14 Shocking Facts About Insulin Resistance And Diabetes You Have To Understand

insulin resistance and diabetes what is the difference between insulin

resistance and diabetes and is insulin resistance the same thing as

pre-diabetes today we're going to talk about 14 facts that you have to

understand if you want to optimize your health or if you have loved ones or

wanting to improve any of these conditions stay tuned

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

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anything instantly resistance pre-diabetes and

type 2 diabetes is what we're gonna talk about today the number one thing to know

is that it affects 30 million people in the u.s. that's about 10% of the

population with full-blown type 2 diabetes out of those people 25 percent

don't know that they have it so as high as the numbers are these problems are

still under diagnosed number two 84 million people

another 84 million on top of that have officially insulin resistance that means

that they are over five point seven on the a1c and out of all those people

ninety percent don't know that they have it so even though they've done some

research they still don't understand really how big of a problem this is and

the people who have it don't know they have it so they're not changing they

don't know to change anything insulin resistance is also called pre

diabetes or pre type-2 diabetes because very often or even typically if you have

insulin resistance then within five years it will have progressed to type 2

diabetes so we need to understand that these are progressive mechanisms we wear

out the body and if you want to get a true idea of how big this problem is

then understand the number one cause of weight gain is

insulin resistance so it's not like every obese person has insulin

resistance and every skinny person does not but there's a pretty close

correlation between the two and officially eighty seven point five

percent of the people in the United States are overweight so that should

give you kind of an idea of how big this problem really is that whether wherever

we we draw the line for what we're gonna call insulin resistance eighty seven

point five percent probably have a significant degree of insulin resistance

number five there is a big drive from official government agencies to identify

to diagnose the problem but when people are identified and diagnosed and treated

then they add on on average if they get diagnosed at age 50 it will add on on

average a hundred eighty thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to

their healthcare costs during a lifetime and they will end up having an eight

year shorter life span than they would have without the diabetes so there's the

problem that's sure we want to find out we want to identify we want to

understand the problem but even when they find it

it just becomes expensive and people still don't live normal full lives so

getting it diagnosed and treated is not a fix in any way fact number six it is

the number one cause of amputations amputations of toes and feet and fingers

and so forth it is the number one cause of blindness and it is the number one

cause of kidney failure leading to dialysis it is the number seven overall

cause of death but once we understand that it is the causative factor it's the

primary causative mechanism in what's called metabolic syndrome or syndrome

X which essentially is associated with

higher blood pressure increased cardiovascular disease and increased

stroke that it's basically the causative mechanism of all those conditions then

we understand that it's not really the number seven cause of death it is by far

the number one cause of death because it's contributing to many of the other

higher ranked conditions when we look at the prevalence by age group then we see

that people between 18 and 44 only 4% have type 2 diabetes and that might seem

like okay well that's a good number but realize that 50 years ago the people in

this age group had close to 0% type-2 diabetes and then when they between 45

and 64 now it is 17 percent almost one in five is like one in six when they're

over 65 one in four twenty four percent have type-2 diabetes so realize that

when these people when the 65 year olds were teenagers then there were virtually

no people that had type 2 diabetes that was a disease reserved for middle age

and up 50 and up younger people hardly ever had it because it took so long to

develop and when we look at it today and the youngest group then 200,000 kids

have type 2 diabetes something that was unheard of fifty years ago and in the

age group 10 to 19 the the rate is growing by 4.8% every year so it's it's

accelerating it's not just growing steadily it's an accelerating growth so

when we talk about insulin resistance and diabetes we need to understand that

it's a continuum it's a continuum of insulin resistance all the way from just

having a little bit of extra insulin to the point where your system is

completely broken and the is just spilling out into the urine

because the levels are so high the kidneys can't contain it so think about

it this way the green here is this is blood glucose and this is insulin so

green is normal that means we eat something our blood sugar goes up a

little bit and then insulin goes up to match it and the insulin of course

lowers the blood sugar that's the purpose of insulin to guide the sugar

out of the bloodstream and into the cells and then when the blood sugar is

normal insulin comes down to a very low level again so that would be something

like a normal fasting blood glucose of about 80 and a fasting insulin level of

three but then if we keep eating foods that stimulate a lot of blood sugar so

this is primarily carbohydrates and sugar then we get higher blood sugar

this is the orange so now we get greater blood sugar swings and with higher blood

sugar so instead of normal the blood sugar would rise this much now the blood

sugar Rises that much and now we need a higher dose of insulin to guide that

blood sugar out and then the blood sugar comes down and insulin comes down but it

doesn't come down all the way because the cells are starting to become insulin

resistant the cells are saying hey we've have too much fuel and the purpose of

the insulin is to drive that fuel into the cell but if the cell has had enough

it's going to start resisting so with a green with a normal situation we have

blood sugar go up insulin comes up and they both return to baseline but with a

little bit of insulin resistance now the blood sugar goes up and the

insulin comes up higher and the blood sugar comes back to normal but the

insulin doesn't so now we're starting to get insulin resistance but we can't tell

from Joe looking at the blood sugar and then

we're looking at when we're starting to wear the system out if we keep doing

this for 20 30 40 years and this why we see these numbers increasing with age

because it takes decades to break the system unless you're just totally

totally abusing the system and then you start seeing some cases here even in the

kids once we start having severe insulin resistance and diabetes now the blood

sugar goes sky-high the insulin goes way way high but even

with that super high insulin the blood sugar still won't come down and the

insulin stays up and that would be the red arrow here so it's a continuum

insulin resistance and diabetes are not two different things they're just

different degrees of the same thing so you go all the way from insulin

sensitive to mildly insulin resistant to moderate to severe ly insulin resistant

to full-blown diabetes when you have broken the system and even with all that

insulin it still can't get the blood sugar down below a hundred and eighty so

now we have sugar spilling over in the urine and that's where the name comes

from diabetes mellitus or mellitus and what that num name means diabetes means

flow-through and Meletus means sweet so they used to actually diagnose diabetes

with tasting the urine and if it was sweet they know they had diabetes that

before any sophisticated tests but that's the mechanism that's where the

name comes from when the blood sugar rise is so high that it pushes out

through the kidneys where the kidneys can't reabsorb it because there's just

so much of it then we're starting to totally break the system now we're

getting kidney damage and we're getting inflammation and we're starting to set

ourselves up for all these long degenerative problems that result in

amputations and blindness and kidney failure so that's the continuum of

insulin resistance and we need to understand that out of the two factors

the blood glucose and the insulin the insulin is the real problem that first

of all the blood glucose doesn't necessarily change for the first 10 20

years but in the long run it's still the insulin that is the big problem when we

understand that it's not a blood sugar problem now we can start addressing it

we need to reduce the insulin we need to stop eating the foods that trigger the

most insulin we need to give the body a chance to burn off some of that fuel

before we put more in and if we understand that then we unfortunately

also understand that treatment is going to make it worse because the cell is

already overloaded the cell already has too much fuel we packing it full of

sugar the sugar turns into fat and the cell is bursting at the seams that's why

when it's full it becomes resistant but the treatment is aimed at the blood

sugar the treatment is aimed at pushing more sugar into the cell but it already

has too much so whether you take something that like metformin that's

supposed to make your cell more insulin sensitive that can help the insulin

short term because the cell will allow it in without you

creating crazy amounts of insulin but you're promoting the process of

overloading that you are still making the problem of overloading worse you're

still driving the insulin resistance because you're packing the cell even

more and once the problem is so bad that no amount of the body's production of

insulin can keep up then they start injecting insulin but

because they think that the glucose is the only problem the real problem is

insulin and they're treating the insulin problem with more insulin so even though

they can't control blood sugar a little bit they will make your diabetes and

your insulin resistance and your metabolic syndrome worse they'll drive

more blood pressure more cardiovascular disease and more stroke the cause the

blood sugar is just the effect it's just rising because the body can't keep up

you gotta help the body keep up by not overloading it and if you understand

that then we get to the number 14 fact that you have to understand is that it

is 90 plus percent reversible there's always going to be a few cases that are

just too far gone but the vast vast majority of these cases can be reversed

it is an overloading problem of things that trigger insulin primarily sugar and

carbohydrate and if you stop adding them so much and so often the body will have

a chance to burn something off if you keep eating sugar and carbs and you keep

taking things that will enhance the loading of these things into the cell

then you're going to just perpetuate it and keep making it worse a couple of

quotes to illustrate this when I looked at the definitions for diabetes mellitus

they say it's sometimes called a sugar diabetes it's a condition that occurs

when the body can't use glucose normally but what is normal is it what we've done

for the last 50 years or what we've done for the last hundred and fifty thousand

years right so our DNA is way way old it hasn't

changed in modern times so whatever our ancestors ate is what we are adapted to

but and that was normal we might have found a little bit of fruit a few

berries beehive a couple times a year we ate maybe

ten 15 maybe 20 grams of sugar per day today the official guidelines tell us

that the body is supposed to process glucose normally that means getting

about 70 grams of carbohydrate which turns into sugar from grain another 75

grams from fruit which they say can be fresh frozen canned or dried they tell

us to eat low-fat or fat-free dairy three cups a day that'll give us another

40 grams of sugar and then they say don't eat more than 10% of your total

calories from sugar that from added table sugar that's another 50 grams so

235 grams of sugar or grain which will turn into sugar in a few minutes that is

probably ten times the amount that your body is designed for 10 times the amount

that it can keep up with long-term so if you eat this amount your body can

tolerate it it will take a while before you break your carbohydrate processing

machine and in some people it breaks after 10-15 years and in some people it

breaks after 3040 years but we're on pace to getting basically the majority

of the population being diabetic as when we get older so we have to rethink what

normal glucose processing is the body is not defective it only breaks when we

abuse it the second quote I wanted to mention was diabetes is a serious

disease that can often be managed through physical activity diet and the

appropriate use of insulin and other medications to control blood sugar

levels this is still the official viewpoint that it's appropriate to use

insulin and medication to control blood sugar and when they talk about

controlling it or managing it with diet they're talking about eating this kind

of diet so as long as we believe that that's normal and they're treating it

with drugs and insulin is appropriate we're not going

to change anything we might lower the percentage of people who have high blood

sugar by forcing more of it into the cell but in the process we are going to

increase insulin resistance where you to increase metabolic syndrome and we're

gonna promote all the problems associated with insulin resistance and

diabetes so how do you reverse it I've made several videos that go into a lot

more detail I think you'll really enjoy those but basically you want to eat less

sugar less carbs you want to eat fewer meals you want to get some exercise and

you want to work on reducing your stress all those things are factors that drive

insulin and insulin resistance by reducing them you'll give the body a

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