Vitamins and How They Help Prevent Diabetes

In this episode, we explore the important role vitamins play in supporting metabolic health and helping reduce the risk of diabetes. We discuss key nutrients such as vitamin D, magnesium, and B vitamins—and how they influence blood sugar regulation, insulin sensitivity, and overall energy metabolism.

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Welcome to the Nutrition Factor. I'm your host, Dr. Jimmy Steeger, and today's topic is vitamins and diabetes. One out of every four patients that comes to my office or my clinic, no matter where they're from, probably has some form of prediabetic condition, if not diabetes type 1 or 2. Diabetes type 2 is pretty simple to get rid of in most cases. We have patients that come in taking at least two prescription meds for this, usually one in the morning and one in the evening. And if you straighten out their diet correctly and put them on the correct B vitamins, which are all of them, which we're fixing to discuss, in as little as two to three weeks, these people will change tremendously. And usually within six to eight weeks, you can uh totally get them off these meds and develop a much more normal, healthy lifestyle, which they can continue on with and uh do well with in their lifetime as long as they continue eating correctly. Most people don't know what to do, obviously, and they're eating the wrong foods day in and day out, like most Americans. So if you have any type of diabetes, give us a call. You can give us a call here at our office. Go to our website, dr Jimmy Steiger.com. We'll put you on the correct program, the correct protocol, the correct nutritional supplements. Lifeguard Nutritional Supplements is our title sponsor. They have the best nutritional supplements out there. So if we put you on a grade A tier one product with the correct nutritional program behind it, you'll see a tremendous difference in your overall health in no time. The pancreas, what does it take to feed the pancreas correctly so it doesn't break down? It takes two vitamins correctly, taken at the right times of the day, to help the pancreas function at normal levels. What are they? First is the B complex vitamin. Your body needs the entire complex of B vitamins in a good quality methylated form. So you need B1, B2, B3, B6, B11, B12, all the B vitamins in the correct configuration. However, what most people don't know is you also need a good C vitamin to accompany this. Vitamin C helps wrap itself around the B vitamins, keeps it from being prematurely oxidized before it gets to the cell. And the best time to take your B and C vitamins is mid-morning and mid-afternoon. So when people come in here and we put them on a customized nutrition program, we show them how much to take and when to take it to help them with their overall health and with their diabetic situation they may be in. So B and C vitamins are the ticket to getting the pancreas where it needs to be, and that's what we're going to discuss today. Minerals are always very important. They're the catalyst. The pancreas needs on a daily basis sodium. Good sodium now. Don't go out and buy refined table salt and say that I told you to take in table salt. It's not true. Good quality sodium we get from our foods. Chlorine, that's organic chlorine, by the way. Once again, we're getting this from good quality organic foods. Copper, iron, magnesium, potassium, silicon, and zinc. These are the minerals that drive the pancreas and control it. A lot of people have a severe deficiency of chromium, vanadium, and indium also. Those are extremely important for diabetics, because every time we test a patient, you'll always see issues with one of those three, if not all four: chromium, vanadium, indium, and bismuth. Very important. I build a formula called Propanplex, which goes in and feeds the pancreas these four minerals to help bring it back up to par, get it where it needs to. So the islands of Langerheinz is not being deprived of proper nutrients. So we put this in the body and watch these patients change very quickly. The first successful treatment of hyperglycemia with any form of B complex vitamin goes back to the early 30s. And by taking a complete organic form of B vitamins, this alone caused a slow but definite improvement in the majority of all cases treated simply by changing this alone. At that time, attention was called to the fact that diabetes with a tenant hypertension also required vitamin C to get the very most out of the clinical findings. Now, if you're taking vitamin C and you're taking an ascorbic acid by itself, you're probably taking garbage. So be careful the source, just like B vitamins, you need to take a good quality vitamin C source. We have a product called Pro Bio B and Pro C500, which have the correct formulations. When you're taking a C, if you're taking vitamin C, look on your back. If it doesn't have as scorbates, if it doesn't have rootin or bioflavonoids attached to it, then you're probably not taking a good quality grade A product. So take that in consideration. Diabetes with hypotension is more evident case of vitamin B deficiency. Lack of B's in a complex form causes a characteristic loss of vascular tone due to the functional failure of vascular innervation. And in all probability, the same functional failure of the pancreatic intervention can prevent the normal release of insulin after the ingestion of carbohydrates. So that's interesting as well because a lot of people drop carbohydrates too low in the body, and you have to be careful about your carbohydrate structure, when to take them, and how much to take in for your diabetic type 1 and type 2 patients. In this case, the pancreas may be perfectly intact and is known to be the case in many diabetics. The administration of taking a good B complex form in such cases may result in immediate release of insulin, usually within 15 to 30 minutes, according to the experience of many of my patients that I've seen for the past 45 years. And this is what they've reported to us. So after we hear this over and over and over, after putting them on a good quality nutritional program, you can see even the symptoms of hypoglycemia, hyperinsulinism may appear. Hyperinsulinism after meals is otherwise healthy. Individuals is not uncommon phenomenon. Strangely enough, the injection of insulin through medical intervention has proven successful remedy in that it supplies insulin without arousing the pancreas. While if the pancreas is called on, it overdoes the job by itself sometimes because it doesn't have sufficient B vitamins. When B vitamin administration causes hyperinsulinism, it is probably a similar situation. Indeed, the failure of the nervous control would logically result in the loading up of the pancreas beyond normal and result in an abnormal amount being released on the repair of the nervous connection. Again, such loss of nerve control with no demand on the pancreas or reduced demand, shall we say, can logically result ultimately in pancreatic atrophy or degeneration. It is known that the pancreatic alterations occur in vitaminosis B in test animals. The speed with which the administration of B complex in this type of case causes resumption of insulin secretion has caused these types of comments in patients, and it is really no speedier, however, that the cure of paralyzed doves and pigeons that has been prepared by withdrawal of taking these B vitamins away from their feed when the vitamin is supplied. A bird, pigeon, dove, can neither stand normally, is usually restored apparently to a normal uh disposition in as little as five to fifteen minutes while supplying the correct amount of nutrition back to the pigeon or dove. So it's interesting when you take nutrients away from animals, how quick they change, and humans take longer for this to happen. It's um sad that people use animals to test some of the stuff out on, but it's the way the system is, been doing ever since day one. The long continued partial vitaminosis to which human patients may be subjected, however, may not always respond as completely and as quick. The degeneration in such cases can be expected to be less easily restored, and it is a fact that limits our success in both the nervous tissue as well as the pancreas. Nothing but clinical tests on each patient will tell the story truly. So when you bring these patients in and we put them on these programs, we get great feedback within usually 14 days post-op when we see our patients on the second time in. This happens to a lot of patients. Adrenalin has one of its functions is to release the glycogen from the liver, and too much adrenaline may be due to a vitaminosis B and C as well. Once again, they work together, as each of these vitamins are necessary to proper function of the adrenals. Especially the cortex, and in their absence, hypertrophy may result as a result of this. And this hypertrophy often means hypersecretion of the medulla with attendant hypertension and diabetes of the pancreas is unable to take the extra load. The well-known effect of B vitamins and C, once again, to reduce hypertension in these cases depends on the effect of the adrenal gland. If the diabetic condition is due to adrenal stimulation, it also responds to this treatment. The amount of adrenaline that will cause hyperglycemia is less than that necessary to cause a rise in blood pressure. Therefore, it is important to supply the B and C together in all cases to see that vitamin C is tested in those cases where B vitamin alone fails to be of benefit. Under treatment with vitamin supplements, the average diabetic patient improves so much in the general sense of well-being within two to four weeks that it is inclined to depart from their diet after seeing these type of uh improvements. And it is an important thing to teach them this up front and be expecting because all my patients that we put on a program see considerable results in their blood sugar levels very quickly, and uh they are extremely pleased with the outcome within the first two to four weeks. A long, continued schedule of uh increased vitamins and lower carbohydrate intake is necessary for permanent benefit. Some people are eating too many carbs at one meal and they're eating too much of the wrong kind. And we must uh accept a basic fact that most endocrine imbalance is a result of vitamin and mineral starvation, uh, which goes back to what we talked about with the B, the C's, and the different minerals a moment ago. We need them all. We need them throughout the day, too, not just once a day in most cases. The outstanding feature of any chart of vitamin mental deficiency consequences are an appalling list of endocrine changes, atrophy or hypertrophy, or perencomatitis death, or compensatory enlargement, because the pancreas is often intact in uh severe diabetic patients. And because it has been found that the primary, both anterior and posterior, secretes of hormones that cause hyperglycemia, it has recently been suggested that pituitary disorder can be responsible for diabetes as well. Most people don't look into that, but we do. And the control of the over-secretion of diabetic to genetic hormones by means of X-rays. X-rays are directed to the pituitary has been proposed in some benefit reporting in a few test cases. However, the production by the posterior pituitary of another pancreotropic hormone that stimulates the activity and growth of the Langer Heinz and islets is known, so X-ray treatments are thereby ruled out. Very important. We note that. We know that a vitaminosis B causes degeneration of the pituitary. And so, no doubt, interferes with its normal hormone output. So the avitaminosis hypothesis of diabetes is further reinforced. The normal pituitary, no doubt, secretes a balanced output of glycemic regulators with adrenaline as a further factor. And so such a setup can reasonably be disbured by your vitamin and mineral deficiency in two basic ways. Number one, the starvation of the endocrines involved, and number two, the paralysis or reduced sensitivity of nervous controls. Many years ago, um they took a bear, I believe it was a honey bear, in a zoo, and could make this bear develop diabetes, uh, requiring it to have insulin administered to the bear so that it could function correctly simply by taking the honey away from the bear and giving it refined sweets in place of it. Now the bear didn't want the sweets, but it's all it had to take, and it was given to it, and so this in itself uh caused the honey bear to develop diabetes within a couple of weeks. We know honey is a great healthy source of B complex vitamins, super good for the human body, and so is wheat if we get it whole. That's the problem. We don't get wheat, Western wheat, in a whole form because most of it's devoid of nutrients we need. But the use of vast amounts of refined carbohydrates separated from its normally accompanying vitamin that's necessary to ensure its proper assimilation can only be expected to result in a rising curve of incidence of diabetes that exactly parallels the curve of rising volume of consumption of devitalized food. Diabetes is a serious condition, not particularly because of the blood hyperglycemia, but because the lowered metabolism of glycogen brings about an automatic defensive reduction in the conversion of fat, normally stored in the liver, which is where we store that and the normal stored in the liver into glycogen with the resultant damming up, we call it clogging up or damming up the fat in the blood in the liver, and it is this rise in the blood fat that truly causes diabetic coma. In diabetes, we have the cycle of events. Number one, failure of the pancreas to supply insulin for one reason or another, hyperglycemia and glycosuria. Number three, an automatic reduction defense reaction to compensate for reduced glycogen. And that's the glycogen metabolism and the amount of reserve uh fat converted into glycogen. Number four, accumulation of fat in the liver as well as in the tissues in the blood, and diabetic coma because of high blood fat. So we can see that diet and the correct amount of nutrients controls these factors in the diabetic patient. The susceptibility of the diabetic to infections and to gangrene can be combated successfully. Um, I have a lot of patients that come to me with this situation, and to combat the ill effects of possible infections and gangrene in the human body, I use a product that I build called ProSilver 500. Sometimes we use even my stronger ProSilver 2000 of parts per million mineral, these are all elemental nutrients now, not compounded. These are elemental. And then we use my Pro C 500, and we use my Provitamin D. And in gangrene cases, especially the use of my Provitamin C, we see amazing results. If we use a dosage of about 500 milligrams every three hours in the body, the body typically goes through 500 milligrams of vitamin C every six to eight hours. So if a person is coming down with any type of infection or gain green related to diabetes, then we have to up the C, up the D, bring in the ProSilver to get rid of the infection, and it will happen very quickly. And the dosage should be on the provitamin D, about uh a thousand to four thousand international units daily, sometimes higher depending on the patient, and at least four to six of the pro C500 milligrams a day. And uh, I've seen many cases. Where surgeons wanted to amputate a patient's leg because of gangrene, and after four, maybe six weeks on my summit protocol and diet, you can't rule out the diet now, the eating has to be your base always. The infections were totally gone, eliminating the need for any type of surgery at all. So if you have any type of infection in the human body, ladies and gentlemen, and you have diabetes, which is a common issue, it has clearly been shown, researched, and proven time and time again, that with the right nutrition program and the right amount of B vitamins, which once again, when a patient comes to our clinic, the first thing we do to them is we take a vitamin, mineral, and amino acid test on our patients. We find out what they're lacking, what their minerals are lacking. We build a custom formula for them from the lifeguard nutrition supplements and put them on a correct nutritional program to help them with this condition. Diabetes isn't nothing to play with, and it's extremely important for you parents that's got children that are prediabetic or juvenile diabetes, uh, even if they're on the shot, you can bring them in and we can put them on a program to help their condition tremendously. And we've seen a lot of amazing things happen in our clinic over the past 45 years through proper diet. That comes through proper education to the parents, and as the children grow up, continued education with them as well so they don't go backwards. Diabetes is a serious condition, and if you have this in your family and you think it runs in your family, understand this is not genetic related. 95% of the time it's based off your diet, your parents' diet. You can change that and change the outcome so you and your kids to be, or if you have children of any age, we stop this before it takes hold and puts your entire family down. It's not pretty, it's not something to play with. You need to take your diet serious, and once again, it's been clearly shown that by adding B complex vitamins and C in one's diet improves the condition of the diabetic totally. I'm your host, Dr. Jimmy Stiger. To learn more, you can go to our website, dr Jimmy Stiger.com. You can give us a call here at our office 251-660-1240. We see patients worldwide, and we can help you regardless of your condition. We hope that you and your family are well. And if not, you can give us a call here at the office. We'll be more than happy to help you get healthy and well. Until next time, stay healthy. God bless.