Diabetic Diet

Quick fix for initial shock

This is not to replace medication but to enhance how the patient feels during the course of a day.
Introduce one-two tablespoons of complex carbohydrates full of natural enzymes, with crushed nuts and/or seeds, depending if you have any allergies to nuts. This will steady the blood sugars and stop spikes and troughs which make you feel all over the place. Diabetic consultants love pumpkin seeds but I say maximise the mix to put as many natural enzymes back into your body as you can, get those cogs and wheels inside your body rotating round and chugging the human train along the track of life.

• Good multivitamin and mineral supplement ensure it has at least magnesium 100mg in it
• Cut out everything white eg. white bread, pastry and white biscuits
• Vitamin D3
• Co-enzyme Q10

The question I have been asked the most from diabetic patients is what is an enzyme?

Enzymes are incredibly efficient and highly specific biological catalysts . In fact, the human body would not exist without enzymes because the chemical reactions required to maintain the body simply would not occur fast enough.
Think about the soda you drank moments ago before hitting the books. The sugar in the soda was converted to CO 2 , H 2 O, and chemical energy within seconds of being absorbed by your cells, and this chemical energy enabled you to see, think, and move. However, the 2.2-kilogram (5-pound) bag of sugar in your kitchen cabinet can sit for years and still not be converted to CO 2 and H 2 O. The net reaction (glucose 6 O 2 → 6 CO 2 + 6 H 2 O) is the same in both cases, and both pathways are thermodynamically favorable. However, the human body speeds the overall reaction through a series of enzyme-mediated steps. The key is in the catalytic power of enzymes to drive reactions on a time scale required to digest food, relay signals via the nervous system, and contract muscles.
How do enzymes do what they do? They create an environment to make the reaction energetically more favorable. This environment, the active site , is typically a pocket or groove that is lined with amino acids whose side chains bind the substrate (such as sugar) and aid in its chemical transformation to products. Therefore, the amino acids that form the active site provide the specificity of substrate binding and the proper chemical environment so that the reaction occurs more rapidly than it otherwise would.
Enzymes are central to every biochemical process that occurs in the body. Most enzymes are proteins . There are exceptions, however. For example, there are catalytic ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules called ribozymes that are involved in RNA processing, and, in 1994, the first DNA enzyme was engineered. Although no naturally occurring deoxyribozymes have been identified, these laboratory-generated DNA enzymes are being developed as therapeutic agents to fight infectious disease and cancer.
All enzymes are characterized by having a high degree of specificity for their substrates, and they accelerate the rate of chemical reactions tremendously, often by a factor of a million times or more. Most enzymes function in the cellular environment at mild conditions of temperature, pH , and salt. There are few nonbiological that can be so efficient in this type of environment.
A deficiency or absence of certain enzymes plays havock with the human body. The first one to go or breakdown is usually in our 40’s, the enzyme that breaks wheat down, thus swelly belly. Make no mistake anyone who has had this knows the distress and discomfort that can occur. One moment you are stepping out in nice fitting trousers, eat a food with wheat in and you become a pregnant pig with severe pain in the stomach area.
A lot of illness occurs in the human body because an enzyme system is malfunctioning and not working properly. Some causes can be due to hereditary factors eg. if there is a history of diabetes or a particular illness in the family. Some causes can just be that enzyme is defunct and has just decided to stop working for some reason. This is where body maintenance and rebalance comes into play.

Read more: http://www.biologyreference.com/Dn-Ep/Enzymes.html#ixzz2ewmU7EwY