HEALTH & WELLNESS
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Chronically high levels of insulin are bad, bad, bad for your
body and especially bad for your brain. Why? Great question –
here are the answers your doctor has not told you:
When your insulin levels are chronically high, your cells stop
listening. This is insulin resistance.
So, what happens then? Well, glucose continues to build up
in the blood and it’s not getting into the cells. What happens
to the energy level of the cells? It drops. Your cells fatigue – especially brain cells. Why? Because they require a lot of glucose,
and when they don’t get enough, you get conditions such as
brain fog, depression, anxiety, memory loss and lack of sleep;
sound like anyone you know?
What is the typical medical approach to this problem? First,
doctors are going to wait until your fasting blood glucose creeps
up to about 126 or higher and then give you more insulin, or
some other drug like metformin. Think about that…I mean really think about that. That’s like me shouting at you harder. It
may work for awhile but then you get used to that volume and
I have to shout even louder! I hope you get the point: You need
healthcare. You have been receiving sickness care.
The day you go on insulin, get out a big red Sharpie and circle
that day on the calendar, because you will never be the same –
unless, stay with me now, you get to the root cause of why your
blood glucose is so high (to be explained later).
So now you have the extra glucose in the blood and your body
has to do something with it. Guess what it does. It makes that
glucose into fat through a process called lipogenesis.
Cholesterol, triglycerides and LDLs start forming in the
blood. Again, what is the “modern medicine” answer to this?
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Another drug. Usually a cholesterol–lowering drug known as
a statin drug. You know it as Crestor or Lipitor (just watch TV
for the others). I’m not even going to tell you the side effects of
these drugs. (Well, if you get muscle cramps or your hands/feet
are tingling/burning, I might. That’s a hint.)
Now get this: Guess what your body requires when it is forming these bad fats. A lot of energy. When you get fatigued after
meals or crave sugar or coffee, could this be why? So, not only
are you not getting glucose into the cells – which causes fatigue
of the cells – you are also tired from this process of lipogenesis.
A double-whammy energy-theft!
Wait. It gets even better. During lipogenesis, a hormone
called leptin stops working. What does leptin do? It tells your
brain when you are full. Ever wonder why so many of us overeat? Seriously, is your doctor telling you this stuff as he’s writing
your prescription?
• High levels of insulin create inflammation throughout the
body. That’s right. On a blood test, inflammatory markers
such as C-Reactive Protein, homocysteine and fibrinogen
are going to be high (that’s if your doctor is even checking
these). If you have food sensitivities, for example to gluten,
and keep eating it, your body will be chronically inflamed.
So you wonder why your spine, knees, hips, shoulders, etc.
are achy all the time? You can take all the meds you want,
but until you remove inflammation from high insulin, relief
will be temporary.
• High insulin is bad, bad, bad for your brain. Among other
things, it causes the pituitary gland in your brain to excite
your adrenal glands too much. Your adrenal glands are your
stress glands; they release a very important hormone called