JD, I am NOT kidding when I say you should ask for your money back over whoever made you pay for your ND degree. It almost seems like you find some information on the Internet, and "add to it" to make up the rest with your own unscientific ideas!!!! Do you even understand what you say? Your book says that diabetes is an autoimmune disease! Well, TYPE 1 is (the rare non-preventable kind). Type 2, the most common kind affecting 95% of diabetics, is NOT. Also, autoimmunity is not "recent" news! They have known Type 1 is autoimmune in nature since the 1970's!!!!

Benfotiamine has been used in Germany for years, and is sold as a dietary supplement in North America. There have never been any proven documented side effects. If we wait for the FDA to approve everything, we will be damaged beyond repair AND paying $150 a bottle for it after the pharmaceutical companies determine the price and market it as a drug. Also, look at Vioxx. The FDA did a great job at determining that was safe! It's been used successfully for years without issue, so of course Big Pharma wants to "test it" so they can turn it into a patented drug.

The great thing about the supplements I mentioned is that they are safe in recommended doses, and you can get them NOW. They have also been shown to work. Diabetics need to also take anti-inflammatories to treat the inflammation from elevated BG's, and Type 1's even more so, since they ALSO have inflammation from the autoimmune process.


P.S. I found a website for a Naturopathic School in your home state. Is this where you went? Because if you did, they teach the same classifications of diabetes as I have been stating all along. This is right off the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine Website. So, if you DIDN'T attend here, I ask again, where did you get your degree? I suggest you go back to university. I will help you if you like, but posing on the internet and spreading misinformation is NOT doing diabetics any favors. You seriously could have killed someone with the advice you gave regarding the insulin pump. To all people reading this, please see a Certified Diabetes Educator (Medical Doctor, Registered Nurse, Pharmacist, or Registered Dietitian with a CDE designation) for any diabetes advice.


Attacking the Incidence of Diabetes in Children Head-on
By Patricia Bannon
Sep 14, 2005


Research and treatment at the Southwest Naturopathic Medical Center has found significant results and benefits for all ages from a naturopathic treatment regimen for diabetes.



According to the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a federally sponsored program, diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in school aged children today. The American Diabetes Association has stated the risk of developing Type 1 diabetes is higher than virtually all other severe chronic diseases of childhood. Each year, more than 13,000 children are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Coincidentally, because 10 to 15 percent of children and teens are overweight, double the number of two decades ago, increasing numbers of young people are developing Type 2 diabetes. Today more than 19 million Americans overall have diabetes, and one in three is not even aware of it. Diabetes is now the fifth deadliest disease in the United States. It has been estimated that the annual economic cost of diabetes has exceeded $130 billion a year, or approximately one out of every ten health care dollars spent in the United States. Diabetes can be life-threatening, as diabetics have 4-6 times the risk of dying from heart disease and stroke. Other serious complications of diabetes can include heart disease, vision loss/blindness, stroke, kidney disease, liver disease, and limb amputations.



There are several types of diabetes: Type I, which is a quick onset auto-immune disorder where a person¡¦s own antibodies attack and kill the pancreatic cells that make insulin; Type 1.5 diabetes, also known as LADA (Latent Auto-immune diabetes of the adult), which is a slow onset auto-immune form of diabetes; Type 2 diabetes, which is related to insulin resistance--where the body cells do not respond to insulin¡¦s signals to take in blood sugar¡Xas well as obesity, lack of physical activity, nutrient deficiencies, and a diabetic family history; and, MODY, maturity onset diabetes of the young, which is a very rare genetic problem where with producing insulin in the pancreas or accepting it at the cell. All types of diabetes but LADA are seen in children.