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Chromium
"....Almost 50 years ago the mineral chromium was established as an essential
nutrient at the federal offices of the National Institutes of Health by Dr. Klaus
Schwarz. It was precisely for its role in blood sugar metabolism that this trace
element chromium was established as essential.
A molecule named Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) that corrected abnormal sugar
metabolism was found to be composed primarily of the mineral chromium. Dr.
Walter Mertz, then an assistant to Dr. Schwarz, reportedly noted at that time in
1959 “Type II diabetes is not a disease. It is the lack of a natural ingredient, known
as GTF Chromium.”....
....Chromium works together with insulin in providing sugar to the cells for energy.
If chromium levels decrease then sugar delivery to the cells from insulin decrease
accordingly.
Modern medical terms such as “insulin resistance” and “insulin sensitivity” should
be replaced by “gross chromium deficiency”. It is not that insulin is “resistant” or
lacks “sensitivity,” but rather that insulin is lacking a vital – in fact essential –
component for sugar metabolism that is this mineral chromium.
Insulin is a transport mechanism. It is like a truck that transports glucose to the
cell. At the cell destination there is an insulin receptor site that is comparable to a
loading dock. This is where the glucose is unloaded and passed into the cell.
Chromium rich GTF molecules are in essence dock workers that assist the sugar
(glucose) from the insulin “truck” at the insulin receptor site “loading dock” into the
cell. If there are less and less GTF chromium “dock workers” then the work of
providing sugar to the cells for energy slows and becomes unproductive. A traffic
jam of insulin “trucks” in the blood stream results in higher and higher levels of
blood sugar as the problem of chromium deficiency increases with the passing of
time.
Whole wheat and raw sugar from sugar cane are rich in chromium. The refining of
whole wheat into bleached, white flour removes 91 per cent of that chromium. The
refining of raw sugar into white sugar removes 98 per cent of that chromium. [This
is why raw foods, even some high in sugar content, are perfectly healthy due to the
added minerals, vitamins, and enzymes which are perfectly balanced to that specific
food, helping it digest and absorb flawlessly into your body. As soon as any food is
refined or cooked it loses some, or all, of the required elements and thus becomes
not as beneficial as it was before]
The refined flour and refined sugar are quickly reduced in the body into simple
sugars that require chromium to be efficiently metabolized – chromium that is
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