Before embarking on treating feline diabetes without insulin, it's important to look at the causes. Then the natural solutions become obvious and you can do away with the terribly damaging drug insulin

Whenever you seek to treat any condition, the first thing should always be to look for the cause. Most people are too busy looking for cures to look at causes, including vets. But you will never cure anything until you can identify the cause and then remove that.

Causes of ill health are many and varied and it takes a trained eye, an open mind and great curiosity to find them. Homeopathic treatment is always the best, with the greatest potential, because the aim is to seek and address the cause.

When you use veterinary treatment, the cause is never addressed. Vets haven't been trained to look for causes., although the better ones do tend to.

Treating the effects of any illness with veterinary drugs involves suppressing the symptoms. This also means suppressing the immune system. The result of this is more ailments further down the track.

Vets will often tell you that genetics is the cause of diabetes. However, the relatively new science of epigenetics disproves this theory. Certainly genetics features, but much more as the expression of ill health when all the other aspects are out of balance.

So, it's not the cause. The genetics give the expression.

So what else causes diabetes in cats, if it isn’t the genetics?

The environment has an enormous impact on everyone’s health, in particular, the diet, toxins and stress.

When the diet is not right for the species, when it is of poor quality, when it isn’t fresh, then the consumer will never get the nutrients necessary to retain health. The food may keep them alive, for a time, but a cascade of illnesses is inevitable. We can see this with all the new diseases in cats appearing, and the shorter life spans.

The typical commercial cat food diet is all of these things – not right for the species, of poor quality (whatever the price) and certainly it isn’t fresh. So straight away, you can see enormous room for improvement.

Sometimes, this alone is enough to reverse any and every health condition. It certainly will help improve them.

So the first thing for you to accomplish when treating feline diabetes without insulin is getting the diet right.

Toxins are an increasing problem today, but the most harmful toxins are those that are ingested or absorbed.

Dry commercial cat foods are ALWAYS toxic, because of the preservatives needed to keep the food at room temperature indefinitely. Whatever the packet says.

Other toxins in commercial cat food are the synthetic vitamins and minerals. These are not easily absorbed, utilised or excreted. They can hang around, causing mischief.

But perhaps the worst toxins come from veterinary drugs and vaccines. These are loaded with chemicals that are unsafe, such as mercury, aluminium, formaldehyde.

The common worm and flea preparations are neurotoxic, causing nerve and brain tissue damage.

With a poor diet and an ever increasing toxic load, is it any wonder that your cat (or anyone else) succumbs to serious and chronic ailments? Diabetes is only one of many.

Add to that the stress that so many cats endure in their lives, from a noisy family, to a lack of freedom, to boredom, to inappropriate and unwelcome handling, a lack of direct sunshine, a lack of grounding and you have all the necessary ingredients for illness.

Treating feline diabetes without insulin will necessitate the need for a professional, for most people. However, starting with the diet is something only you can do.