10 Alarming Signs Your Blood Sugar Is Too High

hello health champions today we're going to talk about some common signs and

symptoms of high blood sugar and we also want to understand how this works and

how to catch it early because you don't ever want to develop any of these signs

and symptoms coming right up

hey I'm Dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if

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anything the reason this stuff is so important is

that first of all high blood sugar insulin resistance and diabetes are

sweeping the world it's an epidemic but a lot of people don't even know that

they have this stuff because you can't feel it until it's gone too far so even

though we have millions and millions of diabetics 25% of the diabetics are

undiagnosed they don't know they have it and as much as 90% of the people who are

pre-diabetic don't know it so that's a ticking time bomb and pre-diabetes means

that if you don't change the way you're eating if you don't change your

lifestyle then you'll probably have diabetes within 5 years so we're talking

hundreds of millions of people and you never ever want to let it get to where

you have these signs and symptoms but you still want to know about it so that

you can keep an eye out and maybe help some other people as well so number one

weight gain now that's an early sign it's very very common

okay even though it takes a while to develop this it's not something that's a

really severe pathology and you have plenty of time to do something about it

but weight gain is primarily caused by high blood sugar because high blood

sugar drives insulin and insulin resistance drives weight gain and

especially the central obesity the the belly fat

number two increased or frequent urination if you go to the bathroom all

the time if you're losing a lot of fluid that way then that could be an

indication of high blood sugar because if you can't control your blood sugar if

it just gets through this roof then the only way the body has left to get rid of

it is to get it out through the kidneys to pass it out through the urine and now

that sugar takes a lot of fluid with it the sugar and the fluid that's kind of

an osmotic pressure there so you lose them together you get rid of some sugar

but you also lose a lot of fluids so now you get dehydrated you get thirsty and

another part of dehydration a very common symptom of dehydration is

headaches so increased urination increased thirst and headaches they all

go together because you're losing a lot of fluid now if we add a fourth thing to

this if we add hunger this is a more severe case of untreated undetected type

1 diabetes so if you're super super hungry you're eating your body is

absorbing it your blood sugar goes up but there is no insulin there to take

the sugar from the blood into the cells now your cells are still starving okay

they don't have any energy there's plenty of blood sugar but it can't go to

where it needs to be that's called starvation in the midst of Plenty so

with that you're gonna have hunger you're gonna have increased urination

but at the same time you're gonna have weight loss because none of that food

you're eating can make it into the cells and build new tissue number three sign

of high blood sugar is blurry vision so there's a tendency where there is a lot

of high blood sugar we talked about here that the blood and the water go together

so the sugar is going to hold liquid to it and

you can have a swelling of the lens in the eye so when you change the shape of

the lens you can get blurry vision this is different from the long-term problem

of retinopathy that's when the retina the find blood vessels in the retina get

destroyed by neuropathy and is the leading cause of blindness but that's

further down the road the short term is blurry vision because of the swollen

lens number four sign is nausea vomiting confusion and these are pretty serious

things this is associated with something called diabetic ketoacidosis and a lot

of people are scared and a lot of people are trying to scare people doing Kido

and saying that ketoacidosis is a bad thing so you shouldn't do the keto diet

well these are totally different things the diabetic ketoacidosis happens

because the blood sugar runs into the hundreds but there's no insulin to take

the sugar out of the bloodstream and into the cells so the only thing the

body can do is to burn the fat and this is why you're also losing weight in the

middle of all of this and when you're burning fat you're making ketones and in

the absence of any insulin when the body is only burning fat then that creates a

pathologically high level of keto acids and these can cause swelling of the

brain and it can cause all of these nasty things and untreated it can lead

to death but that's very very different from a nutritional ketosis because when

there is some insulin present then you will never get the levels as high as

those pathological levels that's and nutritional ketosis is actually a very

very stable and very healthy level of ketones that's how humans have existed

for hundreds of thousands of years anytime that there is less food we make

ketones and we just fine number five common sign would

be recurring and frequent infections and high blood sugar depresses your immune

system but it also feeds all of the pathogens all the opportunistic

pathogens in your body so if you have yeast infections for example the most

common reason for that is excess sugar because the yeast thrives on that sugar

sign in symptom number six is fatigue and poor focus and this is one of the

strongest correlations one of the most commonly found things with high blood

sugar and with diabetes they even call it if diabetes fatigue syndrome but even

with that being that common they still don't know exactly why it happens they

don't understand the mechanism that just know that it happens and if it happens

after you eat it's especially common right after you

eat and then it can be because your body is busy converting that glucose into

triglycerides because if your insulin resistance and you have high blood

glucose then the cells don't want the glucose so the body has to do something

else with it and that's where the glucose turns into triglycerides and

that's a costly it's an energy demanding process sigh number seven is slow

healing a lot of diabetics a lot of people with high blood sugar they notice

that they get a cut and it takes forever and it just won't heal very very common

number eight teeth and gums same thing there's slow healing they get inflamed

they get swollen and bleeding you get cavities and this is thanks to something

called the bacterium called streptococcus mutans and guess what that

little bugger likes it loves sugar it loves carbohydrates and even if you

don't eat sugar if you eat carbohydrates those start breaking down already

in the mouth so it doesn't have to be even

though sugar is worse because it's concentrated the any kind of carb will

feed that drip to caucus so that causes the cavities and it also causes the

plaquing on the teeth so if you go on a keto or low carb diet you will notice

that the plaquing and your teeth is reduced dramatically number nine is any

form of skin changes all right so if you have dry itchy skin then that could be

high blood sugar if you get blisters they look like burned blisters but they

don't hurt like burn blisters they could be itchy but they're different they're

associated with diabetes as well skin tags especially in the folds of the the

neck and elbow and armpit and so forth very very common with high blood sugar

and diabetes and also something called a cam dosis nigricans which is a darkening

of the skin it looks kind of like a dark soft leathery appearance of the skin

again particularly in skin that that folds and number 10 is neuropathy and

this is very strongly associated with diabetes and high blood sugar so if you

have things like tingling and numbness especially in the feet and the hands

because it's the furthest away it's a distal body part so the circulation is

poorer and then when circulation is decreased because of diabetes and high

blood sugar then it is it happens there first and you want to watch this

especially if it is bilateral meaning if you have it on both sides so you could

for example have a little bit of a musculoskeletal structural imbalance but

then it's more likely that you just have a problem in one hand if it's in both

then you want to start thinking that it's more of a metabolic issue and you

want to start thinking blood sugar and neuropathy can happen in

many places so it can happen in in distal body parching yet numbness and

tingling but you can also have more severe neuropathy where you lose sensory

and motor control so you can have something called shark owes joints which

is where the whole joint breaks down and degenerates because you don't have the

proper sensory feedback another form of neuropathy is what we talked about with

the retinopathy it's the most common cause of blindness because the nerve

swells from all that blood sugar and it just doesn't work as well but one more

thing people don't think about often is gastroparesis that means paralysis of

your stomach and intestinal tract so this is because the vagus the vagus

nerve is cranial nerve number 10 and it walks all the way from the brainstem

down into your gut into your intestinal tract and it supplies the innervation it

sends all the signals that coordinate and regulate your digestion and your

motility the movement of your intestines and of the food through your body so if

the Vegas gets neuropathy if it gets compromised and inflamed and swollen now

the intestinal contents don't move the way they're supposed to and you can get

things like constipation you can have if it really gets stuck than anything you

eat comes right back up you you vomited back up so this can have many many

different expressions you can have pain it could have irregular bowel habits etc

so virtually all of these different signs and symptoms they're expressions

of a few common mechanisms and those mechanisms are that blood sugar and

insulin increases inflammation in the body it decreases circulation that's

where you have the the slow healing and so forth

it increases swelling which is with the blurry vision and the neuropathy

it decreases the immune system it reduces the immune function at the same

time that it feeds the pathogens so high blood sugar is a really nasty thing

because all of these things can happen and will happen if you don't control it

but now there's two different thoughts of controlling it on the one hand you

can take a drug to try to push the blood sugar down something like metformin or

insulin etc or you can reduce the cause you can undo the cause which means you

start eating less sugar and carbohydrate and which one would be the better way

well let's think about this if you watch some of my videos you know some of this

already but let's quick recap that if you have a high carb diet you get high

blood sugar you get insulin resistance and then you treat the blood sugar you

reduce the blood sugar then you're helping the body get the blood sugar out

of the bloodstream and into the cells which means you're promoting the storing

mechanism you're promoting the clogging mechanism and now we're pushing the body

into metabolic syndrome and what is metabolic syndrome it is a cluster of

conditions including high blood pressure cardiovascular disease insulin

resistance diabetes stroke etc so if you maintain the high carb diet and you

treat to lower the blood sugar you're moving the body toward metabolic

syndrome so it's like you're out of the ashes and into the fire the other way of

dealing with it is to reduce the sugar and the carbohydrates to take away the

thing that caused the problem in the first place I know that's a novel

thought but believe me it works now if you take a low sugar low carb diet now

you're gonna lower the blood glucose you're going to lower the insulin

the body will be restored to health so I'll let you pick which model you prefer

but I don't think it takes rocket scientists to figure that one out but

what if we do something even smarter what if we don't wait for any of these

to happen what if we decide that I'm not going to wait 20 years for these

problems to develop I want to do something today to make sure that they

never happen all right and that is so simple it is so simple you measure your

blood sugar how about that and it's amazing to me that we have millions of

people with diabetes and prediabetes who have no idea and all it takes is a

little prick in the finger little blood drop and you can measure and you can

find out exactly where you're at and if you measure it now you can save decades

you don't have to go through this you don't have to watch any of these steps

develop you measure your blood sugar that you can do for yourself you go to

the lab you measure your a1c and your fasting insulin and now you have a

picture now you know exactly where you stand in relation to this and if you

don't have a problem then make sure you don't develop one if you're starting to

get a problem then learn how to develop a low carb diet lifestyle so that you

can reverse these changes before they turn into these terrible signs if you

enjoyed this video make sure that you take a look at that one also thank you

so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video