Abstract: Diabetes has been recognized as having emotional causes for 400 years.  Modern medicine has been treating it as simply a biochemical defect, and so has had little success in clearing it up.  By looking into the emotional causes, it is possible to have the body come back into balance, and the biochemical problems lessen or even disappear.
 

There seem to be several factors that disrupt the body's handling of blood sugar levels.  Nutritionists report that many times diabetic symptoms subside when adequate amounts of chromium, vitamin E, and the B vitamins, especially B-6, are taken. Omega-3 essential fatty acids (fish oils) have also been shown to be very beneficial.  Both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes respond very well to a diet that limits sugar and starch intake.

Conventional medicine believes that Type I diabetes results from an acute infection that damages the pancreas. Modern medicine does not have an explanation for why Type II diabetes develops.  They note that it is frequently associated with obesity, and may clear up with the loss of weight.

Other research has shown that there is frequently a significant emotional stress in the life of the patient at the time Type I diabetes develops.  Since modern medicine is founded on the belief that the body is a mechanism, it does not recognize that emotion influences the functioning of the mechanism.  There is evidence that at least some cases of Type I respond to changes in the psychological environment.

Diabetes has been recognized as having an emotional impact since the 1600s.  The textbook, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis by William Kroger, MD, identifies the endocrine disorder diabetes mellitus as one that has been improved by hypnotherapy.  This is true for both Type I and Type II diabetes.

There are several interesting facts about Type II diabetes: 1) It develops gradually later in life; 2) It is non-insulin dependent, which means that even injecting more insulin does not lower the blood sugar; and 3) The sugar is being actively released by the liver.  These three factors are the key to understanding how it develops and what can be done to reverse it.

What makes Type II diabetes non-insulin dependent is that cells in the body have stopped responding to the presence of insulin.  How did they do that?  The individual cells were receiving more insulin signals, and taking in more glucose, than was good for them.  So individual cells began reducing the number of insulin receptors on their surface.  This happens very slowly, over the course of a number of years.

The question naturally arises: “Why was the body producing too much insulin for its own good for a number of years, when for many years it knew how to produce the right amount?”  The answer is that it was producing the right amount of insulin for the blood sugar level.  The problem was that the blood sugar level was too high.  The liver was releasing glucose, but the muscles did not need it, so the blood sugar level went up.  The body recognized this as a problem and produced the insulin to lower the blood sugar value. 

This leads to the next question: “Why was the liver releasing too much glucose?” 

The answer is that the person perceived that they were in a perilous situation, one calling for fight or flight.  Many things happen very quickly when a person perceives danger.  The blood pressure goes up, the heart rate increases, blood leaves the core of the body and flows into the muscles of the arms and legs to carry fuel and oxygen for the fight or flight that will be imminent.  The liver releases glucose into the blood to provide that fuel.  But in the modern world, most threats are not to our life, but to our livelihood or our comfort, and so there is no fight and there is no running from the danger.  The person just sits and stews.

But the blood sugar level is elevated, and the muscles do not need the fuel.  The high blood sugar situation is not good, so insulin is released to tell the cells to take in the sugar, thus lowering the blood sugar to safe levels. 

If a person has stressful dreams, they may wake up in the morning to find elevated blood sugar levels, even though they have not eaten in 10 or 12 hours.  Conventional medicine is at a loss to explain how this can happen.  But when we consider the mind's influence on the body's behavior, we can see that the body was reacting to the perceived threat in the dream.

If a person frequently perceives danger, and they are not actually at immediate risk, that is when Type II diabetes can start.  Then the blood sugar levels are frequently high and the release of insulin frequently called for.  But the cells have not used the fuel that came from the prior insulin signal, and so have no need for more sugar.  Over time, each individual cell reduces the number of insulin receptors so that it is not commanded to take in sugar when it doesn't need it.  The result is both high insulin levels and high blood sugar levels, with consequent damage to health.

What can be done about this?  A person must shift their customary response to stressful situations.  This is not easy for most people to do because the perceptions are a result of beliefs held since early childhood.  Some people are raised with a belief that everything is going to turn out OK.  Others form the idea that the world is a dangerous place, and that one must be on guard against the world.

Just because a person perceives that they are in danger, does not mean that they are in physical danger.  A person may see a snake and react instantly with fear, experiencing the fight or flight response.  Nothing in the physical world has happened: the snake did not bite the person; it did not even strike at the person.  But the person perceived danger and reacted accordingly.  Then, when they look again and see that it is only a piece of rope, or a vine, or a stick, the body reverses the fight or flight response.  And again, nothing happened in the real world to drive that change in the body's biochemistry.  It was just their perception changed from one of danger to one of no danger.  And all of that would be based on the belief that snakes are dangerous.  A professional snake handler would not have experienced the same response at all.

So how can one change a lifelong belief that the world is a dangerous place?  It requires returning to the time when an emotionally significant event took place, and the emotionally charged decision was made.  That decision needs to be re-evaluated, and a new decision made.  It usually takes a person trained in Time Line Therapy® or in NLP techniques to assist in this process.  Just as it did not take long to make the decision in the first place, it need not take long to make a new decision.  The only thing required is identifying the formative situation, so that the original decision can be rescinded.
 

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