Increasing the efficiency of the pancreas, can help improve digestion.  The pancreas is responsible for the digestion of protein, fats, and carbohydrates.  Diabetics usually have problems with all three.  For example, diabetics usually have high triglycerides and cholesterol, indicating problems concerning processing of fats and carbohydrates.  Often molecules of protein strands leak into the bloodstream indicating poor protein digestion.  This inefficient digestion can lead to many side effects such as heart disease, nerve damage, water balance problems, and others. 

Many diabetics erroneously believe that controlling blood sugar solves the problem of diabetes.  This is not correct.  For example, a great deal of nerve damage is the result of damaged capillaries not supplying enough blood to the nerves, resulting in the death of nerves and nerve damage, one cause of male diabetic’s impotency.  A great deal of capillary damage is the result of protein byproducts, such as homocysteine (read the article "Homocysteine and Diabetic Side Effects") scarring vessel walls, leading to the destruction of capillaries, and other types of damage. If you are diabetic and you are controlling your blood sugar, you still need to consider improving your protein digestion, or side effects such as blindness, kidney problems, heart attacks, edema, and other problems may continue even with blood sugar under control.  

Another example, that controlling blood sugar does not solve all the problems of diabetes, many diabetics have high levels of blood fats.  Diabetics often have high cholesterol, high triglycerides, and other high levels of blood fats.  These are all considered high risk factors for heart disease.  One out of three people who have heart attacks are diabetic.  This is a very high percentage of your diabetic population and indicates that heart risk factors such as improper levels of blood fats, are a serious concern for diabetics.  It is your pancreas that secretes hormones that help regulate fats.      

The point of this article is to provide awareness that a diabetic should consider proper digestion and metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, and protein, to begin to properly control diabetes.  One way to begin this process, by increasing the efficiency of the pancreas. The following methods to improve the efficiency of the pancreas are the ideas of Dr. Bob Gibson.  Dr. Bob was a MD internal medicine, orthomolecular doctor, MD psychiatrist, chiropractor, and healer 65 years.  He was a diabetic who lived to 108 years with only 1 side effect 2 years before he passed away.  The following are his nutritional ideas to activate pancreatic enzymes to help digest food properly.  These ideas are a method to help the pancreas along until it is producing enough enzymes to properly digest proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. 

Nutritional ideas of Dr. Bob Gibson, MD Internal Medicine, Psychiatrist MD, Chiropractor. and orthomolecular doctor: 

1.      30 minutes before meal - 1-3 tablets of pancreatic compounds.  Some pancreatic enzyme tablets Dr. Bob advised are papaya, bromelain, and pepsin.  The reason for starting the pancreatic enzymes 30 minutes before eating is to help the pancreas not overreact to food. 

2.      At end of meal (the last bite) - 1/4 tablespoon of supplement OKG and 2-3 pancreatic capsules.  Read the article, "Supplements for Exercise and Diabetics," on this web site to learn the beneficial effects of OKG supplementation for some diabetics.  In addition, Dr. Bob advised 1 tablet of calcium pyruvate at the end of meals. Dr. Bob advised calcium pyruvate because it helps burn fat, which aids in blood fat metabolism.  Calcium pyruvate is recommended only A.M. and P.M. 

3.      Dr. Bob advised 1-4 capsules of digestive enzymes 45 minutes after your first bite of food.   

4.      Dr. Bob advised 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda (bicarbonate) mixed in liquid 45 minutes after you have started a meal. Proper digestion requires an alkaline environment in the small intestine.  The stomach produces acid. When food enters the small intestine the acid from the stomach enters also.  The bicarb neutralizes the acid.  This can help digestive enzymes work properly (they cannot function optimally or may not function at all – when the small intestine is acidic, not alkaline). 

5.      During mealtime - Dr. Bob advised adding 5 grams of "multi" fiber at every meal.   Fiber slows down blood sugar absorption into the bloodstream and this aids in controlling blood sugar fluctuations. 

6.      Supplementation of SAMe or TMG.  Dr. Bob advised SAMe, which has many benefits for the body, including reducing homocysteine levels in the bloodstream.  This can decrease stress in the body, which can help improve metabolism.  We recommend TMG also, which can help SAMe work better or pinch hit for SAMe. 

Aiding the pancreas can be beneficial in many ways. Aiding the pancreas reduces damage from not properly digested protein.  Additionally, the pancreas produces insulin and helping the pancreas may increase the efficiency of producing insulin.  Another benefit in improving the pancreas, it secretes hormones that deal with fat, and this can improve fat metabolism (processing, handling, and utilization of nutrients).  There are many other benefits in improving the pancreas, but the point is many diabetics, especially after 40-45 years of age, decrease in their ability to produce pancreatic enzymes.  The insufficiency of food metabolism in combination with declining ability to produce pancreatic enzymes can lead to many side effects common in diabetes.  The above nutritional ideas can aid the pancreas.  After a time, usually by 2 months, the pancreas will begin to function more on its own and Dr. Bob advised you can reduce the amounts of enzymes and supplements used.  One final note is raw foods have enzymes already in them, while cooking can destroy enzymes.  This is why Dr. Bob advises 2 or more raw salads a day for diabetics, so you do not lose enzymes from cooking.  Dr. Bob also recommended you start off all meals with a little raw vegetables or fruit, to help start off your enzyme production.  The loss of enzymes for an aging diabetic can have grave consequences.  

In conclusion, you can consider methods to improve the digestion and metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates as ways to help you improve your diabetes.  There are not many ideas or treatments that consider fats, proteins, and carbohydrates.  Diabetics should consider controlling all three, as a method to help control side effects and health.  There are many such ideas on this web site.  We also handle a product called DK50.  Thirteen diabetics reported an average loss of 120 points, in 6-8 weeks using DK50 product.  Good Luck. 

TO MEDICAL RESEARCHERS, DOCTORS, SCIENTISTS, AND OTHER MEDICAL SPECIALISTS, the malabsorbed proteins described by Dr. Bob are called “Kinnin peptides”.  Information about Kinnin peptides can be found in medical textbooks and journals.

Note – In order for these anti-aging ideas to be successful, you must use supplements of the highest quality. Dr. Bob often said, "almost all supplement companies produce poor quality." You can consider the product page of this web site. Almost all the products met Dr. Bob’s approval. Since he passed away we have attempted to keep the same high standards.

WARNING:  DO NOT STOP ANY TREATMENT OR MEDICATION YOU CURRENTLY USE.  CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING THE USE OF SUPPLEMENTS. 

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