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The duodenal sleeve is a cheap operation that takes 10 minutes and it's a small tube they put in the area between the stomach and the lower GI the duodenum. According to Discover (science) Magazine and the American Diabetes Association this cures 87% of type 2 diabetes and profoundly changes the chemical signal between the duodenum and the pancreas.. the timing of the signal determines whether the insulin reaches its target and you don't get hit by the insulin instead of helped by it..
50% of adults now have blood sugar issues..
The problem for sugar control is, while presumably safe, the duodenal sleeve operation often will cost 10,000. If you're taking a prescription that's unsafe for you, as about your blood sugar as 2/3 of seniors are, you may want to keep the prescription from giving you low blood sugar which doctors will often ignore.
I had a prescription that was doing this and each night I would get sleepy and unconscious before I would wake back up and then go to sleep again in a regular way and sugar would just zonk me out..
(I presume because low blood sugar is with a more technical lab method, not high blood sugar this might be why the doctors couldn't find it on the test.)
I thought of trying to take fiber like first celery before my prescription since sources like Prevention magazine say this is considered to be quite good for blood sugar by slowing down digestion by perhaps shielding my duodenum with all the fiber or ground up bean powder.. However celery is expensive and other fiber like bean powder is without good flavor and expensive due to the cost of bran (hey, it's health food!) on the web and inconvenient..
Finally I realized mastic gum might be of worth..according to this Medicinenet site, it's rather like chewing gum but has proven worth for duodenal and stomach health..
This method sooths and coats your GI! As I say below this may help with weight reduction about insulin.. if you go out on a hot afternoon and had one too many slices of rum at Christmas and you're not wearing 20 lb of Christmas insulation!
While I recommend seeing your doctor before doing this for blood sugar it might be a good general area to be in for good duodenal health and blood sugar issues because of the duodenal connection as in the article by Discover Magazine a few years ago.
In essence this might seem to be a way to have your own enteric coated prescription even without using pill caps or other methods like this, at least as far as shielding your duodenum and your stomach might go.
One way mastic gum might be helpful for blood sugar events may be because it limits the action of H pylori in the duodenum. This NIH site says that H pylori has been much considered to be a cause of this about blood sugar.
So the H Pylori are eating away at most people's duodenum just as a stomach ulcer, and this may be involved with prescriptions that either may boost H. Pylori or directly damage the duodenum.
My hypothesis is that the gum limits damage to the duodenum by way of H pylori. Keep in mind that the duodenal sleeve operation cures most type 2 diabetes.
Pharmaceutical companies are spending billions on proprietary drug delivery methods like time released like this that the consumer often doesn't have access to because it's specific to that prescription. And of course a lot of pharmaceutical companies aren't doing their job by using methods of time released like this which can cause prescriptions themselves to cause blood sugar.
Of course using this method might also limit the absorption of your prescription at least into your duodenal wall. Continuing to take the gum at other times of day at a low dose might have potential value about duodenal health also since H pylori may be actually digesting your prescription and the gum limits this. Even so you may want to use probiotics.. my research is continuing.. my belief is it might only limit absorbing prescriptions in the stomach or duodenal area and if it goes past into the upper GI and further this might allow most of the absorption of prescriptions.
Another possibility not to be overlooked is just to use this method only a couple of days a week to cure blood sugar, where the duodenal sleeve evidence has useful residual value so even if most people have other prescriptions that are valuable they can still use them to hopefully resolve the issue.
I don't think it would hurt much because the gum is Generally Recognized As Safe GRAS and had shown few or no adverse events. I only take about 1/20 of a cap and this seems to completely stop the blood sugar symptom by chewing the gum near sugar with other herbs as below but 2 hours before or after I take the prescription perhaps 3 hours exactly to keep levels of the prescription constant. You may want to minimize your dose and only chew the gum near the time you might eat any sugar.
You may want your prescription to be sugar as some still will like for nutrition about oranges or other foods that are essential even with sugar! It's possible this might even help with sugar itself and not just prescriptions.
Mastic gum is valuable as on the Medicinenet link for toothache, high cholesterol and cardiovascular health all three of which are common with blood sugar issues.
Cardiovascular issues are the main cause of mortality with blood sugar events.
(Even so I found that for dental health methods like these usually aren't going to be nearly as effective as increasing K2 like by natto. Natto is a form of fermented soy that reduces the risk of Alzheimer's by 90% as in Japan where it's widely consumed and has a great cheesy flavor that's more cheesy than cheese if blended with a bit of salt or baking soda which protects it from mold. Like when Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon they asked him if there was any cheese and he said No bees! No trees! No cheese!
97% are K2 deficient and this is the underlying reason why people never had to have a toothbrush in prehistoric times. Toothache would have been without survival fitness in evolution and while K2 won't replace your teeth it will totally stop the advance of the toothache completely helping to remineralize your teeth because K2 is so important to calcium metabolism and it relieves problems that most people have about this. A healthy artery without calcium has 80 times more K2 than an unhealthy artery. While it takes 6 months for this improvement with natto other than by the turmeric chewing gum method this not only remineralizes your teeth it also stops the rest of the periodontal issues.
For those who have lost a teeth as seniors have somewhat scientists have recently found that we may have a third set of teeth that they inject the safe known drug for osteoporosis into the gum and the tooth from this third set grows in!
Since this is only preliminary research the best bet for most people for now may be just increase consumption of K2 as I say on this link or see the same link below for special how to if you'd like down the page.
Note that while you can't overdose on K2 too much natto may not be good because it dissolves fibrin which is the coat of cells that cancer cells have 15 times more to hide out behind. Most people are constantly creating cancer cells in their system but the immune system always keeps them in line. Even so for those who take too much natto, this may "upset the hornet's nest" and since there's now a cancer epidemic it's wise to only take a small pinch of natto each day as they do in the Orient. For dramatic short-term relief from toothache I highly recommend just taking turmeric and brushing your teeth with it or putting it into your chewing gum. This combination of turmeric with with natto especially with salmon or other fish which often have vitamin D completely shuts down a toothache more than just natto alone I had found. Even with K2 and vitamin D I still had some gum soreness perhaps 1/10 or 120th left over that the turmeric gum finishes off quite well. I was in "some discomfort but with no guarantees" life is more than rich but not as rich as out West!)
In essence use of the gum might seem to be a way to have your own enteric coated prescription with a simple cheap mechanical way to have a possible strong influence on blood sugar, perhaps even bypassing prescriptions most of the way for this particular advantage even without using pill caps or other methods like this which I found were tough to engineer at least as far as shielding your duodenum and your stomach might go.
I also found that using a really smaller dose of gum each evening before the prescription and water made it so it didn't absorb out so much of it and my blood pressure went down as the doctor would like and also the gum even works in the daytime after sugar to counteract the wooziness and this might work if you have an emergency about sugar but this isn't recommended because you don't want to absorb prescriptions out any more than you have to only with a mild effect like this with the gum and enough to stop the prescription from damaging blood sugar as I found when I will go to sleep with a more real sleep in the PM hours!
My belief is the mechanism for this was if I take the gum a half an hour before I have the prescription with the water it has time to coat the duodenum like it would be more naturally and also to "set". This might make a more solid area that the prescription can't go through to reach the duodenal wall even while after it goes through it can still readily be absorbed by the rest of the GI.
When I would take it like 5 minutes before I took my prescription it wasn't as good for the value and I would think this is because sort of like Pepto-Bismol it's like a sort of temporary duodenal sleeve operation so the prescription just slides through and doesn't damage the duodenum, even while if you take it at the same time it would seem to interact more with the duodenum with reduced value.
This might even have value for absorbing sugar but this can't be a constant thing and only if you ate a lot of sugar by luck because you may be absorbing out prescriptions which most people are on.
Like the Roux-en-Y another form of gastric bypass operation originally used for resolving obesity the duodenal sleeve operation can have a dramatic influence on blood sugar also.
One note about the gum is you want to buy a name brand at least the first time. I use Jarrow. This is more expensive but if you use a cheap discount brand you may get a counterfeit as supposedly a third of OTC herbs are. First at least I always buy the name brand so I can know what the flavor is and then I can see if the cheap brands are bogus. At any rate when you're using like 120th of a cap each evening like I do this will last you for years with the formula I bought for about $30. I couldn't even tell what the flavor of the cheap $10 brand was.
You may wonder if the keto diet, substituting fats for carbs might be better than this but it's highly restrictive and Webmd says studies show that it increases risk of heart attack and stroke by more than 50%.
While in a moment I'll discuss herbs I was using after I tried the gum, good news is I may not even have to use these herbs after using the gum for about 3 weeks before I took my prescription even at a cap of 120th the dose of the gum. I'm not sure if it's a cure but it shows real Improvement without even using other herbs.
Hopefully this will be a cure for blood sugar because of the value of the duodenal sleeve. I don't know yet if this is permanent maybe only for a while but I'm quite impressed with the results. Perhaps like those who have the duodenal sleeve, I can cure my blood sugar by this method. Even while this is preliminary as I say might be of value for a lot of people..
For the time being I make no guarantee but I may need no insulin no "diobesity", no sugar crash, and problems like cardio risk or risk of blindness and so on..
It seems easy and simple just to have the gum in reach by my couch and instead of fighting fire with fire and taking out sugar to fight sugar and measuring my blood sugar levels it seems simpler just to take the gum and not pass out. I bought off just a little bit of my chewing gum and I recommend if you try this that you of course see your doctor but also he may say to use the minimum like just a bit.
Here are the herbs I was using before I found this out, remember it's possible however you may never have to use these by this method.. even so you must decide and you use these methods on the site at your own risk..
A way I have found to hopefully bypass sugar indefinitely also salt and fat is not so much carb blockers as a way to just limit the absorption of the food after I've eaten it.
As I'll discuss below fenugreek the herb found in butterscotch candy combined with coffee reduce the absorption of food by more than 87%. By this method I'm eating the usual foods I could eat anyway for nutrition but also limiting the absorption of the food "upstream" not by blocking the conversion of carbohydrates to sugar but rather by blocking the absorption of the food itself.
This may be more effective or a lot more effective for me at any rate than even blocking the conversion of carbs to sugar by amylase Inhibitors like mangosteen or withiana (herbs).
And while this seems to work the best of anything I tried other than the gum sometimes this is only by my experience and you use this site at your own risk.. and not intended to diagnose or treat any illness or health issue. See your doctor before making any changes diet or exercise for safety.
Here for sake of completeness I want to list some earlier methods I've been using recently so perhaps not after I learned about fenugreek and coffee to stop the absorption of sugar or fat salt and cholesterol presumably also. My Xrays haven't looked fat!
Four Other Herbs I use For Blood Sugar Events and Why I Consider Each May Be of Worth
While the gum was good to at least stop the prescription from causing me harm this isn't enough to completely remove the problem like when I would eat an apple or an orange.
So after I eat sugar for the rest of my defense I'm taking three herbs.. withiana, fenugreek, and Indian thistle..
Withiana
Withiana or ashwagandha is also called Indian ginseng and it's an adaptogenic.. adaptogenic means that it's been found to cause many positive health events yet without any harm to physiology.
The important thing about withiana other than its general positive effects on blood sugar by many markers, is about how it's an alpha amylase inhibitor..
According to this NIH government site, withiana limits the metabolism of sugar right from the start by way of alpha amylase. This is one of the main or the main sugar absorption pathway where otherwise carbs you eat are converted to sugar.. as I have found this is a major major part of limiting sugar damage for food you must eat for example.
And this would also be about some of the foods you might eat for pleasure part of the time for your health generally. Actually food like processed food or comfort foods that are not necessarily the same (or how could we be here twice as natural from evolution) are like giving your brain a smile and reversing the frowns in your brain health.. this behavioral value is why so many people are eating comfort foods even while often causing them harm.
Fenugreek
The second herb I take with withiana is fenugreek which you may be familiar with because it's a main ingredient in the flavor of butterscotch candy.
According to this PubMed site fenugreek is also powerful for limiting amylase. Also while I can't confirm this I read somewhere online once that fenugreek has been found to cure blood sugar problems in laboratory mice.. I asked AI about this the Being search engine and they said they couldn't find this on the web. Even so it does have valuable signs against blood sugar and some sources recommend taking fenugreek for blood sugar at least for the reason here I would say because of its power as with withiana against amylase. About the possibility of curing blood sugar fenugreek still might have potential because according to this site (Science Direct) fenugreek is good for wound healing as in healing the ulcer of the H pylori.
Another possible way to heal this type of wound might be by chitin a common food additive that has shown great potential in wound healing.
While I continue to take fenugreek part of the time in hopes of perhaps the blood sugar cure I don't take it as often because it's also known to decrease absorption of anything you eat or drink and this may be good for blood sugar or weight loss because it profoundly changes the metabolism of fat and sugar.
Bing copilot AI says that usually fenugreek limits absorption of sugar mostly and not so much prescriptions.
Even so you also may want to limit fenugreek if you're taking blood thinners. These have been found to reduce death by Covid by 50 percent and while you may note that this site is about CFS chronic fatigue syndrome for those with CFS this may not be as much of an issue because CFS has high blood viscosity and blood thinners may be useful to cleanse the blood.
Indian Thistle
The third herb I've taken with sugar with the other two herbs after sugar is Indian thistle also known as sphaeranthus indicus.. according to this NIH site it shows many significant positive events against blood sugar issues. It's also good for cognitive health and is actually a fitness booster. It causes increased seeking behavior by mice and it would seem they're not seeking to be edgy!
I've never had any cognitive issues with these three herbs including the withiana which is moderately relaxing. Its scientific name is withiana somnifera, which means causing sleep.. it's been patented and used for an extract called Sensoril that's used for relaxation and I don't find it nearly as relaxing as being unconscious, which is a great relief about sugar! It's positive for defending against neural issues as with blood sugar.. under stress you lose neurons but withiana helps you save 80% more..
Indian thistle also doesn't cause anxiety, because it's actually a cognitive and fitness booster in addition to being anti-cancer.
These four methods have been dramatic for me against blood sugar issues..
If you have a prescription like a lot of people do drawing you down with low blood sugar when you take it you might want to consider this simple mechanical method of counteracting it with gum.
I found that the other herbs while pretty good were not enough to totally counteract the issue concerning the symptoms of any rate and only by combining the herbs after sugar with also preventing the damage to my duodenum with the gum was there a dramatic improvement.
It's been said that blood sugar problems are like a bully to face down and it takes relatively complex methods like this resolve these problems. The gum alone is probably not going to be nearly as good as these other methods combined as far as I know.
Mangosteen
One other method you might appreciate if you have blood sugar is about mangosteen..according to this NIH site mangosteen has a powerful positive effect on insulin sensitivity.
Mangosteen was moderately good for my blood sugar but not like removing the damage caused to my duodenum each evening by the prescription.
Even so mangosteen has been seen to reduce blood sugar by as much as 40 to 60 points in just a few minutes.
While I never had any symptoms of side effects with this and when I had symptoms like tiredness even though I hadn't eaten any sugar recently and the general area I was in about this it did clear up my blood sugar rapidly and for days even before I found out about how to defend myself against the prescription with the gum, the main problem with mangosteen was that it causes neural harm like edginess..
This could be a serious issue so I took cautions to take it in a real small dose like 1/20th of the cap and with the withiana to protect my neural health.
With withiana for neural health the second way of defending against this I found was to take a low dose of mangosteen and take it only once every 3 days after I start to get generally tired by way of sugar if I needed it even with the gum which perhaps I don't need as much.
Mangosteen is so powerful against blood sugar that I only need a really small dose and only every 3 days and I definitely don't recommend taking a higher dose due to risk to neural health. So I take the mangosteen in a real small dose and it lasts for 3 days once I do this.
Finally in addition to reducing the dose of mangosteen and also taking withiana more commonly I highly recommend blueberries because they're also good for brain health.
I like to reduce my other foods that have sugar like oranges or apples and eat more blueberries than these because it's good for blood sugar not bad like a lot of other sweets you can eat..
This may also help much with weight loss because insulin turns out to be the main fat storage hormone.
One treat I just love for the flavor is thawed out frozen blueberries (howso!) with oatmeal and nonfat powdered milk like Swissmiss you can get this and it only costs a dollar a day if you ate it for all eight meals to get calcium. (Prehistoric we may be if science has found how eating more small meals each day is better than three large bites. A hamburger so old you didn't season it you dusted it!) I combine this with Splenda Lohan sweetener which is the brand most recommended for safety by doctors and it has no harm or change to blood sugar.
This dish is truly a tasty treat and it's actually good for blood sugar because of the blueberries, which are good for this in low to moderate amounts.
By eating the Swiss Miss powdered milk you're also defending against the vitamin D deficiency that perhaps 75% of people with blood sugar have. Otherwise this can cause problems with calcium like toothache and bone density. Mastic gum is considered to be quite good for toothache too.
And if your cholesterol is high which is typical with blood sugar events mastic gum is also good for this as is also on the first link I list on this (Medicinenet) page above about the values of the gum.
These methods are far cheaper than using herbs like kidney bean extract which is $30 a month as a carb blocker. I bought the withiana, fenugreek and mangosteen at low cost just from Swanson Health Online a large discount Health supplier I've been doing business with for 25 years.. Indian thistle is also quite cheap when you can buy it direct from India, you have to wait about a month to receive it but you can get a year's supply cheap.
I found this method works by using the mangosteen and the gum to get me in the right general area about my blood sugar and I could also use these other methods including withiana, indian thistle and fenugreek after sugar to then remove the issue as far as I can tell..
The doctors weren't able to find it because it's low blood sugar I presume and this method of using these herbs is the result of 13 years of my research about how to solve this..
Absorption of Fat, Salt and Sugar, etc.
Both Fenugreek and coffee limit absorption of food, I read "by the light of my coffee cup by up" to 87%. I tend to take these herbs together to limit absorption of foods on some days when I would otherwise "win weight!"
According to AI
"Coffee can significantly limit the absorption of certain nutrients, particularly iron, with studies showing reductions in absorption by 39% to 90% depending on the type of meal and timing of coffee consumption. "
The strategy of fenugreek with coffee might help to keep from absorbing fat or other harmful substances when you want a treat because flavor is good for your brain not just your physical health especially if the pleasure doesn't harm it, self defense about your celebration is often a pleasure!
In addition according to this Nature article, coffee acts like a good pro or prebiotic, increasing good bacteria in the GI. This has been seen to be help blood sugar and general health.
Experts say that it's important to consult with a doctor before starting probiotic supplements especially if you have any health concerns.
Finally, note that Calcium can reduce your risk of blood sugar issues by about 21% or so ..
Here's a quote from the American Journal of Nutrition..
"Recent results generated from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study suggest an intriguing and exciting negative relationship between calcium intake or dairy consumption and obesity and insulin resistance syndrome (IRS) in young adults (16). In this prospective study, 3157 adults aged 18 to 30 y were followed for 10 y. Dairy product intake was negatively associated with the cumulative incidence of IRS, including development of obesity, abnormal glucose homeostasis, elevated blood pressure and dyslipidemia, in overweight, but not in leaner participants. The investigators estimated that each additional serving of dairy products was associated with 21% lower odds of IRS."
Click Here if you like for the complete page by the Journal of Nutrition.
See also my link below about how to use calcium to therefore both lose weight and reduce your risk of blood sugar issues substantially..
While I can't promise a cure Hope this is of worth to you..Good Luck with your search for good health!
Here's my post as promised about how I arrived at my belief about K2 like wondrous for toothache solving the underlying problem and also as a plus you can take it with putracine, a substance found in all living cells and this gives you the equivalent of a low-fat diet so when you take it with calcium like low-fat powdered milk as I do this makes it so that the calcium makes you lose 67% of your body fat provided you're also on a low-fat diet which the putracine allows.
Click Here for How to Use Natto this and Low Fat Low Cost Toothache Relief! "Why Pay a Dentist 1000s..according to AI "only about half of dentists are certified." I'm not charging thousands, if Evolution's Munchies Were More Optimal!"
