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Recieved: 2003/04/26 13:18
Subject: Re: [K-list] hypothyroid and diabetes
From: mundane zen

Dear Susan et al.,


>...
>Mr. Bear brought up that he knows a group of chinese martial arts
>teachers and all of them have type two Diabetes (adult onset).


Now this caught my attention. I started practicing Zen a little over ten
years ago (with significant lapses in the interim). Shortly thereafter I
was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes (childhood onset at age 37 -- oof!). It
turns out the leader of this Zen order (Kwan Um -- Korean Zen) is also a
Type-1 diabetic, and come to find out, so is the resident Zen master. Since
Zen is closely related to martial arts (the local Zen master was into
Chinese kick boxing, for example), I've always wondered if there was a
connection. Zazen involves focusing ones attention on the lower abdomen,
which is near the pancreas. *shrug*
>We speculated that because one of the purposes of practicing martial
>arts is to promote lower body temp( because it is thought to promote
>longevity)that this might be the reason for the Diabetes and some of
>his and my problems with dropping blood sugar. I also know that a
>natural treatment for high blood sugar is a dose of cinnamon in the
>morning. Cinnamon is a heating herb.


Since Type-2, the more common type of diabetes, is caused by way the body
assimilates insulin (rather than in a problem with its production, as in
Type-1), it makes sense that raising the body temperature or increasing the
metabolism would help burn blood sugar. Simple exercise is probably the
easiest way accomplish this.


ken


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