09/15/2019
DIABETES RECOVERY UPDATE
I am extremely pleased to report that I am 95 days from hospital discharge and my medical A1C has been reduced to 6.8. You will recall that on the day of my hospital discharge, May 20, 2019, my A1C was 15.7. People who suffer from T2D and medical professionals are likely to find it difficult to swallow that I was able to pull this off in 95 days. For me, it was not difficult, but I tend not to play by the same rules as the average bear.
I entered 2019 with an intentionality to end my journey with T2D at the earliest possible date. Fortunately, I advanced in that direction with more than my share of ignorance regarding exactly how to go about achieving my desired goal. Because of my ignorance, I arrogantly thought I could control my diabetes with the power and effectiveness of my spiritual growth. The result of that flawed thought process was ending up as an overnight guest at McNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois with a glucose reading of 467 and A1C of 15.7.
Now the average bear would be feeling pretty bad and more than a bit scared to find themselves in that situation. Not me. I intuitively understood that the Universe had engineered those circumstances to get my attention, in the perfectly right way, so that I would understand that I needed a plan that was grounded in the best research and information available regarding how to most effectively deal with and reverse T2D, as opposed to an erroneous interpretation of my intuition. How did I know I would get it right this time? I tested myself and validated myself on a daily basis from May 22, 2019 until now. Additionally, I consulted every expert I could find to begin to craft a diabetes reversal protocol that would produce the outcome I had intuited was possible. The protocol is not yet complete, but strong progress is being accomplished.
What have I learned in 95 days? I have learned that all illness and disease is a consequence of a sub-optimal body chemistry that is brought about by a sub-optimal diet and a lifestyle that is not grounded in values, thoughts, choices, and behaviors that harmonize with the eternal flow of the Universe. Our failure to acquire this knowledge and deploy it into our lives causes a broad range of internal impairment of our various body organs and systems that totally disrupts, corrupts, and renders sub-optimal our normal homeostasis and body chemistry. Substantially all people currently living have been enculturated into societies that did not make certain they were provided with this knowledge that is basic and fundamental to an efficacious biophysical life.
With regard to lifelong health, our societies convince us that eventually we will all suffer illness, chronic illness, disease, followed by, too often, a painful death. Is this a foundational truth of biophysical life? I think not! At the same time the teaching and reinforcement of the status quo in our societies is very, very strong and outliers are not honored or embraced. As a consequence, most of us are doomed to suffer a bushel basket of traumas that come along with living a status quo life.
How did I largely escape the fate of so many? I had a very special grandfather. He was a plain man, born in 1896, with very limited formal education, but his raw intelligence was outstanding. He taught his family the values of fierce independence, self-reliance, active-intelligence, forthrightness, and
integrity. These values were my anchor and foundation for the first fifty-five years of my life.
As I was meditating on how I might recover from my very negative diabetes night, I was reading Dr. Sue Morter’s book, The Energy Codes. I learned many important new things, but my greatest focus was chapter nine, The Chemistry Code. It had never occurred to me that the condition of my body could be related to my spiritual development and growth. I have been a voracious reader since I was five years old, but I had never read that I should eat foods that harmonized with my body homeostasis. In Dr. Sue’s words, “This means that our body chemistry either facilitates or hinders our efforts to embody the Soulful Self.” Game changer!
My life came to a screeching, abrupt stop. While I was already focused on a vegan diet, I was now focused on the most alkaline diet I could find. A diet that harmonized with the original default setting of my body chemistry and homeostasis. I recalled that I had reviewed several videos of Dr. Jason Fung, a Canadian Kidney specialist who was focused on diabetes. I immediately ordered his book, entitled (would you believe it), The Diabetes Code. This was very helpful, because of the robust scientific information he provided, along with the very ugly history of diabetes regarding how the Western medical professions left their patients to deal with the worse of diabetes so that they could continue to receive their fees and many, many charges. However, when I saw the diet Dr. Fung was recommending to his patients, I knew he had not read Dr. Sue’s book.
Combining what Dr. Sue taught about the fusion of body chemistry and spiritual outcomes integrated with Dr. Fung’s explication of the biophysical functionality of diabetes, I was now robustly well equipped to establish and continually refine a protocol expected to deliver me from my 23-year journey with diabetes. My initial protocol was working well, on June 17, 2019, during my doctor’s visit my A1C was 12.2 (28 days after hospital discharge), on July 13 I visited Quest Labs for another A1C, which came back at 9.1. On August 22, 2019, I am back at Quest Labs and my A1C reports at 6.8. Now this was extraordinary progress, but I was a bit disappointed. The computer app I was using showed that my A1C should have been below the magic number of 5.7, which would have indicated I no longer needed to concern myself with diabetes. How do I account for the gap? When I asked my new diabetes doctor about the gap, she explained that the difference was accounted for by my sub-optimal body condition and body chemistry. Now I needed to add remedies for eliminating internal organ fat and metabolic syndrome to my protocol. In addition to being an exceptional kidney specialist, Dr. Fung is also an expert on fasting, which he recommends for what I needed to do.
I added to my protocol the discipline of fasting every fourth day. This means on the third day between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm I will stop all eating. I do not return to food until 40 – 45 hours later. According to Dr. Fung the liver has a 24-hour reserve of glucose on hand. So after 24 hours our bodies begin to burn internal fat for its fuel. I will continue this protocol until the end of 2019 and assess my next steps at that point. The point is that organ fat disrupts the normal process of glucose servicing our cells. If this disruption is not addressed, it will very likely lead to kidney disease, dialysis, heart disease, and premature death. Accordingly, I will be attacking my organ fat cells with military styled, strategic precision.
Some of you know that my life mission is to do my part to end racism, and that I have created a learning system that includes a solution that, in fact, ends the unconscious identifications and attachments that cause most people on the planet to be marginalized and constrained in their spiritual development and spiritual growth through such attachments. With a kind of subtlety we could easily miss, Dr. Sue delivers a spiritual hammer, “We know that our thoughts can, and do, eclipse the beneficial effects of good nutrition on our body’s chemical balance. This means we can eat a perfectly alkalizing diet and end up still creating an acid condition in the body if our thoughts (conscious or unconscious) generate low-frequency emotions like anger, hate, resentment, remorse – or, the number-one cause of acid buildup in the body, excess worry. Yes, prolonged or habitual worry will produce more acid in the body than we can alkalize or neutralize, no matter how much alkalizing food we eat.”
I interpret this passage to contain two critically important messages: 1) unconscious identification and attachment to race and racism impairs our body chemistry and compromises our health in substantial ways, and 2) our spiritual development, spiritual growth and awakening is greatly hindered, if we do nothing to remove this substantial barrier.
Your reflections, comments, and questions are invited.
Rich Shealey
08/25/2019
