3X Deadlier Than Cancer & Most People Don't Know They Have It

Hello Health Champions

Today I want to talk about the most devastating disease in the world. It claims many times

more lives than cancer and most people who have it don't even know it we're going to

talk about how it does its damage why it is so poorly understood and of course how you

can protect yourself coming right up hey I'm Dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former

Olympic Athlete and if you want to truly Master Health by understanding how the body really

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this disease causes its damage in the following ways it causes fatty liver it clogs up the

liver with fat it causes chronic inflammation it increases blood pressure it increases blood

sugar it reduces the helpful cholesterol HDL and it increases the damaging inflammatory

cholesterol LDL it increases triglycerides the fat in your blood and it puts on belly

fat and weight on your body furthermore it reduces your immune function it interferes

with your body's ability to defend itself and it also decreases, it effectively shuts

off autophagy which is your body's mechanism to clean itself out to recycle vital components

and make sure the system is running smoothly and cleanly and this disease because it's

directly linked to all those mechanisms it further causes these diseases it causes cardiovascular

disease heart disease it causes stroke it causes dementia it causes kidney failure is

the leading cause of kidney failure blindness and amputations it's further contributes to

cancer it interferes with the body's ability to defend itself against cancer and if you

have a serious infection it increases the risk of you dying from that infection all

in all it's been estimated that this disease is involved in over 95% of all the generative

disease and what is this mysterious disease it is insulin resistance and for some of you

you go Wow! Insulin resistance I had no idea and others are going to go What! Just insulin

resistance and you kind of blow it off and that would be a huge mistake I urge you to

stay with me and follow through so you really understand what insulin resistance does because

insulin resistance is the most devastating disease with ever had on the planet and it

is the most costly both in financial terms and in terms of human suffering and then someone

might say that well you have to die of something all those diseases you listed they're just

old people diseases true but it is also a matter of dying longer because with insulin

resistance and all those degenerative diseases people spend 10, 20, 30 years dying during that

time they suffer tremendously more than a healthy person and their quality of life suffers

during all that time they can't do the things that they want to do they're on medication they

need help and so forth so it's about the quality of life in terms of energy mood productivity

all those things that make life worthwhile and then of course on top of all that it is

also causing more deaths than anything else if we looked at some of Deadliest diseases

around the world we have cancer at nine and a half million heart disease 17.9 million

hypertension 7 1/2 stroke 5 million and diabetes 4.2 million and if we add all of those up

that's 34.6 million and why are we adding those because they have the central component in

all of those diseases the central mechanism is insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome

and that sum total is 364% more than the total deaths from cancer to compare numbers like

this because all of these metabolic syndrome disease is this even though insulin resistance

is the primary cause of that it's not the only cause and hypertension is the primary association

with stroke so there's a big overlap in these conditions and these numbers however I think

that you'll see the point that I'm making that we're talking the biggest diseases in the

world and there's a central theme namely insulin resistance to all of these major disease that's

one of the biggest misconceptions about diabetes and insulin resistance is that you either

have it or you don't but in fact it's just a matter of how much of it do you have where

are you on the continuum and the continuing goes all the way from diabetes to prediabetes

to optimal diabetes is they have to draw the line in the sand somewhere so they decided

that when your hemoglobin A1c when your long-term average glucose is 6.5 or higher corresponding

to an average glucose level of 140 mg per deciliter then they say now you are diabetic

now you have the diagnosis of a diabetic and you could go a whole lot higher than 6 1/2

people have 10 and 12 and 15 also when they're diabetic they diagnose you as pre-diabetic

if your A1C is between 5.7 and 6.4 and if you are pre-diabetic then they expect you

the average pre-diabetic will become diabetic in 5 years at the other end of the spectrum

is optimal and optimal A1C is 4.8 to 5.1 in my opinion in my experience and that would

correspond to a average glucose of 91 to a hundred not a fasting your fasting is supposed

to be lower than that but your average glucose in mainstream medicine there are some numbers

here in the middle that they consider entirely normal so while I think that 5.1 is a normal

optimal number they think that 5.3 to 5.6 is still perfectly okay because you're not

5.7 yet or 6.5 yet but here's the thing to understand that if you are not optimal if

you are in the 5.3 25.6 range then you are slipping you are on your way towards more

insulin resistant because if your insulin sensitive then you are stable you're leading

a lifestyle that you can maintain and your body isn't moving away from there but if you're

moving away from there then it's just a matter of time and how quickly you're going to get

there so that's why we want to pay serious attention listen to anything 5.3 or up

Then we look at the prevalence how common is this we see 30 million people in the United States

have type 2 diabetes and around the world it's 463 million people and they're expecting

that to double in the next two to three to four decades and I think that's actually an

under estimate because there's so many people who are on the way there that are either pre-diabetic

or slipping in the US we have 114 million people who are officially pre-diabetic

around the world there's no measurement they don't have them kept notes on that but it's

probably somewhere around a billion and when we look at the people who are slipping we're

probably talking about 300 million people in the US and probably at least 2.2 billion

people around the globe and why do we say that because insulin resistant is the primary

cause of weight gain and we have over seventy percent of the u.s. population is overweight

and more than a third of the world or around a third of the world is overweight today here

is how the numbers of obesity have progressed in the United States from 1800 where was virtually

non-existent 1900 started happening but then 1960 post-war and on it has been an exponential

growth and here were talking percent of the population that are obese not just overweight

but obese and then we start looking at the red here is diabetes and the numbers aren't

quite as high but explosive exponential growth here and the reason is that it takes a few

decades like we talked about it takes five years to get from insulin resistance to full-blown

diabetes and it probably takes 15-20 years to get from very mild insulin resistance to

diabetes so there's about a 15-20 years and while the United States is the world leader

among large countries in terms of diabetes obesity and overweight that this is how it's

progress from 1990 to 2020 the rest of the world is only a matter of time how far they're

behind because the tendency the trend is exactly the same so we want to talk about how to fix

this but first we have to understand what does insulin do where does insulin resistance

come from when you eat food then it gets in your digestive tract which digests the food

and breaks it down into smaller particles and then once the particles are down to molecular

size then they get absorbed into the bloodstream but they can't get from the blood to the cell

without insulin and that's the job of insulin that's why insulin is absolutely necessary

type 1 diabetics who can't make insulin they die because they have nutrients in the blood

but they can't get to the cell to insulin is not a bad thing but it's all about balance

one of the biggest reasons insulin resistance is such a big problem is that it's so poorly

or incompletely understood if you look it up online then you will see that insulin resistance

is when cells in the body such as muscle fat and liver they stopped responding they don't

respond well insulin but the question is why when you hear a statement that the cell isn't

responding well then why is it just arbitrary is the cell just being stupid or does the

cell have a really really good reason for starting to resist insulin if you watched

a few of my videos you know that the body is infinitely smart every cell in the body

is attempting to return to homeostasis everything is flowing according to an intelligence in

the body so there's always a perfectly good reason why the body does what it does what

if we don't understand that if we think that the cell is arbitrarily stupid and one day

it responded and the next day it doesn't respond to insulin then we might try to force it anyway

and that's called medication so if the cell doesn't want what the insulin is providing

if the cell says oh I've had enough and the cell says I'm starting to resist and we force

it now the question is do you think that were moving that cell closer to health or away

from health are we improving the health of that cell by violating its wishes or are we

actually hurting that cell I think it's pretty clear that when you force it when you try

to interfere with what the body is doing and sort of impose your will you are always decreasing

health let's look at it one more way about insulin resistance what would you do let's

say this is your house and then one day a salesman shows up and it was a really long

time since you had someone knock on your door so you're all excited to go open the door

and asking hey what you got there that looks really interesting and you appreciate the

visit and you have an exchange of information and maybe you buy something so that's all

good but what if he shows up again after he completed the sale he shows up again five

minutes later and now you go hey what's going on here you're a little suspicious you're

starting to hesitate little bit and then what if he shows up every 5 minutes for the next

several days then I think you would get a little bit upset you would tell him to get

lost you would start to resist that sales person same thing with sales calls I don't

know about you but 90% of the time my cell phone rings it is a computer calling me with

some fabulous offer of credit or car insurance.

And I have to admit after so many of those calls you hang up you block the number and then 30 minutes

later the same computer calls on a different number well I don't respond so well I'm starting

to resist those sales calls and that's exactly what's happening to the cell when the insulin

is trying to overdo it when the insulin when there's too much insulin then we start resisting

it so insulin resistance is resistance to the action of insulin and when your cell starts

to resist that action of insulin that's a physiological adaptation the cell is trying

to return to balance and to homeostasis have you noticed how fat tends to get blamed for

everything and that's because nobody wants excess fat on their body it is unhealthy and

it's burdensome it's kind of in the way it heavy lugging it around people don't like excess

fat on the body but is it the root cause if you have a lot of fat than it because you

have too much fat storing and you don't have enough metabolism you're not burning enough

of it off and that in turn depends on increased lipogenesis it's not just what you're eating

in terms of bad it is how much fat is your body making that's what lipogenesis making

fat and if you don't have much of a metabolism then you're not breaking down the fat enough

so you have decreased lipolysis and both of those are a direct result of insulin resistance

because the more insulin resistance you have the more insulin the body is going to try

to make to control blood sugar so insulin goes up but insulin is only the result of

blood and now here is the root cause the blood sugar is a result of sugar and starch to everybody

blames it on fat but the fat is not the cause it's the end result the cause is sugar starch

blood sugar and insulin and how can we be so certain of that because we know what causes

insulin responses so if we put an index value of a hundred on sugar and starch than protein

produces about half as much of an insulin response and fat produces virtually zero it's

in the single digits and further more protein and fats are very satiating they keep you

full for a long time but sugar and starch makes you hungry but some people are still

not convinced because there's some studies that say that the fat cells are more insulin

resistance when we measure the signaling molecules from fat cells and how fat cells behave there

more insulin resistant so the fat must be the problem. Well, it may look like that but the

fat didn't make the fat cells fat the insulin did and it's really sad it's just like when

we're shaming the fat were blaming the fat people for being lazy and gluttonous. Well

now we're blaming the fat cells were shaming the fat cells the saying who bad fat cells

you shouldn't be insulin resistant well we made it fat with insulin because there's the

sugar in the starch that causes the insulin that causes the fast storing and now we have

the end result is a fat insulin resistant fat cell that we can shame just like we shame

the fat people I think those are pretty convincing arguments and the experience of a lot of people

who are doing fasting and ketosis and low carb having excellent results you would think

that the information would get out but when we check with the world Health Organization

about the cause of obesity they say that it's too many calories it's an increase in calories

people are eating more calories from fat and sugar than they did in the past and they are

less active so it's the same story we're hearing from the American Heart Association and the

American Diabetes Association and all the authorities. So what do they suggest that we do

about it Well they say reduce the calories from fat and sugar. Now, they're 50% right and they're

50% absolutely wrong because the fat is not the problem unless you're eating poor-quality

fat the is an enormous it is the primary problem so when they say to reduce the calories from

sugar that's the right thing to do not the fat but then they say increase calories from

fruit vegetables beans and Grain and vegetables are totally okay if you're eating non-starchy

vegetables leafy greens cauliflower Etc but basically what they're saying here is reduce

calories from fat and carbohydrates and increase calories from carbohydrates carbohydrates

carbohydrates and carbohydrates and that is how you go from insulin resistant to diabetic

to what can the healthcare system do about this devastating disease in the United States

in 2020 they will spend over 4 trillion dollars on so called "health care" I put that in quotation

marks because it's not healthcare it's sick care it's symptom treatment and they're spending

over $12,000 per person and that's average out on the people without so many problems

also but despite all that money spent more money than anywhere else in the world they have

more diabetes more heart disease more arthritis more high blood pressure more metabolic syndrome

and they've ever had before and as time goes they spend more money and the diseases

become more prevalent and why is that because the treatment is for symptoms only not the

root cause they don't understand the root cause they're not interested in the root cause

they're interested in treating symptoms.

You need more reasons to reverse insulin resistance? Well there was a recent virus

that I got a lot of people's attention it's called the coronavirus and the interesting thing is that

there's certain risk groups that have very very low risk and their other risk groups

that have very very high risk and other than age insulin resistance is the primary factor

in the biggest factor in age is that more elderly people are more insulin resistant

but from these low to the high-risk groups that can be a hundred fold difference in death

rates a hundredfold hundred times more likely to die if you have a high risk than if you're

in a low-risk that's pretty substantial and virtually all the risk factors identified

outside of specifically age have to do with insulin resistance we have to understand that

pathogens are opportunistic they take advantage of a weakened host that's why they can be a

hundredfold difference and now we're ready to talk about what to do but why couldn't

we just go straight to that why couldn't we just list out the things to do give me the

bottom line because if we don't have the reasons that we don't understand the depth of the

devastation if we don't understand the scope of the problem and the mechanism then we'll

take that final list and we'll try it and you know what try means that means we're absolutely

no way we're going to go through with it we going to try it for a few weeks and then we'll

be back to doing what we did before so that is why I spend so much time on the why and the

mechanism because once that starts sinking in then it starts making sense and you can

make changes for life prevention is easy it's about insulin not calories. It's not how many calories

you eat it's what sort of foods trigger insulin because those foods will make you eat more

and trigger more insulin and so on and so on the simplest rule of all when it comes

to diet is eat real food that's it eat it the way nature make made it eat single-ingredient

Foods put it together yourself as much as possible and avoid fake food don't eat fake

food don't eat processed food packages foods foods with additives and 37 ingredients because

man-made food isn't food it looks like food it almost taste like food sometimes but it

doesn't nourish your body it interferes it throws things out of balance the biggest reason fake

food hurt you is that a lot of it is full of sugar and fructose especially

and it also is full of processed starch

then there's a ton of other things they throw in there like MSG and artificial flavors and

preservatives and chemicals and colors and all that but if you are insulin sensitive

if you are imbalance then this is basically all you have to do to prevent insulin resistance

if you already are insulin resistant now you need to reverse it and that's not quite as

easy but it's still simple you just need to do all of these steps above it's the same

rules but you have to add a couple of more and do all the above plus you go on a low

carb / keto diet can you have to go lower in carbohydrates than someone is just trying

to prevent it because you're already many years or even decades into the process into

the physiological adaptation of pushing that sell toward insulin resistance and the second

powerful tool in addition to low carb it's not one or the other you want to do both is

intermittent fasting you eat less than 6 meals a day and then you go to three meals and then

you go to the one or two meals and you figure out where you're going to get the results

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