i thought it might be a good idea to make a video defining metabolic syndrome hello everyone welcome
to help people to understand that your physical health and mental health come together to create
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i'm defining metabolic syndrome for you guys because
i feel like when we have the definition in front of us when we're trying to make better decisions
we can make that decision based on facts and do the thing that helps us to be healthier
metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together increasing your risk of heart
disease stroke and type 2 diabetes there's others there's pcos there's alzheimer's there's others
these conditions include increased blood pressure high blood sugar excess body fat around the waist
abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels and i do believe there are even other of those clusters
in my opinion these conditions all are related to insulin resistance or hyperinsulinemia so let's
define those two words hyperinsulinemia means the amount of insulin in your blood is higher
than what's considered normal that's all it means okay what does insulin resistance mean it's a
condition in which your body doesn't respond well to the effects of insulin so what that means is
my body has insulin in it and yet when sugar comes in it's not react it's not responding
to the insulin the way it's supposed to so if we really just put these two ideas together what it's
really saying is that on a very regular basis my body is sitting around with too much insulin in it
and then the cells in my body are not reacting what does that sound like to you guys
anybody anybody have you ever heard of how people become alcoholic yeah it's like when you drink so
much that you've got alcohol in your blood so much that then eventually you start reacting to the
alcohol so you need more and more to become tipsy ring a bell okay so what happens when you have
insulin in your body and you eat carbohydrates so insulin is the hormone that tells your body
what to do with that free-floating sugar among other things insulin has a lot of jobs but the
one we're talking about today is it allows your body to use some of that energy right so it's
gonna shuttle some of it off into glycogen storage some of it's going to get used for your body and
then some of it's going to get put away as fat because storing sugar as fat on the body is safer
than having the sugar remain in the blood flowing around the amount of fat that your body can store
is individual each person is different i i heard amy berger give a talk and she talked
about the personal fat threshold this is the amount of fat that each individual can put away
now why am i bringing this up right now it's important for us to understand something
super super super simple our bodies are good at storing fat away because that's what it does to
get toxic stuff out of the system so like for example when you uh ingest alcohol your body
grabs that alcohol out and stores the waste fat right when you eat sugar your body grabs it away
and stores away as fat it's been known that when people lose weight they had to put a little bit of
extra toxins rolling around until they eliminate them in you know urine and feces because when your
body releases the fat the toxins it was holding on to get pushed out regardless of who you are
there's a point at which your body will no longer be able to store fat everybody has their max
some people seem to be able to stay below their max for many many years other people get to
their max rather quickly and this is not simply about weight there are some people that you would
call a tofu who are thin on the outside but fat on the inside because they cannot hold any more
fat they're saturated and what would happen in that situation so we have these thin people
that are completely saturated where their fat cells are concerned
they start to show some of those signs of metabolic issue that i talked about at the
beginning so they start to show diabetes type two they start to show heart disease stroke
they start to have physiologic problems gout pcos they start to have physiologic problems
due to the amount of excess carbohydrate because their body can't store any more of it away it
starts to actually affect them there are some people that can gain a really large amount of fat
and don't seem to have these other you know the the pcos or they don't have the um the diabetes or
right and they just keep growing and growing and growing in size and what i find really interesting
is that we don't recognize that those people are able to remain quote unquote healthy because they
have a better capacity to store away fat we really do need to redefine our ideas about getting fat
we simply see it as some kind of cosmetic issue when in reality gaining weight is our
first indication or one of our first indications that we're at the beginning of insulin resistance
and hyperinsulinemia and i'm saying and because i feel like the two are dancing with each other if i
have too much insulin in my system hyperlinks and anemia chances are it's because i'm resistant to
insulin because if i wasn't resistant to insulin my body would be producing the extra insulin
to deal with the carbohydrates that i'm eating i feel like these two things are connected nobody's
talking about it or they are talking about it but not in a way that the average everyday person
can understand if you're insulin resistant or hypo insulin anemic the bigger problem
is that you are storing excessive amounts of fat because you're having too much carbohydrate intake
and that's a problem because at some point you're either going to hit your threshold and get sick
so you might have a small threshold and get sick you can have a big threshold and get sick
problem is that somebody can get sick we need to understand that gaining weight is our body trying
to tell us we are over eating our carbo we need to understand that gaining weight is our body trying
to tell us that we are in the process of some kind of hyperinsulinemia or insulin resistance
situation so what's really crazy is that it takes a long time like between five and 20 years to get
to the classification of obese for most people like most people generally speaking and honestly
five years is a long time but you think about five years of life from 20 to 25
from 25 to 30 that's a long period of time 20 years 20 to 40 it's a long period of time
your body is so good at trying to keep you alive that it's storing that
sugar away for five to twenty years keeping you out of harm's way with regards to
diabetes out of harm's way with regard to heart disease stroke all these conditions that could
be attacking you and making your life very very difficult your body is so good at cleaning up
and just storing that toxic sugar away as fat until until it can't store any more fat
but you know what our body is that amazing that when we actually start to eat appropriately
the average person that eats appropriately and when i say appropriately i'm talking about eating
a healthy ketogenic lifestyle in anywhere from six months to three years the average
person can completely turn around their obesity can completely turn around even their diabetes
and major illnesses can completely turn them around by eating a healthy ketogenic lifestyle
why because when you stop poisoning yourself your body is really good at cleaning up your body is
really good at getting that i was able to get rid of just under 70 pounds in five months our body
is amazing at clean up we can change our situation it takes understanding what our body is doing to
protect us it takes understanding how our body is supposed to function and then taking action on
what you understood and committing to doing that for the rest of your life yeah i'm talking about
forever because we put too much energy and effort into eating foods that taste fun and not enough
energy and effort into building the healthy body that will take us to 105. a true wellness warrior
isn't just thinking about this moment and how the food tastes now you're thinking about how is this
food fueling the body that's going to be with me for the next seven years that's going to make sure
that i can live the life i want to live until 105. that's what a true wellness world is if you want
to be successful at your health you need to think short-term long-term always short-term what am i
eating now for long-term how am i going to be in seven years a true wellness warrior prioritizes
health over taste i'm asking you to do that prioritize your health i really want to thank
you guys for coming by all my Wellness Warriors always happy that you're here all the new people
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