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Welcome to Wonderfully Made.
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I am happy to be
your host for today.
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My name is Claudio
Japas. I'm a Student
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at Loma Linda University in the
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preventive care
program as a doctoral student.
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Wonderfully Made is a
program, where we like to
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bring topics that
are pertinent to you,
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that are happening
around us, that you maybe
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more informed that you
maybe a better educated
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to treat your health
and your sickness both.
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Today, we've Dr. Dos Santos.
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He is also professor
at Loma Linda University
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in the Preventive Care
Program. I'm happy that
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you're here. Welcome Dos Santos.
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Thank you for having me
here, it's a pleasure to
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be here and talk
again about health and
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prevention. In the
preventive care program,
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we are specializing
prevention in preventing
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lifestyle in
order to counteract the
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chronic disease that
we have in our country
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and in the world nowadays.
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Exactly, I like
that you say we're try to
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counteract or prevent
and one of those diseases
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we're gonna talk
about today that disease
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is metabolic syndrome.
In fact one out of three
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people in America is
going have it, not only
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that, but women over
60, 60 percent of them
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may have it and men
over 60, 50 percent.
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So, it's something
that's very relevant,
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very present in our
society, but that brings up
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the question. What
is metabolic syndrome?
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That's a good
question, normally when I go in
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the public in our
health lecture and ask this
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question. They come
out with the answer,
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well it something
related to metabolic,
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metabolism and
maybe related to weight
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and in fact is related
to weight. Weight is one of
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the factors, but there
are five major items in
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metabolic syndrome as we can see
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in the graphic. The
first is triglycerides.
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If the triglycerides
are higher then 150 mg/dL
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or the HDL cholesterol
if it's lower then 40
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for men and
lower then 50 for women
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and then if the
person has big waist
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circumference,
would say a big belly.
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More then 40 inches
for men and more then
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then 35 inches for
female and then we've to
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other factors that are
related to blood pressure
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not only they put
130/85, but nowadays we are
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thinking that it
should be even less then that
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120/80 and blood glucose levels
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lower then 100 mg/dL.
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Since multiple things
right and this maybe a
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little confusing for any people,
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but at least
three of these correct.
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Exactly, so we could
explain better, in better
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terms. Let's go to
the next graphics and then
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we can have an idea.
What is the metabolic
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syndrome in simple
terms, so everything starts
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with the belly. That's
what I changed the name
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to Metabellyc
Syndrome and so, if you have a
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excess of fat in the
abdomen this is one factor,
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then if you have a
problem with lipids
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either
triglycerides or HDL, lower HDL
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and high triglycerides.
So, you have another
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factor for metabolic
syndrome or Metabellyc
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Syndrome and
then the other two is
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hypertension and
diabetes or high blood pressure
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that is not
hypertension is still and a high
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blood glucose that
might not to be diabetes yet.
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And to seeing that
the first one is very,
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it could be
visible or could be seen,
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but that are two or
three we need doctors prior
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tested or go
somewhere specific for those
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correct and you know
the belly we often say
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well. If you eat a
good meal you get a round
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belly, right and what
else causes, what could be
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causing the high
blood pressure or the
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cholesterol? Is that
same thing the diet or we are
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talking about
other causes for that?
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Well, the original
cause is related to excess of
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fat, so that's the
primary cause. So, we have a
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graphic to illustrate
that is little complicate,
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but I'll try to
simplify that. So when you have
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too much fat in
the abdomen this fat,
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the cells fat or the
fat cells produce some
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substances, produce
free fatty acids and that is
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the small type of fat
and this excess addition of
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these free fatty acids
will cause inflammation
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and one of the substance
that is released during
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this inflammation
is called TNF alpha
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and TNF alpha will block
the receptors of insulin.
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So, when you block
the insulin receptor,
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you have high levels
of insulin and you have
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high levels of
glucose and then you have,
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you will have
problems with lipids
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and you will have diabetes.
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So, let me stop
there and just make a
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quick summary. So fat
cells are impeding the
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insulin from taking the
fat, so the more fat cells
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the more resistance
the insulin is receiving
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is that correct? That's
fine what you're saying,
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the only thing is that
mostly this fat that is
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in our belly or in
our abdominal. So, this
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abdominal fat is
high metabolic and then it
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produces an excess of
free fatty acids. Okay. And
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this will. And that's why
we are so concerned about the
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belly area and
watching the weight
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in that
particular area. Yeah. Okay.
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So, if we go to the
next slide. I can explain
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a little bit, what
is happening with the,
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with the glucose inside
of the cells and outside
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of the cells. You
have to have glucose in the
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blood outside of the
cell and you have insulin
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that is the key
and the locker is the
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insulin receptor. So,
the next graphic you see
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that when you have
insulin in the receptor,
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open up the receptor.
You have glucose inside
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of the cell this
is a normal pattern.
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The next graphic,
you see that there is a
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blockage and this
is produced by the
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TNF-alpha produced
by the inflammation
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on the free fatty
acid is from the, from the
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abdominal fat. So,
when you have that.
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You've a blockage,
insulin cannot go and open
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the locker and the
glucose will not go
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inside of the cell
then you have excess of
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glucose with
diabetes, excess of insulin
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that will lead to excess
of lipids and then excess
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of high blood
pressure and all the other
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consequences that go together.
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The ones we are wanna
avoid. Exactly. Correct. Yeah.
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Now, insulin resistance,
I've heard news that.
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It might be present in
some animals or not only
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humans. That
sounds little bizarre,
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can animal be a diabetic
or insulin resistance also.
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Yes, it's very
interesting because
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I was researching
for this topic and then
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I found in the literature
tour. A queen metabolic
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syndrome, a
queen, and then a queen
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like being horses. Okay.
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And then I was
thinking what is that and then
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I read about that and
I study and I figured out
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that horses can have
metabolic syndrome too
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and we've a picture
of one horse here with
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metabolic syndrome
and this is caused because
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the horse mostly the
wild horses like mustangs.
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They are used to go
and graze in their fields
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and they have to go
far away to find the grass
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and the grass is
disperse, when they're
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in their freedom,
when they are on the loose,
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but when you, when
you put them in a barn
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and feed them
with grains with grass
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all day long and
they don't do much
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the exercise that they
used to do then they get
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fat and they get
metabolic syndrome with
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insulin resistance.
They will have high levels
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of insulin. So,
we could almost do
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a comparison right
between the two of them,
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so horses are meant
to be free to have lot of
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physical activity to
eat, what they're meant
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to eat not too many
grains, but eat lot of grass
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and they are
healthy that way, but humans
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at lunch like the
horses, when we make them
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sedentary and give
them a lot of high fat food.
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So we are
getting diseases right.
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Then put in some
exercise once again like being
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physically active and
eating the right kinds of
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foods. How can
we prevent metabolic
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syndrome, is there
a way to prevent it,
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like maybe hinted on
some of those things.
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But maybe you could expand on it
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and tell us some more.
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Well, they mention
about the survival of the
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human being and
then we are not the
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evolutionists, but they
compare this with horses.
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There horses eat
when they have and if they
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have a lot of food
they eat in the summer
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to prepare for the
winter and then when you
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feed them a lot of
food they will go fat
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and they will go with
metabolic syndrome in the
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same thing, same
thing happen to us and then
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many people today
that have metabolic
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syndrome belong to
those to native Americans
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and to Asians or
pacific islanders. They, they
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have enough food for
a while and then their
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body was used to
accumulate a lot of
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energy for a period
because they knew that
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tomorrow they would not have it.
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Right, and so, maybe
seasons, where they have
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Exactly and then they
should prepare for that.
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Lot of harvest and
then the long winter or a
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drought in the summer,
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so that was their custom
right to treat that right.
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Exactly so now we
have food for this high
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caloric food everyday
all day long and so they
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eat that and they
never have that period of
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famine and then they
got, they got the metabolic
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syndrome. So, we have
to be careful to choose
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the right food
in the right amounts
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to over come that problem.
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So, we could almost
include some behavior
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change here or
behavior or temperance we could
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call it and even with
healthy foods that are
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maybe on the higher
caloric intake to eat
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less of it or in
smaller portions or only for
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special occasions and
so often and then fall
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into the trap of
metabolic syndrome correct.
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Yes, this is the
balance between exercise
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and caloric food. So,
if you are not exercising
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that much anymore
because that's the
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consequence of
progress and then you are eating
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a high level of junk
food. I would say or I mean
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those that have
high density in turn high
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caloric density. So
those are the foods that will,
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that will, I mean
they are the good for the
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marathon run, you
know. You eat an ice cream
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and you better go, go
run, but then you will
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eat that and then
sit down and watch TV,
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so this imbalance. Yeah,
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we'll cause it
to restore and more.
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Unless everyone
avoid. Exactly. Yes. Exactly.
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Now, you didn't mention exercise
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and you also mention
that marathon runners
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or people that they
lot of. We may not all be
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marathon runners, but
what exercises might be
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helpful to decrease the
risk of metabolic syndrome.
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Well, I think you can
do any exercise. Okay.
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Again this depends on
the person, but I always
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answer the best
exercise is the daily exercise.
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The daily exercise very good.
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And then I, I tell my
clients that we should
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change this question
how many times should
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I exercise during the
week and put a question,
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how many times should
we exercise during the day?
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Right and then what
that exercise, if we get
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that point where it's
daily or after enough.
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What is that during,
how is the mechanism to
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counteract the
insulin or the insulin
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resistance, I should clarify.
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Yeah, when you do
exercise, we can, I can
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show you in the
graphics. When you do exercise
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you have very
good benefits because
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you have sugar entering
the cell in the left side
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of the slide you
have, the mechanism that
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exercise makes open
the cell membrane and put
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the sugar inside of
the cell and dependent of
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their receptor
and dependent of their
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insulin mechanism.
So, I would guess that
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we have
metabolic syndrome because
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we didn't have
exercise enough because if you
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had the exercise all
the sugar will go inside of
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the cell. Think about
the mechanism, you stop
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exercising. Umm!
So, the cellblock the,
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the receptors.
That can't go inside.
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Can't go so
insulin is gonna grow up
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and glucose is gonna
go up outside of the cell,
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then you say
exercise is the cure for this,
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exercises what caused
that, is the cure but.
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For the lack of
exercising. Exactly.
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Right. Is the
lack of exercising?
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So, once again
exercise is not only important
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for just to feel
better as we talk before,
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but just specific in
this metabolic syndrome
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in taking care of that
resistance that insulin
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resistance and that
will be in part of it.
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We don't mention
metabolic syndrome
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enough, I don't
think in our society,
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but we are starting
to realize that it's not
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just one thing, but
all these diseases are
00:15:03.13\00:15:05.45
interrelated and if
we do simple behavior
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change or modifications
in our diet or exercise
00:15:08.93\00:15:11.97
that we can help
decrease the risk in all
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that or metabolic
syndrome as we know is,
00:15:13.92\00:15:15.91
the component of all of these.
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There are two
things that I would like to
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emphasize. First is
that once you started,
00:15:20.66\00:15:25.13
when you consider this
disease, you start with,
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with high blood
pressure in the past we say
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well let's treat
high blood pressure,
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but is not like
that only. You have
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high blood
pressure today and tomorrow,
00:15:40.02\00:15:42.08
you might have high
blood glucose and you
00:15:42.11\00:15:45.07
have high blood cholesterol
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or on the way
around, so these diseases are
00:15:46.62\00:15:50.00
coming together.
The diseases are coming
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and then the risk
for that is gonna be much
00:15:53.45\00:15:57.72
bigger for heart
disease, for strokes and even
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for cancer. The
second point is that again
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I will always stress
is again, the main thing
00:16:05.94\00:16:09.06
to control the diseases
is exercise. So, we have
00:16:09.09\00:16:12.39
to stress out
these because this is
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something that
people when talk about
00:16:14.32\00:16:16.39
metabolic syndrome
or weight or diabetes
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they always think
about, Oh! My goodness,
00:16:19.50\00:16:22.41
I'll lose my appetite, my foods,
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my delicious food.
Tell me my favorite desert.
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And then that's not
the case, it might be the
00:16:27.68\00:16:29.78
case. But that's
not the primary thing,
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the primary thing is go back
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to do your daily exercise.
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And physical activity
yeah. Physical activity.
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Because maybe somebody doesn't
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like to exercise by
running, but they love
00:16:39.29\00:16:41.98
gardening or they
like raking the leaves
00:16:42.01\00:16:43.82
or mowing the
grass with a push mower
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and those are all
forms of physical exercise
00:16:46.73\00:16:48.70
that they can be participating
then running. Yeah.
00:16:51.00\00:16:52.32
One of the
question when it comes
00:16:54.03\00:16:55.13
to metabolic
syndrome. We have been talking
00:16:55.16\00:16:57.63
about exercise and
the benefits of exercise,
00:16:57.66\00:16:59.94
but I know that those
are diabetic which might
00:17:00.84\00:17:05.66
be those inside
the metabolic syndrome
00:17:05.69\00:17:07.51
candidate after
watch out for certain risk
00:17:08.36\00:17:11.04
such as shoes or what
happens to their feet.
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Tell us more about
that and tell us more about
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some other risk that
maybe associated with
00:17:17.20\00:17:18.91
metabolic
syndrome. Yeah, a person that
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has a high risk of
diabetes or have the diabetes,
00:17:23.60\00:17:28.18
he might have a
problem with the eyes. Umm!
00:17:28.21\00:17:30.91
And then this is
important when he
00:17:31.14\00:17:33.46
does exercise to
not to lose the balance
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and then as you mention there
00:17:36.95\00:17:38.83
is a problem with
the feet because lack of
00:17:38.86\00:17:41.56
sensitivity and so
he has to be careful
00:17:41.59\00:17:44.54
and has to have the checkup,
00:17:44.57\00:17:46.30
constant checkup
with doctors regarding
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this and another thing
that the person has to be
00:17:49.68\00:17:53.45
careful is the risk of
hypoglycemia especially
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for those that are
using medication to lower
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blood glucose like
insulin or some oral
00:18:02.45\00:18:05.70
hypoglycemic
agents. Hypoglycemia being
00:18:06.26\00:18:09.10
low sugar right or
having the sugar too
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low, is that
correct? Exactly. Yeah.
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Mostly lower then 70
or lower then 60 is not a
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good level and
then you will feel dizzy
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and many people
consider that as high,
00:18:22.88\00:18:26.23
low blood pressure.
Oh! My pressure is down.
00:18:26.26\00:18:29.50
Maybe something
else. But is not, is not,
00:18:29.53\00:18:31.33
in general is not blood
pressure, is blood sugar
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that is down and
then the person can shake,
00:18:34.76\00:18:37.69
the person can get
sweaty and get a dizzy
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and sometimes can even faint
00:18:42.58\00:18:45.28
Oh! I'm glad you
told us some symptoms
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because not every
body may have a test kit
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to know was is at 70
or below, but perhaps some
00:18:49.86\00:18:52.95
of these
symptoms maybe present on
00:18:52.98\00:18:54.66
some of you
watching on TV right now
00:18:55.21\00:18:57.50
that you may
experience some of those things
00:18:57.53\00:18:59.17
and you maybe a
question that you may wanna
00:18:59.20\00:19:00.74
take to your doctor.
I've been experiencing this
00:19:00.77\00:19:02.82
symptoms, is it hyperglycemia
00:19:02.85\00:19:05.10
and maybe it can be
tested and know if that
00:19:05.13\00:19:08.13
is a symptom. Is there
anything to be concerned
00:19:08.16\00:19:10.52
about or how do
we prevent or how do
00:19:10.55\00:19:12.40
we keep from getting
our blood sugar that low?
00:19:12.43\00:19:15.29
Well, I believe one
advice is that if you are
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under medication.
So, you should have
00:19:20.32\00:19:23.56
something sweet
when you do exercise
00:19:23.59\00:19:27.47
or when you go
around. I mean we don't advice
00:19:27.50\00:19:30.76
you to eat sugary
things, but as the prevention
00:19:30.79\00:19:34.43
of that you better
have something sweet if you
00:19:34.46\00:19:37.83
are on insulin or
other medication. Because
00:19:37.86\00:19:40.35
when you do
exercise you might need that
00:19:40.88\00:19:42.80
and then that's
a very important.
00:19:43.68\00:19:45.40
The second thing
is that the cause of
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hypoglycemia might be
excess of high glycemic
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index foods. Do
you know what's that?
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Oh! I know what it
is, but perhaps so some
00:19:57.24\00:19:59.64
people watching may not know.
00:19:59.67\00:20:00.83
It's when the
food that we eat is
00:20:00.86\00:20:04.27
burn pretty quickly
or the sugar it's very
00:20:04.30\00:20:07.45
sugary or healthy
refine, so that it's
00:20:07.48\00:20:10.04
consumed. I like to
compare it to gasoline
00:20:10.07\00:20:13.27
like there is
different ways that we can
00:20:13.30\00:20:15.20
create a fire. One
is by coal or wood,
00:20:15.23\00:20:18.23
which burn slowly
or more slowly then a
00:20:18.26\00:20:21.13
fuel like
gasoline, which gets consume
00:20:21.16\00:20:23.51
really quickly.
So, high glycemic foods
00:20:23.54\00:20:25.95
would be like the
gasoline equivalent to
00:20:25.98\00:20:28.04
the fire like, not
true. Yeah, that's absolutely
00:20:28.07\00:20:31.38
right and then I would
say as an example foods
00:20:31.41\00:20:36.05
like sugar, white
rice, white bread or ice
00:20:36.08\00:20:41.46
cream. When you eat
this food, you will raise
00:20:41.49\00:20:45.55
the blood glucose
immediately in a few
00:20:45.58\00:20:48.71
hours. Right. So,
foods that I are high
00:20:48.74\00:20:51.54
in fiber like the beans
or foods that are rich in
00:20:51.57\00:20:57.18
fiber they will have a
progressive increase of
00:20:57.21\00:21:01.42
blood glucose during
a period of 4 or 5 hours
00:21:01.45\00:21:04.96
and that's what I
believe is good to maintain
00:21:04.99\00:21:08.26
blood glucose
levels because when you
00:21:08.29\00:21:10.54
increase blood glucose
in a pig. So, insulin will
00:21:10.57\00:21:14.86
be release
immediately and then mostly this
00:21:14.89\00:21:17.43
blood glucose go
lower then it should be.
00:21:17.46\00:21:19.65
Well goes up really
quick must come down
00:21:19.68\00:21:21.20
that quick right. Exactly, yeah.
00:21:21.23\00:21:22.75
And if you're
curious to know, what are the
00:21:22.78\00:21:26.57
highly glycemic
foods? I would recommend
00:21:26.60\00:21:29.81
maybe looking at our
nutrition book or going
00:21:29.84\00:21:31.79
online if you have
access to internet to
00:21:31.82\00:21:33.68
check glycemic index
and they will show the
00:21:33.71\00:21:37.39
several places, where
we can find the list of
00:21:37.42\00:21:40.01
different foods,
different items and a
00:21:40.04\00:21:42.04
ranking of which ones
are higher then others
00:21:42.07\00:21:44.63
and like Dr. Dos
Santos noticed those with high
00:21:44.66\00:21:47.90
fiber are the lower ones,
the fruits and vegetables,
00:21:47.93\00:21:50.53
a whole grains. Is there
any other types of ways to
00:21:50.56\00:21:53.96
find good fiber.
Well, I would say that
00:21:53.99\00:21:57.30
is. It's simple to know
even if you don't search
00:21:57.33\00:22:01.74
for that. A high
glycemic foods are the
00:22:01.77\00:22:04.91
junk foods that you
found in the fast food
00:22:04.94\00:22:07.67
restaurant, that
what is pretty easy.
00:22:07.70\00:22:08.67
That's, that's
easy. You might find some
00:22:08.68\00:22:11.42
solid there that is
low glycemic. Right. So,
00:22:11.45\00:22:14.11
the foods that are
solid, that are vegetables
00:22:14.14\00:22:17.01
even fruits and
mostly beans are low
00:22:17.04\00:22:21.22
glycemic in these
and those are the foods
00:22:21.25\00:22:23.30
are more natural
foods that you should
00:22:23.33\00:22:25.66
consume more.
Right, I believe you
00:22:25.69\00:22:27.78
have a graphic that
will have some of those
00:22:27.81\00:22:30.43
foods with fibers is
that correct. Could you
00:22:30.46\00:22:33.29
explain this for
us? Yeah, we can take a
00:22:33.32\00:22:34.60
look on this graphic
and you see if you look at
00:22:34.63\00:22:37.83
this. You will find what
are the foods are, I will
00:22:37.86\00:22:41.25
ask you. What is
the food here that has
00:22:41.28\00:22:43.78
higher amount of
fiber that you know.
00:22:43.81\00:22:48.70
Well, looking at it,
the beans seem to have.
00:22:48.73\00:22:52.60
You got it, I believe
beans are the solution
00:22:52.63\00:22:56.67
here and then I
always tell my clients, three
00:22:56.70\00:23:00.68
foods to control
metabolic syndrome. Do you know
00:23:00.71\00:23:03.23
what they are? First
beans, second beans, third
00:23:03.26\00:23:07.91
beans. And so beans are
the best of all that right.
00:23:07.94\00:23:12.28
Yeah. Just because of
the high fiber correct, but
00:23:12.31\00:23:14.81
it's not the only one.
Yeah. Sometimes I have a
00:23:14.84\00:23:18.22
joke to tell, but
people say well you said that
00:23:18.25\00:23:21.94
beans are good for
metabolic syndrome and to
00:23:21.97\00:23:23.94
lose weight and
for diabetes and for
00:23:23.97\00:23:25.74
hypertension. But
when I eat beans, I feel
00:23:25.77\00:23:28.87
bloated and then I
have gas then I tell them.
00:23:28.90\00:23:32.88
Well if you have
gas and if you bloated.
00:23:32.91\00:23:34.99
You're gonna lose,
you're gonna weight
00:23:35.02\00:23:37.66
loss. Because there
is more air there, but I
00:23:37.69\00:23:43.58
will help you with
that so what can help a
00:23:43.61\00:23:46.21
person to eat beans
and have lower gas, I have
00:23:46.24\00:23:50.33
two advices. One is
use, try to find one type of
00:23:50.36\00:23:56.47
beans and they have
100 of types of beans.
00:23:56.50\00:24:00.04
Umm! Like a Lantos
and garbanzo beans are
00:24:00.07\00:24:03.07
the best way to digest
for most of the people and
00:24:03.10\00:24:06.22
then you have to
find one that or some of
00:24:06.25\00:24:08.60
them that are good for
you. The second that is,
00:24:08.63\00:24:11.56
you should soak the
beans in water and leave
00:24:11.59\00:24:16.31
that for four
hours. Overnight maybe or.
00:24:16.34\00:24:19.17
Yeah, but it is good
to leave them four hours,
00:24:19.20\00:24:21.75
change the water and
then you can leave longer
00:24:21.78\00:24:25.35
time and do this
process for two to four hours,
00:24:25.38\00:24:28.86
two or three times.
And that's to help with
00:24:28.89\00:24:31.19
so it won't cause any
problem. Then there are
00:24:31.22\00:24:32.48
some enzymes with
the water will be washed
00:24:32.51\00:24:36.26
away and those are
the enzymes that produce
00:24:36.29\00:24:38.73
gas, when you eat the
beans. Exactly. You just
00:24:38.76\00:24:41.04
be careful not to
put the water, the beans
00:24:41.07\00:24:43.87
in water for a
longtime in the hot
00:24:43.90\00:24:46.50
weather because
they came for meant that,
00:24:49.06\00:24:50.03
so, just be
careful of that. Not too
00:24:50.04\00:24:51.01
much, not too
more. Not too more, yeah.
00:24:51.02\00:24:52.19
Which is the basis of
all health matters the
00:24:52.22\00:24:54.41
balance right of
healthy, enough healthy and not
00:24:54.44\00:24:58.27
too much healthy
because even that too
00:24:58.30\00:24:59.82
much for exercising
all day would cause fatigue
00:24:59.85\00:25:02.55
and ware on the
body. The problem is we
00:25:02.58\00:25:04.38
usually or on the
other side of too little
00:25:04.41\00:25:06.97
exercise or too
little healthy foods, but the
00:25:07.00\00:25:09.36
balance is always,
where we should be.
00:25:09.39\00:25:11.52
Now, you are
speaking about beans and
00:25:11.55\00:25:13.74
metabolic syndrome
today and all these
00:25:13.77\00:25:16.39
different benefits
and risk that maybe
00:25:16.42\00:25:19.35
associated, if we
have it or don't and I know
00:25:19.38\00:25:22.52
many country eat lot
of beans especially in
00:25:22.55\00:25:24.54
central America,
south America. Brazil is
00:25:24.57\00:25:26.85
the biggest consumer
of beans in the world.
00:25:26.88\00:25:31.32
Well, then you
should know the answer to my
00:25:31.35\00:25:33.52
question because I
wanna to ask is there
00:25:33.55\00:25:36.22
difference in the
percentages of metabalic
00:25:36.25\00:25:40.74
syndrome. Yeah. I don't
have this statistics for
00:25:40.77\00:25:44.59
metabolic
syndrome, but I know that in
00:25:44.62\00:25:46.62
South America. The
Brazil is the lower,
00:25:46.65\00:25:50.01
is the lowest country
with obesity levels, compare
00:25:50.04\00:25:54.52
to Chile, compare to
Argentina other countries
00:25:54.55\00:25:57.26
Brazil is the best
one I would say and I
00:25:57.29\00:26:00.06
believe is related to
their high bean intake.
00:26:00.09\00:26:03.14
Intake so, we
should remember your advice
00:26:03.17\00:26:06.22
and to eat beans,
beans and beans. But not too
00:26:06.25\00:26:09.51
many of them.
Well, I appreciate that
00:26:09.54\00:26:12.48
everything that
we've been learning today
00:26:12.51\00:26:13.77
about glycemic index
and before that metabolic
00:26:13.80\00:26:17.11
syndrome. Now,
especially that so many
00:26:17.14\00:26:19.26
people in America
are it's not diagnoses,
00:26:19.29\00:26:23.56
but under that risk
level of high metabolic
00:26:23.59\00:26:26.02
syndrome and the
risk levels that stem from
00:26:26.05\00:26:28.25
there are so
multiple and so many of them
00:26:28.28\00:26:31.19
and they could
hinder the quality of life
00:26:31.22\00:26:33.33
and we all want to
extend life, we all want to
00:26:33.36\00:26:35.60
enjoy life, our
lives are meant to serve
00:26:35.63\00:26:38.07
others, to serve our
God and creator and if we
00:26:38.10\00:26:40.57
are hindering it, if we
are stopping that quality
00:26:40.60\00:26:42.94
that opportunity to
give. It's almost like doing a
00:26:42.97\00:26:46.21
just favor to the
society and to God. So, we
00:26:46.24\00:26:49.79
wanna keep our lives
as healthy as possible and
00:26:49.82\00:26:51.98
increase that
opportunity of having
00:26:52.01\00:26:56.35
metabolic syndrome
or Metabellyc syndrome
00:26:56.38\00:26:59.05
as you called it
correct. Now, I've verse in
00:26:59.08\00:27:03.72
Genesis 129 states
that when God created man,
00:27:03.75\00:27:08.63
he gave him of all the
herbs, he gave him all the
00:27:08.66\00:27:11.88
fruit that bear seeds
to eat and it's interesting
00:27:11.91\00:27:15.66
that all these food
items are the once that have
00:27:15.69\00:27:18.64
the high fiber and so
we should focus on eating
00:27:18.67\00:27:22.00
the natural things that
God did the whole grains
00:27:22.03\00:27:24.06
and make that the
primary source of our diet
00:27:24.09\00:27:27.36
and we will enjoy so
many benefits and we will be
00:27:27.39\00:27:29.93
happier and
healthier and able to serve
00:27:29.96\00:27:33.36
God as he wants us to
serve him with our lives
00:27:33.39\00:27:36.12
and with our
health and those around us
00:27:36.15\00:27:37.89
our neighbors or
community. Dr. Dos
00:27:37.92\00:27:40.38
Santos you've been
great today, I appreciate
00:27:40.41\00:27:42.48
your presence and
you're help out of this
00:27:42.51\00:27:44.04
topic and I'm sure
many of the viewers here
00:27:44.07\00:27:46.78
have also
appreciated. Thank you so much.
00:27:46.81\00:27:48.92
It was my pleasure to
be here. Thank you, I pray
00:27:48.95\00:27:52.72
if you've been
watching or listening today that
00:27:52.75\00:27:54.57
you've been blessed by
this program that you've
00:27:54.60\00:27:56.27
been encouraged
to continue on your
00:27:56.30\00:27:57.98
journey to better
health and to continue to ask
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God to help you in
every part of it. Join us
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