Eat Your Bluberries...Roots and All?

statdeac · #1 (**permalink**) 10-28-2003, 09:00 AM

Some research being is being conducted in Canada to test the promise of blueberry root extract in contoling diabetes. (Check out the link to the article in the Edmonton Journal below.) I wonder how they stumbled upon this angle?

Blueberry Article

HeatherP · #2 (**permalink**) 10-28-2003, 09:18 AM

Hmm.. interesting. Unfortunately, I'm T1. Where's my cure? Oh well - personally, I think that there is probably a cure or treatment for every problem known to mankind in a plant somewhere on the planet - it's just a matter of finding the right one.

Shalyndria · #3 (**permalink**) 10-28-2003, 03:03 PM

Hey, I read about this in the Journal. It's fantastic; my dad has a native friend who is type 1 diabetic and used naturopathic (?)treatment for years, which may explain why he had honeymoons all the time. It isn't a cure though; just a natural way to control the disease.

duck · #4 (**permalink**) 10-28-2003, 03:24 PM

Anyone ever watch Chris Rock? I can't remember the name of the routine he was doing on HBO a few years ago, but he has convinced me that they'll never cure diabetes...

snakeye · #5 (**permalink**) 10-28-2003, 04:50 PM

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Originally posted by Shalyndria
Hey, I read about this in the Journal. It's fantastic; my dad has a native friend who is type 1 diabetic and used naturopathic (?)treatment for years, which may explain why he had honeymoons all the time. It isn't a cure though; just a natural way to control the disease.

I've had two honeymoon phases which one I believe has ended 2 weeks ago;

Here in Turkey military service is a must for every men. (18 months, 8 months if u have a univercity deg.) So I (for some long story reason) had to declare to the dept. that I had diabetes in early summer this year.

I had been watched 5 days in the military hospital and gave fasting blood for three days in the morning for full checkup. Not to mention that the military is completely apart from the gov. so you can't go and show ur papers that ur a diabetic..they won't care; they do their own tests in their own lab to prove ur really a diabetic, not a jackass trying to evade.

The first day my a1C came out to be 5.0 and the other days morning bs's were also in range. The fourth day the commander-doctor came and said you have to raise ur BS for approval we can't tell the jury that ur a diabetic with these numbers (just plain and simple eh?) He said "don't shot this evening and also in the morning" a said no word. Did it... Just for the sake of the terrifying possibility that I might be hooked. The jury gives the decision and you got nowhere to run or hide.

I ate alot that evening.. it didn't rise over 110!!! The time it had to rise it wasn't!!

I ate a bulky snack that evening and in the morning I ate like had no diabetes, had sugar with my tea, honey and butter and more sugar in tea and and (!) it wasn't going over 120 after and hour!

How could I explain the situation! It was my last (extra) test just becuase the doc gave me a chance to raise it! I was thrilled meanwhile I ate lots of sugar with tea; I had sugar in my tea and swollowing packs of suger with it. I had half an hour before the test...the result was 140...

Thank the doc that he understood the situation that I was in a honeymoon phase...I passed. Whata week I had...

After I came out of the jail, errr hospital, I've started with 7 units (which I could eat a lot) which was 8, now even 10 units don't do.....I dunno why!!!!!

a bit maybe..