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Diabetes is a disease that if you don't take effective action against, it simply gets worse.
The Real Problem!
Today, most people with blood sugar problems are only treating the symptoms and not getting to the root of the problem. Furthermore, many medications given to people with diabetes are compounding problems instead of getting to the root cause. A lot of these medications increase the likelihood of neuropathy among other problems.
The best way to manage blood sugar problems is to understand and address the actual causes, so let's take a look again at what causes blood sugar problems.
The Simple Explanation.
There are two primary causes of diabetes:
1) a long-term diet that has been high in carbohydrates and
2) nutritional deficiencies.
Let's go over it again.
Your body breaks down carbohydrates into sugar (glucose) which then enters your blood stream. The more carbohydrates consumed, the higher your blood sugar goes. In response, your body produces insulin. Remember, Insulin's job is to push the blood sugar into the cells.
On the surface of each of the cells in your body are insulin receptors, which act like little doors that open and close to regulate the inflow of blood sugar.
After many years of consuming a high-carbohydrate diet, your cells have been bombarded with so much insulin that these doors begin to malfunction and shut down.
With less doors open, your body needs to produce even more insulin to push the glucose into the cells. More insulin causes even more doors to close and as this vicious cycle continues, a condition called "insulin resistance" sets in.
When your body can no longer produce enough insulin to push the blood sugar into the cells, type 2 diabetes results. It is simply an extreme case of insulin resistance.
The key point for you to understand is that your energy, wellness and longevity are primarily dependent on improving the sensitivity of your cells to insulin - how well your cells open and close the doors and clear sugar from the blood.
What's the Bottom line?
Since type 2 diabetes is really a severe case of insulin resistance, the solution to your condition is to find a way through proper nutrition to increase the sensitivity of your cells to insulin and help your body get the sugar out of the blood and into the cells so it can be metabolized and turned into energy. (This inability to metabolize sugar is one of the reasons why many diabetics often feel tired and fatigued.)
The Deadly Effects of Excess Insulin!
Your "metabolism" is the food processing and energy production system of your body. It is made up of extremely fine-tuned internal processes.
Insulin is the master hormone of your metabolism. When it is out of balance and your insulin levels are consistently elevated, a long list of deadly complications are created:
* Heart Disease
* Hardening of the Arteries
* Damage to Artery Walls
* Increased Cholesterol Levels
* Vitamin & Mineral Deficiencies
* Kidney Disease
* Fat Burning Mechanism Turned Off
* Accumulation & Storage of Fat
* Weight Gain
In his best-selling book Protein Power, Dr. Michael Eades wrote,
"When insulin levels become too high... metabolic havoc ensues with elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, diabetes, and obesity all trailing in its wake. These disorders are merely symptoms of a single more basic disturbance in metabolism, excess insulin and insulin resistance."
Nutritional Deficiencies from excess insulin.
Science has shown that excess insulin also causes your body to become deficient in many vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. It's a proven fact that being deficient in these nutrients is directly linked to and a cause of high blood sugar levels.
Chromium
Many studies have shown that chromium is an important nutritional factor to proper metabolism and maintaining safe sugar levels. Excess insulin depletes your body's chromium. In Protein Power, Dr. Eades further states,
"The insulin receptor, the structure on the surfaces of your cells that actually become resistant to insulin, requires chromium to function properly. Deficiency of chromium is rampant - it affects 90% of the American population - because a diet high in starch. carbohydrates and sugar puts a heavy demand on the insulin system to handle the incoming carbohydrate load, and that demand depletes chromium."
Chromium is critical to blood sugar metabolism and as a diabetic you can be pretty sure that you are severely deficient in this nutrient. If you ever wondered where your "sweet tooth" and sugar cravings come from, now you know - chromium deficiency!
Calcium and Magnesium are also depleted by excess insulin, which can cause many problems, as they are critical to over 200 biochemical processes in your body.
Other very important nutrients which excess insulin causes you to be deficient in are Zinc, Selenium, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Vanadium, B Complex vitamins, essential fatty acids and many more.
Now that you know how and why people develop type 2 diabetes and know some of the consequences of not controlling your blood sugar level, here are your choices:
- You can continue on with what you've been doing, or
- You can use nutrition as a safe and effective way to help you control your blood sugar with absolutely no worries about side effects!
Fortunately, your body has miraculous healing powers, is very resilient and operates in a very intelligent manner. If you give it the right fuel (the right nutrients) the body will have the tools it needs to heal itself and, you will see increased vigor and energy and improved health. Some exercise and the right attitude also help!
The first step is to switch your body from an out-of-control, nutrient-depleting and fat-storing machine into a clean, nutrient-rich, fat-burning machine.
To do this you must must:
- Restrict the carbohydrates in your diet and
- Improve the nutrition of your body! You need the vitamins and minerals in a form that is actually food that your body recognizes, not the man-made chemical "vitamins" found on the shelves of most health food shops and drug stores.
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