Prevent and Cure Gestational Diabetes
by: Jonathan V. Wright, MD
You Can Prevent and Cure Gestational Diabetes, and Lower Your Child’s Risk of Autism!
• Xanthurenic acid binds insulin, impeding it’s action • Vitamin B6 lowers xanthurenic acid levels to normal • In two 1970s research studies, 86% and 100% of women with gestational diabetes normalized their blood sugar in two weeks
• Gestational diabetes increases autism risk for the unborn child; vitamin B6 eliminates that extra risk
No, not kidding! If you’re a pregnant woman who never had any sort of diabetes before you became pregnant, and developed high blood sugar only after becoming pregnant (gestational diabetes), you can safely eliminate it all by yourself within two to three weeks. You might have the remedy at home already! If not, a trip to your favorite natural food store, compounding pharmacy, or maybe even an on-line order from the Tahoma Clinic Dispensary or other on-line source will equip you to eliminate gestational diabetes almost every time!
Of course if you’re a man, you’ll never have this problem. However, your wife, sister, or daughter might, so keep this information in mind in case it’s ever needed.
One of many reasons gestational diabetes should be eliminated as rapidly as possible was discovered recently, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association just last year. What is this reason? Autism!
Here’s what the researchers wrote: “Exposure to maternal gestational diabetes mellitus diagnosed by 26 weeks gestation was associated with risk of autism spectrum disorder in offspring.”1 of developing autism!
Yes, that’s extra risk for the child
But even though blood and urine sugar is higher than normal in those with gestational diabetes, gestational diabetes is not type 2 or even type 1 diabetes mellitus! To make this point clear to everyone, gestational diabetes should be re-named diabetes mellitus xanthurenica to clearly identify it’s cause: excess serum xanthurenic acid. When this re-naming occurs, even conventional medicine might quit treating gestational diabetes with “diabetic diet” and insulin and actually treat the cause!
Here’s what “WebMD” says is the cause of gestational diabetes:2
“During pregnancy, the placenta….releases 10
• Xanthurenic acid (XA)—a tryptophan metabolite— is high in serum in gestational diabetes
tational diabetes always includes special meal plans and scheduled physical activity. It may also include daily blood glucose testing and insulin injections.”
Let’s send a note to WebMD and the ADA: “Read the medical research! ”What actually causes gestational dia- betes was well researched between the 1940s and 1975, when a report4
hormones that help your baby grow. Some of these make it harder for your body to make or use insulin. This is called insulin resistance….To keep your blood sugar levels steady, your pancreas has to make…as much as three times more [insulin] than usual. If it can’t make enough extra insulin, your blood sugar will rise and you’ll get gestational diabetes.” And here’s what the American Diabetes Association tells women:3
“Treatment for ges-
explained that gestational diabetes is caused by excessive amounts of xanthurenic acid, usually present in blood in very low levels. All this xanthurenic acid combines with insulin molecules and blocks it’s
activity.The “xanthurenic acid-insulin complex” can’t activate insulin receptors nearly as well as insulin alone does, and blood sugar rises.
Back to the causes of diabetes mellitus type 2 and type 1. In type 2, the cause is overproduction of insulin in response to carbohydrates (and dairy, but an explanation for that at another time). As the March issue of Green Medicine explains, overproduced, chronically high insulin causes insulin resistance, which in turn leads to even more insulin secretion to overcome that resistance, which leads to even more insulin secretion.
This back and forth upward trending interplay (more insulin, more resistance, even more insulin, even more resistance, and so on) goes on and on (unless “carbs”— and dairy—are significantly restricted) until the insulin resistance is so strong it can’t be completely overcome, no matter how much insulin there may be. Blood sugar then goes too high—and it’s diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. This known cause of type 2 diabetes is very different than the cause of diabetes mellitus xanthurenica!
The cause of type 1 diabetes is much simpler. For a variety of reasons, the insulin-producing cells (“islet cells”) become weak and die. When that happens, insulin levels go lower and lower, until there’s very little insulin, or even none—that’s type 1 diabetes. Again, a very different cause from diabetes mellitus xanthurenica.
But doesn’t everyone’s body chemistry make xanthurenic acid? (It’s a metabolite of tryptophan.) Indeed, 100% of us have this body chemistry. So why don’t we all have gestational diabetes even if we’re not pregnant? The reason is that levels of xanthurenic acid are relatively low in most of us (unless we’re deficient in a certain B-vitamin to be named later) so there’s not very much “xanthurenic acid-insulin complex” formed.
What’s different during pregnancy? Among other things, it’s a combination of “genetic” causes and those really- high-estrogen levels that women’s bodies make when pregnant, way, way more than when not pregnant. But why does all that extra estrogen cause only a minority of women’s bodies to make lots more xanthurenic acid and (Continued on next page)
THE ORIGINAL INTERNIST MARCH 2018
summarized the earlier research and then
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