Blood Sugar Explained Pt5 5/5 User Manual For Humans

first of all I'm not going to tell you that a hundred percent of diabetes can

be reversed type 1 we don't really know if anyone can be helped but I would

venture to say that ninety-eight percent or more of type 2 diabetes is completely

reversible if you have any insulin production at all left then it's just a

matter of lifestyle what factors affect insulin resistance while we talked about

food anything with a high glycemic index is going to make the sugar rush into the

bloodstream and stress the system and cause a physiological adaptation so

that's the number one but we also need to understand that stress raises

cortisol whenever you're stressed your body believes that it has to perform

extra work that there's an emergency it has to defend itself against then it's

going to need energy to expend during this emergency so you will tell all your

tissues to raise the blood sugar it will start breaking down protein to convert

some of that into blood sugar and it will give you cravings so that you can

raise your blood sugar even more that's what people who are stressed have

cravings it's because of cortisol there are drugs there are some specifically

called techwin and seroquel that have been linked to developing diabetes but

anything with cortisone corticosteroid the medical form of cortisone is the

version of human cortisol so anytime that you take those drugs which are

supposed to be anti-inflammatory you also raise your blood sugar

and you're setting yourself up for insulin resistance now let's look at the

good side how do we help it exercise exercise exercise okay first of all

you're burning off sugar but secondly you're reducing insulin resistance

because your cells become more sensitive to insulin when you're exercising you

need none or very little insulin to absorb the sugar so most most type 2

diabetes you can pretty much get off insulin instantly if you just start

exercising enough and keeping your blood sugar that the foods level good heart

rate variability because the things we're talking about in this office

breathing and heart rate variability it is linked to all of these mechanisms so

when you increase your heart rate variability you reduce your stress you

reduce your cortisol and it has been inversely linked to development of

diabetes chiropractic reduces stress for many reasons and we'll talk about that

separately because there's a lot of neurological mechanisms but it's known

that chiropractic reduces stress people feel better we'll talk about the details

and breathing exercises like I said heart rate variability breathing

exercises feeling good feeling relaxed practicing relaxation visualizations

they all reduce stress and all of that will help with reducing insulin

resistance so now I think I'm get you sort of paying attention and thinking

that you know this is more than than just a curiosity so being a chiropractor

and talking about this this this is my passion this is what it's all about it's

the big picture back pain schmacked pain it's like who cares that's back pain

just indicates that there something in the body that isn't working

that's the tip of the iceberg the diabetes and the heart disease and the

strokes and all of that stuff that's the bigger picture that's what we're really

working for and as you well know chiropractic affects the brain it

reduces stress and it helps with all of these things ok so in chiropractic the

stage one that's just initial crisis care that's just reversing a pain

breaking the patterns and getting people feeling better unfortunately most people

think it's just about pain so as soon as they feel better they think they're all

better and then they don't get diabetes or heart disease or something else few

years later but what we're talking about is to continue this until everything in

the body that's supposed to work is working so stage two is stabilization

care that means that we keep going past the pain we work on the nervous system

we work on exercising and doing specific things to balance out nervous system to

become more stable a more stable nervous system and brain can handle stress and

it can turn off and balance sympathetics parasympathetic better it's all nervous

system and then stage three ones were get up to a good level now we need to

maintain that lifestyle we get maintenance chiropractic for peak

performance and we keep doing all the right things to maintain top function

check out the previous talk we did on heart rate variability and you can see

how it affects immune system immunoglobulins how it affects cortisol

DHEA how it affects cognitive performance and reaction time we're

truly talking peak performance so it's it's not about pain that's just the tiny

little thing we get started with it's about quality of life at any

so the people who are still young and don't have many symptoms that's the time

to start taking care of things by the time you're 65 and you're 40 years into

a disease process you already have so much degeneration that it's much much

much harder to turn it around to get a quality life again see if there are any

questions we'll take those now and other than that I would like to thank you very

much for coming