Hello! Today we will
be talking about diabetes.
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Diabetes is probably
most dreaded because of it's
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complications.
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We'll be talking about some
of these complications today
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and also how a
person gets Type 2 diabetes.
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We hope you will
join our program,
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we think you will
find it quite interesting.
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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 is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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There are many lifestyle factors
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having to do with the
development of diabetes,
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there are also hereditary
factors that have to do
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with diabetes, and sometimes
damage done to the pancreas,
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by a longtime of
maybe lifestyle changes.
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Now I would like to
invite you to come with me
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and I will show you some
of the ways that people can
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protect themselves from
some of the feared complications
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of diabetes.
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One of the feared complications
of diabetes is that of gangrene,
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or leg ulcers, or foot ulcers,
or loss of the extremities,
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and we know that
in the United States,
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diabetes is one of the
prominent reasons why people
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loose the feet or the legs.
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I have asked Arianna Heartsfield
to be my little guinea pig
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as I show you the
daily, or at least weekly
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examination that
the person should do.
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So this is Arianna Heartsfield,
and she is one of our students
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in our elementary
school at Uchee Pines,
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and she and I will show
you the kind of examination
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that must occur
frequently for the diabetic.
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So I will take your left foot,
if you will remove your sock
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we can show the type of
examination that needs to be.
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First thing is to see
the bottom of the foot,
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now not many people can
get the bottom of the foot
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up so that they can look at it,
so here is where a hand mirror
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is very good.
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So, you just either have
someone else to look at the foot
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or you take a hand mirror
and make it so that you can see
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every portion of the foot.
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You need to see the
outside, you need to see
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the back of the heel, and you
need to run your finger over it
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if you are not actually
looking at it, to make certain
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that there are no
places that are getting rough
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or that are getting ulcerated.
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Then each toenail
must be examined carefully,
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if a fungus begins
to grow in a toenail,
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then that must be
treated right away,
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and there are some very
simple things that can be used
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to treat a toenail fungus.
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Under each toe one
must look for something like
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the development of athletes
foot, and between the toes
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one must look to make
certain there are no blisters or
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anything of this nature.
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Then very carefully look
over the top of the foot,
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one of the reasons for doing
this is that most people with
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diabetes eventually get
so they can't feel very well
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in the lower extremities.
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Once I removed the toenails
because they were hanging off
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a diabetic, just remove those
without any anesthesia at all.
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I think the procedure hurt me,
the woman who had the problem,
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it didn't hurt her at
all, I asked her several times,
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no pain, and she had no pain.
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But it was difficult for
me to insert the hemostat and
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uncurl her toenails,
without having my flesh to crawl
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thinking oh, this
must be hurting badly,
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but she felt no pain
at all, felt nothing.
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She said that when she walked
she felt as if she were walking
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on cushions or
walking on a pillow.
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Now if one
should find a callous,
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then this kind of
device, which is probably made
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of a little stone, it
can be used to simply rub
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that callous off, and
so if you are a care taker
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for a person with diabetes,
then just rub the callous off.
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Be very careful that
you do not draw blood,
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when you draw
blood from a diabetic,
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then it must so
carefully taken care of.
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The wound must be cleansed
then, and a bandage must be
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placed on it, and then every
day someone must look at that
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wound to make certain
that it's progressing nicely.
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Now you can purchase
at a department store,
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a little device, such
as this, which can be used
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to electrically remove calluses,
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just the little head of it,
usually they come with several
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heads, these can be
purchased usually for under $25,
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and these just slip on, and
then one turns them on as you
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can see here.
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The little grinding
part has been turned on,
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and wherever there is a
callous this can be simply used
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to remove the
callous, does that tickle?
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- Uh hu!
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- Now this can also be done
with the same kind of device
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that I mentioned earlier.
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Then there are these
rough fabrics, such as this,
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I found this at a Chinese
store selling personal hygiene
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articles, and it has
quite a rough surface,
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and this can also be
used to scrub the feet,
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if there is excess skin
that you need to take off,
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and that can be done after
the person has soaked the feet
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in warm water, and notice
that I did say warm water,
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that should not be hot water.
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Hot foot baths are
not good for the diabetic,
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the reason for that
is that the blood vessels
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going to the foot are
often constricted because of
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hardening of the arteries, so
they cannot deliver more blood
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than they are
already delivering.
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If you raise the temperature
of the feet, then the metabolism
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of the skin and the
deeper tissues will go up,
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making the metabolism rise
when the blood supply is not
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adequate to supply the needs
of the increased metabolism
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can cause blistering, or
even deep death of tissue.
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And a blister on a diabetic
caused by some kind of heat
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treatment can set up a situation
that can cause the individual
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to loose an extremity.
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So I hope that these very
simple things can be helpful
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to you, and
Arianna, thank you so much
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for being my
guinea pig to show this.
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Thank you so much.
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Now there are a number of
things in lifestyle that are
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helpful to know and one of
those things has to do with
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such a simple thing,
that I'm sure you will say,
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could this possibly help
diabetes, but I have asked
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my assistant Rhonda
Clark to join me here.
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Rhonda is a member of
our staff at Uchee Pines
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and we appreciate your work
there, what do you do before you
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came to Uchee Pines.
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- I worked for several
years as a registered nurse
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in conventional
medicine and different fields.
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- Do you enjoy doing
alternative medicine?
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- I do, it's new
and I'm still learning,
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really fascinating things,
and it's been quite a blessing
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to learn the Lord intended
for us to have simple lifestyle
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measures to prevent
and to treat illness.
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- What can you tell us about
some simple things that can
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help the diabetic.
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- This is so
simple you will be amazed.
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I have just recently been
reading and interesting book
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called the body's many cries
for water, by Dr. Batmanghelidj,
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and in this he tell and
interesting important story
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for diabetics.
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One is that insulin's
job as it's taking glucose
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into the cell reducing the
blood sugar, is also to take
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a little water along with it.
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So in a person who is dehydrated
the body will make the cells
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resistant to the action
of insulin, is to keep the
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blood volume up to
an adequate blood level.
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This is important for
Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics,
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in a Type 1 diabetic you
know that it is important
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to be on as low a
dose of insulin as possible
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to control your blood
sugar, and on a Type 2 diabetic
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the whole principle
that is causing the diabetes
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is the fact that the cells
are very resistant to insulin.
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Drinking an adequate
supply of water every day
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will help your body invite
insulin along with the glucose
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into the cells.
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I think such a simple thing
Dr. Thrash, and yet so important
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for individuals who have
concerns about weight loss
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have concerns about
Type 1 diabetes or Type 2.
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- Now water is a
very simple thing,
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but there are some
other very simple things too.
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I'm sure that such things
as exercise and sleep and rest,
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and perhaps naps, what
can you tell us about that?
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- Well I did also want to
mention something about sleep.
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There was a study in
Japan just a few years ago,
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that showed in individuals
who had sleep disturbances
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they had problems
metabolizing carbohydrates,
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they had glucose intolerance.
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A professor and physician
at the University of Chicago
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doing ongoing research
on this, Dr. Eve Van Cauter
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and they are finding that
individuals with sleep problems
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do indeed have a
higher risk for diabetes.
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Dr. Van Cauter took a
group of students from the
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University of Chicago and
divided them into two groups
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there was a group that got
six hours or fewer of sleep
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every night, and those
who had seven to eight hours
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of sleep every night.
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In the ones that were six
hours or less, she called them
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short sleepers, the seven
to eight hours per night were
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normal sleepers.
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The short sleepers were found
to have much greater difficulty
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metabolizing carbohydrate,
and the likelihood of being
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more obese, which is a
risk factor for Type 2 diabetes.
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So getting an adequate
amount of sleep every night is a
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very important part of having a
normal carbohydrate metabolism.
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- Now tell me,
can you sleep to much?
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- Indeed, you don't metabolize
carbohydrates better and better
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and better as the
hours of sleep increase.
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And it's an interesting
fact that we produce serotonin,
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a hormone in our brain that
helps us feel calm and happy
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during the hours of wakefulness.
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If we sleep to much, we can
become deficient in serotonin,
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serotonin deficiency
leads to food cravings,
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and people craving
especially carbohydrate foods,
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which are the wrong things
you want to be binging on,
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or overeating on, if you
are concerned about diabetes,
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so we do have to be
careful of the hours of sleep.
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- Now what if somebody follows
all that they know in lifestyle
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they get plenty of
sleep, they do a lot of things,
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and they still have this
thing of insulin resistance.
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Now insulin resistance we know,
is that the cell does not have
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mouths or doors or ports in
adequate numbers for the insulin
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to get into the port, and
the insulin we say is attached
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to glucose to bring it
into the cell, so in the person
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with the genetic
pre-disposition to get diabetes.
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These individuals do not
have adequate numbers of these
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doors or mouths or ports,
and so they cannot bring glucose
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out of the blood and into
the cell where it's needed,
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so the cells are starving
and the blood is having to much.
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So let's say a person is
doing everything they know
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in lifestyle and they
still have insulin resistance,
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can you suggest
something for them?
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- I can, this is a rather
interesting and rather new
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concept, something
called the glycemic index.
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This is a measure of
carbohydrate rich foods that
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ranks them on a scale from
0- 100, based on how quickly
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they raise the blood sugar
level in individuals who have
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eaten them.
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When the first listing
of glycemic index came out
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there were some quite serious
surprises because many foods
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that we know to be very
beneficial and healthful,
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such as a potato, were found to
be high on this glycemic index.
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Nevertheless individuals
with insulin resistance or
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problems with metabolizing
carbohydrates were encouraged
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to select primarily foods
that had a score of 55 or lower
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or to combine carbohydrates
to make the overall meal
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be 55 or lower
in glycemic index.
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I mentioned that this
is new and it was a group
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of researchers who
also questioned why so many
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healthful foods scored so
highly on this who did further
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taking into account the
amount of fiber in these
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carbohydrate foods.
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They have recently published
a list called glycemic load
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they look at serving
size of carbohydrate food and
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the amount of fiber calculating
that with the glycemic index,
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and it was interesting
Dr. Thrash, some of the foods
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we know to be beneficial, like
popcorn which scored very high
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on the glycemic index,
something along the line of 72.
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When they calculated
based on glycemic load was 7.
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- Oh, that's great, I'm happy
to know that, because popcorn
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is one of my
very favorite grains.
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- And the glycemic
load recommendation is
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a glycemic load level of 10
or lower, and many of the foods
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that scored high on
glycemic index such as
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rye crisp crackers you may
be familiar with, which scored
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something around 60, were
again found to be below 10.
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Corn meal, and I love cornmeal
porridge as a breakfast food
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that had scored also very high
over 60 on the glycemic index,
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but was a very reasonable
11 on the glycemic load.
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If you would like more
information about glycemic index
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and glycemic load, there
are two web pages that I can
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recommend, that I happened
across in my research on this,
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one is easy to remember,
it is www. glycemicindex. com,
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the other is the
personal web page of a gentleman
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with diabetes who has
tried to stay on top of research
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his site is www. mendosa.
com, and so I appreciate the
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opportunity to share this.
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- Very good! I'm glad that
this new research is focusing on
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this problem, while I know
there must be some other answer
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to such good foods
as potatoes and popcorn,
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I'm so glad to find that
the glucose load is low on that.
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Thank you so much,
that's very helpful.
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- Again, for those who are still
continuing to have problems
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if they can identify those
foods that are scoring lower
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on glycemic load and make
their diet more rich in those.
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That is my recommendation.
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- Very good! thank you so
much, I appreciate all of this
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good research.
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Now we know that there
are certain hereditary things
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that can be a factor in
causing the person to get
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insulin resistance or diabetes,
and one of those is the
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distribution of
the fat in the body.
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You have been aware that
there are some people who get
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their fat in the chest, or they
may have a large bay window,
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or they may have huge arms
and legs, but not be so thick
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in the middle.
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There is something there
about the distribution of fat
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that can make the difference,
and I have asked Dr. Don Miller
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to discuss this matter
Dr. Miller, thank you for
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joining our program, and
you have just returned from
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some trips over seas. - Yes!
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- What were you doing there?
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I teach basically
health where ever I go,
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but I've been in Eastern
Europe a lot, but I go to India,
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and I go to Africa,
and I go to the far east,
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so I usually teach health.
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- Sometimes in Germany,
and sometimes in Austria,
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and sometimes in Canada.
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- Mostly eastern Europe,
when I go to the Europe side,
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I used to go do a lot in
Austria, now it's in Russia,
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and Ukraine, and Moldova,
and Romania, and Hungary.
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- Do you leave
any permanent evidence
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that you have been there?
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Other than just that
you have taught students,
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and you hope that they
have changed their lifestyles.
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Well, it's not so much that
they changed their lifestyle
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as many of them do, but they
go on and change other people's
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lifestyles, and so I think the
permanency is certainly there
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because it's like a
snowball rolling down the hill.
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You teach one, they
teach one, and they teach one,
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and pretty soon you've
got a large group of people.
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As I go back to these places,
like the apostle Paul did,
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and see how things are
going It's amazing to see how
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people have really
changed their lives.
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- Yes, and that whole
community can also change.
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- Absolutely!
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- Well tell us some things
about the distribution of fat
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on the body, and what it means
in terms of personal health.
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Ok, well you know many
people have a problem with
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their distribution of fat in
the body, and it's the trunkal
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obesity where we have the
most problem with diabetes.
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Those who carry it on the hips,
not quite as big a problem.
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But let me say
this at the beginning,
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two things first of all, one
is fat is not good any place,
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where you have an excess
amount of fat on the body.
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Fat we should try to
eliminate as much as possible.
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The second thing I should say
is, granted, I have not really
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had the problem with to much fat
on my body, but we find that we
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get to a certain point in
our lives, we all sort of fight
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the battle of the bulge around
the middle, and this is where
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the trunkal obesity,
the beach ball shape,
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or the orange shape
as some people call it,
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leads to more obesity, and
there is a reason for this.
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Abdominal fat is different
than other fat in the body,
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and here are some
of the reasons why:
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1. It has more blood
supply 2. It has more cortisol
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receptors.
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Cortisol is a stress hormone,
and where you have more cortisol
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receptors, you have
more fat being deposited,
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and so if a person is
in a high stress situation
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especially a long term or
a chronic stress situation
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like a job they hate, a
relationship that is crumbling,
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a long term illness,
these things cause stress,
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and this constant level of
cortisol will be accumulating
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in these cortisol
receptors in the abdomen,
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which will be drawing
more fat, which makes a person
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get a little bit larger.
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Along with this, the
longer the cortisol is higher,
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it will start damaging
some of your brain neurons,
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especially those that are
neuro-receptors for things like
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dopamine, and serotonin which
are your good mood hormones
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in the brain, which causes
a person then to become more
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depressed.
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A person more depressed, is
a person who is higher stress,
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therefore they've got
more cortisol in the abdomen
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more fat again.
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If they are depressed,
many people try to fight their
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depression by eating, they will
eat a lot of things that are
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wrong for them, like cookies,
lots of refined carbohydrates,
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these in themselves will
raise the cortisol levels,
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and raise the insulin levels,
now you've got two things
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leading towards diabetes:
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1. Trunkal obesity and
2. Raised insulin levels.
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Now the reason why we have
a problem with raised insulin
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levels, is that itself will tend
to make the cells less receptive
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to insulin when there is to
much of a product in the body.
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The body knows how to take
care of it's self, it's a good
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manager and some of the
receptors will go away on
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the cells surface.
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Sometimes what we
do at Uchee Pines,
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when we have a person
come there with diabetes
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the first thing that we do
if it's Type 2, is put them
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on a fast which will lower
the glucose, lower the insulin,
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and then the cell starts poking
out some of those receptors,
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and they say oh, we
need some more glucose.
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- Now you mentioned that
you would fast a person who has
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Type 2 diabetes, what
about Type 1 diabetes,
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the what we used to
call the juvenile diabetes?
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- Basically for the juvenile
diabetic we say the three meals
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a day is the best way to
go for them, because they have
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to have the glucose,
they have to have the insulin,
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the body's not producing
it, you've got to keep that
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available to the body, but
for the non-insulin depending
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diabetic, the Type 2, fasting
is one of the best things.
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It goes completely
against conventional medicine,
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it used to be six, seven
meals a day, last meals at
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11:00 at night,
we're seeing that as
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just not the case anymore.
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- It's sort of prolongs
the problem keeps the person
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with the disease longer.
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I was very glad to
see a couple of years ago,
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that there were some people
who were now using a short fast,
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a short term fast, one
day, two days, or three days,
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for people with diabetes,
and those are good times,
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and one or two days of fasting
a week will do most people
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a lot of good.
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- For anything they have, even
if someone as thin as myself
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a little bit of fasting does
not hurt me, I try to stick with
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the two meal a day plan.
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it helps with your eye sight,
your hearing, your memory,
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just so many things are
protected plus it saves you
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some money and some time, and
I can always do some of that.
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- Thank you Dr. Miller.
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- My pleasure!
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- Now the whole subject of
diabetes is also associated
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with all of our
other endocrine organs.
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The pancreas which
has to do with diabetes,
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is certainly not the only one,
and I would like to show you
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a chart, that will help you
to understand just how it is
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that we recognize this
matter of the endocrine system
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and how it functions.
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Now here we have a chart that
shows a variety, it shows all,
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or almost all of our glands and
organs that have to do with the
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endocrine system.
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Notice here deep in the
brain, here is the brain,
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here is the pineal gland
right in here, if you go between
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the hind brain or
cerebellum, and the brain stem,
00:23:57.67\00:24:01.79
it's on the outside of the
brain, but just under it, then
00:24:01.82\00:24:05.49
in the front side of the
brain there is the pituitary,
00:24:05.52\00:24:11.38
which is not just one
gland, it's actually two glands
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the anterior lobe
and the posterior lobe.
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The Pituitary here has a
connection with the Hypothalamus
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and the posterior portion
and and the anterior portion,
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function differently, and much
more could be said about that.
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Here is the thyroid, it is
of course located in the neck,
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right here the pineal,
the pituitary and the thyroid.
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Now most people are quite aware
of the thyroid, but they have
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no knowledge of
the Para-thyroids,
00:24:47.67\00:24:50.11
unless they get a disease
that involves the Para-thyroids.
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Here they are next to
their small button sized glands
00:24:55.19\00:25:02.37
just on the outside of
the thyroid, they Thymus gland
00:25:02.40\00:25:06.24
is deep in the chest, as you can
see here, in what is called the
00:25:06.27\00:25:10.67
mediastinum, it's
just above the heart,
00:25:10.70\00:25:13.71
and the only time that
we know that it gets sick
00:25:13.74\00:25:16.85
or that a person
usually knows that it is sick
00:25:16.88\00:25:19.77
is if they get myasthenia gravis
00:25:19.80\00:25:22.49
then that might
come into question.
00:25:22.52\00:25:24.00
Here are the adrenal glands
and you can see that they are
00:25:24.03\00:25:27.49
just next to the kidneys, and
the adrenals are as are all of
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these other glands
are involved in diabetes.
00:25:33.16\00:25:37.20
Here is the kidney, most people
are not aware that the kidney
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is a part of the endocrine
gland, but it has very strong
00:25:41.32\00:25:45.21
endocrine potentials.
00:25:45.24\00:25:47.04
Of course the ovary,
we know that the ovary...
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Everyone knows the ovary and
the testes are endocrine glands,
00:25:50.03\00:25:54.58
but most people do
not know that the placenta
00:25:54.61\00:25:57.39
is an endocrine gland,
but it's a big producer
00:25:57.42\00:26:02.14
of various hormones.
00:26:02.17\00:26:05.58
The testes, and here is the
pancreas, which is primarily
00:26:05.61\00:26:09.59
what we are looking for
when we think about diabetes.
00:26:09.62\00:26:13.80
Again the pancreas functions
as more than one gland,
00:26:13.83\00:26:18.97
it is responsible not only
for keeping the blood sugar
00:26:19.00\00:26:22.52
from going to high, but it
is also responsible for keeping
00:26:22.55\00:26:26.39
it from going to low.
00:26:26.42\00:26:28.14
Glucagon keeps the
blood sugar from going to low,
00:26:28.17\00:26:31.65
and insulin keeps the
blood sugar from going to high.
00:26:31.68\00:26:35.54
Another organ that most
people have no conception is an
00:26:35.57\00:26:40.53
endocrine gland, is the stomach.
00:26:40.56\00:26:43.01
The stomach and the whole
gall bladder and liver complex
00:26:43.04\00:26:49.36
all of these are
associated with the production
00:26:49.39\00:26:53.45
of various hormones.
00:26:53.48\00:26:56.40
The small intestines secretes
a substance called secretin
00:26:56.43\00:27:01.17
and also motilin,
and cholecystokinin,
00:27:01.20\00:27:04.85
and many others, and all of
these are involved in diabetes.
00:27:06.35\00:27:10.36
When one of these go wrong,
the others go wrong as well.
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In all of these, the Jejunum,
the ileum, and the stomach,
00:27:14.53\00:27:19.89
they all secrete
various kinds of hormones.
00:27:19.92\00:27:23.64
Now if we understand the
far reaching influence of the
00:27:23.67\00:27:28.19
endocrine system, it
helps us to know that diabetes
00:27:28.22\00:27:32.81
has a major effect on all
of our various endocrines,
00:27:32.84\00:27:39.87
and I didn't even mention
the brain as an endocrine organ,
00:27:39.90\00:27:43.62
and many of the nerves,
but all of these are involved
00:27:43.65\00:27:47.22
in the diabetic process, so
it behooves us to find out how
00:27:47.25\00:27:51.67
we can avoid getting this
serious disease, Diabetes.
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