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Up to ten times a day with diabetes must check their blood sugar levels – with a small stitch. An ordeal, especially for adolescents. But relief is in sight, researchers have now demonstrated that tear samples could replace the prick.

Blood glucose levels must be checked several times a day

Most patients develop diabetes in later life. But many children are suffering from the metabolic disorder that is called because of the inherent differences in blood glucose levels as “diabetes”. Diabetes is common to all variants, with the diagnosis that an unpopular routine in life moves in: the more times a day using a blood test performed measurement of blood glucose levels, as well as the injection of insulin to its regulation.
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One of the great things to write about cancer and natural health supplements and especially like green tea, is that your readers help you in your pursuit of facts. Over the years I have received a number of reader comments like this:

“Hi, Robert. You really need to mention green tea as treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. I was diagnosed with NHL in 2001. Even after six months with chemo, my white blood cell count remained to 57,000 or more. When my account reached 160,000 in 2006 white, my doctor asked me to take chemo again, but I decided to try green tea instead. I started taking 6 capsules and 2 tablets per day, and in six months, my WBC was down to 12,000. ”

“I was diagnosed with CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia) in 2004. At the time, my white blood cell count was 24,000, so I decided to try to change my diet before resorting to chemotherapy. I stopped drinking six cups of coffee a day and started drinking 6 cups of green tea. I started eating lots of blueberries and dark leafy greens. My dessert after every meal is apple sauce followed by a glass of wine with blackberries. At the end of 2005, my white blood cell count (WBC) decreased to 19,000, and my record in March 2009, my WBC 8850 in good health. While not everyone with the NHL to do that? ”

Both drives are an excellent example of how ordinary people can make their own discoveries preceding the announcement of official science. In June 2009, researchers at the Mayo Clinic announced research has found that epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) in this ubiquitous beverage had positive effects in the study volunteers who had chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

CLL usually occurs in adults 50 and older and growing much more slowly than other types of leukemia. In the study by the Mayo Clinic, 33 adult patients with CLL received eight doses of a proprietary formulation of EGCG called Polyphenon E. Volunteers from 400 to 2000 mg Polyphenon E twice a day for a month. These doses correspond to drink 8 cups of tea per day to drink 40 cups of tea per day.

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, noted that higher doses have helped reduce the number of white blood cells in one third of those surveyed. Taking the supplement also appears to reduce the swelling of the lymph nodes. The study continues with all the volunteers now receive 4000 mg of EGCG daily.

The benefits of EGCG have been studied for many other cancers. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic began their study of green tea with four patients who had B-cell lymphoma Three of these patients experienced significant improvement. Also in June 2009, James A. Cardelli, director of basic and translational research in the Center-Feist Weiller Cancer Center at LSU Health Sciences University-Shreveport, has announced that product manufactured Polyphenon E slow progression of prostate cancer. Men taking 600 mg of the product every day for 30 days had up to 30 by lower levels of cancer markers PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen), HGF (hepatocyte growth factor) and VEGF ( vascular endothelial growth factor).

Scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles report EGCG green tea seems to have the ability to prevent the spread of lung cancer. In their laboratory studies, scientists have discovered that compounds in green tea make tumor cells “sticky” so they can not escape into the bloodstream. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research has shown that green tea EGCG stop the proliferation of cancerous cervical cells. Laboratory studies also found that compounds in green tea inhibit the formation of metastatic tumors in the liver and reduces the growth of breast cancers.

As wonderful as these findings are, they are not absolute proof that green tea cures all types of cancer. Green tea seems to work with a good diet, other nutritional supplements, conventional medical care and to make them more effective. EGCG green tea does not interfere with conventional treatments, however, and the side effects are extremely rare.

Diabetics must several times a day to deal specifically with their illness, but the diet plays an essential role in their illness. Many of the frequent, if not daily eaten foods contribute to the rise in blood sugar levels. Just this should hold especially diabetics, however, well under control.

Measures to lower blood sugar levels

The consumption of starchy foods such as vegetables and grain products may delay the absorption of glucose, blood sugar rises too quickly. However, should avoid large servings of carbohydrate and better distributed over several small meals a day. So suddenly be very high blood glucose levels prevents the blood sugar level can be better regulated. By eliminating so-called blood sugar spikes you keep easier control and management of diabetes mellitus as well as the metabolic syndrome is easier for those affected. Thus, the risk for diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome and can also be reduced for heart disease. To a healthy lifestyle is also adequate and regular exercise.

Large fluctuations in blood glucose levels regulate polyphenols

In diabetics, the blood sugar-regulating hormone insulin acts are not sufficient or is not even available. For health reasons, a rapid rise in blood sugar level is undesirable, seems better, therefore, too slow, its steady rise in blood sugar. New studies have shown that the counting of the phytochemicals polyphenols that described above might mitigate blood sugar spikes. You are able to inhibit the transport of glucose from food into the bloodstream and attack it in the regulation and control of metabolism. The consumption of polyphenol food is thus a possibility to control blood sugar levels dar.

Blood sugar lowering foods

A diet rich in phytochemicals – in particular, polyphenols such as flavonoids and phenolic acids – is seems, a new study found to have positive impact on blood sugar levels. Fruits like

* Strawberries and
* Apples

are particularly rich in these bioactive substances and are therefore considered as blood sugar-lowering foods. The results of the laboratory experiment suggest that that fresh strawberry and apple juice may affect the glucose uptake in the positive sense.

Other foods, in which the blood sugar levels are rising only slowly, for example:

* Legumes such as beans, peas and lentils
* Whole grain bread and
* Other fiber-rich foods
* Vegetable, unheated food

In general, foods are preferred, which have a low glycemic index and thus have a low glycemic effect.
Other ways to control blood sugar

Sufficient Bewegug ensures that glucose is transported from the blood to the muscles and it increases the glucose tolerance. Also losing weight with existing obesity does not affect in any case a positive impact on blood sugar levels. It is also important to eat regularly so that the blood sugar level remains fairly constant and does not lead to very large fluctuations.

The health, which have been in youth, one would like to preserve in old age. Why is invested in research into cures for diseases much. A relatively new development is the use of umbilical cord blood in order to later possibly even cure diseases such as diabetes or cancer. This raises the question many parents, whether to donate or store umbilical cord blood. Because if the not affordible costs worth investing in a cord blood bank will be decided only in the future, whether your child will need the donated blood and whether this donation will still be used to be.

Advantages of umbilical cord blood

The cord blood is umbilical cord blood, which is also abbreviated as CB. This is the abbreviation for “cord blood”, the English word for cord blood. Advantage is that the stem cells in cord blood are not yet fully developed. They can mature into different cell types and used in the future, possibly for development of heart muscle or brain tissue. Even paraplegia might be treated with cord blood. Stem cells can of course also be obtained from the bone marrow, but these cells have been developed already and not be changed. In addition, the removal of bone marrow is very painful. Umbilical cord blood can however be taken after cutting the cord pain-and risk-free and low cost, and now is a great asset to the research. Offers this service but not at any hospital.

Own use or donate cord blood?

Many parents are advised by their doctor to store cord blood, the stem cells to make their own child is available, if it suffers from diabetes, cancer or other defects. A storage costs about 2000 € and let the world have already frozen to the 1.3 million mothers their cord blood. In Germany there are over 50,000. However, the business with the cord blood is considered critical because it have the freezing of placental blood has emerged the market leader, the doctors even pay a consulting fee, if a mother decides for the storing of blood. There are, however, say there is no experience with blood that was stored for 20 years, a criticism that even researchers. A donation of umbilical cord blood to public cord blood banks is more appropriate according to current knowledge, or at least connected with a direct humanitarian act.

Cord blood from umbilical cord blood bank can now be successfully used against leukemia, metabolic disorders and diseases of the hematopoietic system, or genetic. Patients from around the world have the opportunity to look here for suitable donor preparations. For the treatment of diseases only foreign blood is used, because with his own blood, according to the researchers and doctors, the disease or illness likely to be in it from. At best, the blood is capable of close relatives. There are reports of popular cases, to have saved in which cord blood of newborn babies, younger siblings life.