The Medical- and Pharmaceutical shill website Medical News Today published, yesterday, yet another article on a possible “diabetes treatment.” This time it was based on a study in mice where the researchers used a two-drug combination to ‘regrow’ cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. While this might sound promising for the uninitiated, it once again shows the illogical and idiotic backwards thinking of the pharmaceutical industry, not to mention the obvious complications and damage it would bring.
Let’s see what the author Tim Newman of Medical News Today had to say.
“According to the paper, the treatment produced an up to 7-fold increase in the number of cells that produce insulin. It also improved blood sugar control in the animals.”
This might be promising for a few with a damaged pancreas, as in type-1 diabetes, depending on the severity. As you should know, humans are made to run on a fat metabolism, only consuming animal fat and protein. We are not meant for consuming carbohydrates, not unless we are in a severe starvation situation. If someone with type-1 diabetes still needs insulin on a ketogenic diet to support gluconeogenesis, our natural way of producing all the glucose we need, this might be good news. However, if you only need insulin to control blood glucose after consuming toxic carbohydrates, this will backfire big time – especially for those with type-2 diabetes. And we will get to the why in a bit if you haven’t figured it out yet.
The importance of beta cells in diabetes
“Beta cells are situated in the mysterious-sounding islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. They are responsible for creating, storing, and releasing insulin. In people with type 1 diabetes, these cells are almost entirely absent, and in those with type 2 diabetes, their number is greatly reduced – by around 40–60%.”
Yes, however, in type-2 diabetes, while the pancreas might have taken some damage by your idiotic consumption of carbohydrates (or it might have down regulated as your cells can’t take any more glucose,) the largest factor is the damage to your cells and the fact that they shut down their receptors to insulin as they can’t store any more glucose or the cell would die.
In other words, you simply have less cells that can store glucose, so blood glucose will linger for a longer time doing more damage to your sensitive soft cells. While administering insulin will force some cells to take up more glucose, that is not a solution as it will further damage them. The solution will always be to stop what is causing damage, as in removing the idiotioc carbohydrates from the diet.
After this, Medical News Today discussed the human application of these drugs and whether they will help these new beta cells to survive, or if they will only multiply and then die and be of very little use. So far, they have only managed to see proliferation of adult human beta cells in a tissue culture dish for a few days.
For the mouse model, they transplanted human islets containing beta cells into the kidneys of live mice that lacked an “immune system.” For 3 months, the scientists gave the mice harmine and exendin-4. By the end, the beta cells had increased in number significantly. Beta cell function also improved, as did glycemic control.
While promising, it’s a long way from being applicable on humans, and again, at what cost?
‘Hope for future regenerative therapies’ for diabetes
“If these results can be demonstrated in humans, it may allow patients with early evidence of beta cell failure to be rescued. It may also be transformative for the care of patients at risk of type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.”
And that is the only application, helping those who face total cell failure. Those with severe type-1 diabetes. As for type-2 diabetes, it would be a disaster.
What about potential side effects?
“As this is an entirely new approach, it is not clear how much regeneration and expansion of beta cells is necessary to make a meaningful difference to people with diabetes.”
As I said earlier, the cause of type-2 diabetes is unnatural elevated levels of blood glucose from the consumption of carbohydrates. So, the only logical solution to the problem that needs to be addressed is carbohydrates.
As humans we run on a fat metabolism. Fat is our main source of fuel and only a few organs and tissues actually need the “quicker fuel” of glucose — such as the brain, heart and lungs (although they also use fat and ketones.) This is why we produce our own glucose through gluconeogenesis in perfect balanced quantities whenever we need it. And that process is tightly controlled by our body where blood glucose levels are kept within a very narrow limit since glucose is damaging to our soft tissues, especially blood vessels, kidneys, nerves, eyes, connective tissue, feet and skin. This is very evident in diabetics. And as a last resort, our body ‘mutates’ cells to better handle glucose, as in forming tumors, as in cancer. This is why we see some tumors that favors glucose. It’s simply out of the necessity of survival. Our body’s way to protect us and extend our life a little bit longer so we might escape whatever is hurting us (in this case carbohydrates.)
So, as you might have figured out, regrowing beta cells in order to produce more insulin and force our failing cells to take up more glucose is just as stupid as taking insulin to be able to continue consuming carbohydrates. All this will accomplish is slowing down the damage of soft tissues a little bit as blood glucose will be cleared a little bit faster, while other cells that can store glucose as glycogen will take greater damage as they have to go beyond their current capacity. And that scenario will surely accelerate the mutation process of these cells into tumors.
Again, the problem is the diet, the life-long indoctrination of consuming toxic carbohydrates. All these “diabetes treatments” by the medical establishment focus on insulin management and the fact that people should be able to carry on with their destructive eating behavior. However, as long as you continue to consume carbohydrates, blood glucose will rise above normal safe levels and damage will be done, no matter how much insulin you produce or inject. The damage will be done every single time you have a meal. If you have diabetes, you need to slowly reduce the carbohydrates in your diet until you only consume animal fat and protein, as in a ‘ketogenic diet.’ This slow transition phase is crucial as you need to heal and re-ignite gluconeogenesis and your fat metabolism.
Adopting our natural species-appropriate, species-specific carnivorous ‘ketogenic’ diet of animal-based foods is the only way to heal and to be fully healthy. It does not matter what “disease” you’re suffering from, but in the case of diabetes, it is crucial as you have already damaged so much of your tissues that continued elevated blood glucose levels will lead to severe cardiovascular disease, organ failure and/or cancer. Trying to keep on consuming carbohydrates by taking insulin or “regrowing” beta cells is a fool’s errand. You can only fix the problem by removing what is causing it — the carbohydrates.