Steve Mitchum: What's the difference between prediabetes 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 an inability for our bodies to manage
glucose, to metabolize glucose effectively. Another way you can look at
distinction again is an artificial distinction. It's where people have
several things - high blood pressure, they're overweight, their abdominal girth
is large. 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 talk 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 grant 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'll run it. We start running a
blood sugar levels of way too high - 120 even at night when our blood sugar
levels and 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 with
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'll
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 a foreign body and LDL (low density lipoprotein cholesterol). May be
part of the 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,
macrocytes, 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
in a heart attack or the stroke, it's the clot. 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 that it goes on minute by
minute, hour after hour, day after day, we got the 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.
So I'd like to talk with you a minute about the webinar. People don't
understand what the webinar is. It's actually a great way to get some access
to health care that you're just not going to get any other way. You actually
get the lab tests yourself at a local lab, a Quest lab near you for the
inflammation panel and the OGTT and the insulin survey. These are things -
inflammation and prediabetes - that your doctor just does not know about. And
here's the thing. Harvard Health and many others have said, look, sudden death is
not always so sudden. The Hollywood picture that it's a bolt out of the blue
is not realistic. It's more like real lightning preceded by clouds, wind, and
rain. Stop that metabolic storm before the lightning strikes. And here's where
that metabolic storm comes from - it's inflammation - and it has to do usually
with prediabetes. So again, we actually get labs, we go over
them in the webinar, and then you can start finding out how you can prevent
that heart attack. Others said that you couldn't even predict. We can show you
how. Thanks.