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background: Dr. Charles Jarowski, formerly Director of Research and Development at Pfizer, Inc. for twenty-three years, was motivated in his research by the fact that his family is predisposed to diabetes. At the age of 69, his father lost a leg due to the disease, and his sister, too, lost a leg to diabetes at the same age, 69. By contrast, Dr. Jarowski, now 90 years old, is in excellent health and has a lucid memory, having taken his own formulation described below for many years. Discovering that the pharmaceutical industry was antagonistic to a simple, nutritional product, despite decades of research, Dr. Jarowski teamed with Lidtke Technologies to make his product available to the public. Is diabetes really a mortal threat?
Sad to say, we can only hide from such statistics so long. To those who read, it is now becoming common knowledge that Americans are sliding deeper into yet another health crisis, diabetes. The saddest part, perhaps, is that Americans seem unaware, until it is too late, that drugs and commonly prescribed diets are failing to cure or even halt diabetes. In the news, we never hear of remissions, and there are no arterial bypass operations to help patch things up. Few know how vicious a disease diabetes is. The damage that goes on daily, 24/7, is on a microscopic level, and beyond anything that medical science knows how to reverse. Why is this happening? One reason, according to Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, MD, popular diets designed to help alleviate cardiovascular disease...the typical low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets…appear to be contributing to the equally devastating disease, diabetes.(1) Diabetes was first mentioned over 3,500 years ago in an Egyptian papyrus. At that time it was rare. It was a terrible disease characterized by constant thirst, frequent urination, and insidious loss of weight. It was almost as though victims were being dissolved by the all the fluid passing through them. By the middle ages, careful examination of urine had become a common tool for diagnosing disease, just as it is now. Because of the unusual properties of diabetic urine, with the smell and color resembling honey (“mellitus” in Latin), the disease became known as diabetes mellitus. Back when Dr. Jarowski first became Director of Research and Development at Pfizer, one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world, insulin had recently been discovered, but diabetes still was uncommon. Over the next four decades, though, as type II diabetes increased dramatically (caused by excessive weight gains in nearly all age and ethnic groups) and growing directly with the increased use of corn syrup(2), Dr. Jarowski’s research began to uncover some surprising things about properly balanced amino acids in the diet. We all know that proteins are chains of amino acids. Literally, amino acids are connected together, end-to-end, in long chains that coil and flex in ways that hold you together and allow you to perform work. Every protein, however, whether it comes from beef or chicken or pinto beans or cheese, has a unique composition of amino acids… more of some amino acids and less of others. The human body, too, has a unique composition of amino acids. Although beef and chicken are animal sources of protein, when you eat beef or chicken you mostly get protein from muscle, not from the entire animal. Hence, the balance of amino acids in your meal, even though it comes from an animal source, really only matches the amino-acid profile of your muscles, not of your skin, organs, hair, or connective tissue. It is rare, then, for a meal to match the amino-acid profile of your body. Whatever the source, when you eat a protein meal your body looks at what you are consuming versus what it needs to repair and rebuild itself. If there is a discrepancy, your body will burn the surplus amino acids for energy. This involves a process called “gluconeogenesis” that converts many amino acids to sugar (glucose), and the sugar then pours into your bloodstream. So you see, even if you do not consume sugar or starch, if the amino-acid balance of your meals does not match what your body needs, you can end up with a big increase of sugar in your bloodstream… the very problem that diabetics and potential diabetics strive to avoid. Clearly, if you have followed health trends in the media, diabetes is no longer a rare or isolated disease, with over 25% of the population suffering either from diabetes or pre-diabetes.(3) 1.5 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people 20 or older in 2005. Even among children, according to Dr. Dean Ornish, MD, it is becoming an epidemic… in lockstep with the huge weight gains in today’s children.(4) According to Dr. Ornish, this may be the first generation in which children live a shorter life span than their parents.(5) The sad part is that diabetics and pre-diabetics for decades have been told to reduce carbohydrates and increase proteins in their diet. Obviously, this recommendation has not solved the problem. True, there can be some benefit, but the fact remains that proteins are something of a Trojan Horse. They can change character once they are inside you… first by splitting into amino acids, and then by splitting into ammonia (yes, the same ammonia found in Windex) and sugar. No wonder the commonly prescribed diets do not work! |
Understanding the problem, Dr. Jarowski…motivated by his own hereditary predisposition to diabetes... began to look for a simple, dietary way to control these blood-sugar swings that are so damaging and life-threatening to diabetics. What is poorly understood by the public is that elevated sugar damages the eyes and kidneys and nerves long after elevated blood sugar levels go down. When blood sugar first begins to rise, it attaches to a protein in the blood called hemoglobin Alc. This destructive combination stays in the blood and causes havoc for up to 120 days. Because it would not be feasible for the average American to balance the amino acids in every meal simply by his/her selection of foods, Dr. Jarowski reasoned that a supplement might achieve the desired effect. His ground-breaking invention in formulating a supplement was to take 60 proteins that Americans commonly eat and then identify the amino acids most frequently lacking. After years of study, he found four, as described in his patents: Tryptophan, Methionine, Lysine, and Valine as the four most-limiting amino acids.(6) “Most limiting” means that they were nearly always in short supply, and simply by supplementing these four amino acids before a meal, much more of the protein could be utilized by your body, rather than be converted to waste ammonia and sugar. That his method works is attested to by the fact that Dr. Jarowski, now 90 years old, is in excellent health, having defeated the hereditary plague that took the lives and limbs of several of his close relatives. He attributes this to one fact: early on it became clear that if he could better match protein-containing meals to his body’s requirements, sugar would not flood his bloodstream and would be stabilized at, or near, its normal level. The chart below is a graph of Dr. Jarowski’s blood sugar following a meal. The chart shows just how dramatic the change is when taking GlycoTrol.
 As Dr. Jarowski sees it, the benefit of supplementing your diet, before a meal, with these amino acids is not limited to the reduction of “out-of-control” blood sugar. Blood sugar, when elevated, is destructive enough, but it also leads to abnormalities in blood fats and cholesterol and accounts for the preponderance of cardiovascular disease in diabetics. For this reason, Dr. Jarowski’s patents demonstrate why providing the most-limiting amino acids also results in lowered blood cholesterol, lowered blood fats, lowered blood ammonia, and lowered blood homocysteine… important even for people not prone to diabetes. Decades ago, when this research began, many of the above medical terms were hardly known. Now, as diabetes corrodes the life out of over 20.8 million Americans with diabetes and 54 million Americans with pre-diabetes, sadly, these terms are becoming household terms.(7) Dr. Jarowski has spent the better part of his life proving that there is no need for this destruction of health. References 1) Schwarzbein, Diana, MD, an endocrinologist in Santa Barbara, Calif., is the author of The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth about Losing Weight, Being Healthy and Feeling Younger (Health Communications, 1999). 2) Fox, Caroline, et al, Trends in the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. From the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study. 3,7) American Diabetes Association: All About Diabetes. 4) Dr. Dean Ornish: Dodging Diabetes, pp 32-33. 5) Dr. Dean Ornish: The Threat From Within, Newsweek, January 25, 2007. 6) Dr. Charles Jarowski. U.S. Patent 6,602,909. |
