The pancreas is the proverbial canary in the coal mine of today’s modern food supply and eating habits. It sometimes takes decades before the damage starts to really show, as it is often a slow and stealthy decline. Some of the damage can initially be masked through the intake of multi-vitamins and other supplements, fortification of foods, and even eating larger and more frequent quantities of food.
Roughly a third of the population in the United States now has pre-diabetes or diabetes. There are studies that mention between twenty-five and fifty percent of those with diabetes also suffer from exocrine pancreatic damage.
This could potentially mean millions of, mostly undiagnosed, people that are nutrient deficient, and suffering a wide range of chronic symptoms without knowing the underlying cause.
The focus has mostly been on the endocrine side of the pancreas with diabetes, but with these messages I would like to shine more light on to the lesser known, and often misdiagnosed, exocrine area of the pancreas.