Wed, Aug-24-05, 14:50
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Plan: Bernstein Diabetes Soluti
Stats: 260/-/145
BF:
Progress: 63%
Location: Michigan
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However, I do believe there is a correlation between someone who seeks sugar, and drugs or alcohol. It is known that manic depressive people often crave sugar. It may be a matter of some people needing to seek the stimulation of substances to try and balance out their own imbalances. Self-medication via diet and/or drugs. It may be useful for affected people to understand why they are craving these things, however, I don't know that it will allow them to quit needing them. The chemical imbalance that gave them the craving, is still present.
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I don't think that anyone is suggesting that low carbing can cure alcoholism. Whatever imbalances caused you to seek an addictive substance in the first place aside, once you are addicted to the alcohol, you've also got that to deal with in addition to the imbalances.
But...since many alcoholics are hypoglycemic and the hypoglycemia itself can be a trigger for drinking, it stands to reason that dealing with the hypoglycemia trigger can make it easier to quit drinking since the addict is then only dealing with one issue, not two; the deck is less stacked against them, so to speak. As for the supplements, there are several that are quite helpful in stabilizing blood sugar, so that isn't such a far-fetched idea, either.
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