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The Effects of Excess Insulin

Your "metabolism" is the food processing and energy production system of your body. It is made up of extremely fine-tuned internal processes.

Insulin is the master hormone of your metabolism. When it is out of balance and your insulin levels are consistently elevated, a long list of deadly complications are created:

The Deadly Effects of Excess Insulin

* Heart Disease
* Hardening of the Arteries
* Damage to Artery Walls
* Increased Cholesterol Levels
* Vitamin & Mineral Deficiencies
* Kidney Disease
* Fat Burning Mechanism Turned Off
* Accumulation & Storage of Fat
* Weight Gain
* Premature Aging

In his best-selling book "Protein Power," Dr. Michael Eades wrote:

"When insulin levels become too high... metabolic havoc ensues, with elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, Diabetes, and obesity all trailing in its wake. These disorders are merely symptoms of a single more basic disturbance in metabolism - excess insulin and insulin resistance."

Excess Insulin Also Causes Nutritional Deficiencies - Science has shown that excess insulin also causes your body to become deficient in many vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. It's a proven fact that being deficient in these nutrients is directly linked to, and a cause of high blood sugar levels.

Chromium is essential to proper metabolism and maintaining safe sugar levels. Excess insulin depletes your body's chromium.

In "Protein Power," Dr. Eades further states:

"The insulin receptor, the structure on the surfaces of your cells that actually become resistant to insulin, requires chromium to function properly. Deficiency of chromium is rampant - it affects 90% of the American population - because a diet high in processed or refined sugar, puts a heavy demand on the insulin system to handle the incoming carbohydrate load, and that demand depletes chromium."

Chromium is critical to blood sugar metabolism, and as a Diabetic you can be pretty sure that you are severely deficient in this nutrient. If you ever wondered where your "sweet tooth" and sugar cravings come from, now you know - chromium deficiency.

Other very important nutrients which excess insulin causes you to be deficient in are Zinc, Selenium, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Vanadium, B Complex vitamins, and many more.

The Consequences Of Diabetic Complications

Long-term diabetes problems - sometimes called complications - are often linked to higher blood sugar levels, and insulin remaining in the body too long, over an extended period of time.

Many of the complications of Diabetes don't show up until after years of having the disease. They usually develop silently and gradually over time, so even if people with Diabetes aren't having any signs of complications, they may eventually develop them.

Talking or thinking about long-term Diabetic complications isn't something anyone looks forward to. Let's be realistic... It can be difficult for anyone to make changes in how they live today to decrease the risk of health problems that may not show up for years. But it's important to start now.

If you're a Diabetic or Pre-diabetic, and you're not getting an A1C test at least twice a year, you should be. If you are getting an A1C test, and it's consistently over 7, you need to start taking proactive steps to get it under 7.

Below are a few statistics on some of the complications of Diabetes. You can't control what has happened to others who are Diabetic, but you can control what happens to you.

  • People with Diabetes have an average life expectancy 15 years less than those without Diabetes.

  • Heart disease and stroke account for almost 70% of deaths in people with Diabetes.

  • Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure.

  • About 60% to 70% of people with Diabetes have mild to severe forms of nervous system damage.

  • Having Diabetes increases the risk of lower-limb amputation some fifteen-fold.

  • It has been estimated that close to 80% of Diabetic males have some degree of erectile dysfunction (impotence).

  • About 73% of adults with Diabetes also have high blood pressure.

  • Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in adults 20 to 74 years old, and is estimated to cause from 12,000 to 24,000 new cases each year. Two other complications of Diabetes, cataracts and glaucoma, can also lead to loss of vision.

  • The incidence of coronary occlusion (blocking of the arteries) in persons with Diabetes has been estimated at from 8-17%, with Diabetic adults having heart disease death rates about 2 to 4 times as high as the general population.

  • Based on the US National Health Interview Survey, Diabetics are more likely than the general population to report a number of digestive conditions, including ulcers, diverticulitis (a condition with similar symptoms to appendicitis), symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, and gallstones.

  • Periodontal (gum) disease is more common in people with Diabetes. Almost one-third of people with Diabetes have severe periodontal disease with loss of attachment of the gums to the teeth.

What Can You Do To Fight Back And Reverse Diabetes?

Somewhere between the genes we inherit that might make us more susceptible to becoming Diabetic, a long term diet that has been high in fast absorption-processed carbohydrate foods and liquids (bad carbs), and finally... A sedentary lifestyle (with very little physical activity or exercise to burn fat)... is why Type 2 Diabetes is now considered to be at an epidemic level in our country.

Now that you know how and why most people develop Type 2 Diabetes or become Pre-diabetic, and what some of the potential complications are when not safely and effectively managing your blood sugar... Here are your choices:

 1. You can continue doing what you've been doing, Or...
  2. You can take matters into your own hands and implement a safe and effective protocol to stop taxing your body's pancreas and insulin production, while lowering and stabilizing your blood sugar naturally.

You can't ignore Diabetes or Pre-diabetes because you don't "feel" sick right now, or you hope your condition will get better on its own... IT WON'T. That's not the way Diabetes reveals its traumatic side. Diabetes is a disease that, if you don't take effective action against it, over time, your condition will simply get worse. Either you control it, or it will control you.

Fortunately, our bodies are very resilient, and operate in a very intelligent manner. If you give it the right fuel and the right nutrients, your body will respond very quickly. Some physical activity (no matter how limited) and the right mindset also help.

The first step is to switch your body from an out-of-control, nutrient-depleting and fat-storing machine into a clean, nutrient-rich, fat-burning machine.

The steps in doing this are:

 1.) Restrict the amount of refined carbohydrates from processed foods & liquids (bad carbs) in your diet, and...
  2.) Supply your body with the right fuel and the right nutrients.

These two actions cannot be a part of your wish list. They must be a part of your change list.

Your body can only burn fat if your metabolism is balanced and insulin is not present in your body all the time, as it is now, even if you're getting external sources of insulin. It takes insulin longer to leave your body than it does for your blood sugar to go down. Carrying out steps 1 and 2 above is the only way to begin addressing the source of your Diabetic condition, and regulate your body's blood sugar naturally, and long-term. Back To Main Resource Page

William Brock
Bakersfield, CA

 

 

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