How To Prevent Diabetes. Are You At Risk? (#1 Health Threat EVER!)

how to prevent diabetes in this video you will learn not only how to prevent

diabetes but also how to prevent the earlier versions called pre-diabetes and

insulin resistance diabetes is the greatest medical threat the world has

ever seen but it is preventable and even reversible more than one-third the

population today has insulin resistance also known as pre-diabetes and seven out

of eight people are heading in that direction but as big a problem as

diabetes is an even bigger problem is that as far as prevention is concerned

they're measuring the wrong thing and the standard treatment for diabetes and

pre-diabetes and insulin resistance at best can solve one problem but in the

process they create another problem that can be just as severe this may be the

greatest health issue that we are facing today because it is so widespread and so

misunderstood but before we're done today you will understand the mechanisms

involved and you will know how to prevent and even reverse diabetes coming

right up

I'm doctor Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympian in the decathlon and

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miss anything so it is well known that these are huge

huge problems today and I got these numbers from some publications from the

American Diabetes Association that today in the United States we have 30 million

diabetics and on top of that there's 8 million who are undiagnosed we have 86

million pre-diabetics and pre-diabetic means that if you don't change something

you're most likely going to have diabetes in about five years or so and

90% of those people do not know that they have it if we want to go a little

further then we can also say that even if you're not officially in the criteria

for pre-diabetes anyone who is overweight is probably most likely

having some degree of insulin resistance and is heading in that direction and 87%

of population in the US would account about 250 million people so that's the

scope of this problem that the 30 million that are diagnosed that's just

the tip of the iceberg and even so those thirty million accounts for one out of

five healthcare dollars the diabetes healthcare is 20% of the total

healthcare diabetes related costs and when we take the older population in

Medicare it's one out of three Medicare dollars so we're all paying for this

indirectly through lost production through suffering through increased

health in health insurance costs and through taxes on the Medicare so it's

not just a human suffering but if these 30 million grow into several hundred

million then it's going to be a huge huge financial problem as well today

each day we will get forty six hundred and sixty new

diagnosed cases of diabetes we will have two hundred and ninety five amputations

today and we will have a hundred and thirty seven new cases of kidney failure

that will be end-stage and required dialysis for the rest of their life but

then some people say that well you keep telling us to eat less carbs but in Asia

they eat lots of carbs their whole diets are based on on rice and they don't have

any diabetes well that's a myth think again that was true while food was

scarce but today when food is less scarce the two countries that are

growing the fastest are India and China which are traditionally very dependent

on rice and carbohydrates so today there's almost three times as many

diabetics in India as there are in the US and in China there's almost four

times as many diabetics there are four hundred and fifteen million diabetics in

the world today and in China they're getting close to 50% pre-diabetes so

this is not a limited problem it's not a cultural it's the fact that we eat too

many carbohydrates and because food is no longer scarce then those

carbohydrates are creating insulin resistance and diabetes we can eat a

certain amount or a fairly large amount of carbohydrates as long as food is

scarce because if there's enough time to the next meal then we're gonna store

some food and we're gonna burn off the food before the next meal but more food

is no longer scarce carbohydrate is not a food that we can tolerate some of you

have seen this but for those who are new we'll just do a quick review that the

mechanism of developing diabetes and insulin resistance is sugar and when we

say sugar we mean all forms of carbohydrate because grain and rice and

potato they are starches and starch is only ten

minutes away from becoming sugar it has very

very high impact on blood sugar and therefore very high impact on insulin so

sugar in all its forms drive insulin when insulin goes up and it goes up

frequently and it goes up to high levels frequently then that insulin is going to

store excess fuel into the cell when the cell can't handle anymore the cell

becomes insulin resistant because it says I can't handle any more fuel

diabetes is nothing but and we're talking type-2 diabetes of course is

nothing but a late stage development of insulin resistance it is an adaptation

and we've talked about that in some other videos we'll give you a link and

some references at the end the authorities are very aware of this

problem of the scope of the problem so they're creating more and more campaigns

to inform the public of how big a problem this is so I've got these

numbers from a couple of those publications and each time they say join

us to learn how to fight this costly disease come and learn how to combat

this costly disease at diabetes org slash Congress published by the American

Diabetes Association and that's all good and well that they're trying to inform

but what are they trying to do what is the end goal what is the treatment well

unfortunately the treatment consists of eating more sugar and exercising and

they tell you to lose weight and then they tell you to take medication that

will make you gain weight and everyone who has been on metformin or insulin for

a while knows that it will make you gain weight that's what insulin does it's a

storage hormone and they confuse it because they tell you to lose the weight

they've seen skinny people have less diabetes but they get it backwards the

fat is not causing the insulin resistance the insulin resistance is

causing the weight gain so when you take medication

that will drive the fuel into the cell you're increasing insulin resistance

you're increasing weight and you're making it impossible to reverse this

process as a result I've had many many people come through my office and say

that oh yeah I have diabetes but it is okay it is being managed I'm seeing a

doctor he has it under control and under control means that they're suppressing

blood sugar and in the process this person can look forward to living ten

years shorter have more complications and spent two hundred and fifty thousand

dollars in the treatment of their disease if they get diagnosed by age 50

until the time they die that unfortunately is what it means to manage

the disease so how can the problem be so misunderstood and the main reason is

that we think diabetes type 1 and type 2 are the same thing when they are total

opposites and we need to realize that even though there are 415 million people

and they're expecting that to double in a few decades this disease or this

adaptation this condition did not exist 150 200 years ago when they discovered

diabetes when they first started talking about diabetes they talked about some

mysterious thing where the blood sugar was incredibly high and all of those

cases were type 1 that was when some process had destroyed the pancreas and

they had lost the ability to make insulin and if you don't have insulin

you can't get the blood sugar out of the bloodstream anything you eat gets into

the bloodstream but it can't get out and now the blood sugar is go sky-high and

they get really high blood sugar and they have no insulin so in that case in

type 1 diabetes insulin will save their life it is absolutely necessary but then

they think that type 2 diabetes is the same

thing type 1 is kind of a disease if you want to call it that because something

is broken type 2 is not a disease nothing's broken it's all working we're

just pushing the system into an impossible place so type 2 diabetes also

has very high blood sugar but unlike type 1 type 2s have a lot

of insulin they have too much so when we treat it with insulin we make the

problem worse so these are two completely different

things one requires insulin one should never have any more and here's the

problem with focusing on the blood sugar thinking that the blood sugar is the

problem blood glucose blood sugar is actively controlled your body goes

through an incredible amount of effort to keep the blood sugar within a certain

range it really really loves to have it between 80 to 120 anything above that it

will pump out and it will store for future use when blood sugar goes down we

can retrieve it convert it into blood sugar and energy so our entire fuel

economy in the body the physiology around energy is around keeping the

blood sugar within a certain level storing the excess retrieving it when

it's too low but keeping it in there it's a managed variable so when we

measure it we measure it after it has been controlled it only tells us if it's

being controlled or if it has failed it doesn't tell us where it's heading so as

an analogy right now in Georgia it is very very warm we're in July and in

the American South it's been averaging about 95 degrees Fahrenheit everyday

that's about 35 degrees Celsius for those of you or abroad and let's say

that someone asked us could you do a little study could you measure your

temperature in Georgia because we want to figure out how

much air conditioning how much electricity were going to need to keep

it comfortable inside so okay I'd be I'd be glad to I'll measure the temperature

so then I measured the temperature and I get it back to them and I said well I

measured 72 degrees it was 22 degrees Celsius 72 degrees Fahrenheit and they

say that's impossible where did you measure and I said in my living room

that's where it's comfortable that's where the the temperature has been

controlled okay do you see how ridiculous it is to measure a variable

that has already been altered that's what we're doing with glucose when we're

measuring the glucose we want to measure the factors that influence the glucose

we want to measure the insulin we want to measure how hard does the body have

to work at controlling that glucose so here's how insulin resistance develops

we talked about the mechanism sugar insulin the cell starts resisting that's

insulin resistance but how do we measure that well let's say in year one we

measure glucose and we measure insulin and they're well balanced we have

balance between where insulin sensitive then five years later we measure again

and the glucose is the same because it's a controlled variable that the body has

suppressed it it's working to keep it there

but insulin went up to double so the cells are becoming resistant because it

takes twice as much insulin to manage the blood sugar and then five years

later the glucose is still the same but it takes three times more so if we only

measure glucose we're not getting any useful information it's like measuring

the inside of the living room to figure out how hot it is outside okay we're not

getting relevant information you can't measure the suppressed

variable you have to change you have to measure the variable that is change

based on the demand and the effort so next we want to understand something

very very important that there really two problems and traditional diabetes

care handles one and creates more of the other so the two problems are on the one

hand blood glucose elevated blood glucose and on the other hand elevated

insulin resistance because these have different effects they cause different

problems so if we let the blood glucose run rampant then we're going to have

what's called micro vascular disease or micro vessel disease that means the tiny

tiny blood vessels in the body they're gonna swell and get inflamed and they're

gonna have problems which is going to cause blindness because we have lots of

small blood vessels in the retina in the eye we're going to have kidney problems

kidney disease because we have lots and lots of tiny blood vessels in the

filtering apparatus of the kidney and we're gonna have neuropathy because

there's lots of little blood vessels around the fine nerve endings in hands

and fingers especially it is super super important to control the blood sugar

because otherwise we're gonna get all of these things but we have to understand

that in controlling the blood sugar if we control the blood sugar through

medication we are pushing the extra fuel into the cell who is already overloaded

it doesn't want it so now we are increasing the insulin resistance and in

doing that we are creating what's called metabolic syndrome and metabolic

syndrome is everything else that people die from which is increased blood

pressure cholesterol chronic inflammation cardiovascular disease

stroke and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease neurodegenerative diseases

dementia so we have two different packages of problems and treating one

will create the other so you have a different choices you can keep eating

like you're eating and not get the treatment and now you're gonna have the

blindness kidney problems and neuropathy or you can keep eating like you're doing

and take the treatment suppress control the blood sugar and get metabolic

syndrome and you keep your fingers and toes but you get stroke cardiovascular

disease and Alzheimer's or there is another option and that is you don't

keep eating the way you have been you don't follow the general guidelines of

eating 300 grams of carbohydrate in times of food abundance but you change

something in order to prevent this we have to first understand the mechanism

that it's about insulin there is there are factors that increase insulin and

there are factors that allow insulin to drop down and those factors that

increase our sugar more sugar increases insulin higher frequency of meals

increases insulin that's so obvious you eat something that drives blood sugar

then you're going to get insulin the more often you do that the more

frequently you're gonna put a burst of insulin into the system the less time

the system is going to have to recover so the opposite of that the factors that

decrease insulin then is to do the exact opposite you reduce the sugar you reduce

the carbohydrates that means low carb high fat diets / keto that means

reducing the frequency of meals intermittent fasting and then you want

to learn a little bit more about the factors that are contributing to blood

sugar such as stress that if you're stressed all the time you're going to

make cortisol cortisol increases blood sugar

which will drive insulin and also drive insulin resistance and then we have this

last thing and I recently did a video you're welcome to check that out about

exercise because exercise can work both ways that you do want to increase your

exercise it is a good thing but you want to increase the type of exercise that

does not increase cortisol because if you exercise a lot that increases

cortisol you'll actually be driving insulin resistance while you're trying

to reverse it so you have to understand this and then you have to measure the

variable that matters which is insulin the insulin is going to change

relatively soon compared to the glucose you could measure insulin and find out

in the very early stages how where you are on the insulin resistance we've got

some videos on that as well on Homa ir and you could save yourself ten years of

not having to reverse something and backtrack you can actually prevent it by

measuring it and addressing it early if you already have diabetes if you're

already diabetic what do you do you don't do anything different you measure

you see where you are you understand the mechanism and you reverse the adaptation

you reverse that mechanism and you may have to do more to reverse it you

probably have to do more to reverse it than you did then someone who just needs

to prevent it because you have more momentum you have more degeneration it's

been going on longer you have less reserves there's more habit in the body

and so on and so on but it doesn't really change anything the principles

hold it's the same and once you apply them you can start measuring and see if

it's working if it is great if it's not do more cut the carbs further increase

the time of fasting and as long as you apply these

principles it will work so unlike the medical model where they treat one thing

and create the other when you do this you improve both because you're

addressing the root cause you're not doing a cover-up you're not trying to

push the body from one place to the other you're allowing it to do what it's

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