Hello Health Champions. Whether you already have diabetes
or some other issue like belly fat or stubborn weight or high blood pressure,
this is a video for you because the mechanism in all those conditions
is the same and once you truly understand
that mechanism then not only will you know how to reverse
diabetes and all those conditions naturally
but you'll also understand why most standard treatment
actually makes it worse. Coming right up.
Hey I'm Dr Ekberg. I''m a holistic doctor and a former olympic decathlete
and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the body really
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notification bell so you don't miss anything what is diabetes and insulin
resistance really well diabetes is when you have high
blood sugar and that's because you have an insulin
problem insulin is the hormone that helps lower
blood sugar by helping the sugar get from the bloodstream
and into the cell so there's two kinds you can have
no insulin like in type 1 diabetes the glucose is high because there's no
insulin to help guide that sugar out of the bloodstream
but you could also have in type 2 diabetes you could have
high glucose even though you have too much
insulin because the insulin isn't getting the job done
so in type 1 diabetes it's pretty simple because
if they don't have insulin you give them some and
the problem is pretty much solved but if you
already have too much insulin and you give somebody
more then what happens that's what we need to understand
because that can be the difference between life and death
if you look up insulin resistance you will read
that treatment can help but insulin resistance
can't be cured so what kind of treatment are they talking about how can
treatment help well successful treatment means that you spend a quarter million
dollars from age 50 to age 70 if you get it when
you're 50 and you will live 10 years shorter than
average and you have a bunch of complications
along the way that doesn't sound like really great success in treatment to me
but the problem is that they're successful in treating
what they're aiming to treat but there's really two problems
so the first problem that they are treating is
high blood sugar and the second problem that they're not
treating is insulin resistance the blood sugar can cause micro vessel
disease and that means the tiny blood vessels in your body swell and they
cause damage and that's the leading cause of
blindness kidney failure amputation and neuropathy
so those are nasty things of course we want to treat those but
insulin is also a problem high insulin leads to
insulin resistance which leads to metabolic syndrome which
is associated with belly fat fatty liver obesity
heart disease hypertension stroke and dementia so here's the critical
thing to understand is yes these things are bad but in
treating these the way they do they're causing more of that they're
reducing and handling these to some degree but in the process
they're making all of this worse that's a pretty bold
statement treatment for type 2 diabetes makes type
2 diabetes worse how is that possible it's because
every treatment is focused on symptoms rather than the root cause and very
often when we focus on symptoms we allow the actual problem to keep
getting worse the other problem with treating symptoms
is that oftentimes as soon as a symptom is somewhat changed
they feel that it's under control i can't
tell you how many times i've sat down with the patient
and i cringe when they tell me that yes they have diabetes they have high
blood pressure but it's under control they're taking
medication to suppress the symptoms so there's nothing to worry about and
their only issue is that they came in with some neck pain or
shoulder pain and they really believe that it's
nothing to worry about because the doctor told them that and
the doctor is acting under the standard of care which says that all we have to
do is to lower blood sugar if you look up
insulin resistance you will also read that insulin resistance is
when the body stops responding normally to insulin
and that's true but the question is why why does the body stop
responding normally to insulin and the answer is going to depend
on how we view the body if we think that the body is
random and stupid then the answer could be
that well things like that happen sometimes
go ahead and put down in the comments if you've ever heard that
from your doctor sometimes things like that
just happen but we're going to get a different answer
if we assume or understand that the body is
supremely intelligent and precise because then
there must be a really good reason why the body stops responding to insulin
so now we need to understand something called adaptive
physiology and it's a big word but don't worry it's really really simple
it just means your body is processing a whole bunch of information about a
billion bits of information every second and it constantly makes
small adaptations it makes small changes in to adapt to changes in the
environment so here's some examples what happens if
you walk barefoot for any extended period of time your
body makes thicker skin to protect your feet when i
was a kid and school was out for 10 weeks
during that time i hardly ever wore shoes
and in the beginning of the summer my feet were super tender and i could
barely walk carefully across the stone tiles in front of the house
but a few weeks into summer break i could run across
those stone tiles as if it was soft as grass
my body had adapted and it does this all the time it makes
smart changes to make you function better if you play a lot of guitar then
you get calluses so that you can play more
without hurting if you lift weights your body is
going to make more muscles it's going to hypertrophy
so that you can handle that better that's adaptive physiology
if you spend some time at high altitude then there is less oxygen in the air
so your body senses the need for more oxygen carrying capacity so
it starts manufacturing more red blood cells so that you get
better at delivering oxygen when there is less
of it how amazing is that does that sound random and stupid
does that sound like sometimes those things just happen
no of course not everything in the body is
on purpose whenever there is less of something
your body up regulates it gets better at using that thing it becomes more
sensitive to it whenever there is too much of
something you like insulin your body down regulates
and in a sense it becomes resistant to it
insulin resistance that's how it works and most people don't realize that the
very word disease is actually disease ease
is when you have balance equilibrium homeostasis in your body
and this is is when you have imbalance and all it is it's an adaptation
because your body has changed because something in the environment
changed and if we change that thing back then the body changes back let's look at
what has changed why does a smart thing like the body
start resisting insulin well historically there's always
been times of more food called feast and times of
less food called a famine and during the time of
feast when there's more food we fill up our
stores and during that time insulin is high because insulin is the
storage hormone and obviously during the times
of less food or famine then we can start using what we have
stored and the body doesn't just use things for
energy it uses it for building blocks and when food is in low supply the body
goes into something called autophagy where proteins and amino acids
become precious so the body starts going around the body and recycling so
in a sense it starts to clean out the pantry it gets really really good at
using that stuff and during that time the insulin is very
low so we've always had periods of filling
up the pantry and cleaning out the pantry that's
always been like that until the last 50 to 70 years
since 1950 in the prosperous part of the world there has never been
any famine so we have pretty much a constant feast and historically we used
to have maybe one to two meals like very ancient times our
ancestors but then since about 1950 we had a steady
three meals a day but then in the last few decades
we've gone from three meals a day to six or more meals a day and the more
often we eat the more often we're in storage mode on top of
that they tell us to eat low fat which is less sustaining it
doesn't sustain us for as long it's less satiating so now that makes us
eat even more so most people are snacking up to eight times
a day and under these circumstances now we're in a feast we're constantly
storing we're always at a high insulin level
preparing for a famine that never comes so we never have a chance to clean out
the pantry and during these times the only
intelligent thing to do for the body is to start developing
insulin resistance so that we might have a little bit of a chance
to stop cramming that pantry fuller and fuller
but then clever people invent tricks to make the cell accept more anyway
to make the insulin do its job anyway and those tricks are things like
insulin drugs and insulin stimulating drugs
so now the cell says i don't want any more but
the drugs keep cramming them even fuller and in the process they're making the
cell even more insulin resistance driving metabolic
syndrome even further but let's take a look at
the 20 years that we have before we would need the
drug if you have a normal blood sugar
initially of 90 fasting blood sugar of 90 and a fasting
insulin of three then these variables are in balance
you're very insulin sensitive and even if
you ate an occasional high carb meal or even
sugar then your body would know what to do with that
you had a functioning carbohydrate tolerance a carbohydrate processing
machine and you would use some for energy and
whatever you didn't use in the moment you would store away and if this only
happened once in a while then you could go back
and clean out the pantry and use that energy later on
but if you live in the modern world and you eat six to eight meals a day
and you eat low fat and high carb now you keep pushing that insulin up
and let's say after seven more years you check your blood sugar again and your
blood sugar is about the same and you're thinking hey
great i'm doing fine because you never measured fasting
insulin and you don't understand adaptive physiology but if you did
understand those things and you did measure it you
now see that you have three times
more insulin it's the body has to work three times harder to keep the blood
sugar down it's useless to measure blood sugar
because it's a controlled variable the body works
very hard at suppressing and controlling that
in a safe level but if we understand adaptive physiology then we understand
that your body has moved quite far away from
homeostasis now let's go a few more years into the
future and year 15 you get another blood test
and your doctor looks at the blood sugar and he says great job it's normal and he
congratulates you on your symptom-free health but
if they understood and measured physiology
the insulin now we would see that your insulin resistance is at a steady
incline and then finally somewhere around year
20 now we measure the blood sugar and it's not normal now you're a
full-blown diabetic because even this enormous amount of insulin can
no longer keep the blood sugar under control the cells are so insulin
resistant that even very large amounts of insulin
will not get the job done but even if they measured your fasting insulin along
the way chances are that they wouldn't do anything about
it because normal range is considered all the way
from 3 to 24.6 in other words you have to be
a full-blown diabetic or you have to be bordering on full-blown diabetic
before your insulin is considered high does that sound normal to you
that you could have 800 percent more insulin than the insulin sensitive
person and they think that you're doing just fine and then
they think that oh this just happened suddenly he
was fine last year and now all of a sudden he's a
diabetic no it takes years it takes decades to get
to that point unless you start feeding kids sugar
in large amount at a very early age then you can destroy this carbohydrate
handling system you can create a fatty liver in pre-teenagers
and this is why they're generally considered
that treatment can help and they're talking about blood sugar
but there is no cure because they're not treating the root cause which is insulin
they just add more and that's why it's so key to
understand physiology and adaptation because
once we understand that it's nothing more than an adaptation
all we have to do is undo the adaptation we have to stop
putting the things in the body that created the problem
and what are those things they are in order
number one high fructose corn syrup which has
55 fructose but a lot of people think that oh well high fructose corn syrup is
bad but sugar is good well they're virtually
identical this one's five percent worse right but sugar still
has 50 fructose which is the substance that
destroys the liver causes fatty liver three
is processed food four is frequent meals and five is carbohydrates
in general unfortunately the standard medical treatment
is to focus on blood sugar while ignoring
or missing the point on most of what causes these adaptations and if you
understand that then you understand why the treatment is actually killing
people but if you instead understand how to
undo the adaptation if you understand that these things
force the body to make changes and if we undo these
things the body will change back to normal now not only can you reverse
this naturally but you also have no side
effects in fact all you have are bonuses
bonuses like healthy weight healthy energy and feeling better
overall now there's a lot to understand about
each of these five items these five issues so
rather than trying to cover that here i'm going to make a separate
video where i cover all of these in more detail if you enjoyed this video
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