Re: beyondhom Re: rubric help & thoughts needed

Jane MacRoss wrote:
>  it is possible the scales used are to sell Insulin and
> other diabetic drugs just as cholesterol levels are designed to sell
> statins - that's just my cynical view I guess - but partly based on
> observation.

I've had type 1 for almost  27 years, and because my diabetes is pretty 
brittle (which an insulin pump helped a lot), my blood sugar has rarely been 
as consistently low as they prefer. Nevertheless, I've shown no signs yet of 
even pre-complications.

Extremely tight control CAN actually reverse complications in some people, 
which is something that they never believed possible before. But of course 
that creates a higher risk of hypoglycemic episodes, which--as Liz 
pointed--out can be fatal. And, strangely enough, it can WORSEN 
complications in other people.

And I just ran across something which might be very significant in terms of 
homeopathic treatment for diabetics. They now suspect--based on the fact 
that some diabetics get complications DESPITE tight control--that the 
complications could, in some cases, actually be a result of the continuation 
of the auto-immune disease process that triggered the diabetes to begin 
with, NOT blood sugar levels.

Which just goes to show that, contrary to what allopaths would like to 
believe, the disease process is highly individual, without a "one size fits 
all" solution. Gee, homeopaths have known that...how long now?


Cee