Showing posts with label Diabetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diabetes. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2011

Treating Diabetes With Enzymes: What We Know Now

By: Dr. William Wong, ND, PhD.

Up to a year ago, for anyone asking if systemic enzymes could help lessen the load of troubles that beset Type 1 diabetic patients, I would have told them about lowering pancreatic inflammation, and possibly helping with lower extremity circulatory issues.  I would have never suggested that the use of enzymes could decrease the need for insulin, increase energy or reverse the seemingly myriad of things diabetics suffer from.  Then we started getting information from Type 1 patients that amazed even me and that have subsequently sparked new research.  Here are two typical case histories.

Case History #1:

A Type 1 diabetic Native American patient from Montana in his mid 40's, very insulin dependent, with peripheral neuropathy in the lower extremities (LE's) and presenting paresthesia as well in the upper extremities (UE's) radiating distally to the hand.  Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) in the LE's had already caused several toes to be amputated.