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Diabetes,
the real problem!
Today, most people with diabetes are only treating the
symptoms and not getting to the root of the problem. Furthermore,
many medications given to people with diabetes are compounding problems
instead of getting to the root cause.
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The best way to
manage your diabetes is to get to the root cause. Doesn't that
make more sense? Let's look at what Type 2 diabetes really is.
The Simple
Explanation.
There are two primary reasons for Diabetes.
- A prolonged diet, high in carbohydrates
- Improper and under nourishment.
Let's look at what happens in our bodies. Whenever
we eat, our bodies convert the carbohydrates into sugar (glucose).
This causes the glucose level of our blood to rise. The more
carbohydrates you eat, the higher your blood sugar rises.
Your body then needs to metabolize this sugar and convert it to
energy. This is where insulin comes into the picture.
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When your blood sugar rises, your body produces more insulin to
lower your blood sugar. That's good !! Sooooo, what's
the problem? You'll soon see!
The function of insulin is to help or push the sugar
from your blood into the cells in your body. On the outside
of every cell, there are what we call "insulin receptors".
These receptors act like guards, guarding the doorway into your
cells. These guards (insulin receptors) regulate the amount of sugar
that gets into your cells. Got the picture? Let's continue.
When you have a prolonged diet that is high in carbohydrates,
things begin to happen within your body, There
is way too much carbohydrates being converted to sugar.
This causes your body to produce an excess amount
of insulin. Why? Because! It needs the
insulin to push all that sugar into the cells.
Still with me?
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With all this excess insulin trying to push the sugar into your
cells, the insulin receptors (the guards) begin to get lazy.
Some of the guards (the insulin receptors) won't let the sugar into
the cells. So what happens now? Your blood sugar rises
even more. Wait it gets worse!
Because your blood sugar is now elevated, your body
thinks it needs to produce more insulin to get the excess blood
sugar into your cells. Remember from above when the insulin
receptors (guards) got lazy. All this additional excess insulin
causes even more guards (insulin receptors) to get lazy, malfunction
and shut the doors. Thus raising your blood sugar even further,
and thus causing your body to produce more insulin, thus causing
more receptors to get lazy. So the cycle continues, and goes on
and on and on. More insulin causing more insulin receptors
to fail and there you go, insulin resistance.
When your body can no longer produce enough insulin
to push the sugar into the cells, you develop Type 2 diabetes.
This is a very simple explanation of what the problem
really is.
What's
the Bottom line?
Type 2 diabetes is really insulin resistance.
The solution to the problem is to find a way to increase the sensitivity
of your cells to insulin and help your body get the sugar out of
your blood and into your cells so it can be metabolized and turned
into energy. This is one of the reasons why diabetics continuously
feel tired and fatigued. Does that make sense?
Excess
Insulin has negative effects!
As just stated, your body's metabolism
processes food and produces energy, and insulin is your metabolism's
master hormone. Having an over abundant supply of insulin can be
very detrimental to your health. Listed below are some of
the complications caused by excess insulin.
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1) Heart Disease.
2) Hardening of the Arteries.
3) Damage to Artery Walls.
4) Increased Cholesterol Levels.
5) Vitamin &Mineral Deficiencies.
6) Kidney Disease
7) Accumulation & storage of fat.
8) Weight Gain
9) Fat burning mechanism turned off.
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Nutritional
Deficiencies from excess insulin.
Science has shown that excess insulin
also causes your body to become deficient in vitamins,
minerals and other nutrients. It's a proven fact
that being deficient in them is directly linked high
blood sugar levels.
Chromium
Chromium is essential to your metabolism
and maintaining safe sugar levels. Excess insulin
depletes our chromium. According to Dr. Michael
Eades, MD , author of "Protein Power",
he states, "The insulin receptor, the structure
on the surfaces of your cells that actually become resistant
to insulin, requires chromium to function properly.
Deficiency of chromium is rampant - it affects 90% of
the American population - because a diet high in starch
and sugar puts a heavy demand on the insulin system
to handle the incoming carbohydrate load, and that demand
depletes chromium."
Calcium
and Magnesium
Excess insulin also causes your body
to become depleted in calcium and magnesium. Both
of the elements are essential for good health and are
a part of hundreds of bodly functions. One of
the most common problems that result from a deficiency
in calcium is bone density. Magnesium also plays
an important role in your body's utilization of calcium.
Some of the other deficiencies caused by excess insulin
are: zinc, selenium, Vitamin C, Vitamin
E, the B complex Vitamins, the essential
fatty acids, and much more.
Now you know how and why people get type
2 diabetes.
Now you know some of the consequences are of not controlling
your blood sugar.
Here are your choices:
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