[il-talk] With articles such as this, it's no wonder people fear and dred blindness.

[Kelly Pierce]

Richard Bernstein was trained as an engineer.  He developed type I
diabetes at the age of 12 and began to have significant complications
in early adulthood. He worked for a medical device company that was
one of the original manufacturers of blood sugar meters when they were
introduced in 1969.  His wife was a doctor and she ordered one for
him.  Until 1980, the devices could only be sold to doctors rather
than individuals as they are today.

He measured his blood sugar as many as eight times a day, finally
getting to a state in 1973 of learning which foods and other lifestyle
factors could maintain his insulin and blood sugar at normal, steady
levels.  He says:

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“Within a year, I had refined my insulin and diet regimen to the point
that I had essentially normal blood sugars around the clock. After
years of chronic fatigue and debilitating complications, almost
overnight I was no longer continually tired or feeling washed-out.
People commented that my gray complexion was gone. After years of
sky-high readings, my serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels had
now not only dropped, but were at the low end of the normal ranges.

I started to gain weight, and at last I was able to build muscle as
readily as nondiabetics. My insulin requirements dropped to about
one-third of what they had been a year earlier. With the subsequent
development of human insulin, my dosage dropped to less than one-sixth
of the original. The painful, slow-healing lumps the injections of
large doses of insulin left under my skin disappeared. The fatty
growths on my eyelids from high cholesterol vanished. My digestive
problems (chronic burning in my chest and belching after meals) and
the proteinuria that had so worried me eventually vanished. Today, my
results from even the most sensitive kidney function tests are all
normal. I recently discovered that even the calcified muscle lining
the arteries in my legs has normalized. As chief of the peripheral
vascular disease clinic of a major medical school, I had been teaching
physicians that a cure for this Monckeberg's atherosclerosis was
impossible. I proved myself wrong. My deformed feet, droopy eyelids,
and loss of hair on my lower legs are not reversible and still remain.
When I was seventy-three years old (four years ago), my coronary
artery calcium score was only 1, less than that of most teenagers.”
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With his much better health and increased energy, he entered medical
school in 1979 and established a private practice in 1983 helping
thousands over the decades. In his 2011 book, Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes
Solution, Richard Bernstein shares the techniques and treatments he
teaches his patients and has used on himself since 1973.  The book,
available through Bookshare, shows how people with diabetes can
normalize their blood sugar levels, rely on less insulin, and how even
type I diabetics can thrive well into their late 70s without
complications.

Another book on Bookshare from metabolism expert Dr. Ron Rosedale
offers a complete diet and exercise program that prevents diabetes and
reverses it for some people.  His book is “the Rosedale diet.”

Finally, herbalist Paul Bergner conducted extensive research on
prolonged high insulin levels and put together a three part program
that has reported dramatic results in normalizing insulin levels in
just eight days.  The program is outlined at:

http://medherb.com/Syndrome_X.htm

Paul’s program of diet, resistance training and supplementation cannot
be found in any one book or resource and is certainly not part of the
medical mainstream. Yet, it along with Dr. Bernstein’s book and the
Rosedale diet show us how what supposedly is medically impossible is
achievable. This is just like the rehabilitation professionals who
limit the expectations of blind people and offer grim opinions about
our capabilities. As Jenny described, diabetes, especially type I, can
be a devastating experience in someone’s life. Thanks to the
technology the Federation help develop we can access the tremendous
resources I described earlier.  I offer those with diabetes my support
and assistance in becoming informed and in charge to conquer our
bodies and our lives.

Kelly