For me Easter brings back memories of hollow chocolate bunnies, candy eggs, and Easter Egg hunts up in Colfax.  Sugar pretty much made up breakfast on those mornings.  Easter brunch contained the usual festive holiday foods followed by more sugar-laden treats.  In short, Easter was a Diabetes training ground.  Many of our holidays seemed to follow this pattern, perhaps because back in those days sugar was still considered a special treat and not an every day occurrence.

Today, much of America lives on sugar daily.  It is in everything.  Check the labels - if there is more than 5 ingredients, most of the time one or more of those ingredients is some form of sugar or simple carbohydrate that turns into sugar as soon as you eat it.  Why is that?  - Because sugar sells product.  Previously I wrote about the addictive qualities of wheat gluten stimulating the heroin receptors in the brain, well sugar is more addictive than cocaine.  The best way to create repeat sales is to include either wheat or sugar in the product.  (Notice in this label the first top 4 ingredients are either sugar or turn immediately into sugar - but also notice down in the added vitamin section between iron and B6 the wheat starch - obviously not put in for substance or body, but only for its addictive effect.)

We are genetically wired to like sweet taste because historically as hunter - gatherers, if something you found tasted even slightly sweet, it was usually safe to eat.  Meat when fresh is mildly sweet.  Ripe vegetables and fruits are varying degrees of sweet.  Bitter, sour, and spicy tastes are too often associated with poisonous chemicals found in nature's foods.  So we love sweet.  And now with the availability of so much food abundance, we can chase after more and more sweet taste - an opportunity that never existed in human history before.

We have been overdoing it.  Our excess has created a monster - Diabetes.  Type 2 diabetes is a disease of excess.  Quite literally your cells refuse to open up and let any more in.  They stop responding to the signals produced by the hormone insulin telling them to open their doors and let more food in.  They will actually starve to death in the middle of overabundance all around them.

Understanding this core principle has led a group of researchers to investigate what would happen to diabetics when they are put on a severally restricted calorie diet - 600 calories per day.  The idea is that since diabetes is the cells of the body shutting down due to being bombarded with excess food (especially sugar), then what happens if we starve the cells by giving them not enough food?
Astoundingly, the diabetes went into reversal.

After a few years of insulin resistance diabetes, the pancreas cells that produce the insulin start shutting down production.  The assumption has always been that this shut down is irreversible.  But the diabetic patients put on the starvation diet actually started producing normal levels of insulin again.  This was totally unexpected.  The study was run for 12 weeks of starvation.  During that time the patients gradually returned to normal healthy blood sugar metabolism.  Even more exciting, rechecking the patients another 12 weeks after resuming normal eating showed that the improvements were still there.  They stayed healthy even after eating normally again.  This is amazing.

Hopefully we will be hearing much more about this amazing experiment in the future.  The limitations of the study were its small sample size due to the extensive MRI and metabolic studies being done and that only patients still fairly early in their diabetic diagnosis were tested (less than 4 years.)  They have no idea if they will get the same results with long term diabetic patients.

The patients were taken off their diabetes drugs and were not given any other special medication.  They were treated with dietary restriction alone.  To me this approach to healing is very familiar.  I used to fast on water alone for many years for health.  At one point I was fasting over 100 days a year (in small blocks of 2 weeks to just a few days at a time).  Fasting is perfectly safe when you know what you are doing and know what to watch out for.  This protocol they used is a piece of cake compared to total water fasting.  The weight loss protocol I have been using in the office with great success with my patients uses only 500 calories per day, and is far superior nutritionally to the protocol the researchers used in their study.  We had no idea, but the weight loss diet I created is doing a lot more for patient's health then we knew.

When I came across this research I thought what a great Easter present - to give hope to all my patients dealing with diabetes and pre-diabetes.  It appears there is a very simple and achievable answer to this life destroying disease.  Your body seems to be saying in diabetes that it simply wants a break from all the abundance that has been dumped on it.  It needs a rest and needs to clean house.  It needs to dump out the garbage that has built up in the pancreas and liver that is shutting down its function.  It can't do this while it is busy being used to process a bunch of food.  So it needs a vacation from food abundance.  It needs less - a lot less.

A legal disclaimer here - I can't treat diabetes under my license.  So don't even mention diabetes to me.  I can't even discuss it with you as a Chiropractor.  I can talk weight loss however.  The protocol the researchers used was actually a standard medical weight loss program called Optifast.  The product is nutritionally crap in my opinion (too much soy and too many carbs), but it is used with great success in medically supervised weight loss programs.  So if you want to try a very low calorie diet protocol, I would recommend the weight loss program I have set up as nutritionally superior.  Be sure to let your medical doctor know what you are up to - give him a copy of the research so he will understand what you are doing.  Blood tests before you start and possibly every couple weeks may be a good idea to make sure everything is going well.  The research can be found here - http://www.springerlink.com/content/68rmr50h7j024525/fulltext.pdf

Sugar is poison.  Too much sugar is too much poison for most people.  How much is too much?  For most people 6 - 7 teaspoons of sugar a day (about 1 ounce) is all you can metabolically handle without producing liver damage.  That is equal to half a can of soda per day and no other sweets all day.  That means that 12 ounce candy egg will have to be cut into 12 pieces and you will have to eat only 1 piece a day over the next 2 weeks to prevent liver damage.  My sister Dawn used to do that.  It drove us all crazy.  She still had Halloween candy left over when Easter rolled around!  To this day she still avoids all sugar.  If only I had been so disciplined when young!  Ah well, live and learn.

Happy Easter and Happy Spring!  
    

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years.  He began experimenting with  medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis.  In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education.  Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic.  He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice. 
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health. 
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities. 
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth.  The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework.  Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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