In my snail mail today was a letter from an outfit that, like many others, I have already let know that I can no longer donate to their worthy causes, but who continue to send me their mailings nevertheless. Often I just tear them in half and toss them for recycling anymore. Sometimes I open them, to see what they are up to these days. I am glad I did to this one. Well; sort of glad. I will explain.
It was from the Sky People Higher Education, an outfit - or perhaps just the one guy in charge - that makes scholarship monies (from us contributors) available to Native American students to help them go on into higher education. In this mailing the NA guy in charge talked about one of their past recipients of such assistance who has battled with “type two diabetes” - as do many NA people; interestingly enough - and has combined her personal interest in the subject with some info that she gleaned from her college education, in a class on nutrition, to encourage other members of her tribe to grow their own vegetables as she does; the link being “fresh vegetables and dark leafy greens” especially.
Ah. Dark green leafy vegetables. That rang a bell. Two, in fact. The first one was that, from my own reading over the years in the literature regarding health and nutrition, I knew that the key factor in ‘dark green leafy vegetables’ is that they are high in magnesium. Now let me see, where have I come across this link before…ah, yes. Here it is. In my (heavily underlined) copy of nutritionist Adelle Davis’s ‘Let’s Get Well’. Page 78. Towards the beginning of a chapter entitled ‘Diabetes Is Not Always Permanent’:
“Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, makes it possible for sugar (glucose) to enter the cells to be converted into energy or, if not needed immediately, to be changed into glycogen (body starch) or fat; and insulin is also necessary before stored fat can be used. In diabetes the insulin supply becomes inadequate, presumably the result of a damaged pancreas.
“When too little vitamin B6 (pyridoxin) is obtained, [an amino acid called] tryptophane is not used normally; instead it is changed into a substance known as xanthurenic acid. If animals are deficient in vitamin B6, xanthurenic acid in the blood becomes so high that it damages the pancreas within 48 hours and diabetes is produced. The blood sugar rises far above normal, and excessive sugar (glucose) spills into the urine…
“As soon as vitamin B6 is supplied, the amount of xanthurenic acid decreases; when the pancreas has not been seriously harmed, health is restored and all diabetic symptoms disappear…Magnesium decreases the need for vitamin B6, and if it is increased in the diet, the amount of xanthurenic acid is reduced even though no vitamin B6 is allowed. Furthermore, magnesium is necessary to activate enzymes containing vitamin B6; and blood magnesium is particularly low in diabetics. Diabetes, therefore, may prove to be caused by the combined deficiencies of this vitamin and mineral…”
If we were looking in the right place. With the right motive…(1)
And as a bookmark to the page, I see that I inserted there a letter, back in late 2017, from an outfit called Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation, soliciting donations for their worthy cause - as ‘An Organization for People Who Live with Diabetes Every Day’ - their letter containing such ‘Did you know’ facts as:
*Diabetes kills more Americans every year than breast cancer and AIDS combined.
* It’s the #1 cause of blindness in adults.
* 1 in 3 American children born today will develop diabetes if current trends continue.
* In the next 24 hours, 4,320 new cases of diabetes will be diagnosed.(2)
Two observations at this point:
1) Maybe we could learn something from the Native Americans in our midst after all.
2) Adelle Davis’s book ‘Let’s Get Well’ - one of a series of books in that vein (which included tomes on ‘Let’s Eat Right To Keep Fit’ and ‘Let’s Have Healthy Children’ and ‘Let’s Stay Healthy’) - was first published in 1965, and in paperback in 1974. And Reprinted a number of times over a number of the following years. But now, long out of print.
And the likes of diabetes is still a huge - and even growing - problem in society.
Except for one basic body.
The medical-pharmaceutical-government complex.
Ding ding. Ding ding. Ding ding.
The bell you hear now is their demise.
At long last.
Along with all the other despots of our time.
And for a long time past.
Who have been in charge -
in power -
long enough.
For us to get
the lesson.
Of leaving God out of
the equation.
Of living life with awareness.
P.S. And it’s the same sort of thing with the likes of cancer, and measles. The latter of which dis-eases can be treated simply - as both palliative and preventive - with vitamin A. Without the damnable side effects of the vaccine. Which includes autism, and other neurodegenerative - i.e., brain-damage - conditions. Which we are experiencing an epidemic of.
But don’t get me started on that one. Or on so many of the other maladies of our day. Which are all going to disappear, once we get rid of their common cause:
the concept of profit.
For, we are involved in a Process that involves Synthesis.
Not a zero-sum game.
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footnotes:
(1) Not so incidentally, there is another cascade factor going on here: Tryptophan is a precursor to serotonin, the ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitter. If something causes a deficiency of tryptophan in the system, that would tend to drop the levels of serotonin. Result: the likes of depression.
But hey, they’ve got a drug - actually, a lot of them - for that condition. Right?
Right??
(2) I see by a note that I made at the time on their letter that I replied to them in the way that I have with many of such donation requests, and with an added comment regarding their outfit’s work (and as specifically ‘triggered’ by their mission statement, beginning: “The mission of (DRWF) is to help find the cure for diabetes, and until that goal is achieved," etc. etc.):
“Please take me off your mailing list. Thank you.
"P.S. Have you checked for vitamin B6/magnesium deficiencies yet? There’s your cure.”
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