Steve Mitchum: Ahat's the difference between pre-diabetes and metabolic
syndrome? Now, there are folks like Robert Lustig for example who's an
endocrinologist, and he creates some distinctions. But on a practical matter,
consider them the same. They're both the inability of our
bodies to manage glucose, to metabolize glucose effectively. Another way you can
look at the distinction again is an artificial distinction. It's where people
have several things - high blood pressure, they're overweight, their abdominal girth.
Again, those were all physical signs and symptoms that we're seeing in people who
had prediabetes. So you'll hear me use the term insulin resistance at the end
of the day. This goes back to that one item. The root cause: our receptors
for insulin in our liver and our muscle cells become resistant to insulin. So
instead of the blood sugar dropping and remaining great, needs to be... it slowly
begins to creep up the nucleus in our brain That's supposed to read our blood
sugar level changes. It begins to adapt to higher levels, and we get used to
having levels of 120, 140, 160, 180, 200, and more. We start running blood
sugar levels of way too high 120, even at night. When our blood sugar levels like
our blood pressure should be dipping about three or four in the morning
prior to that shot of cortisol that we get in the early morning. As we do all
that, we begin to get problems of oxidation, inflammation of the artery
walls that then results in inflammation of the lining of the artery wall,
cholesterol, no matter what level of cholesterol you have, whether it's as
high as 200 LDL or 400 or more with people that have familial
hypercholesterolemia or even as low as 70 and even below. If you have injury to
the lining of that artery wall, you still get seepage of the LDL into that
artery wall, and it gets stuck. That's what plaque is, and our body
attacks that. It recognizes that plaque and says, you know what, I'm gonna go in
and dissolve it. That's what I do with foreign body and LDL low density
lipoprotein cholesterol. May be part of our regular body but it shouldn't be.
It's not part of the regular artery wall so I need to get that out of there. It'll
send T-cells, microcytes, even leukocytes, different parts of our immune system,
families of cells within our immune system into that artery wall to attack
that plaque. It can form a liquid plaque. That liquid plaque can easily erode back
into the bloodstream. If liquid plaque touches (or we call
it hot plaque for this reason), if it touches the flowing blood, it can form a
clot and it's not the plaque. Because it's a heart attack or the stroke.
If that clot is big enough, and it breaks off and it goes through the
heart, it's a heart attack. If it goes to the brain, it's a stroke. And if it's too
tiny to notice but it goes on minute by minute, hour after hour, day after day, week
after week, month after month, decade after decade, you end up with
dementia, heart failure, and some of the other things that we know are again the
end product of this process.
Why wait for a disease and hope for a cure? I used to be an ER doc. My name is
Ford Brewer. I quit ER after a few years because it
was just so frustrating. Most of the things bringing people into the ER are
things that should have been prevented including heart attacks, stroke - number
one cause of death, number one cause of permanent disability. People think that
you're just going to have those and that they're not predictable. Both of those
are wrong. They are predictable, and you don't have to have them.
Usually it's lifestyle. Lifestyle's more important than supplements and even
prescription drugs and even stents and surgery. But the current times are tough.
Major financial impact with the lockdowns that most states have been going
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myhealth@prevmedheartrisk.com. Looking forward to seeing you. Thank you.