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From: Todd Gastaldo (tgastaldo_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/24/05
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:35:15 GMT
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"Larry McMahan" <l.mcmahan@nospam.uncomcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Todd Gastaldo" <tgastaldo@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:dJZId.3989$YD5.1620@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> but until that day comes - there are
>> important external environmental adjustments - and the internal
>> environmental adjustment called insulin.
>>
> I just couldn't let this statement pass without adding a few remarks
> about "chemical" (I personally prefer the term pharmaceutical)
> treatment of diabetes.
>
The fundamental hypothesis of chiropractic is that disease is caused by
noxious irritation of the nervous system by mechanical, chemical and/or
psychic irritation of the nervous system. [Dorland's Illustrated Medical
Dictionary 2000]
Just as there are mechanical, chemical and psychic causes of disease, there
are mechanical, chemical and psychic adjustments.
The modifier chemical embraces pharmaceutical and nutritional and other
chemical exposures/adjustments.
Psychic embraces education - which is the ultimate cause of many damaging
(and many helpful) pharmaceutical and nutritional chemical
exposures/adjustments.
Larry, I regard your posts as chiropractic adjustments.
I regard everyone's posts as chiropractic adjustments.
I regard everyone as a chiropractic adjuster - a teacher - a doctor.
Doctor comes from the Latin word for teacher.
With licensed doctors (of all professional stripes) teaching so poorly in so
many key areas (whether because of lack of time or lack of training)...
With licensed doctors actively RESTRICTING "the mental act of accumulating
knowledge" in key areas (for example lying, failing to tell women that they
are closing birth canals up to 30%)...
We all have an obligation to ourselves and our families to engage in "the
mental act of accumulating knowledge" - a key phrase in the first
chiropractor's naming of chiropractic.
Larry, whether you call it chiropractic or not, you have adjusted yourself
well it seems to me.
You are helping to adjust others - me included...
> I personally think that of the possible pharmaceutical agents, insulin
> is the least desirable, and should only be used in the situation where
> all other efforts have failed.
>
I personally think this too.
> There are two kinds of diabetes, the first is where the pancreas does
> not produce enough insulin, this is type 1, and is usually seen in
> children.
> The use of insulin for this situation has the benefit that it increases
> insulin levels to where glucose can be metabolized, but by "flooding"
> the body with insulin, it further depresses natural production. There are
> new drugs that actually work to increase natural body production. I
> think these are more effective for long term use. But this is not the
> type of diabetes Todd was talking about.
>
Actually, I was suggesting that juvenile-onset diabetes can be helped with
other environmental adjustments - though not other environmental adjustments
ONLY.
My understanding is that insulin is always necessary once full-blown
juvenile-onset diabetes manifests - and insulin needs fluctuate and can be
reduced (but never totally eliminated) with environmental adjustments.
Someone please correct me (adjust) if I am wrong.
>
> The second type of diabetes is marked by insulin resistance. This
> occurs when the insulin receptors in the muscle fiber will not pick up
> an adequate amount of insulin from the bloodstream. That means it
> takes MORE insulin in the bloodstream to provide enough to overcome
> the resistance. Again adding insulin to the bloodstream floods the
> muscle fibers to the point that even resistant tissue will absorb insulin,
> but there are two disadvantages. First, it depresses natural production
> by the same mechanism I pointed about for type 1 diabetes. Second,
> it increases insulin levels in the bloodstream above what is normal.
>
> It is much more effective to attack the problem by reducing the
> insulin resistance of the muscle fibers. Strenuous exercise is known
> to be very effective in reducing insulin resistance. There are also
> pharmaceuticals now that specifically act to reduce insulin resistance.
> I think both of these routes are far superior to insulin application, and
> that it should be used only as a last resort.
>
> My point? Even when you talk about "chemical" solutions, all
> solutions are not the same or equally effective. IM(NS)HO,
> insulin is the last choice of even the chemical solutions,
I agree.
> and that
> a thinking person who knows the problem and possible solution,
> even if he believes in the value of chemical solutions, will choose
> one OTHER than insulin first.
>
> Insulin is for the cases where ALL the other solutions fail.
>
My recollection is that insulin is a Canadian discovery - Banting and Best
at McGill University I think it was...
Todd
PS A veterinarian used the fundamental chiropractic hypothesis discussed
above in his definition of "chirovetpractic"...
He added some words to what I wrote to him - I didn't say "Chirovetpractic
is unique unto itself" though it may well be...
http://www.chirovetpractic.com/definition.htm
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