Richard Moore, MD, PhD; Diabetes problems are NOT caused by high blood sugar

http://fatnews.com/ Hi, this is Larry Hobbs @ FatNews.com.
This is an excerpt from a letter by Richard Moore, MD, PhD dated August 31, 2009.

The treatment of diabetes is based upon the idea that the main role of insulin in the body is to lower blood sugar (glucose) levels. Indeed, blood sugar levels rise in diabetes and thus sugar spills over into the urine. Hence the name diabetes mellitus or sweet urine. But the idea that insulins main action is to lower blood glucose turns out to be a historical accident. Basic research done between 1958 and 1963 clearly demonstrates that the main action of insulin is to stimulate the sodium-potassium pump and to reduce the acid inside the bodys cells. A study by Dr. Ken Zierler at Johns Hopkins and also others by my group clearly demonstrated this. Work done by a basic scientist at the University of Illinois also indicated that the high blood glucose in diabetes is not the cause of the pathology. Recently, other investigators at Johns Hopkins have shown that potassium deficiency can cause diabetes.

Both Dr. Zierler, the scientist at the University of Illinois, and myself made repeated attempts to inform the American Diabetes Association about this, but in every case, they refused to listen to us.

But the glucose dogma was (and is) so strong that almost everyone just knew that tighter control of blood glucose levels would solve the remaining problems to which diabetics are prone. So the NIH conducted the ACCORD study in which the blood glucose in each of 10,000 diabetics was lowered to normal levels tight control was achieved. To the surprise of the medical community, the ACCORD study was discontinued early because, as I had predicted in 1983 tight control would not help, and, as I had not predicted, they found that tight control of blood sugar levels actually resulted in a 25% increase in mortality!

Hi, this is Larry Hobbs @ FatNews.com.

About Dr. Moore

Dr. Moores received his M.D. from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. in biophysics from Purdue University.

Starting in 1963, Dr. Moore spent 40 years as a college professor and research scientist teaching and researching cellular biophysics.

Dr. Moores research group research group discovered that insulin regulates the activity of the mechanism that exchanges potassium for sodium in live cells.

Dr. Moores group also discovered that, connected with this, insulin elevates the pH inside cells.

This research and that of others then led to insights in how our dietary imbalance between potassium and sodium cause hypertension and other diseases.

Since recognizing the critical importance of the dietary ratio of potassium-to-sodium (in 1983), I have been trying to educate the public about this issue primarily by writing books.

Dr. Moore is the author of several books including The High Blood Pressure Solution.

Dr. Moore is the also co-author of The Salt Solution.

This book discusses how an imbalance of potassium and sodium not only affects:
• stroke
• hypertension
... but also
how it affects:
• osteoporosis
• stomach cancer
• asthma
• kidney disease

Richard D. Moore, MD, PhD
4 Calle Sabina
Placitus, NM 87043
(505) 771-8615 phone
(505) 615-8020 cell
thehbpsolution.com
richardbigsky@comcast.net

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