Notes from Live Blood Analysis Cases

If you’ve had your live blood analysis done, you would have looked at many aspects of your blood - red cells, white cells, and all sorts of interesting shapes in between doing the backstroke. We may have addressed a blood sugar imbalance - the tip-off would have been a strangely shaped item - a very subtle shape - giving us lots of insight into your blood sugar imbalances - called a pteroharpen. Such a unique name for a nasty little item!

Identifying this little item in one’s blood is reserved for blood viewed live on a slide immediately after taking (not from lab collected blood that has sat around in a vile) and this fresh drop is then analyzed from the point of view of pleomorphism. It’s a term coined by Dr. Enderlein, one of the brilliant minds that gave us this body of knowledge, many decades ago.
This nasty little spec of toxic protein looks similar to a platelet and is surrounded by a very thin, vaguely visible, film (albeit fragile) of oil and sugar - an oligosaccharide - to keep us from being harmed, such that the toxic little protein bit cannot attach itself onto the vein or artery walls and cause inflammation.

The fragile protection surrounding this little toxic protein-bit, nature’s brilliant signature of always doing the best possible for us, can be thwarted by our own unwitting interference. Chemotherapy definitely makes complete dust of the protective coating and other harsh pharmaceuticals strip the protection away, also. Interesting correlations are that diabetes (and the presence of these pteroharpens) runs parallel with increased heart issues (due to vein/artery inflammation) and also with arthritis and painful swelling, bowel tissue inflammation and bleeding and inflammations in general.
Best, is not to have any of these health issues on board, to begin with, of course. Next best is to know that you have them and why and then to know what to do about them. They are a sign of a blood sugar imbalance - both hypoglycemia or diabetes.

Blood analysis experiments have been done minutes after a meal. Pteroharpens were measured and present in degrees that were roughly comparable to the amount of simple carbohydrates in the food just consumed and in decreasing amounts after the meal was being digested with occasional surges that seemed random. However, the pteroharpen also occurred after “protein only” meals loaded with significant triglycerides but to a much lesser degree after a meal with neither simple carbs or triglycerides.

I have two friends with diabetes who have great faith in their GP’s advice. When they’ve had yet another visit I always ask what the recommendations were and the overweight friend declares she was told she MUST loose weight or else she’ll be put on insulin. The other friend, who is a bag of bones, also comes back with the recommended she MUST loose weight or else she’ll be put on drugs... soon... and I wonder if there is an echo in the room... There's more to pro-active blood sugar balancing than just weight loss and waiting for deterioration towards drugs.
NOT ONCE was the true state of the pancreas addressed by the GP’s of my friends. NOT ONCE was there a suggestion that the pancreas itself should get some  specific attention and support. NOT ONCE were the organs that cooperate  with the pancreas focused on, for support, such as the liver and adrenals. What  about possible unresolved emotional issues with regards to the pancreas,  specifically? How can the pancreas be supported physically (that might  be less of a stretch for a GP to address and oh so simple). How can TCM and acupuncture  provide healing support? NOT ONCE were clients advised of THE SIMPLEST  and CHEAPEST nutritional support, either. How about something as simple as adding chromium and vanadium to your diet! This is  simple, basic, non-rocket-science, un-debatable, over-researched  information.

Another live blood analysis client of mine had severe type-I diabetes for decades and was on an automatic insulin pump that allowed insulin to flow into his blood flow thru a stent when the little computer and sensors attached at the waist indicated a need. Pretty clever technology! But an alarming amount of pteroharpens in his blood remained none-the-less! An intimidating pteroharpen convention! He was told to not eat sweets and simple starches, watch his diet, as ‘we are doing the best we can with the latest technology'... dah! Great technology but a bit more advice please!
His wife, a smart nurse, knew nothing of these simple minerals to supplement with and thought this expensive technology, dispensing automatic insulin was all there was and yes! quite marvelous!.

"Chromium works together with insulin in providing sugar to the cells for energy. If chromium levels decrease then sugar delivery into the cells from insulin decreases accordingly.
"Modern medical terms such as "insulin resistance" and "insulin sensitivity" should be replaced by "gross chromium deficiency". It is not that insulin is "resistant" or lacks "sensitivity," but rather that insulin is lacking"   (Chris Gupta)
Chromium is a vital essential component for sugar metabolism - and chromium is a cheap and important mineral.
"Insulin is a transport mechanism. It is like a truck that transports glucose to the cell. At the cell destination there is an insulin receptor site that is comparable to a loading dock. This is where the glucose is unloaded and passed into the cell. Chromium rich GTF molecules are in essence dock workers that assist the sugar (glucose) from the insulin "truck" at the insulin receptor site "loading dock" into the cell. If there are less and less GTF chromium "dock workers" then the work of providing sugar to the cells for energy slows and becomes unproductive. A traffic jam of insulin "trucks" in the blood stream results in higher and higher levels of blood sugar as the problem of chromium deficiency increases with the passing of time. (Chris Gupta)
"Tests taken 35 years ago have shown that almost 25 per cent of us have no detectable levels of chromium at all by the time we are age 40! If anything, things are presently worse..... (Chris Gupta)
Unrefined whole wheat and raw sugar from sugar cane are rich in chromium (both almost impossible to find). The refining of whole wheat into bleached, white flour and the refining of raw sugar into white sugar removes 95 per cent of the inherent chromium that these two staples provided in the past and that we so drastically need. Worse still, these now refined flours and sugars are quickly reduced into simple sugars that increase the blood sugar quickly, calling for even more insulin quickly, to assist in getting the sugar out of the bloodstream and into the cell. This turns foods that were once wholly good for you with the helpful mineral of chromium onboard, into foods that draw from your reserves and threaten you. Every time you consume a refined, white flour or white sugar your body depletes any stores of chromium you might still have left.

Chromium also occurs naturally in a wide variety of foods, but in infinitesimal amounts. Food processing, analytical tools, rating systems and so forth are not exact enough to give us great guidance, except that we know there is a bit more in ripe tomatoes, romaine lettuce and raw onions than in other vegetables. And as we cannot eat enough of these on a daily basis to make up a sufficient daily amount, it is best to rely on the supplement form - diabetes or not.
A diet considered adequate in all nutritional aspects as set out by dieticians, and those triangle type graphics with little pictures in them could contain as little as 5 micrograms of chromium per day! Wholly inadequate!

Our vegetables are grown in depleted soil or in hothouse fluids that are only as nutritiously complex and rich and nourishing as the fluids dripped into the hydroponic concoctions administered to the roots for speedy growth. I somehow doubt that mega-corporations are worrying about adding in the trace minerals we desperately need, when our medical professionals can’t even be bothered to figure out what the details are when we come to visit them for our health.
Chromium is an incredibly cheap supplement, available at any health food store. Any brand - hard to mess up as a manufacturer.

Most chromium supplement bottles will suggest 200 to 300 mcg’s per day depending on one’s body size. There is no toxic upper limit. As a dietary supplement, chromium is available as chromium picolinate, chromium polynicotinate, chromium chloride, and chromium-enriched yeast. There is substantial debate and opinion about the best form. Health Canada now allows chromium picolinate, the best in my opinion, to be sold in Canada again (now we don’t have to hide it in our spare tires going over the border).

Well, being nice to a tired out pancreas is important to all of us - support or prevention. Given the great number of people with diabetes and the great number of people who don’t even know they have a blood sugar imbalance, a simple pancreatic support suggestion is universal advice and good for all of us. I would like to see this slapped on the doctor’s wall for all to see, as all sorts of patients walk into the waiting room. Two simple minerals - chromium and vanadium - are all that needs to be suggested. No harm to anyone - benefit to all!
Vanadium is not well known. Vanadium is incredibly abundant in lobster , parsley and mushrooms and not too much in any other food. When you Google vanadium you read that it is in almost every vegetable but that is faulty info. Vanadium is not supplied/native to hot house root juice - just in quality organic soil.

Two bunches of parsley per week per person would be a good start for a therapeutic re-boot; and a little less for maintenance. One/two bunches a week would be tiresome to munch on... very off-putting over time. There is an elegant solution, however. Simply boil the parsley bunch(es) (hopefully organic) in a liter of water for a few minutes. Have a drink of it (tastes okay while still warm). Then throw out the boiled parsley and keep the mineral-rich water. Once the parsley is boiled, the enzymes and vitamins are lost anyway but the minerals remain. This hyper-rich parsley/vanadium water is perfect for cooking brown rice or spelt or quinoa, as the water is absorbed into these top notch healthy carbs (small therapeutic portions to keep blood sugar balanced). Make extra rice or quinoa for stir-fries or to add to salads, or to be creative with, for example. For variation there is pesto (concentrated amounts of parsley substituted for basil) and parsley can be chopped and added to almost any dish or sauce or stew, the latter started with parsley water. But by far the most can be consumed from the mineral rich water. There are a few supplements companies offering vanadium and chromium together in one pill or capsule. This may not be a good idea - they are competitive minerals, just like copper and zinc and although you need both, you would want to ingest them separately - not at the same time. (Research to get to the bottom of this is rarely done - UBC in back in 1985). It markets well - but don't be fooled.

Diet is crucial for imbalanced sugar levels. It's not about counting calories - it's getting the right foods in moderate quantities!
Have quality protein with every meal. Have quality fats with every meal. Spend some time understanding fats, such that you can work with them intelligently. Here is an example: You crave a starch... You see a potato... You think of the calories... You see it is white... You’ve been told that is all bad... So not on the list of foods that you think you are good for you and allowed....
Well, not really. One 2 1/2 inch diameter potato has 200 calories. It also has lots of potassium and some B6, iron and Vit C. A whole potato, by itself, has too much starch for maintaining sugar balance and yet you don’t have to pass it up. Instead, eat half the potato and add a tablespoon of organic unsalted butter to it (the butter is an excellent source of butyric acid and balm for the millions of villa in the small intestinal track) and the calories remain the same. (There is no need for antibiotics and salt in butter, so organic and salt-free butter is by far - the superior choice for this marvelous nutrient.) Now you have a serving of wise nutrition, you don't have to feel denied and the bloodstream’s uptake of the starch is slowed right down by the healthy butter! The calories remain the same. You need to eat according to a low glycemic index. (This potato with butter would qualify as a smart low glycemic choice.) Protein and quality fats put the breaks on any carb - complex and simple.
The glycemic index is interesting and is based on two different systems and can be confusing when you think there is only one - one derived from sugar and one from white flour. (Use the first and forget the second...) The glycemic index is in every diabetic’s manual.

And here are some easy add-ons for fine tuning - to support sugar imbalances. Homeopathics can be subtlety and powerful. And so can the cousin to homeopathics - cell salts (sometimes they’re called tissue salts or Schluesser salts). These can do no harm and are inexpensive. The three most helpful for sugar imbalances are:
    •    Kalium sulphate (D6)  (Kali. sulph.)
    •    Natrium sulphate (D6)  (Nat. sulph.)
    •    Calium phosphate (D6)  (Calc. phos.)

And treat yourself to a nice reflexology session and have your pancreas and liver given special attention - see the little green graphic or just have a friend massage your feet in the right places!
Presently we have a whole specialty of medicine devoted to diabetes, which could be wiped out by restoring / taking two little minerals, eating wisely and a few homeopathics... But what the public doesn’t know won't help them...

Happy Eating and please pass this on.
Merrie Bakker, Pacific Holistic, 604-261-7742, http://www.pacificholistic.com, info@pacificholistic.com