Diabetes Veritas

If diabetes has no cure,
if its like a wind that never ends,
at least we can slow that
 wind down and even make it stop.

Diabetes is commonly thought to have no cure. It is progressive and often fatal, and while the patient lives, the mass of medical complications it sets off can attack every major organ. Though public health officials acknowledge that their ability to slow the disease is limited, and though doctors fear a huge wave of new cases will overwhelm public health systems, “Public health authorities around the country have all but ignored chronic illnesses like diabetes, focusing instead on communicable diseases, which kill far fewer people,” according to the New York Times. Hospitals around New York City are full of diabetic patients and on any given day, nearly half the patients are there for some trouble precipitated by the disease. [i]

Type two diabetes is being declared
an epidemic in New York City.

“A growing number of children are visiting pediatric cardiologists to treat their high cholesterol, or seeing endocrinologists to keep their diabetes in check. In short, kids are "catching" the diseases that kill most adults,” writes Krista Ramsey of the Cincinnati Enquirer. With one in three children born in the United States five years ago expected to become diabetic in their lifetimes, a close look at its surge in New York City offers a disturbing glimpse of where the city, and the rest of the world is headed. Never was a viable treatment for diabetes more needed.

Diabetes has swept through families, entire neighborhoods in the Bronx and broad slices of Brooklyn. While the ranks of American diabetics have exploded by an extremely painful 80 percent in the last decade, New York has seen a devastating explosion of 140 percent. New York is not the only place where the disease is exploding. "Half of Texas children born after the year 2000 will develop diabetes," said Department of State Health Services Commissioner Dr. Eduardo Sanchez. [ii]

Type 2 Diabetes is sweeping so rapidly through
 America we need not waste time giving
 children bicycles. Just roll them a wheelchair.
                                                     Boston Globe [iii]

The International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) introduces a much needed medical intervention for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and the many complications that come from it. The treatment is very much linked to the hidden realities of the causes of diabetes. In this particular case the cause and the cure are intimately connected.

     There are two mammoth factors that the IMVA has discovered are linked to the horrendous rise in diabetes in adults and children that the western medical establishment has not paid attention to. The first is deficiency in magnesium, and the other is chemical poisoning. The convergence of large drops in cellular magnesium, which offers protective coverage against chemical toxicity, and increasing poisoning of people’s blood streams with heavy metals like arsenic and mercury, as well as a literal host of other chemical toxins in the environment, are teaming up to create a literal pandemic. Eating junk food fits right into this alarming picture for poor diet translates immediately into massive magnesium deficiencies, and modern processed food is also high in chemical preservatives and pesticides that are also harmful to health.

     Diabetes gives us a clear picture of how the human race is being caught between a rock and a hard place, a kind of devils anvil of our own corporate making. The human body is failing to deal with massive chemical exposure in the face of hugely increasing deficiencies in basic nutrients like magnesium. Malnutrition is now in full bloom in the first world even among the obese. 

      Magnesium deficiency is a predictor of diabetes; diabetics both need more magnesium and lose more magnesium than most people. In two new studies, in both men and women, those who consumed the most magnesium in their diet were least likely to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a report in the January 2006 issue of the journal Diabetes Care. Until now, very few large studies have directly examined the long-term effects of dietary magnesium on diabetes. Dr. Simin Liu of the Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health in Boston says, "Our studies provided some direct evidence that greater intake of dietary magnesium may have a long-term protective effect on lowering risk," said Liu, who was involved in both studies. See Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy, which introduces the concept of administering mega doses of magnesium to heal Diabetic Neuropathy.

Prolonged use of Magnesium will prevent
chronic complications from diabetes. [iv]

“The current “party line” on this subject is not universally accepted, but many of us believe the establishment is too conservative and will some day change. While admitting its importance, for some unknown reason they remain reluctant to recommend magnesium supplements. They just do not know how poor the American diet is in Mg and the frequency of magnesium deficiency” says Dr. Mansmann. [v]

Poorly controlled diabetes increases loss of magnesium in urine.

It would be prudent for physicians who treat diabetic patients to consider magnesium deficiency as a contributing factor in many diabetic complications and as a main factor in exacerbation of the disease itself. Recent research from many sources suggests that magnesium for the treatment of diabetes should be paramount in physicians’ minds.  The most recent example, after only 8 weeks of oral magnesium, thermal hyperalgesia was normalized and plasma magnesium and glucose levels were restored towards normal in rats. [vi]

Repletion of the deficiency with transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy [vii] is the ideal way of administering magnesium in medically therapeutic doses. Such treatments will, in all likelihood, help avoid or ameliorate such complications as diabetic peripheral neuropathy, arrhythmias, hypertension, and sudden cardiac death and will even improve the course of the diabetic condition in general. [viii]

Once doctors, primary healthcare providers and the public are made aware of the role of magnesium in diabetes there will be no excuse to not increase public magnesium consumption, which can even be added to water supplies [ix] instead of poisonous fluoride [x] and dangerous statins [xi] , [xii] , [xiii] which are also known to cause peripheral neuropathy with long term use. During a stroke or heart attack it would be cruel, medically incompetent and life threatening to not use magnesium chloride or magnesium sulfate immediately.  The same kind of treatment that saves lives in dramatic life threatening situations is urgently needed in the treatment of diabetes and diabetic neuropathy.

Rapid increase of magnesium stores are necessary
 in some cases and may be lifesaving for diabetics
 as they are for other patients in emergency rooms.

Preventative effects of magnesium may go a long way to protecting the children of the future from early onset of both diabetes and the complications that come from it. The safety profile of magnesium chloride is extraordinary compared to today’s pharmaceutical drugs. It is only with severe renal insufficiency that problems have been observed with magnesium treatments. The elderly are at risk of magnesium toxicity only because of possible decreased renal function so caution is necessary.