Actress Halle Berry, who is pregnant, has enraged diabetes experts, after publicly stating that she has successfully improved her diabetes with a healthy diet.

Diabetes specialists are accusing her of “confusing” other diabetics with her comments.

It appears that these diabetes “experts” believe that if they cannot successfully reverse diabetes, then it must also be impossible for others as well… no matter how much scientific proof is provided.

Just goes to show that most of these “experts” are more intent on proving their preconceived notions, rather than being open to true and unbiased scientific research.

The Asian Diabetes Association has revealed research about a natural product that has been used in China for many years to treat Type II Diabetes: the Goji berry. Its polysaccharides have been shown to help balance blood sugar and insulin response.

In his first clinical trials, Dr. Victor Marcial-Vega, M.D., researcher on the effects of goji juice for years, discovered that “blood sugar levels decrease in 64 percent of the patients with diabetes, and more than half of them decreased or eliminated their medications.”

Here’s one testimonial:

I was taking 14 medications, and never anticipated the quality of my life improving. My blood sugar numbers were running in the 280s – the lowest would be approximately 250. After the tenth day of drinking goji juice, my blood sugar was 118, and that was not in a fasting environment, and was without any of the 14 medications that I would normally be taking. I’m a goji-for-life person. I can’t imagine taking it out of my daily routine.
- Max V., Queen Creek, Arizona
(Breakthroughs In Health, August 2006, Vol. 1, issue 1, p. 127)

According to medical research, goji causes the red blood cells to release oxygen to the cells more efficiently via an enzyme called 23BPG. This tends to make better use of the available oxygen.

Dr. Victor Marcial-Vega, M.D. has been studying the before- and after-effects of various treatments on the blood, with thousands of his patients.

He discovered that when the blood is too acidic, the red blood cells tend to clump together, and there is normally a higher level of bacteria in the blood as well.

Dr. Marcial-Vega discovered that in only 24 to 36 hours after drinking Goji juice, the blood became more alkaline, and the red blood cells had separated, making oxygen delivery to the cells more efficient. Some of his research was published in the August 2006 issue of Breakthroughs In Health magazine (vol. 1, issue 1), as follows:

He noticed that as the alkalinity changed, so did the reversal of all illnesses, including cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic renal failure, obesity, high cholesterol, arthritis and other illnesses associated with physical or mental discomforts, including attention deficit disorder, anxiety and depression.

“Blood sugar levels decrease in 64 percent of the patients with diabetes, and more than half of them decreased or eliminated their medications” (p. 13).

The ancient Himalayan healers were also aware thousands of years ago that people were much healthier, stronger, had more endurance, and even lived longer when they consumed goji.

A well-known story is told of Li Qing Yuen, a Chinese man born in 1678, who lived to be 252 years old! His life span has even been verified by scholars, who found that “each day he consumed a ‘soup’ made of the Goji berry.”

And like with most natural products, there are no unpleasant side-effects associated with normal use.

The Indian Diabetes Prevention Programme recently published a study in Diabetes Care, which promotes lifestyle modifications and long-term treatment with metformin, alone or in combination, as cost-effective measures for preventing Type II Diabetes in individuals who are at risk for this disease.

According to Dr. Ambady Ramachandran of the India Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, and his co-investigators, India is facing a diabetes epidemic with around 35 million diabetics suffering from the disease, with approximately 30% of these likely being undiagnosed cases.

Ramachandran and his team studied 531 adults aged 35-55 years with impaired glucose tolerance, and divided them into four groups:

1. a group that received 250 mg metformin tablets twice a day;
2. a lifestyle modification group which was directed to exercise every day for a minimum of 30 minutes, plus given dietary instruction;
3. a group that was given both of the above interventions (metformin and lifestyle modification); and
4. a control group that was given standard health-care advice.

The study participants were monitored at regular intervals, over a 3-year period.

The study revealed that “Lifestyle modification was the most cost-effective intervention, followed by metformin.”

However, this “prevention” approach merely postponed the onset of diabetes, rather than prevent it, according to Ramachandran.

A far better approach is to simply solve the underlying cause of diabetes, since this has been proven to not merely postpone the disease, but to completely reverse it in over 80% of diabetics.

Unfortunately, such a strategy doesn’t seem to fit the current medical paradigm of “treating” or “controlling” diabetes. Could this be because it’s far more profitable to keep treating the ongoing symptoms of diabetes for the rest of the diabetic’s (dramatically shortened) life?!

The firm Frost & Sullivan (which researches and analyzes new market opportunities for corporate growth), has some “happy news” about the diabetes epidemic: this escalating health crisis is creating a huge demand for glucose meters and strips in Asia.

Isn’t that exciting news… Companies that sell glucose meters and diabetic strips can be “happy” to profit from this serious health epidemic.

A report by Frost & Sullivan announced that sales of meters and strips exceeded $100 million last year in the Asia Pacific region. And the future is even “brighter”, as there is still lots of opportunity for growth… because there are such low levels of patient awareness in developing nations, about the importance of monitoring glucose levels.

I know, I know… Monitoring your blood sugar levels is a good thing if you’re diabetic…

Still, it’s just so incredibly frustrating to see companies so gleefully profiting hundreds of millions of dollars from this diabetes epidemic, instead of educating the public about solving the root problem that causes diabetes in the first place.

But that wouldn’t be “happy news” for Big Pharma’s outrageous profit margins… Forgive me if I sound just a little bit jaded.

Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently reported a “major development” in the search for a cure for diabetes.

The research doctors report they have successfully transplanted embryonic pig pancreas into diabetic monkeys, and within weeks the monkeys showed dramatic improvement in insulin production.

Dr. Marc Hammerman of Washington University says, “They are a lot healthier. We’re very close to being able to cure them. So if this is carried forward it is a cure for diabetes, potentially juvenile diabetes and adult onset diabetes. That’s huge.”

Additionally, Dr. Hammerman also says the transplants were done without the need for risky immune suppression drugs that prevent rejection, and that more research on monkeys is needed.

What does this mean for diabetics today?

First of all, human trials are still at least five years away. Full approval would be yet another 4-7 years — or longer — assuming those human trials prove effective and problem-free.

And secondly, most diabetics simply cannot afford to wait that long… especially since about 80% of diabetics can already reverse their diabetes by using far safer, less expensive, and already-proven treatments.

You can learn more about this breakthrough research here: Escaping The Diabetes Trap.

An interesting product currently being used by the Asian Diabetes Association, the Red Cross Hospital in Beijing and nearly 50 hospitals in China as a medical treatment for Type II Diabetes, is an herbal product called Yu Xiao San 8805.

Developed by Dr. Lianjin Chong, Director of The Red Cross Hospital in Beijing, it is designed to restore pancreatic function and to increase insulin beta cells.

This product has been clinically shown to gradually and effectively lower blood-sugar levels and increase insulin secretion. Additionally, it has also been shown to help regulate carbohydrate metabolism, improve blood circulation, lower blood cholesterol and increase immune response.

Yu Xiao San 8805 has undergone experimental tests in both the United States and China with good results, and has further been used by diabetics in over fifty countries worldwide. So far, no adverse or allergic reactions have been reported from its use, nor have there been any reports of damage to the liver, kidney or any other organs

From February to October 1992, 10,618 patients were chosen based on the diagnostic guidelines established for diabetes mellitus by the World Health Organization. These cases were selected for clinical assessment from the China Beijing Chao Yang District Red Cross Hospital and from 48 other similar hospitals across the nation.

Here are the results after 4 months of treatment and monitoring:

• 1794 (19.12%) patients with Type II diabetes were able to discontinue their diabetes medications;
• 2346 (25.01%) patients saw their diabetes symptoms significantly improve and diabetic complications reduced;
• 3835 (40.88%) noticed some improvement; and
• 1407 (15.00%) experienced no evidence of symptom improvement nor diabetes improvements.

The primary herb components of Yu Xiao San are being patented, to be sold in the United States as a health food.