Soda may cause Type II Diabetes, regardless of weight!

My type II was absolutely caused my prescription medication. Every single one of them listed diabetes as a 'possible, though not likely side effect'.

I quit taking allmedication, as each new drug either required another one to counter problems it created, or the side effects outwieghed any possible benefits. It took a couple of years for my body to re-regulate itself after that, but I have not had a single high A1C in 2 1/2 years now.

My older brother has consummed a MINIMUM of 6/8 Pepsi's a day for well over 55 years, and has managed to avoid any adverse health issues. I always expected it to hit him like a ton of bricks one day, but it doesn't seem to be a problem for him.

My first husband was a 'brittle diabetic'- which basically translates to someone who finds the strict regime needed to control Type I diabetes too difficult to follow - got a CDL by going to a small town for the test, and used someone elses urine sample.

It is truely frightening to know there are others like him on the road.

You are not born with type one diabetes, although it can happen,you can get it at any age, some studies think type one may be caused by a virus attacking the pancreas, my daughter got type one at age 16.

I read somewhere that in some people there could be a relationship in diseases with carbonated beverages. It was the CO2 was contributing to the mess. Fructose causes the body to store fats and this contributes. I am trying to assemble this stuff in my head but comparing multiple research articles some which conflict with each other is not that easy. I suppose it will take another fifty or so to get to a point where I can make a good statement. But I like the guessing also, guesses based on research. But it is a combination of things that causes diabetes not one simple thing.

Excessive glutamate consumption is tied to diabetes. Excessive glutamate consumption is one thing that can cause type two diabetes. Sugar fuels the body but when you consume too much it causes a die off of the places where transport of energy in the cells occurs. Overconsumption of sugar contributes to diabetes, it does not cause it. If sugar no longer gets you moving, you are probably starting to lose the ability to process it correctly. More and more is needed to have the same effect. If you consume a lot of sugar, you need more insulin. Insulin is dependent on zinc. Your immune system and many hormones are reliant on zinc. Diabetics usually are deficient on zinc. This also contributes but is not the cause of diabetes. When you consume alcohol or eat breads and stuff that is raised with yeast, even sugars. It unbalances the gut flora and more candida can thrive. Now alcohol is converted to acetelaldehyde by the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme and that takes zinc. Then the acetelaldehyde needs an aldehyde enzyme to break it down into acetic acid, that enzyme is dependent on molybdenum and also on Zinc I think. If acetelaldehyde levels get to high, they destroy organs and give you headaches. Since yeast creates aldehydes from sugars this unbalanced flora can cause the same problem as alcohol and lead to fatty liver disease. Since sugar is a tyramine like chemical it gives you a boost in feeling good, the same as aged food does. but overconsumption of things tied to a deficiency in certain necessary minerals can cause problem. Now bread lowers stomach acid and when acid is low you can't absorb some minerals and vitamins as well. so bread can contribute to diabetis if you consume too much.

People who drink a lot of soda can have acne because the zinc is being used to process sugar which leaves less for the immune system to fight bacteria and fungus at the skin. Also hormones tend to go all over the place when a lot of sugar is consumed leading to highs and lows. Boy, I could go on and on for hours but still cannot tell a person what is leading to their diabetes for sure. There are so many endocrine disruptors added to processed foods that it would be impossible to know, just lower consumption of highly processed foods and many have their diabetis disappear. One meal a week will not usually hurt anyone but consistantly eating these foods can be bad.

Homemade chicken soup with lots of veggies boosts the NAC in the body and helps to combat insulin resistance. Beef soup also works. There are many ways to fix this, just get an old cookbook form the forties to fifties or back twenty years before the great depression. People screwed up before the depression too, they had lots of money and bought a lot of prepared foods and this led to the high in people which screwed up the economy. People nowadays are experiencing that high and this leads to the economy getting riskier and riskier. The chemistry of food causes this to occur, food is all psychotropic, it has to be balanced. Overconsumption of tyramines, which creates neurochemicals, raises blood pressure. Even a little bit of tyramines raises BP. Proper consumption keeps our BP where it needs to be, too little and we die from brachychardia or from an AFIB attack as the heart starts to release chemicals to boost rate when the BP drops too low which causes the heart to go apeshit for a while and can kill you. They used to call this a heart attack. They just shock the heart and give a shot to help balance the nitrogen chemical that makes the heart beat fast out. Doctors and parametics would know more about those chemicals Methyl causes an instantaneous breakdown of these chemicals to ammonia in the blood stream so it is probably epinephrine. Also the nitrogen chemical released expands blood vessels and this drops BP.

Now, some people cannot understand what I say, possibly people in the healthcare field, because I try to translate it into what regular people can understand. I try to generalize things but I am having problems with translation sometimes because some stuff does not translate into normal language easily, I am getting a little better though. Coffee has methyl, this methyl can raise BP by constricting blood vessels and neutralizing the nitrogen compounds. Now if you want to break down the ammonia you need to eat foods containing benzoates, but too much can cause a buildup of uric acid and give you gout like symptoms. Molybdenum boosts uric acid creation as do foods with molybdenum in them which causes gout. Just drink coffee and it makes you pee it out and keeps down the acidity of the blood. Surprisingly booze also neutralizes the nitrogen chemicals, so if you get exited just grab a beer but it also creates ammonia like methyl does. I have not tested alcohol for this, I quit drinking long ago. Remember also that alcohol is a tyramine and it can possibly make things worse while in a heart attack by feeding the frenzy. It takes three or more drinks to make you pee, and remember if you drink too much the nitrogen containing foods can knock down the ethyl so have some spicy beer nuts.

I hope I haven't confused everyone, I'm afraid to proof read this, it might confuse me.

Meds can cause type two diabetes and most people cannot understand that.  Certain supplements can lead to diabetes too.  The supplements are basically what the medications are designed off of.

I'll never be certain, but I think the primary issue for me was chronic stress mixed with chronic sleep deficit. Sleep was measured in 90 minute segments to match the up/down nature of REM sleep, so I had 3 hour nights as much as 6 or waking up when I felt like it. Then everything, every day, every time was on the clock. It gets to be a way of life and my passengers always reminded me how extreme it was to walk into fresh (we're stopping for the bathroom, the truck needs to be rolling in 15  ....and the time is absolute). To a passenger outside the industry, having that be the way every stop worked, every time is tough. After being out of the life for a few years...I look back and figure that cost far more to maintain than I ever felt at the time, because it was one constant blur of activity then.

@wrabbit2000,

When they told you you can't drive anymore, they actually did you a favor because they removed you from a toxic environment, basically kicking you out of the rat race.  You should have never been in the rat race, you are a Wrabbit.  At the time you probably felt bad, sort of like you were being punished for not being able to do what you expected of yourself.  Notice I said expected of yourself.  Someone realized subconsciously that you were spiraling downward and took action to correct the spin.  If you would have gone on for a few more years, maybe you would have had very serious problems.  The rat race is full of stress, I know, I lived it.  Now I look back and know that if I had not been forced out by my accident, I would be dead.  I figured that from all the studying I was doing and symptoms I actually was having before the accident.  I doubt if I would be here today if I hadn't had that accident back in 02.  The way of life I was living would have put me on meds for my heart that I can't tolerate, they would have killed me by now.  I needed to always be go go go and work work work.  One multimineral changed my need for that.  If I wanted to go back all I would have to do is remove that from my life and I would resume making taurine in high amounts and work myself to death.  I can't heal like I could twenty years ago, that is an age related thing.  I can still hold my own but not on a daily basis.  I was high on endorphins my body created to deal with the pain of abusing my body.  Exercise can be addicting and can jeopardize rational thinking.  You start to think there is nothing better than working.

Everything went as planned, you are here today talking to me as was intended in the script of life.