The Common Sense of Diabetes: Chapter Two
The Common Sense of Diabetes: Chapter Two
The Common Sense of Diabetes: Chapter Two
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So, the basic question is what do you do now? Where is the
problem? I know by now you must have already guessed
the moral of the story. The problem was never in the sh! It was
the polluted water! You simply, have to change the water. Even
the best doctor of the world will not be able to cure the sh.
Trying to cure the sh without nding the cause of the disease is
like chasing a mirage. Every time, it will appear that the cure is
just nearby but you will never be able to achieve it. In this
process, you will drain yourself of the health and wealth as well.
Sometimes, to understand the solution you may not need the
ultra-scientic approach towards the problem but just a
common sense, which most of the modern day doctors lack.
Diabetes is not a disease where you may require the knowledge
of advanced microbiology to understand the problem. It is just a
specic homeostatic condition of the body which can be
understood and corrected with a little common sense. To make
the subject simple let's take the analogy of an airport. Imagine
airport is your body and the passengers entering the airport are
the carbohydrates or sugar that you eat. Now all the passengers
called carbohydrates or glucose needs to be transported to their
respective aircrafts, that is the various cells of the body. The
activity of transportation will be facilitated by the bus (the
insulin of the body).
Under normal conditions, there is a regular ow of passengers
(the food) and simultaneously the passengers are transported
with the arrival of eet of buses (insulin) to the respective
aircraft (the cells of the body). The whole system works in
harmony. This is called homeostasis of the body or in this
specic case the glucose homeostasis of the body.
Now imagine that everything is perfect in the airport except the
fact that the supply of bus (insulin) is stopped. What will
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