THIS Is More Deadly Than Cancer And It's Preventable!

Hello Health Champions. What if I told you that  there was a condition that was more deadly and  

more prevalent than cancer and yet you had  almost complete control and choice over how  

it affected you. Well the thing is that humans are  driven by fear humans will do more to avoid fear  

than virtually anything else it's a very strong  emotion. The problem here is that we are usually  

afraid of the wrong thing so as an example here we  have 900,000 black bears in the United States and  

a lot of people are afraid of bears if they were  to run into one of these they'd be terrified and  

up in the mountains near to where I live there's  this culture of they try to scare you they put  

signs up in restaurants and so forth so it's  part of the culture to be afraid of bears and yet  

there's less than one death per year in the United  States the ENT entire country less than one death  

per year and virtually all those cases it was  the bear who was provoked by the human the human  

initiated it another example is bees hornets and  wasps and I would bet that more people would be  

afraid of a bear than a wasp if they came across  one and yet bees and wasps cost 700 death per year  

in the United States another thing another example  is flying a lot of people are terrified of flying  

and the reason people are scared of flying is  that if there is a disaster even though that  

no matter how small the risk is if there is a  disaster it is so definite it is so sudden the  

person in the accident has no control over the  matter anymore and that is very very scary but  

let's make some comparisons now a plane can hold  hundreds of people but on average a commercial  

flight holds about 100 people per flight and by  the way the vast majority of airplane accidents  

and deaths are on private small aircraft not on  commercial airliners and I'm going to give you  

some numbers and data and if you'd like to have  the slides to follow along and to review later  

uh there's a link down below where you can get  those now here's a question for you what if we  

had an airliner that went down we had a terrible  accident and there were no survivors do you think  

that would get some attention I would bet that it  would the media would be all over it there would  

be investigations Brewing now what if a few hours  later the same day the second plane went down no  

survivors that would really get the attention and  what if we had a third and a fourth plane go down  

on the same day no survivors what do do you think  would happen I would bet that virtually all air  

travel would be suspended until they had figured  this out because it would be so disaster be such  

a big deal that no one would be allowed to fly  because of that potential risk there would be  

investigations and they would change regulations  and policies and security protocols etc. until  

they had figured it out and they could make  sure that didn't happen again but now let's  

say that there's this condition that can cause  an equivalent amount of death and suffering and  

now we're not just talking about one plane we're  actually talking about 57 flights going down and  

there are no survivors but we're not even talking  about every day we're talking every hour of every  

day year round this condition would kill enough  people to be equivalent of 1380 flights per day  

54,000 flights per year and what if I told  you that it gets even worse because this is  

completely preventable 98 99% preventable and 98  99% reversible and not only that but this is well  

known it's published in papers it's part of policy  and for anyone interested they can just research  

it and find out now is it just me or do you think  that we should do something about this well I  

certainly think that we should now the thing we're  talking about is chronic metabolic disease and  

it's very well known it's published over and over  and over that lifestyle choices are the number  

one cause of chronic degenerative disease and some  aspects of this are things like obesity metabolic  

disease chronic low-grade inflammation and insulin  resistance and when we talk about this we really  

need to focus in on the insulin resistance because  that is really the commonality of all these other  

things and even though we usually call these  diseases or conditions what we have to understand  

is that they are metabolic adaptations the body  adapts to something that we do to it if we stop  

doing that thing the body will start reversing  that adaptation in most cases now let's talk a  

little bit about insulin resistance because that's  the key to all of this and the thing we need to  

understand is that blood glucose is necessary  we burn mostly fat that's a prefer fuel but a  

little bit of glucose is necessary however very  high or very low levels of glucose is extremely  

toxic high or low levels at the extreme will put  us into a coma and we can die from that if there's  

no one around to assist us and it's an emergency  basically whenever we have a very high glucose  

so insulin is what regulates this blood glucose  and here's how that works that there is a certain  

range that that we like to keep our glucose in  and let's just call it 80s so somewhere in the  

80s that's are good fasting blood glucose and when  we eat it's not supposed to go much higher than  

that so when you eat your blood sugar starts  rising and then there is this hormone that we  

talked about called insulin that comes in and it  rises slightly after there's a little bit of lag  

but the insulin follows close the blood glucose  and insulin is like a guide or a key that opens  

a door and lets the glucose into the cell where  it can start doing the work and then as insulin  

does the work glucose goes down and we store the  excess we can use a little bit in this moment but  

whatever we have extra gets stored and then we  can pull from that glucose and the body knows how  

to regulate and balance this GL glucose so we have  energy from glucose and fat until we have a chance  

to eat the next time and then as the glucose  comes down and levels off so does the insulin  

and that's how it works in an ideal situation  but if we start eating a lot of sugar and a lot  

of snacks a frequent meals and we eat all the time  and we eat too much now what happens is over time  

our glucose will rise much higher and much faster  because glucose gets in the bloodstream faster but  

also because insulin isn't working the cells start  resisting that frequent push of insulin anything  

that happens a lot frequently the cells will tend  to resist so here not only is the glucose going  

high but it's not balanced to the glucose because  we need more when the cells are resistant so now  

we get extremely high levels of insulin and it  takes much much longer for the glucose to start  

coming down so we have hypoglycemia high blood  glucose for long periods of time before it ever  

comes down and usually it doesn't come down as  low as in an ideal situation but it might come  

down to 100 110 120 which is getting close to  diabetic and also there is a delay now with with  

the insulin so we have much higher levels for  a much longer period of time and this is what  

insulin resistance is when the cell is resisting  insulin the levels will go much much higher to  

have any chance at all to bring that blood glucose  down again and here's where this comes in to the  

metabolic disease because we're creating a vicious  cycle with this because insulin is a storage  

hormone and that's a good thing because it can  store a little bit of food for us during a feast  

so that we can have something to live off stored  energy when there is a famine but when we eat all  

the time and Insulin gets really really high now  the fact that it's a storage hormone creates all  

kinds of problems because high levels of insulin  promotes lipogenesis meaning the formation of fat  

your body takes this extra glucose and turns  it into fat because that's one of the ways it  

can get rid of that glucose the other thing it  does is it prevents lipolysis the high levels  

of insulin keeps the body from breaking down fat  so even if you're healthy then you store a little  

bit but insulin is low so now you can pull that  fat that energy out of the stores and use it for  

the next meal and you're fine you're balanced  when insulin is high and you make more fat and  

you break down less fat now instead of seeing you  can't use that fat from the store so you have no  

energy even though you have massive amounts of  energy stored as fat you can't get it back you  

can't pull it out for energy and instead you get  hungry and this is the Vicious Cycle that creates  

diabetes and metabolic syndrome and congestion  and it makes it very hard to lose weight and it  

makes you more hungry so there's all these factors  working against you what used to be a beautiful  

balanced system gets completely blown out of  proportion when we eat too frequently and we eat  

sugar and processed foods frequently and here's  what we need to understand further about insulin  

resistance that the simplest way of explaining it  is that since insulin regulates blood sugar and  

carbohydrates turn into blood sugar this is really  nothing more than a carbohydrate in tolerance and  

then we have all these people that tell us that  you should eat tons of cough carbs the carbs  

are good for you but we have to understand the  context that if you are carbohydrate intolerant  

then there's basically like this system there's  like this machine in your body that can process  

and work through and tolerate carbohydrates but  if you're intolerant you broke that system you  

broke that machine it's not working anymore  and now carbs are not good for you so if you  

can tolerate if your machine is still working  then yes a certain amount of carbohydrates can  

be totally fine you don't need them they're not  vital or essential but you can certainly tolerate  

a fair amount of carbohydrate so let's take an  example when they say that peanuts are good for  

you they're full of protein and fats and they do  some people a lot of good but if you're allergic  

if you have an anaphylactic reaction then they'll  kill you so yeah they're good for you unless they  

kill you and if we take another example that a  glass of wine it's so great it's been shown that  

you take a glass of wine and you live longer you  have less heart disease less inflammation lost  

less atherosclerosis unless you're an alcoholic  now that doesn't work anymore so if you are  

intolerant then they're not good for you that  that's the perspective we have to understand and  

the things that raise blood sugar and that cause  these problems the most are things like sugar but  

when we say sugar a lot of people just think of  these white crystals that you add with a spoon  

and then they think well hey you know I don't  really do that very much so I'm probably okay  

but all carbohydrates turn to sugar at some point  so the sucrose is worse because it's 50% glucose  

50% fructose fructose the glucose raises blood  sugar like we talked about the fructose clogs up  

the liver causes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease  which is the one of the worst strongest components  

of insulin resistance so sugar is the worst and  it's not just what you add it's anything that's  

sweetened but especially candy and cookies and  cakes and ice cream and so forth and then people  

think well I don't eat any of those but I have  cereal those are good for you that's part of a  

healthy breakfast they've been told and it's not  just kids cereals but most cereals are loaded with  

sugar and then of course the thing a lot of people  don't think about is things like soda and lemonade  

and sweet tea and things that you drink with food  that are just loaded with sugar so while people  

are afraid of bears and bees and flying these  are the things you should be very very afraid  

of people are afraid of accidents and yes there  are accidents I think you should be cautious but  

if someone has an accident and loses a leg that  does happen it's very tragic but did you know  

that diabetes causes 154,000 amputations per year  only in the United States and out of the diabetics  

in this country 1.5 million have severe diabetic  retinopathy that means the back of the eye where  

you create the the image the the vision sensors  it's getting destroyed to the point where you're  

about to lose your vision not all of these will go  completely blind but a lot of them will here's a  

list of the things that cause the most suffering  and premature deaths number one is heart disease  

19.6 6 million people per year around the world  cancer is 10 million hypertension high blood  

pressure is 7.6 million we have diabetes at 6.7  and we have strokes at 6.5 and if we add all this  

up that's 50.4 million people around the world  and this is where I got the 504,000 airplane  

accidents that would be equivalent and when we  look at it this way it's a wakeup call for a lot  

of people 504,000 crashes but this is something  that we actually have a lot of control over but  

then other people will quickly think of something  to get out of making changes and taking personal  

responsibility so they say well you have to  die from something after all right which is  

absolutely true so let's put this in perspective  and talk about what's really really important so  

out of those 50 million deaths premature causing  a lot of suffering there's not all of them it's  

not 100% there's probably only 80% because there  are other causes so that would put us at about 40  

million people which is still a lot every year  and it doesn't postpone death in definitely it  

only delays it probably about 10 years I would say  you can make a good case for living an extra 10  

years if you take good care of yourself that these  diseases these conditions probably shorten it by  

10 years but that's not really what it's about  anyway but then some people say well you know I  

don't care about the 10 years I'd rather be dead  than black and you can fill in whatever you like  

I'd rather be dead than giving up my ice cream  my hamburgers my Donuts my waffles it's etc etc  

because sugar is a very powerful drug it's a very  addictive substance but this is what I want you  

to really think about it's not about the number  of years that you have it's about the quality of  

life that you have while you're living so it's not  about just adding Years to Life it's about adding  

life to the years and if we think about 80% that's  not just 80% per year it's 80% of all the people  

on the planet that could dramatically improve  their quality of life so there's 8 billion people  

or so so six and a half could easily transform  and have a much more beautiful greater quality  

of your life for up to 40 years extra that they  would enjoy at a different level so were a lot of  

people today with a lot of stress and junk food  and toxins etc. when they're born they're still  

sort of clean but then as they live a few decades  they get into a a place where their body starts  

to ache they need some medication their blood  pressure goes up they digestion doesn't work quite  

right they don't sleep the way they're supposed to  so maybe half of their life is where they have a  

a good high quality of life whereas I'm arguing  that if you make some changes if you learn how  

the body works if you get some blood work if you  understand your body and make some changes you  

could extend that period where you have quality of  life probably double and that's where the value of  

these changes are so just how strict you have to  be to get some of these lifestyle this quality  

of life change changes well carbohydrates which  we're talking mostly about here is not the only  

thing you need to change you need to learn about  how the body works and take care of all aspects  

of Health but in terms of carbohydrates to reverse  metabolic disease you need to be very strict and  

what does that mean well it means different things  for different people you need to be strict enough  

so if we're talking about maintaining Health  then it's all about finding a balance for that  

individual so give some examples if we're talking  about sugar then I would suggest to reverse  

disease you probably want to be at zero I think  you should cut out sugar Al together and eat zero  

grams of added sugar and absolute minimum amounts  of Fruit and Berry sugar if you are maintaining  

Health if you found your metabolic balance  if you're at your ideal weight and your body  

is working I think that you could probably get up  to somewhere around 20 grams of sugar per day and  

still maintain Health if that's what you wanted  to do some people once they cut it out and they  

learn how good real food is then they don't really  have much of an attraction for that sugar but you  

also if you have a very very strong addiction to  Sugar like an alcoholic to alcohol if you have  

just a tiny little bit and it sets you off again  then you should probably plan to be at zero sugar  

zero added sugar forever because it just doesn't  work for you and in terms of carbohydrates I think  

for some people once they're at maintenance they  can get up to probably somewhere around 70 80 gram  

on average per day net carbs whereas if you're  trying to reverse disease you should probably  

try to get down toward 20 for some people it's  enough to be below 50 some people need to get all  

the way down to zero so again it's different for  different people but we need to understand where  

we are we need to use trial and error to learn  how our bodies work and then find that balance  

for us and one of the biggest mist mistakes people  make is they have this temporary mentality this  

intervention mentality where they think they  can do something bad for 20 years and then do  

something good for a limited time and then go back  to doing the bad and everything will be well well  

it doesn't work like that if you go back to doing  the bad stuff you did to get in trouble in the  

first place you will get in trouble again it's as  simple as that another reason we don't understand  

the devastating impacts of metabolic disease and  chronic degenerative disease is that it doesn't  

kill us fast enough bullets and planes and car  accidents and accidents they kill us instantly  

so we get the message however degenerative  disease doesn't act fast enough because it  

doesn't threaten the survival of the species we  can still make babies and procreate While We're  

Young and then these diseases happen later on it  has no effect no impact on our ability to keep  

the species going also it doesn't really have  much of an urgency if something could happen  

or will probably happen 20 30 40 50 years from  now it doesn't have much of an urgency for most  

people some people they just want the best out of  life they want to optimize their health they're  

planning for a long healthy high quality life  and to them it is urgent but for most people not  

really and also degenerative disease doesn't get  much Spotlight when people die from diabetes or  

heart disease they usually die one at a time at  home or in a hospital there is not much fanfare  

there's not much excitement it's a tragedy and  there is no Spotlight on it imagine on the other  

hand if degenerate disease took us out differently  like a plane crash if you were in a football  

stadium and there's 50,000 people around you and  they're having a good time and all of a sudden 500  

people drop dead as if on Q and something dramatic  something incredibly Dynamic and disastrous happen  

in they start losing body parts all over the  place and then they just go out with Fanfare  

then we would have a completely different picture  but the problem is with Degen disease it doesn't  

create any urgency or Spotlight it doesn't get  any attention and that is why it is so important  

that you make it urgent if you want to avoid that  disease process if you want to extend your quality  

of life then you need to understand what it does  what our lifestyle does to us and then make it  

urgent for you so you make those changes so that  means if you're watching this and you don't have  

any problems and your 20s 30s and 40s don't wait  you can count on these things happening if you  

don't change and the good news is if you're in  your 50s 60s 70s 80s then make the changes now  

and understand that it's never too late that  most of these things it's always better to do  

it sooner obviously but it's never too late  and all of these things are adaptations the  

body adapts to an unhealthy lifestyle and if you  change that lifestyle then the body will reverse  

the adaptation another reason we don't change is  that we think change is hard we have resistance to  

changes but in fact if we just educate ourselves  and make it a big deal then change is super easy  

or at the very least change is a lot easier than  suffering change is a lot easier than getting  

cancer it's a lot easier than a heart attack it's  a lot easier than a stroke and it's a lot easier  

than ending up in a wheelchair now I sympathize so  much with with people have accidents and end up in  

wheelchairs for one reason or another but imagine  putting yourself in the wheelchair how devastating  

would that be to know that you had the choice  early on and all you had to do was make some  

simple changes and what you will probably find  also is that change is delicious once you get  

off that sugar and that processed garbage and all  those chemicals now your taste buds will wake up  

again they'll come back to life and you'll start  appreciating the real flavors of food and you will  

experience flavors like you never have before or  at least not in a long time and the other thing  

is that change feels good if you read some of  the tens of thousands of comments that people  

leave on these videos they'll talk about how they  lost the weight and they talk about how they got  

off medication how their blood pressure came down  down but most of all they talk about how good they  

feel how they can do things they haven't done in  30 years how they love hiking and playing sports  

and playing with their grandkids and that they  feel better than they did 30 years ago that's  

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