bloodstream.
Insulin picks up sugar in the bloodstream and must first transport the sugar
through the interstitial walls. The cells are bathed by interstitial fluid.
Insulin enhances the transport of glucose through the cell membrane, into the
cell, particularly the skeletal muscles, adipose tissue cells, the heart
muscle, the uterus and other smooth muscle organs. The only areas where it
does not enhance transport of glucose, is into the brain cells, through the
intestinal mucosa, or through the tubular epithelium of the kidney. Insulin
plays a highly important role in the metabolism of glucose inside the cell.
In this manner, glucose is used by the body for energy and heat. Insulin
enables the body to store glucose as glycogen in muscles and the liver.  If
the insulin does not pick up the sugar in the blood, it will go to neither
the interstitial fluid nor the cells. Since the body tissues are not properly
nourished by the lost sugar and starches, the diabetic is always hungry and
eats constantly. When sugar is not made available to the cells, several
events and changes occur.
Firstly, sugar accumulates in the blood. This can accumulate until diabetic
coma is experienced. Or the body can extract it from the blood as it passes
through the kidneys and pass it off through the urine.
The ideal blood sugar levels are proclaimed to vary between 80 and 120. Some
people have wide swings in their sugar readings, from 40 to 400, without
having diabetes. The test to detect if you have diabetes is called the
"glucose tolerance test". A suspected patient is given in the morning, a test
meal of sugar dissolved in water and lemon juice. 1/2, 1, 2 and 3 hours after
the patient has received this test meal, urine and blood specimens are
collected for glucose determinations. The diagnosis of diabetes mellitus is
based on finding a blood sugar level that is excessively high for an unduly
prolonged period of time after administration of the test dose.
Symptoms of diabetes are great thirst, ravenous appetite with loss of
weight., headache, depression, constipation, sweet breath, dry, parched mouth
and skin, red and glazed tongue, decayed and loosened teeth, pyorrhea,
bleeding gums, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, vaginal itching, nocturnal
enuresis, loss of sex power, kidney problems, vision impairment, itching,
boils, carbuncles, eczema, weakness or fatigue.
The insulin is manufactured from the macerated pancreas of hogs, is a foreign
protein and has an insidious poison to the human body. It has a cumulative
effect and definitely possesses narcotic properties, as do all drugs.
Diabetics on pig insulin can experience problems as a result of taking the
pig insulin, such as premature aging, cardiovascular disease, hypertension,
strokes, atherosclerosis, kidney destruction and failure, kidney dialysis,
nerve damage (neuropathy), leg, foot and toe problems, gangrene, amputations,
cataracts, blindness, enlarged liver, perforating ulcer, motor or sensory
paralysis, pains in various parts of the body,  an absence of knee reflexes,
disintegration of joints, sexual impotency,  neuritis, bacterial and fungal
infections, acidosis (ketonemia or ketonuria), brain damage, labored
breathing and death.
Insulin must be given by hypodermic syringe, and it comes in 3 forms:
protamine zinc insulin, neutral protamine (H.P. insulin), and globin insulin.
The dose varies with each patient, but averages daily about 40 units.
The body rejects this insulin because it is not normal and is a foreign
protein injected into an organism. It is treated as a poison and eliminated
as quickly as possible. Insulin is, both directly and indirectly, the cause
of a large part of an increased death rate and is a big factor in preventing
thousands of diabetics from recovering. Insulin is a powerful drug. A slight
overdose causes a light insulin shock; a little more produces coma; a little
more powerful, results in death.  Intake of the drug insulin will suppress
the symptoms for a while but eventually the diabetic's pancreas atrophies
because of disuse. People with improperly diagnosed diabetes have been placed
on insulin because of the presence of this insulin in the blood.
Subsequently, the pancreas ceased to secrete normal insulin, atrophied and
eventually ceased to work, even when needed. Diabetes was created where it
was not formerly present.
Taking insulin, is almost a sure guarantee that one will not live carefully.
Insulin does much harm by encouraging overindulgence in carbohydrates. Every
carbohydrate glutton thinks that insulin licenses him to eat all the sugar
and starch he wants. All he needs to have, is his insulin always at hand.
Often, oral medication is given to diabetics instead of insulin to control
the symptoms. The University Group Diabetes Program, (UGDP), attempted to
evaluate various types of therapy in noninsulin dependent diabetic patients,
comparing the oral medication with diet alone. They concluded, that these
drugs were no more effective in controlling diabetes than diet alone. The use
of these oral drugs, causes cardiovascular mortality, jaundice, anemia, skin
rashes and death.
The pharmaceutical manufacturers have come up with a new form of insulin that
is supposed to simulate functions of the pancreas, in that it supplies
insulin constantly, at low doses. It is called an insulin pump and is worn on
the belt. It constantly infuses a low dose of rapid-acting insulin
subcutaneously or intravenously, with additional boluses of insulin, pumped
in immediately, prior to meals.
Diabetes occurs only as a result of unhealthful living. Once a diabetic
person has become enervated, recovery of nerve energy needed for healing
requires conservation of energy and removal of all enervating experiences.
Fortunately, the pancreas possesses a great excess of functioning power over
that needed for the ordinary activities of life, so that even after part of
the islets of Langerhans have been destroyed, the remainder will be able to
function sufficiently to meet the regular needs of life.
The pancreas has an enormous reserve functioning capacity. This has been
proven experimentally in animals where large amounts of pancreatic tissue
have been removed. In these experimental animals, diabetes mellitus has been
induced by different methods. the method most often employed is
depancreatectomy. In order to attain significant diabetes, at least 90 to 95%
of the pancreas usually must be removed. Otherwise, the islets of Langherhans
in the remaining pancreatic tissue, will often be able to hypertrophy
significantly, to supply enough insulin for normal metabolic needs. This
indicates that the islets of Langerhans normally have a tremendous reserve
capacity.
Since the diabetic cannot store glucose as glycogen, nor use it for fuel,
he/she has a tendency to lose weight. He/she is lacking in energy, despite
the inordinate eating.   85% of the glucose is stored as glycogen in the
muscles. No true diabetic has a well toned and muscular body. Bodyweight is
50% muscle. Anaerobic strength training has the effect of increasing muscle
mass. Anaerobic strength exercise improves sugar metabolism. This takes up
some of the excess glucose from the bloodstream.
A study published in the American Physiological Society's Journal of Applied
Psychology in 1994, indicates that weight training helps the body make more
efficient use of the insulin it produces.
The American Journal of Epidemiology, 1994, vol. 40, no. 4, reported a test
done on men with the highest level of physical activity. These men had
significantly lower insulin levels during the glucose tolerance test as
compared to men who had low physical activity.
The Journal of Applied Physiology, 1994, vol. 77, no. 3, reported that 11 men
underwent a strength-training program. Results showed that fasting insulin
and insulin levels during the glucose tolerance test, were significantly
lower after the training program.
The Journal of Applied Physiology, May 1990, showed that when men over 60
stopped exercise and lead sedentary lives, their glucose intolerance, which
is an early sign of diabetes, increases.
In 1971, F. J.  Buys and his associates in Johannesburg, South Africa,
reported their work with 8 diabetic patients. Each of the 8 individuals
completed vigorous exercises for half an hour each day, for a period of 8
months. At the end of this time, symptoms of diabetes, disappeared for 7 of
the 8 patients.
Famous people who have had diabetes are: Yuri Andropov, Soviet premier,
Arthur Ashe, U.S. tennis star, Hafiz al-Assad, Syrian dictator, Menachem
Begin, Israeli prime minister, Jack Benny,  U.S. movie actor, James Cagney,
U.S. movie actor, Spencer Tracy, U.S. movie actor, Mary Tyler Moore, U.S.
T.V. actress,  Wilford Brimley, U.S. movie actor, Paul Cezanne, French
painter, Bobby Clarke, U.S. hockey player, Miles Davis, U.S. jazz musician,
Francois Duvalier, Haitian Dictator, Thomas Edison, U.S. inventor, William
Fox, U.S. motion picture executive, Jerry Garcia, U.S. rock-and-roll
musician, Ernest Hemingway, U.S. writer, Jim "Catfish" Hunter, U.S. baseball
player, Charles Ives, U.S. composer, Mahalia Jackson, U.S. gospel singer,
Nikita Kruschchev, Soviet premier, Stanley Kramer, U.S. motion picture
producer-director, Fiorello Laguardia, U.S. politician, George Lucas, U.S.
producer, George Minot, U.S. physician and Nobel Prize winner, Gamal Abdel
Nasser, Egyptian politician, Gary Owens, U.S. radio and T.V. performer and
announcer, Dan Rowan, U.S. T.V. personality, Ron Santo, U.S. baseball player,
Giacomo Puccini, Italian opera composer, Mario Puzo, U.S. author, Jackie
Robinson, U.S. baseball player, Ray Robinson, U.S. boxer, David Viscott, U.S.
psychiatrist and author, Albert Ellis, U.S. psychotherapist and author, H.G.
Wells, English writer, D.D. Palmer, U.S. chiropractor and Leo Spears, U.S.
chiropractor.
In the late 1960's, GM Reaven and his associates at Stanford, discovered that
diabetics often had more insulin present in their blood than nondiabetics. It
was furthermore discovered, that a diabetic's pancreas could produce just as
much insulin and just as quickly, as that of a normal person. In one stroke,
the cherished theory that diabetes is always caused by a defective pancreas,
was thus swept away. For how could a pancreas be "defective", if it could
produce just as much insulin and just as quickly, as a normal pancreas, as is
very often the case?
Often at autopsy, the medical examiner is unable to find any damage to the
islets of Langerhans, in the pancreas of some diabetics. Yet these
individuals, when alive, had been given insulin, because of the appearance of
sugar in the blood.
Many other factors are involved in abnormal sugar metabolism: the liver,
because of overactivity in its many functions, or "dullness" in its capacity,
may not store glycogen; the pituitary gland in the brain, secreting the
hormonal diabeticogenic factors, A.C.T.H., and thyrotropic factors, may not
be functioning properly; the thyroid and adrenal glands may be in
malfunction. When insulin is given, it robs the specific insulin-producing
cells of their stimulative impulses, and they atrophy quickly.
Joan B., age 29, in 1965, had Type 1, Juvenile Diabetes, for 17 years. She
took insulin daily. She was always thin, no matter how she ate, had increased
urination, blurred vision, vaginal itching, nocturnal enuresis, was very
thirsty and weak. After she was under my care, she never took insulin again,
her vision became normal, never had vaginal itching, never had increased
urination nor nocturnal enuresis again, exercised daily with intensity,
gained muscular bodyweight and looked beautiful.
I have successfully helped heal many cases of Diabetes 1, i.e., Insulin
Dependent Diabetes. To my knowledge, I am the only health practitioner in the
world, to have helped heal Diabetes 1. There is no other health practitioner
in the world, including Natural Hygiene practitioners, who have ever written
or lectured about their having helped heal Diabetes 1.
A description of one of my Diabetes 1 cases that I helped heal, was described
in David Wolfe's "Sunfood Lifestyle" first edition. David Wolfe met her and
knew her before and after her Juvenile Diabetes. She was 25 years old. She
had Juvenile Diabetes for 10 years. She attended my monthly raw food
potlucks-lectures-discussions, before and after her being insulin free.
Michael S., age 67, in 1963, had Type 2, adult onset diabetes for 21 years.
He took insulin daily. He was 100 pounds overweight, had blurred vision, had
peripheral neuropathy, was always fatigued, and generally thirsty. After he
was under my care, he never took insulin again, lost the fat in his body and
developed muscular tone throughout his body, exercised with intensity daily,
developed normal vision, his peripheral neuropathy and constant thirst
disappeared.
After the personalized health care, I gave these patients, such as water
fasting, eating exclusively fresh, unprocessed raw foods, with all the
essential minerals and nutrients, practicing feeling meditation, progressive
resistance exercise and regular  airbathing and sunbathing, as nude as is
possible, they were healed of their diabetes, completely and permanently.
Being in contact with them for many years thereafter, they remained free of
their former diabetes.

Dr. Bernarr