WHAT IS DIABETES

1) Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the insulin-producing beta cells within the pancreas are destroyed and fail to produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body's cells use glucose for energy. Blood glucose (or blood sugar) is manufactured from the food we eat (primarily carbohydrates) and by the liver. If glucose can't be absorbed by the cells, it builds up in the bloodstream instead. Untreated, the high blood sugars that result can be toxic to every system of the body, causing serious complications.

2) Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease, accounting for 90 to 95% of all diabetes cases in America. Most people with type 2 diabetes are still able to produce insulin at diagnosis. However, the insulin they make does not work properly and is unable to perform its primary job, which is helping the body's cells use glucose for energy.  This characteristic of type 2 diabetes is called insulin resistance.

If left untreated, the high blood sugar levels from uncontrolled diabetes can cause serious long-term diabetic complications. Eventually, they damage the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, reducing insulin output. 

Although the majority of people with type 2 diabetes are adults, children and adolescents are increasingly at risk for the disease due to growing childhood weight problems and sedentary lifestyles.

3) GESTATIONAL DIABETES-The hormonal changes that happen in pregnancy can cause gestational diabetes in pregnant women at risk for the condition.  Hormones produced by the placenta -- including estrogen, cortisol, and human placental lactogen (HPL) --  increase insulin resistance in some women, which results in high blood sugars.  This usually occurs between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. Gestational diabetes goes away when the baby is born, but women who have had the condition are at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

4) LADA- Short for Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults, LADA is also known as Slow-Onset Type 1 Diabetes, Type 1.5 Diabetes, Late-Onset Autoimmune Diabetes of Adulthood, and even "double diabetes," since it has elements of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. LADA patients, however, are closer to type 1 patients because, just as I did, they will test positive for antibodies against insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.

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Antiviral Natural Products. Part Three.

Protein
Sadly, fat pork and mutton will not help boost the immunity. Instead, young beef and turkey are perfect for the immune system. Also are used polyunsaturated fatty acids, known as Omega-3, to improve the immunity. Omega-3 is found in oily fish of cold seas such as herring, tuna, halibut, salmon.

Dietitians recommend to consume oysters, a healthy and delicious product. Oysters are rich in zinc that helps to fight influenza and protects body from cold. Zinc has a positive effect on T-cells which play an important role in detecting foreign antigens and recovery of other cells of immune system. Even moderate zinc deficiency may have negative effects on immune system.

Vegetable oils
In period of boosting your immunity try to prepare food with oils made of pumpkin, walnut, grapes, cedar necessarily of primary extra virgin. They are rich in Omega-3 but are quite expensive. Alternatively, accept purchase of these oils as purchase of a needful medication. Generally speaking, it is so.

Honey
Honey is digested easily by the body and its consumption helps to increases the immunity. Honey contains vitamins of B group which helps it to improve stomach work, calm nerves and improve sleep. Besides this, honey is natural analgetic remedy, which helps it to relieve cough during cold. Eat honey with or without warm green tea.

If you are not allergic to honeycraft products, it would be good to consume pollen. Pollen helps to boost immune system, prevent colds and influenza, normalize blood pressure, increases hemoglobin, normalize bowel work, helps to restore body after diseases and stress.

Tea
Tea (especially green tea) is second popular drink after water in the world. It is rich in polyphenols and contains a number of healthy substances which protect body from influenza.

Antiviral Natural Products. Part Two.

Mushrooms
Mushroom of oriental origin called shiitake is used to boost immune system. It contains specific substances which help to recuperate in case of chronic fatigue, besides this they destroy practically any viral microflora, inhibit and restrict development of cancerous growths, boost physical strength and sexual drive.

Grains and legumes
For a wonder, waste products in manufacture of wheat flour (mill offals) are healthy for immunity. Mill offals contains complex of vitamins B1,В2, В6, PP and micro- and macroelements such as potassium, magnesium, zinc, cuprum, selenium, chrome. Wheat mill offals help to lose weight by suppressing appetite.

Most healthy for the immunity are grains of buckwheat and oatmeal as they are rich in healthy elements. It is recommended 1 – 2 times a week to prepare foods with legumes: pea, bean, lentil as they give to your body native protein.

Fermented milk products
Kefir and yogurt deliver into stomach healthy microorganisms and help to maintain microflora healthy. Stomach itself is immune organ and it makes a contribution in common body strength. However, remember that healthy are only fresh products containing fresh microorganisms. Buy products with live bifidobacterium and lactic bacteria and pay less attention on brand name.

Antiviral Natural Products. Part One.

Human body protection – immunity - requires nutrition. To keep human body from viruses, bacteria, fungi and other pathogens, immunity should get particular set of elements found in products. Which ones? Let us see below.

Fruits and vegetables
There is a number of fruits and vegetables which are well known bacteria killers for centuries. Garlic and onion were included in everyday menu of Roman army. Horseradish, radish, onion and garlic were taken in travels by Russian sailors. There are lots of such examples in history. It's clear that in remote ages people didn't know about viruses and pathogens but they were observant enough. People who consume those products frequently, do never get diseased. Take advantage of it!

Onion, garlic, horseradish, mustard, radish, chili do release phytoncides, substances with antibiotic properties. They inhibit growth and reproduction of viruses and bacteria. They release phytoncides not only during eating but also in surrounding medium which helps people with unhealthy stomach to just smell acrid vegetables, but the effect in this case will be much weaker. Phytoncides are found in vividly colored fruits such as blueberry, black wineberry, cherry, dark grapes, raspberry. Antiviral effects do increase when those products are combined with other ones rich in beneficial microelements.

Major vitamins that do increase persistence to diseases are vitamins A and C. Vitamin C is found abundantly in citrus, cabbage, wineberry, spinach and other lettuce. Vitamin A and its provitamin called beta-carotene are found abundantly in red and orange vegetables and fruits (carrot, peach, paprika, persimmon).

Yellow berries are rich in vitamins A, C and E. They do activate immunity, prevent infection development in human body and improve skin. Red berries of rosehips contain daily amount of vitamin C, iron, magnesium and carotene. Those substances do increase hemoglobin rate in the blood and strengthen body defenses.

BAFS for Immune System

Biologically active supplements are divided into two groups:
1) nutraceuticals – biologically active foods supplements (BAFS) used to regulate chemical composition of food of a man. These are additional sourse of protein, aminoacids, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, mineral substances, dietary fibers.
2) parapharmaceuticals – biologically active food supplements used as a preventive measure, adjunct therapy, and also to maintain functioning of organs and body systems.
Among biologically active supplements most healthy for the immune system are pectins (apple, plum, currant, beet, eatberry) and algae (among algae first place occupies spirulina with its anti-allergic and immune-stimulating properties).

Water
Insufficient consumption of pure water results in frequent colds and contagious diseases, thrombus formation, lymph congestion, tenderness of vascular walls, bladder diseases. Reduction of water in the body aggravates normal work of kidneys and as a result part of its work is made by liver (liver splits fats into useful energy and makes this 100% if not takes work of kidneys). When we drink sufficient amount of water, it makes work much better both kidneys and liver which regulates immune system work.

Antibiotic substances in food
Some foods have antibacterial properties which helps them kill disease causing microbes. These are non-specific antiinfection agents (organic acids such as winy, lemony, apple). Acerbic tanning substances of plums and apples also kill microbes. Raspberry, currant, apple, wineberry, ashberry, cranberry, pear, berbery, pomegranate, and also foods rich with phytoncides (horseradish, radish, garlic, onion, beet, cabbage, carrot, paprika) are perfect natural antibiotics.

Vitamin B for Immune System

Vitamins of B group help to activate work of immune system during stress, after surgery or trauma. Taking multivitamin preparations containing vitamins A, C, D, E, B6 helps to prevent virus diseases. Vitamin B6 stimulates synthesis of nucleic acids required for lymphocytes maturation and antibodies production to fight infection, and also vitamin B6 increases antibodies action against several cancerous growths. Deficiency of vitamin B6 occurs in cases of treatment of tuberculosis with isoniaside. Lowering of antibodies production may be caused by deficiency of vitamin A, B5 (pantothenic acid), B9 (folic acid), H (biotin). Vitamin B6 deficiency reduces the ability of neutrophiles to digest and kill bacteria.

Multivitamin preparations
Multivitamins play an important role in prevention of influenza and URI in period of higher illness frequency. Taking multivitamins helps to avoid diseases, keep body healthy and boost immunity. You should pay a serious attention to multivitamin preparation you choose. Multivitamin preparations are recommended to take as a preventive measure against virus diseases, especially they are recommended to children in spring when immunity is weakened after winter.

Specialists do recommend to take multivitamin preparations which contain whole spectrum of essential vitamins. They must be of hight quality and dosages must be well balanced. This will be a guarantee of effectiveness and safety of the multivitamin preparation. High quality and optimal dosages of vitamins help to reduce significantly risks for allergic reactions which unfortunately occur frequently today and make it possible to undergo preventive course entirely.

Vitamin C for Immune System

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) increases lymphocites number, movements and activity of neutrophilic leucocytes, increases production of interferon, a substance which has antiviral properties. Vitamin C stimulates macrophages, which makes them increase production of highly active forms and compounds of oxygen thus strengthening anticancerous immunity. It is supposed that at least part of immune-stimulating effects of ascorbic acid are connected with its antioxidant properties.

Under the influence of Vitamin C occurs the increase of body ability to recognize proper and foreign cells which is extremely important in older age when frequency of immunodeficient diseases with age increases dramatically. Therefore ascorbic acid is important medical product for older people with immune deficiency conditions. Other cases when ascorbic acid is prescribed:
- when person was subjected to ionizing radiation and exhausting physical load
- persons after severe surgical interventions, who got in their body an increased intensity of free-radical reactions which resulted in increased risks for development of destructive processes, cancerous growths, viral and bacteria infections.

In this case ascorbic acid is recommended as an immune-stimulant. Dozes of 100 – 300mgs (4 – 5 admissions) of ascorbic acid daily help to reduce the intensity of pathologic processes and prevent from infections. To protect from ionizing radiation the doze of ascorbic acid must be not less than 1g daily (5 admissions).

Commonly ascorbic acid is recommended in cases of increased risks for infectious diseases development. In this case ascorbic acid is admitted after food intake 0,025 – 0,05g three times daily. In a different scheme is recommended to take 0.4 g (4 admissions daily) in first four days, 0.3g daily in next three days and then 0.1g daily in next 6 – 8 days.

Normally human needs 70 – 100mg of Vitamin C daily. Products rich with ascorbic acid are black currant, cabbage, lemons, oranges, lettuces, peppers, tomatoes, turnip greens, rosehips. When you consume these products, remember that heating, contact with metal, freezing and defrosting reduce vitamin C rate in products from 30 to 70%. Moreover, when you smoke one cigarette your body loses 0,025g of vitamin C.

In viral and bacteria diseases also gets activated run-off of vitamin C, therefore it is recommended to consume it in form of tablets. Remember, that your body never accumulates vitamin C, and you should consume products with this vitamin regularly, or at least you should take it in form of tablets.