5 Warning Signs You Already Have Metabolic Syndrome

what is metabolic syndrome and should you blame your belly fat

well belly fat has been associated with metabolic syndrome so closely that they

believe that belly fat was the cause of metabolic syndrome but very often that's

how it goes when we get cause-and-effect confused so today we're gonna talk about

the real cause of metabolic syndrome and what you can do about it 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 so why did they think belly fat was

involved well they've often talked about how fat on the middle of the body the

abdominal obesity is much more dangerous than if you have the extra fat somewhere

else and it is but it's not because the fat itself is dangerous it's because of

the factors giving rise to it so why is metabolic syndrome so important why do

we need to know about it because there's over three million new cases in the

United States alone there's over 47 million existing cases in the United

States and they're estimating that as much as a quarter of the entire

population of the planet are probably affected by metabolic syndrome then they

will tell you if you look it up next that it can't be cured and therefore

obviously it's chronic and lifelong so we're gonna examine all of that now

metabolic syndrome isn't really a thing it's a label it's a grouping that they

give you syndrome basically just means that they're not sure where it comes

from but there's more than one factor involved so when you have more than one

thing going on then they call it a syndrome but there's five criteria one

is abdominal obesity the second is that you have elevated tried

that your blood fats the triglycerides in your book in your blood are over a

hundred and fifty milligrams per deciliter that you have elevated blood

pressure that your blood pressure is 130 over 85 or higher that you have elevated

blood glucose that you're either pre-diabetic or type 2 diabetic and by

the way 85% of diabetics have metabolic syndrome and the fifth thing they look

at is that if you have a low HDL so for a woman a low HDL is below 50 from man a

low HDL is below 40 and they also define the abdominal obesity as a waist

measurement for a woman over 35 inches and from man above 40 inches those are

the criteria and if you have more than three if you have three or more of these

five then they label you with metabolic syndrome so it's not really a disease

it's just a cluster of conditions that go together and is typical with diseases

especially syndromes they will tell you that there is no known cause but let's

just look back into the medical textbooks let's look at some irrefutable

facts that you can look up from a medical textbook from a book of

physiology at any time and let's see what we find out so fact number one

carbohydrates are the strongest trigger of blood glucose carbohydrates are

different forms of sugar they're quickly absorbed they raise blood sugar next

irrefutable fact is that things that raise blood sugar faster foods that are

high glycemic index will also trigger higher insulin responses and if we have

insulin levels being elevated for a long period of time the body develops insulin

resistance once you have insulin

resistance now the cells don't want the glucose so the glucose Rises and we have

this nice vicious cycle called insulin resistance that eventually leads to type

2 diabetes so that is a fact that the more carbohydrates a food contains the

higher the glycemic index all the glycemic indexes above 50 are high

carbohydrate foods all the indexes above 60 or 70 or 80 are foods with more

carbohydrates number 2 fact insulin stimulates insulin promotes the

conversion of blood glucose to fat straight out of the textbook and the fat

is the triglycerides that is one of the criteria for diagnosing the metabolic

syndrome fact number 3 insulin stops fat burning right so insulin promotes fat

development that promotes the manufacture of fat called lipogenesis

and it prevents the burning of fat lipolysis so it stores it and it

prevents the usage fact number 4 cortisol is a hormone is the stress

hormone that raises blood sugar that leads to insulin resistance and it is

very very closely positively associated with belly fat we know the people with

extremely high cortisol levels for example in Cushing's syndrome they will

have insulin resistance that have belly fat they have very typical body shapes

so armed with those four facts let's just look at these so abdomen abdominal

obesity now we know that that is caused by cortisol and insulin triglycerides we

know that that is a result of insulin and insulin resistance

and high blood sugar when the blood sugar can't get into the cells because

of insulin resistance the body needs to do something else with them so the liver

turns the sugar into triglycerides number three high blood pressure blood

pressure is primarily a function of stress it is also a component of

metabolic syndrome but more specifically cortisol and stress will give you high

blood pressure number four the elevated blood glucose is a result of

carbohydrate consumption and high insulin just like we see here elevated

glucose elevated insulin insulin resistance and so forth

and number five reduced HDL and also increased LDL is a result of

inflammation so when we use these four facts and we look at the criteria it's

pretty plain to see that the cause the real cause of metabolic syndrome is

insulin inflammation and stress so obviously if you want to change your

chances change your manifestation the adaptation of metabolic syndrome then

you want to work on these three things but let's look at what is the standard

treatment for metabolic syndrome well for abdominal obesity they tell you lose

weight and then they suggest a healthy diet with which is high in grains and

carbohydrates which is rich in fruits and low-fat dairy or nonfat dairy all of

these things we know are high glycemic index that will promote insulin

resistance then they give you statin drugs for the triglycerides and they

give you statin drugs for the low HDL for the high LDL what is statin drugs do

they interfere with the livers production of cholesterol and

cholesterol again is an essential nutrients it's one of the building

blocks for your brain but the statins the process of interfering with the

cholesterol they also interfered with the body's production of coal q10

coenzyme q10 and that is the critical enzyme inside the mitochondria that

helps the body make energy so the statins will shut down energy production

wherever we have the most mitochondria and where is that it's in your brain

your heart and your liver because they're the most metabolically active

now does that sound like a really great idea if you want to help heart disease

to shut down the energy production in your heart liver and brain well I don't

think so so if I would not recommend taking

statin drugs but I'm not a medical doctor so only you and your doctor can

make that decision but if you are taking any statin drugs you absolutely have to

supplement with high doses of Co Q 10 so obviously when you shut down energy

production in your heart that's not good for the heart when you shut it down in

the liver that's not good for insulin resistance and fatty liver then for the

blood pressure they give you beta blockers and for your type-2 diabetes

for your high blood sugar they give you insulin or insulin promoting medication

so I think by now you see the obvious problem that this problem is caused by

insulin and insulin resistance and blood glucose yet most of the treatment

promotes insulin resistance when you eat a diet high in carbohydrates then you

promote insulin resistance you make it worse

same thing with obviously the type-2 diabetes when they give you insulin when

they trick yourselves into becoming more insulin resistant when they use either

insulin or an insulin mimicking drug then they're increasing

the metabolic syndrome and this is the whole problem we talked about this on

some previous videos that the treatment of the symptom which they believe is

high blood sugar reduces the problems with high blood sugar but it creates the

problem of metabolic syndrome and and this is why so I know it sounds crazy to

treat a problem with something that makes the problem worse but this is what

happens when we ignore the root cause and we focus strictly on treating

symptoms and unfortunately that is the at the core of the whole healthcare

model is to treat symptoms rather than root causes and then when they look at

the situation they get very confused because they're so focused on the

symptoms they get they can't identify the cause and the effect properly but

once we step back and we understand that the causes is insulin inflammation and

stress then there is no way to make this any better unless you reduce the insulin

rather than increase it if you reduce the inflammation and reduce the stress

so how do you do that well in the case of insulin it's pretty

obvious you reduce the foods that stimulate the most insulin and you

reduce the frequency of meals that stimulate insulin so you eat less sugar

less carbs and you eat less frequently that's what we talked a lot about on the

channel you go low-carb keto and intermittent fasting

those are the tools to reduce insulin then you want to reduce inflammation so

what causes inflammation well in general sugar grain and insulin causes

inflammation those are in general more specifically things that cause

inflammation are things that you are sensitive or allergic to because any

time you eat something that your body reacts to you create inflammation so the

most common things people are sensitive to that I find in my office

our grains and processed dairy pasteurized milk primarily but there are

lots of other things people can be sensitive to strawberries or fish or

nuts or night shades and then all of those would be inflammatory to you

the third huge thing is stress because stress contributes to insulin and

inflammation and stress also obviously produces cortisol in cortisol is a

central component to all this this belly fat and insulin resistance so I hope

you're seeing this very very clearly by now that the reason they feel it can't

be cured the reason that it's considered chronic and lifelong is that they're

treating the symptom which allows the real problem to get bigger and grow and

get worse and not only are they allowing the problem but they're treating it with

things that further insulin resistance and that's why it can't be cured but it

doesn't need curing it just needs reversing it's an adaptation if you

remove the things that promoted the adaptation then it will go away so all

of these things are signs and symptoms of your body becoming clogged and if you

want to unclog it then you do you undo these three things if you're a little

bit clogged then you might have one of these five if you have if you're more

clogged than you have three or more but they all go together because they have

the mechanism of insulin in common if you enjoy that information I'm sure that

you're going to love that video thank you so much for watching and I'll see

you in the next video