Some people do not have diabetes, because of some diseases to the hospital injections, take medicine, and then to measure the body data, should not be normal, especially the blood sugar number, under the effect of the drug may be high, mistakenly take hypoglycemic drugs, will not be a lifelong disease. Adolescents, in particular, are easily mistaken for pancreatic catheter dependence.
There are several common misconceptions about diabetes testing:
Mistake 1: Diagnosing diabetes based on urine glucose results
In the eyes of many people, diabetics must have sugar in their urine, otherwise they are not diabetic. This view is actually wrong.
Analysis: In the case of normal blood glucose level, the glucose filtered out when the blood flows through the glomeruli can be completely reabsorbed into the blood by the renal tubules, so the urine glucose test is negative. When the blood sugar rises to a certain level, the glucose in the glomerular filtrate cannot be completely reabsorbed by the renal tubules, and the remaining part is excreted in the urine, so the urine glucose test is positive. In the case of normal renal function, blood glucose is consistent with urine glucose, i.e., the higher the blood glucose, the higher the urine glucose. In medicine, the lowest blood glucose level that can cause glucose in urine is called the "renal glucose threshold". The renal glucose threshold in normal adults is about 10 mmol/L, and the renal glucose threshold in the elderly is even higher than this. In other words, the blood glucose concentration of diabetic patients is at least 10mmol/L or more before the urine glucose is positive. We know that as long as the fasting blood glucose ≥ 7.0 mmol/L can be diagnosed. For those patients with early mild diabetes mellitus with fasting blood glucose of 7.0~10mmol/L, if the diagnosis is based on positive urine glucose, these patients will be missed. For example, some tubular diseases, due to the renal tubular reabsorption of glucose, although the patient's blood sugar is normal, the urine glucose is positive, which we call "renal glycosuria";
Therefore, diabetes cannot be diagnosed or excluded by the presence or absence of positive urine glucose, but should be based on fasting, two-hour postprandial blood glucose or glucose tolerance test results.
Mistake 2: Use the results of a blood glucose meter to diagnose diabetes
Nowadays, many community clinics and diabetics have blood glucose meters, which are convenient and fast, and are ideal for out-of-hospital blood glucose monitoring. However, some people use the test results of blood glucose meters to diagnose diabetes, which is inappropriate, because there is a certain discrepancy between the test results of blood glucose meters and the test results of the hospital's large biochemical instrument.
Analysis: According to the provisions of the WHO, the diagnosis of diabetes is based on the measurement of blood glucose in venous plasma (note: the remaining part after the blood separation removes red blood cells and other formed components is plasma), and the blood glucose meter measures capillary whole blood glucose, which is 10% ~ 15% lower than venous plasma blood glucose. Therefore, if diabetes is diagnosed by the results of a rapid glucose meter, it is easy to miss the diagnosis of patients with early-stage diabetes who have mildly elevated fasting blood glucose. The blood glucose meter can only be used for the monitoring of diabetes, but not as the basis for the diagnosis of diabetes. To diagnose diabetes, you must go to the hospital to draw venous blood and test it with a large biochemical instrument.
Mistake 3: The influence of stressors has not been ruled out
Is it possible to have diabetes diagnosed with diabetes by taking a random blood sugar test and meeting the diagnostic criteria? The answer is: "No".
Analysis: We know that stressors such as infection, high fever, trauma, and surgery can cause a transient increase in blood sugar, and as the stress factors are lifted, blood sugar can return to normal. Therefore, the diagnosis of diabetes requires the exclusion of stressors, in other words, the results of blood glucose tests after the stress has subsided.
Finally, it should be noted that the diagnosis of diabetes based on blood glucose levels is only a "qualitative diagnosis", and then the "classification diagnosis" of diabetes is carried out. There are four main types of diabetes: type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and other specific types of diabetes (formerly known as "secondary diabetes"). Diabetes caused by certain drugs (such as glucocorticoids, diuretics), chronic liver disease, and certain endocrine disorders (such as hypercortisolism, growth hormone tumors, hyperthyroidism, etc.) is secondary diabetes.
The thinking of Western medicine in curing diseases is to find out what disease is and then use medicine for that disease, which is very scientific on the surface, but in fact it is outrageously wrong! The principle of medicine in Western medicine is to use medicine according to the name of the disease. At first glance, this is very true, and there is nothing wrong with it? Is there still a mistake in using medicine for diseases? In fact, the method of treating diseases with medicine for diseases is very wrong! The reason why Western medicine does not cure diseases, and the reason why people are often treated to death is precisely the reason why they are wrong. So what is the right way to use medicine? It is right to use medicine according to the cause.
For example, a patient with high blood sugar, as soon as Western medicine sees high blood sugar, he lowers the patient's blood sugar, and at first one drug works, but then one drug does not work, and a combination of drugs is needed! Later, the combination of multiple drugs does not work, so he needs to take insulin, at first he can take it once a day, and then he can't take it once a day, and he needs to take it many times. However, this did not cure diabetes, and later diabetes complications appeared, some people developed diabetic foot disease, lower limb ulceration, and some people diabetes complications acted on the eyes, and many eye diseases appeared! Let's think about it, from the initial treatment of diabetes, did Western medicine cure our disease, or did it cure our disease?
We know that sugar is an indispensable energy substance for the human body, and when the intake of sugar in the human body is insufficient, hypoglycemia will occur, and people will be afraid of cold, fatigue, dizziness, and so on! Since sugar is an energy substance, can it be done by lowering blood sugar? Where does your Western medicine lower the sugar in the human body? This Western medicine cannot explain it!
Anyone who has studied physics knows that there is a law of conservation of energy, which is a fundamental law in physics, which states that in a closed system, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can only be converted between different forms. The total energy within the system is always kept constant. This law applies to systems of all scales, from macroscopic to microscopic, whether classical or quantum. Sugar, as a kind of energy in the human body, obviously cannot disappear without being transformed by the method of transformation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweetness enters the spleen, and the idea of treating diabetes in Chinese medicine strengthens the strength of the spleen, so that sugar can be converted into kinetic energy and heat energy of the human body, which is the correct way to eliminate the sugar of the human body, rather than Western medicine blindly lowering blood sugar! Where does Western medicine lower the sugar go?
Mr. Xiong Fulin's "Why Can't You Use Western Medicine to Lower Blood Sugar" discusses that in order to understand "why you can't use Western medicine to lower blood sugar", we must understand the significance of elevated blood sugar in diabetes and the role of Western medicine in lowering blood sugar. Diabetes experts can no longer cope with diabetes, so it is up to the people themselves to understand what diabetes is and why the current methods of dealing with diabetes can't be done? As long as we can correctly understand the causes of diabetes and understand the current wrong ways of modern medicine to deal with diabetes, we can understand how terrible it is to use Western medicine to lower blood sugar and thus control diabetes. The use of Western medicine to lower blood sugar will not kill the patient immediately, but it will reduce the quality of life of the patient and reduce the life expectancy of the patient.
(1) Dr. Mark, president of the American Institute of Functional Medicine, personal physician of former US President Clinton, adviser to the White House on health care reform, and bestselling author of six New York Times bestsellers, disclosed a 2008 US Institutes of Health trial in his book "Blood Sugar Solution", and the results were shocking: some surprising new findings have led us to question the outdated treatment that only relies on drugs or insulin to lower blood sugar. The study "Actions to Control the Risk of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease in Diabetic Patients", published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008, recruited a total of 10,000 diabetic patients, all of whom had received intensive or regular treatment to lower blood sugar. They are monitored and also assessed for the risk of heart attack, stroke and death.
Surprisingly, patients with the lowest blood sugar drops have a higher risk of death. In fact, the U.S. Institutes of Health terminated the study after three and a half years because it was too aggressive in lowering blood sugar, apparently leading to more patient deaths and heart attacks.
The above proves that lowering blood sugar is not only not beneficial to diabetic patients, but will harm diabetic patients.
(2) Most of the current clinical practice guidelines, treatment quality evaluations, quality improvement interventions, and academic and clinical statements spare no effort to support strict glycemic control to prevent complications of type 2 diabetes. However, a study published on August 23, 2016 suggests that the available evidence-based medical evidence does not support strict glycemic control as a treatment to prevent complications of type 2 diabetes.
The above strongly proves that lowering blood sugar cannot prevent complications.
(3) The following is a paraphrase from Professor Guo Yifang's "Guo Yifang's Heart Frontier", which is that all hypoglycemia cannot prevent diabetic cardiovascular disease:
1. DIGAMI2 study: Published in 2005, the study subjects were patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with acute myocardial infarction. The results showed that intensive insulin therapy did not reduce all-cause mortality compared with conventional treatment;
2. PROactive study: Published in 2005, the study subjects were patients with type 2 diabetes with macrovascular complications. Treatment with pioglitazone or placebo is added to usual care. The results showed that there was no difference in the incidence of composite endpoint events between the two groups;
3. BARI2D study: Published in 2009, the study subjects were diabetic patients with coronary heart disease, comparing whether the use of insulin sensitizers or insulin therapy can delay or prevent the development of coronary atherosclerotic lesions. The incidence of the primary endpoint was 11.8% and 12.1% in the insulin sensitizer group and insulin treatment group (P=0.89), and the incidence of major adverse cardiac events was 22.3% and 24.6%, respectively (P=0.13).
4. RECORD study: published in 2009, the subjects of the study were those who could not meet the blood glucose target after adequate treatment with metformin or sulfonylureas. The results showed that the addition of rosiglitazone to metformin or sulfonylurea therapy, or the combination of metformin and sulfonylureas, had no effect on the incidence of composite cardiovascular endpoints.
5. ORIGIN study: published in 2012, the study subjects were patients with impaired fasting blood glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, or new-onset diabetes. The results showed that glycemic control with insulin glargine had no effect on the incidence of major cardiovascular events compared with conventional treatment;
6. SAVOR-TIMI53 study: published in 2013, the study subjects are diabetic patients with a history of cardiovascular events or cardiovascular risk factors. The results showed that the addition of saxagliptin to usual care had no effect on the incidence of major composite cardiovascular endpoints compared with placebo;
7. EXAMINE study: published in 2013, the study subjects are patients with type 2 diabetes who have recently developed acute coronary syndrome. The results showed that the addition of alogliptin to usual care had no effect on the incidence of primary composite cardiovascular endpoints compared with placebo;
8. TECOS study: Published in 2015, the study subjects were patients with type 2 diabetes with a history of cardiovascular disease. The results showed that the addition of sitagliptin to usual care had no effect on the primary cardiovascular endpoint event compared with placebo;
9. ELIXA study: Completed in 2015 in patients with type 2 diabetes who recently developed acute coronary syndrome. The results showed that the addition of the GLP-1 agonist lixila to usual care had no effect on the primary cardiovascular endpoint compared with placebo;
None of the above hypoglycemic studies have proved that hypoglycemia can prevent complications, so it strongly proves that modern medical hypoglycemia is useless.
100 years ago, Western medicine has recognized that blood impurity and blood viscosity are the main culprits of diabetes, but for 100 years, there has been no Western medicine or treatment that can directly solve the blood problems of diabetic patients.
However, insulin has helped many diabetic patients save their immediate needs, but they also have endless consequences. The magnitude of the problem can be seen from the following set of data.
(1) Diabetic patients take 2500 grams of Western medicine per capita, if eaten at one time, it is enough to poison 2 elephants, and its toxicity can be imagined.
(2) Completely use the treatment methods of Western medicine, because the body organs are damaged by drugs, the average life expectancy of patients is reduced by 20 to 30 years, and even Western medicine itself admits that the vast majority of diabetic patients do not die of diabetes itself, but from the damage of the heart, brain, liver, kidney, and wrong treatment caused by drugs.
Western medicine lowers blood sugar, but the poison of the medicine is that the blood becomes dirty, thickened, and clogs blood vessels. For diabetes, people first think of lowering blood sugar through drugs to restore the body's blood sugar to normal values. The drug makes the patient's blood sugar seem to be lowered, but because the patient takes too many hypoglycemic drugs, the toxins in the drug further deteriorate the patient's blood environment, the blood cleanliness is getting worse and worse, the patient's blood viscosity is getting thicker and thicker, the blood flow rate is getting slower and slower, and the blood vessels cannot be expanded indefinitely, and the blood stasis re-blocks the blood vessels.
Drugs that lower blood sugar make the blood dirty and thickened, resulting in the necrosis of the patient's pancreatic islet cells, and the function of the pancreatic islets slowly weakens until finally lost, so that the person's blood sugar becomes higher, the nutrition is worse, and finally there is a serious surplus, making the blood dirtier and the living environment of the pancreatic islets worse, forming a typical vicious circle.
Blood sugar drops, but the blood environment deteriorates, not only the islet function is weakened, but also the blood sugar becomes dirty, the blood flow rate can not be normalized, the blood flow is also reduced correspondingly, the blood flow is reduced, the oxygen is reduced, ischemia and hypoxia will cause chronic damage to the brain, so the patient will eventually have slow thinking, hand tremors, poor memory and even dementia;
Diabetes mellitus is a disorder of visceral metabolic function. As we all know, sugar is the body's source of energy, and the taste of sugar is sweet. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine theory, the metabolism of sugar is related to the spleen and stomach, because the spleen and stomach belong to the soil, the taste of the soil is sweet, the stomach is the main food, the spleen is transported, the middle qi mediates, the clear and the turbidity is lowered, and the human body can remove the old and cloth the new, so the theory of traditional Chinese medicine also believes that the spleen and stomach are the acquired foundation of the human body (the innate nature is in the kidney).
The spleen is also in charge of the operation of blood to a certain extent (the driving force that promotes the operation of blood is in the kidneys, conduction in the liver and spleen, transportation in the heart, and treatment in the lungs, and the blood operation mechanism is related to the five organs). Part of the power of the spleen comes from the rising power of the liver and kidney, and the other part comes from the energy transformed by diet, and the main function of the spleen is to convert sugar from diet into energy and transport it into the blood, and become the power of the human body, just like burning coal into fire, steaming water into gas, and turning gas into power, which is very similar to the principle of steam engine invented in the West. Now due to the transformation function of the spleen, sugar cannot be converted into energy normally, but stays in the blood, becoming a burden on the blood, then the blood sugar must be high, and the so-called diabetes in Western medicine occurs.
Originally, the spleen was the main body of promoting and clearing qi, that is, the driving force from the kidneys and liver was transmitted to the heart, but now due to the lack of rising power, it cannot promote the subtle rise of the diet into energy, but instead makes the nutrients sink into the kidneys and are excreted with the urine.
However, due to the limitations of Western medical theories, it is impossible to understand the root cause of the inability of sugar to be converted into energy (equivalent to hydration into gas), so it is impossible to cure the disease fundamentally. Fortunately, they discovered insulin, which is automatically produced in the process of spleen transport, and is the material form of the spleen's function, and the only way for Western medicine to treat diabetes is to inject synthetic insulin into the human body, which can lower blood sugar and relieve some symptoms in a short period of time. However, there is still no cure for this disease, because insulin cannot grow on its own, so it needs to be injected continuously, and long-term injection will not only completely lose the normal function of the spleen, but also destroy the function of the liver and kidney, and eventually lead to the so-called complications of Western medicine, such as hand and foot rottenness, kidney failure, blindness and other bad syndromes, which will eventually be incurable. Therefore, Western medicine says that diabetes is a lifelong disease and a terminal disease, and this is indeed the case for Western medicine.
As mentioned earlier, the root cause of this disease is the destruction of the spleen's clearing function, and the reason why the spleen qi does not rise is also the non-rise of kidney yang (equivalent to the internal combustion engine's furnace fire is too small to ignite the coal), the main rise of yang energy (hot and light), and the main decline of yin qi (cold and heavy).