The following important information is, frankly, scary, as it means that we have entered a new world of disease that has never been imagined before. This is not a conspiracy theory. As you read the following, you will understand why some of these issues may already be known, but are kept out of the public domain.
This issue has to do with obesity and type 2 diabetes Over the past few decades, obesity and diabetes have become epidemic. Children, adults, the poor, the rich, Americans, Africans - all over the world become obese and diabetic. We are concerned that the outbreak of obesity and diabetes may be due to a new problem, never considered because it never existed.
Of course, when you consider the cultural / lifestyle factors of obesity and diabetes, the answer quickly comes in that these people should eat less and exercise more. Our lifestyle has become inactive, and people are becoming more and more engaged, and less doing. And meeting this "market" is a huge supply of dietary products, weight loss methods, and pharmaceuticals, such as insulin.
This is the insulin that plays an important role in the new crisis.
Insulin, of course, is a hormone. It is active in very small concentrations. All hormones are chemical messengers and facilitators that allow our body organs to maintain their integration and modulation as they perform their vital functions. Insulin is a very important hormone, which is responsible for getting sugar (glucose) from the bloodstream absorbed by cells, which requires sugar for energy. Cells have receptors for insulin on their cell membranes, which act as "keys" that insulin is "key", activating cells to take life-sustaining sugars.
Without the effects of insulin, the cells cannot drink sugar from the bloodstream, and starve to death. Blood "spills" sugar in the kidneys, and into the urine. The reduced activity of insulin and sugar in the urine is called diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is a rare form of disease in which the pancreas, an organ that releases and releases insulin into the bloodstream, reduces or stops the production of insulin. These people can die without insulin provided in the form of drugs. Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90% of diabetes cases, and is often associated with obesity and obesity. It is often cured by diet and other lifestyle changes.
However, not everyone recovered. There are other conditions that can lead to obesity and diabetes. One is to have too much insulin. If you have too much insulin in your bloodstream, it will cause your cells to consume too much sugar to lower your blood sugar, a condition called hypoglycemia. This makes you hungry, so you eat more to increase your sugar levels. But high insulin quickly sends new sugars to the cells for storage as well, along with water to help keep the sugar in solution. This causes the cells to swell, and the fat cells convert sugar to more fat, eventually causing obesity. Because cells are also less sensitive to insulin due to their high levels, they also cause diabetes.
Hyperinsulinemia, therefore, causes obesity and diabetes. This condition is also an epidemic, and is similar to current diabetes and obesity. More and more people are developing this problem every day, at alarming rates. It seems that diabetes and obesity are contagious, spreading from person to person, like some germs outbreaks.
In fact, this is what we fear might happen!
It has to do with genetic engineering, and the production of human insulin in certain species of bacteria and yeast. There are times when diabetics who need insulin will receive insulin from the pig's pancreas. As you can imagine, taking pork insulin injections can cause allergic reactions. Much better, some think, to have human insulin to give to humans. But there is no human source of insulin. Until a genetic engineer gets in the way!
Insulin is a protein, although it is a hormone. Some hormones are steroids, such as estrogen and testosterone. It is produced in cells with a metabolic process that starts with cholesterol and, through a series of enzymatic reactions, produces the final steroid hormone. Another hormone is a protein, directly encoded in a cell's DNA gene. Other protein hormones are growth hormones, and glucagon.
We all have genes that code for this protein hormone. Genetic engineers have been able to find this gene, and purify it from the DNA section that's usually located. They take the human gene for insulin and insert it into the bacterial DNA chain. This makes the bacteria "part of the human", so to say, the bacteria is now making human insulin. All you have to do is remove the insulin from the bacteria, and you have a relatively cheap source of human insulin.
The idea is simple to say, but it took decades to develop this technology to disseminate genetic information from one organism and integrate it into another organism - another species! The possibilities are endless. But like all technologies, there are costs. Every new creation that changes the world has its advantages and disadvantages, its rewards and risks, its successes and failures.
The bacteria selected to be the recipient of this human gene are the most commonly found, and well studied, E. coli. Our gut hosts with trillions of E. coli bacteria. Some E. coli strains cause disease, and are a leading cause of food poisoning. Most are benign, and are intact intestinal companions. Why use bacteria specifically for genetic engineering? It has to do with its genetics, and the ease with which E. coli DNA can be manipulated, even with foreign DNA.
The company that develops E. coli genetics that makes human insulin is Genentech. They did this in 1978. Eli Lilly, another drug company, bought a license for this process, and is now the producer of human insulin from E. coli.
In addition to E. coli, scientists have also done a lot of research and genetic manipulation with other microorganisms - Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as Baker bacteria. That's right, the same yeast is used to make bread, wine, beer, and other foods. Shortly after the success of E. coli Genentech another company, Novonordisk, developed Baker bacteria that is produced to produce human insulin. Both of these GMOs - the yeast E. coli and Baker both produce human insulin - are now almost the only source of insulin for diabetics. Animal insulin manufacturers cannot compete with genetically engineered, inexpensive human insulin supplies.
It may sound like a good idea to have all of these genetically engineered insulin available cheaply, given the epidemic of obesity and diabetes. But what does it cost to make this human GMO?
The price, we believe, is that this GMO causes obesity and the epidemic of diabetes!
Like all new technologies, there are accidents. Novonordisk reports some accidental spills in bacterial bacteria, genetically engineered human insulin! For example, in one case in 2004, according to Novonordisk, "During the cleaning process, 10 liters of GMO-containing media were dumped directly into the sewage system. Usually the media would be released into the tank. "
There have been incidents like this all along. Eli Lilly acknowledges dozens of "serious environmental events", in fact, 29 such events between 2003 and 2005. These events include,
The impact of this organism on the environment is an experiment in manufacturing. Although these companies say their E. coli and Baker yeasts are too weak from the laboratory to survive and compete in the wild, the fact is that they do not know what will happen until it actually does. This is all so new, that the effect of the spill is still considered a mystery.
Obviously, the "Warning Principle" does not apply here.
But if these GMOs come out, manufacturers insist they are not harmful to humans. Of course, as there is no published scientific study of what happens when humans are infected with this GMO, this is another optimistic assumption by this manufacturer. What's going to happen? We can make some educated guesses based on our known medical knowledge. What happens if you have bacteria and / or yeast in your gut that produces insulin?
Your intestinal fluid will be high in insulin, which is produced by genetically modified microbes. Some of the insulin will be absorbed into the bloodstream. This will make your blood high in insulin, leading to hyperinsulinemia. Over time, this will make you obese and diabetic, a known result of hyperinsulemia!
Because GMO will produce insulin in your gut, your pancreas will reduce its insulin production, as it is no longer needed. This will eventually create a dependence on GMO insulin that is absorbed from your gut. The level of GMO in your intestines will rise and fall depending on your diet and gut health. Many times, if the level is high, insulinemia will be higher. At other times, GMOs can almost disappear, causing insulin shortages, catching the pancreas by surprise, before it has time to reactivate its insulin production. It will be as if you are taking different insulin medications at times of uncertainty. Your blood sugar and metabolism will be messed up. You're going to be obese, diagnosed with diabetes, and ironically more insulin!
Is this GMO harmless due to the demands of its manufacturers? We can only begin to see how dangerous they are.
It is not the only insulin produced in yeast E. coli and Baker. Human Growth Hormones are also produced in this way. What would happen if GMOs made growth hormones to colonize your gut? Excess growth hormones are absorbed into your bloodstream, and over time can lead to excessive body growth, arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, excessive snoring from enlarged throat, impaired vision, headache, fatigue, menstrual disorders , high blood pressure, and - diabetes!
Then there is the hormone glucagon, which has the opposite action as insulin. That is, these hormones produce blood sugar by making the cells discard their sugars. This hormone is also produced in E. coli and Baker's genetics. Having GMO in your gut will also cause damage to your sugar levels and sugar metabolism.
So, here's the crisis. There is a drug company that makes human hormones in the most common bacteria that humans live with - E. coli - and in the yeast commonly used in our food supply - Baker & rsquo; It's yeast. Both of these genetically modified microbes have entered the environment. These GMOs are a new threat to human health, as our intimate relationship with them can cause their colonization of the human gut flora.
Apart from the accidental release of this GMO there is a sale of old GE yeast to pig farmers. Once the yeast is used to make insulin, the yeast is heated to deactivate it, and the resulting slurry is sold for animal feed. However, yeast (and E. coli) is known to produce very hot stable spores, which can theoretically survive the heating process. Some surviving spores from trillions of yeast cells are not statistically significant. But these spores can enter the environment and reproduce, and may enter the human (or animal) food chain and gut.
Of course, before everyone is surprised that a new outbreak has come, there needs to be more research. If this GM pollutes our environment and causes diabetes and obesity, then it should take intestinal samples from some obese, diabetic people and find offensive microbes. Well, this is something that this GM manufacturer has to pay. However, this manufacturer should not conduct the research itself. It's not wise to trust research into GMO leaks with companies that make GMOs. If insulin, growth hormones, glucagon, and other hormones are produced in the human gut, causing obesity and diabetes pandemics and who knows what else, then the result will be too important and damaging for manufacturers to trust anyone but the third party.
But who is the third party? The governing regulations of the genetic engineering industry are minimal. The lobbying by GE companies is extensive, and effective. The government's attitude is that as the GE industry may be harmed by safety regulations based on precautionary principles, we should all embrace current technologies to allow for new industries to be formed, and wait for clear disasters before making any exceptions. As a result, the industry kept an eye on itself, which was a huge mistake for letting these companies infest themselves with microbes in the first place.
The question is, if the results show that this nightmare of infectious and diabetic obesity, spread by GE bacteria and yeast, is it true, would people be told? You do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that truth cannot happen. Of course, perhaps unsurprisingly, the effects of GMO spills that produce insulin will increase the case of diabetes, and this will lead to higher insulin sales. Those responsible for the problem will be the first to benefit from it.
Maybe these organisms can be called GERMs, or Rogue Microbes Genetic Engineers. We believe that there should be a broad discussion of these threats posed by GERM to human health. Endocrinologists need to work with gastroenterologists, nutritionists, and epidemiologists as they explore this new disease - the infectious hormone disease. Public health experts should advise the public and institutions on how to minimize the spread of the GERM. There should be a department at the Centers for Disease Control dedicated to GERM Surveillance and epidemic control.
How do you take precautions against the upcoming GERM epidemic, especially when it may be strongly rejected by these companies and their government partners? How do drugs meet the challenge of diagnosing and treating GERM-related diseases? Is there a way to put this genie back into the bottle?
Whether or not it's still too late to see. Further investigation is needed, along with continuous monitoring of Baker's bacteria. There's a need for food production, intestinal contents for signs of GERM. Our food and home may be contaminated with GERM. Some E. coli and Baker yeast have been modified to produce, not hormones, but drugs and enzymes. Obesity and diabetes can only be the beginning of some health problems that confuse doctors, paralyze and kill patients, and spread from person to person in a handshake or in a loaf of bread or a glass of beer.
We have sold the advantages of Genetic Engineering. The creation of the new GERM, and the catastrophe that caused them, may be the high price we have to pay all for this great technology.
Infectious Diabetes and Obesity - A New Genetically Engineered Plague?
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