Carolyn Dean: And there we have it with a few minutes left for questions.
Host: Thanks Dr. Dean. We will jump into questions real quick. The way to ask a question, actually, is going to be down on the right-hand corner of your screen. There is a little button with a question mark, that's called the Q&A panel. Please go ahead and click that, type-in your question, I will receive them and then feed them to Dr. Dean.
Dr. Dean, let me kick things off by first saying thank you very much for that presentation. Clearly, diabetes is -- it's a very difficult thing to present and reverse except for diet, diet, diet to summarize it nicely. So if the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and what is the first step that attendees should take starting after they get up this presentation today?
Carolyn Dean: Very good. It would be to cut back on sugar, recognize how much sugar you are taking in your diet and don't switch to artificial sweeteners. I didn't mention but I should have it. Stevia is a safe sweetener, S-T-E-V-I-A. It's found everywhere now. It's from the leaf of a tree that grows in Brazil, that's very sweet, but it does not have insulin stimulating properties and it doesn't feed yeast either.
So it's cutting down on sugar. And if you can do an experiment and cutout sugar, wheat, and dairy for one week and see how you feel, then as you feel better without these foods, your blood sugar will improve if it's high blood sugar, you are treating you can improve your heath right there. And if you want, just want to prevent diabetes, you will definitely be able to do that by avoiding sugar, wheat, and dairy.
Host: Excellent! Rebecca asks, if Xylitol is also a sugar substitute?
Carolyn Dean: Xylitol is a -- a lot of people think it's okay, I have read a book IBS for Dummies and found that people with IBS find this sugar alcohol, anything with OL at the end is an alcohol, they find this sugar alcohol will give them diarrhea. So that would be the side-effect there. I think people are saying, it doesn't treat elevated sugar, I am not convinced yet, so I would be careful about it and try to work with Stevia.
Host: Okay, so Stevia is the recommendation which also covers Nancy's (ph) question as well. El (ph) asks, first he says, Dr. Dean, great job. What is the recommended dosage of magnesium and calcium if you are already diabetic?
Carolyn Dean: Well, in general that would be equal - well, magnesium and calcium -- what I say about calcium is that a lot of people are getting far more calcium in their diet than magnesium. They might be getting 500 milligrams, but we know from studies that we are only getting about 100 milligrams of magnesium.
So I start with 400 milligrams of magnesium right there that you need to equal your calcium in your diet. And then I go ahead and double the magnesium. So two parts of magnesium to one part calcium. So that would be 400 milligrams twice a day of magnesium. Sometimes I tell folks to go to the point where they get a little bit of loose stool; 60% of the population is constipated. So we tend to need more of magnesium anyway just to help relax our intestines.
Host: Okay, Mike asks the question, my biggest question is going to be how to see all the slides after this is over. I'll take that one real quick, Mike. We will be YouTubeing this presentation very soon and we'll get it up online for you. We will send out an email to everyone when that's done.
Next question comes from Carol. She asks, if fasting blood sugar is over 126, can diabetes still be reversed?
Carolyn Dean: I can't speak specifically to a person's blood sugar, but I absolutely have seen that happen where if you take the pressure off those cell receptors, if you feed the cells with, as we say, the magnesium, some fish oil, if you take the sugar down, then you -- I have seen people reverse their fasting blood sugars. I have seen them fasting blood sugar, sky rocket after surgeries. Massive stress will elevate your blood sugar. So it's not something that you can't do something about. I think we've all gotten the impression that once you get diabetes, you have to take the drugs and that's it. Because the medicine places no emphasis on diet or on supplements because all they have to go with is the drugs, I mean, that's all I learned in medical school. But when I did my naturopathic training, we have all these other things to work with that we know work. But when you get the message and all the media and then all the allopathic medicine contacts you have, they make people believe that well once have diabetes then it's just going to get worse and worse, but that is not the case.
Host: Next question comes from AP, and he or she I am not sure, would like to know how about soy milk?
Carolyn Dean: Soy is an indigestible protein for many people. The Asian soys that somehow became equated with excellent health are fermented soys, and that's the only way it can be easily digested when you just take the protein and smash it up, and make it into a milk, it is very hard to digest. I recommend almond milk, and rice milks, but it does have to be the unsweetened kind because even the soy milks have a lot of sugar. So I am not a big fan of soy milk.
Host: Okay. Next question, we are going to combine a question here from Kurt (ph) and Catherine (ph). Both were asking how much CoQ10 do you recommend supplementing?
Carolyn Dean: Right, well, I don't necessarily dive in and just recommend the CoQ10 when someone is on statins or is on the medications and if that's the case --
Host: Catherine says that she is on Benicar for high blood pressure.
Carolyn Dean: Right, so if that's the case, then you'd have to make a source that's well absorbed, it is very difficult to find - you'd have to buy one that's not the cheapest because you might one that's well absorbed and the dosage can be 30 to 40 milligrams a day. Some people say 200, but just try to get a very good source and take moderate, low to moderate amount and do the magnesium and do other things for your body to help support your Coenzyme Q10 rather than just taking an external source and why I am equivocating here, it's because I don't know what kind you are going to buy, I don't really know if it's going to do the job, I just - I want people to repair their-selves from the inside. But if you are on a medication, yes, you do need to take some form of CoQ10.
Host: I believe one of the best forms, you correct me if I am wrong, but I believe one of the best forms is from Dr. Sinatra.
Carolyn Dean: You know, his name just popped - yeah, he is a - Steve Sinatra is a friend of mine. That would be a very good source, a very reputable source. Thank you!
Host: We've got a question here from Chris, he says, you mentioned fish oil. Is that the EPA/DHA or is that the other omega-3 fatty acids?
Carolyn Dean: Well, it would be a combination if you can find one that contains them all and try to find a source that you don't burp. If you burp fish oil, it tends to mean that they are rinsed and you are not digesting them, but it would be a combination. And the other thing that I have been looking at is phosphatidylcholine, we are using it in the artistic population to help repair damaged membranes and we call it a fat exchange. So the phosphatidylcholine is another essential lipids that you can look --
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