The Manx Den

Oh, let’s see… I’ve been very preoccupied with the fact that Diabetes treatment can be helped with a vitamin supplementation, and the thought that it’s linked to my winter SAD insomnias.  Over the last week of December I started having strong issues with falling asleep and waking up much too easily, and it led to a jumble of confusion and obsessive behavior, including tons of self-study online about nutrition. I ended up buying a bunch of vitamins and changing eating patterns, and it freaked my hubby out wildly.

So I’ve had trouble sorting out the results of vitamin supplements on 1) blood glucose levels and skin health, and 2) mental clarity, sleep and mood. Right now the name of the …

“Halle Berry Says She’s Worked Her Way Up From Type 1 to Type 2 Diabetes
Linda von Wartburg
Dec 25, 2008
This article was originally published in Diabetes Health in February, 2008.

No less an authority than the New York Times wrote in May 2006 that Halle Berry has type 1 diabetes, listing her as one of several “stars who have type 1 – Gary Hall, the Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer; Adam Morrison, the Gonzaga University basketball star; [and] Halle Berry.”

Ms. Berry is also described as having type 1 by other sources. Health24.com, for example, reported that “it was during the taping of the television sitcom called “Living Dolls” in 1989 that Halle went into a diabetic coma. Shortly …

After describing the feeling of  ’much better in the sunlight’ and ‘much worse at night’ that I described to him this evening, hubby is still quite sure that it is a mental positive-thinking effect, and not from the sunlight, because the sun is rising very low in the sky at this time of year, right after winter solstice. He asked me if I get the same effect from turning on/being under/looking at the daylight-spectrum tubes we have up in the kitchen, and I reported a very mild effect, but not near the same as the sun exposure.

He’s made sure to research the current danish reccommendations on vitamin D3 dosage, and has said the highest current reccomendation is 1,000 iu …

I’m amazed that my diabetes started as a simple D3 deficiency. I’ve had trouble sleeping properly ever since getting diabetes, and whenever out of the sunlight for days on end, and my health problems are all linked to the deficiency, since D3 protects against cavities, acne, diabetes type 1 and 2, and cancer. If you get a tumor anywhere or have/start to get diabetes, google ‘Vitamin D and diabetes’. The doses need to be between 5,000 iu to 10,000 iu for effective treatment, and D3 is not toxic in high doses, like D2. Researching online says that high doses can improve diabetes type 2 (adult onset) and reverse it entirely, with weight loss. Either way, your problems if you have …

It’s one thing to worry about an expensive bit of equipment, but another thing to see a body part go plopping on the ground and have one’s dog listen obediently to the ‘no’ about lurching. It’s not a problem to repair.

Sleeplessness easing up, and thoughts on election…

I’m feeling much better this morning. The days, they sort of melt into one and the other, especially when I’m recording my blood sugars for the day and I’m still on 4-5 hours alone of sleep, but it was a lot of fun watching the election excitement yesterday in good ‘ol America. It’s a little embarassing that it’s taken so much to get the population to care about change, but honestly, I feel the need for it too. 

The stuff that was on the ballot was a little scary this season. 

• Assisted suicide
• Ban of gay marriages
• health care..

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Man, this past week has been very stressful. I got scolded by my insulin-pump nurse for having high blood sugars over several months, and she didn’t seem to be the type to be very willing to listen about how much I am sensitive to approval or dissapproval about what my blood sugars look like! As if feeling bad at times with high blood sugars isn’t already enough. x__x…