Diabetes
What if I told you that being diagnosed with diabetes is NOT a life sentence? The status quo of type 2 diabetes is to provide medications that increase your bodies production of insulin or improve the function of insulin, generally increasing those drugs as the disease progresses, often resorting to taking insulin as the other drugs become less effective, ending in premature death as a result of diabetes complications. What if I told you that, often times, none of this is necessary?
You might call me crazy, but first we need to understand this disease, diabetes. Diabetes is actually a failure of your body to manage the utilization and storage of sugars in your body. You get the name, diabetes, at the point of failure, whereas the initiation of imbalance can begin 30 years earlier, with symptoms such as weight gain, mild fatigue, and hypoglycemic symptoms such as shakiness, dizziness, and hunger. What is occurring during this whole time, through the progression to diabetes, is your body is overloaded with sugars, and/or the cellular receptors for insulin are decreasing in number, or are not functioning properly.
Initiating factor 1: Too much sugar. Whether in the form of bread, apples, candy, soda, or plain table sugar, if you consume more than your activity level requires, you will stress your sugar regulation system, leading to fewer insulin receptors, insulin resistance and eventual diabetes.
Initiating factor 2: Receptor malfunction. The receptor for insulin is found in the cell wall, which is made of fat. The types of fat you consume determine how “receptive” these receptors are to insulin. Very fluid fats such as fish oils and flax oil improve the function of these receptors, and stiff fats (hard at room temp) such as Crisco, margarine, butter and lard decrease receptiveness.
Initiating factor 3: Cortisol overload. Chronic stress can increase the “stress” hormone cortisol. Cortisol affects your body’s ability to manage sugar by causing insulin resistance, and an increase in blood sugar. Handling mental, emotional, physical and chemical stresses will reduce cortisol and allow your body to regulate sugars naturally.
Initiating factor 4: Anaerobic metabolism. This type of metabolism increases the burning of sugar for energy, and decreases the burning of fat (stored sugar). As aerobic exercise is added, the body “learns” once again, to use fat as energy, which improves insulin sensitivity and lets the body regulate sugar naturally
Initiating factor 5: Nutrient deficiency. Specific vitamins and minerals drive sugar metabolism. Low levels of these nutrients will cripple your body’s ability to regulate sugar, resulting in the same problems as any other initiating factor. For example, the mineral chromium will increase the number of insulin receptors, and the mineral vanadium actually helps the sugar get into the cell. Often, supplementing these nutrients short term, until stores are replenished, will quickly restore normal sugar regulation.
By correcting any and all initiating factors, your body will begin to function normally and diabetes can go into complete remission. I have witnessed people begin to function normally, going off all their medications, on their way to a long healthy life, by addressing these 5 factors.
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