Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crystals in the Pancreas
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The theory they were proving out was that the fat built up in the pancreas was tricking their body into seeing the wrong amounts of insulin.
[ edit ] Adding link for Dr. Fung's research [1] as mentioned in a reply by SteveCoast
Fung has lots of articles on Medium and /r/fasting is a great resource. Fung and also Taubes books are great and point out he maddening simplicity, that diabetes is high insulin is high sugar intake and that we treat it with... higher insulin. It's insanity, and because we can't see the wood for the trees we have smart people go study things like how much titanium you have in your body rather than solving the actual problem of carb intake.
Why can't we have both? We have a lot of smart people and the more ideas we have go through the scientific process of becoming a recognized treatment, the better. It doesn't take an army of smart people to create solutions, just a few. It's drive and motivation to solve problems that's in limited supply.
if we can reduce type 2 diabetes without reducing carb intake, that's a win.
What is great about problems during fasting though, generally speaking, to solve them is as easy as breaking the fast.
There are fasting clinics where doctors monitor the urine output from patients to determine if their body is expelling too many toxins at one time, and help control the fast.
> Titanium dioxide found to cause pre-cancerous growths in 40% of mice
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/toothpaste-additi...
Cinnamon caused some kind of liver dysfunction (cancer, IIRC) in mice. I turns out that mice lacked a metabolic pathway for processing a byproduct of the breakdown of Cinnamon, a pathway that humans possess. Mouse models aren't perfect, so it's probably premature to use the value-laden word "worse" in relation to TiO2 in toothpaste.
Anyway in rodents at very low doses their liver converts it to some nasty epoxide which slowly gives rodents liver cancer; not an issue for primates who an only die from acute liver toxicity.
This was a "thing" generations ago, leading to endless old wives tale type advice about cinnamon "repelling and killing mice" which actually doesn't work because its too bitter if dusted around in pure form.
If you're bored its interesting to research cinnamon-flavored liquors, the more "natural and organic", at least if it uses cassia for flavor, the higher the poisonous coumarin content and in contrast the more processed refined pure cinnamaldehyde is essentially non-poisonous (lethal dose for a human would be about half a liter of the concentrated oil, extrapolating from animal studies, figure a percent or two of total body mass). From memory the LD50 of common table salt is about 10% lower than the LD50 of cinnamaldehyde, of course in a cinnamon flavored liquor the ethanol would kill a consumer long before the cinnamaldehyde would be an issue.
https://www.tomsofmaine.com/our-promise/ingredients/titanium...
You'll find it in food, paint, opaque white plastics, cosmetics, sunscreen (it blocks UV), paper, toothpaste, and tons of other stuff.
Yike!
From the conclusion:-
“Being a pilot study, it requires sufficient expansion of sample sizes for statistical analysis as well as blinded studies.”
I changed my life habbits completely.
I just got back from the doctor and my A1Cs are now 4.8!
I'm so excited!
Started with Atkins diet, now I'm little looser. Just limited carbs.
Working out, mainly running.
Intermittent fasting. Each day, I eat something small in the morning, maybe slim fast, maybe nuts, and one meal in the afternoon.
Also you could smell your urine, if it stinks like ammonia, your blood sugar levels are high.
If your blood sugar levels are normal you feel healthy.
I've been a T1 since I was 10 and this is my experience. The real problem is not noticing highs but noticing lows. Because low blood sugar is much more threatening than highs for the short term.
But regarding "feeling" when your blood sugar is high, I didn't feel it. However, I had symtoms of always urinating and really thirsty, my friend (diabetic) recognized the signs and tested me. It was 420.
Starting that day, I changed my life, hard.
To this day, I never "feel" my blood sugar fluctuate. I could get it up to 140, and down to 70, and I wouldn't be able to guess. I mean, I could guess by taking into account what I have eaten recently, but never based on "feeling" alone.
Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients.
Thats illegal, they have at least to mention "Artificial coloring"
Also it's only added to skim milk, ratacat post about industrial milk and whatever isn't true.
Holding up a glass of grass fed cow milk to store bought milk really shows the difference. The store bought milk suddenly looks bleached white, like liquid paper.
I understand why TiO2 is used in paint and even in cosmetics but why should it be in anything that is eaten or in medicines? None of that needs to be shining white.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/diabetes-defeated-by-diet-ne...
Also Titanium Dioxide is in foods and many of them.
It doesnt account for insulin resistance or the other issues found with it - many people who are type II have normal insulin levels
So, it could be that T2DM patients simply don't clear TiO2 from their pancreas as well as non T2DM patients (perhaps impaired kidney function).
On another hand TiO2 is a "magnet" for other heavy metals. Researches are proposing using it in water filters to filter out other heavy metals because it attracts them so much. Consequently, having it accumulate in your tissue can't be good for long term health.