Sugar Blues: Alcoholism, Diabetes and Hypoglycemia

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Alcoholism, Diabetes and Hypoglycemia can be cured.

A discussion on the Soil and Health Yahoo group centered on the subject of alcoholism and also touched the need and desire to have a glass or two of beer or something distilled from time to time.

"Alcoholism is based in hypoglycemia," said Philip N. Ledoux*, adding: "there is no profit in the cure so, when people did discover the problems triggered by hypoglycemia, the medicos devised all kinds of medicines and false science which is still around. Once hypoglycemia enters the family tree it seems to never go away. If you really understand hypoglycemia, and then abstain from all concentrated and artificial sugars (even stevia) and carbohydrates that convert into sugars (fine grind is the problem), then you can control the hypoglycemia and usually cure any associated disease."

There was a lot of interest in the subject of balancing one's sugar intake, so Philip wrote up for the list his experience and the results of his research. The messages were very interesting to read and I believe that many of you may want to see and perhaps even pass them on, so I asked if I could post them in an article.

This information really should be required reading in nutrition class (what ... there is no such thing in school?) and it's the kind of advice we secretly hope our doctor might give us instead of a prescription. There are even a number of recipes at the end which, while avoiding concentrated sugars, still make for delicious treats. So - good reading and, in case you or your soul mate are good at cooking and baking, bon appetit!

*About the author, by the author

I was born in 1931 in a medium sized town where local farmers produced 90% of all the foods consumed. Other than the typical childhood wonderments my real memories started after my father bought his farm; and the memories that I'll never forget are my father sitting in his favorite rocking chair, wrapped in a blanket besides the kitchen wood stove, trying to cough up his toe-nails during an asthma attack (at least that was my mother's quite accurate description). And what made a stronger impression was the fact that he had been a blacksmith and was as strong as 3 men, and so sick he couldn't put a stick of wood into the stove to keep himself warm!

My father's dream in life had been to be a veterinarian, but missing school half the time from sickness and extra farm chores and being a dyslectic prevented the dream from becoming a reality. Quite naturally he infected me with the desire, and I too studied earnestly to be able to get into a university to study animal medicine. As the years passed, my father's "sickness" spoke to me in a way; it would take as many years to become a medical doctor as to become a veterinarian, and I just might be able to solve the riddle of my father's asthma. So, gradually I became human medicine oriented rather an animal related.

I did get to our state university as a pre-med student. So many of the business gurus preach "location," "location," but in my case it was "time," "time." The first GI bill was ending soon, and veterans were making certain they didn't lose out. To be able to take a med school entrance exam one had to have a 95% grade point average! My 92% could never cut the mustard, so I only have one year pre-med behind me. It was a blessing in disguise, because I didn't become brainwashed in allopathic medicine, yet I was able to read the cutting edge news in medicine and understand it; and the desire to help others never diminished.

In later years I took homeopathic and natural healing correspondence courses, and read the books by the greats in natural healing. Sadly, I learned the cure to my father's asthma 2 years after he died; but that in a way has prevented me from forgetting the cure. My first wife was left in labor for 32 hours which triggered acute hypoglycemia; but it would be 10 more years before I would even know how to spell the word say nothing about understanding it. She was a text-book exaggeration of every symptom that hypoglycemia exhibits. If it were not for her, you would not be reading this series about hypoglycemia, its curses and cure. I'm only the observer, she was the teacher.

Hopefully this series will lead you out of the bewildering maze of hypoglycemia, which we are all in; and yes there is a cure for it.

Philip N. Ledoux
Claremont, N. H. 03743
U.S.A.

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Sugar Blues: Alcoholism, Diabetes and Hypoglycemia
by Philip N. Ledoux

Part 1: The reason for hypoglycemia and diabetes

I personally believe that we are taught to rely too heavily on "diets," recipes, and formulas. When my mother taught me how to cook (age 10?) she emphasized that a recipe was only a guide. If we have a surplus of eggs, use 2 or 3 when it calls for 1; use milk when it calls for water (we were dairy farmers), and so on. Likewise, when you understand the cause of "diseases" you should be able to figure out how to cure them, recipes aren't needed.

The label "hypoglycemia" is about as poor a label as could have been applied. Yes, you are exactly correct John in saying "too little" blood sugar, but that comes from the label. It really is "out of whack, blood sugar dynamics" but what professional would use that kind of label? To get my children to understand and be interested in our inherited problem I would tell them: if it wasn't for our kind of people, civilization would never have developed. I'll admit I was stretching it a bit, but there is a germ of truth in it. All of us who are hypoglycemics developed the ability to store excess sugars rather than depend on a constant source of sugars; thusly our ancestors were able to survive the lean periods, we drew from our sugar reserves. And that isn't exactly correct, excess sugars as blood sugar (which is water soluble sugar) converts into non-water soluble sugar (glucose into gluconase) which is stored in the liver, muscles and elsewhere. When the liver gets full, this excess is then converted into body fat. In the survival part, the body fat is reconverted into blood sugar with a 75% efficiency.

Like so many traits of human adaptation for survival, these become a double edged sword in civilization; especially so in industrialization, but visible in history way, way back. In a primitive world, the only excess sugars we got into were finding a "bee tree" and gorging on the honey. We had one hell of a sugar hangover, we got over it and life continued onward in the slow lane again. The body was able to handle that "occasional" whack. Today, every time we open our mouths, we give the body a great big whack.

Boiled down to its simplest: There is a normal range for blood sugar to operate within, which varies somewhat from individual to individual. When we get into "sugars," the brain senses this "too much" at the top of the normal range and orders insulin to be produced. Sugars start to be stored. When blood sugar reaches the bottom of the normal range, the brain uses the "turn on to turn off" method which is widely used in all types of industrial controls. In this case the brain says to the adrenal cortex to produce its special enzyme which in turn turns off the insulin production by the pancreas. Sadly, no "feedback" about accomplishment is included in the body's operations. As we developed way back when, no feed back was needed, everything was simple.

As long as we still only got into the sugars on religious feasts and weddings, we developed the sugar hangover, sobered up and continued on OK. It was in the 19th Century that the average person was able to live it up in the sugars like the rich; and there started our demise. As long as we could only afford coarse ground grains (carbohydrates) and sugars as nature made them as an apple, fig, etc. there was enough bulk that it was impossible to eat too much sugars (or converted sugars) to get the sugar hangover. "Sugar Blues" by Dufty does an excellent job of developing the sugar story over the centuries, and it is most interesting reading. It wasn't until the mid 1920ies that hypoglycemia was discovered. It has been around since the days of the early Greeks! But the mechanism hadn't been identified. Hippocrates defined the symptoms of diabetes, and you cannot become a diabetic unless you have first become a severe hypoglycemic; so the ancients knew the end of the line problems, but not the real culprit.

Here is the mechanics of the problem: Mother nature puts bulk into her sugars, only the date has too much sugar per bulk, but mankind likes to improve on mother nature, is addicted to sweetness and thusly concentrates natural sugars by juicing (cider) or concentrating (maple syrup) or going to the ultimate of 99% "pure" as in table sugar. Basically, in a normal diet, every time we open our mouths, we intake too much sugar; the sugar storing cycle is triggered. So far so good. The next step is the weak link. Once the sugar storing cycle is started (insulin production) it has to be turned off by the adrenal cortex, and therein lies the secret. The adrenal glands are "emergency only" type glands. The using of adrenalin should be only once a week. Run across the bull pasture today, and when you feel bull breath down your neck, you'll spurt ahead safely and jump the 10 foot fence. Do not try a repeat for a whole week, because in all cases the bull will win. So, the point I'm making is that the adrenals are not "many times a day" glands, they are once or twice a week glands, and yet they are asked to turn off the sugar storing cycle every time we eat something!

Is it any wonder that we become diabetics when we are 40 or 50 or even as teenagers today? Gradually, the adrenal cortex cannot totally turn off the insulin production, thus there is a continual ongoing production of insulin, and with time more and more insulin is not turned off. Eventually the pancreas is worn down and the doctor tells us the bad news: You are now a diabetic.

Until we become that diabetic, there are all kinds of horror stories that intervene; that was the living hell I referred to in my original post. I will return to that in a later message; I am trying to cover the overall picture today.

The cure for simple diabetes (Diabetes I) and hypoglycemia is identical, give the