Sometimes I read interesting things on Quora, and this post caught my eye because the author’s friend is from Iran, where saffron-infused rock candy is used to relieve nausea.
At first she found it extremely strange – but Nabat sugar is a popular remedy throughout the Middle East. Why? Then she realized that one of our most popular Western anti-nausea medications (Emetrol) is mostly fructose and glucose with a tiny amount of phosphoric acid! How is it possible that sugar calms the stomach and relieves nausea?
This got me thinking about Absorb Plus.
23 years ago, when I first formulated Absorb Plus – after developing the elemental formula that allowed me to gain from 49 pounds (after a severe bleed from mercury poisoning) to 135 pounds and hit the gym three times a week in 7 weeks – I used fructose and stevia to sweeten the shakes.
For a long time I thought that diabetics couldn’t use Absorb Plus. Because the tapioca maltodextrin (glucose polymer) and fructose enter the bloodstream so quickly. However, we have now heard from many people with diabetes who tolerate the shake well. Then my father, who suffered from diabetes, developed acute pancreatitis and Absorb Plus was the only food he could eat. His pancreas couldn’t tolerate anything else – not even broth.
He took only Absorb Plus for a week and checked his blood sugar several times a day. Imagine our collective surprise when his blood sugar dropped every day, all day, and he drank nothing but Absorb Plus! He mixed the berry (fructose) with unsweetened vanilla.
And did you know that fructose has been shown to have a positive effect on insulin response in several studies?
When did natural sugar – from fruits and vegetables – become so reviled in our culture? Of course, we all consume way too much in the form of sweets, cakes and processed foods. If it comes in a package or can, there’s a good chance it contains sugar – and a high salt content. Health is about balance. And listening to what our unique bodies want – which often changes depending on the season, stress levels, age, etc.
But when the food industry invented high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), things really started to take a turn for the worse. This hybrid sugar does not occur in nature and yet was/is added to most processed/packaged foods. This unnatural hybrid is not suitable for diabetics or to treat nausea and causes great harm to the body. Unfortunately, most mainstream consumers thought that meant all fructose was bad. Not like that. The body has always been able to digest and utilize natural fructose – and even derive some benefit from it!
Jini Patel Thompson is an internationally recognized expert in natural healing for digestive diseases. She healed herself from widespread Crohn’s disease and has been medication and surgery free for over 25 years. Jini has appeared on numerous podcasts, TV and radio shows in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, giving people hope and vision on how to heal their colitis, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) using all-natural methods. Her books on natural healing of digestive diseases have been sold in over 80 countries worldwide. Jini is married and has three children, nine sheep, 11 horses, a cat and three dogs.
