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I have undergone traumatic experiences when I knew in Jan 1999 that I have diabetes, thereafter It was a chain of such experiences, For full one year I have struggle for improving my health and ultimately by sheer will power and determination, I have overcome this disease without any medicine, which I wish to narrate my own experience for the benefit of people, so that this information may be useful for diabetic patients, physicians and scientist.,
HISTORY :- I am 77 years old and till Jan 1999 was enjoying my life with full vigor and good health, I never had any major illness in my life. I spent my early years playing Tennis, Athletics and doing regular exercise, my height is 5' - 10.5", No blood pressure, all organs in a normal conditions, and ideal constant weight of 68 Kg.But some how since last 2 to 3 years I have started over eating and eating large quantities of sweets and no exercise and had little stress and I think this might have landed me in this trouble.
CONDITION OF HEALTH: My first sugar report was on 5th of Jan. 1999 which was 355 mg / dl. This figure gave me a big shock of my life and I was very much depressed and upset, I went to doctor for medication, who gave me pills to reduce sugar and put me on strict diet of 900 calories / day and from then onwards my miserable plight started.
Within 2 days my sugar came to normal but doctor asked me to continue pills for 10 days and with this medicine and strict low diet, hypoglycemia symptoms developed on 5th day.. As I read books on diabetes I immediately ate sugar and prevented going into hypo condition there- after I discontinued medicine but kept low diet because nobody could give me proper advise as what to do and how much to take calories, side by side I kept working also. This condition has weakened me further so much that I was admitted in ICU for 6 days for fatigue syndrome and unstable Angina, on 22nd July I had to give cardiac stress Test which was normal but has further weakened my conditions and I was bed ridden till Oct. 1999. Thus from Jan to Oct I was groping in dark about my health and ultimately could not move from the bed even for bath or taking data of fasting sugar. Now Doctor have advised me to take 1800 calories per day but dividing into 6 times of the day. I was already very weak and could not digest so much food, even then due to fear of hypo I use to feel hungry at the early morning and other times and was taking sugar or Glucose / or Glucose biscuits etc. by which my sugar level use to shoot up, then I could not eat and like that I use to get panicky, mentally as well as physically. This was a real horrible experience and because of this my diet and mind became unstable so also sugar level. This plight continued from July to Oct 99. Then I decided that nothing doing, I must fight and come over this situation and so decided to start first experimenting to find out the exact position of sugar level in my body, at intervals of every 1/2 an hour to get the basic knowledge of sugar variations and see if I can find some solution or at least try to regulate the sugar level and get control over it.
Experimentation:
At the outset I wanted to experiment, to find out, what is the exact position of sugar in my body during the period of 24 hrs.. Latter on I have added other factors also to acquire more data about various reactions & effects depending on the intake of my regular food, variety of food, timing, and stress level and mental conditions etc. to know the correlation between the above factors on venous ,capillary and urine sugar.
This needed lot of work to be done and was costly also, hence I started with Diastix which is much cheaper to use. With Diastix I took readings at every ½ an hour interval of urine sugar. In the beginning the readings were erratic. So I wanted to have controlled condition. Therefore I tried to fix-up urine sugar level between Trace and + one by intake of Glucose, Glucose Biscuits, sugar, fruits and exercise etc. but I could not achieve much, then I tried honey drops by which I could maintain Trace + one level fairly well, I fixed Trace & + one level because, if I tried to fix normal level I have a fear that it may drop to hypo - side also and I had bitter experience of hypo. So I never dared to try that. This test has given me fairly good position of urine sugar with respect to food and its timing and other above mentioned factors etc. and I make draphs and ultimately Sugar Wheel.This basic data by of collection of a sugar wheel, is, I think innovated first time in Diabetic treatment . Please see figure-showing sugar level during 24 hrs. I could know from from sugar wheels, the time and quantity of rising sugar level, stable sugar level and lowering of it, the last one I term as Danger zone because if I do not take food at that time I use to get Hypo symptoms (later on when I took Glucometer these symptoms turned out to be false and were only psychologically motivated).
Then I experimented with various food and fruit intake and prepared charts and Graphs, side by side I recorded blood sugar also, to find out the relation of urine sugar and blood sugar, there also. I found interesting results. After preparing "sugar wheel" chart (see figure) I could fairly regulate my sugar level even though on higher side, I found that during the period of 5 a.m. to 12 noon urine sugar was varying between Trace to + one and some time ++ also but then after 12 to 12.30 noon it used to be fairly constant on Trace till next morning. This is a surprising result. I have observed another advantage, by which I have developed body language and could know automatically my sugar levels even without any readings.
Latter on I purchased Glucometer and could then study correct blood sugar levels and it has given me clear picture and I could keep my blood sugar in fairly normal position, by intake of food, exercise and could avoid panicky conditions and false signals of hunger and hypo, thus I could win my battle halfway but I wanted to find out how I can reduce blood sugar level if it is more, and keep it under normal position. Therefore I again started experimenting with blood sugar reading & various types of food and fruits. Every 1/2 hour I took readings and noted the variations. By all these experiments I have developed little confidence and gained some strength also. I had an intuition that there will be some fruit which will have inherent inbuilt balance of sweetness and alcohol like chemical side by side (Alcohol reduces sugar). So I tried various fruits and noted behavior of sugar level.
One fine day my urine sugar level was on ++ and I wanted to take capillary and venous blood reading. So I called Pathologist to take venous blood and till he came i.e. in about 15 to 20 minute I ate apple (shredded, because I had no denture) and then gave the blood sample. I wanted to note again urine sugar and to my surprise it has dropped from ++ to normal level say within 1/2 hours. Thus I got the clue and then thought this is what I wanted to find out. So I did more experiments on apple and recorded Many readings, which has given me astonishing results. Now every time when sugar is high and if I take apple it will bring down blood sugar level immediately within 25 to 30 minutes. with this result now I am not afraid of high sugar levels even of it is 250 too 300 mg / dl.because as soon as I take apple and walk for 5 to10 minutes sugar level topples down by 60 to 90 mg /dl per hr. So I made it a point to take at least one apple daily and I am able to keep my normal sugar level and fun is, it does not allow to go down lesser than 80 to 90 mg / dl and keeps it at 100 to 120 mg / dl all the time. I think it may be because of Fructose in Apple.
Because apple is a sweet fruit, other people and Drs.[ out of fear] might have purposely advised not to take it and so they might not have experimented with it as a remedy for diabetes.
Having found out this, I started reading books on apple, Insulin & other related topics to find out exactly how it may be acting and why.
1) My judgment of selection of this fruit was based on the fact that it has naturally inbuilt balance, of Alcohol like substance & sweetness side by side in the fruit itself (like in our body)
2) I wanted to try out organic material rather than synthetic one because organic sugar assimilates properly in the body.
3) I do not know whether exhaustive work has been done on effect of Apple & such types of fruits on blood sugar, Latter on I have read that apple increases the blood sugar .So out of fear scientist might not have tried it because sweetness is harmful in diabetes.or it might raise sugar temporarlyand ,so doctors had wrong judjmentand and never tried further experiments to wait and see up to the end result, after giving sufficient time for apple effect.
4) The facts and results experienced by me are simple, but unless they are experimented & brought forth as standard results & by exhaustive test, they will no be accepted by proffesionals. However many times simple things are missed because they are simple & so go unnoticed.In addition Apple has no down side,on the contrary it is a safe remidy to control BS
5) Mine is an old age stress diabetes of type II & so it is possible that this fruit might be giving me good results.
I am putting my own experience and facts on paper so that some segment of diabetic patients might be benefited by this experiment and Dr. & Scientist may do exhaustive clinical trials to find out beneficial results of Apple.
At least this will serve as preventive maintenance.
After myself getting fully cured by this experiment, I started to read literature on Chemistry of diabetes, Insulin & other general relevant matters, but as I went on reading I found it that. it is an enormous complicated matter and my knowledge was not even superficial in this subject, it was so vast & complex subject. However whatever I could read & gather on this subject I am putting here to the best of my knowledge and my possible Hypothesis. It is only because I got encouraging and good results, I am putting my experience on record for benefit of others..
Probable Reasons of Occurrence of Diabetics:-
1) It is said that it is a hereditary diseases but it seems it doesn’t confirm to a definite pattern like mendalism - scientist or Drs. are not yet sure about it even though this is a major factor.
2) Way of Life :- Over eating of refined process food, less exercise, sedentary life / Job. These also leads to this disease -
3) Mental setup :- over stress, Emotions may also lead to this disease.
4) Virus infection:- May also lead to this disease.
5) Imbalance of Hormones.less intake of B complex & other vitamins and minerals.
6) Effect of certain Medicines, like cortisone, steroid medicine for high BP, . Fenil butozene etc.
7) Other diseases may lead to this e.g. liver & Jaundice etc.
8) Over Sex with, age factor -Normally 50 years and above. [ almost major cause according to me]
9] Impaired Metabolism or Immunological imbalance.
10] Infection of Candida,
Post script :- During my 9 years study with diabetic people which I have come across and which were improved due to Apple Therapy, I have observed the following facts:- These Diabetic patients mostly have some mental worry or a mental shock, which is deep rooted in their mind and some how they are unable to get rid of it and at this stage, mental stress is developed and Diabetes is triggered and then the worry goes off and if worry still persists Blood sugar starts increasing or undulating .
In addition to this, I am now convinced, that, overand unethical sex and sedentary life of such people, accelerates the process of impaired metabolism which leads to severity of Diabetes or leads to some other complications or diseases.. Such people are rather of emotional temperament. This is my personal observation and needs to be confirmed by scientific study. Now I am of the firm opinion that, sex should be moderated after the age of 50 to 6o years to avoid any type of such illness.
Apple with its ingredients and chemistry help stop this state of mind and removes the stress as well as improves the overall health.
Thus in spite of huge research there is no definite reason found, which leads to this disease, scientist are yet not in a position to pin point the real cause or a factor.
In my opinion if you study all this factors which leads to diabetes you can very well imagine that, it may mainly affect the digestion system first and then the disease commences.
Thus mainly the carbohydrates metabolism may get disturbed due to all this above cited reasons and pancreas get affected, and then there is an insulin deficiency or change in its morphology so that it doesn’t work efficiently to control the blood sugar. During my study with people, I have found out that, if Plasma Insulin is from 8 to 86 mg/dl then you can control sugar to a great extent, with this method