170 Achieving pH Balance to Treat Specific Ailments
Type 1 Diabetes and Insulin Transplant Operations
More than a decade ago, there was great excitement in the press over
reports of the success of insulin transplant operations. Taken from the
pancreases of deceased donors, insulin-producing cells were trans-
planted into the liver of patients with severe type 1 diabetes. The eight
patients who had this procedure done two to fourteen months before it
was publicized in the press no longer had any symptoms of the disease
and so did not need insulin injections.
The skeptics (including myself ) turned out to be right. The trans-
planted cells did not stand the test of time. A study that came out in
2006 in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the transplanted
insulin-producing cells had freed patients with the severe form of dia-
betes from insulin injections for only two years. At the end of that time,
80 percent of the patients had gone back to intravenous insulin.^7
The fact is that type 2 diabetes and even type 1 diabetes have been
cured by using a far less traumatic procedure than surgery—and that
is diet. This is the avenue therefore that even type 1 diabetics should
explore—while they continue taking insulin—before consigning them-
selves to a lifetime of insulin injections.HOW ALBERT CURED HIS INSULIN-DEPENDENT
(TYPE 1) DIABETES
Albert had had a heart attack many years before he became
diabetic. Like most individuals with emotional problems, Albert’s
temperament drove his behavior. On the day he closed up his
ironwork shop for the last time, he became so angry that he
smashed all the machinery and furniture in the shop. That night he
had a heart attack.
Albert recuperated quickly, however, and remained in good
health for twenty-eight years, until at the age of sixty-eight, he
developed the symptoms of diabetes: trembling, dizziness,
excessive thirst, and extreme hunger. Despite eating all the time,
he lost weight. Diagnosed with insulin-dependent (type 1)
diabetes, he had also developed elevated triglycerides and
cholesterol.