Let me ask you a question. How do you know you don't have insulin resistance
riding your arteries, inflaming them, creating plaque. How do you know you
don't have cardiovascular inflammation? Well, as Jon Lorscheider shared with you,
he told me in our first visit. I don't have it. My Docs checking it every year.
Charles Hancock, old Alabama gardener, very similar story he had not one but
two really good docs and they are good docs. They were
checking him every year for insulin resistance. They were using a thing
called fasting blood glucose but they missed it. Not only did he - he decided to
to go ahead get an oral glucose tolerance test and do some other testing
and found out that not only - he had - did he have insulin resistance or
pre-diabetes, he had full-blown diabetes. Now, why is it that good docs are missing
this? Well, I'll talk about that. I'll explain that a little bit more. There's -
there's good reasons for it but I'll do that after the interview clip with
Charles Hancock, with old Alabama gardener. So here's the thing, as he'll
share with you in the video, he's had multiple events - heart attacks and he was
continuing to grow plaque. He kept asking his Docs "Why?" They said "Well, you know... We
don't know." Now, he knows. So now he's very happy. Now, he's doing some things to slow
that down. Oh... let's get to the video. Now, just had some interesting
experiences. In terms of - you had some interesting experiences, in terms of your
own health. Charles, can you tell us a little bit about what happened? (Charles:) Well, I - I
had two artery events, where the artery was closing and it required a stent to
keep it open. I had that happen twice in six months and so that was very scary, of
course, and it was a huge wake-up call for me and
that I had to figure out what was causing that and if possible change it.
Otherwise, I was concerned that I would not survive maybe even the next one and
so I started searching on the Internet and that's how I found your channel and
then through that I learned that there was a series of tests that I needed to
get done and we can talk about those more in detail too but so I did those
tests and one of them revealed that I was diabetic which was a total surprise
to me because I I just didn't think that I would ever be diabetic. (Dr. Brewer:) Yeah, I'm - I'm
glad you came straight out with that because, again, if you - if you look back at
a lot of your videos, it was clear you were aware of diabetes. You knew it was a
big health concern for a lot of people. You also had some of your own heart
issues going on but you didn't think that diabetes could have been
contributing to yours. You've got a good doc, he had looked at it and he just
really hadn't seen anything using the standards of medicine, is that right? (Charles:) Oh,
that's correct. Yeah and I got a good family doctor and I got a good
cardiologist but they were never able. Maybe I didn't press the point hard
enough with them but they were never able to tell me why this was happening
to me. (Dr. Brewer:) Yeah (Charles:) and I should say - not only why its happening to me
but what specifics do I need to do to, at least, reduce the risk. (Dr. Brewer:) Yes, and you see a
lot of that on this channel. You see it on a few other channels. If there's one
thing I could do to help change medicine in the world today, it would be to help
people like yourself and like many others of us, especially
after we get 50 years old, start developing some insulin resistance or
pre-diabetes. We have good doctors. They work hard but in following the standards
of medicine, they don't get the right - the right information and then, quite often,
misinform us and tell us we don't have to worry. Meanwhile, if you get the right -
the right studies, then you find out what was causing the plaque build-up and you -
(Charles:) and that's - you're right on because when my blood sugar glucose reading would be
a 104 / 107 fasting blood sugar, my family doctor - that was okay. It was not
a concern. He didn't think that was too high though (Dr. Brewer:) And what study did you get
that showed your blood sugar was high? (Charles:) Well, based on your recommendation I took
a oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) (Dr. Brewer:) Yeah (Charles:) Now this - and I - it was not something
that my family doctor prescribed or suggested I do. This is something I had
to do on my own, in order to know what was happening with my blood sugar and I
did that testing and the results were absolutely positive that I was diabetic.
(Dr. Brewer:) Now, why would that happen? Why are good Doc's missing insulin resistance and
even full-blown diabetes on a regular basis for disastrous results? Well, there
are several reasons.
Standards change. For example, in 1997 the ABA and the federal government said up
until that point, the diagnosis of diabetes was a fasting blood sugar of
140 or higher or that was one of many ways to diagnose diabetes. Well, at 1997
they dropped it to 126. A lot of people weren't aware of that and they knew that -
that was going to increase the number of people that had full-blown diabetes.
Again, when you think about it, by the time you get full-blown diabetes, you've
already had a lot of damage done during the pre-diabetes stage but let's go back
to this changing number. This is a population graph for fasting blood
glucose. Now, that was the change that happened and you could see that it
increased significantly the number of people that would have a diagnosis of
diabetes based on fasting blood glucose when they dropped it from 140 to 126 but
look at the rest of this curve and look at this number 100. We will think about
that in just a minute.
Well, as you see, if you're looking at fasting blood glucose 100 to 125, it's
pre-diabetes and this this one is more accurate. So, now think about it. You
remember Charles said multiple times "Well, my Doc kept seeing 104, 105
and he said I was okay" Well, your Doc was - his Doc was
probably thinking about diabetes and that was correct. He was okay in terms of
diabetes. He didn't need insulin but meanwhile, he was continuing to irritate,
burn the intima and create plaque and cardiovascular inflammation. Now, here's
another - so, that talks about maybe shifting diagnoses. Thinking about
diabetes versus pre-diabetes. It talks about shifting standards from dropping
from 140 to 124 down to 100. Now, here's another thing. It's
the different tests A1C fasting plasma glucose and glucose tolerance
tests are all very different tests and very different ways of diagnosing
diabetes. His Docs kept looking at A1C and fasting plasma glucose. Meanwhile,
when we did an oral glucose tolerance tests, he came out with a blood sugar
over 200. So, as you can see, A1C - I have no doubt that the A1C's were less than
6.5 that his doctors were checking because the A1C's inaccurate over
20% of the time. Anyway, so as you see there are multiple ways that Docs can
miss that pre-diabetes and even diabetes and if it's - and if both of those are
causing risk for heart attack and stroke, it's no wonder that heart attack stroke
and dementia are the number one killers and disablers in this country. People are
going for decades thinking they're fine. Meanwhile, they're burning their arteries.
So, if you've made it this far, again as usual, thank you for your interest.