Adult onset Type 2 Diabetes, Insulin Resistance
In 1955, when I was born, about the same time that the first Bariatric Surgeons and Gastro intestinal surgeons were making ground breaking discoveries into the root cause of Type 2 Diabetes. Because a new Surgical procedure had been invented known as the duodenal bypass (or Gastric Bypass) which was used to treat duodenal ulcers, intestinal cancers and obesity. But an unexpected side effect was occurring; when this surgical procedure was done on Type 2 Diabetics it instantly cured them of Type 2 Diabetes.
These
Bariatric Surgeons and Gastro Intestinal Surgeons published their findings in
their respective journals, but unfortunately the official Diabetic experts, the
endocrinologists, didn’t spend much time reading those journals, because they
had their own Endocrinology journals to read.
So, this discovery went unnoticed for decades by the top Diabetic experts. These 2 groups of medical professions rarely
had anything to do with each other until 1993.
Endocrinologist
means Internal Hormone doctor. Because
Diabetes is an internal Hormone malfunction, with Insulin Hormone malfunction
being the primary focus of this disease.
But this disease really effects about every hormone in your body
eventually. Insulin is just one
digestive hormones amongst many that are also involved.
My
Grandfather died of Type 2 Diabetic Hyperglycemia (High Blood Sugars) at the
age of 66 after eating a Thanksgiving Dinner in 1966, he was of a normal
weight, but had suffered from heart disease for many years. It was very common for him to have a heart
attack every other day, and be bed ridden for the rest of the day with an
oxygen mask and nitroglycerin pills. All
caused by his Type 2 Diabetes (Insulin Resistance). He was taking many kinds of medications as
well as insulin.
My Father Had
Type 2 Diabetes and died in the year 2000 of kidney failure caused by Diabetes
at the age of 70. All my Aunts (all
normal weight) on my Father’s side of the Family all had Type 2 Diabetes as
well, but most lived much longer, one even lived to be 95 years old. My Father was overweight, and he also drank
beer with his metformin, which destroyed his kidneys. Many diabetics lose their kidneys this way.
Metformin
primarily fights insulin resistance, not stimulate insulin production. A Type 2 Diabetic can produce as much as 32
times more insulin than a none diabetic, but over time the pancreas will be
damaged to the point you may eventually need insulin injections as the
pancreases gradually fails if the Type 2 Diabetes isn’t well managed or
controlled. But most Type 2 Diabetics
rarely need insulin, usually diet and medications are all that is needed. So, as
you can see, Type 2 Diabetes is clearly more to do with insulin resistance,
than insulin production most of the time.
The Side
effects of Metformin (or Glucophage) include diarrhea, stress on the kidneys,
stress on the heart and other organs.
Especially the kidneys if the Diabetic patient drinks too much alcoholic
beverages. When Alcohol mixes with
Metformin it creates and acid that can destroy your kidneys. So, anyone taking Metformin should stay away
from all alcoholic beverages.
At one point
in history Metformin was taken off the market because it was destroying people’s
kidneys, but once it was understood that the destruction was more to do with
mixing this medication with alcohol, then it returned to the market, with the
stipulation that the Type 2 Diabetic had to stay away from alcohol.
MY EXPERIENCE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES
Even though
I did not know what the symptoms of diabetes were at that time, my first
symptoms of Diabetes that I recalled was when I was a Teenager, I started to
get Dandruff really bad, ACNE that was so horrible that it looked like my skin went
through the meat grinder a couple of times, constant psoriasis of the skin in
places where the sun never shined (including Dandruff), jock itch, heat rashes
in my groin area, a numbness in my Thys, numbness in my fingertips, constantly sleepy and tired in the middle of
the day, getting sleepy right after eating, taking long naps in the afternoon
and missing out on daily activities that my friends were out doing. While pissing like a race horse frequently.
Even though
I was very athletically involved in football, ping pong, track and field, I
would quite often go home very tired and sore, and the next morning feel like I
got ran over by a MAC truck a couple of times.
I only weighed in at 140lbs, but I was also 6 ft 1 inch tall, a normal
weight should have been 160lbs, So I was 20 pounds underweight, but still
suffering from symptoms of Diabetes.
As I got older
and gained more weight, these symptoms got worse, I didn’t get diagnosed with
Type 2 Diabetes until I was 38 years old and weighing about 250lbs, after
suffering from impotence problems.
Another symptom of Type 2 Diabetes is premature menopause, in men it is
called Andropause. As you gain weight
the symptoms of diabetes get progressively worse.
I officially
had Type 2 Diabetes for 16 years after being diagnosed, before I had it
surgically removed in 2012 with a Duodenal Switch operation. But before I did that, I had been on 2
different types of Insulins using maximum doses, Metformin (insulin
anti-resistance drug), 3 Different blood pressure medications, 3 different
cholesterol medications and 120 units of Methotrexate injections twice a day
for my psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Keep in mind
that the country with the highest percentage of Diabetics is India, even though
67% of them are vegetarians, 9% of their population are diabetics, compared to
America where 8% are officially diagnosed with diabetes. Also remember that a clear majority of
Indians are very thin. When was the last
time you saw a fat Indian (living in the country of India, Not Native
Americans)? Indians are some of the
thinnest people in the world, so clearly being fat is not the underlining
common denominator for Diabetes.
2/3rds of
the Diabetic population are either normal weight or thin. 1/3rd are overweight and less than
1% are obese, at least obese enough to qualify for Gastric Bypass surgery (BMI
> 35).
TYPE 2 DIABETIC HISTORY
In 1993 an
Italian Doctor by the name of Dr. Francesco Rubino had a Diabetic Patient with
a BMI of 83 and was reading through the medical journals to find the best
treatment for his diabetic patient and kept running into those Bariatric and
Gastro Intestinal journals going as far back as the 1950’s, that were mentioned
earlier, talking about how Type 2 Diabetes was Getting eradicated through a
duodenal bypass surgery. So, Dr. Rubino
went to the medical labs using diabetic rats and repeated those surgeries on
diabetic rats.
The results
were confirmed, that when Dr. Rubino bypassed the Duodenum Type 2 Diabetes went
away in the diabetic rats, and when he restored the Duodenum back to its
original function; the Type 2 Diabetes returned. He was able to confirm that it wasn’t even
the entire duodenum at fault, it was only the first half of the duodenum that
was the source of Type 2 Diabetes.
Dr. Rubino
repeated the same experiments on thin diabetic rats and got the same exact
results. So, he effectively proven that Type 2 Diabetes
was a disease of the upper intestine, and not caused by being fat. Fat only makes the disease worse but is not
the real root cause of Type 2 Diabetes. The
duodenum is the first 12 inches of the small intestines in humans. It sort of looks like a second stomach
attached to your main stomach as it bulges out like a second stomach, then
wraps around and connects to the jejunum, but it is part of the Small intestine. The small intestine has 3 different sections,
the Duodenum, the Jejunum and the Ileum.
Type 2 Diabetes is strictly a function of the Duodenum itself.
The Biology behind Type 2 Diabetes
The biology
of the Duodenum is complicated, but to simply what appears to be going on, is
that the duodenum is designed to absorb Iron, as each section of your intestine
specializes in the absorption of specific nutrients from your food, some
sections absorb Vitamin A, others Vitamin C and near the end Vitamin B &
Proteins for example.
When the
Duodenum malfunctions it may absorb proteins (which is the wrong part of the
intestine to be absorbing proteins) incorrectly, and those proteins get
mistaken for digestive hormones like Insulin, Glucagon, Amylin, Ghrelin, etc.,
…. And end up corrupting those hormone receptors. If they corrupt the Insulin receptors, you
get Type 2 Diabetes insulin resistance.
If they corrupt Amylin receptors you get Amylin resistance and gain weight,
if it corrupts Glucagon receptors your liver may not make glucose (sugar) when
your body needs it, which will result in low blood sugar attacks and very
difficult to lose weight, etc., …
In Type 2
Diabetes the insulin resistance means your cells are not eating the Sugar
because they can’t find the sugar in your blood stream. The Insulin hormone simply communicates a
hormonal message between a sugar molecule and a cell, permitting the cells to
find the sugar in your blood. It is the
cells eating the sugar that actual lowers your blood sugar, not the insulin
itself. But this doesn’t work well if
the insulin receptors are corrupted with duodenum proteins that interfere with
these communications.
The cells
then take that freshly eaten sugar to the Cells Mitochondria to bond with
oxygen to create energy with the help of an enzyme, this causes your
Mitochondria to chemically vibrate and keep your cells alive. It is that vibrating Mitochondria that is the
heart beat of your cells that keeps your cells alive and functioning.
If that
sugar molecule contains a vitamin or nutrient of some sort, that vitamin or
nutrient converts that energy into literal work in that cell. Most
sugar molecules from natural sources like fruits and vegetables contain high
levels of vitamins and nutrients of different kinds. It is refined sugar that does not contain
anything useful for producing work in each cell. So, it isn’t just about keeping the Mitochondria
vibrating, but is also about getting some work done in the cell itself, so that each cell can function and perform valuable work for your body.
MY EXPERIENCE WITH GETTING MY DIABETES
SURGICALLY REMOVED
I entered
the Hospital on April 23rd,2012, I could barely walk 100ft without
having to stop to get my breath back. And
suffering from a Low Blood Sugar Attack.
I was taking 2 different kinds of insulin 120units of Basal Insulin
twice a day and regular meal insulin 3 times a day, Metformin, 3 different
Blood pressure medications, 3 different anti-cholesterol medications, heart
medications, Nitroglycerin for my heart disease, massive amounts of
Methotrexate for my psoriasis and CPAP machine for my Sleep Apnea. My pharmacist was making a really good living
off of me.
I had the
duodenal switch operation which has the greatest success for weight loss and
curing type 2 diabetes (a 98% success rate), I was already weighing in at
380lbs. In the duodenal switch operation
both the Duodenum and Jejunum are bypassed, and the Ileum replaces the
digestive path of those other 2 sections.
Remember that the small intestine is about 30 feet long, and the
Duodenum is only 1/30th of that 30 feet, which is 12 inches as
previously mentioned. Most of that 30
feet is the Jejunum; the Ileum is about 2 to 4 meters (or 6ft to 12ft long) at
the end of the small intestines.
Right after
surgery, all my hunger pains were gone.
And the Low Blood sugar attack I was suffering from right before the
surgery was gone, and never happened again.
SIDE EFFECTS OF THE DUODENAL SWITCH
OPERATION:
3 Days after the surgery my Diabetes
was cured, I wasn’t taking anything, no more insulin, no more Metformin, no
more Blood pressure medications, no more Anti-cholesterol medications and no
more methotrexate. However, When I left
the Hospital 5 days after surgery I
did leave the hospital wearing about 5 colonoscopy bags, because I started
losing so much weight on the 4th day so fast that water was exiting
my fat cells so quickly that water was squirting out of my surgical incisions
and stitches.
SUPER FAST WEIGHT LOSS:
I looked
like a water fountain or one of those cartoons where when they get shot up,
Bugs Bunny drinks a glass of water, then water squirts out of his body like a
water fountain. However, the numbness in
my thighs disappeared, the dumbness in my fingertips disappeared, my Sleep
Apnea went away. I wasn’t peeing like a
race horse every 30 minutes like I used to.
My dandruff went away, my skin psoriasis went away. My skin started to take on a younger moister
texture. And the squirting and leaking water went away about 2 weeks after the surgery.
EFFECTS ON MY MOTABOLISM:
I was also
finding it very difficult to sleep, it seemed like every cell in my body was
now running on nuclear power. I never
felt tired or sleep like I used to, not even at night when I was supposed to
sleep. But over about 6 months’ time my
normal sleep cycles returned, but even then, I was only sleeping about 4 to 6
hours instead of 8 hours. I guess 8
hours of sleep is intended for diabetics.
1 month after surgery I took a sleep
apnea test and was found to be cured of sleep apnea.
3 months after surgery; my doctor did a
sonogram of my heart and found that the hardening of my arteries had completely
cleared up. I also went to see my
cardiologist and he confirmed the same thing and that I no longer needed
nitroglycerin or other heart medications either. By this time my weight had dropped all the
way down to 220 lbs, a total weight loss of 160 lbs in 3 months, most of it lost
in the first 3 weeks after the operation.
My
Cardiologist says his other patience that got the same procedure experienced
the same exact things that I went through.
A completely clearing up of the hardening of my arteries, like it was
some sort of sinuous cleansing.
When I
worked out, I could run a full lap or 2 at full speed and not even find myself
breathing hard. And when I woke up in
the mornings, I wasn’t sore or tender everywhere like I used to be. I was in better shape now at age 56 than I
was when I was a teenager playing interscholastic league football.
MENAPAUSE:
When this
procedure is done on women, and they suffer from premature menopause caused by
Type 2 Diabetes, their Menopause is reversed, and they will immediately start
to have perfectly synchronous 28-day menstrual cycles, even if they never had
perfect 28-day menstrual cycles before and be able to conceive starting about
18 months after surgery. While getting their
sex life and child bearing years fully restored.
However, men
that get Andropause because of Type 2 Diabetes do not get their sex life back
from this procedure. Andropause is a
permanent condition. So, if you have
Type 2 Diabetes and haven’t gotten Andropause yet, you should seriously
consider this procedure before you do get Andropause. Otherwise you sex life will be permanently
lost.
THE COSTS FOR THIS PROCEDURE:
This surgery
only cost $8,000 to $25,000 plus hospital stay, which is probably a bargain
considering that in previous years I was in the hospital once or twice a year
from diabetic complications that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each
time.
You will
also be required to go through 6 months of medical and psychological
examinations, including biopsy of your digestive track to confirm you are not a
Type 1 Diabetic but instead a full blown Type 2 Diabetic and your Duodenum is
causing it. Before you get the actual
surgery.
It is now 6
years later, and I am still cured of Type 2 diabetes…. And haven’t needed a hospital stay again do to
Diabetic complications.
BETTER NEWS:
Good news is
that Doctor’s in Chili have recently invented another technique that is far
less intrusive in addition to costing many orders of magnitude less, and it is
called the Endobarrier. This is where they insert a capsule on a
string and into your stomach and duodenum then blow up an inflatable cylinder
into the Duodenum, that latches onto the inside of your stomach. Thus, covering up the Duodenum completely as
it inserts itself into the duodenum while inflating. This is said to be just as effective as the
Duodenal bypass (Gastric Bypass), for so long as food does not touch the
Duodenum, Type 2 Diabetes is eradicated.
There are
now intense studies being done in universities around the world developing
drugs and procedures to fix the duodenum itself. The ideal cure would be a drug that fixes the
duodenum. It might even be possible that
a natural plant, fruit or vegetable might fix the duodenum and avoid any of
these complicated and risky procedures.
By Edmund
Williams
Sources:
American
Diabetes Association Publication dated 09/23/2014
My own
personal experiences
12 years of
Diabetic education by Endocrinologist dietitians. (Standard procedures by endocrinologist)
Forest Park
Medical Center & Barker Bariatrics
