The Diabetes Mess and How To Fix It

Diabetes has been called a polypharmacy disease which means that it usually takes several drugs to treat it because of the complications involved. Some of the complications are due to incorrect treatment at the outset. I maintain that the model for treatment of diabetes should be changed to a new model for further progress in the treatment of this disease. This model is based on the work of Melvin Page, D.D.S. who developed the concept of balancing body chemistry. A patient’s inherited glandular pattern is determined using a system of body measurements and a graph picture or a table is used to aid in determining which glandular products to use. In this model of treatment, calcium and phosphorous ratios are also used to determine which glandular products to use as well as the dosage.

The various glandular patterns present in diabetes I or II are illustrated in my book The Hormone Mess and How To Fix It. They can be hypo post pit only, hypo post pit and hypo ant. pit, hyper ant. pit, hypo post pit and hyper ant. pit. It is essential that the pituitary be treated first in most all cases of diabetes and insulin added last. It is important to use this model because insulin is usually used in too great of a quantity for most all diabetes cases and there are problems from insulin overdose. For example, Page found that just a small amount of insulin, 1-2 units will suppress the thyroid gland and in fact he used such an amount to treat hyperthyroid patients. Therefore if a diabetic patient takes too much insulin it can suppress his or her thyroid gland and cause increased weight gain which is often associated with taking insulin. There is also an increase in appetite in patients taking insulin. There can be distortions of the calcium/phosphorous ratio when someone is taking too much insulin usually with the calcium raising and the phosphorous dropping. This can lead to kidney stones, cataracts, and arteriosclerosis.

To treat diabetes properly blood tests must be taken with the patient being on a controlled diet for three days prior to the test and calcium/phosphorous ratios are monitored along with the blood sugar level. They can’t be taking any other medications at the time of testing because it will throw off the calcium and phosphorous ratio. This is why children are usually easier to treat. They usually aren’t taking many other medications and their glands respond more rapidly. In this system the pituitary is treated first using calcium and phosphorous ratios to achieve the correct combination and dosage and insulin is added last again using calcium/phosphorous ratios to determine the correct dosage.

In cases where the pituitary gland is underactive, pituitary is added until the best calcium/phosphorous ratio is achieved. A more normal blood sugar level will follow. In cases where the anterior pituitary gland is overactive, sex hormones may be used to suppress it. Again, more normal blood sugar levels will follow. In some cases, both the posterior pituitary and anterior pituitary have to be treated. Once the pituitary is in balance, insulin can be introduced again using calcium/phosphorous levels to determine the dosage. This method is quite accurate and prevents insulin overdosage.

A strict diabetic diet or a diet similar to the Page Food Plan is added along with an exercise routine and vitamins and minerals are added. Diabetes is best treated using this model and there are fewer side effects such as excessive weight gain, depression, extreme calcium/phosphorous ratios, and cholesterol and triglycerride problems often associated with diabetes and diabetes treatment.

Insulin is commonly used for type 1 diabetes and the dosage can vary . The total output of insulin in a normal human is from 15-18 units per day. Therefore if there is a total absence of insulin from the pancreas it would not seem justified to give more than this amount per day. However the actual usage of insulin can vary from 8 units per day to over 100 units per day if someone is taking insulin.. This would suggest that something is not being considered and it is usually a lack of consideration of the pituitary gland.

The following case was done by Page in 1975 and it outlines a case with an overactive anterior pituitary gland:

" A young boy had diabetes. He was taking 40 units of insulin a day and still upon examination we found that he had a blood sugar of 143. It was higher than this when he ate foods containing sugar, which on occasion he did. His parents were very much concerned because it was time for him to go to prep school and he would be away from home. His parents wanted to know if would be safe for him to go. The first thing we did was to take his blood sugars every day to find out what the levels were and then to gradually change his diet to as low a carbohydrate content as possible and increase the fat and protein content of his diet. In this way we also gradually reduced the insulin so that we never got his blood sugar lower than 119 milligrams in this manner. Since he was over active anterior pituitary we then decided to try the various sex hormones to see which would lower the sugar level the best. So we started with a little bit of testosterone, about 1/100 of a milligram, which lowered the blood sugar to some degree. We finally ended up with 1/100 th of a milligram of testosterone and 1/100 ^th of a milligram of a combination of testosterone and estrogen, and did not use any insulin at all. His sugar level dropped to 94 and remained from 94-99 for a full year’s time. He went back to school, did his own cooking with special permission from the dean and school physician so that he was able to have a high protein, low carbohydrate diet.

I find that nearly all diabetic cases, except those which are really due to subfunction, can be helped considerably, sometimes a great deal. Sometimes insulin is no longer necessary at all. Sometimes we use 5 units of insulin or 10 units of insulin in what we do for the patient besides the sex hormones needed, which is sufficient sometimes to bring the sugar level down to 85 milligrams where it belongs."