Decoding The Diabetes Research

The flurry of research around diabetes only produces more proof of what has already been known for years. The cause has been known and the cure is simple. Type 2 Diabetes is an adrenal gland condition that is reversible, which I will explain. A Tumor, an enzyme deficiency, hypertrophy, hyperplasia or any combination in the adrenal glands; that is what type 2 diabetes is and these conditions can be eliminated by lifestyle changes alone, lifestyle changes and temporary medication or by laser surgery.

Diabetes is altered adrenal glands caused by different scenarios. It is possible to reverse 2 of the scenarios, hypertrophy and hyperplasia. Pathology.Lippincott-Raven1999;8-9. And newly diagnosed patients can reverse this condition quickly. And even if the cell changes have become permanent can still be resolved with laser surgery if lifestyle doesn’t work. NO ONE NEEDS TO BE LIVING WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES! NO ONE!!

So, how did a dietitian and diabetes educator get so involved with the function of the adrenal glands? Isn’t that a job for an endocrinologist, you might ask? Try to put yourself in my shoes. Patients come to me for help. Their doctor has told them to lose weight to control their diabetes. Right there are 2 falacies;

(1) weight loss controls glucose intolerance (which causes high blood sugar) but not diabetes.
(2) a dietitian can’t always succeed in helping patients to fight the hormones that increase weight. I knew I wasn’t the whole answer in every case and since I have an aversion to failure I just kept digging until I found the answers that my recovery program is now based on.

The cause of type 2 diabetes is that simple and all the research and all of the biochemistry proves it. Everything you read about, everything you hear on TV and everything on the internet, yes every little biochemical detail about type 2 diabetes, if not caused by diabetes medication, is caused by stress or caffeine stimulating too much of some adrenal hormones and exhaustion or reduced production of other adrenal hormones. The individual variation of adrenal hormones is the reason there is a variety of reactions and symptoms in people. This is why different medications affect people differently. The individuality of type 2 diabetes is due to the individuality of the adrenal glands. Read on. . . and you’ll see.

It seems that the medical researchers in the U.S. overlook cortisol or other adrenal gland hormones because that answer is just too simple. The fact that the answer has always been here would be difficult to face, in deed. I wrote my first book about the cause of diabetes in 2003 and published it in 2005 but couldn’t convince any medical providers that they needed to look at the adrenals. Now the Japanese are looking at the adrenal glands as the root of the problem, and are even resolving type 2 diabetes in some. In fact, in one investigation a Japanese group found 3 tumors in 3 diabetics. And after surgery on either the adrenal gland or pituitary,which affects the adrenals, the cortisol normalized and their diabetes and high blood pressure reversed to normal. Regardless of whether these patients were diagnosed with extreme cortisol or cortisol above a usual baseline, correcting the adrenal cells resolved the diabetes. But this information has been in the pathology books for years! Diabetes. A Journal of the American Diabetes Association. 68th Scientific Sessions, June 6-10, 2008. San Francisco, California. / Rubin, Farber. Pathology.Lippincott-Raven1999;1193.

So how can an oversight like this happen? In order to diagnose a problem. medical researchers decided years ago that cortisol and other adrenal hormones must be above or below certain levels to warrant any investigation. This is foolish and has taken away individual analysis of the adrenals. For example, let’s say your cortisol level is usually 10 and it jumps up to 19. You may experience diabetic symptoms, but since 19 is still within the range determined to be normal, it will be overlooked as a concern.

Then what must be done is blood tests to determine the levels of several other adrenal hormones; DOC, cortisol, aldosterone, DHEA, androstenedione. When you compare many adrenal hormones to each other in one person you will see if there are problems. If one stands out as excessive there are 2 treatment options; scan the glands first to get a clear diagnosis of, and cure for, their individual type 2 diabetes or; follow the program at the end of this book to try to reverse the situation first. Obviously, it is easier, less costly and less invasive to follow the lifestyle program first. For many, that will be their cure. For those who have a more difficult time reversing their condition, they may need to scan the adrenals. One year is enough time to determine if the program works for you or if you need scanning.

I have discussed the cause of all this in the “cause” link on this website and in more detail in my book but it bears repeating. Type 2 diabetes is an adrenal gland condition that is brought on by stress or caffeine or both. Ask any type 2 diabetic what was going on at the time they were diagnosed with diabetes. They will either tell you about extraordinary stress, chronic stress, a lot of caffeine or both; and these things can change the adrenal glands. In today’s world the human body is expected to keep up with too much, so people turn to stimulants to keep them going. And with this chosen lifestyle they may have to pay a dear price. If you are old enough, maybe you remember in the 1950’s when Sunday was a day of rest and all the stores were closed? Leaving that ritual behind was a huge mistake.

I think everyone would agree that we live in a caffeinated world and we live in a diabetes plagued world. . . so why doesn’t this association “click” with research? Because it’s too simple, because some inappropriate research concludes that coffee does not contribute to diabetes, and maybe because caffeinated researchers who don’t have diabetes want to protect their own caffeine habits. Understanding the adrenal risk factors would certainly put their minds to rest and open up the proper doors. The following studies are just the tip of the iceberg in the vast field of research in diabetes. And keep in mind that the word “stress” is interchangeable with “adrenal hormones.”

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