Diabetes type I and diabetes type II

The information in this page about diabetes, natural medicine, treatment and cure is NOT a sales pitch for any drug, supplement, herbal formula or even an alleged magic potion from an exotic faraway land.

Food is always best natural treatment and cure

Diabetes is an illness of the pancreas (considered a gland). Normally, sugar is digested and broken down to a simple sugar, known as glucose, using insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. A healthy pancreas adjusts its insulin secretion based on the level of glucose. But, in diabetes, blood sugar levels become too high because of a pancreas malfunction. There are two types of diabetes:

Type 1 diabetes where a patient's pancreas is completely unable to produce insulin, this usually happens in young people, 35 years of age and younger. Recently diabetes type 1 has been on the rise, it is now seen among children as young as one year old.

Type 2 diabetes where a patient's pancreas can produce insulin, but the produced insulin is not absorbed properly, this usually happens in people around 40 years and older, though recently diabetes type 2 is beginning to strike young people as well. Type 2 diabetes is often associated with high cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood. Over time, these high glucose levels can cause serious complications such as hardening of the arteries leading to heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney failure and sometimes gangrene.

Gestational Diabetes

Treating type 1 diabetes 

Type 1 is treated with insulin. Insulin can't be taken by mouth because the digestive juices in the stomach destroy it. This means that for most people it has to be given by injections.

How often a diabetes patient needs to inject depends on their recommended dosage and which type of insulin they're using. Insulin is given at regular intervals throughout the day, usually two to four times.

Inhaled insulin has become available for treating people with a proven needle phobia or people who have severe trouble injecting.

Treating type 2 diabetes

Type 2 may have been considered the 'milder' form of diabetes in the past, but this is no longer the case. Medication is available in tablet form.

Diabetes is an extreme YIN (expansive) illness. Insulin is a YANG hormone, therefore, lack or shortage of insulin is a YIN illness. It is caused by eating too many sweets and YIN foods over the years. Most foods these days are more YIN than they used to be decades ago. This is due to the fact that crops and animals feed are fortified with hormones and fertilizers to make them grow faster. Eating these foods in the long run cause human beings to become susceptible to YIN illnesses such as diabetes, especially type 1 diabetes. You can read more about the relation between Diabetes and YIN and YANG in the seven laws of the universe and in What is macrobiotics?

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure Diabetes type II you do not have to eat Japanese foods. You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what eating and living habits have led you to develop Diabetes. Then, macrobiotic principles will help you determine what foods you will have to eat in order to cure Diabetes. Read  If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we eating Japanese foods?

It is true that food is best medicine for Diabetes. But some foods help a diabetes patient and some make the condition worse. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information in the natural treatment of Diabetes.

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for Diabetes, there is really no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have adverse side effects on a Diabetes patient when taken randomly or in large doses. However, if they are desired, only natural food-based supplements should be selected and taken in moderate amounts. And beware of alleged miracle cures in far away lands.

Are you skeptical of this treatment and cure for diabetes? This is natural, but please read: Back to the roots.

This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement. Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Even Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. It is also mentioned in the Chinese book of internal medicine: What can not be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food really is your best medicine if the illness is Diabetes or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat Diabetes with the right diet, you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing an appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food is Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics. You can find more answers and read more about Diabetes and other illnesses and food as medicine in Frequently Asked Questions.

In addition to changing your eating habits, take some time to relax, meditate or re-charge the batteries, and read what others have discovered about this wondrous world around us.

It is particularly important when you are following a diet for curing Diabetes to read about the healing crisis. If you want to read more about health, alternative and natural medicine, take a look at the list of suggested readings.