I will not be upset if this post is removed but, I feel it is very important that everyone reads it. This information may have saved my life. Indeed, there are many shamans out there who are too busy helping others to really pay attention to their own problems and this information may help keep them around as well. This is being cross posted.
Hi all. One of the reasons I began on my path with alternative medicine and spiritual healing was because I had health problems. Doctors are great but, never really helped me much. I may have just found out a major reason having to do with the competition between glucose and vitamin C uptake. Diabetics do not make good use of vitamin C because of this competition. The following is stolen directly from the internet with my thanks to the authors. Finding this really made my day. It can be read in it's entirety at www.internetwks.com/owen/gaa.html Aloha, kahuna Lamaku.
The Diabetic Double Whammy
Combining these ideas, we postulate that cells that can’t absorb glucose are not absorbing vitamin C either. As blood glucose levels rise, the GAA theory predicts that vitamin C uptake is greatly diminished throughout the body, even in cells with undamaged insulin pumps. Our conjecture is that the serious health consequences of prolonged Type II diabetes, e.g. blindness, wounds that won't heal, limb amputation, etc., are the result of the lack of vitamin C inside cells.
We may now more intelligently answer the question as to why heart patients do well on high-dose Omega-3 oil supplementation. Healthful omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in flax seed and fish oils, promote healthy cell membranes allowing more nutrients to pass into cells. Theoretically, there would be more benefit from Omega-3 supplementation after the primary cause of membrane damage, trans fatty acids, are eliminated from the diet. As cell membranes become permeable, sugar molecules leave the blood stream lowering blood sugar, making vitamin C more bioavailable. Finally, we postulate that the cellular membrane problem hindering the uptake of glucose in diabetics also hinders their cells from obtaining vitamin C.
Hi all. One of the reasons I began on my path with alternative medicine and spiritual healing was because I had health problems. Doctors are great but, never really helped me much. I may have just found out a major reason having to do with the competition between glucose and vitamin C uptake. Diabetics do not make good use of vitamin C because of this competition. The following is stolen directly from the internet with my thanks to the authors. Finding this really made my day. It can be read in it's entirety at www.internetwks.com/owen/gaa.html Aloha, kahuna Lamaku.
The Diabetic Double Whammy
Combining these ideas, we postulate that cells that can’t absorb glucose are not absorbing vitamin C either. As blood glucose levels rise, the GAA theory predicts that vitamin C uptake is greatly diminished throughout the body, even in cells with undamaged insulin pumps. Our conjecture is that the serious health consequences of prolonged Type II diabetes, e.g. blindness, wounds that won't heal, limb amputation, etc., are the result of the lack of vitamin C inside cells.
We may now more intelligently answer the question as to why heart patients do well on high-dose Omega-3 oil supplementation. Healthful omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in flax seed and fish oils, promote healthy cell membranes allowing more nutrients to pass into cells. Theoretically, there would be more benefit from Omega-3 supplementation after the primary cause of membrane damage, trans fatty acids, are eliminated from the diet. As cell membranes become permeable, sugar molecules leave the blood stream lowering blood sugar, making vitamin C more bioavailable. Finally, we postulate that the cellular membrane problem hindering the uptake of glucose in diabetics also hinders their cells from obtaining vitamin C.
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