Current research is unable to explain the mechanism for epigenetic memory leading to chronic diabetic vascular complications. One such complication is that a proinflammatory cytokine program from obesity will continue to express until obesity is ameliorated. The significance of this single understanding of reversing the vascular complications is that 75% of diabetics will die of heart disease if this para-inflammatory pattern is not reversed. (A para-inflammatory pattern is defined as a chronic metabolic inflammatory condition as opposed to an acute inflammatory condition.) Of particular interest is that even transient high levels of glucose, as a blood sugar of 140 after a meal, can actually activate persistent epigenetic changes and maintain an altered genetic expression during subsequent normal glycemic values. That is particularly significant and again speaks to the importance of how to turn off this epigenetic program. It is my experience that 90% of the nondiabetic people with hypertension I see during our spiritual fasting program at the Tree of Life Center US will have a permanent lowering of their blood pressure and are able to go off all blood pressure medications after as short as a 7-day fast (but sometimes requiring a 14-day fast). Over the years, I began to theorize that indeed there is an epigenetic shift in this process that resets the blood pressure genetics back to normal. A key insight into this was gained from my research stimulated by the book Genetic Nutritioneering by Jeffrey Bland. Gabriel Cousens, MD There Is a Cure for Diabetes Could you or someone you love benefit from Dr. Cousens Diabetes Recovery Program? July 17th is our next program and space is limited. Visit ow.ly/xp9ed for more information!
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:00:12 +0000
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