Diabetic Review For New Readers Glucose, Fat and All That

"Based on the research and information I have on August 06 the following makes sense to me," Harlan Jacobsen Copyright © 2006

High Insulin is to overcome Insulin resistance a diabetic has built up over the years. Insulin is primarily a "fat Making hormone" so it makes it difficult for a diabetic to lose weight.

Your pancreas was already making several times normal insulin to compensate and now no longer continue to rise enough more to compensate while insulin resistance keeps rising and the insulin to keep up tops out.

Result, you developed diabetes over a long period of time and it will take a period of time to undo it.

It often took 40 years of high sugar to accumulate it, now its going to take a year or two to get back to normal life if you take prompt action, (and really work at it) if not, you have a 50% shortened life expectancy.

Our job is to report to you how others are doing it and what works. 

It took years to get it, it may take a couple to undo it, so do not expect overnight results in anything you do to fix it.

The conclusion is stress and depression are treated by your body and danger to your survival and are one leg of the four legged "diabetes" stool, that we are working on together to "fix" our.  diabetes. ( I have Diabetes too, you know)

We need to learn how to control stress. Stress raises blood sugar levels. (body gears up for "fight or flight")

Solutions to overcome mental aspects of diabetes problem, include overcoming loneliness, attend diabetes support groups, online and locally, join several online groups and fully participate with others in your overcoming diabetes program.

Learn the relaxation response to overcome stress and we write on how to do that elsewhere –

Stress includes emotions which are feelings of anger, resentment, sadness and fear for example, all sending fight or flight alarms which over time are exhausting to your glandular system and major interference with Insulin and blood sugar levels.

Be aware of that particularly if stress in your family life or job right now.   
 

  When Muscle turn to Flab, Sugar has no where to go, but when the liver is full it automatically turned to Fat.

When you eat and turn out Blood Glucose ( blood Sugar) your body has to do something with it.

You are not eating when or what you need, when you need it, you have been eating by the clock, cause that's what you have always done. 

When it is meal time you eat whatever amount or what you always ate. We suggest you eat smaller meals, (every two hours) and lower these huge meal spikes in sugar levels.

1.  Exercise, physical movements burning sugar, what it was made for.
   
2.  Store it as glycogen in your liver, one days worth is maximum storage.

   Your muscle normal sugar dump, have turned to Flab atrophied, and you have likely lost 50% of your muscle sugar storage capacity.

   Your body has these remaining choices with this high blood sugar when the liver is full (it usually is)
   
3.  Turn it into and store it as body fat.
   
4.  Pee it out, which puts a strain on kidneys over time.

When you have a electronic component such as a power transistor, it comes with a "heat sink".

This is a small piece of aluminum with small aluminum fins that the transistor is fastened to and the generated heat flows into and distributed to the air to be released to, without it, the transistor overheats and burns out.

When you have action muscles, you have a very similar "Blood Sugar" sink.  A place for the excess sugar to go to "store" it temporarily.

The amount of sugar these muscles can absorb is directly connected with the amount of vigorous, useable muscle. (even though resting at the moment)

If 50% of your muscle has turned to Flab, you are in trouble for absorbing blood sugar.  When you get older this is a common occurrence.  You  not only slow down and burn less sugar with less activity, you allow your muscles to turn to Flab by disuse.

You have last 50% of your sugar absorbing muscle capacity; perhaps with extensive exercise you stop further loss and the trend to Flab.  Overtime and a lot of work, you can get your Flab converted back to muscle. 

We are in Rehab mode to save our "out of control" sugar mode from doing damage and we need not only the old muscle rehabilitation, we need more new muscle than you  have had in recent times.

This is what you need to do to develop muscles where you never had them before.  Muscles do not just burn sugar, they store sugar to level out peaks and valleys.  When you increase muscle mass, you improve your sugar storing absorption capacity even without using them, they are like the aluminum transistor heat sink. 

They become a safe place for your body to get rid of for now that "extra" blood sugar and prevent these high spikes.

Most diabetics do not realize that a resting muscle is just as important as active muscle in alleviating high blood sugar.

We have to work against this trend of loss of muscle mass to stop and reverse diabetes.

•  You slow down the physical activity muscle, atrophy and turn to flab, aches, pains, and joint problems slow you down.
  
•  You eat like your habit makes you eat despite the fact you are burning considerable less calories. So you add fat when you are burning less calories than you are using.
  
•  The additional fat (particularly around the waist) adds fatty acids to your blood stream
  
• Increasing insulin resistance
  
• Issuing higher and higher insulin to compensate to make cells accept sugar.
  
•  Insulin is a fat storing hormone and high insulin means every available calorie goes into fat.
  
•  Every year you have naturally had high periods (summer) of insulin a gene thing to store fat and get  caveman thru the winter famine.
  
• Each year this raised your insulin level
  
• A little more insulin resistance resulted.
  
• In 50 years this accumulation puts most people "close" to, if not into diabetes
  
• Because it accumulates.

  When your body is acid balance it holds on to fat, your blood sugar balance is impaired and you continue "food cravings".

Most eat a modern man diet of 80% acid and 20% alkaline.  Ideal is 70% Alkaline and 30% acid the experts say.

The Caveman Diet which we recommend highly leans toward alkaline. For example, fresh tomatoes are alkaline. Canned tomatoes are acid. Caveman diet is NO processed food.

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