First of all, being overweight does NOT cause type 2 diabetes!!! Scientists generate a lot of data, but frequently have no clue how to interpret the data.
The reason there is a high statistical correlation between being overweight and having type 2 diabetes is that the same thing that causes type 2 diabetes also causes some people to be overweight. For example, bad fats (such as in margarine) are what cause type 2 diabetes, and bad fats can also cause a person to be overweight.
Thus the statistical coorelation is not a "causal" relationship, but rater a "common cause" relationship. It is extremely rare when a scientist discusses "common cause" statistical coorelations because they get paid to sell drugs. Let me repeat: being overweight does NOT cause type 2 diabetes.
Here is more information about what really causes type 2 diabetes:
- "Another lipid in a cell wall is cholesterol. And you thought it was a terrible thing. The cholesterol in each one of your cells forms a "hydrophobic" bond within the cell wall. Hydrophobic means "fear of water." It’s a cute way to describe this function of our cells, but in our lives it simply describes the reason we don’t melt in a rainstorm or fall apart when we take a shower or bath. Our cells resist water. Without this resistance, we would be water-soluble and we'd all dissolve in a rainstorm.
Our diets in this country (and in Budwig’s country at the time) lack these highly unsaturated fatty acids and contain an excess of man-made oils known as trans fats (or partially hydrogenated oils). These oils are very much like cholesterol and our bodies cannot tell the difference. These oils get into our cell walls and destroy the electrical charge. Without the charge, our cells start to suffocate. Without the oxygen, the only way the cell can replicate is anaerobically. (They also are very tough oils and have a 20-year shelf life. They impede the process of cellular exchange, or letting nutrition in and letting wastes out. Trans fats are also responsible for Type II diabetes, since insulin is a very large molecule it has a difficult time passing through a cell wall created with man-made fats and not cholesterol.)"
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/cancer1/budwig.htm
In other words, trans-fatty acids attach themselves to the cell walls, and because they are a different type and shape of molecule, make the cell walls "rigid," and the large glucose molecules cannot penetrate the cell walls and get into the cells.
Here is a more detailed way to explain it (taken from an email from a medical doctor):
Type II or Type 2 diabetes is one of the rare diseases that is not caused by a microbe or impurities in vaccinations. It is caused by our diet of "bad fats" and the lack of "good fats" in our diet.
These same bad fats cause heart disease and many cases of people being overweight.
In other words, the same bad fats cause three major health problems:
1) Type 2 diabetes,
2) heart disease,
3) many cases of being overweight.
There are many other things these molecules cause as well.
The medical community, having no interest in what causes disease, claims that type 2 diabetes causes heart disease. This is partly true, but most of their statistical correlation is caused by the fact that both of them are caused by the same thing - the ratio of bad fats to good fats.
If a person were to simply avoid the trans-fatty acids and many other bad fats, eventually their type 2 diabetes would go away because as the bad cells (i.e. the ones with rigid fats on them) died, they would be replaced by new cells made of good fats (assuming there were good fats in your diet). However, this process would take several years since many cells live for multiple years.
However, there is a way to speed up the process. By avoiding the bad fats, and flooding your body with the right type of good fats, especially water-soluable omega 3, type 2 diabetes is very easy to cure. It generally takes 7-12 months (much less time if it is newly diagnosed).
The Cure for Type II Diabetes
By mid-2005, I had known for several months that there was a cure for Type II diabetes, and I knew a little bit about the cure, but I did not know all of the details. In mid-2005 I received an email from a medical doctor with enough details that I could put the cure online. Prior to sending the email to me he had his facts checked with a PhD who was familiar with the cure.
Here is the cure, taken from an email from the same medical doctor mentioned above:
- "I know you have the theory on this from some of the e-mails I sent you, but I finally got around to sending the cure to [a PhD who works at a medical clinic] who runs the lab at [medical clinic], and heads the dept. at [a university]. He confirmed it is true and had been around for some time now. The natural therapy will take several months to kick in after which you can flush the medications a person takes down the toilet and pronounce them cured so long as they continue eating right.
The cure is to eliminate partially hydrogenated oils and trans-fats [i.e. trans-fatty acids, such as is in margarine] from the diet. Replace these with natural oils such as flaxseed, olive oil, real butter, lard, any organic animal or plant fats, coconut oil, etc. Try to make omega 3/omega 6 ratio > 1 [i.e. consume more omega 3 than omega 6 - I would also add walnuts to his list of things with omega 3].
Cells cannot get glucose and also vit C inside when the walls are made by DuPont [the MD is a bit cynical]. You're not surprised are you? DuPont probably knew this 50 years ago. It takes 3-12 months for blood sugars to return to normal without any more drugs. This treatment is being done by the naturopathic docs in Phoenix. If you add an organic diet and vitamin c on top of this you will stop most heart disease and cancer. If a person would then only seek medical care for trauma or some surgical emergency, he will have eliminated the top 3 causes of death in the USA."
I personally find it amazing that few medical doctors tell their patients that the major cause of type 2 diabetes is man-made fats, such as trans-fatty acids, hyrogenated oils, canola oil, etc.
I cannot emphasize enough that you must take significantly MORE omega 3 than omega 6. You MUST monitor both items in your diet and supplements!!
It is important to understand that a person's diet generally contains more omega 6 than omega 3. Thus, when you buy an omega 3 supplement, it must be of the highest quality (certainly not a pill) and it must have a ratio of at least 3:1 of omega 3 to omega 6.
Think about why. If your diet has more omega 6 than omega 3, and if you need to intake more omega 3 than omega 6, then your supplements must contain at least a 3:1 ratio of omega 3 to omega 6.
Details of the Cure
Because the Budwig Diet Mixture is used for multiple diseases, a separate article has been written on how to make the Budwig Diet Mixture. Read this detailed article very carefully and keep referring to it. After reading it for the first time, come back to this article:
How to Make the Budwig Mixture
A diabetic should take at least 4 tablespoons of the flaxseed oil every day as part of their treatment. That is the minimum dose.
You can make one mixture twice a day or you can make one very large mixture once a day. It doesn't matter.
Remember to shake the bottle of flaxseed oil each time before you use it and remember to eat the mixture within half an hour after making it.
Also, do NOT use flax seeds or flaxseed cereal. The whole point to making the Budwig mixture is to convert oil soluble omega-3 into water soluble omega-3 and this can only be done with oils.
When buying fish oils it is critical to make sure the oils do not have mercury and other heavy metals in it. That is why I endorse the high quality Norwegian products.
I need to mention some comments from the superb book: The pH Miracle for Diabetes, by the brilliant researcher Dr. Robert O. Young, PhD. On page 84 he mentions that the body converts alpha lipoic acid into forms of omega-3. On page 111 he recommends a ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 of 3:1 and he recommends borage oil (1,000 mg capsule three times a day) to get the omega-6 GLA (gamma-linolenic acid), LA (linoleic acid) and EA (erucic acid). That is good advice.
