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Our bodies are designed to utilize a very large number of vitamins, minerals and other
nutrients; however, some nutrients can play such important roles in good health that they
should perhaps be recognized as the "master nutrients". In the first of what
will be a continuing series of articles, we will take a look at a vital, yet largely
overlooked, mineral nutrient and how it could almost single handedly wipe out the growing
epidemic of diabetes: GTF chromium.
A healthy diet and regular physical
activity have been rightly identified as keys to preventing and controlling diabetes. However, what has not been
recognized is that regular consumption of the correct form of chromium could, along with sensible eating and being modestly active,
virtually eliminate diabetes. Thanks to our unhealthy SADS diet and mineral depleting
soils, each decade is bringing us more chromium deficiency. The deficiency has now
reached a crisis state, with 90 percent of us estimated to be deficient in chromium.
More than 50 years ago the trace element chromium was identified as an essential nutrient
at the National Institutes of Health by Dr. Klaus Schwartz due to its role in blood sugar metabolism. A molecule
named Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) was found to be primarily composed of chromium. Dr.
Walter Mertz, an assistant to Dr. Schwartz at the time, noted in 1959: "Type II
diabetes is not a disease. It is the lack of a natural ingredient, known as GTF
chromium."
More than 30 years ago, Columbia and Yale graduate and Dartmouth University medical school
professor Dr. Henry Alfred Schroeder wrote that "the typical American diet, with
about 60 percent of its calories from refined sugar, refined flour and fat . . . was
apparently designed not only to provide as little chromium as feasible, but to cause
depletion of body stores of chromium."
Chromium works together with insulin
in providing sugar to the cells for energy. If chromium levels decrease there is a
corresponding decrease in sugar delivery from insulin. Modern medical terms such as
"insulin resistance" and "insulin sensitivity" should be more
accurately replaced with "gross chromium deficiency".
As health historian Christopher C.
Barr explained, insulin is a transport mechanism. It is like a truck that transports glucose to be unloaded at the cells
insulin receptors. Chromium rich GTF molecules are like dock workers which assist in
getting the sugar (glucose) to the insulin receptors. If there are less and less GTF
"dock workers" then the work of providing sugar to the cells becomes
unproductive. A traffic jam of insulin "trucks" in the blood stream results in higher and higher
blood sugar levels as the problems of chromium deficiency increase over time.
Although we do see chromium supplement promoted for various health areas, we hear very
little about GTF chromium. A major reason is likely because the vast majority of medical research is oriented towards finding
new patented medicines. Another might be due to the US government owning a patent on a
different, much less effective but more highly promoted, form of chromium - chromium
picolinate.
The right form of chromium is whole foods grown GTF chromium, and the right daily amount
is about 100 micrograms taken three times daily. If every American took 100 per cent whole
food GTF chromium, ate reasonably
healthily and got modest regular physical activity, it would virtually wipe out diabetes.
In addition, at a time when the Obama administration is asking agencies to find $100
billion in health care savings, universal use of GTF chromium would save at least $100
billion annually from the $218 billion annual costs of treating diabetes. by Tony Isaacs,
citizen journalist
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