V said, > I have hyperinsulinism < Dee said, > [People think]...when you are this sort of weight, that you must be stuffing your face secretly, but I can assure you this is not true. And when I do starve and lose a few pounds, if I deviate one little bit from the starvation mode, then I pile it on again and more! <
Both of these issues can be addressed in similar ways. Let me comment on them one point at a time. The first thing to check is your urine/saliva pH. Here is a metabolic principle: The more alkaline your pH is, the stronger (more efficient) your insulin is, and vice-versa. So, if your pH is overly alkaline, you will have overly strong insulin, which translates to low blood sugar (hyperinsulinism = hypoglycemia). Since most folks have fluctuating pH, their blood sugar bounces around a lot, with accompanying fluctuations of energy, mood, digestive efficiency and mental clarity. This is what causes hundreds of millions of people across North America to head for the coffee machine about 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM every day, when their blood sugar has dropped. Other folks eat sugar to accomplish the same thing. But it goes farther than that. I have tested the pH of many, many people all across North America since 1984, and only a small percentage of them are consistently acidic or alkaline (except for older folks, who have usually settled into a consistent acidic pH). The significance of fluctuating pH is that it indicates a state of demineralization. So a program of remineralization is essential, top-priority. Of all the nutrients that people are familiar with today - vitamins, minerals, enzymes, protein, etc. - minerals play the most important role in human metabolism. Our bodies use vitamins, protein and enzymes, but we are made of minerals. The root cause of illness and poor health centers upon the process of demineralization. It's a bit like a bank account in which, if you write a check for more than the balance in the checking account, it automatically dips into the funds in the savings account. When your body does not get the minerals it needs from the food you eat (or the supplements you take), it "pirates" minerals from the mineral reserves throughout your body. So, if your body has a chemical imbalance of one type, it will steal minerals from your joints and bones, and you might develop arthritis or bursitis (or calcium deposits or fibromyalgia). Or, if your chemistry is unbalanced in another direction, your body might leach minerals from the linings of your arteries, and you might develop high blood pressure and heart disease. If you can imagine the bricks and the mortar in a wall slowly dissolving, then you will have an idea of the process of demineralization. After awhile, of course, the wall will topple over, because it has become structurally unsound. Bone density, a term used by doctors, is actually referring to the amount of minerals that have been removed from the bones by the body, and how much is still left. Anytime your body does not get the minerals it needs from the food that you eat (unless you are taking and assimilating good mineral supplements), it will take them out of your body's reserves. When your pH is overly alkaline, your digestion slows down and your body is unable to extract the nutrients from your food (or supplements). When your pH is too acid, your digestion is too fast, with the same results. To the degree that your pH is unbalanced, to that degree does your digestion/assimilation/metabolism suffer. So resolving pH imbalance is absolutely essential. When overly alkaline, your body tends to steal minerals that it needs from the top half of your body, resulting in excessive tooth decay, TMJ, head, neck and shoulder problems, etc. If consistently too alkaline, you will be constipated. You may have a higher body temperature than you should (need less blankets than your partner, perspire easily, hate hot weather, maybe sleep with a fan by your bed). When too acid, the body searches for mineral deposits from the lower half of your body. This is why many older folks (who have become consistently acidic) have feet problems, corns, bunions, hip problems, etc. If consistently acidic, your body temperature will be too low (my ex-wife needed seven blankets to my one), you may have trouble digesting protein (especially meat) because it moves too fast through your digestive tract. You will be highly susceptible to bone-joint problems (arthritis, bursitis, fibromyalgia) and, of course, cancer. The answer, by-the-way, is not to become alkaline (with its accompanying problems), but to become balanced. Although I have described acid/alkaline issues above, because most folks experience fluctuating pH, it is not so simple or clear as I have described. How to achieve balanced pH? OK, fasten your seat belts. First off, unbalanced pH is NOT caused primarily by acidic/alkaline foods. It is caused by a calcium deficiency of a specific type. To make this clearer, I must digress to the subject of calciums. Yep, calciums, not calcium. Let me quote from a section of one of my articles, Nutritional Insights: CALCIUM: Picture the human body as if it were a brick wall. It is made up of bricks, plus the mortar that holds them together. In the case of the body, the bricks are calcium, and the mortar is all the rest of the minerals that the body uses for life and health. Our bodies use more calcium than all other minerals combined. Obviously, without bricks there would be no wall, but equally obvious is that without the mortar, the bricks would not hold together. Another important factor to determine is if you are getting enough of the right kinds of calcium. Although Dr. Carey Reams isolated seven different kinds of calcium which our bodies need, there are essentially three categories of calciums to be considered: Alkaline-pH calciums (calcium hydroxide, phosphate and carbonate), Acid-pH calciums (calcium lactate and sulphate) and neutral-pH calciums (calcium gluconate, aspartate, citrate, orotate, etc.). "pH" refers to the acidifying or alkalinizing effect upon the body. The body needs all of these calciums in balance for good health. A deficiency of alkaline calcium, for instance, will express itself as an apparent excess of acidifying calcium (calcium "deposits" are nearly always one type of calcium accumulating somewhere in your body because of a deficiency of the other). The Bioanalysis pH tests determine which kind of calcium your body may be deficient in, and indicate which kind of calcium should be supplemented. Nowadays, the most common kind of calcium you will find being sold is an alkaline-pH calcium, calcium carbonate (usually ground-up oyster shell). Most multi-vitamin/mineral supplements use it, and wherever you see labels which announce âCalcium added!â (whether in food, drink or supplement), it is nearly always calcium carbonate. (It is the cheapest form of calcium available.) Most acid-indigestion supplements are made of this calcium (Tums, Rolaids, etc.). This would be okay, except that most calcium carbonate is extremely difficult to digest and assimilate (much like eating chalk). Not all adults and very few children need to take alkaline-pH calcium (and especially commercial calcium carbonate). So if a person's metabolic pH is already too alkaline (indicating a deficiency in acidifying calcium), taking alkaline-pH calcium will only aggravate the health problems which can be caused by having an overly-alkaline metabolic pH. Another form of calcium carbonate that is mildly alkaline is bone meal, but you would need to get bone meal from organic, free-range cows, and you would need to take a lot of it for an extended period of time to resolve raise an acidic pH. Oh my, what have I gotten myself into here, this is getting long! Let me cut to the chase. To properly determine what the pH situation is in your body, you need to test urine and saliva morning and evening for six days. You need to use the type of pH paper that measures in .2 increments, not .5 increments like standard pharmaceutical litmus paper does. Many Health Food stores carry pH paper like this, but you have to open the package and LOOK at the paper to be sure. The package will have a colored pH chart either on the outside or inside that goes from an acidic low (usually about 5.5) to an alkaline high (usually about 8.0-9.0). In fact, you donât want pH paper that doesnât cover at least that range. If you really want to do this, contact me off-list and I will send you an instruction page with places to write the test results each day. When you have finished, email me the 6-day test results and I will tell you what they mean (no charge). If you cannot find pH paper like I have described, I can send it to you ($20). Put simplistically, if your pH is off, your body will begin to either hold on to calories (of every kind), no matter how much you diet, or it will be unable to hold on at all, and will push everything through quickly, in which case you will be like my 92-lb ex-wife, who can eat a 200-lb man under the table and not gain an ounce. She looks like she is anorexic, and you could count her ribs, but the daughter who lives with her says she eats ALL the time. You might think that would be a nice problem to have, but she is a strong candidate for arthritis and/or cancer. Both for folks who need to lose weight and those with blood sugar issues, the diet just posted by Mike Devour is right up your alley. (I have saved that post, Mike, very good and very balanced.) Dr. Joseph Mercola has just the diet for the above two issues (weight loss and low/high blood sugar). See: www.mercola.com Depending on how unbalanced your pH is, the type of protein you can metabolize will vary. If you are too much off in either direction, you will need to stick with chicken/fish (organic chicken and fresh, caught, non-pond grown fish). Another form of easy-to-digest protein is nutritional yeast (the highest protein food you can eat), unless you cannot handle it. The fact that you may have (or suspect you have) a candida type yeast infection/condition doesnât automatically mean you will have trouble with nutritional yeast. I have many candida clients across the country, and half of them can eat n. yeast freely, while the other half can hardly look at it. Here is the initial diet idea for both weight-loss folks and hypo/hyper blood sugar folks: NO grains. NO sweets, including fruit and sweet potatoes. Use Stevia to sweeten stuff (no other kind of sweetener). NO soy (Dr. Mercola will explain). If you juice (very good idea), go very easy on the carrots (too high in sugar). Juice a green drink instead, sweeten with Stevia. (Really, not kidding.) Eat as many types of vegetables as you can (go easy on potatoes, which have little nutrition but are high in starch, which turns into sugar). Eat every 2 hours - not a meal, but veggie snacks. Some nuts, seeds, beans are OK (all of them are incredibly good for you if sprouted). Avocados are super (mash them with some lemon juice and garlic, spread on other veggies). Drink good water. Work up to about 40% of your body weight (if you weighed 100 lbs, your goal would be 40 oz.). This is not a permanent diet, just the one you should follow until you achieve some biochemical balance. After that, you can begin to gradually add some fruit and other natural sweets to your diet. You will know because your pH will begin to balance, plus you will start feeling better. But plan on 6-months to a year before that actually happens. Terry Chamberlin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
