Sunday, July 1, 2012

contradicting therapy

Medicine is really an art. We know that a diabetic has to lower down his sugar. But if you analyze what really is happening inside the body of the patient, it is not the sugar who is the culprit. Though it produces a lot of bad effects in other organs including the kidney, it is not the reason why a person has diabetes. It is the lack of the delivery boy who carries the sugar inside the cells of the body: the INSULIN. If insulin is not adequate enough to deliver all the sugar inside the cells, high blood sugar results. Now, if a patient is weakening and has lost energy to perform basic daily routine, he is lacking sugar inside the cell but so abundant inside his blood stream. His cells are calling for help from the organ makers of sugar: the LIVER. From the calls of the cells for help, the liver responses by producing more sugar from the fatty deposits of the body and even from the muscles. But there will come a time when these sources of sugar produce byproducts harmful to the body. What does the liver do? It stops producing sugar. The patient becomes weak and unable to do routine chores. If the patient refuses insulin, he is given oral hyopoglycemics which bring down sugar by throwing them out of the body via the kidneys or preventing the absorption of sugar from the intestines. Where is the cell at this point? It is still hungry for sugar all the more because the blood sugar is depleted by the presence of hypoglycemics.

Nothing can substitute insulin. What do we do with a diabetic patient with a normal current determination of blood sugar who is becoming weak and lethargic? Let him eat sugar.


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