Monday, August 29, 2022
Are Artificial Sweeteners Really Harmless???
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Living on purpose
During my meditation and movement practice this morning, I contemplated the meaning and expanse of living on purpose, or I could say the thought hit me like a freight train.
As can only happen in these energetic spaces, I was flooded with the concept:
ON PURPOSE...Intentionally, my reason for being and doing.
Purpose...the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. (noun)...Verb: Have as one's intention or objective.
So many of us struggle to find our purpose and I can honestly say that I am not sure if I have or haven't, however I do believe it has something to do with what we chose to focus on, our intent, and we get to chose on a daily basis. It is therefore a good practice for me to mediate and move every morning to chose and be clear on what my focus or intent for the day will be.
I have chosen to focus on more love, and to live on purpose (intentionally). Meaning I have chosen to live my life with the purpose of opening up to more love for myself and to spread and share more love with others and through my work, I intend to help open the hearts of humanity to the love of the soul. I am choosing to see the miracle in everyone and everything.
Is that my purpose???
All I can do is to wake up every day and live on purpose and chose to do so all day. And for now that purpose is love, and I believe that with this intent and focus, I will be more fulfilled and it will lead to a deeper how and an even deeper purpose and my purpose will continue to unfold in more miraculous ways.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
ARE DIABETICS BEING CHEATED...
Are Diabetics Being Cheated?
Ronald Grisanti D.C., D.A.B.C.O., D.A.C.B.N., M.S., CFMPA recent patient was concerned that despite watching her diet and taking her diabetes medication her hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) keeps going up.
Remember, HbA1c is a lab test that shows the average level of blood sugar (glucose) over the previous 3 months. It shows how well you are controlling your diabetes.
An elevated HbA1c greater than 5.7% indicates that the diabetes is not well regulated and is in fact accelerating aging, increasing your chances of getting painful neuropathies, kidney failure needing dialysis, cataracts, amputations, and retinopathy blindness.
What could possibly be missed by her primary doctor?
One major cause of the unregulated glycosylated hemoglobin is an unrecognized B6 deficiency.
An excellent “functional” test to check for a pyridoxine (B-6) deficiency is the xanthurenate organic acid test. An elevated xanthurenate test is a sensitive marker for a B-6 deficiency.
But wait.. there is more to the story.
You can take B-6 and it may not work.
Why?
Because of a zinc deficiency.
When hidden zinc deficiency is present, the body cannot convert B6 to its active form, pyridoxal-5-phosphate or P5P. P5P, essential in normalizing the glycosylated hemoglobin and its deficiency, is an indicator that improperly metabolized sugars are accelerating aging, cataracts, kidney failure, heart disease, nerve damage and more.
But there is more to the story.
Elevated stored phthalates (plastics) in the body interfere with zinc metabolism.
This is the power of functional medicine. Seeking to find the cause of the cause of the cause.
HbA1c ---> B-6 deficiency ---> Zinc deficiency ---> Stored Phthalates
I have never yet met a diabetologist who even orders the above much less knows how to interpret it.
To ignore fixing the chemistry in an overtly metabolic disease is outright wrong.
Unfortunately, what I have seen from reading thousands of medical records is the fact that most doctors merely resort to the one size fits all approach and medicate the disease. Rarely if ever have I read where a doctor investigated why the HA1C was elevated.
This results in a tragic waste of life as well as incurring an enormous and unnecessary expense and suffering.
You may be interested to know that because of the phthalate load, many folks (even without diabetes) unnecessarily get multiple diseases. These can range from Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH (a common, often “silent” liver disease), heart disease or cancers to Parkinson's disease, arthritis, or Alzheimer's.
Clearly they all lead to accelerated aging because of the shared causes.
For a doctor to check your glycosylated hemoglobin A1C every 3 months yet never know your zinc and B6 levels (among many others) is plain wrong in this sophisticated era.
Your life depends on the decisions you make. This information has a huge bearing on whether your diabetes blinds you in future years.
References:
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Jain SK, et al, Pyridoxine and pyridoxamine inhibits superoxide radicals and prevents lipid peroxidation, protein glycosylation and (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activity reduction in high glucose-treated human erythrocytes, Free Rad Biol Med 30:232-37, 2001
Onarato JM, et al, Pyridoxamine, an inhibitor of glycation reactions, also inhibits lipid peroxidation reactions, J Biol Chem, 275:21177-84, 2000
Metz TO, et al, Pyridoxamine traps intermediates in lipid peroxidation reactions in vivo: evidence on the role of lipids and chemical modification of protein and development of diabetic complications, J Biol Chem 278:42012-19, 2003
Booth AA, et al, Thiamine pyrophosphate and pyridoxamine inhibit the formation of antigenic advanced glycation endproducts: comparison with aminoguanidine, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 220:113-19, 1996
Stitt A, et al, The AGE inhibitor pyridoxine and inhibits development of retinopathy in experimental diabetes, Diabetes 51:2826-32, 2000
Laines-Cessac P, et al, Mechanisms of the inhibition of human erythrocyte pyridoxal kinase by drugs, Biochem Pharmacol 54:863-70, 1997
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