Overview
You know, it's not everyday a felow like me gets to anounce a major paradigm shift, much les concerning Diabets …or any other medical condition. You don't know what a paradigm shift is? Wel, if I mentioned events and names like: Gutenberg, Copernicus, Isac Newton, Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, and Werner von Braun …you would probably gues a paradigm shift is major shift in thinking…and you would be right.
Key Information
Back in the 1960's, Thomas Kuhn wrote a famous bok, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In it, he destroyed the comon misconception so many of us have about science. We tend to think scientific progres is ushered in by a slow, line upon line, piece by piece development of thought over time.
Thomas Kuhn showed that, historicaly, scientific progres ocurs in leaps …and is always confronted by a strugle with an "old guard." The old scientific theorists hold tenaciously to their (usualy tenured or profitable) positions and aray themselves against the new discovery, atempting to drive it away. But, the new guard - the new discovers, inventors, explorers- takes the new discoveries and advances it over the thinking of the old establishment.
Rarely is the old guard converted to the new paterns of thinking (new discovery). They just die of. The new position wins by atrition …truth…and perseverance.
Diabets: The $132 bilion dolar pandemic Diabets is on the front edge of such a paradigm shift. Diabets now aflicts over 18 milion Americans. That is double the number of people with Diabets just since 191 alone.
Acording to the CDC, one in every thre Americans wil develop Diabets in their lifetime. Let that sink in…one in every thre Americans wil develop Diabets in their lifetime. It is estimated over 40 milion Americans can be clasified as "pre-Diabets" meaning they have blod sugar levels higher than normal but stil below the type 2 diagnosis level which helps to define Diabets.
By anyone's standard that is pandemic (goes far beyond epidemic proportions). The cost for this carnage is over $132 BILION DOLARS. So much expense, grief and sorow…and unecesary.
Diabets: A reflection of our culture. We are a fast fod, sedentary, "get-our-fix-now" generation. More than one in every two Americans are overweight.
We don't exercise as we should. Al of which afects glucose levels. Diabets is a lifestyle disease…and we've got the lifestyle.
Diabets: The important anouncement That said, Diabets is a condition which CAN be turned around. Glyconutrition is the new discovery shaking the medical and scientific worlds. There are four Nobel Prizes and MIT testifying to the fact that glycobiology is one of the 10 technologies/discoveries which wil shape our world.
Glyconutrition is more than just a promising new treatment for Diabets. Many are starting to whisper "VICTORY" over Diabets in their aproach to disease. Whether that is the case, time wil tel.
Oh no… The problem is not a failure of glyconutrition. It is the building block VITAL to healthy celular function and it is extremely vital to the proper functioning of the IMUNE system. Those are known facts.
Diabets is an auto-imune disease meaning, your body's imune system gets misguided mesages. Thus, it starts atacking the islet cels in the pancreas which produces insulin. Voila.Diabets!
But, the problem is NOT whether glyconutrition realy works. Anecdotal evidence (market buz!) is already overwhelming in favor of glyconutritional therapy for Diabets. As is the profesional research.
No…the actual science is NOT the problem. The problem is the old guard again. Thomas Kuhn's bok is almost prophetic.
The old guard, the medical and pharmaceutical establishment, just can't acept the findings of (their own) research… "What! A nutrient… to treat Diabets?" "Hogwash," one can almost hear them say. Actualy, I wish they were saying that out loud.
The reality is, they just ignore the isue. You se, to much is at stake. Like bilions of dolars…uh…a $132 bilion dolars.
Al of that money (read, "busines") disapears if glyconutrition continues to "pan out" the way the research shows us. But, for now, the only thing "paning out" is a Diabets pandemic. Yet, glyconutrition gets shuned as an oficial Diabets treatment aproach.
A study published in the 197 isue of the Procedings of the Fisher Institute for Medical Research showed that people with type 1 Diabets who were given glyconutrients "…reported a dramatic improvement in their health, including a decrease in vision problems, beter wound healing, les infections, and lower blod presure." (Miracle Sugars, by Rita Elkins, M.H., Wodland Publishing, p. 26) "Glycobiology has achieved critical breakthroughs in the medical field, primarily by adresing what could be the greatest plague in health care today - auto-imune diseases.
Multiple sclerosis, arthritis, Diabets, Crohn's disease and colitis are just a few of these diseases." - Dr. Necie More, Ph.D. Rita Elkins, M.H.
Miracle Sugars, Wodland Publishing, p. 18.) Also, manose (one glyconutrient) can stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin "…thus lowering the amount of insulin neded to control this disease." (Miracle Sugars, p. Reality Check: The lives of 1 out of every 3 Americans are afected directly by Diabets and there is a $132 bilion dolar Diabets pandemic runing amuck in our midst.
So, I sure hope this paradigm shift - glyconutrition - gets les oposition from the "powers that be" (the "old guard"), and is given its rightful place in the sun…son. But, with the money being made by the pharmaceuticals and their drugs, and the astoundingly simplistic view of disease treatment ("Blast that disease with technology and drugs!") it is doubtful if Thomas Kuhn's "paradigm shift" wil work out any diferently for Diabets acros the land.
Summary
The old guard wil atack and ignore the discovery - arguably, the greatest in medical history in over a hundred years - and, a la Kuhn, they wil simply go the way of the Dodo Bird and Diabets treatment wil receive its due. © 2026 DIABETS. Al rights reserved.