Dear Friends:

I would like to share with you my hypothesis about the conditions that may cause diabetes, candida and other diseases.

Ever since my son Sergei was diagnosed with diabetes, I have been collecting all the information about this disease that I came across. From reading hundreds of studies and talking to countless diabetic friends, I have developed my own theory about the cause of this illness. I kept my ideas to myself for many years because I am not a medical doctor, and cannot give medical advice to anyone. Now I have decided to share my thoughts with you, just as a woman, friend, and mother of a diabetic child. So please don’t take my words as a directive, and perhaps some of you will be able to benefit from my reasoning.

The liver is the main organ in our body that processes the fats that we consume and the chemicals that we ingest and are exposed to. Even though the liver is the largest gland in the human body, it has a certain limit on how much fat and chemicals it can process. An adult human liver normally weighs around three pounds and can only process a certain amount of fat per day. Let us suppose that the following yellow circle represents the maximum amount of fat that our liver can process per day, and the red circle represents the maximum amount of chemicals:

What happens when we consume more fat and chemicals than we can process on a daily basis? For example this much more:

While the chemicals keep accumulating in different organs of our body and cause a variety of problems, including nutritional deficiencies, it is not entirely clear what happens with the excess fat. In this article I would like to talk about fat.

When we consume more fat than our livers can process, the excess fat ends up circulating in the blood. Dr…. explains that fat cannot enter fat tissue without being processed by the liver. So if the liver is busy, the fat remains circulating in the blood until the liver has a chance to process it. When we consume this much fat:

the liver processes it and then either uses it for muscle work or deposits it into fat tissue. When we consume this much fat:

the excess fat that the liver cannot process keeps circulating in the blood. The liver cannot even deposit it into fat tissues because the amount of fat consumed exceeds the capacity of the liver. At this point, if we stop consuming fat for a certain number of hours or days, then the liver will have a chance to process it. The liver will either use the fat as energy for muscles (if we exercise) or deposit it into fat cells.

What happens if we already have excess fat circulating in the blood and we continue to consume more fat? Dr….. explains that the liver will first process the newly incoming fat and will leave the fat in the blood to be processed later (if there will be a chance!) Please note that if one frequently overconsumes fat, then the concentration of fat in the blood constantly rises.

Another complicating issue is that many people consume hydrogenated, cooked, rancid, or processed fats, which are a lot harder for the liver to deal with. As a result there will be even more fat circulating in the blood. A blood test at this time would show high triglycerides.

I believe that this condition is the cause for a great number of illnesses, including diabetes and candida. Again, I am nobody to theorize on this topic, and you don’t have to believe my conclusions. It is my personal observation that in today’s world, most people constantly have excess fat circulating in their bloodstream including those who have a hard time gaining weight. This condition instantly causes low immunity. I consider immunity to be the actual force of life. Immunity is life; when immunity is gone, death happens.

Fat in the blood interferes with most vital processes that happen in the blood. For example, the viscosity of the blood changes; it becomes thicker, which slows down the transmission of hormones, oxygen and other nutrients throughout the body. Have you noticed that it becomes harder to breathe after a heavy meal? People who have fat circulating in the blood seem to gasp for fresh air. They are short of breath because they are indeed suffering from a lack of oxygen that cannot be transmitted to the vital organs in adequate quantities.

I applaud Dr. Douglas Graham for his brilliant research about the damaging effect that excessive fat in the diet can have on human health. In one of his lectures, Dr. Graham explained how fat covers all particles in the blood with a very thin film, making it difficult for molecules to interact. For example, if molecules of sugar are covered with a thin film of fat, it makes it more difficult for the sugar to enter the cell and thus requires more insulin.  While this is such a complicated process that even academic scientists don’t know all the details yet, I will try to explain my idea in a very simple way.

Imagine there is a ten year old boy who has excess fat in his bloodstream. What happens when he eats a candy bar? As he eats it the sugar molecules get into his bloodstream and become covered with a thin layer of fat.

When there is sugar in the blood, this condition could be dangerous. It throws off the body’s chemical balance and causes extreme fatigue and other symptoms. The sugar must enter the cells as soon as possible, so the body begins to take action. The messenger is sent to the pancreas with a demand to produce insulin. The pancreas responds by producing insulin, but the layer of fat on the molecule of sugar makes the insulin ineffective. For some reason, the sugar still cannot enter the cell. The body keeps demanding more insulin from the pancreas. The thin layer of fat keeps preventing sugar from entering the cell. Eventually the pancreas becomes exhausted and cannot produce any more insulin.

If this situation continues to happen day after day, eventually the condition develops that we call type-one diabetes: the pancreas is unable to produce insulin. The body will rush the sugar out of the system with urine, which will contain a high level of sugar. Our boy will begin to experience a burning sensation in his urinary tract which in turn causes frequent urination and great thirst. These are the typical symptoms of diabetes. At this point, he is sent for a fasting glucose blood test. This test is called fasting because the patient is instructed not to eat before the test early in the morning. Then he is given a hundred and fifty grams of sugar syrup and the test is done to see how quickly his blood sugar will restore to normal. It is my understanding that the patient might still have excess fat in his blood at the time of the test, and therefore his insulin production will appear as if it is low. I know at least five people who retook this test after one week of a no-fat diet and tested remarkably better; their blood sugar was able to restore to a lower, more normal reading. I feel an obligation to spread this news.

I would like to emphasize again and again that I am not a medical doctor; I am just sharing as a woman and you don’t have to believe me at all. I suspect that the cause of the insulin-dependent type of diabetes lies in the presence of excess fat in the blood too long. I wish there would be a research study done to check this theory out. I dare to think that it is possible to reverse at least some cases of type-one diabetes by implementing a diet with a severely restricted fat intake. Please note that I do not suggest that anybody taking insulin stops taking medication and begins to play with one’s diet. I am only sharing my thoughts.

The situation is similar with candida, a yeast infection. I agree with Dr. Graham that candidosis is caused by fat, not sugar. The sugars may trigger the overgrowth of candida, but not cause it. When the blood is filled with sugar molecules covered with a thin layer of fat, it is a dangerous condition for the body.

Then candida comes in as a back-up plan for that person’s benefit. Candida consumes the sugar, saving that person from having a high concentration of sugar in the blood, the dangerous condition that throws off the body’s chemical balance and causes extreme fatigue and other critical symptoms. At the same time, candida is a nasty yeast infection, a parasite and while living in the human body it leaves a lot of its own waste, which is toxic and may cause fatigue and depression.

I know a lot of people, literally hundreds, who were able to successfully reverse the symptoms of candida by adopting a low fat diet. In many cases, severe candidosis was reversed by simply living one week with no fats at all. It was interesting for me to hear that many of these people were able to consume a lot of fruit without having candida return, when they continued to live on a low-fat diet.

In simple words, when we continually consume fat with every meal, we don’t ever give the liver a chance to clean the fat from the blood. When we stop consuming fats completely, not even eating healthy fats, such as avocados or oils or nuts, then the liver has a chance to completely clean the blood of excess fat.

While I don’t recommend anybody to stop taking their medication without seeing their doctor, I believe that anybody could reduce the intake of dietary fat for a few days without any health risks at all. I understand that this information is radical and contradicts many existing points of view. Therefore I appreciate constructive critique from any of you.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I am receiving a great number of emails these days; approximately 80 emails per hour, and I am unable to answer all of them. I would like to express my appreciation for your support and I love you all.

Green with Love,

Victoria