It’s not pretty. For example…
Have you heard of Diabetic Foot?
Diabetic foot (sometimes called diabetic neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease) is probably the scariest and most horrible condition I’ve ever heard of or seen.
You see, when you have diabetes, the high glucose levels in your bloodstream can cause nerve damage, especially to the lower legs and feet.
This causes loss of feeling and sensation in your feet. And it’s a slow process, so you may not even know you’ve lost that sensation until it’s too late.
So what happens next? You might develop a sore or a blister on your foot. And since you don’t have much feeling down there, you don’t realize you have a would on your foot.
The wound becomes horribly infected and won’t heal properly. Next thing you know, your foot is black and gangrenous and you’re in the emergency room, begging with the doctor not to amputate your foot.
But it’s too late. You’re being prepped for surgery and your life is about to change forever.
This is a common story that has happened to many people, all because they couldn’t get their diabetes under control.
And it’s not just amputation.
Even Alzheimer’s Disease!
If that wasn’t bad enough, sometimes “what the doctor orders” to help treat your diabetes can be almost as dangerous as type 2 itself.
Would you risk taking a drug that could double your risk of having a limb amputated??? I know I wouldn’t.
It’s a double-edged sword because you take the drug, you double your risk of amputation. You don’t take anything to help, you still have the risk of amputation.
When I heard this news, plus knowing a few friends and family members suffering from Type 2 diabetes, I had to do something.
Sure, publishing healthy advice and breakthroughs has been my life. But I needed to do more.
So, I talked with my good friend and colleague Dr. Scott Saunders.
Dr. Saunders and I are like-minded when it comes to finding alternative cures that don’t have the same risk factors… like amputation… that common solutions do.
He graduated from UCLA Medical School, but grew LIVID with “the system” which didn’t allow much for alternative remedies – even though he knew they were more effective with less side effects.
He is now the medical director of The Integrative Medicine Center of Santa Barbara, which balances conventional medicine with alternative healing modalities to achieve optimal wellness.
So we got to work on finding a way to help as many people as possible.
We spent countless nights reading about medical studies and research trials.
And it wasn’t until we found out about this special tree bark… all the way from China… that we had the beginnings of what would be one of the greatest accomplishments of my life.
You see, this bark is actually quite common here in America, but up until now, it was rarely used as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes.
Dare I say, you could find this stuff in grocery stores, specialty stores, even bakeries and cafés were using it regularly.
But what very few people knew about was the effective properties it had for helping defeat diabetes.
The official name of this tree bark is Cinnamomum Cassia.
You might know it as cinnamon, and it’s Diabetes Fighting Nutrient #1.
Now, I’m not talking about any type of cinnamon. There is more than one type and it’s key that you get the right one if you’re worried about diabetes.
The cinnamon you want is actually called “false cinnamon.”
Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) is considered to be the real stuff.
But if you want to fight diabetes, it’s the Chinese Cassia… the false cinnamon… is the one to look for.
And it’s been proven by science!
In a recent study, 9 men and 9 women, each suffering from Type 2 diabetes, participated in a 12-week trial. The last 9 weeks of the trial, half of the participants were given Cinnamomum cassia, the other half given a placebo.
“All of the subjects that were in the cinnamon group had a statistically significant decrease in their blood sugar levels…”
Even more astonishing was the conclusion that the level that the blood sugar levels decreased was comparable to diabetes medications!
That’s right, the cinnamon worked as well as the drugs!
But without the harmful side effects like having your feet amputated!
While cinnamon by itself has all the benefits proven in studies to help fight Type 2 diabetes, it needs the help of some other key nutrients to really be effective.
Which brings me to Diabetes Fighting Nutrient #2…
Binge eating, by definition, is a pattern of disordered eating that includes episodes of uncontrollable eating.
But let’s just call it what it is:
Sitting in front of the refrigerator, eating all of the leftovers without moving, or…
Watching TV with a big bag of potato chips and then wondering where it went, or…
Eating an entire tub of ice cream in one sitting or devouring the whole box of cookies or… well you get the idea.
Heck, I’ve done it on occasion myself. But it’s when it becomes a habit, is when it can really take a toll on your health.
You become obese and develop Type 2 diabetes.
You go on a diet and starve yourself for weeks… even months… before “falling off the wagon” and maybe eating more, ballooning back up again. Binge eating also is linked to depression, so not only are you physically unhealthy, but your state of mind is impaired too.
But Diabetes Fighting Nutrient #2, which is a key ingredient in the supplement I hinted about earlier, has been proven in a scientific study to not only improve mood and appetite to prevent binge eating, but could also regulate your glucose levels.
It’s called chromium. But you might call it a miracle.
In a randomized, double-blind placebo study (the gold standard in the medical world), 24 overweight adults with binge eating disorder were given either chromium picolinate or a placebo for six months.
The results were amazing.
The chromium group (which included two different sized dosages) saw their fasting glucose levels reduced when compared to the placebo group.
They also saw “greater reductions in binge frequency, weight and symptoms of depression” compared to the placebo group.
As you can see, in two separate clinical studies, both the cinnamon and the chromium showed promise in helping those with Type 2 diabetes or those who were on the cusp of getting the disease, fight the disease by regulating their glucose levels, even reducing their blood sugar levels, while helping mood, appetite and depression.
When Dr. Saunders and I looked at these results, the choice was clear.
Our new supplement formula had to, at the very least, include both of these Diabetes Fighting Nutrients.