The etiology of type II diabetes mellitus (non-insulin- dependent diabetes mellitus, NIDDM) is even less clearly understood. Two factors have been identified:

a) Impaired insulin release-basal secretion of insulin is often normal, but rapid release of insulin follows a meal is greatly impaired, resulting in failure of normal handling of a carbohydrate load. In most patients, some level of insulin secretion is maintained, so that abnormality of glucose metabolism is limited and ketoacidosis is uncommon. In these patients, insulin secretion can be stimulated by drugs such as sulfonylureas. Exogenous insulin is therefore not essential in treatment. It also have been suggested that inheritance of a defective pattern of insulin secretion is responsible for familial tendency of diabetes. The genetic factor is very strong in type II diabetes, with a history of diabetes present in about 50% of first degree relatives.

b) Insulin resistance-a defect in tissue response to insulin is believed to play a major role. This phenomenon is called insulin resistance and is caused by defective insulin receptors on target cells. Insulin resistance occurs in association with obesity and pregnancy. In normal individuals who become obese or pregnant, B cells secrete increased amounts of insulin to compensate. Patients who have genetic susceptibility to diabetes cannot compensate because of their inherent defect in insulin secretion. Thus, type II diabetes is frequently precipitated by obesity and pregnancy. In a few patients with extreme insulin resistance, antibodies against receptors have been demonstrated in plasma. These antibodies are mostly of IgG class and act against insulin receptors, causing decreased numbers of insulin receptors and defective binding of insulin to receptors.

Other specific types of diabetes mellitus includes maturity-onset diabetes of young (MODY), diabetes due to mutant insulin, diabetes due to mutant insulin receptors, diabetes mellitus associated with a mutation of mitochondrial DNA and obese type 2 patients.

‘To be honest with you. I didn’t even know at time what this was. But upon making some inquiries, I soon learned it was an herb. But I was faced with another dilemma. Even though I knew which herb was right for my problem, I didn’t know how to use it. Was I to eat it raw? Was I to make a tea out of it? Was I to soak it in alcohol and use it as a tincture that way? Or were gelatin capsules of dried powder way to go?

I tried each and every possibility and soon discovered that hot tea was best course to follow. In about a quart of boiling water I would put one good-sized handful of cut fresh catnip {Contains acetic acid, biotin, buteric acid, choline, citral, folic acid and vitamin A as well as many B vitamins including B6 and 12 which are useful in dealing with lycanthropy and other obsessive hallucinatory events.} herb and let it simmer for a few minutes before setting it aside to steep a while. I would then pour myself a couple of cups of this brew while it was still quite warm and sip it down whenever craving came over me for more of these addictive substances.

‘I was amazed, quite frankly, at just how well this tea worked. My withdrawal symptoms were nowhere near what they used to be before. I sincerely believe that good Virgin Mother used this common herb to help me overcome my addiction. I then entered priesthood where I’ve served with honor and distinction ever since.’ He concluded.

I looked up at him from my note-taking and asked with a smile, ‘I believe this is first time I’ve ever heard a priest confess to a commoner and non-Catholic.’ All three of us enjoyed a hearty laugh following this remark.” (1)

For people who do not know extent of control exerted by Catholic Church in Canada and especially Quebec I highly recommend looking into Pauline Principle as detailed in Catholic Encyclopedia before checking out arranged marriages and all man ways they get money from companies and force people to act according to their materialistic designs. My father was with Judge-Advocate General Corps after cessation of hostilities in Europe and stayed for Nuremberg Trial of Kurt Mayer. He told of many stories where men sending all their pay back to wife in Quebec or other Eastern Provinces had found church had taken children away from mother and were using these funds (Often augmented by Black Market efforts headed by later Governor-General and including my father.). The church would say woman was ‘running around’ and in one case man went AWOL and was up on charges because he tried to free his children and his wife who he had an understanding with about so-called ‘running around’. Of course now we know, and courts have shown – church was mightily involved in many other serious and immoral acts.