Blood Sugar Explained Pt5 4/5 User Manual For Humans

you have to move and why is that because during exercise something magical

happens and these cells can start taking in glucose without insulin or with

extremely small amounts okay so I'll take questions afterwards if there's any

part of this that's that's unclear but remember it's all about use it or lose

it and that holds true for sales and receptors also and upregulation and

down-regulation is a crucial mechanism of all cells in the body so one favorite

cartoon again blast berean this lady is talking to the doctor says I think

diabetes is affecting my eyesight I have trouble seeing the consequences of poor

food choices I love it so how does that how does this problem occur in the first

place and there's a lot of talk about something called lice emic index and

we'll talk very very quickly about what that is it basically measures how soon

after you eat something has that big converted into sugar and enter the blood

so if something is converted very slowly and absorbed very slowly it's set to

have a low glycemic index so low glycemic index or things like fat

protein whole foods vegetables meat fish and nuts in other words most of the

things that that nature produces in their whole form something that is

processed something that will doesn't need much digestion that is almost sugar

as you eat it will get into the bloodstream almost instantly and that's

called a high glycemic index so when you want to start controlling this you need

to glycemic index it's and you want to keep

them as if you want to correct a situation that's already other hand you

need to give very very very low glycemic index it you basically cannot have any

sugar or starch or anything like that and don't be fooled when they say whole

wheat or complex carbohydrates because it is still high glycemic index food it

will still get out very very quickly and in between there's some media lycée

make index those would basically be beans and whole fruit and let me make a

note there that while a whole fruit has a medium glycemic index if you juice it

it becomes a high glycemic index because you break up the cell walls and you take

away all the fiber and all the sugar becomes available instantly so a juice

is not the same thing as a fruit and when they say made from that means it's

not what it used to be simple as that and another note on I just use milk as

an example that because fat takes longer to process and milk has both fat and

lactose in it which is a sugar then if you drink whole milk preferably wrong

whole milk then the fat will balance out the sugar so it becomes a medium racemic

index whereas if you drink a skim milk you've taken all the fat away so there's

nothing to buffer the sugar and that becomes a high glycemic index okay so

understand that the principles and then you can figure things out for yourself

so now is the time to shake you up and scare you a little bit and the people in

this room you already know a lot about this I can tell but think about people

you know and this large and realize that a lot of

what we're talking about in all these sessions they kind of applies across the

board even though we're just talking about diabetes today side effects and

complications diabetes is the primary or contributing cause of death and 231,000

cases in 2007 that's a lot of people the primary or contributing cause of death

estimated costs 174 billion dollars and that's medical costs work loss and

disability so it's not just the expense but at some point people are unable to

maintain that work and they they're disabled which means they can really

enjoy life at all nervous system damage occurs in sixty to seventy percent of

diabetes that means that the sugar is the sugar in the bloodstream if so much

above where it's supposed to be that it starts penetrating the tissues around it

and it causes when sugar in the tissues attract water and causes swelling so

that's why you have vascular problems and neurological problems because the

vascularity that the blood is around the nerves as well so it's going to choke

off clothes off blood vessels and nerves and that is why diabetes is also the

leading cause of blindness because the blood vessels in the retina are so fine

and so sensitive and diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of

blindness there's 4.2 million people with diabetic retinopathy a leading

cause of kidney failure with two hundred two thousand people in chronic dialysis

they have to have they don't have any kit

function they have to have them filtered because of diabetes and it's again the

vascular problem blood vessels swelling it's the leading cause of amputation 65

thousand seven hundred cases of a complete leg amputation and there's

hundreds of thousands if not millions of cases where they start taking off one

toe at a time because they lose their control they lose the vascularity so

whenever they hit something and break something or break the skin it doesn't

heal again okay the brain is shut off from the body part means it can't do its

business anymore it also increases risk of heart disease stroke dental disease

coma pneumonia influenza and depression do you need any more reasons okay this

this is what quality of life is about and we're talking about something that

affects a huge huge portion of the population so do you know anyone with

insulin resistance someone who is pre-diabetic go ahead and just write

down five people that you care about who could benefit from what you just learned

just go down and scribble down some names more quick so consider it letting

these people know what we talked about and consider bringing them next time

that we talk about this or related topic because it can save their life this is

serious business let's look at the prevalence because if you don't think

that you know anybody or that you're in good shape then this is the prevalence

in 2010 and this is from the National Institute of Health gov website the

National diabetes information clearinghouse diabetes affects 8.3

of the population that's 25 million eight hundred thousand people right now

that have to take insulin then when we get up to ages above 65 years old it

affects 26.9 percent of the population that are diabetic that's ten million

nine hundred thousand people that's that's a huge number it's almost

becoming the norm for people above a certain age to get these conditions and

we've seen that it's about up-regulation down-regulate regulation is a

physiological adaptation to chronic stupidity that's all it is and it's it's

a stupidity that is recommended by the American Diabetes Association and the

American Heart Association and the four food groups and so on prediabetes these

are people who are insulin resistance with a greater risk it's basically a

matter of time before they develop this and keep in mind when we talk about

these numbers that we are the first generation to be exposed at this level

that the pre-diabetic people a lot of them will become diabetic because this

is the first time we've eaten like this thirty-five percent of adults 20 years

or older or pre-diabetic that's 79 million

people in this country alone or pre-diabetic those are some scary

numbers and when you get to the elderly 65 or older its fifty percent one in two

and we've just talked about the side effects and complications so these

people are heading for trouble and it is completely