Is it any wonder that we know of two type 1 diabetics who have been healed of their "diabetes" and have come off their insulin in the low toxin and low "vitamin A" groups?
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Type I Diabetics MUST go on a low vitamin A diet. Three simple facts:
1. T1D (children and adults) experience increased urinary RBP-4 (retinol binding protein 4).[1-6]
2. T1D have significantly higher circulating serum retinyl esters,[7] the best non-biopsy marker for clinical vitamin A toxicity.[8]
3. T1Ds commonly display carotenemia and elevated serum carotene levels.[9-11]
Whether excess vitamin A in mom or child is causal to diabetes or merely dysregulated in diabetics doesn't really matter -- T1D patients have broken vitamin A metabolism systems.
Regarding point 3, their bodies "cannot" or, more likely, do not want to convert more beta-carotene two two retinaldehylde molecules to be turned into even more vitamin A! Why? Because they're overloaded!
Further, the serum retinyl esters are transported by other lipoproteins[7] (likely due to poor availability of RBP-4 from it getting urinated away or there simply not being enough), which could be a major reason why Type-I Diabetics have higher LDL and Triglycerides (diabetic dyslipidemia).
This has all been known forever -- I'm not even citing much modern research here! Glue it together - Type I Diabetes is possibly caused by, but most definitely exacerbated by Vitamin A toxicity
@DikemanDave you 100% need to go down this rabbit hole.
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6184185/
[2] https://researchgate.net/publication/279592437_Urinary_excretion_of_the_retinol_binding_protein_in_insulin-dependent_diabetic_patients_as_an_index_of_tubular_dysfunction
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3436068/
[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3662397/
[5] https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0009898188903129
[6] https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1791792/
[7] https://jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tjem1920/149/2/149_2_133/_article
[8] https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523292710
[9] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6986235/
[10] https://acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/0003-4819-48-2-219
[11] https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916523435563
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