A growing percentage of the population needs to Reverse Pre-Diabetes and Diabetes 2. Over 400 million people in the world have diabetes mellitus which is both diabetes 1 and 2. Half are undiagnosed. Diabetes leads to 5 million deaths a year globally and in the U.S. it soaks up 1 in 4 dollars of medical costs.
Metabolic Syndrome is a list of characteristics that are precursors to diabetes and frequently lead to its development. This list includes a large waist line, high blood pressure, low HDL, and high LDL. Blood tests at the doctors office would reveal if you suffer from these characteristics and if the level of sugar in your blood has reached higher than normal levels.
One research that reflects the opinion of most researchers is “Well our scientists believe that storing too much fat in the liver and pancreas affects how type 2 diabetes develops and losing this fat can help put your diabetes into remission.” Doctors will tell you diabetes has no cure. It can, however be put into remission where you can live a normal life without medications. Nonetheless, because it is not curable, a person is always at risk of the symptoms returning if their lifestyle changes are then abandoned.
There is damage to the body caused by high blood sugar:
“Diabetes mellitus includes a group of metabolic conditions characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin action, insulin secretion or both. Chronic hyperglycemia is associated with long-term damage and dysfunction of eyes, kidneys, blood vessels, nerves, and heart.” Reviews in Medical Microbiology
If you want to read scientific research and why diabetes is considered a genetic disease giving people a propensity for diabetes if they add the element of weight gain:
The First Steps in Reversing or Causing Remission in Pre Diabetes or Diabetes
All research and doctors say the same thing. A person must lose weight. It is clear diabetes is an overweight condition. Losing weight reduces the fat in the liver and pancreas Fat leads to impaired glucose control in an interaction with insulin and insulin resistance.
Whereas the common belief is that obesity is caused from calories, calories are frequently the culprit while the true villain is quite different. Insulin resistance created by too much sugar in the blood stream causes the cells to reject the insulin hormone from creating a passage of glucose into the cells. The rejected glucose (from carbohydrates) are then hustled off to be encapsulated in fat.
Insulin resistance is the primary cause of gaining weight resulting in obesity (excluding genetic predispositions) and therefore carbohydrates go to fat. Carbohydrates are fruits and vegetables but unless consumed in excess, they are not the main problem. The main problem is sugar consumed in sodas, desserts, pizza, pasta, desserts, and many packaged goods. Food packagers use sugar and salt to make food taste good.
Losing fat and reducing insulin resistance require a change in lifestyle. This is a difficult step for most people and the fist obstacle is their state of denial. People warned about being pre-diabetic think it can’t’ happen to them. People with growing waist lines think they will not get the disease. Many people just start accepting the fact they are overweight.
Losing weight starts with some important steps:
- Calorie restricted diet
- Reducing carbohydrates
- Exercise
Reducing calories begins to create a negative balance in the consumption/expenditure ratio of energy. It takes a reduction of 3,500 calories to lose a pound of body weight. Reducing carbohydrates reduces the amount of sugar the liver has to convert to glucose which with insulin resistance is transported to fat. Exercise increases calories burned which helps the consumption/expenditure ratio.
Another effective process for losing weight is intermittent fasting. This is eating within a time window and therefore creating longer periods in which there is no consumption and the digestive system can work on burning calories for fuel. An easy fasting period is 12 hours but a more productive window is 16 hours or more of fasting. Eating breakfast at 8:30 and dinner at 4:30 leaves 16 hours of fasting.
The Keto Diet is utilized by many athletes and millions of others to reduce carbohydrate consumption. Like the Atkins Diet, the Keto Diet emphasizes protein and fat with minimum carbohydrates. The purpose is to get the body to burn fat as fuel. Exercising increases metabolism and induces the muscles to absorb more glucose. This process will lower insulin resistance as the muscles absorb more glucose.
The process of losing weight without causing the metabolism to drop too precipitously is a balancing act. We don’t want the metabolism to think we are starving, but we want it to allow us to reduce our fat content. When the metabolism thinks we are short of resources (like early man in the winter), it will begin to reduce services to the body (and hold onto fat) to preserve the most important functions.
Reducing calories, causing the body to burn fat as fuel, reducing carbohydrates, and drinking half our body weight in water ounces (200 pound person drinks 100 oz of water) will slowly start to cause weight loss. My personal program aims for losing a half to a pound a day. I have been successful, but I run into battles with my metabolism that cause me to stabilize at certain plateaus.
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