Healthy Weight Loss
All About Diabetes
In the dim and distant past, sugar, fat, and salt were in short supply; our bodies had to store them when we came across them. To help ourselves survive, we adapted to hunger for sugars- literally we craved them. When our ancestors were fortunate enough to find a batch of juicy berries, they couldn't afford not to eat every one in sight , since it might be weeks or months before they stumbled across the next batch.That worked fine back when there were no grocery stores, fast-food restaurants, and pie-baking grandmothers.
The problem now is that that our energy-processing machinery is still geared to life in the past, while our energy supply system is twenty-first century. Because sugar (glucose) was always scarce, we developed a very efficient metabolism that could process small amounts of food and extract the maximum amount of energy. Today diabetes is the result of a fundamental mismatch between our ancestral insides and our modern world outside.
Why is that such a problem? Because the excess sugar we consume today coalesces into a syrupy mixture that coats our organs and creates glasslike shards that can cut up the blood vessels and tissues of our body. The constant wounds of these surges lead to chronic inflammation, which wastes our ability to defend ourselves with false alarms. As a result, we're prone to infections and arterial damage and less able to cope with common stresses we could normally fend off- like hypertension or high cholesterol, or even cigarette smoke.
Because our bodies are designed to run on a relatively low level of glucose, when we overeat and indulge in our sedentary lifestyle, we're unable to process the extra glucose- thus pickling ourselves in all the excess- and our metabolic system malfunctions. Eventually, especially in people with family histories of type 2 diabetes (evidence of genetic predisposition to the disease), our pancreatic beta cells, cells that produce insulin, can't keep up because of exhaustion after years of working against the relentless insulin resistance. And that's how we become diabetic.
People with diabetes have high blood sugar either because their pancreas doesn't make enough insulin or because their muscles, fat, liver, and other cells close the door on insulin- not allowing it to deliver glucose to them. People with Type 1 diabetes have to replace their body's production of with injections of insulin( because their bodies produce no insulin- keto-acidosis). A lot of us tend to think that diabetes happens because you eat too much sugar, but the truth is that diabetes happens when you eat too much.
All food- no matter whether it's a protein, fat or carbohydrate- gets broken down into glucose. When you have insulin resistance and you overeat, be it too much meat, potato, or coconut cream pie, the cells in your body are unable to absorb the extra glucose. The cause blood glucose levels to rise higher than a helium-filled balloon. When the alarm sounds to make more insulin to help transport the extra blood glucose, the body acts like a chubby runner at the front of a marathon; it just can't keep up. A person with type 2 diabetes has lost this glucose-insulin struggle. And so an ugly, vicious cycle begins.
In the past it made sense for us to store fat to survive when we were likely to have famines periodically or failed bison hunts, but today that fat causes insulin resistance, which makes us eat more, which cause more fat, which is associated with eating more, so we accumulate more fat, which causes more insulin resistance, and so on….
Just starting a healthy weight loss diet will immediately shift your body's response to insulin and melt away the glycosylations."
David Ogden
Healthy Weight Loss
Phone 386 308 1956 after 6PM EST
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