pete5770 wrote:joeblast wrote:Pete, its beyond me why you bother visiting this forum if you take every opportunity to bash chi gung, tcm, eastern medicine, etc. Every issue has its solution, every context has appropriate treatments. So you're trying to assert that doing things to help motivate fluids will not help in any way, shape, or form? C'mon dude, open your eyes at least a peek.
Fine. When or if you become diabetic you may go right ahead and cure it however you see fit.
I'm positive that after you start to experience the many, many complications of this disease like starting to go blind, needing things cut off your body, high blood pressure, possible strokes, and the list goes on, that you WILL be listening to the person you should have been listening to in the first place. A real doctor.
I'm not bashing anything, I'm screaming at a person whom I think will do the wrong things and not lose weight, not listen to his doctor, not watch his diet, not do vigorous exercise. Instead I believe he will go to a health food store, have someone stick needles in him, and do Qigong. All of it wrong. I sincerely hope he proves ME wrong and does the right thing.
Look man, I know this is personal to you, but that doesnt mean you should state some things and then go off on a tangent saying qigong, tcm, etc will be utterly useless and of no help whatsoever. Every single one of us in this thread has stressed the importance of proper diet, myself included, as
the first and primary focus in this issue.
You just cant help yourself, you always have to toss in there on an issue where *only* doing qigong would not really be any sort of cure, that it is absolutely a useless waste of time to even bother doing at all. So you put in a bit of good information, then follow it up with some pure hogwash.
We already know you dont believe in qi, that's fine - your beliefs will not change reality. But dont get all stand offish when you're called out on a poor and incorrect comment like that. You dont think doing stretches that stretch out the tendons of the internal organs would be of any help whatsoever, the breathwork, nah, that's just not going to help you at all, not when it helps motivate fluids and prime the internal organs.
Ever seen a bee breathe? Bees have no circulatory system and their "blood" is called a hemolymph - so they basically perform the entirety of their circulatory functions
from breathing alone. Translate to embryonic breathing - translate to the freshness of fluids and blood (or lack thereof) being the main contributor towards the organs growing old and damaged...
Who's out-there?
pete5770 wrote:I have tpye 2. My advice. Take the pills(Januvea, etc.), lose weight, exercise vigously, check your blood sugar daily, take a diabetes course at your local hospital(if they offer it), eat low glycemic index foods, listen to your Doctor. Ignore this and you run terrible risks of all kinds of complications from this disease. Do what works, and to be honest the above things listed work.
Don't get involved in thinking that so called eastern medicine, accupuncture, or Qigong will help you. See a Medical Doctor and DO, repeat DO what he says. You are not dealing with an ache or pain here or there. This can be deadly serious.
Even in mildly complex systems, any outcome is the wrong thing to target, with the process being where the focus should be.