What the Inventors of Fraxel Must be Like

The human brain is capable of incredible inventions. It started with the invention of the wheel, and just kept on going. Go to any museum nowadays, and you'll see at least one small section where there are, well, unique inventions. Some of these inventions make absolutely no sense, but they're fun to look at.

Then, there are the inventions that are both intriguing to watch in action, and actually work - Fraxel being a good example. People with skin problems might or might not know about Fraxel, but if they know what's good for them, they'll at least research it a bit more.

Behind every great invention is a great inventor - someone who really knows his or her stuff. In the case of Fraxel, it must have been a bunch of really smart people from Reliant Technologies, Inc. They must have been the people who spent hours in their basements while in high school thinking up ways to solve people's skin problems. Well, considering that Fraxel is meant to mainly treat melasma and age spots, they were definitely thinking ahead.

Oh yes, in separate basements across the globe, these enterprising young teenagers were already thinking about how their skin would look in fifty years or so. These people had studied the faces of their elders, and become repulsed by what they saw. They wanted to find a way to erase those brown spots from the foreheads and hands of their grandparents, and make them happier people.

Well, at least their hearts were in the right place. Although brilliant in science and math, they had a problem with English literature, which halted what otherwise would have been the skipping of many grades. It wasn't their fault that they couldn't find any relevance in the work of Samuel Coleridge Taylor!

They dredged through high school, and luckily top science colleges saw the promise in them, and accepted them right away. Their application essays were riveting, talking about how they had spent years trying to figure out how to "turn back the clock" for old people everywhere. They concluded their essays by saying that this college, about all colleges, would be the missing puzzle piece in their scientific education.

Four years and lots of experiments later, they were college graduates. Now it was time to find a job in "the real world". To them, there was no more realistic place than a laboratory. So it was that they all applied to Reliant Technologies, who shared their vision. Altogether for the first time, they developed this laser treatment. Although, it's too bad their grandparents had passed away by now.

Regardless, this team of exceptional do-gooders have strived for perfection in this laser procedure. True, there have been reports of people who say their skin pigment has been considerably more mottled by this procedure, but, darn it, things take time! They are always on the lookout for new improvements, and are bolstered by the majority of glowing reviews that they have received.

You know, it not everyday a fellow like me gets to announce a major paradigm shift

You don know what a paradigm shift is? Well, if I mentioned events and names like: Gutenberg, Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, and Werner von Braun ou would probably guess a paradigm shift is major shift in thinkingnd you would be right.

Back in the 1960, Thomas Kuhn wrote a famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In it, he destroyed the common misconception so many of us have about science.

We tend to think scientific progress is ushered in by a slow, line upon line, piece by piece development of thought over time.

Thomas Kuhn showed that, historically, scientific progress occurs in leaps nd is always confronted by a struggle with an ld guard.?The old scientific theorists hold tenaciously to their (usually tenured or profitable) positions and array themselves against the new discovery, attempting to drive it away.

But, the new guard ?the new discoverers, inventors, explorers?takes the new discoveries and advances it over the thinking of the old establishment. Rarely is the old guard converted to the new patterns of thinking (new discovery). They just die off. The new position wins by attrition ruthnd perseverance.

Diabetes: The $132 billion dollar pandemic

Diabetes is on the front edge of such a paradigm shift.

Diabetes afflicts over 18 million Americans. That is double the number of people with diabetes just since 1991 alone.

According to the CDC, one in every three Americans will develop diabetes in their life*time. Let that sink inne in every three Americans will develop diabetes in their life*time.

It is estimated over 40 million Americans can be classified as re-diabetes?meaning they have blood sugar levels higher than normal but still below the type 2 diagnosis level which helps to define diabetes.

By anyone standard that is pandemic (goes far beyond epidemic proportions). The cost for this carnage is over $132 BILLION DOLLARS. So much expense, grief and sorrownd unnecessary.

Diabetes: A reflection of our culture.

We are a fast food, sedentary, et-our-fix-now?generation. More than one in every two Americans are overweight. We don exercise as we should. All of which affects glucose levels. Diabetes is a lifestyle diseasend wee got the lifestyle.

Diabetes: The important announcement

That said, diabetes is a condition which CAN be turned around. Glyconutrition is the new discovery shaking the medical and scientific worlds. There are four Nobel Prizes and MIT testifying to the fact that glycobiology is one of the 10 technologies/discoveries which will shape our world.

Glyconutrition is more than just a promising new treatment for diabetes. Many are starting to whisper ICTORY?over diabetes in their approach to disease.

Whether that is the case, time will tell.

Oh no?The problem is not a failure of glyconutrition. It is the building block VITAL to healthy cell*ular function and it is extremely vital to the proper functioning of the IMMUNE system. Those are known facts.

Diabetes is an auto-immune disease meaning, your body immune system gets misguided messages. Thus, it starts attacking the islet cells in the pancreas which produces insulin. Voila...diabetes!

But, the problem is NOT whether glyconutrition really works. Anecdotal evidence (market buzz!) is already overwhelming in favor of glyconutritional therapy for diabetes. As is the professional research.

Nohe actual science is NOT the problem. The problem is the old guard again. Thomas Kuhn book is almost prophetic. The old guard, the medical and pharmaceutical establishment, just can accept the findings of (their own) research?hat! A nutrient?to treat diabetes??ogwash,?one can almost hear them say.

Actually, I wish they were saying that out loud. The reality is, they just ignore the issue. You see, too much is at stake. Like billions of dollarsh $132 billion dollars. All of that mon*ey (read, usiness? disappears if glyconutrition continues to an out?the way the research shows us. But, for no^w, the only thing anning out?is a diabetes pandemic.

Yet, glyconutrition gets shunned as an official diabetes treatment approach.

A study published in the 1997 issue of the Proceedings of the Fisher Institute for Medical Research showed that people with type 1 diabetes who were given glyconutrients reported a dramatic improvement in their health, including a decrease in vision problems, better wound healing, less infections, and lower blood pressure.?(Miracle Sugars, by Rita Elkins, M.H., Woodland Publishing, p. 26)

lycobiology has achieved critical breakthroughs in the medical field, primarily by addressing what could be the greatest plague in health care today -- auto-immune diseases. Multiple sclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, Crohn disease and colitis are just a few of these diseases.?- Dr. Neecie Moore, Ph.D. (cf. Rita Elkins, M.H.

Miracle Sugars, Woodland Publishing, p. 18.)

Also, mannose (one glyconutrient) can stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin thus lowering the amount of insulin needed to control this disease.?(Miracle Sugars, p. 27).

Reality Check: The lives of 1 out of every 3 Americans are affected directly by diabetes and there is a $132 billion dollar diabetes pandemic running amuck in our midst. So, I sure hope this paradigm shift - glyconutrition - gets less opposition from the owers that be?(the ld guard?, and is given its rightful place in the sunoon.

But, with the mon^ey being made by the pharmaceuticals and their drugs, and the astoundingly simplistic view of disease treatment (last that disease with technology and drugs!? it is doubtful if Thomas Kuhn aradigm shift?will work out any differently for diabetes across the land.

The old guard will attack and ignore the discovery ?arguably, the greatest in medical history in over a hundred years ?and, a la Kuhn, they will simply go the way of the Dodo Bird and diabetes treatment will receive its due.