Blood Sugar Explained Pt5 3/5 User Manual For Humans

of all the diseases known to mankind who has heard of insulin resistance insulin

resistance is also known as pre-diabetes and we'll cover some numbers here in a

minute but here's basically how it works you have a little diagram but i'll try

to draw it as we go i'll just draw the one so here is here is a cell and the

cell has a membrane and out around here are sugar molecules and we'll just draw

them around for simplicity so we have some sugar molecules out here and the

cell needs the sugar inside because nothing happens in the body until the

energy is inside the cell so now we need something called an insulin receptor and

here is the insulin receptor and it looks like that let's say and then comes

around and I'll keep drawing code here then we have insulin and we'll just draw

that as a triangle and insulin floats around and then insulin makes its way

and attaches to the receptor and it causes a confirmation change so now this

this channel is available to process and transport glucose so here comes a

glucose molecule before it was just floating around but now because of the

insulin it can get inside the cell so inside the cell we need to maintain

certain amount of glucose to create energy for the metabolic processes and

the life of the cell but we only need so much at a time so that's why the fuel

supply needs to be gradual and that's why again the sugar is so devastating

because it's not gradual it just it's an avalanche so we have let me draw a few

more of these so there's a receptor there's a receptor there's a receptor

and there's a receptor so in order to process and get a gradual supply of

sugar we need a certain amount of receptors and we need a certain amount

of insulin so hypothetically speaking for for illustration purposes this

amount of receptors and this amount of insulin will provide that much sugar for

the cell and that will maintain the processes now we have a bunch of

coca-cola and donuts and junk food and syrup and all of a sudden we have five

times as much sugar in the bloodstream

here's all that sugar and it's just banging on the door to to get into the

cell and there's some insulin receptors that are attaching and they're allowing

the sugar to get into the cell but with this much sugar around pretty soon the

cell is going to be saturated and it's going to say well you know hold off guys

I don't need that much so what's it say I'm going to do we

know the principle of use it or lose it that the body will always only replenish

the resources that it needs and if there's this much sugar the cell doesn't

need this many receptors so there's two steps it's going to turn down its

sensitivity it's going to turn down his allowance so it's going to say for every

insulin molecule I'm only going to let in half as many sugar molecules that's

the first step of insulin resistance the second step is that it's going to say

you know with this much sugar I don't need all these receptors I can get with

this much sugar I can get all the sugar I want inside the cell with half as many

receptors because when it rains it pours so imagine that you had a cabin and you

were living off the land and the only water that you had was rain water and so

every time it rained you had a hundred buckets and you would go put the buckets

out and collect the rainwater and you get that much water in each bucket and

then you collected all the buckets and you put them in and you got four buckets

worth of water and you were good for a week and then hopefully it rained again

within the next week what would happen if it was always raining it was always

pouring down would you still put out a hundred buckets or would you just sit on

the porch and stick a bucket out when you needed some that's what the cell is

doing when it's raining too when it's too much when it's a abundant

availability it's not going to make as many receptors that's called

down-regulation of characters and it's one of the most

crucial principles in Physiology that your body will adapt to your environment

so diabetes is not a disease it's an adaptation and nothing more it's a

physiological adaptation and also what happens now we still have all this sugar

in the bloodstream what did we say about too much blood sugar industry sugar in

the bloodstream say it's an emergency the brain will go into a coma so now we

have a challenging situation because the brain needs to get the sugar out of the

blood stream but the cells don't want it so now the brain says to the pancreas we

need to get this out of here make more insulin make a whole bunch of insulin

and if you make enough you can cram all that into the cell and you can turn it

all into fat but in the long run you're pushing the system so hard it's going to

break because if the pancreas is always being made to produce more and more and

more insulin and the cell is becoming more and more insulin resistant then

you're pushing the system from two directions and if the system doesn't

want to play like that so eventually what happens is the pancreas burns out

and you have so much insulin resistance in the cells that the pancreas can't

keep up making enough insulin and that's that's the end stage of insulin

resistance and pre-diabetes and if you push this just a little bit further now

the pancreas breaks down and stops making insulin all together and you have

just developed type 2 diabetes insulin dependent

now your body can't make insulin at all or very very limited amount and

certainly not enough for insulin resistant cells so now all this insulin

is gone all the blood sugar is still there and now the cell isn't getting any

sugar now the sugar is saying hey where my sugar go and now it starts making new

receptors it starts to up-regulate the receptors but it's too late because

there is no insulin to transport it across and this is why diabetes is

called starvation in the midst of Plenty because now you have all this food in

the bloodstream but none of its getting into the cell so the initial stage

diabetes people will lose weight before then figured out that they can't make

insulin all right so the important thing to realize about this is that your body

is magnificent it's a healing machine it's amazing if it down regulates

something it can upregulate it again so what has to happen to this picture as

long as you have some pancreas function left you can salvage it but you have to

get rid of the insulin resistance so what you have to do you have to balance

your blood sugar you have to get back to your hunter-gatherer diet and make sure

that the insulin gets into the sugar gets into the bloodstream very very

gradually and the second thing you have to do is exercise