You have told us that controlling fasting glucose levels with medication is not as helpful as doctors believe because the real cause of tissue and cell damage is due to a smoldering chronic viral infection and an overactive immune response to it. Would it be better to not at all promote nutraceuticals for diabetes which help reduce fasting blood sugar [like Syntra5 and Nutreb’s berberine]? At a minimum, there will be confusion, as these would seem to be opposite recommendations. Can you help us sort out what is the best perspective and message to convey?

The two are not truly in opposition to one another but, essentially, are parallel objectives of greater or lesser concern than perhaps realized by the medical profession and the general public, having been misled by faulty thinking of doctors on a chronic basis throughout history, owing to their limited knowledge as well as manipulations by the interlopers to introduce faulty thinking and often twisted logic. So it is not a question of black or white. The issues have shades of gray. There are certainly practical advantages in keeping doctors happy so patients will not be viewed as noncompliant or even rebellious if they fail to heed Dr. recommendations to get their glucose levels under control and their A1c down into a normal range if at all possible, and so on. You have seen firsthand the difficulty of winning doctors over to respect the value of nutraceuticals, as well as their hide-bound thinking in being programmed by the herd-instinct-level embracing of what is, in effect, dogma usually poorly understood and not always even proven but simply assumed to be so, oftentimes. The interlopers often introduce beliefs through programming of medical minds in the absence of hard data, and will groom them on a regular basis to keep up the faulty notions because it serves to keep the doctors complacent, and in turn, the patient base getting care. This is simply because the doctors seem knowledgeable and will be actively engaging with them to do something feasible, like keep their blood pressure down, or their A1c within reasonable limits. While there are economic burdens from combining multiple nutraceuticals, for example, to achieve what is a kind of false goal for many, it will keep peace with the medical establishment and serves as an example of what nature can do compared to the pharmaceutical approach of synthesizing unnatural chemicals that will almost always have side effects and are often mechanistically inappropriate in causing that to be so. They do something that superficially represents a beneficial change, but in a way that is destructive of some other function that will be unseen, but over time, cause an emerging problem to appear. So what we are saying is, the nutraceutical regulation of diabetic indicators in terms of laboratory values that are routinely measured for the purpose, is sometimes of value and a harmless exercise otherwise, because it is helping in a way that is supportive and natural and fitting in with human physiology. So it is more of the idea of rushing to perfect a partial answer that might be questioned. But one must win the war and not a battle of one's choosing which the enemy, perhaps, is not even ready to engage in yet. We see no harm in promoting both ideas here. There are extremes of physiologic derangement that do cause harm, so there is no question that moving extreme readouts toward the normal range can be of practical benefit, and if this is done safely, all the more so, because it will add extra insurance that one is keeping the consequences of the illness under control. And while not the major problem, it does provide value. In the meantime, this does not prevent sounding the alarm about the scourge of the chronic viral underpinnings of the disease, that it will not be the answer to simply correct glucose handling and insulin responses. It is also the case that giving the doctors what they want moves them closer to the day when they will accept, across the board, a nutraceutical solution as an ideal first choice, if available. So a way to achieve a good medical outcome with a nutraceutical will be a contribution, regardless of its true impact on health and longevity.