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1 Mar 2005 Shaklee glucose regulation complex (GRC) prod numb 20649 $29.90mn

GRC is a pill and technically called food. This is an effective way to prevent your encountering diabetic symptoms, if you do not yet have them. If you already have diabetic symptoms, there is a program of supplements to rebalance your system so you do not need diabetic medication. That program is not fully addressed in this report. The purpose of this report is to describe how GRC works, which is a crucial part of the program.

J Parks of Wisconsin says: I’ve done many things to try and keep glucose steady and the insulin, which is a big part of it, level by eating instead of three larger meals, six smaller meals a day. I eliminated all sugar, all white flour, white bread, and simple carbohydrates. I have taken up eating more protein and less carbohydrates. My life centered around what I was going to eat every two hours. So, this Shaklee GRC is freeing me from all the worrying and scheduling. My goodness, it’s such a wonderful feeling to live my life again.

If you are in relatively early stages of diabetes, you can experience similar results yourself.

Reasons for suggesting non-drug therapy:

Reduced pressure about one’s eating schedule – easier on the mind
Reduce risk of diseases in heart, kidney, pancreas, eyes and nerves
People with diabetes are 3 times more likely to die of pneumonia Reduced risk of amputation
Reduce cost in $

Diabetes is a symptom of a larger condition called Metobolic Syndrome or Syndrome X which hurts heart, organs, nerves and the vascular system. If we regulate the glucose with a non-medical method, ie a more natural method, several other problems are prevented and money is saved.

A diabetic person has insulin resistance. That means his muscle cells’ walls and his general body tissue’s cell walls which normally inhale glucose for fuel, are dried up and crusted over. The walls are crotchety and surly and not letting the glucose in. Your body’s cells’ way of life has always been to receive ample glucose every few hours to burn like gasoline to keep the engine running, the heat on and the healing happening. When you fell down and skinned your knee as a child, the knee cells’ ample supply of glucose would burn and generate the microscopic will to expel invading bacteria.

The way glucose has always arrived into your skin and muscle cells has been with your own insulin from your pancreas. Insulin wears a white tuxedo and white gloves. It takes glucose from the stomach under its white sleeved arm and graciously, charmingly knocks on the door of the knee cells and says, "Yoo-hoo! Open up! I have a present for you!" Your young knee cells were soft and giggled and said, "Oh, thank you, I needed another dose of glucose. You’re so wonderful, insulin. You are so nice to me."

Recently, in people who have grown into their middle years, tissue, skin and muscle cells, including in the heart, have for no apparent reason crusted over and become crotchety and surly. When insulin comes-a-knocking, such cells do not open up. They think, "Damn-it! Somebody’s knocking at the door." The cell wall says, "Go away! I hate insulin and whoever she brings over!" This is quite uncharacteristic and offends the tuxedo clad insulin, who gazes downward, dejected.

One’s pancreas senses this failure and tries to help by producing larger quantities of insulin. Your doctor or your caretaker tires to help further by giving the patient a drug such as Starlix, which is designed to coerce even more insulin out from the pancreas. By this effort, the insulin signal may be strong enough for a limited number of months or years, to keep your sugar (glucose) moving from your blood into your muscle, fat and general body tissues.

But over time, as Dr. Allan Sosin, the Director of The Institute for Progressive Meidicine in Irvine, California, says, your insulin resistance will become more exaggerated. Your pancreas will wear out from its drug induced extra efforts. Your body may not be able to keep up with the demand for extra insulin. Sugar then builds up in the bloodstream while your muscles and other working tissues go "hungry." A scraped knee would stay bloody and not develop a healthy scab. Every cell in your body that needs gas would slow down its routine metabolic work and develop potential infection, especially eyes, nerves, and kidneys, not to mention the heart.

More than likely, any medically prescribed drug for a diabetic Type 2 patient is behaving like a gangster with a machine gun under its trench coat. The drug comes into the blood stream and strong-arm’s your pancreas to produce more insulin. The drug then takes the insulin and glucose hostage and drives them over to the walls of most of your body’s tissue cells and growls, "Open up, you coward. I am sending glucose in there whether you like it or not."

Why must a diabetic patient eat every 2-4 hours?

All cells store fuel for a rainy day. Liver cells have a long accumulated storage of reserve glucose, always ready to be pumped out into the blood stream and get escorted up to the walls of hungry cells. When you miss a meal, your pancreas sends out glucagon, which wears a black tuxedo and white gloves, over to the liver. Glucagon says to your liver, "Fuel shortage, darling. Please supply me with some of your ample reserve of glucose so the various muscle and tissue cells can have what they were expecting an hour ago."

Glucagon, of course, winds up just as frustrated as insulin was, finding the crotchety muscle cell walls surly and uncooperative. That is why a diabetic patient takes Metformin, which is another gangster with a pistol under its trench coat. Metformin says to the liver, "Pay no attention to glucagon, you rummy. Do NOT let your customary glucose out into the blood stream." Metformin says to the pancreas, "Keep your stinking glucagon inside. It is not welcome out here in the blood stream."

With your drug "helpers" patrolling the area, your glucagon and insulin are both feeling quite impotent and generally hysterical.

As long as your eat an egg, tuna sandwich, or other protein every 2-4 hours, your stomach is able to distract the liver and pancreas. Your stomach says, "Hold on pancreas, I am sending more glucose fuel out PDQ." Protein is recommended be cause it burns slower than other food fuels. The longer it takes to burn, the less often the Pancreas will become eager to send out more insulin, and the less often the liver will decide to release more stored glucose. The glucagon stays idle. The dejected insulin awaits its brutal drug escort and cellular business can proceed "adequately."

This routine will eventually become stale.

As Dr. Sosin says, people should be aware of the fact that the benefit of medication on blood sugar control is often temporary. Over time, the medication becomes less effective as the individual sinks deeper into insulin resistance. Additional medications become necessary with their myriad side effects and ultimate ineffectiveness.

Side effects of Starlix, a popular diabetic drug, published by the drug company who makes it, Novartis, include cold/flu symptoms, back-ache, dizziness and joint ache. Amputation, not specifically listed by that company’s report, is nevertheless a widely understood a side effect of many years of diabetic dependence on drugs.

Glucose Regulation Complex, or GRC, is like skin moisturizing cream. This "cream" attaches internally onto tissue cell walls and gives new life. The cells wake up. They say to the insulin and glucagon, "Oh, there you are! I am so glad to see you. I don’t know what I was thinking, telling you to go away. I need the glucose you are offering me. Thank you for brining it over."

When the GRC has this effect on the cells, drugs become redundant.

In short,GRC treats all your tissue and helps it welcome glucose. Conventionally prescribed drugs, on the other hand, are designed to over-work the pancreas and brutally force all your tissue’s cell walls to admit what they formerly invited: good glucose.

The long term goal in any scenario is to keep the blood sugar low and the sugar supply – ie. nourishment - to all your body’s tissue high. This will keep all your cells able to fight infection on a regular basis. This will keep you feeling energetic. This will prevent damage to your heart.

What is in GRC?

Trace minerals: Many of us consume diets of highly refined foods that are low in essential trace minerals. Furthermore, pre-diabetics and diabetics lose trace minerals in the urine – especially chromium, magnesium, vanadium and zinc. Chromium, magnesium, and vanadium help reduce insulin resistance. Zinc is important for immune function and cell division. Chromium is part of the glucose tolerance factor which helps insulin bind to its receptors on the cell surface. Clinical studies show that in people with low chromium levels, chromium supplementation decreases insulin resistance, lowers fat and cholesterol in the blood, and improves blood sugar control. Low magnesium levels are highly correlated with insulin resistance and elevated cholesterol levels. Clinical studies show that in people with low magnesium levels, magnesium supplementation decreases insulin resistance and lowers cholesterol levels.

Vanadium appears to improve glucose utilization by the liver. Clinical studies show that it improves blood sugar control and decreases LDL cholesterol production. GRC contains the trace minerals chromium, magnesium, vanadium and zinc; the antioxidant alpha lipoic acid, the amino acid taurine, and the botanical banaba leaf extract.

Alpha-lipoic acid supplementation has been shown to decrease free radical production in diabetics and has been used for over 30 years in Germany to prevent diabetic nerve damage. Alpha-lipoic acid also causes a protein called the glucose transport protein to move to the cell surface. This helps glucose get into cells more easily.

Taurine is an amino acid that is often low in the tissues of diabetics. Low taurine levels have been shown to be associated with diabetic nerve damage. Clinical studies confirm that taurine supplementation can help prevent diabetic nerve damage.

Finally, the botanical banaba leaf extract has a long history of use in decreasing insulin resistance.

Further info:

The heart is a muscle. It gets starved of glucose just as a scraped knee would. Cholesterol is probably already inhibiting the heart’s work by clogging the veins. When glucose can not reach the heart because of this crotchety effect on cell walls, you have double reasons your heart is in danger. Heart disease and stroke kill 65% of people with diabetes.

Shaklee makes great supplements for cholesterol and heart therapy.

Amputation is common for diabetic patients. The scraped knee is farther from the pancreas than other tissue. The insulin is extra helpless to amply fuel the cells of a diabetic patient’s extremities. The scraped knee can easily become gangrene. 82,000 people have diabetes related leg amputations every year.

For all of these reasons, I urge diabetic and pre-diabetic patients to immediately try using Shaklee GRC. It is great to also eat some vegetables and exercise too.


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