What is the current view here on the role of high blood sugar in MPB?

CausticSymmetry wrote:
Returning your body chemistry to normal cannot be achieved by diet alone. And in fact, a perfect diet is not necessary to accomplish this either.

So then what is necessary to returning body chemistry? Supplementation?

Jonoh,

I'm not going to put words into his mouth, but I don't believe CS was trying to downplay the role of diet in overall health here. Rather, I think he was getting at the fact that striving to adhere to any one "perfect" diet isn't what is key, and that there really is no truly perfect diet. That demonizing a certain macronutrient or alienating yourself from entire food groups is off balance and not necessary for good health.

I think one key thing that needs to happen in the medical community is to begin understanding health as a hollistic outcome of the organisms internal and external environment. Diet is not the only factor involved in the phenotypic expression of an organisms' genetics and its not the only thing effecting the body's ability to achieve homeostasis. I think, especially in the Western world, we tend to ignore the mind. And connected to the mind, is the gatekeeping function of our perception, particularly of who we are, socially especially. If you wake up each day and walk out into a world you feel is hostile, or you feel low on the totem poll and pushed around, I don't care what kind of diet you are on, you are not going to achieve your optimal health. You just aren't. Its a two way street. The mind effects the body in powerful ways, just as what's happening in the body can have powerful effects on the mind.

We've got to begin addressing the entire life of a person, their whole experience actually. Yeah, the experience is what I'm really meaning. How a person integrates in their community. Their sense of tribe and belonging. Having a sense of purpose and feeling they have ownership of a personal mission, a function for which they are valued and at which they are accomplished. Family life. Feeling important in certain contexts whether it be at a local organization, in their careers, at home. Knowing there are people who care about what happens to you.

These things all have as great an impact on your health as diet, although perhaps not as immediate. Psychological/social stress won't kill you in a month like starvation would, but over time it will change your body and alter the mind in sometimes irreparable ways. I think the real health revolution will be a back to grass roots form of revolution in which we re-recognize and relearn the role of health providers as members and agents living IN a community, not some disconnected specialist in a fancy building an hour from your home. They will be social/community engineers who understand the social aspects of health and how fostering community dynamics benefits all of the individuals  therein. Everything else gets better when that happens. Ever wonder why very young kids just have abundant radiance? Obviously there are real physiological reasons for this. They have less wear and tear right? But on another level, they also haven't experienced real social pressure, real social stress, entering out into a world that seems more hostile today than ever, experienced having hopes that aren't realized, or of real disappointment, or feeling trapped in where their lives are going. All they feel is possibility. At some point we begin conceptualizing time differently also. Kids have a better understanding than we do actually. Time is just a relative construct, but as we get older that relativity changes and it becomes all important to us. We're losing something. It becomes a stressor in and of itself, frantically figuring out how we should alot our oh so precious time, ultimately because our ideas about death are also totally off base. Kids, not so. They don't think about it the same way, and they are closer to the truth than us. Kids know how better to be healthy than most doctors. And that's the truth. What's a kid want to do? They want to go play outside in the sun, with their friends, sleep when they're tired, eat when they are hungry but aren't fixated on meals. If we approximated that life a bit more, we'd all be healthier. But I'm on a tangent.

My overall point was that diet and supplementation are important. But there are other equally important aspects of your life that have just as big of an impact. Too many people get on this forum - in my opinion - with the notion that the right supp regimen or the right combination of foods is going to unlock their bodies for them and free them of all this health-related worry. First of all, most of your fixation on your internal disarray probably isn't rooted in actual problems, but moreso in abstract anxieties you internalize which can then materialize as dysfunction. The problem not originating with the body, but with the mind. When you approach your health with this idea that a product or a food combo is whats key, you'll be chasing the breeze for the rest of your life.

There's a serious deficiency of health modifying minerals in the soils, and that unfortunately includes organic.

Unless one is taking a sack full of all 24 minerals of life, combining them in a greenhouse with fertile soil, free of NPK based fertilizers, optimal health is not possible.

Even then, once we breath air, there's plenty of detoxify from there. Society is so sick, they think it's normal to have disease.

Beyond that, some of the most aggressive cases have certain SNP's or types of ApoE metal binding. Some of us will benefit from types of detoxification that can make or break hair loss (no matter how good the diet is).