Part 3: On the History of the Question of the Treatment of Sugar Diabetes
For a person who does not need treatment for sugar diabetes, it is necessary that his pancreas correctly produces the required amount of insulin. Scientists studying the treatment of sugar diabetes have established that the normal need of a healthy person for insulin is 40 units per day. This provides the assimilation of 400 g of carbohydrates, 110 g of fat, and 105 g of proteins. Already in the seventies of the 20th century, three percent of the population in our country was ill with diabetes. Women more often need treatment for diabetes. The 21st century has added to the burden on people. And presently, the number of people needing treatment for diabetes is increasing. The essence of the disease (which necessitates treatment of diabetes) lies in the impairment of the body's ability to store sugar received from outside in organs and tissues. Unassimilated sugar enters the blood and appears in the urine, with which it is excreted. And thus arises the need for treatment of diabetes!
The disease is, as a rule, connected with insufficiency of beta-cells of the insulin apparatus of the pancreas, which can develop under the influence of various environmental factors: nervous-psychic disturbances, overeating and obesity, sedentary lifestyle, acute (influenza, angina, typhoid fever, and others) and chronic (tuberculosis, syphilis) infections. Sugar diabetes can appear as a result of anatomical damage to the insulin apparatus (atrophic, inflammatory processes, fatty infiltration, fibrosis, hyalinosis).
As well as from damage to the insulin apparatus caused by Botkin's disease, gallstone disease, hypertension, atheromatosis, pancreatitis, tumor of the pancreas. These factors cause sugar diabetes mainly in people with a genetic predisposition to functional inferiority of beta-cells. The frequency of hereditary diabetes varies according to different authors from 10 to 47 percent.
Sugar diabetes can also develop with normal production of insulin by the pancreas, when it is broken down by the enzyme insulinase, produced by the liver and activated in the presence of increased function of the anterior pituitary gland and liver diseases. (We shall add here that such views on the development and treatment of diabetes would be sufficiently justified if, behind all these medical words, the truth about the Buteyko method and the main cause of sugar diabetes did not escape!). On this, we will probably finish with the history of the treatment of sugar diabetes. And the article "Treatment of Sugar Diabetes by the Buteyko Method" will be given for discharge. So that you know the true reasons for the occurrence of sugar diabetes and how it should be correctly cured. But after this article we will continue with the article: "Why does modern medicine consider sugar diabetes an incurable disease?". And by comparing what the Buteyko method does and what medicine does, you will be able to find the answer to this question.
Fates of a Diabetic. Student of the University (First Fate). Chapter 1: Diploma or Eternal Hospital Sheet…
Uriy Nazarov was studying in the fourth year of the mathematics faculty of Irkutsk University. A tall, graceful lad of 21. His whole life, as they say, ahead of him. In these hard last years of the 20th century, he managed to enter a prestigious university. He got a place in the dormitory. Fate did not throw him out onto the street even after the most difficult first semester, when more than thirty of his friends and girls were expelled for poor progress. He remained within the walls of the best educational institution even after the first year.
Well, now in the fourth year, it seems there is nothing to grieve about. The heavy and difficult studies are approaching the end. Just one more year… And the cherished new diploma in a thick cover will be in his hands. He could teach children mathematics at school. He could work as an employee in a research institute or in a computing laboratory at a major enterprise. All that he had strived for all these years was already, as it were, quite close!
The disease struck like a knife in the back. Unexpectedly and insidiously. Acute sugar diabetes!! Trouble came from where it was not expected. The young mathematician did not yet know about the treatment of sugar diabetes by the Buteyko method. But he knew well something else: conventional tablet-and-scalpel medicine does not cure severe sugar diabetes!
Uriy found it difficult to explain even to himself how exactly the insidious disease had taken hold of him. There were no particular warning signs. He did not eat kilograms of sugar. He saw chocolate infrequently as a student.
And suddenly, especially at night, he began to notice that he was often going to the toilet for a small need. Earlier, he might not get up even once during the night. But now, up to five times… He was plagued by thirst. He would drink a glass of water and not get enough. He wanted more and more. Treatment of diabetes by the Buteyko method had already become a daily necessity for him. But Uriy did not yet guess about this. And yet, there were prerequisites for the occurrence of sugar diabetes in the young mathematician. Were they only concluded in the heavy consumption of sugar? …
It must be honestly said that eating sweets in large amounts should not be dismissed. And probably, this does not sound quite right when some of the most advanced and educated scientists loudly declare that sugar is not the cause. It was said that sugar is not the main reason for diabetes, and Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko himself said so. He even added that sugar itself is not poisonous. So, it is said, do not be afraid of it. Buteyko went further. He was not afraid of excess sugar in the blood above six millimoles, which is the generally accepted norm… Konstantin Pavlovich even allowed a threefold excess of this norm, but!
But… he strictly ordered to check the patient not by these millimoles, but by his physical condition. If the patient feels well even with a threefold level of sugar in the cells, then Buteyko did not consider it necessary to prescribe insulin or to increase the existing dose. So, treatment of sugar diabetes by the Buteyko method was urgently necessary for Uriy not because of overeating of sugar. There was no such reason. But there was something else… Severe nervous suffering! Far from all specialists in sugar diabetes pay due attention to this reason. It is mentioned in books on traditional treatment of sugar diabetes (not the Buteyko method, of course, but insulin treatment) sometimes in notes and footnotes, that…
It is mentioned so mildly and casually that reading it, one would not think that stress is one of the main causes of sugar diabetes! But Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko explains that stress is nothing other than deep breathing!! So physicians treated Uriy for whatever they pleased, but not for stress. And none of his treating physicians offered to talk about what was happening in his psychic life… They asked about what social condition Uriy lives in.
Either how many times a day he eats. How much sweet he eats… But there was no serious talk about his psychic suffering. After all, he came to an endocrinologist, not a psychotherapist. The young student did not complain about his nerves… Though there was much serious psychic load on the young mathematician! And not small.
Mathematics is not history. Here, solving difficult problems is required… Uriy did not know such details. But also, his need for treatment of diabetes by the Buteyko method, he started to be treated with pig's insulin… Here is, when a person himself, of his own accord, sits on a narcotic needle, then he is called a drug addict and a lost person. The habituation to the drug will be, harm to health and all that.
It is correct! Absolutely, it is correct. And habituation to the drug will be accursed, and the most enormous harm to health. But here is why: when physicians themselves put a patient with sugar diabetes on the insulin needle, then the person is not called a drug addict. And the people who have put him on the needle of insulin dependence are not accused of a crime… But why? The person cannot exist now without insulin!