Diabetes

The Facts About Adult Diabetes How Diabetic Patients Benefit from Dr. Rath’s Vitamin Program Further Health Information Related for Dr. Rath´s Vitamin Program How Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Develops Vitamin C Lowers Blood Sugar Levels and Insulin Requirement Clinical studies
	The Facts About Adult Diabetes
	Worldwide over one hundred million people are suffering from diabetes. Diabetic disorders have a genetic background and are divided into two types: juvenile and adult diabetes. Juvenile diabetes is generally caused by an inborn defect that leads to an insufficient production of insulin in the body and requires regular insulin injections to control blood sugar levels. The majority of diabetic patients, however, develop this disease as adults. Adult forms of diabetes also have a genetic background. The causes, however, which trigger the outbreak of the disease in these patients at any stage of their adult lives, have been unknown. It is, therefore, not surprising that diabetes is yet another disease that is still expanding on a worldwide scale. Conventional medicine is confined to treating the symptoms of adult diabetes by lowering elevated blood levels of sugar. However, cardiovascular diseases and other diabetic complications occur even in those patients with controlled blood sugar levels. Thus, lowering of blood sugar levels is a necessary, but insufficient and incomplete treatment of diabetic disorders. Modern Cellular Medicine now provides a breakthrough in our understanding of the causes, the prevention, and the adjunct therapy of adult diabetes. Adult onset diabetes is frequently caused or aggravated by a deficiency of certain vitamins and other essential nutrients in millions of cells in the pancreas (the organ that produces insulin), the liver, and the blood vessel walls, as well as other organs. On the basis of an inherited diabetic disorder, deficiencies of vitamins and other essential nutrients can trigger a diabetic metabolism and the onset of adult diabetes. Vice versa, optimum intake of vitamins and other ingredients in Dr. Rath’s Vitamin Program can prevent the onset of adult diabetes and correct, at least in part, existing diabetes and its complications.
	Scientific research and clinical studies have documented the particular value of vitamin C, vitamin E, certain B vitamins, chromium, and other essential nutrients in helping to normalize a diabetic metabolism and to prevent cardiovascular disease. My recommendations for diabetic patients: Start immediately with this program of essential nutrients and inform your doctor about it. Take the essential nutrients in addition to your diabetes medication and take them regularly. High amounts of vitamin C, for example, can spare insulin units and you should have additional blood sugar controls at the beginning of this vitamin program. Do not stop or change any prescription medication without consulting your doctor. Prevention is better than treatment. The success of Dr. Rath’s Vitamin Program in diabetic patients is based on the fact that it eliminates a deficiency of cell fuel in the pancreas, liver, and blood vessel wall cells. A natural cardiovascular health program that is able to correct severe conditions such as diabetes is, of course, your best choice to prevent diabetes and its cardiovascular complications in the first place.
	How Diabetic Patients Benefit from Dr. Rath’s Vitamin Program

Dear Dr. Rath,

I am a 55 year old male Caucasian, weighing 154 pounds. I lead a very sedentary lifestyle spending most of my time sitting behind a desk in front of a computer. About 20 years ago I was diagnosed a type II (adult onset) Diabetic and placed on oral medication and dietary restrictions to control my blood sugar level. These precautions seemed to work up to about a year ago when my blood sugar went to about 260 where it remains fairly steady, a fact that caused my physician (an endocrinologist) to change my medication and to drastically increase my dosage. He is currently seeing me on a monthly basis in an attempt to stabilize my condition.

In February of 1986, I underwent quintuple bypass surgery to remedy severe angina and all the other symptoms of cardiovascular disease. Since the operation I have not experienced any symptoms such as pain, shortness of breath or irregular heartbeat.
I have followed your cardiovascular vitamin program every day as prescribed in your instructions for exactly 2 months, and since approximately 2 weeks ago I noticed a dramatic increase in my energy level. I can accomplish much more in my daily work, I find myself eager to stay up late, and recently I found myself out dancing late at night with my wife, just as I used to do about 20 years ago. Since nothing in my daily routine has changed except the advent of your program. I must conclude that this newly found “fountain of youth” is a direct result of your program.

In closing, I am grateful to your vitamin program for the improvements shown thus far. Please feel free to use this letter, or any part thereof as a testimonial in your efforts.

Sincerely,
N.M.

	Dear Dr. Rath, I would like to share my story with you in hope that the information will help other diabetics with similar conditions. More importantly, I am hopeful this information will keep other diabetics from ever having to experience the frustration and debilitating pain involved with peripheral neuropathy, as I have. For many years I have been suffering from diabetes and diabetic neuropathy. My toes were turning dark blue and purple, and I did not have any feeling in them. The prognosis was very grim; if my condition did not get better I could lose my toes, if not my feet. I was looking for a treatment that would help this condition. Then I learned about your cardiovascular vitamin program. After about a week of following your program, to my delight, my toes became a bright maroon color instead of blue and purple, and much to my amazement hair was beginning to grow again on my legs telling me that blood was reaching the hair follicles. By the 2nd week my legs were not cramping as often or as badly but by the end of the 3rd week my feet and ankles were giving me excruciating pain. I mentioned what was happening to me to a friend who is a druggist. He happily told me that he believed the nerves were regenerating. The feeling, which has been absent for several years, is coming back in my feet. I can feel the inside of my shoes again. I am now starting the 3rd month on your program. Your nutritional supplement program coupled with my stationery bicycle and insulin adjustments, suggestions from my dietitian, are all elements in helping me fight the battle and winning. Very sincerely yours, M.J.

	Dear Dr. Rath: I am a 69-year-old woman, employed full-time in a position that requires close attention to detail and considerable adjustment to time constraints. At the beginning of last year, during my annual physical examination, my physician stated that I had developed glucose intolerance and that the ultimate result would be diabetes unless I immediately began countermeasures. I then met with a diabetic counselor, and gave her all the information that I possessed concerning your cardiovascular vitamin program. Following this consultation, I started your program. I also modified my diet, began to exercise regularly, and have lost a substantial amount of weight. Now, one year later, my doctor informs me that my diabetic condition is in full remission. Furthermore, my blood pressure is in the normal range, my blood tests are all excellent, my energy has noticeably increased, and my general condition is once again first rate. Dr. Rath, I attribute the turnaround in my health to your vitamin program. Thank you. M.B.

How Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Develops

The key to understanding cardiovascular disease in diabetics is the similarity in the molecular structure of vitamin C and sugar (glucose) molecules. This similarity leads to a metabolic confusion, with severe consequences:

Column A on the next page shows that the cells of our blood vessel walls contain tiny biological pumps specialized for pumping sugar and vitamin C molecules from the blood stream into the blood vessel wall. In a healthy person, these pumps transport an optimum amount of sugar and vitamin C molecules into the blood vessel wall, enabling normal function of the wall and preventing cardiovascular disease.

Column B shows the situation in a diabetic patient. Because of the high sugar concentration in the blood, the sugar+vitamin C pumps are overloaded with sugar molecules. This leads to an overload of sugar and, at the same time, to a deficiency of vitamin C inside the blood vessel walls. The consequence of these mechanisms is a thickening of the walls throughout the blood vessel pipeline, putting any organ at risk for infarctions.

Column C shows the decisive measure for preventing cardiovascular complications in diabetes. An optimum daily intake of Dr. Rath’s Vitamin Program and one or more additional grams of vitamin C help to normalize the imbalance between vitamin and sugar metabolism. Optimum vitamin supply will soon become the basic preventive and therapeutic measure for diabetes.

Vitamin C Lowers Blood Sugar Levels and Insulin Requirement

Clinical studies show that in diabetic patients vitamin C contributes not only to prevention of cardiovascular complications, but also helps to normalize the imbalance in the glucose metabolism. Professor Pfleger and his colleagues from the University of Vienna published the results of a remarkable clinical study. They showed that diabetic patients taking 300 to 500 mg of vitamin C a day could significantly improve glucose balance. Blood sugar levels could be lowered on average by 30%, daily insulin requirements by 27%, and sugar excretion in the urine could be almost eliminated.
It is amazing that this study was published in 1937 in a leading European journal for internal medicine. If the results of this important study had been followed up and documented in medical textbooks, millions of lives would have been saved and cardiovascular disease would no longer threaten diabetic patients.

How Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Develops

Diabetic patients can significantly lower their daily insulin requirements by increasing their daily intake of vitamin C. This is the result of a clinical case study conducted at the renowned Stanford University in California. Dr. Dice, the lead author of the study, was the diabetic patient of this case report. At the beginning of the study Dr. Dice injected 32 units of insulin per day. During the three-week study, he gradually increased the daily intake of vitamin C until he reached 11 grams per day on the 23rd day. The vitamin C was divided in small amounts and taken throughout the day to increase its absorption in the body. By the 23rd day, his insulin requirement had dropped from 32 units to 5 units per day. Thus, for every additional gram of dietary vitamin C supplementation, Dr. Dice could spare 2.5 insulin units.

Cellular Medicine Program for Patients with Diabetes

In addition to the basic vitamin program (page 18-19) patients with diabetes and diabetic complications are re- commended to take the following cellular bio-energy factors in higher dosages or separately:

Vitamin C: corrects the cellular imbalance caused by elevated blood sugar levels, contributes to lower insulin requirements, decreases glucose elimination in the urine and, above all, protects the artery walls.
Vitamin E: anti-oxidant protection, protection of the cell membranes.
Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12 and Biotin: bio-energy carriers of cellular metabolism, improved metabolic efficacy, particularly of the liver cells, the central unit of the body metabolism.
Chromium: trace element, functioning as a bio-catalyst for optimum
metabolism of glucose and insulin.
Inositol: component of lecithin, an important component of each cell
membrane, essential for optimum metabolic transport and supply of each cell with nutrients and other bio molecules.
Choline: component of lecithin, important for the metabolic transport and cellular supply of millions of cells.

Please note: the most important aim is to provide optimum protection for your artery walls, not to completely substitute for your insulin. In many cases, particularly in patients with inherited (juvenile) insulin deficiency, this will not be possible.