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SNI Digital, Innovations and Learning, a 3D Live video journal which is interactive with discussion, and now is offering this program and others on podcasts on Apple, Amazon and Spotify,
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in association with SNI, Surgical Neurology, International, a 2D Internet Journal. I'm pleased to present another in the series of SNI Digital Investigative Reports by Dr. Russell Blalock
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entitledDr. Blalock Reports on Medically Related Controversies Today.
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The topic of this program is new concepts about diabetes that most of us didn't learn in medical school
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Dr. Blalock is CEO of Theoretical Neuroscience Research and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Neural Information Section of Surgical Neurology International and SNI Digital. He's a
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board-certified clinical nutritionist and the creator and editor of the Blalock Wellness Report, author of multiple books, scientific papers, and a health commentator on radio TV and for the epic
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These are some of his books which are available on amazoncom. A
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which is a principal issue in this program that he will discuss And with Dr. Oussman, he is a co-editor of the China Virus of Book Exploring COVID-19.
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He publishes a monthly nutritional newsletter for the last 20 years entitledThe Blalock Wellness Report. If you would like a copy of it, you can subscribe or write wellnessreportnewsmaxcom This is a
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brief graphic introduction. to this program on new concepts about diabetes. In basic, simple terms, we all learned. It's a first form, which is insulin resistant. It represents 95 of diabetes,
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mostly as people get older. And it's defect is that the insulin receptor on the cell. And it's called diabetes type 2
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The other variety is insulin dependent.
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Diabetes occurs mostly in young people. It's about represents about 5 of diabetes around the world. It is an islet cell disease. And it's described as diabetes type 1.
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A high dietary sugar and glutamate intake will produce immuno-excitotoxis.
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which is an inflammatory reaction and an excitatory reaction in the cells and in the nervous system which leads to the changes that produce diabetes organ damage in obesity. Dr. Blalock will discuss
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these in detail.
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The first graphic describes on the left side of the diagram the normal metabolism in a person who may eat a diet with food obviously and in the diet there's glucose and glutamate. When the
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the food gets into the bloodstream the insulin accompanies the glucose to the cell and then allows it to be transported through the cell through the cell membrane into the into the cell itself where
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the glucose is used to run the mitochondria, which is the factory or the energy producing part of the cell. That's the normal person with the normal cell receptor allowing insulin to enter the cell.
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However, over on the right side, we see the other forms of diabetes
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The next most common, as after the ingestion of the food, the insulin is available.
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But as they approach the cell, the cell is closed, and the insulin receptor is blocked here. And so the glucose can't get into the cell. It accumulates in the bloodstream, causing high glucose,
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and all the other associated problems And it's called insulin type 2 receptor blocking.
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disease, insulin entry into the cell is resistant.
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Now, in the presence of people who may overeat, they produce a lot of glucose and glutamate, which then overwhelm the system and may convert people who have the adult type, diabetes type to where
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the cell is blocked to the entry of insulin and glucose, so that the glucose gets into the cell. But with this, there is damage caused because there's inflammation from the overproduction in the
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eyelid cell of the pancreas. And with the inflammation, inflammation, it starts a series of chemical reactions with an immunological reaction leading to excitotoxicity and cell death.
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This is an example of the immunological part of the reaction. In this graphic you see the stomach and the duodenum. This is the pancreas here, which is studded with pancreatic islet cells, which
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look like this. And as the pancreas islet cells here, it's a make insulin What happens if there is a genetic disease like there is in some children, it won't make the insulin. And therefore, it
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will not be able to help the glucose get into the cell. And the individual will become diabetic because of high glucose and have the complications However, if the patient has excessive vaccinations.
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with what happens is glutamate accumulates in the cell and irritates the cell. And it irritates and it causes an immunological reaction and the immunologic reaction is to the inulin. And here it's
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priming the white cell that then attacks
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the pancreas and begins to destroy
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the inulin cell in the pancreas and create a series of inflammatory reactions with free radical formation, lipid
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peroxidation, and excitotoxicity, all of which really lead to cell death.
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This is another view of the immuno excitotoxicity Here's the immune cell, which has been stimulated now. by the inflammatory reaction. The immune cell has its own star, glutamate, in addition to
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what's located in the
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extracellular space here. That glutamate causes chemical reactions which forms free radicals which are reactive molecules that destroy other molecules. It destroys the function of the mitochondria.
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It destroys some of the cell, and it leads to damage of the cell and death of the cell called immuno-excitotoxicity. Dr. Blylock will refer to this many times in his discussion.
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What happens with excessive intake of glucose and glutamate and fructose in junk food is that there's an accumulation of glutamate which is an excitatory aminoc acid.
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And it reacts with the receptors of the pancreatic eyelid cells and organs throughout the body. And it begins to cause an immunological reaction and an excitatory reaction. Glucose produces high
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level of insulin, which itself is inflammatory. Continued intake of glucose
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and glutamate burns out the eyelids through immuno-exciter toxicity And the patient, therefore, is dependent on insulin injections for the rest of his life. Excessive vaccination produces the same
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kind of irritation of the eye of the cells in the pancreas creating the inflammation and the excitatory reaction afterward, which leads to immunositotoxicity and
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cell death Patients who have diabetes type 2, and remember that's the adult type, where a pancreas into the cell tend to eat more because they know their glucose deficient, their body tells them
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that And the glucose at high doses becomes an irritant, and when you accumulate the glucose that comes with glutamate,
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which is toxic, and they all both react on the islet cell, which
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produces the insulin to cause exhaustion of the islet cells, and the cells are basically killed by immunositotoxicity. So that should give you a basic outline of what Dr. Blalock is going to tell
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you.
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One last point is that obesity, high glucose, is converted to fat cells. In other words, high food intake is converted as fat cells. They make a substance called leptin. Leptin acts on a nucleus
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or some nerve cells in the brain in the hypothalamus and it modifies appetite It's called the arcuate nucleus and that is also burned out when there's an excessive amount of glutamate and sugar and it
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will burn out the arcuate nucleus and therefore you will lose body control of energy and
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diet. And people will gain a great deal of weight.
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In regard to how the other organs are damaged, it's by the same mechanism. High glutamate intake stimulates the receptors which are all over the body on the blood vessels, eye, heart, brain, and
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organs producing immunoexcited with toxicity in those organs and cell death. There are treatments Dr. Blalock will tell you using diet, but you have to stay away from sugars and omega-6 oils,
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fructose corn syrup, and then find a way to manage the complications in each one of those diseases
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Diabetes can also produce a type of Alzheimer's because glucose isn't getting into the brain and the brain cells then suffer from lack of energy.
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Today we're going to talk about diabetes. I'm glad we did that.
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It's not becoming. It's a common disease now throughout the world. I think almost 10 of the people in the country have it here and a large amount of people who have it around the world, what do we
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need to know about this? Well, diabetes is of course one of the most common
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diseases we have, as you said in the world, there's two types of diabetes. One, either you're born with it or you develop it later in life, and that's called type one diabetes. And that's a
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deficiency in your pancreas secreting insulin. Insulin is used to drive the glucose inside of the cell where it can be utilized. Otherwise, it cannot enter the cell. And this is true less so, but
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also in brain cell. That's why they call
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dementia, Alzheimer's dementia, type three diabetes. Well, type two diabetes is different. In fact, it could be, 180 degrees different. You have real high insulin levels in many cases, but it
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does not work. And so the glucose cannot enter the cell. And you have the same thing in the brain. It's that you have insulin resistance in the brain and you have plenty of glucose, but it can't
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get in the brain cell where it's gonna be utilized. So 95 of people who have diabetes in the United States are type two that is insulin resistant, not insulin deficiency. Insulin deficiency, most
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often either you're born with
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it or it's caused by consuming too many carbohydrates, particularly simple sugars. A lot of donuts, a lot of pies, a lot of cakes, all these things are stressing the islets in the pancreas,
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which produces insulin and eventually it burns out. And so you develop that type one diabetes from insulin deficiency. And the shocking thing about type two, which was learned when I was a resident,
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was that you can give them insulin and they have lots of insulin, more than normal humans.
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And it's because the insulin doesn't work. It's not that they're deficient in insulin It's the insulin that's not working. And so they use a drug metformin to try to make it work, but the problem
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with metformin is that lowers B12 level. And it hasn't been the other side effect. There's a lot of natural supplements that in fact will lower blood sugar and will make the blood sugar enter the
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cell.
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One of the drugs was arleoporic acid, which is a natural constituent in your cell,
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and they found that the R form is the most active. And it not only reduces the glucose in the blood and drives it into the cell, but it also is a very powerful antioxidant. And so it's protective
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of the cell in addition. And if you look at the complications of diabetes, both type one and type two, it's inflammation and free radical generation and lipid peroxidation. So most of the disease
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is the blindness, the need for amputation of the legs, which is usually due to vascular changes, vascular obstruction, peripheral neuropathies, cardiovascular disease. They're all due to the
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fact that these diabetes cases have very high free radical generation and high lipid peroxidation That's why you want to increase. The amount of antioxidants you're taking and anti-inflammatory
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you're taking, which many of these natural substances are much more powerful than drugs.
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So we've got our two farms of diabetes, one where you're not making enough insulin because your pancreas can't do it. It's got little what they call eyelet cells in the pancreas that make that
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In fact, in some people who are deficient, they replace the transplant eyelet cells into the pancreas to replace that. So in one case, they're not working very well. The other place are
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overworking because you're consuming too much glucose, but it's not effective. Is that right? That's right. And you can stress it so much, it'll burn it out. For instance, you start out with
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type 2 diabetes. You continue to. stimulate the insulin release or just pouring out so much insulin that it'll burn out. And then it quits, making any insulin at all. And so you'll switch from
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type two to type one. I see. Insulin dependent. So now you got into another number of subjects, we talked about atherosclerosis, but you're now talking about which probably the one of the most
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widespread diseases in the world, which is obesity And so that's consuming a lot of glucose, basically. And the body can't handle it. Is that what you're saying? That's right. We have about 60
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of the world is obese, and we have about 30 of children that are obese, and about 18 are grossly obese. So their obesity is starting very early. And what we found is that the obesity is caused by
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a gluten-like. Monosodium glutamate is a big cause, but other forms of glutamate also. And these islet cells contain glutamate receptors. So if you overstimulate those receptors, it burns out the
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pancreas. And so that's what's happened. You're having this immuno-excitotoxicity in the islets that's burning up the cells that produce insulin and you become insulin dependent You have to be given
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insulin.
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Otherwise,
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you know, it's going to work just fine, but we're consuming way too much glutamate. Glutamate is putting all kinds of processed foods.
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How does glutamate relate to glucose, or are they separate or
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different, or what? Well, the glucose is because of the insulin deficiency. So in type one, you have the glutamate receptors in the islets. And so if you're consuming glutamate, it's burning
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out the islets. Okay. So even if you don't consume many
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sweets, you could still burn out the islets just by consuming glutamate, MSG. So as the danger in the diet and it produces the obesity, the glucose source of the glutamate, or is it both? It's
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both, it's both. And what we find is that insulin is inflammatory. Inflammation stimulates glutamate receptors. And so you're doing something by consuming this food you're consuming, especially
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high fructose corn syrup, is that it's stimulating the glutamate receptors and it's making things even worse. So you've got two problems One you have for those glue caves. is stimulating your
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eyelids to release the insulin, and you're stimulating the glutamate receptors, which is pushing it even higher, and you're burning it out. So where does the glucose come in at a qua - equation,
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we're consuming all these drinks and everybody says it's glucose, where does that come in? Well, the glucose is it works through the pancreas, through the eyelids, the eyelid cells
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The MSG can stimulate it directly. It doesn't need glucose stimulation. The glucose is stimulating it by activating the
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glutamate receptors.
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So when you're getting all this food, you're getting two things that are doing this. Everybody talks about glucose, but it's really also MSG or the glutamate, you're getting a double hit.
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That's right, and most of the complications from diabetes are also worsened by the glutamate. For instance, the effect of diabetes on the retina of the eye resulting in blindness, well, it's the
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number one cause of blindness, the diabetes. And we know that the retina of the eye contains these microglia, just like the brain, and we have glutamate receptors in it, and that that's what's
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destroying the retina.
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That's not the link. So it's MSG about talked nobody's and this about read I 'cause, interesting so It's. it's here in isn't just it, glutamate or
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all glucose, but what you're saying is it's more than that. I mean, glucose, everybody knows you drink glucose, it's sugar, it's sweet, and so forth and so on, and your body handles it, And
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as far as metabolic cycles, you tell me if I'm wrong and it can obviously increase your fat stores and make you gain weight, so forth and so on. But with that, is this other substance called
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glutamate or MSG, which you have?
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And that's inflammatory and that causes all these other things that are going on. So you're getting a double hit. That's right there. Is that right? Is that right? Yeah, they're acting against
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you, both of these factors. They're just talking about one of the factors. Yeah, 'cause I read the, I've been reading about this. You know, I wanted to bone up on this. I've been reading about
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it. Not a single word in this thing about MSG or glutamine, not a single word. But if you read the ophthalmology literature and you put in a cytotoxicity in the retina and diabetes, there's lots
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of papers about that.
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The ophthalmologists were ahead of everybody else about excitotoxicity in the retina.
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Actually, in my experience, the ophthalmologists have been head of a lot of people
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in the metabolic diseases and medicine, 'cause they're looking in the eye and they're doing, they do some fine research on this. I noted that all the time, ophthalmologists are way ahead of us.
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So that's really interesting So now,
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we got a problem. We got too much of these things. That's what's causing all the obesity, and that's also leading to the inflammatory reactions which come after it, because I was reading this. I
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was saying, well, gee, we just talked about atherosclerosis the other day, and it's an inflammatory disease. That's really what the answer was And so why do all these diabetic people have.
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atherosclerosis, heart disease, peripheral vascular disease. You're just talking about it in the eye. So it's all
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the MSG and the excitotoxicity. Is that what you're saying?
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Also the lining cells of all your arteries have glutamate receptors. And what the insulin is inflammatory, all inflammation connects to excitotoxicity, connects to the glutamate receptor and
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activates them.
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That's why I created the term immuno-excitotoxicity, which is a tremendous literature on it, showing this connection. So the fact that you have a disorder producing too much insulin, and the
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insulin in turn is triggering inflammation, and the inflammation is causing excitotoxicity. Well, you look at the atherosclerotic plaque, they all say that it's an inflammatory disease. It's not
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a cholesterol disease. And the macrophage, your immune cell is attracted to the plaque to try to get rid of the fat, but how it does it is immune cell is secreting glutamate. So it's both
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intrinsic glutamate and extrinsic glutamate.
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So it's a lot more complicated than what we're told. It's just not simple glucose and sugar consuming.
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It's the glutamate, which is very pro-inflammatory. Is that right? That's right. And most of your prepared foods, your processed foods, contain glutamate in various forms, not just MSG, but
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all of these soy proteins, soy protein isolates. They're all very high in And
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you have a diabetic who has poor vision.
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and they're consuming a lot of glutamate, they're making it much worse. 'Cause the glutamate enters the eye and it's producing pre radicals lipid peroxidation and destroying the retinal cells. Okay,
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interesting, interesting. 'Cause I read on the bottle, you know, I look at what's in the
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food that we're eating and she's soy protein. Well, I don't know a bunch about soy protein, but so what you're saying, it's another form of glutamate. Yeah, the soy proteins is very high in
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glutamate. In fact, they did in Australian study for several years and showed that the people who consumed the most soy had the greatest brain atrophy. Wow. Well, that makes sense because you're
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stimulating the glutamate receptor. We didn't plan to get into this, but so, so glutamate is, and I
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know you've talked about this a lot elsewhere, but. These receptors are everywhere in the body. I mean, we've talked about it in the brain. We've talked about it in other parts of the body. Tell
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us a little bit about glutamate receptors and glutamate. Well, the person who discovered it was John Oldney. And Oldney was a friend of mine. And I stated his house and visited his laboratory.
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And we discussed excitotoxicity.
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And I used some of his pictures. He loaned them to me and I used them in my book.
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So he discovered the whole process. Well, in the beginning, they thought glutamate receptors were only in the nervous system, the brain and spinal cord. Later, they discovered every organ and
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tissue in the body has glutamate receptors. Supposedly, their defense was, well, there's a blood brain barrier that prevents glutamate from entering the brain. Well, that's not entirely true.
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That's only acutely, chronically, it can enter the brain. It can go right through the blood-brain barrier. But there's a portion of the brain that has almost no barrier causedly. One of them is
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the anterior hypothalamus, the archaic nucleus. And they found out that's the number one nucleus destroyed by glutilite consumption. And it results in gross obesity. So one of the things that only
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discovered was, and he told me the story, he said he was doing lysine. And his assistant told him, said, Dr, only have you noticed that all the mice are grossly obese? And he said, I didn't
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even notice. And he said, we examined the brain, and their archaic nucleus was destroyed. It was the most sensitive nuclei and cell in the brain to glutamine And it controls your appetite and
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leptin. is controlled through the anterior hypothalamus, the RT-8 nucleus. And so they'd explained that gross obesity. Well, I wrote that in my book, and years later, the Germans had written
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that they did an examination found the same thing, that the gross obesity was due to
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MSG. Consumed very early in life, it's a very difficult exercise all, it's very difficult to lose it by reducing cows. So the gross obesity and childhood, and the fact so many children obese
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makes sense, 'cause they're consuming tons of MSG.
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Every year, about
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282, 000 tons of MSG is consumed in the United States, and it increases every decade.
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We see it's going up. No, so now I'm
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an average person listening to this. I thought it was just all the sugars. Everybody talks about all the sugars you're eating and you're telling me it's sugars, but it's also something else. It's
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glutamate and glutamate's involved in inflammatory reactions. And
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now the question is, what do I do about this? I've got a diabetes is out of control The doctor wants me to inject insulin. I mean, is that the treatment for it? Or is there, and I've obviously
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got to go on our diet. I mean, those are the two, the things I'm getting out of what you're telling me. Yeah, number one, you're going to have to cut down on your glucose and your sugar
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consumption, carbohydrate consumption. Well, you don't want to cut it out because your body needs it. So you just want to lower it So you're not consuming so much. particularly if you're type one.
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And of course you're gonna need insulin, but I found out that using several patients, if you add R-lipoic acid to the insulin, the insulin requirement is far less.
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So it appears to replace somewhat the insulin, but not completely, but in type two diabetes, just by changing the diet, almost all of it's cured You don't have to do anything else but change your
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diet. Now the antioxidants help, they prevent you getting complications from the type two diabetes. So that you have a far less incidence of blindness, of atherosclerosis, heart disease, if you
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take the antioxidants along with the diet, and then you diet, your type two diabetes is cured, and you become normal again. You don't have to take metformin, You don't have to take these drugs or
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any of these other things. Now, I met another researcher who had written an article, and he showed that the childhood vaccines can induce type 1 diabetes, that they destroy the pancreatic eyelets.
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And with this immunoexcitotoxicity
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mechanism, it makes perfect sense You're overstimulating immunity. You're triggering excitotoxicity through several organs, but particularly the eyelet cells, and you're destroying them. And so
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they developed type 1 diabetes. So we're talking about diet. We talked about it a little bit the other day. And this is one - tell them what a Mediterranean diet is, because they got some good
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pictures. Here's a good picture that I thought was good What's a
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Mediterranean type? Yeah, mainly you're eating low carbohydrate intake and drastically reducing the simple carbohydrates, which are like sugar, sweetened pies, cakes, those sort of things. And
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you're eating a lot of omega-3 oils, which are your fish, and olive oil, extra virgin olive oil. Right here, yeah. Yeah, and if you look at extra virgin olive oil, the countries in which it's
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consumed the most have the lowest incidence of atherosclerosis, heart disease, and diabetes. And so as we begin to put this information together, particularly what they call the blue zones, and
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they were trying to see why are these people living so long, and why are they so healthy? And the blue zone book
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puts that research together just for the layman, and it shows that if you follow this Mediterranean diet, you reduce your cancer incidence, you reduce your atherosclerosis, you reduce your
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diabetes, and you're far healthier. So for the people watching this, I got this off the internet, so you can get it off the internet. It comes from the Cleveland Clinic, you just put in
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Mediterranean diet. And so here it says on top eat every day, it's fruit, veggies, whole grains, virgin, olive oil, and it's sort of talking, different kinds of fruits with different kinds of
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colors, eating at least three times a week, various kinds of fish, and this is beans, and the goons and so forth, nuts. And here is poultry, you're gonna have a serving a day, which is, it's
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chicken here, it's got some eggs and milk. And once a week, once a week it says you're gonna have some red meat. Because this diet is tipped to what you're saying to omega-3s, is that right?
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That's right. Yeah The mega-6 is the most damaging diet. And that's the one where the meat is. Well, it's the one where your cooking oil is, mainly. Yeah, okay. Or consuming a lot of peanut
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oil, corn oil, sapphire oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, all these are mega-6 oils. And they look at the diet of the average Westerner and they're consuming 50 pounds more of the mega-6 oil than
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they actually need for good health. So they're consuming huge amounts. It's a powerful inflammatory oil. It produces free radicals, lipid peroxidation, it increases cancer rates, increases
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cancer spread. It produces atherosclerosis, it's the number one cause of atherosclerosis, not cholesterol. The only thing I disagree with a Mediterranean diet is the fat drinking milk and we're
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not drinking them. Yeah, okay. But the eggs are good. The eggs have choline, the choline cleans your arteries out. And the egg yolk has luteinsia xanthin, which is good for your eyes, good for
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your brain, good for your nervous system. In fact, I'm doing a new newsletter on
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luteinsia xanthin. But they had forever telling people, don't need eggs, it's high and cholesterol And then they showed no, that was wrong all these year, decade, and it's low in cholesterol.
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And it actually prevents acid sclerosis and glands. Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. I think there was another, another, it was a very nice thing down here. It is a, here's a
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food list that you were talking about. So, and this is vegetables and it shows you with the list as you won't read it all. and all the different kinds of fruits that are on the Mediterranean diet
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list. Here's some grains, okay, and here's some nuts and so forth and so on. So I thought it was a nice chart and the people might wanna see that. So anything else about the Mediterranean diet?
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So one of the things to do is to go and to have at least the right diet that's high in the omega-3 oils, called the omega-3 oils, and not omega-6. Okay, that's that right? That's right, and the
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omega-3 oil increases blood flow, reduces coagulation of blood, improves brain function, and children improves not only brain function, but also vision,
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and we've looked at pregnancy, the first child gets the most DHA, the last child gets the least DHA, because it's used in the
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development of the first children. So the mother has to consume omega-3 oil. And then all the children get DNA. Okay, so now we've got diabetes. We just learned today that it's not just glucose
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and sugar. And we learned that this is almost an epidemic worldwide. And it certainly is in the United States. I think I mentioned to you yesterday that in the Middle East, this is becoming one of
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the leading diseases there Obesity either year 2015 will be just enormous numbers of people. So we learned that. We learned that it's more than just glucose. We learned there are a couple of types
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of diabetes. One where the islet cells in the pancreas which make the insulin
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don't work very well. So it's not getting enough insulin. So the cells are looking for glucose, but it can't - there's not enough insulin insulin pumps the glucose into the cells, so they suffer
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because they don't have enough glucose to run their machine, their body. And then the other one, which is far more common, 95. So what you said is what happens as you get older. And what happens
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is your body loses its sensitivity to this insulin, which is what keeps pumping it into the cells. And so it's sticking around in your blood and you've got to find different ways to activate it You
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said, you can supplement it with lipoic acid. And obviously one of the ways to do this is what you said, is you've got to reduce your dietary intake of this. And not only are you reducing your
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dietary intake of glucose, but you're reducing out of MSG, which is really the most harmful substance and nobody writes about it, certainly with diabetes. It's mostly ignored because they don't
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understand it. They don't understand the different types glutamate receptors, they don't understand it's in organs. They don't understand this control of the islets, of the heart, of the kidneys.
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All of these tissues glutamate plays a major role in their function. And excess glutamate plays a major role
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in their destruction in these diseases. And until recently, only a few researchers are actually looking at that and their findings in the astounding thing And unfortunately, the Western diet is
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just filled with glutamates. And they put it in disguised names. When I first wrote my book, I went to Chicago to lecture. And one of the people who does food processing told me, I don't care
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what you say, I'm going to figure out a way to put it in the food. And I said, well, I'm glad you told me that, because I'm going to tell everybody I'm foodin' on. And I did. Good for you.
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Good for you. Getting back to the story, we had the other day about atherosclerosis and people should look at the Dr. Bill Alex report on cholesterol. So what happens is, and here's the blood
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cells, on the lining of the blood cells, you said there's these glutamate receptors. Well, and normally the brain has its own immune system, which is microglia, and it'll recruit cells that come
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in from the body's immune system If the blood-brain barrier is broken down or if they get in there, but the microglial system of the brain can get overwhelmed and sensitize too. And if there's a
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little break in the blood vessel in the endothelium, we get some of this inflammation or cells that are going there trying to repair it, but in the process of that, they're beginning to silk up all
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these fats that are circulating in the blood and they become these foam cells and they cause the atherosclerosis, which is, is that the right, have I got the right scenario there? Yeah, that's
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pretty much, and what they've shown is that if you have these injuries, fat is attracted to it. If people have high iron, I recently found out, they have high iron, the fat will accumulate in
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places that normally doesn't accumulate.
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Princess? Well, interesting, because now if we're talking about diabetes, we're talking
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aboutheartening of the arteries orblockage of the blood vessels to the legs. Everybody has that. That's a very well-known disease. We get it in the order of the major blood vessels in the body.
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You get it in the brain. I'm sure the arterial is going to the kidneys. So the
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diabetic people, they get skin ulcers because they don't get enough blood supply there because the blood vessels are blocked, right? And it becomes therefore one of these widespread uncontrollable
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disease processes. And what you're saying is the underlying process of this is inflammation. Right. And it affects so many systems. I mean, you're altering your metabolism The cell thinks it's
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starving. In most cases of diabetes, even though you have adequate insulin, the glucose can enter the cell as far as the cell is concerned, it's starving to death. And that's why diabetics lose
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tremendous weight. That's why they're weak. And it's inflammatory, and that's why they develop atherosclerosis. And a lot of them, the death rate from heart attack and stroke is enormously high
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in diabetics. And it's much higher. I'm glad you raised that, right? And cardiovascular disease, absolutely right. Well, is there anything else you can do? I mean, you talked about the
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epidemic, you talked about too much glucose, which with that comes the glutamate, which is really the problem. And we talked about dieting, we talked about the right diet to eat, we went through
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most of that, which is pretty good. And there's some people, I remember reading years ago, Russell, they were talking about, well, the way to do this is we're not controlling the glucose level
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on the blood, this keeps going up and down. So they developed all these monitors that would tell you what it was, or even some pumps that would pump it in, pump insulin in and out, under demand.
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Are those things, are they a necessary treatment in certain cases? Or what's the story about that? Well, in type 1 diabetes, you can have that. Sometimes you'll have overshoot. Either way,
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you'll have excess
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a glutamate and the blood sugar will be real high or you can have it too low if you give yourself too much insulin or if you're in a certain condition you're giving insulin then it gets real low and I
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tell you keep some orange juice around drink orange juice to
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rapidly give yourself glucose. So it can depend but this up and down is very stressful to the body and what is doing the damage is all of this stress is producing free radical generation and lipid
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peroxidation and that's what's causing the damage, the blindness, the atherosclerosis, the heart disease, all of these things that are connected to diabetes.
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So have we covered the high points of diabetes? I think you made it pretty clear that we're not being told the whole story again. We just went through that, went through that with measles. And
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there are things you can do about it. These are things you can do about it yourself. And you said, but early on, most of the adults, 95 have type two diabetes. And if you control your weight and
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you put your diet, you can cure the disease. You at least get it under control for those The number one
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bad factor in the diet is high fructose corn syrup. It's in everything. It's in ketchup, it's in drinks. And you see these people that have diabetes, they're drinking the 72 ounce drinks that are
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filled with high fructose corn syrup. Well, that's what's doing the damage. Quit drinking them, drink water, drink white tea, anything. But stop consuming the half-ructose corn syrup.
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Okay, do we miss anything? Are we got anything else or do we cover that pretty well? Well, I would add to that about the metabolic syndrome. Yes, okay. Metabolic syndrome is very common. About
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five to seven percent of children have it. And a large percent of the adults. And if you look at atherosclerosis and heart attacks and strokes, most of those people have metabolic syndrome. What
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is that syndrome? And metabolic syndrome is a collection of things like type two diabetes, low HDL cholesterol and non-functional HDL cholesterol, abnormal triglycerides,
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and these in high blood pressure. And they usually have visceral obesity. So you're starting to see that in a tremendous number of people. And again, it's connected to half of those corns.
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So, if you correct these things, and if you look at most heart attacks and strokes, they'd like to pretend this due to cholesterol, most of them have metabolic syndrome. And so, the collection
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of all these things is producing the damage, disrupting metabolism, causing the accumulation of fats, producing inflammation So, if you do a moderate exercise and you watch your diet, and you
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take the antioxidants and things that control the blood sugar, then these things don't affect you.
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Okay, sounds good. I think we have to have a special session on antioxidant, so we won't do it now, but I think that's terrific. So, I learned some things today, too, that I didn't know, and
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I read about it, and nobody mentioned it. So, common problem. Yeah, and it's not taught in medical school. Yeah, I mean, you take the average amount of school, they don't even mention the
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exciting classes. Yeah, no, I can see it right here. And I looked at a number of different sources, nobody said it. Okay, terrific, I really appreciate it as usual. Terrific job, I think
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it's going to help people. And we'll keep going, okay? Yeah. These are
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the key references to Dr. Blalock's talk. I suggest you take screenshots for your records. I'll include some of the slides so you can take a screenshot of those for your records also.
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Here's the slide on type 2 diabetes. You can take a screenshot of that. It also indicates some of the treatments that you can use for type 2 diabetes.
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This is type 1 diabetes, take a screenshot of that.
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And it's an eyelid cell disease. and some of the recommendations on how to treat this are below.
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We talked about the type of loss of the islet cells for overeating and vaccination, which converts type two diabetes into type one diabetes by exhaustion of the islet cells. It's an islet cells
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disease now because of overeating The glucose and glutamate and fructose and junk foods stimulate immuno-exciter toxicity and excessive vaccination can produce the same thing and that can convert type
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two to type one.
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This is a reproduction of the slide on the Mediterranean diet
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from the Cleveland Clinic website is indicated.
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And this is a further slide from the same source.
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This is the first reference list that Dr. Bleilik has with four references on this talk
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This is the second series of references with five more references
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This is the next series of references,
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with seven more references,
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and the last series of six references
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and another series of six references and another series of six references.
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