June 21, 2025 • 54 mins
Diabetes is the fastest-growing disease in America. This week, Dr. Prather gives a preview of his upcoming free seminar, "Diabetes Decoded: A Holistic Look At Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes", happening this Wednesday, June 25th at 6:30 p.m. in this episode, we talk about:
—Why Diabetes is a growing problem. And why this issue is unique to America.
—The (really gross!) story behind the name Diabetes and how the Ancient Greek doctors used to diagnose it.
—How Dr. Prather finds "there are more people who come into our office who are pre-Diabetic than aren't."
—The role of viruses like Coxsackie B in kicking off Type I Diabetes.
—The 3 P's of Diabetes symptoms to be aware of. Plus, how weight LOSS is a "red flag" symptom of Diabetes...which is often caused by weight gain.
—How the nerves, the kidneys, and the eyes are damaged by Diabetes. And the increased risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer that come from Diabetes.
—How Type II Diabetes "HAS to be" dealt with through Structure-Function Health Care, while Disease Care is "totally worthless" in getting Type II Diabetes under control.
—Why herbals are "amazing" for dealing with Diabetes. And the role Homeopathy plays in dealing with Diabetes, especially for children.
—The WORST food for Diabetes that increases blood sugar more than any other food. And how fiber is "probably one of the best medicines" for Diabetes.
—How Vitamin utilization is decreased by Diabetes, while the need for Vitamins is increased by Diabetes in order to prevent damage to the body. And why Chromium is described by Dr. Prather as a "magic" mineral for Diabetes.
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—Why Diabetes is a growing problem. And why this issue is unique to America.
—The (really gross!) story behind the name Diabetes and how the Ancient Greek doctors used to diagnose it.
—How Dr. Prather finds "there are more people who come into our office who are pre-Diabetic than aren't."
—The role of viruses like Coxsackie B in kicking off Type I Diabetes.
—The 3 P's of Diabetes symptoms to be aware of. Plus, how weight LOSS is a "red flag" symptom of Diabetes...which is often caused by weight gain.
—How the nerves, the kidneys, and the eyes are damaged by Diabetes. And the increased risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer that come from Diabetes.
—How Type II Diabetes "HAS to be" dealt with through Structure-Function Health Care, while Disease Care is "totally worthless" in getting Type II Diabetes under control.
—Why herbals are "amazing" for dealing with Diabetes. And the role Homeopathy plays in dealing with Diabetes, especially for children.
—The WORST food for Diabetes that increases blood sugar more than any other food. And how fiber is "probably one of the best medicines" for Diabetes.
—How Vitamin utilization is decreased by Diabetes, while the need for Vitamins is increased by Diabetes in order to prevent damage to the body. And why Chromium is described by Dr. Prather as a "magic" mineral for Diabetes.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hi, I'm Lisa Preither and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Preither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. This week shows about the epidemic of diabetes
and detter Preyther What is meant by the epidemic?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I call it an epidemic. Yes, it's actually not an epidemic.
It's a pandemic, ah, which is even bigger than an epidemic.
But most people don't know what pandemics are. So it's
the fastest growing disease in America.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So the Center of Disease Control said, this is becoming
the number one problem that people are experiencing and it
is going way beyond any other type of disease growth.
So we've got a real problem with diabetes and it's
something that needs to be addressed and needs to be
taken care of.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So why is diabetes such a fast growing problem.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, there's several different factors that go into it. One
that kind of feeds that is the obesity crisis. So
you know, we.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Were no pun intended. Did you catch that?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, it's a weighty problem, but yeah, the obesity crisis
is one of the biggest things that's fuel in it,
and then of course the sedentary lifestyle. So you know,
when we were going back into the seventies, when they
started to take numbers, there was only one state, Mississippi,
(01:43):
that had over ten percent of its population OBEs and
all the other states were under ten percent. And then
at this point now that we're testing it, I think
Colorado is the lowest on the obesity rate and it's
twenty five percent. We have some states that it's sixty percent,
over fifty over fifty percent. So we've got a real
(02:04):
crisis on the obesity, which is creating a tremendous amount
of problem. And then also sedentary lifestyle. We're spending more
money on exercise stuff, but I don't think anybody's using it.
Everybody's spending more on diet stuff and it doesn't seem
to be working. So there's a very big problem. And
(02:25):
are we seeing that problem over in Europe?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Are we seeing it in other countries no. So it
seems to be a problem that's really located here in
the United States that we're not addressing correctly, obviously, and
it needs to have some very basic social changes to
get this under control and understand why is this happening.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I was just with a group of women and we
were talking about one of them had worn her mother's
wedding dress, and you know, you think two generations back,
the woman had such tiny waists. Yes, hardly see that anymore. No, No,
you know, she was talking about how she couldn't wear
that dress and they had to expand it, you know,
so she could wear it. But you know, I was thinking,
(03:09):
we don't see the tiny waists anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
One of my daughters, because my mom had saved her
wedding dress, and my thinnest sister said that You said, yeah, well,
I mean not my daughter, but her daughter, my sister,
And she said, you know, well maybe you know, I
could see if I could wear your dress. And she said, honey,
you couldn't fit in mine. And my sister laughed and
tried it on. She says, I can't fit in yours.
(03:34):
Your waist was tiny. Yeah, and that was a much
more common type of thing to see, is those tiny
waists and women that just aren't there anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And we're going to talk about, you know why that
is and what it is in our food and diet.
Here in the United States, and you're saying, and you're
they're not seeing that. But if they take on our diet,
they're going to start.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
When they start doing our American diets, then that's when
things actually get really bad.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, let's talk about what is diabetes.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, diabetes is, of course, you know, getting the body
down to glucose because that's the fuel that makes the
body run, and the body should be regulating the keep
the glucose at a pretty even the level, and it
does that. One of the major critical factors is insulin.
That's one of the main things that gets the glucose
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into the cell. And we are right now not able
to control our glucose levels. So when you can't control
your glucose levels, things go out of kilter. On that
the body has to do something with it otherwise it
starts to raise and it starts to damage the body.
So it damages the circulatory system, it damages the muscles,
it damages the nerves. So oftentimes it will convert that
(04:51):
glucose into fat, you know, because it doesn't have anything
else to do. It should be converting that into storage
and the liver glycogen on the excess. But we are
no longer able to regulate it as we should, and
as it goes out of kilter, then we start to
talk about it as a diabetes. And they got the
(05:11):
term diabetes from honey, Greek term for honey. And so
when the early physicians were trying to figure out what
was going on, they would actually taste the urine as
one of the diagnostic tests that they would do.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh interesting, Actually, glad they stopped them.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm glad we have test strips and it was sweet
like honey. So then they got the term diabetes.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh boy, that is an interesting You look like you're
going to gag our listeners out there, you know, going
to share that fun fact holiday. So are there different
kinds of diabetes, doctor pray there.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yes, there are, of course. The main thing is what's
called diabetes mellitis, and that is by far the vast
majority of diabetes. There's gestational diabetes that's when women's pregnant
and all of a sudden can't control the blood shuir,
So there's that issue. There's diabetes incipitus, which is a
pituitary problem, and then there's pre diabetes. The really big
(06:13):
problem is the diabetes melitis, and there's two different kinds
on that. There's insulin dependent which used to be called
type one diabetes or juvenile diabetes because it always almost
always used to happen only in children. And that's when
the body actually destroys its own ability to make insulin.
So there's a damage to the islets of longer hands
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in the pancras, and as that occurs, then the body
can no longer make the insulin that's necessary. And then
you also have non insulin dependent diabetes, which is really
ninety five percent of all diabetes mellitis. Only five percent
is type one, and that's the area that is growing
very very quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Is that considered type two?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's type two, okay, and that's the non insulin dependent diabetes,
and that's the main diabetes that is growing very very
rapidly in the United States. That's the one that's causing
the main problems.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, So how many Americans are diagnosed with diabetes?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, there are twenty three million Americans diagnosed with diabetes
right now, but there's actually thirty five million people who
have diabetes, so there's quite a few people who aren't diagnosed,
as they estimate as many as twelve million.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wow, So it isn't that just because they don't go
to the doctor or Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
One of the things is that diabetes doesn't necessarily have
a lot of symptoms that are involved. So we find
that quite often where we're talking to people talking about
some of their symptoms, we say, oh, you know, we
need to really check for diabetes on this, and we
discover that they are actually diabetic. So that's a very
common thing that we have in our office. So yeah,
(07:57):
people need to be aware. That's why everybody should have
exam and one of the things they should be doing
is checking to see if someone has diabetes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's really important. So what is pre diabetic?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Then pre diabetes Basically, when you're diabetic, it's when you've
reached a certain level of not being able to control
your blood glucose. So it reaches at that point and
then it's diabetic. But there's an awful lot of people
who are sick before that that are experiencing pre diabetes,
(08:31):
which is that their blood sugar is not regulating normally
and they're not completely where they would need medication, but
things aren't working real and that's actually causing quite a
few health problems because that does contribute to different types
of diseases. Cardiovascular disease certainly contributes to the obesity, and
(08:52):
that's a really really big, growing problem. And one of
the things that the World Health Organization and the Center
of Disease Control that we're really ignoring the pre diabetic
condition and that's really where we need to be starting
to treat people.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, the prevention, right, and so how many people are
pre diabetic?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, that's the shocking number. It's about eighty million people. Wow,
that they estimate are pre diabetic.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's an including type two, type one, no pre TechNet.
We've got the that's that pandemic.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That's what you said, right, We've got thirty five million
people who have diabetes. Only twenty three million people know
that and eighty million people is what they And I
find that very true because we're constantly telling people. Matter
of fact, there are more people that come into our
office that are pre diabetic that aren't.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Wow. Interesting when we come back more on the epidemic
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are not the same, so why are they often treated
like they are? Join us for our free holistic integration
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and type two diabetes Wednesday, June twenty fifth, at six
(12:29):
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and how each requires a uniquely tailored approach. You'll learn
how to better manage your symptoms and how to support
your body naturally. You'll hear from doctor Robert Praither, host
of the Voice of Health Radio. What role can urbels
play in diabetic care?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Doctor Prey, There absolutely essential to have herbyls in your
diabetic care. It can just make all the difference in
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just because we weren't finding it out there. The breadth
of that and the effectiveness of it is absolutely amazing
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anyone's treatments for diabetes, both type one and type two.
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you're listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert
Praither of Holistic Integration, the most comprehensive wellness center in
the Midwest. We're talking today about the pandemic of diabetes,
and doctor Prayther, those numbers that you are sharing are
astounding eighty million people and we're just talking about the
(14:44):
United States.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Just the United States, Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Are pre diabetic pre diabetic, but of those, how many
people know they're pre diabetic.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Lesson ten percent? So about seven million is it?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, it's interesting because we have people come in I
had seen their doctors and we looked at their blood tests,
and we sit there and say, well, what does your
doctor say about your pre diabetes? And he said what
do you mean? And I said, well, you're pre diabetic
according to your blood work. And they said, well, the
doctor didn't talk to me at all. He just said
I wasn't diabetic. And you know, the time to really
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treat diabetes is before it becomes diabetes, the pre pre diabetes,
because it's very seldom that somebody just all of a
sudden become type two diabetic. Type one diabetes happens rather quickly,
but type two diabetes usually takes a while to develop.
There are some exceptions on that, but there's usually years
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in the process of becoming diabetic. And if people know
that that's where they're headed, then there's quite a few
different types of things that they can do. Well. A
matter of fact, type two diabetes is completely preventable and
actually curable if they do the proper type of things,
head in the proper direction. Look at that and you
can actually see the changes that take place that prevent
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the diabetes from occurring. So very definite steps that need
to be done, and it is something that the Center
of Disease Control has said, Look, doctors, you're woefully under
treating this. You need to get started on working on
people definitely when they're diabetic, but you need to be
working on them when they're pre diabetic. And really pharmaceuticals,
if you have to go in with pharmaceuticals, then is
(16:22):
a failure. This is something that should be taken care
of in lifestyle type of way of doing it. And
it's very very workable.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, and you're saying that in thirty five million people
have type two diabetes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, thirty five million. That certainly would have been preventable.
And it is something that we see quite commonly, you know,
where people are no longer diabetic.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And we're going to talk about that further in the show,
but let's talk about what is it And you might
have touched on this a little bit, but what is
the difference between type one diabetes and type two diabetes?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, type one diabetes is an autoimmune or the antibiodies
have attacked the cells that make insulin in the pancreas.
So oftentimes that's kicked off by some type of a infection.
It can be a medication, it can be several different
things that kick that off. Most commonly it's a virus.
The most common virus is cocksackib. So if you can
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be looking at those types of things and working with kids,
you can actually prevent that type one diabetes from occurring.
But type two diabetes is something that is usually adult onset.
It's usually kicked off by obesity, lack of exercise, poor
eating habits, having a high glycemic diet. Those types of
things kick off the type two diabetes, and that is
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something where the body can be making plenty of insulin,
but it's just not being able to process it.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, So what are the symptoms of diabetes.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, the symptoms of diabetes they call them the three p's, polyuria, polydysia,
and polyphasia. So polyurate is urination. You feel like you
have to eat, you do urinate quite a bit, and
then you feel like you need to urinate because what
you're doing is the kidneys are actually getting rid of
the glucose. Remember, there's too much glucose going on, and
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the body has to do something with it, so it
filters it out through the kidneys, So you have massive
amounts of urine that goes out, which increases the urine output,
and so you're constantly feeling like you have to pee
and you do. The other one is that you're thirsty
all the time, So you need to put a lot
of water because what you're trying to do is to
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dilute the blood sugar. So the more water you drink,
the bodies just saying, hey, drink more water, drink more water.
We need to dilute this glucose that's flowing through the blood.
And then polyphasia, you become really hungry because you're not
able to get the In other words, the glucose isn't
really getting into the cell, so you have this constant
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hunger that actually occurs. Now. Some of the other things
that happen a lot along with that is actually weight loss.
When you go into type two diabetes, believe it or not,
because you're not able to utilize the glucose properly, you
start to lose weight because the cells are starving. Then
you also have a lot of skin issues. There can
be skin infections, there can be discolorations in the skin,
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a lot of problems along those lines, and then a
lot of infections, especially urinary tract infections, fungal infections on
the skin start to occur quite a bit. So those
are some of the other things that can occur. But
oftentimes most of the people aren't even aware that they
you know, there's a little bit of increase in urine
that they notice there's a little bit I have more
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urinary tract infections and I'm thirsty all the time. We
hear that quite a bit, but people don't really associate
that necessarily with the diabetes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Now, I was just a little confused. I want clarification
because obesey and then you said people lose weight.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yes, and that's one of the odd things because it's
the obesity that kicks off is one of the big
things that kicks it off. But then once you go
into diabetes itself where it becomes damaging, then they start
to lose weight. And matter of fact, we've had several
people who sit there, so you know, all of a sudden,
I started to lose weight. You know, I'm not quite
(20:18):
sure what it is I'm doing, because I'm not really
doing anything any better, And that's one of the red
flags for us.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
They know it's not a weight loss program.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, it's like you know, I didn't. If they start
to lose weight, they haven't changed their diet, they haven't
started exercising. We go hmm, Okay, there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Okay. So who gets diabetes?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, you can get diabetes almost at any age. So
type one diabetes is usually found in children, that's where
the reactions occur, but it is more common now to
develop that in adulthood. Why is that, They're not quite sure. Okay,
everybody's health is kind of falling apart, so some of
the old rules that used to apply no longer apply,
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so it is much more of a problem. But type
two diabetes you can't occur at any age. It's really
starts to kick in about forty five. But the older
you get, the more likely you are to become type
two diabetic. Okay, just because the body starts wearing down
over a period of time.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So what other conditions develop from diabetes.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, you can have neuropathy, nephropathy, and retinopathy.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Lots of apathies.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And that just means it's pathology. In other words, it's sick.
So you know it's the nerves are sick, is what
neuropathy means. So the nerves start to die and they
usually start in the feet, in the hands and fingers,
and then it spreads to the rest of the body.
So the nerves are poisoning extremities, yeah, the extremities and
then works its way in. So that's what neuropathy is,
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and it's a very very devastating type of thing to have.
But that is one of the big things that nephropathy.
Nephro is the kidneys, So you have diseases of the kidneys.
Remember it's trying to get rid of all the glucose,
so it puts a lot of pressure on them and
it can actually start to damage the kidneys. And then
retinopathy is eyesight, So changes in eyesight is another thing
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you can kick off on whether you have type two diabetes,
is that your vision starts to change. It can actually
lead to blindness if you don't take care of it.
Some of the other things that occur is cardiovascular disease
increases the risk of that extremely mater of fact. That's
one of the major things that occurs, and then also
you can get cancer have an increased chance of cancer.
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One of the main reasons that all that starts to
occur is something called free radical pathology, and diabetes increases
free radical pathology quite dramatically because of the free radical
pathology occurs when the oxidative process, when you're making energy,
you need the glucose to make energy, and that whole
process is disturbed. So when things go wrong, the oxygen
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molecules start to kick off electrons. Free electrons starts to
damage the body. That's why they call them antioxidants, to
try to absorb the electrons that are kicked off and
stabilize the oxygen molecules.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, and you talk about free radicals a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Free radicals are probably one of the biggest things. If
if you had no free radical damage in your life,
you would look like you're twenty one the rest of
your life. You would never age. So it's the free
radicals that cause the aging. And like what I was
telling one guy is that the free radical damage is
what happens to a rusty gate. He says, oh, because
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we had found that he had that. He says, Okay,
that's exactly how I feel.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Like a rusty Gate.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Like I'm an old rusty Gate.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And he said, so, this is the reason why I
said yes. And if we can get this down, that
rusty feeling is going to be gone.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay, when we come back, let's talk more on that
epidemic of diabetes and how it affects life expectancy. Listen
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(24:17):
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Speaker 4 (24:27):
And when they moved me, I'm telling y'all, when they
moved me from the ambulance bed to the hospital bed,
my shock was over. I had been in shock up
to this point. I've never been in shock before, but
it was over.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
At this point.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I have never known pain like that in my life.
No matter which way I moved this leg, it hurt
and I started crying. And I am so thankful that
I am a Baptist, because you Pentecostals will go to
hell for what I said, I didn't even know.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I knew that those words.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
They come flying out of me like old friends.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Type one and type two diabetes are not the same,
so why are they often treated like they are? Join
us for our free holistic integration educational seminar Diabetes Decoded,
A holistic look at Type one and Type two diabetes Wednesday,
June twenty fifth, at six thirty pm. At this eye
opening seminar will break down the crucial differences between type
(25:31):
one and type two diabetes and how each requires a
uniquely tailored approach. You'll learn how to better manage your
symptoms and how to support your body naturally. You'll hear
from doctor Robert Praith, their host of the Voice of
Health Radio.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
If you are estrogen dominant, your chances of becoming type
two diabetic increase over one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So keeping the inderconsystem balance. Oftentimes what we can do
is it just lower the estrogen dominance or raise up
the thigh function. All of a sudden, people lose weight,
people no longer are even type two diabetic. You know,
all those different types of things, And this is done
naturally with glandulars. So supplementation different vitamins, minerals because the
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body's not working correctly, so trying to figure that out
exactly what it is that's going to change that has
a dramatic effect on the body just how it works.
So we do very specific types of lab tests to
find out exactly how the underconsystem is off and then
we get it normalized. Of course, insulin is absolutely necessary
with type one diabetes, but the less you have to
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take of the insulin, the longer you live and the
healthier you are. And that can definitely be reduced. Almost
every single patient that we've treated with type one diabetes
have been able to cut their insulin levels in half.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I think of one gentleman who had really severe type
one diabetes. He was like, well, there's nothing you can
do about that, you know, they can't be cured. And
I said, no, no, no, but let's get your health up,
you know, get all your vitamin's minoles that you're a
deficient on, get that up working, get some botanicals into
your system, some homeopathics, and see what we can't do.
Cutting down on his insulin in half had some very
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amazing different types of results in his life. He had
more energy, he was able to exercise, his wound healing,
his sex life improved.
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No Way.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I'm Lisa Prather and you're listening to the Voice of
Health with doctor Robert Prether of Holistic Integration, where we
get to the root cause of your health issue. This
week shows about the epidemic of diabetes and detri Preyther.
Does diabetes affect life expectancy? I mean, I know the
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answer is going to be yes, but how does it
it does?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
One? Of course, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer.
Number two is cancer and we do have an increase
of both of those. Neuropathy is becoming much more of
a problem because people start to lose toes and then
hands and things, you know, so as it starts to
come up on that. But yes, we are the millennials
a the first generation that aren't going to live as
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long as their parents. So we're heading backwards on life expectancy,
which is the first time that there's been a decrease
since the nineteen thirties. Wow, so's and that was just
a very temporary one because of the Great Depression. But
always throughout the entire American history people have been living
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longer than their ancestors except now. And one of the
biggest culprits on that well is the obesity crisis and
the drug crisis. Those are the two things that have
really made a difference in the health of America, and
it's something that has to be addressed, and neither one
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are being addressed at all. There's a lot of talk
about it. There's a lot of politicians who get up
and say, you know, this is a crisis, let's make
a special committee to look into it. But all the
things that they're doing, all the policies that they have
all make the whole situation worse.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Well, you even say, in the CDC, it talks about
the treatments that need to be tried before drug intervention,
but it's not happening. Well, it's not the changing.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Sure, they say, you know, okay, this was what needs
to be done, but then they cut all reimbursement to
the things that they just said need to be done,
and then they provide more reimbursement for the things that
they said shouldn't be done. So they say, don't do that,
but then they give you money to do it and
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take away what little that they were doing. Yes, so
you know it makes no sense. What they say that
they want to do and what they're doing are two
completely different types of things. And the federal policy is just,
shall I say, absolutely insane, and the insurance reimbursement is
absolutely insane to achieve health. And I don't know how
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to put it any other way. You know, the only
thing that you can say is that they don't want
us healthy because all of their policies are to create unhealthiness,
and they know what to do. I mean, they are
the things that the senator Disease Control, World Health Organization
all the research is coming out and they say this
is the answer on how to fix it, and they
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do just the opposite.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
They take the reimbursement away. Yeah. Yeah, so you know,
it's very increased the reimbursement.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, it's maddening.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
And people are having to pay cash to get those
things done.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Right, I'm still having to pay for the insurance that
still keeps going out of the roof, and they're not
paying for the things that It's just it's a whole
catch twenty two. And it's very hard to fight the
federal government to make things because they set the policies,
they have so much control.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And then there's the politics. Yep, all right, well that's
a whole nother other show.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yes, don't get me started.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So what diagnostics are needed for diabetes.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, blood tests, your analysis are the basic types of
things to show up if people are positive on diabetes.
There are several different types of sugar tests that need
to be done, just blood, glucose, hemoglobin a one CEE,
glucose tolerance tests. All those things should be done. But
also when you're talking about that diabetes is established, there's
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a lot of other testing that needs to be done too.
You need to do the lab test to determine what
things need to keep the free radicals under control, you
need to be looking at mineral balance. So hair analysis
is extremely helpful because the balance of the minerals makes
a big difference in the diabetes. Looking at the gut,
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because the gut has a huge effect on that on
whether we actually develop diabetes or can reverse it. You know,
one of the things that we look at is fiber.
We can tell how much fiber you've been takeing into
your diet. People used to have a balance between two
different types of bacteria in their gut that showed that
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they had high levels of fiber as opposed to the carbohydrates.
And so it should be fifty to fifty the average
American it's about ninety eight percent to two percent. Now, wow,
it is the average. It used to be fifty to fifty.
So our whole gut flora, our whole gut way of
working has completely changed, and it's all designed to make
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us fat and it also leads to TYE two diabetes.
I mean, I don't I've never seen a gut flora
that had a fifty to fifty matter of fact, I've
never even seen someone's gut flora hit twenty eighty Oh really, yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Anymore or ever?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, I mean we sit there and almost everybody is
two to three percent or less. Wow, we get it
up to about twenty percent on a consistent basis, but
even then we can't seem to get it over that
twenty percent mark, just because what it takes for people
to do that. The stuff that we're eating, the stuff
that is produced by our food industry, is killing us.
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And it didn't used to be that way. In other words,
when we really had real food, it didn't It wasn't
that way. So how this has all occurred, you know,
it's hard to say. And with the gut floor, we
can also see how the pancreas is working to you know,
produce the enzymes that are necessary. In other words, the
gud tells us a tremendous amount of what's going on
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and has a very direct effect on diabetes. So those
are all different types of tests that are absolutely essential
in the treatment and the control of diabetes, and we
do those.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
We do, and let's talk about the type of care
we offer. Structure function. Karen, if you've been a listener
radio listener for a while, you understand that because we
talk about that. So how does structure function care differ
from disease care model with diabetes?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
If you have to go into the pharmaceutical the disease
care model, then you failed on your diabetes. Type two
diabetes now not type one. Type one actually requires pharmaceuticals.
Type two diabetes does not. It is something that has
to be dealt with structure functionally to be effective. That's
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why we are so ineffective with type two diabetes is
because we don't have structure function care as a part
of our national health care system. All we have that
supported by the federal government and pushed forward, is the
disease care model, which is totally worthless, as I say again,
worthless in type two diabetes and really getting that under control.
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So structure function care. You know, we always say that
as we're looking at the whole healthcare industry, eighty percent
of all care should be structure function care, twenty percent
should be disease care. When you're talking about diabetes mellitis,
it's ninety eight percent should be structure function care, two
percent should be disease care. And that is why everything
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you know, the Center's disease control says Hey, we've got
to get this under control. We've got to get this
under control. What drugs do we use, Well, it's not
that type of a problem. You have to go structure function,
No wonder, it's a failure.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well, let's talk about understructure function care and what we
practice the different treatments for prediabetic and diabetes. Let's start
with herbals can Urbals be effective with diabetes.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Erbals are amazing for type two diabetes. So there are
several different things that can be done. Alivier excellent for
taking down hyperglycemia, taking it internally. It's also excellent for
any type of wound care. Remember there's a lot of
problems with skin and we've had amazing results with Elvira
on the topical. Bill Berry excellent for the free radical pathology.
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There's something called bitter melon or balsam pair and it
really helps tremendously with the glucose tolerance. It's a gradual
and cumulative type of a thing. And then there's Coccinia indica.
It's an r vetic herbal that is very, very excellent
on helping with diabetic situations. Fenu Greek one of my favorite.
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One of the things that works the best on me.
Also we use that for you you were starting to
develop some type two diabetes, well I mean pre diabetic,
a little bit of very low level and fenu greek
or greek k is another term for that really helps
to bring that under control. And one of the best
ones that I use and you use to control that.
Garlic an onion are excellent for diabetes. Ginko bilboa is
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excellent for peripheral artery diseases, so keeping that going, especially
for preventing peripheral neuropathy, gemnemia silvestra. It works on both
type one and type two diabetes. One of my favorite
ones for diabetic situations and very very excellent. And then
also inulin an Inuline is found in burdock root, dandelion roots,
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jerusalem artichoke, and it's excellent for taking down hyperglycemia. And
then there's prickle prayer cactus, which has been used for
a long time in Mexico for type two diabetes and
excellent along those lines. We've had quite a few patients
who are able to get off of medications for their
diabetes by using the prickle pair of cactus, grape seed
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skin and pine bark. Those are excellent for free radicals.
Those really can help out quite a bit on getting
down the periphyal neuropathy, so free radicals has a lot
to do with that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You find herbal is very affected.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
We really like a lot of the herbals and thank
you get some really great results off of those.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Okay, when we come back, more and more structure function
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Speaker 2 (40:48):
The other thing we are getting is that ECP has
been very beneficial for kidney function. Not only does it
increase the blood flow to the heart, but it also
increases the blood flow to the kidneys. At least seventy
percent of all hypertension originates there and always a reduction
in hypertension that's associated with ECP.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Does it also help with restless legs syndrome?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yes, and that's one of the things that we found
out because we had patients who not only had congestive
heart failure but also had wrestless leg and they talked
about how that did a dramatic difference on that and
they were able to sleep. There's been excellent results in
that is something that can be used.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
What about diabetes, That is absolutely a wonderful type of
thing because when you actually use ECP, there is always
a correction in the blood sugar levels and diabetes has
always improved.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
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their host of the Voice of Health Radio. What role
can chiropractic play in diabetes?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Well, you're talking about dysregulation basically, and we all know
that the nervous system is the basic regulator of the
entire body. So if you get the nervous system working correctly,
and that's basically what chiropractic is all about, getting the
nervous system to work properly. And many of the people
that we started to adjust with diabetes, one of the
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things I told them is they need to watch their
medications because just the chiropractic oftentimes they have to reduce
the amount of insulin that they're taking or the amount
of met forman that they're taking. So, you know, one
of the things we do is we take in all
that information and some people are just coming in for
chiropractic into our office, not really doing any functional type
of work. But we still warn them that they need
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to watch that because their levels will actually change.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Let's talk about acupuncture. You're an acupuncturist. I love my acupuncture.
Can it be helpful for diabetes?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
It absolutely is amazing on cutting down on blood sugar problems.
Acupuncture seems to work on everything m HM. So yes,
I would highly recommend acupuncture any type of problems, also
associated problems, especially with wound healing. Acupuncture stimulates wound healing
like nothing else. If you have like an old scar
(43:40):
from a surgery, it could be twenty five years old,
and you can put acupuncture in it and you'll heal up.
You can't even see it. It's quite amazing. And if
you have like a surgery and you're trying to heal
from it, if you have acupuncturreal cut down on the
healing time by half and also cut down on any
scarring that's associated with that. And that also works throughout
the entire body. I had a gentleman who was coming
(44:03):
in and he had already lost half his foot to neuropathy,
and they were going to take it at the ankle
and take the rest of it off, and the other
foot was starting to develop some problems, and it started
out just with like a little hangnail, just started in
a big toe, that's the first place it was. And
they were saying that there wasn't anything they could do,
and I said, well, let's go after it. So we
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started our program and we were able to save his
foot and it was basically a circulatory problem due to
the diabetes he had and the neuropathy. By the time
we got done, the clinician was saying, your blood flow
into your foot is better than mine right now. You know,
the wound care people, you know, I actually called me
(44:45):
and said, hey, you know, that's remarkable. What did you do?
And I told him and they said, wow, we wish
we could do that.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
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(45:10):
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listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert Prather
of Holistic Integration, where our mission is restoring hope to
our patients. This week our shows about the epidemic of diabetes.
We talked about urbals and gave a list of herbals
and you know, this is something we wouldn't recommend someone
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just going out and getting We.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Test, yeah, and we check to see exactly how that's working,
so we know whether it's you know, we're getting the
results or not. And we get very excellent results.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
And then it's specific like one could work for someone
where a different one could work for another person. So
let's talk about one of my favorites is homeopathy. What
role can homeopathy play in diabetes.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
We have a list of about two hundred homeopathics that
are excellent for diabetes. Interestingly enough, the one that seems
to work the best is carsinosum. But there are three
thousand listed homeopathics within the FDA. There's actually another twelve
thousands that are actually out there that are available, so
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you know there's quite a bit of but We have
three thousand that are classical right, and we have a
list of two hundred different homeopathics that can help out
with diabetes. We have some that are pretty consistent along
those lines. But what's great about homeopathy is they either
work or they don't do anything, so they're very, very safe,
especially on dealing with children. That's one of the things
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that we find is homeopathy is great for them.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Maybe that's why I like them so much because I'm
a child at heart.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
How does diet play with diabetes?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Diet is absolutely critical. There are several different factors that
go along with diet. You know, the one food that
is the worst four diabetes French fries.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
French fries.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
French fries kicks up bloodsher more than any other food
and causes more. And we like our French fries. We
do so really cutting out on the French fries. The
things that on diet, the fiber we used to the
amount of sugar that we eat in our diet. The
average American does about sixty grams a day, and we
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used to have sixty grams of fiber, and then we
had about ten to fifteen grams of shirt. And it's reversed,
reversed now, so we have to get our fiber, and
fiber will eliminate is probably one of the best medicines
for diabetes. Type two diabetes oftentimes can be completely eliminated
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just by increasing your fiber up to the amount that
you should be taking in. And it's also the only
product that is known to consistently and always cause weight loss.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
And you know, you try to get the fiber from
your food, but also we provide fiber there at the office.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
It is absolutely amazing and because people took in a
lot of fiber, that's why the gals had skinny wasists,
was because they took in so much fiber. It takes
your waist line down better than anything else. The other
thing is looking at the glycemic index. We eat a
lot of foods that are high in sugar, really reversing that.
(48:57):
So diet is yeah, diet is absolutely critical fiber and
you can't really you have to deal with the diet
to be able to one prevent and also to cure
type two diabetes.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Let's talk about exercise. Importance of exercise.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Exercise cures a world of sins. One of the things
is that they find is as you exercise. It improves
the utilization of glucose throughout the entire body. One of
the things that's a real problem is a insulin resistance
where the cells can't resist the insulin from brain in
the glucose into the body and insulin resistance. One of
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the best ways to get rid of that is through
regular exercise, especially aerobic.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Exercise, and vitamins.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Vitamins vitamins. One of the things is that vitamins don't
seem to be something that changes the diabetes itself, but
as extremely important to keep because if you are diabetic,
your utilization and absorption of vitamins goes way down and
your need for vitamins go up. So a lot of
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the damage that occurs throughout the body is caused because
of vitamin deficiency. Now, it doesn't cure the diabetes, but
it keeps you from getting the kidney disease, it keeps
you from going blind, It keeps all those types of
things from occurring, the nerve damage. That is where the
vitamins are really really important, is making sure that the
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damage from the diabetes doesn't keep on making things worse.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Okay, how about the role of minerals.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Now, minerals that does actually play a very direct result
in the diabetes, especially chromium. Chromium is sort of like
one of the magic types of minerals that really helps
out with diabetes. But magnesium is the most common mineral
deficiency in diabetes. But you also have to look at
the manganese, you have to look at the zinc, the copper,
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and the phosphorus. All those things play a very big
role and you can get some very excellent changes. And
always looking at the chromium because chromium and vanadium are
two things that will definitely definitely change the blood sugar levels. Okay,
so minals are very important.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
So how can diabetes be prevented.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
One of the things is don't get fat. We should
be looking at what is the fat percentage that people
are carrying, and for females that they shouldn't be over
thirty percent. If you can keep your fat percentage below
thirty percent, you probably aren't going to get type two diabetes.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
For women, we're not talking about BMI. We're talking about
body fat percentage.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Yeah, and it's different because BMI you can actually we
have a gal who developed type two diabetes and she says,
by weigh one hundred and twenty pounds, but she had
forty percent body fator because she was she had no muscle.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
She was skinny, but she had skinny fat.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
So we don't really care about your weight. What we
do care about is the fat percentage, and what we
do is we do a bioimpedance to find that on people.
That's a much more accurate way. So BMI isn't really
that important. What's important is your fat percentage. And the
higher your fat percentage is, the more likely you are
to develop type two diabetes.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Okay, if someone has type two diabetes, what steps should
they take and can it be cured?
Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yes, you really need to find first off, doctor who's
a structure function doctor so that they can guide you
through the whole process and what's going to be the
best way to make the changes, and be willing to
do the diagnostics. That way, you can actually know what's
going to change that follow it and find the best
pathway to get where you.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Will not be willing it's preventable, be willing to do
the work right.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Yeah, you have to put in some lifestyle types changes
that are just normal types of no longer be sedentary,
exercise and then also eat correctly and then finding out
where your deficiencies are. You're going to need to have
to take some supplementation, so you're not going to do
it just through diet, and to be willing to get
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the treatments that are necessary to get you where you
need to be.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
So we have a minute left entrepay the what role
should structure function care play and type one diabetes.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Type one diabetes, Well, type one diabetes, it's a supportive
type of thing. When you have type one diabetes, you're
going to have a lot of damage that occurs in
the body, so you're going to need to take care
of that. So type one diabetes, you should always have
a structured function doctor involved and make sure that the
deficiencies are taken care of so that you don't have
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damage throughout the body. We've had people who we've been
able to reverse eye disease, kidney disease, and neuropathy and
get that turned around for them.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Yes, so it's encouraging because this is preventable right and
getting the right tests.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
Help and type two diabetes is completely curable.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Well, thank you doctor prayther as always, thank you.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Lisa.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
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with doctor Robert Praither.
Hi, I'm Lisa Preither and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Preither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. This week shows about the epidemic of diabetes
and detter Preyther What is meant by the epidemic?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I call it an epidemic. Yes, it's actually not an epidemic.
It's a pandemic, ah, which is even bigger than an epidemic.
But most people don't know what pandemics are. So it's
the fastest growing disease in America.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So the Center of Disease Control said, this is becoming
the number one problem that people are experiencing and it
is going way beyond any other type of disease growth.
So we've got a real problem with diabetes and it's
something that needs to be addressed and needs to be
taken care of.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So why is diabetes such a fast growing problem.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, there's several different factors that go into it. One
that kind of feeds that is the obesity crisis. So
you know, we.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Were no pun intended. Did you catch that?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, it's a weighty problem, but yeah, the obesity crisis
is one of the biggest things that's fuel in it,
and then of course the sedentary lifestyle. So you know,
when we were going back into the seventies, when they
started to take numbers, there was only one state, Mississippi,
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that had over ten percent of its population OBEs and
all the other states were under ten percent. And then
at this point now that we're testing it, I think
Colorado is the lowest on the obesity rate and it's
twenty five percent. We have some states that it's sixty percent,
over fifty over fifty percent. So we've got a real
(02:04):
crisis on the obesity, which is creating a tremendous amount
of problem. And then also sedentary lifestyle. We're spending more
money on exercise stuff, but I don't think anybody's using it.
Everybody's spending more on diet stuff and it doesn't seem
to be working. So there's a very big problem. And
(02:25):
are we seeing that problem over in Europe?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Are we seeing it in other countries no. So it
seems to be a problem that's really located here in
the United States that we're not addressing correctly, obviously, and
it needs to have some very basic social changes to
get this under control and understand why is this happening.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I was just with a group of women and we
were talking about one of them had worn her mother's
wedding dress, and you know, you think two generations back,
the woman had such tiny waists. Yes, hardly see that anymore. No, No,
you know, she was talking about how she couldn't wear
that dress and they had to expand it, you know,
so she could wear it. But you know, I was thinking,
(03:09):
we don't see the tiny waists anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
One of my daughters, because my mom had saved her
wedding dress, and my thinnest sister said that You said, yeah, well,
I mean not my daughter, but her daughter, my sister,
And she said, you know, well maybe you know, I
could see if I could wear your dress. And she said, honey,
you couldn't fit in mine. And my sister laughed and
tried it on. She says, I can't fit in yours.
(03:34):
Your waist was tiny. Yeah, and that was a much
more common type of thing to see, is those tiny
waists and women that just aren't there anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And we're going to talk about, you know why that
is and what it is in our food and diet.
Here in the United States, and you're saying, and you're
they're not seeing that. But if they take on our diet,
they're going to start.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
When they start doing our American diets, then that's when
things actually get really bad.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, let's talk about what is diabetes.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Well, diabetes is, of course, you know, getting the body
down to glucose because that's the fuel that makes the
body run, and the body should be regulating the keep
the glucose at a pretty even the level, and it
does that. One of the major critical factors is insulin.
That's one of the main things that gets the glucose
(04:28):
into the cell. And we are right now not able
to control our glucose levels. So when you can't control
your glucose levels, things go out of kilter. On that
the body has to do something with it otherwise it
starts to raise and it starts to damage the body.
So it damages the circulatory system, it damages the muscles,
it damages the nerves. So oftentimes it will convert that
(04:51):
glucose into fat, you know, because it doesn't have anything
else to do. It should be converting that into storage
and the liver glycogen on the excess. But we are
no longer able to regulate it as we should, and
as it goes out of kilter, then we start to
talk about it as a diabetes. And they got the
(05:11):
term diabetes from honey, Greek term for honey. And so
when the early physicians were trying to figure out what
was going on, they would actually taste the urine as
one of the diagnostic tests that they would do.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Oh interesting, Actually, glad they stopped them.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm glad we have test strips and it was sweet
like honey. So then they got the term diabetes.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh boy, that is an interesting You look like you're
going to gag our listeners out there, you know, going
to share that fun fact holiday. So are there different
kinds of diabetes, doctor pray there.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yes, there are, of course. The main thing is what's
called diabetes mellitis, and that is by far the vast
majority of diabetes. There's gestational diabetes that's when women's pregnant
and all of a sudden can't control the blood shuir,
So there's that issue. There's diabetes incipitus, which is a
pituitary problem, and then there's pre diabetes. The really big
(06:13):
problem is the diabetes melitis, and there's two different kinds
on that. There's insulin dependent which used to be called
type one diabetes or juvenile diabetes because it always almost
always used to happen only in children. And that's when
the body actually destroys its own ability to make insulin.
So there's a damage to the islets of longer hands
(06:36):
in the pancras, and as that occurs, then the body
can no longer make the insulin that's necessary. And then
you also have non insulin dependent diabetes, which is really
ninety five percent of all diabetes mellitis. Only five percent
is type one, and that's the area that is growing
very very quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Is that considered type two?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
That's type two, okay, and that's the non insulin dependent diabetes,
and that's the main diabetes that is growing very very
rapidly in the United States. That's the one that's causing
the main problems.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Okay, So how many Americans are diagnosed with diabetes?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Well, there are twenty three million Americans diagnosed with diabetes
right now, but there's actually thirty five million people who
have diabetes, so there's quite a few people who aren't diagnosed,
as they estimate as many as twelve million.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wow, So it isn't that just because they don't go
to the doctor or Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
One of the things is that diabetes doesn't necessarily have
a lot of symptoms that are involved. So we find
that quite often where we're talking to people talking about
some of their symptoms, we say, oh, you know, we
need to really check for diabetes on this, and we
discover that they are actually diabetic. So that's a very
common thing that we have in our office. So yeah,
(07:57):
people need to be aware. That's why everybody should have
exam and one of the things they should be doing
is checking to see if someone has diabetes.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's really important. So what is pre diabetic?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Then pre diabetes Basically, when you're diabetic, it's when you've
reached a certain level of not being able to control
your blood glucose. So it reaches at that point and
then it's diabetic. But there's an awful lot of people
who are sick before that that are experiencing pre diabetes,
(08:31):
which is that their blood sugar is not regulating normally
and they're not completely where they would need medication, but
things aren't working real and that's actually causing quite a
few health problems because that does contribute to different types
of diseases. Cardiovascular disease certainly contributes to the obesity, and
(08:52):
that's a really really big, growing problem. And one of
the things that the World Health Organization and the Center
of Disease Control that we're really ignoring the pre diabetic
condition and that's really where we need to be starting
to treat people.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, the prevention, right, and so how many people are
pre diabetic?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, that's the shocking number. It's about eighty million people. Wow,
that they estimate are pre diabetic.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's an including type two, type one, no pre TechNet.
We've got the that's that pandemic.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That's what you said, right, We've got thirty five million
people who have diabetes. Only twenty three million people know
that and eighty million people is what they And I
find that very true because we're constantly telling people. Matter
of fact, there are more people that come into our
office that are pre diabetic that aren't.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Wow. Interesting when we come back more on the epidemic
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Speaker 2 (12:50):
Doctor Prey, There absolutely essential to have herbyls in your
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you're listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert
Praither of Holistic Integration, the most comprehensive wellness center in
the Midwest. We're talking today about the pandemic of diabetes,
and doctor Prayther, those numbers that you are sharing are
astounding eighty million people and we're just talking about the
(14:44):
United States.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Just the United States, Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Are pre diabetic pre diabetic, but of those, how many
people know they're pre diabetic.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Lesson ten percent? So about seven million is it?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, it's interesting because we have people come in I
had seen their doctors and we looked at their blood tests,
and we sit there and say, well, what does your
doctor say about your pre diabetes? And he said what
do you mean? And I said, well, you're pre diabetic
according to your blood work. And they said, well, the
doctor didn't talk to me at all. He just said
I wasn't diabetic. And you know, the time to really
(15:20):
treat diabetes is before it becomes diabetes, the pre pre diabetes,
because it's very seldom that somebody just all of a
sudden become type two diabetic. Type one diabetes happens rather quickly,
but type two diabetes usually takes a while to develop.
There are some exceptions on that, but there's usually years
(15:40):
in the process of becoming diabetic. And if people know
that that's where they're headed, then there's quite a few
different types of things that they can do. Well. A
matter of fact, type two diabetes is completely preventable and
actually curable if they do the proper type of things,
head in the proper direction. Look at that and you
can actually see the changes that take place that prevent
(16:01):
the diabetes from occurring. So very definite steps that need
to be done, and it is something that the Center
of Disease Control has said, Look, doctors, you're woefully under
treating this. You need to get started on working on
people definitely when they're diabetic, but you need to be
working on them when they're pre diabetic. And really pharmaceuticals,
if you have to go in with pharmaceuticals, then is
(16:22):
a failure. This is something that should be taken care
of in lifestyle type of way of doing it. And
it's very very workable.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, and you're saying that in thirty five million people
have type two diabetes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Yes, thirty five million. That certainly would have been preventable.
And it is something that we see quite commonly, you know,
where people are no longer diabetic.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And we're going to talk about that further in the show,
but let's talk about what is it And you might
have touched on this a little bit, but what is
the difference between type one diabetes and type two diabetes?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, type one diabetes is an autoimmune or the antibiodies
have attacked the cells that make insulin in the pancreas.
So oftentimes that's kicked off by some type of a infection.
It can be a medication, it can be several different
things that kick that off. Most commonly it's a virus.
The most common virus is cocksackib. So if you can
(17:20):
be looking at those types of things and working with kids,
you can actually prevent that type one diabetes from occurring.
But type two diabetes is something that is usually adult onset.
It's usually kicked off by obesity, lack of exercise, poor
eating habits, having a high glycemic diet. Those types of
things kick off the type two diabetes, and that is
(17:43):
something where the body can be making plenty of insulin,
but it's just not being able to process it.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, So what are the symptoms of diabetes.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Well, the symptoms of diabetes they call them the three p's, polyuria, polydysia,
and polyphasia. So polyurate is urination. You feel like you
have to eat, you do urinate quite a bit, and
then you feel like you need to urinate because what
you're doing is the kidneys are actually getting rid of
the glucose. Remember, there's too much glucose going on, and
(18:15):
the body has to do something with it, so it
filters it out through the kidneys, So you have massive
amounts of urine that goes out, which increases the urine output,
and so you're constantly feeling like you have to pee
and you do. The other one is that you're thirsty
all the time, So you need to put a lot
of water because what you're trying to do is to
(18:35):
dilute the blood sugar. So the more water you drink,
the bodies just saying, hey, drink more water, drink more water.
We need to dilute this glucose that's flowing through the blood.
And then polyphasia, you become really hungry because you're not
able to get the In other words, the glucose isn't
really getting into the cell, so you have this constant
(18:55):
hunger that actually occurs. Now. Some of the other things
that happen a lot along with that is actually weight loss.
When you go into type two diabetes, believe it or not,
because you're not able to utilize the glucose properly, you
start to lose weight because the cells are starving. Then
you also have a lot of skin issues. There can
be skin infections, there can be discolorations in the skin,
(19:20):
a lot of problems along those lines, and then a
lot of infections, especially urinary tract infections, fungal infections on
the skin start to occur quite a bit. So those
are some of the other things that can occur. But
oftentimes most of the people aren't even aware that they
you know, there's a little bit of increase in urine
that they notice there's a little bit I have more
(19:40):
urinary tract infections and I'm thirsty all the time. We
hear that quite a bit, but people don't really associate
that necessarily with the diabetes.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Now, I was just a little confused. I want clarification
because obesey and then you said people lose weight.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yes, and that's one of the odd things because it's
the obesity that kicks off is one of the big
things that kicks it off. But then once you go
into diabetes itself where it becomes damaging, then they start
to lose weight. And matter of fact, we've had several
people who sit there, so you know, all of a sudden,
I started to lose weight. You know, I'm not quite
(20:18):
sure what it is I'm doing, because I'm not really
doing anything any better, And that's one of the red
flags for us.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
They know it's not a weight loss program.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, it's like you know, I didn't. If they start
to lose weight, they haven't changed their diet, they haven't
started exercising. We go hmm, Okay, there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Okay. So who gets diabetes?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, you can get diabetes almost at any age. So
type one diabetes is usually found in children, that's where
the reactions occur, but it is more common now to
develop that in adulthood. Why is that, They're not quite sure. Okay,
everybody's health is kind of falling apart, so some of
the old rules that used to apply no longer apply,
(21:03):
so it is much more of a problem. But type
two diabetes you can't occur at any age. It's really
starts to kick in about forty five. But the older
you get, the more likely you are to become type
two diabetic. Okay, just because the body starts wearing down
over a period of time.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So what other conditions develop from diabetes.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, you can have neuropathy, nephropathy, and retinopathy.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Lots of apathies.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
And that just means it's pathology. In other words, it's sick.
So you know it's the nerves are sick, is what
neuropathy means. So the nerves start to die and they
usually start in the feet, in the hands and fingers,
and then it spreads to the rest of the body.
So the nerves are poisoning extremities, yeah, the extremities and
then works its way in. So that's what neuropathy is,
(21:54):
and it's a very very devastating type of thing to have.
But that is one of the big things that nephropathy.
Nephro is the kidneys, So you have diseases of the kidneys.
Remember it's trying to get rid of all the glucose,
so it puts a lot of pressure on them and
it can actually start to damage the kidneys. And then
retinopathy is eyesight, So changes in eyesight is another thing
(22:17):
you can kick off on whether you have type two diabetes,
is that your vision starts to change. It can actually
lead to blindness if you don't take care of it.
Some of the other things that occur is cardiovascular disease
increases the risk of that extremely mater of fact. That's
one of the major things that occurs, and then also
you can get cancer have an increased chance of cancer.
(22:39):
One of the main reasons that all that starts to
occur is something called free radical pathology, and diabetes increases
free radical pathology quite dramatically because of the free radical
pathology occurs when the oxidative process, when you're making energy,
you need the glucose to make energy, and that whole
process is disturbed. So when things go wrong, the oxygen
(23:04):
molecules start to kick off electrons. Free electrons starts to
damage the body. That's why they call them antioxidants, to
try to absorb the electrons that are kicked off and
stabilize the oxygen molecules.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, and you talk about free radicals a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Free radicals are probably one of the biggest things. If
if you had no free radical damage in your life,
you would look like you're twenty one the rest of
your life. You would never age. So it's the free
radicals that cause the aging. And like what I was
telling one guy is that the free radical damage is
what happens to a rusty gate. He says, oh, because
(23:41):
we had found that he had that. He says, Okay,
that's exactly how I feel.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Like a rusty Gate.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Like I'm an old rusty Gate.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And he said, so, this is the reason why I
said yes. And if we can get this down, that
rusty feeling is going to be gone.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay, when we come back, let's talk more on that
epidemic of diabetes and how it affects life expectancy. Listen
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Speaker 2 (25:44):
If you are estrogen dominant, your chances of becoming type
two diabetic increase over one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So keeping the inderconsystem balance. Oftentimes what we can do
is it just lower the estrogen dominance or raise up
the thigh function. All of a sudden, people lose weight,
people no longer are even type two diabetic. You know,
all those different types of things, And this is done
naturally with glandulars. So supplementation different vitamins, minerals because the
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body's not working correctly, so trying to figure that out
exactly what it is that's going to change that has
a dramatic effect on the body just how it works.
So we do very specific types of lab tests to
find out exactly how the underconsystem is off and then
we get it normalized. Of course, insulin is absolutely necessary
with type one diabetes, but the less you have to
(26:39):
take of the insulin, the longer you live and the
healthier you are. And that can definitely be reduced. Almost
every single patient that we've treated with type one diabetes
have been able to cut their insulin levels in half.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I think of one gentleman who had really severe type
one diabetes. He was like, well, there's nothing you can
do about that, you know, they can't be cured. And
I said, no, no, no, but let's get your health up,
you know, get all your vitamin's minoles that you're a
deficient on, get that up working, get some botanicals into
your system, some homeopathics, and see what we can't do.
Cutting down on his insulin in half had some very
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amazing different types of results in his life. He had
more energy, he was able to exercise, his wound healing,
his sex life improved.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
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Speaker 1 (29:17):
I'm Lisa Prather and you're listening to the Voice of
Health with doctor Robert Prether of Holistic Integration, where we
get to the root cause of your health issue. This
week shows about the epidemic of diabetes and detri Preyther.
Does diabetes affect life expectancy? I mean, I know the
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answer is going to be yes, but how does it
it does?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
One? Of course, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer.
Number two is cancer and we do have an increase
of both of those. Neuropathy is becoming much more of
a problem because people start to lose toes and then
hands and things, you know, so as it starts to
come up on that. But yes, we are the millennials
a the first generation that aren't going to live as
(30:02):
long as their parents. So we're heading backwards on life expectancy,
which is the first time that there's been a decrease
since the nineteen thirties. Wow, so's and that was just
a very temporary one because of the Great Depression. But
always throughout the entire American history people have been living
(30:26):
longer than their ancestors except now. And one of the
biggest culprits on that well is the obesity crisis and
the drug crisis. Those are the two things that have
really made a difference in the health of America, and
it's something that has to be addressed, and neither one
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are being addressed at all. There's a lot of talk
about it. There's a lot of politicians who get up
and say, you know, this is a crisis, let's make
a special committee to look into it. But all the
things that they're doing, all the policies that they have
all make the whole situation worse.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Well, you even say, in the CDC, it talks about
the treatments that need to be tried before drug intervention,
but it's not happening. Well, it's not the changing.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Sure, they say, you know, okay, this was what needs
to be done, but then they cut all reimbursement to
the things that they just said need to be done,
and then they provide more reimbursement for the things that
they said shouldn't be done. So they say, don't do that,
but then they give you money to do it and
(31:41):
take away what little that they were doing. Yes, so
you know it makes no sense. What they say that
they want to do and what they're doing are two
completely different types of things. And the federal policy is just,
shall I say, absolutely insane, and the insurance reimbursement is
absolutely insane to achieve health. And I don't know how
(32:04):
to put it any other way. You know, the only
thing that you can say is that they don't want
us healthy because all of their policies are to create unhealthiness,
and they know what to do. I mean, they are
the things that the senator Disease Control, World Health Organization
all the research is coming out and they say this
is the answer on how to fix it, and they
(32:25):
do just the opposite.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
They take the reimbursement away. Yeah. Yeah, so you know,
it's very increased the reimbursement.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, it's maddening.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
And people are having to pay cash to get those
things done.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Right, I'm still having to pay for the insurance that
still keeps going out of the roof, and they're not
paying for the things that It's just it's a whole
catch twenty two. And it's very hard to fight the
federal government to make things because they set the policies,
they have so much control.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And then there's the politics. Yep, all right, well that's
a whole nother other show.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yes, don't get me started.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So what diagnostics are needed for diabetes.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, blood tests, your analysis are the basic types of
things to show up if people are positive on diabetes.
There are several different types of sugar tests that need
to be done, just blood, glucose, hemoglobin a one CEE,
glucose tolerance tests. All those things should be done. But
also when you're talking about that diabetes is established, there's
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a lot of other testing that needs to be done too.
You need to do the lab test to determine what
things need to keep the free radicals under control, you
need to be looking at mineral balance. So hair analysis
is extremely helpful because the balance of the minerals makes
a big difference in the diabetes. Looking at the gut,
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because the gut has a huge effect on that on
whether we actually develop diabetes or can reverse it. You know,
one of the things that we look at is fiber.
We can tell how much fiber you've been takeing into
your diet. People used to have a balance between two
different types of bacteria in their gut that showed that
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they had high levels of fiber as opposed to the carbohydrates.
And so it should be fifty to fifty the average
American it's about ninety eight percent to two percent. Now, wow,
it is the average. It used to be fifty to fifty.
So our whole gut flora, our whole gut way of
working has completely changed, and it's all designed to make
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us fat and it also leads to TYE two diabetes.
I mean, I don't I've never seen a gut flora
that had a fifty to fifty matter of fact, I've
never even seen someone's gut flora hit twenty eighty Oh really, yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Anymore or ever?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, I mean we sit there and almost everybody is
two to three percent or less. Wow, we get it
up to about twenty percent on a consistent basis, but
even then we can't seem to get it over that
twenty percent mark, just because what it takes for people
to do that. The stuff that we're eating, the stuff
that is produced by our food industry, is killing us.
(35:16):
And it didn't used to be that way. In other words,
when we really had real food, it didn't It wasn't
that way. So how this has all occurred, you know,
it's hard to say. And with the gut floor, we
can also see how the pancreas is working to you know,
produce the enzymes that are necessary. In other words, the
gud tells us a tremendous amount of what's going on
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and has a very direct effect on diabetes. So those
are all different types of tests that are absolutely essential
in the treatment and the control of diabetes, and we
do those.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
We do, and let's talk about the type of care
we offer. Structure function. Karen, if you've been a listener
radio listener for a while, you understand that because we
talk about that. So how does structure function care differ
from disease care model with diabetes?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
If you have to go into the pharmaceutical the disease
care model, then you failed on your diabetes. Type two
diabetes now not type one. Type one actually requires pharmaceuticals.
Type two diabetes does not. It is something that has
to be dealt with structure functionally to be effective. That's
(36:26):
why we are so ineffective with type two diabetes is
because we don't have structure function care as a part
of our national health care system. All we have that
supported by the federal government and pushed forward, is the
disease care model, which is totally worthless, as I say again,
worthless in type two diabetes and really getting that under control.
(36:50):
So structure function care. You know, we always say that
as we're looking at the whole healthcare industry, eighty percent
of all care should be structure function care, twenty percent
should be disease care. When you're talking about diabetes mellitis,
it's ninety eight percent should be structure function care, two
percent should be disease care. And that is why everything
(37:15):
you know, the Center's disease control says Hey, we've got
to get this under control. We've got to get this
under control. What drugs do we use, Well, it's not
that type of a problem. You have to go structure function,
No wonder, it's a failure.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well, let's talk about understructure function care and what we
practice the different treatments for prediabetic and diabetes. Let's start
with herbals can Urbals be effective with diabetes.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Erbals are amazing for type two diabetes. So there are
several different things that can be done. Alivier excellent for
taking down hyperglycemia, taking it internally. It's also excellent for
any type of wound care. Remember there's a lot of
problems with skin and we've had amazing results with Elvira
on the topical. Bill Berry excellent for the free radical pathology.
(38:08):
There's something called bitter melon or balsam pair and it
really helps tremendously with the glucose tolerance. It's a gradual
and cumulative type of a thing. And then there's Coccinia indica.
It's an r vetic herbal that is very, very excellent
on helping with diabetic situations. Fenu Greek one of my favorite.
(38:29):
One of the things that works the best on me.
Also we use that for you you were starting to
develop some type two diabetes, well I mean pre diabetic,
a little bit of very low level and fenu greek
or greek k is another term for that really helps
to bring that under control. And one of the best
ones that I use and you use to control that.
Garlic an onion are excellent for diabetes. Ginko bilboa is
(38:54):
excellent for peripheral artery diseases, so keeping that going, especially
for preventing peripheral neuropathy, gemnemia silvestra. It works on both
type one and type two diabetes. One of my favorite
ones for diabetic situations and very very excellent. And then
also inulin an Inuline is found in burdock root, dandelion roots,
(39:18):
jerusalem artichoke, and it's excellent for taking down hyperglycemia. And
then there's prickle prayer cactus, which has been used for
a long time in Mexico for type two diabetes and
excellent along those lines. We've had quite a few patients
who are able to get off of medications for their
diabetes by using the prickle pair of cactus, grape seed
(39:42):
skin and pine bark. Those are excellent for free radicals.
Those really can help out quite a bit on getting
down the periphyal neuropathy, so free radicals has a lot
to do with that.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You find herbal is very affected.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
We really like a lot of the herbals and thank
you get some really great results off of those.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Okay, when we come back, more and more structure function
care for diabetes. Never miss an episode of the Voice
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Speaker 2 (40:48):
The other thing we are getting is that ECP has
been very beneficial for kidney function. Not only does it
increase the blood flow to the heart, but it also
increases the blood flow to the kidneys. At least seventy
percent of all hypertension originates there and always a reduction
in hypertension that's associated with ECP.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Does it also help with restless legs syndrome?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yes, and that's one of the things that we found
out because we had patients who not only had congestive
heart failure but also had wrestless leg and they talked
about how that did a dramatic difference on that and
they were able to sleep. There's been excellent results in
that is something that can be used.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
What about diabetes, That is absolutely a wonderful type of
thing because when you actually use ECP, there is always
a correction in the blood sugar levels and diabetes has
always improved.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
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their host of the Voice of Health Radio. What role
can chiropractic play in diabetes?
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Well, you're talking about dysregulation basically, and we all know
that the nervous system is the basic regulator of the
entire body. So if you get the nervous system working correctly,
and that's basically what chiropractic is all about, getting the
nervous system to work properly. And many of the people
that we started to adjust with diabetes, one of the
(42:47):
things I told them is they need to watch their
medications because just the chiropractic oftentimes they have to reduce
the amount of insulin that they're taking or the amount
of met forman that they're taking. So, you know, one
of the things we do is we take in all
that information and some people are just coming in for
chiropractic into our office, not really doing any functional type
of work. But we still warn them that they need
(43:09):
to watch that because their levels will actually change.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Let's talk about acupuncture. You're an acupuncturist. I love my acupuncture.
Can it be helpful for diabetes?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
It absolutely is amazing on cutting down on blood sugar problems.
Acupuncture seems to work on everything m HM. So yes,
I would highly recommend acupuncture any type of problems, also
associated problems, especially with wound healing. Acupuncture stimulates wound healing
like nothing else. If you have like an old scar
(43:40):
from a surgery, it could be twenty five years old,
and you can put acupuncture in it and you'll heal up.
You can't even see it. It's quite amazing. And if
you have like a surgery and you're trying to heal
from it, if you have acupuncturreal cut down on the
healing time by half and also cut down on any
scarring that's associated with that. And that also works throughout
the entire body. I had a gentleman who was coming
(44:03):
in and he had already lost half his foot to neuropathy,
and they were going to take it at the ankle
and take the rest of it off, and the other
foot was starting to develop some problems, and it started
out just with like a little hangnail, just started in
a big toe, that's the first place it was. And
they were saying that there wasn't anything they could do,
and I said, well, let's go after it. So we
(44:24):
started our program and we were able to save his
foot and it was basically a circulatory problem due to
the diabetes he had and the neuropathy. By the time
we got done, the clinician was saying, your blood flow
into your foot is better than mine right now. You know,
the wound care people, you know, I actually called me
(44:45):
and said, hey, you know, that's remarkable. What did you do?
And I told him and they said, wow, we wish
we could do that.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
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listening to the Voice of Health with doctor Robert Prather
of Holistic Integration, where our mission is restoring hope to
our patients. This week our shows about the epidemic of diabetes.
We talked about urbals and gave a list of herbals
and you know, this is something we wouldn't recommend someone
(45:57):
just going out and getting We.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Test, yeah, and we check to see exactly how that's working,
so we know whether it's you know, we're getting the
results or not. And we get very excellent results.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
And then it's specific like one could work for someone
where a different one could work for another person. So
let's talk about one of my favorites is homeopathy. What
role can homeopathy play in diabetes.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
We have a list of about two hundred homeopathics that
are excellent for diabetes. Interestingly enough, the one that seems
to work the best is carsinosum. But there are three
thousand listed homeopathics within the FDA. There's actually another twelve
thousands that are actually out there that are available, so
(46:43):
you know there's quite a bit of but We have
three thousand that are classical right, and we have a
list of two hundred different homeopathics that can help out
with diabetes. We have some that are pretty consistent along
those lines. But what's great about homeopathy is they either
work or they don't do anything, so they're very, very safe,
especially on dealing with children. That's one of the things
(47:05):
that we find is homeopathy is great for them.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Maybe that's why I like them so much because I'm
a child at heart.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
How does diet play with diabetes?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Diet is absolutely critical. There are several different factors that
go along with diet. You know, the one food that
is the worst four diabetes French fries.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
French fries.
Speaker 2 (47:28):
French fries kicks up bloodsher more than any other food
and causes more. And we like our French fries. We
do so really cutting out on the French fries. The
things that on diet, the fiber we used to the
amount of sugar that we eat in our diet. The
average American does about sixty grams a day, and we
(47:52):
used to have sixty grams of fiber, and then we
had about ten to fifteen grams of shirt. And it's reversed,
reversed now, so we have to get our fiber, and
fiber will eliminate is probably one of the best medicines
for diabetes. Type two diabetes oftentimes can be completely eliminated
(48:15):
just by increasing your fiber up to the amount that
you should be taking in. And it's also the only
product that is known to consistently and always cause weight loss.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
And you know, you try to get the fiber from
your food, but also we provide fiber there at the office.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
It is absolutely amazing and because people took in a
lot of fiber, that's why the gals had skinny wasists,
was because they took in so much fiber. It takes
your waist line down better than anything else. The other
thing is looking at the glycemic index. We eat a
lot of foods that are high in sugar, really reversing that.
(48:57):
So diet is yeah, diet is absolutely critical fiber and
you can't really you have to deal with the diet
to be able to one prevent and also to cure
type two diabetes.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
Let's talk about exercise. Importance of exercise.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Exercise cures a world of sins. One of the things
is that they find is as you exercise. It improves
the utilization of glucose throughout the entire body. One of
the things that's a real problem is a insulin resistance
where the cells can't resist the insulin from brain in
the glucose into the body and insulin resistance. One of
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the best ways to get rid of that is through
regular exercise, especially aerobic.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Exercise, and vitamins.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Vitamins vitamins. One of the things is that vitamins don't
seem to be something that changes the diabetes itself, but
as extremely important to keep because if you are diabetic,
your utilization and absorption of vitamins goes way down and
your need for vitamins go up. So a lot of
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the damage that occurs throughout the body is caused because
of vitamin deficiency. Now, it doesn't cure the diabetes, but
it keeps you from getting the kidney disease, it keeps
you from going blind, It keeps all those types of
things from occurring, the nerve damage. That is where the
vitamins are really really important, is making sure that the
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damage from the diabetes doesn't keep on making things worse.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Okay, how about the role of minerals.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
Now, minerals that does actually play a very direct result
in the diabetes, especially chromium. Chromium is sort of like
one of the magic types of minerals that really helps
out with diabetes. But magnesium is the most common mineral
deficiency in diabetes. But you also have to look at
the manganese, you have to look at the zinc, the copper,
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and the phosphorus. All those things play a very big
role and you can get some very excellent changes. And
always looking at the chromium because chromium and vanadium are
two things that will definitely definitely change the blood sugar levels. Okay,
so minals are very important.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
So how can diabetes be prevented.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
One of the things is don't get fat. We should
be looking at what is the fat percentage that people
are carrying, and for females that they shouldn't be over
thirty percent. If you can keep your fat percentage below
thirty percent, you probably aren't going to get type two diabetes.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
For women, we're not talking about BMI. We're talking about
body fat percentage.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Yeah, and it's different because BMI you can actually we
have a gal who developed type two diabetes and she says,
by weigh one hundred and twenty pounds, but she had
forty percent body fator because she was she had no muscle.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
She was skinny, but she had skinny fat.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
So we don't really care about your weight. What we
do care about is the fat percentage, and what we
do is we do a bioimpedance to find that on people.
That's a much more accurate way. So BMI isn't really
that important. What's important is your fat percentage. And the
higher your fat percentage is, the more likely you are
to develop type two diabetes.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Okay, if someone has type two diabetes, what steps should
they take and can it be cured?
Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yes, you really need to find first off, doctor who's
a structure function doctor so that they can guide you
through the whole process and what's going to be the
best way to make the changes, and be willing to
do the diagnostics. That way, you can actually know what's
going to change that follow it and find the best
pathway to get where you.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Will not be willing it's preventable, be willing to do
the work right.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Yeah, you have to put in some lifestyle types changes
that are just normal types of no longer be sedentary,
exercise and then also eat correctly and then finding out
where your deficiencies are. You're going to need to have
to take some supplementation, so you're not going to do
it just through diet, and to be willing to get
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the treatments that are necessary to get you where you
need to be.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
So we have a minute left entrepay the what role
should structure function care play and type one diabetes.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Type one diabetes, Well, type one diabetes, it's a supportive
type of thing. When you have type one diabetes, you're
going to have a lot of damage that occurs in
the body, so you're going to need to take care
of that. So type one diabetes, you should always have
a structured function doctor involved and make sure that the
deficiencies are taken care of so that you don't have
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damage throughout the body. We've had people who we've been
able to reverse eye disease, kidney disease, and neuropathy and
get that turned around for them.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Yes, so it's encouraging because this is preventable right and
getting the right tests.
Speaker 2 (54:05):
Help and type two diabetes is completely curable.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Well, thank you doctor prayther as always, thank you.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Lisa.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
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