Mark Luxton

Richard, I honestly do not recall where I first learned that insulin's purpose was not to regulate sugar but rather to store it. This however makes sense to me. If we lived natural lives and ate diets similar to our closest relative mammals, we would not have too much sugar in our diets except for rare times of surplus. Our bodies run on sugar and require it. Living naturally we would generally run the risk daily of not having enough sugar. Regulation would be the hunger that tells us we need to eat. Many other animals eat extra when available, and gain weight to store energy. I think mankind is not designed to have constant access to plenty of food and sugar.

Look at what happens to many diabetics, they take insulin and keep putting on weight. Sure it lowers the blood sugars, but IMO this is not a natural way to regulate blood sugar. Exercise and not eating so much is how blood sugar is supposed to be lowered. We should nearly always be in a state of needing to eat something to bring up our blood sugar. Then on seasonal or rare occasions when there is extra food, insulin helps us to store the extra energy as fat. Then we should naturally burn off the fat during times of food scarcity.

My Mother and Father are both considered to be diabetic. My father has never eaten healthy, and continues to eat cookies, and fast greasy foods, and ice cream, and very little raw plant food. The doctors notice the high blood sugar and give him insulin. He keeps buying the cookies and the insulin. To make matters worse, he buys diet soda pop, and thinks this is an improvement.

My Mother decided to get some exercise a few years ago and began riding a bike and walking. She eats better than my Father but is very inactive. When she was biking and walking, her blood sugar levels dropped and she no longer needed insulin. IMO neither of them are "diabetic"; they both simply need to live and eat more naturally. They also do not eat because they are hungry. They eat because it is meal time.

I eat more when I am working hard and less when I am less active...usually. I have always sought out better food and vitamins and natural medicines. I grow organic vegetables most years. I find natural medicines when I need something. My doctor, who I rarely see, says I am one of the healthiest people in the county. I am over weight and need more exercise but I am indeed in better health than nearly all of my relatives. I am a good cook, and it unfortunately shows.

I could be incorrect about insulin's true purpose, but I do not think so.

Most people are lacking in Magnesium; needed for many of the bodies functions including sugar regulation. Always start with balancing minerals and trace minerals and removing heavy metals and toxins; just like you should do first for new garden soil. Always get minerals and trace minerals from sources that are or were alive. Same for vitamins. Supplements that use chelation(most of them) are attempting to attach "nutrients" to protein or amino acids, to trick your body to accept it as being food. Just eat real food and you are good to go.

The purpose of insulin, contrary to establishment beliefs, is not to regulate sugar, IMHO. The purpose of insulin is to store extra sugars as fat. If we lived naturally like other animals, we would have periods when little food was available(fasting). We would not have access to refined sugars. There would be times of the year when there are crops that ripen, apples and berries for examples, making available more natural sugars. Insulin stores this extra food supply as fat to get you through times of little food, like the winter.

Do not be fooled into substituting sugar with chemical sweeteners such as aspartame or Splenda. In all likelihood aspartame causes sugars to be unbalanced. Splenda is a laxative, it is NOT made from sugar, that is a deception. I am sure if studies were actually done, there would be many adverse effects to health found from Splenda. The chemical companies learned their lesson from studies done showing aspartame was poison, as designed, so with Splenda they just avoided the studies IMHO.

Stevia is a safe sugar substitute. Honey and maple sugar and agar are better choices than refined sugar. Any natural unrefined sugar source is better, health wise, than refined sugar.
This is where I would get a sugar substitute if I could afford it and/or if I were allegedly diabetic: www.justlikesugar.ca
Justlikesugar's sweetness seems to me to be less than sugar but triggers the same taste buds and has the same texture. Not sugar at all, natural sources, but from my limited experience is closer tasting to sugar than any artificial sweet tasting chemical. Not sure about Splenda, I avoid ingesting chemicals as much as possible, so I do not know or care what that tastes like. FYI all.