Diabetes is probably the
physician's favorite, easiest
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disease to treat when
it is type 2 diabetes.
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Very difficult to treat
in type 1 in some patients.
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But type 2 diabetes responds
with some very simple things
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often with a very
profound response...
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And at Uchee Pines Institute,
where I am home-based,
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the treatment of diabetics
is one of my very favorite
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patients, so I hope you
will stay by during this next
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half an hour while we talk
about some of the ways that
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we treat diabetics
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at Uchee Pines Institute.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute.
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash.
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There are many ways
to treat the diabetic...
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Most of them having
to do with life style.
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Even the very fine
advice that we give to people
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who have diabetes to be
very careful about their
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spiritual life.
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Spiritual life is important
for the diabetic because
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of the lifestyle
changes that are necessary.
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And with lifestyle changes,
we need to be able to lean
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on the guidance of the Lord
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to have the power that the
Holy Spirit and the sacrifice
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of our Divine Savior.
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We need to have all of
this power and this guidance
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so that the lifestyle changes
that we make can be effective
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for us in our lives.
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Now since food is one
of the important things
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having to do with the changes
that a diabetic needs to make,
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I have asked one of the
very good cooks at Uchee Pines,
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Valerie Schreiber, to help me
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and I'm sure that you will see
that she is a very good cook.
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Valerie, what do you
have here for us today.
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Well, I have some fun
things that we were working on
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up there in the kitchen.
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Are you sure these things
can be used by a diabetic?
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They look like they are
very forbidden foods... I know.
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That's what's so nice about
it, is they look forbidden but
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they actually are very healthy
for you and rich in fiber...
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especially this one
right here I want to show you.
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This is just an apple
pie... fresh apple pie.
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This has not been cooked at all.
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And it's very,
very easy to make.
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You just put her
apples, you wash them real good,
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you don't have to
peel the skin off,
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you core them and you just
put it through a food processor
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and that will
chop them up real good.
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And then you just put 2
cups of apple juice concentrate,
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About 3-1/2
tablespoons of tapioca
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Whiz that all up together
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Put your apples in it
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Make a pie crust and this
is a real simple pie crust.
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Just grind up
oats and coconut...
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And if you want, you can
put a little ground nuts in it
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Just press it
right into your pie shell
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Pour this in and, of course,
I decorated it a little bit here
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but you don't have to do that
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But it's kind of fun to do,
where you can just take an apple
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and you can cut it and just
lay pieces around just like this
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and then cut another apple.
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It makes it kind of very
appetizing and appealing for
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your family for the
first time if they have an
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unbaked apple pie.
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But I'm here to tell
you, this is SO delicious...
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And you can eat
it for breakfast!
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That's what's
so nice about it...
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This isn't one of these
illegal pies that, you know,
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you have to be careful.
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You can eat this as a food for
breakfast... it's full of fiber!
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A main dish? A main dish!
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I tell you, when I
first learned that, I said...
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"This is the way to go... I
can have PIE for breakfast. "
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I thought that was the greatest
thing I ever heard about!
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It convinced me to change
my lifestyle completely just
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from that point.
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Okay, now this one here...
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Ooh... this one is beautiful!
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It's kiwi and we
have some walnuts
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and we did a Jell-O mold.
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Now this is a very
simple Jell-O mold...
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And, all you have to do is
get a can of this Juicy Juice,
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you see here and you just
put a cup of boiling water
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and you put some of
this Emes gelatin...
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about 3 tablespoonsful in it,
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a can of this...
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another 1-1/2 cups of water
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just blend it
up, put it in a mold
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and that's it!
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And you can, if you want,
you can chop up some fruit
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and put some fruit in there.
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But it makes an
absolutely delicious dessert
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and real easy to make...
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And then you can do,
like you've seen me here,
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you can add some
fruits to it if you want.
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And if, you're
eating at a main meal,
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then you
wouldn't have your fruits,
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but you could have the
plain Jell-O without fruits
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and it would be an
okay dessert to have.
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That sounds good!
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And I believe that
I can do that myself.
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Can I find these
recipes in an ordinary cookbook?
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Well, maybe not in an
ordinary cookbook, Dr. Agatha...
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But in your local
health food store,
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you'll find wonderful cookbooks
that are out there today,
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that have all of these excellent
recipes that you've seen me
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cooking here on the
show, or the fresh recipes.
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But one other thing I
wanted to tell you about is...
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There is a new product out,
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we don't know a whole
lot about it but it's from
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the herb family
and that is "Stevia. "
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Now, Stevia is 300
times stronger than sugar...
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sweeter than
sugar, I should say.
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And, so you have to be very
careful, use very small amounts
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and this is perfectly
good for a diabetic to use.
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And there is a
cookbook out that is on Stevia.
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In fact, there's
a couple of them.
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I don't agree with everything
that's in all the recipes but
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you can learn to improvise...
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If they were to say, use
milk, you'd use soymilk...
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that type of a thing.
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But they will show
you how to use Stevia,
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not just in desserts
but in various other dishes
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that you will cook and
can sweeten them quite well.
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And does not
affect you as a diabetic.
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Hmm.. sounds very good and
it's hopeful that diabetics
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can broaden the whole
scope of what they can eat.
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And that is a help,
because often a diabetic
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feels that there are so
few things that they can eat
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and especially, they
can't have anything sweet
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and they shouldn't
eat anything fat...
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But if they learn
just a few things,
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then that helps them to
know that they can have a good
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dietary without having to
circumscribe everything that
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they eat.
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Now the course of a
diabetic through his lifetime
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often goes
something like this...
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The baby, who is going
to become a type 2 diabetic,
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is born of a mother who has
type 2 diabetes in her family
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or the father has type
2 diabetes in his family,
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and often it's both.
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And then what happens is
that the baby goes a little bit
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post maturely
before being born...
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So that the baby is born
weighing more than 8 pounds,
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or even more than 9 pounds...
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sometimes even
more than 10 pounds.
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Such a baby has to be
very careful all of the life
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making certain that
weight gain is not a feature
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of their life style...
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Because weight gain is
probably the most important
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single factor having to do
with bringing on diabetes type 2
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Now diabetes type 1, is an
altogether different disease.
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It has to do with a reduction
in the amount of insulin
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produced by the pancreas;
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whereas type 2 diabetes
has plenty of insulin on board.
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In fact, it has a
very high insulin level.
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Maybe 2, 3, 4 times the
normal level of insulin.
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Then... what is the problem?
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Well, the problem is...
that through the lifetime
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of the person, they
gain more and more weight,
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...they overeat
more and more times
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...they eat more and more sugar
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...more and more fat
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Until finally the poor pancreas
says, although it is producing
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more and more insulin
all the time and the insulin
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levels in the blood
are constantly going up...
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Even though all
of this is happening,
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the pancreas finally says...
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"I have made my best
effort, I can't face tomorrow. "
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So, the pancreas
produces a little less insulin.
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Then, the blood sugar goes up.
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Before that, the blood
sugar had stayed steady
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in the normal range,
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although the insulin level
was high, in the high range,
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above the high normal.
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And then when the insulin
level cannot continue to go up,
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as the weight
continues to go up,
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then the blood sugar goes up.
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And at that point, we begin
to see the signs of diabetes.
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As the blood sugar rises
when the insulin level fails,
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at that point, we can
make the diagnosis of diabetes.
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Now this is the
natural course of diabetes
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and Don Miller is
going to discuss a feature of
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diabetes with you now...
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that feature of diabetes
being the way that we can treat
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diabetes with lifestyle.
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Don Miller.
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Lifestyle is what God has
given us to treat our bodies
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right in the first place.
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And the old saying and
it's a new saying too is that
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"I'd rather prevent a disease,
than to try to treat a disease"
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And basically type 2 diabetes
is a lifestyle-related illness.
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It's not something that
we're going to get because
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of some unknown thing...
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it's the way we live our lives.
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There are a few things that
predispose to type 2 diabetes
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and some of those major
things are being overweight,
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and living the
wrong type of a lifestyle.
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And so, the same thing
that's going to keep us
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from getting diabetes,
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many times will help
us to treat the diabetes.
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Now you're not going
to basically get over the
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diabetes once you have it
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But you can find
ways to maintain yourself
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in a proper way.
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I've known juvenile diabetics,
type 1's, who seemed to be
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in perfect
health... well into their 30s.
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No neuropathy, no eye problems,
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everything is going fine
because they had learned how
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to control themselves.
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They knew ALL about lifestyle
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and they kept
themselves under control.
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Well, the type 2
diabetic has the same options.
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He or she can
practice good lifestyle,
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or she can let it
go and he can let it go
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and really have some
major problems because
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there are a lot of problems
associated with diabetes.
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So let's just mention some
of the simple things we can do
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as far as our
lifestyle to allow ourselves
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to handle our type 2
diabetes a little bit better.
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One, is regularity.
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We need to be
regular in all that we do
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and I'll tell you why...
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When you have
something like diabetes,
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your body is working
hard to try to maintain you.
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And when you are
not on a regular basis,
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your body really
works a lot harder.
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We work on the thing
called "a circadian rhythm"
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and, at mealtime, your
body gets ready for meals.
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Right now, my salivary glands
are not full of saliva because
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I've already eaten and
it's going to be a while
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before I eat again.
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And so, everything
has been concentrated...
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it's sitting there in
a very concentrated form.
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But it knows when
it's time for me to eat
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because I eat on a
pretty regular basis
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and about an hour
away from mealtime,
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I start getting a reconstitution
of the salivary juices
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and by the time
it's time to eat,
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I have a full
complement of salivary amylase
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and all these digestive juices,
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not only in my salivary
glands but in my stomach
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...everything is
ready to receive that meal.
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If I eat off schedule,
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I go through all that
energy of producing these things
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...it looks
around, sees no food,
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puts it all away...
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Then all of a sudden
I start eating again,
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and now I don't have good saliva
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I'm going to have
incomplete digestion
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and I'm going to have some
real problems down the line.
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Also, we have to have a
rest period between our meals.
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It's best to have...
the very BEST program is a
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2- meal-a-day plan.
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Some people eat
one meal a day...
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they start before
breakfast and they end
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just before they go to bed.
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But we need a 2-meal-a-day plan.
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And it's the time just
in between those 2 meals
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we call the
"interdigestive phase"
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And what
happens during that time
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is our body is
able to clean itself.
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Everything has gone through...
and then we sort of have a
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reverse motion in
our intestinal tract
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and it sort of cleans the
walls of our intestinal tract
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It allows the
juices to rest there...
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everything is resting
for a period time because,
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quite frankly, an
overworked pancreas,
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which is what's being
overworked in type 2 diabetes,
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needs a longer rest...
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And we find that a type
2 diabetic does much better
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on a 2-meal plan.
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EXERCISE... an excellent way
to regulate your blood sugar.
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We find that exercise
uses your blood sugar nicely...
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If you have too
much blood sugar in,
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it's going to use it up...
it's going to store it away
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But especially
exercise out in the sunshine...
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Now sunshine has an
insulin-like effect on the body.
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And as the sun strikes the body,
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it has an enzymatic
effect on the body...
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and what happens is your glucose
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is stored as...
it's turned into glucagon
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which is the
stored form of sugar
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and it goes into the
liver... goes into the muscles
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for when we need
it down the line.
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We need to make sure we're not
drinking a lot with our meals.
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Meals are not the time to drink.
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Meals are the time to eat.
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We should be
eating at our meals and
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drinking BETWEEN our meals.
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The reason why people
drink with their meals is
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because they are dehydrated.
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And what we are drinking between
the meals should be just water
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or an herbal tea which has
no nutrients put into it...
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just a straight herbal tea.
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Basically, we should be
drinking water and eating
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fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, nuts and seeds.
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And as we do
these simple things,
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we're going to find
that our type 2 diabetes
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is much easier to be controlled
00:14:40.38\00:14:42.60
and we'll live a much more
abundant and healthful life
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with these simple
things, Dr. Thrash.
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Yes... simple things,
that's the key to diabetes.
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Just the very simple things of
nature and type 2 diabetes will
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be helped greatly
by these simple things.
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Now it's of interest that
our understanding of diabetes
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has greatly changed
in the last few years.
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I remember, it hasn't
been too many years ago,
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that we said the upper
limit of a good blood sugar
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level was 120...
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then it dropped down to 115..
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and then down to 110...
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and it's on the way down.
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We believe that it will continue
to go down until it is below 100
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as the fasting level.
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We consider 85 to be
the upper limit of ideal
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for the fasting
blood sugar level.
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Now the type 2 diabetic
produces plenty of insulin
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and I will show you on the
white board a little diagram
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that will help you to understand
how insulin and the receptor
00:15:45.58\00:15:51.96
for insulin meet
together on the cell.
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So, let's go to the board
and I will show you these things
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as a very interesting
feature of chemistry.
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You don't have to be a
Harvard graduate in chemistry
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to be able to
understand these things.
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Let us say that
this is a cell...
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Every cell in the body
that's going to take in sugar
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will have an insulin
receptor on it... such as this.
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And insulin... let us
diagram that to look like this,
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that's insulin...
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and this is a receptor,
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or, we could say
this is a port or a mouth
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to receive insulin.
00:16:46.62\00:16:48.27
But insulin does not do us any
good to give us energy or heat.
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It only acts as a vehicle
to help us to get the sugar
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into the cell that will
give us the energy and the heat
00:17:01.14\00:17:04.99
and the strength
that we need from it.
00:17:05.02\00:17:06.99
So, let us draw a
diagram of sugar here.
00:17:07.02\00:17:12.55
So let us say
that this is sugar...
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and it is THIS, that we
need to get into the cell.
00:17:14.93\00:17:18.93
So we must
combine sugar with insulin
00:17:18.96\00:17:22.79
and this is very schematic
and very simplistic but
00:17:22.82\00:17:26.95
as we understand this, I
think you will see how it works.
00:17:26.98\00:17:30.45
Sugar must be
worked on by insulin...
00:17:30.48\00:17:33.32
which can then be taken
into an insulin receptor
00:17:33.35\00:17:36.24
into the cell.
00:17:36.27\00:17:37.35
These unite together in this way
00:17:37.38\00:17:39.96
Now these float
around in the blood stream
00:17:39.99\00:17:42.39
and this is stationary,
00:17:42.42\00:17:44.46
but as these are floating
around in the bloodstream
00:17:44.49\00:17:46.93
and they come to
one of the receptors,
00:17:46.96\00:17:49.52
then, the sugar can be
taken into the cell in this way.
00:17:49.55\00:17:54.23
So, a very simple schema
that I can show you on the board
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but I can assure you that it
is very complicated in the body.
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Now what is it that makes
a person need more receptors
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or need more insulin than
they are ordinarily producing?
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Well there are a number of
things that will do this...
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and basically they are
dangers and difficulties
00:18:18.46\00:18:23.81
in our life style.
00:18:23.84\00:18:25.08
Dangers that are going to make
us have some kind of disease.
00:18:25.11\00:18:28.66
Now the disease that we
get is NOT just diabetes.
00:18:28.69\00:18:34.80
But the disease that we
are going to get is going to be
00:18:34.83\00:18:38.15
also what we call "syndrome X"
00:18:38.18\00:18:41.17
Syndrome X is hypertension,
as well as diabetes,
00:18:41.20\00:18:45.82
and heart disease with
a high blood cholesterol
00:18:45.85\00:18:49.79
with a low HDL and a
high triglyceride level...
00:18:49.82\00:18:54.39
which spells a high
risk for heart disease.
00:18:54.42\00:18:58.98
And then cancer
and overweight...
00:18:59.01\00:19:02.08
these are all things that
are a part of the syndrome X.
00:19:02.11\00:19:07.05
Cancer is not so
clearly defined as the others
00:19:07.08\00:19:10.22
being associated
here in this quadrangle
00:19:10.25\00:19:15.21
but probably
cancer is also there
00:19:15.24\00:19:18.21
and we can say this is
a quintuplet instead of a
00:19:18.24\00:19:21.68
quadruplet.
00:19:21.71\00:19:24.40
Now syndrome X, the initial
lesion is the insulin problem
00:19:24.43\00:19:31.70
the high insulin levels and
the low sensitivity to insulin.
00:19:31.73\00:19:36.97
Now there are ways that we can
increase the insulin sensitivity
00:19:37.00\00:19:41.49
And Don Miller is going to
tell you some of those ways
00:19:41.52\00:19:44.74
that you can increase
your sensitivity to insulin.
00:19:44.77\00:19:48.71
Don Miller
00:19:48.74\00:19:50.48
We have, on our
cells, receptor sites...
00:19:50.51\00:19:53.85
and the more of a hormone, or
the more of a thing like insulin
00:19:53.88\00:19:59.46
or glucose in the body,
00:19:59.49\00:20:01.17
the more receptor
sites we might have.
00:20:01.20\00:20:03.27
But if it goes too high,
the body has an automatic way
00:20:03.30\00:20:07.05
of reducing some of
those receptor sites
00:20:07.08\00:20:09.54
so you're not
receiving too many.
00:20:09.57\00:20:10.95
On the same token...
00:20:10.98\00:20:13.54
Let's say you're not
getting enough insulin
00:20:13.57\00:20:18.45
into your bloodstream to
take the glucose into your cells
00:20:18.48\00:20:21.81
and so you need to get some
more receptors on your cells
00:20:21.84\00:20:26.09
that need to get the glucose...
00:20:26.12\00:20:27.71
What you do, is you go
through a fasting period of time
00:20:27.74\00:20:30.87
which means your
glucose is going to go down
00:20:30.90\00:20:33.59
and your insulin,
because your glucose IS down,
00:20:33.62\00:20:37.30
it goes down and the cell says,
"look we need some more glucose
00:20:37.33\00:20:41.33
in here and so it starts
producing more receptor sites
00:20:41.36\00:20:46.06
on the cell surface saying,
"we need to get some more
00:20:46.09\00:20:49.10
flags out here...
some more mailboxes. "
00:20:49.13\00:20:50.74
Like, I've only got one mailbox
and I only get so much mail
00:20:50.77\00:20:53.81
but maybe if I had 10 mailboxes,
00:20:53.84\00:20:55.63
I'd get 10 times
as much junk mail.
00:20:55.66\00:20:57.95
Well, we're not
talking about junk mail here...
00:20:57.98\00:20:59.86
we're talking about
some very special things
00:20:59.89\00:21:01.96
that your cell has to
have and that is the glucose.
00:21:01.99\00:21:04.19
And so, as the person fasts,
00:21:04.22\00:21:07.29
glucose goes down...
00:21:07.32\00:21:09.48
the cells say, "we
really need some more glucose"
00:21:09.51\00:21:13.61
And so the
receptor cells grow up...
00:21:13.64\00:21:16.45
and then when we get
back to eating again,
00:21:16.48\00:21:18.52
the insulin goes by,
sees those receptor sites,
00:21:18.55\00:21:22.95
takes the glucose
and says, "we found it"
00:21:22.98\00:21:25.87
Docks with those receptor
sites, takes the glucose
00:21:25.90\00:21:29.24
inside of the cell and we've
got the energy that we need.
00:21:29.27\00:21:32.45
And to me, that is the
very best way that I know of
00:21:32.48\00:21:35.37
to increase the sensitivity
to insulin in the body is by
00:21:35.40\00:21:41.85
sort of starving it for a
little while of the glucose
00:21:41.88\00:21:44.83
is telling the body, "we
really need to get a few more
00:21:44.86\00:21:47.58
mailboxes out there. Dr. Thrash.
00:21:47.61\00:21:49.35
Yes... and fasting is our
standard way of treating the
00:21:49.38\00:21:53.75
type 2 diabetic to get
the insulin sensitivity up.
00:21:53.78\00:21:58.79
Now, we can start
this process much earlier
00:21:58.82\00:22:03.56
than the person who
already has a crippling disease
00:22:03.59\00:22:08.35
like diabetes.
00:22:08.38\00:22:10.12
We can start with exercise
with regularity in one's program
00:22:10.15\00:22:16.11
with avoiding various traumatic
events in one's life...
00:22:16.14\00:22:20.98
All of these kinds of things
can help the person to have
00:22:21.01\00:22:25.48
a greater sensitivity to insulin
00:22:25.51\00:22:29.11
Now some of the problems
that we get with diabetes
00:22:29.14\00:22:35.20
some of the complications...
00:22:35.23\00:22:36.60
can begin with
diabetic neuropathy.
00:22:36.63\00:22:40.54
Or, we can start
with diabetic retinopathy.
00:22:40.57\00:22:44.20
Or, we can start
with diabetic nephropathy.
00:22:44.23\00:22:47.89
These are all complications that
a person can get with diabetes.
00:22:47.92\00:22:53.03
The blood vessel changes
that we get with diabetes
00:22:53.06\00:22:56.63
this is another possibility.
00:22:56.66\00:22:58.32
But let us say that we are
considering the eye changes
00:22:58.35\00:23:03.27
that occur.
00:23:03.30\00:23:04.27
The eye changes include
such things as little balloons,
00:23:04.28\00:23:08.70
on the capillaries that
are so important to the retina.
00:23:08.73\00:23:14.95
These little
balloons then can rupture
00:23:14.98\00:23:18.59
and can cause a
retinal detachment
00:23:18.62\00:23:22.18
Or, there can be an
enlargement of a capillary
00:23:22.21\00:23:27.11
Or there can be a squeezing
down of the size of the
00:23:27.14\00:23:31.71
capillary so that it can no
longer carry red blood cells.
00:23:31.74\00:23:36.30
We can also have what is
called, "neovascularization"
00:23:36.33\00:23:40.68
of the retina.
00:23:40.71\00:23:41.82
That means that little
inoperative capillaries
00:23:41.85\00:23:47.69
make a meshwork in the retina.
00:23:47.72\00:23:50.86
They don't
carry red blood cells,
00:23:50.89\00:23:53.01
but they do tend
to cut down on light
00:23:53.04\00:23:55.86
and make the vision of
the diabetic less sharp.
00:23:55.89\00:23:59.08
Then, of course, macular
degeneration is more likely
00:23:59.11\00:24:02.35
to occur in the
person who has diabetes.
00:24:02.38\00:24:06.41
All of these are problems that
the person has who has diabetes.
00:24:06.44\00:24:11.23
And that says nothing
about glaucoma and cataracts
00:24:11.26\00:24:15.87
that are also more
common in diabetics.
00:24:15.90\00:24:18.81
We must call
diabetes... "acceleration of the
00:24:18.84\00:24:22.28
aging process"
00:24:22.31\00:24:23.45
and when the blood
sugar starts going up,
00:24:23.48\00:24:26.19
in the level with
the annual physical,
00:24:26.22\00:24:29.25
at that point, we can say
that the person is in a process
00:24:29.28\00:24:34.20
of accelerated aging.
00:24:34.23\00:24:36.01
Now the neuropathy
that a person has...
00:24:36.04\00:24:39.32
can be most distressing
and Don Miller is going to talk
00:24:39.35\00:24:43.74
with you about
diabetic neuropathy... Don
00:24:43.77\00:24:47.32
Okay... neuropathy gives
you the clue that it has to do
00:24:47.35\00:24:50.96
with the nerves.
00:24:50.99\00:24:51.96
And the nerves,
because of the diabetes,
00:24:51.97\00:24:56.85
are becoming degenerated...
00:24:56.88\00:24:58.64
And some of the things that
will cause that is the lack of
00:24:58.67\00:25:03.59
myoinositol in the body.
00:25:03.62\00:25:05.78
Now, there are things that
make us lack myoinositol...
00:25:05.81\00:25:08.61
basically things like coffee
and the other brown drinks...
00:25:08.64\00:25:11.38
tea, colas and chocolate...
all will make the myoinositol
00:25:11.41\00:25:15.46
go down in the body.
00:25:15.49\00:25:16.46
And basically, the standard
American diet is very low
00:25:16.47\00:25:20.68
in myoinositol.
00:25:20.71\00:25:22.22
Now myoinositol is a muscle
sugar... something like glucose
00:25:22.25\00:25:27.21
which helps supply the energy
that it needs and help nurture
00:25:27.24\00:25:33.21
those nerves that are
being atrophied by the
00:25:33.24\00:25:38.13
diabetic neuropathy.
00:25:38.16\00:25:39.35
And what happens when we
take in the myoinositol foods
00:25:39.38\00:25:45.42
It will also help release some
lecithin which is part of the
00:25:45.45\00:25:49.53
nerve makeup.
00:25:49.56\00:25:50.94
And so as we take in
the myoinositol foods,
00:25:50.97\00:25:53.56
we're building up the nerves,
00:25:53.59\00:25:55.04
we are protecting
them from the neuropathy...
00:25:55.07\00:25:58.49
the pathology of
that particular nerve,
00:25:58.52\00:26:01.14
and it's going to help
us feel a whole lot better.
00:26:01.17\00:26:03.21
Now there are foods that
are very popular or very high
00:26:03.24\00:26:06.71
in myoinositol.
00:26:06.74\00:26:08.44
Basically... fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, nuts and seeds!
00:26:08.47\00:26:11.28
But even within those, there are
some foods that are very high...
00:26:11.31\00:26:15.17
they sort of SHINE in this area.
00:26:15.20\00:26:17.44
Things like cantaloupe...
things like peanuts...
00:26:17.47\00:26:20.70
things like
grapefruit and ALL citrus fruits
00:26:20.73\00:26:24.18
are very high in myoinositol.
00:26:24.21\00:26:26.44
Whole grains,
beans and legumes...
00:26:26.47\00:26:28.99
As a matter of fact, we
will prescribe for our diabetic
00:26:29.02\00:26:32.68
patients at Uchee Pines,
basically beans at every meal...
00:26:32.71\00:26:36.41
...a very nice
source of myoinositol.
00:26:36.44\00:26:39.55
Blackstrap molasses and
nuts, all of these things
00:26:39.58\00:26:43.68
high in myoinositol which
is going to be feeding the body
00:26:43.71\00:26:47.80
the very nutrients that it needs
00:26:47.83\00:26:49.37
to fight this problem with
diabetic neuropathy.. Dr. Thrash
00:26:49.40\00:26:54.57
Now "myoinositol," when
do you suppose the Lord put
00:26:54.60\00:26:58.67
myoinositol in
cantaloupes and peanuts...
00:26:58.70\00:27:01.86
was it back when He
created it, or was it
00:27:01.89\00:27:04.58
when diabetes began to be so
prevalent in the United States?
00:27:04.61\00:27:09.18
Well, we don't
know the answer to that,
00:27:09.21\00:27:10.94
but this we do know for certain,
00:27:10.97\00:27:12.40
and that is that our loving
Divine Designer has loved us
00:27:12.43\00:27:16.33
so much, that He wanted
to give us every preparation
00:27:16.36\00:27:19.81
possible to make it so
that we could live in health.
00:27:19.84\00:27:23.11
The Bible says...
"Beloved I wish above ALL things
00:27:23.14\00:27:27.17
that thou mayest
prosper and be in HEALTH."
00:27:27.20\00:27:30.82
Healthfulness is the theme
of heaven with vibrant life
00:27:30.85\00:27:37.31
with an understanding of
our Savior's great love for us
00:27:37.34\00:27:42.19
ALL the time, being
surrounded by His Holy Spirit...
00:27:42.22\00:27:46.31
and loving one
another and loving Him,
00:27:46.34\00:27:50.04
and being loving
00:27:50.07\00:27:51.61
and lovable Christians.
00:27:51.64\00:27:52.61