WARNING! Diabetes Treatment Could Actually Kill You!

Hello Health Champions. Whether you already have diabetes

or some other issue like belly fat or stubborn weight or high blood pressure,

this is a video for you because the mechanism in all those conditions

is the same and once you truly understand

that mechanism then not only will you know how to reverse

diabetes and all those conditions naturally

but you'll also understand why most standard treatment

actually makes it worse. Coming right up.

Hey I'm Dr Ekberg. I''m a holistic doctor and a former olympic decathlete

and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the body really

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notification bell so you don't miss anything what is diabetes and insulin

resistance really well diabetes is when you have high

blood sugar and that's because you have an insulin

problem insulin is the hormone that helps lower

blood sugar by helping the sugar get from the bloodstream

and into the cell so there's two kinds you can have

no insulin like in type 1 diabetes the glucose is high because there's no

insulin to help guide that sugar out of the bloodstream

but you could also have in type 2 diabetes you could have

high glucose even though you have too much

insulin because the insulin isn't getting the job done

so in type 1 diabetes it's pretty simple because

if they don't have insulin you give them some and

the problem is pretty much solved but if you

already have too much insulin and you give somebody

more then what happens that's what we need to understand

because that can be the difference between life and death

if you look up insulin resistance you will read

that treatment can help but insulin resistance

can't be cured so what kind of treatment are they talking about how can

treatment help well successful treatment means that you spend a quarter million

dollars from age 50 to age 70 if you get it when

you're 50 and you will live 10 years shorter than

average and you have a bunch of complications

along the way that doesn't sound like really great success in treatment to me

but the problem is that they're successful in treating

what they're aiming to treat but there's really two problems

so the first problem that they are treating is

high blood sugar and the second problem that they're not

treating is insulin resistance the blood sugar can cause micro vessel

disease and that means the tiny blood vessels in your body swell and they

cause damage and that's the leading cause of

blindness kidney failure amputation and neuropathy

so those are nasty things of course we want to treat those but

insulin is also a problem high insulin leads to

insulin resistance which leads to metabolic syndrome which

is associated with belly fat fatty liver obesity

heart disease hypertension stroke and dementia so here's the critical

thing to understand is yes these things are bad but in

treating these the way they do they're causing more of that they're

reducing and handling these to some degree but in the process

they're making all of this worse that's a pretty bold

statement treatment for type 2 diabetes makes type

2 diabetes worse how is that possible it's because

every treatment is focused on symptoms rather than the root cause and very

often when we focus on symptoms we allow the actual problem to keep

getting worse the other problem with treating symptoms

is that oftentimes as soon as a symptom is somewhat changed

they feel that it's under control i can't

tell you how many times i've sat down with the patient

and i cringe when they tell me that yes they have diabetes they have high

blood pressure but it's under control they're taking

medication to suppress the symptoms so there's nothing to worry about and

their only issue is that they came in with some neck pain or

shoulder pain and they really believe that it's

nothing to worry about because the doctor told them that and

the doctor is acting under the standard of care which says that all we have to

do is to lower blood sugar if you look up

insulin resistance you will also read that insulin resistance is

when the body stops responding normally to insulin

and that's true but the question is why why does the body stop

responding normally to insulin and the answer is going to depend

on how we view the body if we think that the body is

random and stupid then the answer could be

that well things like that happen sometimes

go ahead and put down in the comments if you've ever heard that

from your doctor sometimes things like that

just happen but we're going to get a different answer

if we assume or understand that the body is

supremely intelligent and precise because then

there must be a really good reason why the body stops responding to insulin

so now we need to understand something called adaptive

physiology and it's a big word but don't worry it's really really simple

it just means your body is processing a whole bunch of information about a

billion bits of information every second and it constantly makes

small adaptations it makes small changes in to adapt to changes in the

environment so here's some examples what happens if

you walk barefoot for any extended period of time your

body makes thicker skin to protect your feet when i

was a kid and school was out for 10 weeks

during that time i hardly ever wore shoes

and in the beginning of the summer my feet were super tender and i could

barely walk carefully across the stone tiles in front of the house

but a few weeks into summer break i could run across

those stone tiles as if it was soft as grass

my body had adapted and it does this all the time it makes

smart changes to make you function better if you play a lot of guitar then

you get calluses so that you can play more

without hurting if you lift weights your body is

going to make more muscles it's going to hypertrophy

so that you can handle that better that's adaptive physiology

if you spend some time at high altitude then there is less oxygen in the air

so your body senses the need for more oxygen carrying capacity so

it starts manufacturing more red blood cells so that you get

better at delivering oxygen when there is less

of it how amazing is that does that sound random and stupid

does that sound like sometimes those things just happen

no of course not everything in the body is

on purpose whenever there is less of something

your body up regulates it gets better at using that thing it becomes more

sensitive to it whenever there is too much of

something you like insulin your body down regulates

and in a sense it becomes resistant to it

insulin resistance that's how it works and most people don't realize that the

very word disease is actually disease ease

is when you have balance equilibrium homeostasis in your body

and this is is when you have imbalance and all it is it's an adaptation

because your body has changed because something in the environment

changed and if we change that thing back then the body changes back let's look at

what has changed why does a smart thing like the body

start resisting insulin well historically there's always

been times of more food called feast and times of

less food called a famine and during the time of

feast when there's more food we fill up our

stores and during that time insulin is high because insulin is the

storage hormone and obviously during the times

of less food or famine then we can start using what we have

stored and the body doesn't just use things for

energy it uses it for building blocks and when food is in low supply the body

goes into something called autophagy where proteins and amino acids

become precious so the body starts going around the body and recycling so

in a sense it starts to clean out the pantry it gets really really good at

using that stuff and during that time the insulin is very

low so we've always had periods of filling

up the pantry and cleaning out the pantry that's

always been like that until the last 50 to 70 years

since 1950 in the prosperous part of the world there has never been

any famine so we have pretty much a constant feast and historically we used

to have maybe one to two meals like very ancient times our

ancestors but then since about 1950 we had a steady

three meals a day but then in the last few decades

we've gone from three meals a day to six or more meals a day and the more

often we eat the more often we're in storage mode on top of

that they tell us to eat low fat which is less sustaining it

doesn't sustain us for as long it's less satiating so now that makes us

eat even more so most people are snacking up to eight times

a day and under these circumstances now we're in a feast we're constantly

storing we're always at a high insulin level

preparing for a famine that never comes so we never have a chance to clean out

the pantry and during these times the only

intelligent thing to do for the body is to start developing

insulin resistance so that we might have a little bit of a chance

to stop cramming that pantry fuller and fuller

but then clever people invent tricks to make the cell accept more anyway

to make the insulin do its job anyway and those tricks are things like

insulin drugs and insulin stimulating drugs

so now the cell says i don't want any more but

the drugs keep cramming them even fuller and in the process they're making the

cell even more insulin resistance driving metabolic

syndrome even further but let's take a look at

the 20 years that we have before we would need the

drug if you have a normal blood sugar

initially of 90 fasting blood sugar of 90 and a fasting

insulin of three then these variables are in balance

you're very insulin sensitive and even if

you ate an occasional high carb meal or even

sugar then your body would know what to do with that

you had a functioning carbohydrate tolerance a carbohydrate processing

machine and you would use some for energy and

whatever you didn't use in the moment you would store away and if this only

happened once in a while then you could go back

and clean out the pantry and use that energy later on

but if you live in the modern world and you eat six to eight meals a day

and you eat low fat and high carb now you keep pushing that insulin up

and let's say after seven more years you check your blood sugar again and your

blood sugar is about the same and you're thinking hey

great i'm doing fine because you never measured fasting

insulin and you don't understand adaptive physiology but if you did

understand those things and you did measure it you

now see that you have three times

more insulin it's the body has to work three times harder to keep the blood

sugar down it's useless to measure blood sugar

because it's a controlled variable the body works

very hard at suppressing and controlling that

in a safe level but if we understand adaptive physiology then we understand

that your body has moved quite far away from

homeostasis now let's go a few more years into the

future and year 15 you get another blood test

and your doctor looks at the blood sugar and he says great job it's normal and he

congratulates you on your symptom-free health but

if they understood and measured physiology

the insulin now we would see that your insulin resistance is at a steady

incline and then finally somewhere around year

20 now we measure the blood sugar and it's not normal now you're a

full-blown diabetic because even this enormous amount of insulin can

no longer keep the blood sugar under control the cells are so insulin

resistant that even very large amounts of insulin

will not get the job done but even if they measured your fasting insulin along

the way chances are that they wouldn't do anything about

it because normal range is considered all the way

from 3 to 24.6 in other words you have to be

a full-blown diabetic or you have to be bordering on full-blown diabetic

before your insulin is considered high does that sound normal to you

that you could have 800 percent more insulin than the insulin sensitive

person and they think that you're doing just fine and then

they think that oh this just happened suddenly he

was fine last year and now all of a sudden he's a

diabetic no it takes years it takes decades to get

to that point unless you start feeding kids sugar

in large amount at a very early age then you can destroy this carbohydrate

handling system you can create a fatty liver in pre-teenagers

and this is why they're generally considered

that treatment can help and they're talking about blood sugar

but there is no cure because they're not treating the root cause which is insulin

they just add more and that's why it's so key to

understand physiology and adaptation because

once we understand that it's nothing more than an adaptation

all we have to do is undo the adaptation we have to stop

putting the things in the body that created the problem

and what are those things they are in order

number one high fructose corn syrup which has

55 fructose but a lot of people think that oh well high fructose corn syrup is

bad but sugar is good well they're virtually

identical this one's five percent worse right but sugar still

has 50 fructose which is the substance that

destroys the liver causes fatty liver three

is processed food four is frequent meals and five is carbohydrates

in general unfortunately the standard medical treatment

is to focus on blood sugar while ignoring

or missing the point on most of what causes these adaptations and if you

understand that then you understand why the treatment is actually killing

people but if you instead understand how to

undo the adaptation if you understand that these things

force the body to make changes and if we undo these

things the body will change back to normal now not only can you reverse

this naturally but you also have no side

effects in fact all you have are bonuses

bonuses like healthy weight healthy energy and feeling better

overall now there's a lot to understand about

each of these five items these five issues so

rather than trying to cover that here i'm going to make a separate

video where i cover all of these in more detail if you enjoyed this video

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