Dealing with diabetes, related diseases

Health experts use glucose levels in the blood and urine to diagnose diabetes.

Diabetes was identified as early as 1550 BC, many centuries ago, and was considered a death sentence at the time.

In 2011, the global burden of diabetes affected 366 million people, approximately 5% of the world's population.

It is predicted that by 2030, this may have risen to 552 million.

Currently, there are more than twenty million diabetics and about two million diabetic cats and dogs in the United States of America (USA) and about three million diabetics in Ghana. 

Conventional theory claims that the cause of diabetes is not fully understood.

Recent publications have described the biological cell as a “molecular factory” with various machines, including a “power-house,” which uses oxygen to oxidise glucose, a carbohydrate derivative, as fuel to produce energy for the activities of the machines.

A “power-house” has a series of energy generators linked to form a mitochondrial matrix. Each energy generator is referred to as a mitochondrion.

Diabetics fail to use oxygen to oxidise glucose to produce Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) energy molecules due to impaired mitochondrial matrix.

A mitochondrial matrix gets impaired when inappropriate molecules, such as ethyl alcohol and polyunsaturated fatty acids, are oxidised in the mitochondrion.

This type of oxidation generates heat, free radicals and other cell-damaging molecules.

The effect is called oxidative stress by the health experts. 

Abandoned glucose

Excessive oxidation of high levels of ingested ethyl alcohol and polyunsaturated fatty acids tends to impair many mitochondrial matrices.

The result is lot of glucose cannot be oxidised.

The glucose gets abandoned in the blood to pass out as part of the urine. Energy production is reduced.

The machines of the biological cells do not receive adequate energy to function well.

The inadequate supply of energy enervates or weakens the organs and the whole body.

The diabetic becomes tired easily and loses the ability to be economically useful to himself and others.

Diabetes is not caused by the ingestion of lots of sugar and carbohydrates.

Diabetes is caused by the impairment of the mitochondrial matrices by the ingestion of high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids, found normally in unsaturated plant fats and fish fats.

The impairment of the mitochondrial matrices is also implicated in many non-communicable ailments, including migraine, diabetes, kidney diseases, liver diseases, heart diseases, autism, menstrual and labour complications, eye diseases, alzheimer disease, etc.

In view of the many diseases associated with the impairment of the mitochondrial matrices, various institutions have been advocating Mitochondrial DNA transplantation, but this does not address the root cause of the challenge.

An article with the title “A Mitochondrial DNA Transplant Could Help Treat Hundreds of Diseases by George Dvorsky was published on the Internet on July 1, 2015, by the New Zealand Herald.

The British Government, based on the advice of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is considering passing a law on mitochondrial transplant during in vitro fertilisation.

See “UK May Allow Mitochondrial Replacement” By Kate Yandell, March 21, 2013, in The Scientist.

The US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has published a list of diseases, including diabetes, coronary heart disease, etc., attributable to polyunsaturated fatty acids.

In a letter dated October 3, 2000, the USFDA stated that the ingestion of such polyunsaturated fatty acids should be avoided; otherwise, the limit should be less than three grams from all sources per person per day.

See http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/-dms/ds-ltrl1.html dated 1/12/2005.

Only 100 g of certain food items contain more than three g of polyunsaturated fatty acids, such foods include all processed unsaturated vegetable oils, fish oils and unfermented whole grains, e.g. wheat, soya bean, groundnuts, maize, sorghum, millet, rape seed, etc.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also recommended the elimination of  “Trans Fatty Acid” (TFA) from the diet.

Scientific theory states that TFA is found mainly in any unsaturated fat which contains considerable amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids.

TFA is not found in tropical saturated fats. 

• The writer is the author of a book on “Natural Fats in Health and Medicine”