More than Blood Sugar

review by Jule Klotter

How to Cure Diabetes! by Sherry A. Rogers, MD

Sand Key Company Inc.

PO Box 19252, Sarasota FL 34276

© 2013; $23.95; 380 pp

For nearly three decades, Sherry A. Rogers, MD, has encouraged patients to take charge of their health and support the body’s innate healing ability. Her latest book, How to Cure Diabetes!, looks at the shortcomings of conventional treatment and advocates a nutrient-based program. Although pharmaceutical treatments are useful for acute situations, they do not cure diabetes. Rather, they simply lower blood sugar levels without addressing underlying causes. Rogers says, “If your sugars are out of whack, you are deficient in nutrients that regulate sugars in the body.” Nutrients, not drugs, are what the body needs to prevent and cure diabetes and related conditions such as neuropathy and heart disease.

Rogers has no patience for “dinosaur doctors” who rely on pharmaceuticals while ignoring nutrient deficiencies. She urges readers to find “dynamo doctors” who appreciate the intricacies of nutrient balance, biochemistry, and mitochondrial function. She highly recommends the 13-page laboratory assay Cardio/ION (Metagenics Inc.) to assess nutrient imbalances and underlying problems. For example, elevated D-arabinitol on the assay can indicate candida overgrowth. “Candida can make an enzyme called thiaminase that destroys the B1 vitamin before it gets a chance to be absorbed,” says Rogers. “This silent B1 deficiency can lead to not only heart failure (usually fatal within 5 years), but poor energy, poor recovery from exercise, and worsening of diabetes (with mysterious inability to bring down the [hemoglobin] A1C).”

From Rogers’s perspective, the first step toward healing is to repair nuclear, endoplasmic reticular, and mitochondrial membranes. She says that Cardio/ION results from people with diabetes (and many other diseases) indicate “starving cell membranes.” She recommends a combination of cod liver oil, GLA, phosphatidyl choline, vitamin D, vitamin K2, phosphatidylserine, tocopherols (particularly gamma), and tocotrienols from reputable manufacturers that make good-quality supplements. In addition to nutrient deficiencies, phthalates in plastics and other environmental chemicals contribute to diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Rogers says that infrared sauna therapy is the most effective way to remove these chemicals from the body. For more information about detoxification, she refers readers to her book Detoxify or Die.

How to Cure Diabetes! does not contain a one-size-fits-all protocol. Rather it offers a series of short, referenced essays that encourage readers to see another way of treating diabetes and comorbid illness. This book is designed to be read, reread, and mulled over with underlining and note-taking; Rogers intentionally refrained from including an index. For the careful reader, How to Cure Diabetes! offers a rational basis for choosing a functional nutrient-based approach to treat and prevent diabetes.

Quote: “In a nutshell, dinosaur docs do drugs; while dynamo docs focus on cause and cure. Dinosaur docs don’t take the time to learn how God designed the body to heal.”