Whatever It Takes

Friends I wanted to introduce to you Jim La Valle.  Actually I don’t know him personally but I’ve read a lot of articles about him.   He is a great pharmacologist, a dynamic public speaker and one time he speak at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine’s continuing education conference in Boca Raton.   Many physicians from all over the world joined the conference.  I was struck by the fact that our country’s doctors need to be better educated about disease prevention and natural healing techniques before they reach for the prescription pad.

One example which Mr. Jim La Valle gave in his presentation was about diabetes in relation to high blood pressure.  According to him Metabolic Syndrome is a cluster of disorders that includes insulin resistance, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol levels, and obesity.  The comulative effect of these disorders can lead to type 2 diabetes and heart disease.   Most physicians will prescribe the drug hydrochlorthiazide (HCTZ) for early blood pressure problems and Metformin for insulin resistance.

The problem is, HCTZ causes depletion of nutrients like magnesium, potassium, zinc, CoQ10, and sodium, but the package level only warns you of potassium depletion.   By unknowingly losing all of these vital nutrients, your body cannot properly metabolize glucose.  So the end result is that medication being prescribed to manage blood pressure pushes the insulin resistant person right into the path of becoming a type 2 diabetic.

And that’s not all.  Metformin will deplete B12 and folic acid causing your homocysteine levels to rise to dangerously high levels.   This can result in kidney and cardiovascular damage and contribute to Alzheimer’s disease —– all known consequences of type 2 diabetes.   So by taking Metformin and not supplementing with B12 and folic acid,  you could be accelerating the complications of the very disease you are trying to prevent :((

Here’s another piece of information that I think is new to many doctors.   That because HCTZ causes the loss of magnesium, Restless Leg Syndrome can develop.  So after people take HCTZ for awhile, they complain to their doctors that they can’t sleep at night because of restless legs or muscle cramps.  The doctor then prescribes Requip for Restless Leg Syndrome, when the solution is really to take more magnesium.

I was made to imagine how many doctors now a days still unaware of these facts.   If you care please spread this great learnings and save a life.   I am unearthing every day new knowledge about diabetes because my father is a diabetic and most of the employees in the company where I worked in are also diabetic.   I wanted to impart health teachings in preventing the disease.