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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.
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tell me what to take
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.
Where can I get
these vitamins?
RECOMMENDED:
There is a Diabetes nutritional product which
results in not just treating the symptoms - but the underlying cause.
It is offered by the
Wellness
Support Network which has over 12 years of experience working with
diabetics and the diabetic condition. They believe in live
communication and will assist their clients on an individual basis.
There clients can call them with any questions they have or
any problems they encounter.
They contact their customers on a regular basis, either by phone
or email, and provide them with guidance on their diet, exercise, and progress
on an individual-by-individual basis. They assist their customers in working out
solutions to problems unique to their own case, to ensure they get the results
they promise.
They offer a 90-day money back guarantee. Its the longest in the business
and they do it because they know that they have a 95% success rate.
More
information about these vitamins.
There are lots of rave success stories and it should be checked out. Go
Diabetes
Success Stories
To Order
the Diabetic Pack
There
is also a great Vitamin C which is a missing
ingredient for Diabetics. See Vitamin
C here.
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real problem diabetics have, their cells not absorbing the bloods glucose.
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