How to Prevent Diabetes Naturally - Part 6

Carolyn Dean: Look into -- Patrick: Okay, Kurt asked earlier about the CoQ10, he said that he is not on that. So I wanted to follow that up, is there a recommendation or lower recommendation for CoQ10 if someone is not on that? Carolyn Dean: Well, if they're not on it, then you go about supporting your self-structure with B-complex and magnesium and a good diet and wouldn't necessarily need to take a supplement. But if you did want to then you just take one dose of CoQ10 a day. And again, you can tell -- I really don't focus on CoQ10 as a treatment unless someone is on stands. Patrick: Or an adjunct? Carolyn Dean: Exactly! Patrick: Kurt actually did say that he has been successfully reversing diabetes mainly through specific supplements, one including Jigsaw Magnesium. So thanks for the -- Carolyn Dean: That's excellent! Very good! I've had that same experience, people have read my magnesium book, just done magnesium, and said that lo and behold my blood sugar levels started to normalize. So I know there is something to be said for magnesium in preventing and treating diabetes. Patrick: We've got a question from Ruby. She asks, how much coconut oil should be added to the diet. Carolyn Dean: Again, it's hard to say for the individual. I tell most of my telephone clients 1-2 tablespoons a day. I put mine -- I liquefy it, just melt a bit of it and put a tablespoon in my protein and vegetables, fruit powder which is my breakfast. So one or two tablespoons a day I think is kind of the standard recommendation. Patrick: A follow-up question from Ruby, we'll jump right to that. Are there any other sorts of whole-grain bread that are okay other than 100% rye or 100% sourdough? Carolyn Dean: The sprouted grain breads come to mind, there is millet, sprouted grain, rice sprouted grain, they tend to be okay as long as they don't have added sugar. Someone told me recently that they think they're being sweetened now. You have to be very diligent about looking at labels because a product you think is okay today, in a few months time, they may start adding things to it. Spelt's bread may be okay. Again, you have to watch the added sugars. Patrick: Okay! A question from Joseph; what is optimum A1c measurement? What optimum should we be trying to obtain? Carolyn Dean: That's a 4.5-5 range. In the blood results, it'll go from I think 4-7 and everybody thinks, as long as I am below 7, I am okay. But that 7 is way up in the diabetic range and it's meant to be used to follow diabetics. And I've had it happened many times where a client will come to me and say, you know, my hemoglobin A1c is 7.5 and my doctor told me that I have diabetes and I never knew this before. And they looked at -- when I tell them to look at previous results, they were creeping up all of the time. So it's a very good way to track pre-diabetes by getting hemoglobin A1c's level. Patrick: Okay! We still have questions flowing in so we're a little bit over our time, but let's keep going on the questions because these are good now. I want to get to some of these. Mary (ph) asked a question; why would insulin levels be high but blood sugar still be within normal levels? Carolyn Dean: Well, when you take a test out of the blue, you really don't know what's going on and what can happen is not every one of your billions or trillions of cells are insulin resistant. So the insulin can be pushed up by a high sugar meal and -- or not, it could be fasting, but the insulin could be up and frantically pushing away the cells and some of the blood sugar could be going in. There will be a range of level that the person is in a pre-diabetic state and then going into a diabetic state. And I do have a hard time with diagnosing someone just on one test because there is so much going on in a person's metabolism and their biochemistry. So we tend to look at these tests and think they are gospel but they're only as good as the interpreter of the test actually. It's not a big -- Patrick: Yes, it matters who is reading the test, right? Carolyn Dean: Right, right! Patrick: Mike asks the question, are you familiar with Nature Made Diabetes Health Pack, Multi-Vitamin and Mineral Supplements? Is that enough or do you need more supplements on a daily basis? Carolyn Dean: No, I don't know nature-made. I don't know if it's similar to what the Jigsaw folks have. I can't really comment on it. What happens with a lot of supplements, you really have to be consistent with them. It doesn't matter if they're really high-high levels; sometimes you just need enough to trigger your biochemistry. Every biochemical reaction in the body requires a vitamin or a mineral to make it go, but not to depend on just supplements. Try to get to the organic foods and some of the organic food powders that I use and I recommend, they really help people get over that terrible crunch of not having enough time to prepare food and eat the right food because our bodies depend on food. They really don't want to have a lot of external supplementation. But I personally take supplements everyday, just about everyday of my life. So I know they are necessary as well. I know I am kind of beating around the bush here but don't disregard your diet and think that supplements are the main treatment. The focus on the diabetes is the B-complex and the magnesium. Patrick: So that's very close to Dave's question which is, can Dr. Dean please tell me what is a good multiple to use? Everybody wants you to just start recommending brands. Carolyn Dean: I know and you're there, Patrick, why don't you talk about the Jigsaw multiple? Patrick: Well, the Jigsaw Complete is 30 days of AM and PM packets. It does contain our activated B-complex which is used as a sustained release technology so that the B vitamins are absorbed overtime as opposed to all at once. That same technology is used for magnesium. The product also contains four grams of fish oil per day, a high level of antioxidants and an array of multi-minerals, as well as calcium. So, just visit JigsawComplete.com after this. In fact, I mentioned it at the beginning and I'll mention it again, the code D-E-A-N, Dean will give you $10 off the purchase of Jigsaw Complete. Next question -- thank you for letting me give that. The next question Kurt has about addressing a virus in the pancreas and how to target it? I think that may be a little off topic but how often is the pancreas involved in that? Carolyn Dean: Not so much in adults, it's mostly in children and what we do natural medicine is Homeopathic. There are homeopathic viral combinations that we can use but yeah, that's pretty specialized advice in treatment. Patrick: Let's jump to a question from Catherine here. She said that you mentioned high estrogen contributing to diabetes. What about bioidentical hormone therapy for menopause? Carolyn Dean: It's more the sustained estrogen in terms of pregnancy where one can get the gestational diabetes. But if you're taking bioidenticals and they're added in sort of a minimum or moderate dosage then that should not contribute, because bioidenticals are just trying to mimic an ordinary daily amount that a person would have.