Great news! Wonderful!
Metabolic decline, degeneration, and worse is not simply a function of diet.
In our pill obsessed world, due to social-construction of 'cures' being
identified with the mythic image of the Pharmaceutical Monopoly (an
offspring of the Petroleum and Steal monopolies), most of us have been
raised within a cultural matrix equating curing with 'taking something'. The
etymology of curing is stripping a dead animal of it's skin, then denaturing
that skin to become 'cured' to last forever (or close to it) as something
akin to a mummy. In that respect, I'm disinterested and disinclined to
becoming cured or mummified.
All kidding aside, diet alone is short sighted. The deeper my research goes
- along with connecting a lot of dots - it becomes evident that certain
chemicals produced by the body and associated with tumor development,
pro-inflammation, vasoconstriction, insulin insensitivity - demons, in other
words - become angels as vasodilators (there's a connection between type II
diabetes and male/female erectile dysfunction), anti-inflammatories, and
mitochondria/capillary bed builders (rather than tumor builders), etc. under
certain natural conditions.
Integrative medicine aims at a whole systems approach to the majestic
intricate matrix that is our lives, fulfillment, passion, and play. Both
play and good food will heal; the synergy of them in combination, and
transcending by 'seeing through/rising above' the stressors of life, bring
us close to being Post-Modern Paleos! A contradiction within a paradox (a
compliment once bestowed upon Karl Marx).
Imagine a spectrum, to the extreme left therapeutics aimed at restoration of
vital balance (harmonia in the Krotona gymnasia/academy of Pythagorus, c.
5th Century BCE), while in the middle is a condition of somewhat restorative
balance, a delicate unstable balance matched by a mind/heart giving up on
the penetrating to the core of health kind of analysis we'd expect of
Socrates, the Buddha (aka The Cool in Sanskrit), Pythagorus, Ivan Illich,
and a few more. To the extreme right is Peak Performance, the realm of
hardbodied athletes, those men and women in their late 60s who embarrass the
crap out of unfit 30 year olds. Perhaps the further reaches of the dormant
human potential are merely enfolded (qua Karl Pribam) messages from our
Paleo progenitors, heralding the next step in evolution as being what Jonas
Salk deemed "survival of the wisest".
Resistance training - bodyweight, weights, kettlebells, tubes and cables,
NEVER those DAMNED MACHINES robbing you of working all 650+ muscles, will
prevent and restore vitality. And bring play and fun back to your life. True
Intelligent Training is hormonal or metabolically enhancing training,
fitness for living. Mere reliance on diet alone is half-assed instead of
whole-hearted, likely rationalizations (aka excuses) for laziness. Reframed,
the better shape you get in, the better organized and restored your hormones
will become - among other things - resulting in horny, sexually alive and
pleasured mature men and women. No, not that neurotic work ethic but the
Paleo Pleasure Principle - our paleo progenitors were likely of the same
ethos as bonobo monkeys embodying the pleasure principle.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paleolithic Eating Support List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Trish Leon
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Insulin and zero-carb
Hi all:
Although this is not scientific, I developed type II diabetes in 2004 at the
age of 37. Initially my glucose levels were off the charts (over 800). When
following the ADA's recommended diabetic diet, including oral medications,
my glucose dropped, but never lower than 300's. After becoming "fed up" by
the nutritionists, I decided to take things into my own hands. I came upon
this forum, and made the changes in my diet. Today my glucose hoovers
between 85-110 after eating. No medications. If I maintain the paleo eating
plan, I have energy, normal blood glucose levels and my A1C is 5.7. IMO,
that is proof enough that eating paleo can reverse type II diabetes. This is
also true for my mother and sister.
Thanks,
Trish
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken O'Neill <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:25:21
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Insulin and zero-carb
We just did a half day workshop at the University of Texas on the topic of
preventing, stopping and preventing diabetes - especially type II.
The approach presented is likely full scale Paleo insofar as treating food
as medicine and doing nothing else was not the approach. In comparison to
modern people, the Paleos were active and we are sedentary. Paleos did not
run marathons but likely did high intensity exertion more akin to sprinters,
gymnasts, boxers, bodybuilders. They were bigger than us, their bone remains
showing larger skulls and evidence of much larger muscles.
Since publication of Evans and Rosenberg's landmark work showing that muscle
wasting of strength muscle is a major cause of aging, and sets the stage for
metabolic syndrome, consider research has demonstrated the efficacy of
strength training in stopping & reversing arthritis, osteoporosis, elevated
blood lipids, obesity, type II diabetes and other ailments. Those ailments
are unfortunately treated as stand-alone ailments rather than as a syndrome
of degenerate conditions rooted in poor diet and sedentary lifestyle slowly
and cumulatively eroding one's health and well being. Of course, the
pharmaceutical monopoly would keep things as they are, selling meds to
maintain degenerative diseases to addict a public and make a fortune.
As a clinical coach, I've delighted in seeing myriad conditions improve with
regular strength training. Using food as a substitute for medicine is for
lazy people weak in character and resolve. If you want to prevent ailments
associated with muscle wasting, you need to work at it. Working at it is the
best way of overcoming living in contempt of the expectations of your
genetic code.
Best regards,
Ken O'Neill
-----Original Message-----
From: Paleolithic Eating Support List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:26 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Insulin and zero-carb
Dr Bernstein is a engineer who became a Dr to cure or manage his own
diabetes.
His regimen is stricter than the Eades but similar.
http://tinyurl.com/r7mb57
Reviews: http://tinyurl.com/q6ycbn
I recommend it as the best alterative book on diabetes.
I agree that Eades "Protein Power" is also excellent and would add
Atkins to the list.
Chuck
Everyone is beautiful if you squint a bit.
On 9/16/2009 12:51:56 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Guys, help me out fast, please! Point me to some sources of how a type
> II diabetic can go completely off insulin by going zero-carb, or a
> personal testimonial. And even better, can a type I diabetic also go
> off insulin? Is that possible? I think I've heard that it's possible,
> but need some authoritative sources, or personal testimonials for my
> father. He's teetering on the fence of going on the new Eades book
> program for eliminating visceral fat, which is crucial for his health.
> (The book is truly excellent, by the way.)
>
> thanks,
> Hilary
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