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to promote good health
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Hello, I'm Dr.
Emerson, I'm Medical Director
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at Eden Valley Lifestyle
Center. I wanted to share
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with you today some
concepts about diabetes.
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Our's is continuing on the
talk we've done previously.
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And in that talk we discovered
that diabetes state can actually
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be brought on fairly quickly
with oils and animal fats.
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Dr. Sweeney did this in
1927 with six medical students.
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They were able to
induce the diabetic state
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in about two days. He
was unable to do the same
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thing with high
sugar, or a high starch diet.
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We found that this has
been confirmed in human studies
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and animals studies since then.
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At this time we'd also like
to look at some other aspects
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that can effect insulin
resistance and diabetes.
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What we found initially was that
when you take a sugar or starch,
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its a review, your
blood sugar would go up,
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the pancreas would sense that,
release insulin and insulin
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would act as a little key,
which would go into the cells
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of each of the
doors, open up the doors,
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allow the sugar
to leave the blood
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and go in the
cells and be burned.
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This will bring
your blood sugar down.
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And that's the way
it's suppose to work.
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We found as the
animals products, the fats,
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the oils will tend to go in to
the body when they're ingested
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and then plug up
those insulin receptors.
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So that now when you
take a sugar or starch,
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blood sugar goes
up, insulin is released,
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can't get in the key
holes, doors are shut
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and the blood sugars rise,
because they have nowhere to go.
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And, that was
essentially what we covered.
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That's how insulin
resistance can be induced
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actually fairly quickly.
There are some other factors
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that we now know
effect diabetes as well.
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Among those are understanding
of what fiber does for us,
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fiber in the plant
foods, also something called
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the glycemic index of
foods, in carbohydrates.
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And also, something found in
grains, that whole grains have,
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which help protect
us against diabetes,
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but refined grains do
not have. So, firstly what,
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what does fiber do to
protect us from diabetes.
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Actually one of the things fiber
does is it acts as a sponge.
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It, when it's eaten
with sugars or carbohydrates,
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it hangs on the fluid and sugar,
and that fiber helps release
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the sugar into the blood stream
from the gut slowly, overtime.
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When fiber is not there,
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we tend to get a
rather severe jolt of sugar,
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which is released in the
blood stream fairly quickly.
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This is illustrating some tests
done with apple juice and apples
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What they found is that
if a person eats an apple,
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which has the
sugar with the fiber,
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the sugar is in the gut
and it's absorbed by the fiber
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and it's released into the
blood stream fairly slowly.
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The sugar rises, the
pancreas senses this,
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releases a normal amount
of insulin and this helps
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slow the rise and
helps prevent the blood sugar
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from going too high. If
it gets to stays below 150
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and then it starts coming back
down and as the sugar drops,
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the insulin levels drop as
well and the sugar plateaus
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at about 100 or 90 or so
and does not drop too low.
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And this is the way
it's supposed to work.
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If on the other hand,
we take that same apple,
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the same
calories, same 100 calories
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and take it in the form
of apple juice. We find is,
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when that's entered into
the gut, the sugar goes into
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the blood stream very
quickly. There is no fiber
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to slow it down. The
blood sugar starts to go up
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fairly quickly,
fairly dramatically.
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The pancreas kind of overreacts,
releases a lot of insulin
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to prevent the blood
sugar from going too high.
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While the insulin
load goes into the blood,
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it starts, the
sugar coming down again.
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This time the sugar comes down,
but as it approaches say normal
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at a 100 or 90, there
is no more sugar in the gut
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coming into the blood stream,
because its come in so quickly,
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there is nothing left. So,
the sugar supply to the blood
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is cut off, but there
is still a lot of insulin
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in the blood and that
drives the blood sugar too low.
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This will make a person
hypoglycemic maybe in hour
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or two hours after
the high sugaring meal.
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And this is where
they may get hypoglycemic,
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have a hypoglycemic
reaction, get shaky,
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tremor-y and at that
point they feel a need to
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have a coffee break.
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And, this is where the 10
O'clock coffee break comes in
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people needing to get something
to get their sugars up again.
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They will take many
times a caffeinated beverage,
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which can stimulate blood
sugar rise even without sugar
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and then they have a
sugary meal which sends
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the blood sugar up
again. This causes a blood sugar
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drop again and
the cycle is repeated.
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And this is a cyclic problem
then, that happens around noon
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or 2 O'clock in the afternoon
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after they have a
sugary meal at lunch,
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they get another spike and drop.
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Then at 2 O'clock they
need another sugar fix,
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things go up,
they come crashing down
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around 5 O'clock,
you have to have meal.
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And the meal is
another sugary meal,
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it causes blood sugar to
go up and around 7 O'clock
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it comes crashing down.
You've to have another snack
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and then you go to sleep
and hopefully you can make it
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through the night without
having another sugar dive.
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I experienced this in college
and it occurred to me in college
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I said this is
strange, you know,
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I used to be able to
go from breakfast to lunch
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without having to have
a 10 O'clock sugar fix.
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And, when I went
back to a high fiber diet,
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plant-based diet
without the sugary spikes,
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I was able to go from breakfast
to lunch without having
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a hypoglycemic episode or
needing the coffee breaks.
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Another factor in
foods that can help
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even out your
blood sugars, especially
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if you are diabetic is a
concept of a glycemic index.
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Glycemic index is how
fast sugar goes from your gut
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into your bloodstream
and if this happens slowly,
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you have a low
glycemic index food.
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If you have a high
glycemic index food,
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the same 100 calories
will go into your bloodstream
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very quickly and cause a
sugar spike and you're at risk
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for that
hypoglycemic episode again.
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High glycemic index foods,
sugar, table sugar has about
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the same high glycemic
index as refined white flour.
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Potatoes, white potatoes
have a high glycemic index.
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The low glycemic index foods
which are the best especially
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for people coming off of
the diabetic state would be the
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lentils, beans, peas,
these are the legume families.
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They release their
sugar into the bloodstream
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very slowly over a
long period of time.
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Even sweet potatoes
have a low glycemic index.
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And, you can
actually go to nutrition books
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and get tables of food
with different glycemic indexes.
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They have shown
that... we've experienced that
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if you want to even
out your blood sugars.
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If you have large bowl of
beans or lentils for breakfast,
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one or two bowls, you will
find that you are able to last
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from breakfast o usually about
2 O'clock in the afternoon,
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without getting hungry
or having those crashes.
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It's very effective for
diabetics and helping them
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control the blood
sugars. Another aspect of foods
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that can help prevent
diabetes are the whole grains.
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They have found that
whole grains can decrease
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insulin resistance.
They also reduce your risk
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of diabetes and your
risk of heart disease.
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And this is independent of the
fiber that's in the whole grains
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So, we believe that it
has something to do with
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the phytochemicals that
are in whole grains which are
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removed when you take
out the bran and the germ.
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In processing foods,
the grains, the bran,
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the outside covering of
the grain, as well as the germ
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are many times removed
and those have over 90 percent
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of the phytochemicals.
And these chemicals
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are chemicals
your body uses to help
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prevent diabetes and
also help prevent cancers.
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This strengthens
your immune system,
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you can't get
these phytochemicals
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from animal products, they have
to be obtained in your foods.
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And, whole grains are one
of the best sources of these,
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and we believe that's
one of the reasons why
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whole grains can
prevent diabetes.
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We want to talk another, about
another concept in diabetes now.
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If you recall, Dr. Anderson
was able to get diabetics
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who were on their
pills, about 90 percent
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of them off their
pills on a plant-based diet.
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If they were taking insulin,
he was able to get about
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75 percent of the patients on
insulin off their medications.
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The question is, why
wasn't it a 100 percent?
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Was there something
else going on which was
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preventing that
small percentage from being
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able to be come off their
pills and the answer is yes.
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There is something
that we now understand
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is called beta cell
burnout. Beta cell burnout is
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when the beta
cells in the pancreas
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which produce the
insulin start burning out.
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They stop being able to
produce and release insulin.
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They've found that unless
you have beta cell burnout,
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the insulin resistance
will not progress to diabetes.
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In other words, in
order to get diabetes,
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you've got to have
insulin resistance,
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plus this beta cells
burnout. Now we are again,
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we are talking
about Type 2 diabetes.
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They did some baboon
studies to illustrate this.
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They took some
normal healthy baboons,
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they gave them nicotinic acid,
which causes marked insulin
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resistance in the doses that
they gave them to these baboons.
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But, the baboons responded
by just increasing the amount of
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insulin they released and they
overcame this insulin resistance
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And, this allowed them to
prevent their blood sugars
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from going too high.
Next, they took some baboons
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and this time they
destroyed half of the pancreas
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with a special poison. Now their
pancreas was only half there.
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Now when they gave
them the nicotinic acid
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the insulin resistance rose,
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the pancreas tried to compensate
by releasing more insulin,
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but was unable to do so,
because half of it was missing
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and they went on
to develop diabetes.
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So they needed the both
components to develop diabetes,
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insulin resistance
plus beta cell burnout.
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They have also observed that
in humans there is a particular
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rare genetic
dysfunction which causes
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a severe insulin resistance.
But, many times these patients
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do not develop
diabetes because their pancreas
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is able to just produce more
insulin and compensate for it,
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so the blood sugars can
stay in the normal range.
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What they have found with beta
cell burnout is that it occurs,
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or starts to occur 12 years
before the diagnosis of diabetes
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And, this is also
where you can find
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insulin resistance
starting to increase.
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What they are finding
is that for about 12 years
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before the
diagnosis of diabetes,
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until after about 12 years they
are then diagnosed with diabetes
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What happens as the insulin
resistance increases initially
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is the pancreas just
releases more insulin
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to compensate for it. So
insulin levels actually go up,
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up, until the time of diagnosis,
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say at 12 years after
the start of this process.
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During that time
of increasing insulin
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resistance beta cell
function is continuing to drop.
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Now beta cell function, God has
produced us with a big reserve,
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so that they may, a normal
person maybe able to produce
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maybe say 10
times as much insulin
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as they would really need.
But by the time of diagnosis
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of diabetes, that beta
cell function is 50 percent,
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it may only be able to produce
maybe five times as much insulin
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or somewhere in
that neighborhood.
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And at this time,
the insulin resistance
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however has increased to
a point where it may need
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that much more insulin to keep
the blood sugars controlled.
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So after 12 years the pancreas
can no longer keep up with the
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insulin resistance and now
the blood sugar starts to rise.
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And, now the doctors say
oh, your blood sugars are rising
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and you get
diagnosed with diabetes.
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What causes beta cell burnout?
Well there are many theories,
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some thoughts were
that well high blood sugars
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would be toxic to
the pancreatic cells
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or there are some glycosylation
of pro teins or sugars
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were combined with the
proteins in the pancreas
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and that would cause
damage or amyloid deposition.
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But all of these processes
required high blood sugars.
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And, as we noted,
this beta cell burnout
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occurs 12 years before
the diagnosis of diabetes
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when the blood
sugars are normal.
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So, they had to understand
or find a different mechanism
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and they found that the
mechanism was most likely
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is what they call lipotoxicity.
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When you have insulin
resistance, two things happen,
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your triglycerides go up,
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that's the fat in the
blood and insulin levels rise.
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Now insulin not only drives
sugar into cells to be burned
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or stored. It not only drives
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sugar into those
cells to be stored,
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but insulin will also drive
fat into fat cells to be stored.
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It will drive fat into
liver cells causing fatty liver,
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but it can also cause
dry fat into pancreatic cells
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which can cause
beta cell burnout.
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It could be toxic to
those pancreatic cells.
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What we found also
is that this has been
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confirmed with the
Pima Indians and Caucasians.
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What they found is that
if they give a high fat diet
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to these groups
of people, very soon,
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the beta cell
function starts decreasing.
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And it's related to
the fat in the diet,
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the insulin resistance
and the high triglycerides
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and the increase in
insulin that is being produced,
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causing that
lipotoxicity in the pancreas.
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Well, many
patients want to know,
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how do I know if my
pancreas is working,
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or how well it's working?
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If their
pancreas is working well,
00:16:56.80\00:16:59.82
if they are
producing enough insulin,
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then if we just get rid
of the insulin resistance,
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we would expect to be able
to get them off the medications.
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However, if their pancreas
is working at a very low level,
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where they are not
producing much insulin at all,
00:17:13.19\00:17:16.35
even though you get rid
of the insulin resistance,
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you still have a second problem
where you're not producing
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enough insulin and they
still need insulin to maintain
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their blood sugars. So,
how do I know, how do I know?
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Well, there is a test
called C-terminal peptide,
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which you can ask
your doctor about.
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You can obtain, it's
just a simple blood test.
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What happens is insulin
is, starts as proinsulin
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and it's protein and
to turn it into insulin,
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one of the ends is
broken off, that's called the
00:17:49.85\00:17:51.86
C- terminal peptide
end, it's broken off
00:17:51.87\00:17:55.17
and kind of thrown
away into the blood
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and what's left is your
insulin, the insulin goes out
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and does the work
it's suppose to do.
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But, the C-terminal peptide
floats around the blood stream
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and its level can let you
know how much you're producing.
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Now, if I inject
insulin there is no
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C- terminal peptide in
the insulin I'm injecting.
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So, even if a
patient is taking insulin,
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we can measure their C-
peptide and it will tell us
00:18:19.31\00:18:22.01
how much insulin
that person is making,
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even apart from the insulin
they are getting injected.
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So, what's normally
done is we give a sugary meal
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or something to drive
the sugar up above 150.
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This will stimulate
the pancreas to release
00:18:37.95\00:18:40.96
as much insulin as it can.
00:18:40.97\00:18:42.72
And then once the
blood sugar is above 150
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we draw a blood test and we
measure the C-peptide level.
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If a C-peptide
level is four or above,
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that generally indicates
fairly good pancreatic function
00:18:53.75\00:18:58.30
and you would have a
very good chance of getting
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off your medicines, if
you were to change your diet
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and get rid of the
insulin resistance.
00:19:04.53\00:19:05.87
If on the other hand it's two or
less, chances are not as good,
00:19:06.22\00:19:10.89
chances are less likely that you
are going to be able to get off
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your medications even if you get
rid of the insulin resistance,
00:19:13.90\00:19:18.19
because you're still
going to need to produce
00:19:18.20\00:19:20.70
more insulin and that
may take sometime to correct.
00:19:20.71\00:19:24.19
Well the next
question that would
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follow is beta
cell burnout reversible?
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And the good news is there
is evidence that yes it is.
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There are some drugs,
TCD's they are called.
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They're a class of
drug which helps decrease
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insulin resistance, as well
as decrease triglyceride levels.
00:19:45.69\00:19:51.44
And, these two
factors tend to increase
00:19:51.77\00:19:55.78
the function of the beta cell
00:19:55.79\00:19:57.69
if the medicines
are started soon enough.
00:19:57.70\00:20:00.77
They can increase
and some tests have shown
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as much as 60%
increase in beta cell function
00:20:04.98\00:20:07.94
in as little as 6 months.
00:20:07.95\00:20:10.28
The problem with these is
that they are some side effects
00:20:12.17\00:20:14.70
and they will cause
usually 5 to 10 pound
00:20:14.71\00:20:17.11
weight gain
during that time period.
00:20:17.12\00:20:19.94
Something most
diabetics would like to avoid.
00:20:19.95\00:20:22.17
On the other hand, if you
move to a plant based diet,
00:20:23.74\00:20:27.60
you can also drop
your triglycerides,
00:20:27.61\00:20:30.84
decrease insulin resistance and
beta cell function can increase.
00:20:30.85\00:20:35.47
It may take 3, 6
months, 12 months,
00:20:35.48\00:20:38.06
it may take sometime for that
beta cell function to increase.
00:20:38.07\00:20:41.72
But if a person persist on it,
00:20:41.73\00:20:44.67
this is something
that they can hope for
00:20:45.46\00:20:47.51
and actually measure and follow
00:20:47.52\00:20:50.10
and see if the pancreas
is indeed getting better.
00:20:50.11\00:20:53.57
The nice thing
about a plant based diet
00:20:53.58\00:20:55.32
is it doesn't cause the weight
gain that the TCD's will cause.
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In fact it can cause
in general a weight loss,
00:21:00.42\00:21:04.17
and that's
something that again most
00:21:04.18\00:21:06.31
diabetics are
looking forward to.
00:21:06.32\00:21:08.35
Well, at the beginning of
our first talk on diabetics
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we described a lady
who came into our office
00:21:14.29\00:21:17.53
and I wanted to tell
you the rest of the story.
00:21:17.54\00:21:19.59
If you remember
her name is Tony,
00:21:19.60\00:21:21.27
and she came into
the office she rolled in,
00:21:21.28\00:21:23.57
in a wheel chair.
5Ft 3, she is actually
00:21:23.58\00:21:26.37
325 pounds she was
blind from a diabetics
00:21:26.38\00:21:30.11
she was on 44
units of insulin a day.
00:21:30.12\00:21:33.39
She had high blood pressure,
she had high cholesterol.
00:21:34.42\00:21:37.38
And, as you now know
00:21:38.20\00:21:39.51
this is all part of the
insulin resistance syndrome.
00:21:39.52\00:21:41.99
Its part of the
insulin resistance that she has
00:21:42.00\00:21:46.32
and it was causing
all of these problems.
00:21:46.33\00:21:48.65
She had... the blindness
was from a diabetic retinopathy
00:21:48.66\00:21:52.94
a common side
effect of diabetes.
00:21:52.95\00:21:56.29
Well, I shared with
her basically the things
00:21:56.75\00:22:00.66
that I shared with
you and she did something
00:22:00.67\00:22:06.48
very strange, very unusual,
00:22:06.61\00:22:07.96
something we
weren't really excepting,
00:22:08.17\00:22:09.76
she actually did
everything we asked her to do.
00:22:10.31\00:22:13.99
She was in a wheel chair,
she wasn't able to exercise
00:22:15.25\00:22:19.54
or get around much at all, but
she moved to plant based diet.
00:22:19.68\00:22:24.89
No calorie
restriction in a wheel chair,
00:22:25.22\00:22:27.44
no real exercise. But
within about 2 months,
00:22:27.61\00:22:32.53
her blood pressure
started coming down.
00:22:33.00\00:22:37.84
And as the blood
pressure comes down,
00:22:38.14\00:22:39.67
we had to start taking her
off her blood pressure medicines
00:22:40.35\00:22:43.07
or it would go too
low. In about 2 months,
00:22:43.25\00:22:46.38
she was off of her
blood pressure medicines
00:22:46.69\00:22:50.20
not needing that anymore.
00:22:50.23\00:22:51.38
She continued on her program
00:22:51.52\00:22:53.20
and we had to start
decreasing her insulin level,
00:22:53.83\00:22:57.38
her insulin doses
because her blood sugars
00:22:57.51\00:23:00.30
were starting to go too low.
00:23:00.31\00:23:01.98
Her blood sugars
started coming down
00:23:03.57\00:23:05.52
and also we followed
her cholesterol levels,
00:23:06.62\00:23:10.04
her cholesterol
levels started coming down.
00:23:10.31\00:23:12.88
At the end of one year,
her cholesterol had dropped
00:23:13.45\00:23:19.99
so low that we
had to take her off
00:23:20.00\00:23:21.83
of her cholesterol medicines.
00:23:21.84\00:23:23.45
And at the end of a year
she was off of her insulin.
00:23:24.34\00:23:27.65
She's gotten off of her insulin.
00:23:27.73\00:23:28.99
She was just on some
oral medications at that time.
00:23:29.16\00:23:31.13
The other amazing
thing we found was that
00:23:32.20\00:23:34.64
her weight started dropping.
00:23:34.65\00:23:36.57
She went from 325
down to 211 in 2 years.
00:23:37.36\00:23:44.44
That was
approximately a pound a week
00:23:44.88\00:23:47.34
with no calorie
restriction, no exercise,
00:23:47.63\00:23:50.65
she was in a wheel chair
00:23:50.75\00:23:51.72
and just by changing
to a plant-based diet.
00:23:52.72\00:23:57.08
She was then able
to get a knee surgery
00:23:58.23\00:24:01.88
from orthopedic surgeon
and she started walking again.
00:24:01.89\00:24:05.56
And as long as she
stayed on the program,
00:24:06.40\00:24:08.49
blood sugar stayed good,
blood pressure stayed good,
00:24:09.18\00:24:11.91
cholesterol stayed good. If
she strayed off the program,
00:24:11.92\00:24:15.39
started having
animal products again.
00:24:15.93\00:24:17.54
Blood sugars will start
to rise, cholesterol rise,
00:24:18.27\00:24:20.89
blood pressure would
rise, weight would rise.
00:24:21.05\00:24:22.59
She had to come back on
track to even it out again.
00:24:22.61\00:24:26.01
And, she did
very well as long as
00:24:26.46\00:24:28.87
she stayed on the program.
00:24:28.88\00:24:30.72
So, the take
home message is that,
00:24:31.38\00:24:34.82
what we found is that
on a animal based diet,
00:24:35.70\00:24:39.87
American diet,
lot of fats will go in
00:24:40.09\00:24:42.73
and plug up those
insulin receptors.
00:24:42.74\00:24:44.34
So that when you
take a sugar starch
00:24:44.58\00:24:45.98
blood sugar goes
up, insulin is released
00:24:45.99\00:24:47.76
can't get in the key holes,
00:24:48.07\00:24:49.34
doors are stuck and
the blood sugars rise,
00:24:49.80\00:24:52.01
that's insulin
resistance. When this happens
00:24:52.02\00:24:54.70
the pancreas compensates
by releasing more insulin.
00:24:55.05\00:24:58.51
That insulin tends to
drive fat into fat cells,
00:24:59.15\00:25:03.82
making people heavy,
drives fat into liver cells
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.99
causing fatty liver,
drives fat into pancreatic cells
00:25:08.23\00:25:12.50
causing beta cell burn out.
00:25:12.95\00:25:15.27
And with time the beta
cells will start to burn out,
00:25:15.83\00:25:19.38
you have decreased
production of insulin
00:25:19.39\00:25:22.73
and with time then you'll have
both beta cell miss function,
00:25:23.04\00:25:27.96
not enough insulin
being able to be produced
00:25:28.38\00:25:30.38
to compensate for
the insulin resistance
00:25:30.70\00:25:32.52
that the American diet has.
00:25:32.81\00:25:34.82
If you choose like Tony
did, to go on a plant based diet
00:25:35.33\00:25:39.11
this can reverse.
00:25:40.13\00:25:41.16
Insulin resistance generally
reverses within 3 or 4 days,
00:25:41.40\00:25:45.14
sometimes a week or
two, usually 3 or 4 days.
00:25:45.93\00:25:49.32
Beta cell
function on the other hand
00:25:49.64\00:25:51.70
may take 3, 6
months or longer before
00:25:51.71\00:25:56.00
it can recover and recoup.
00:25:56.05\00:25:59.27
So, for patients who
are on diabetic medications,
00:25:59.87\00:26:04.36
wanting to make a change,
00:26:04.74\00:26:06.71
we encourage you to
work with your doctor,
00:26:07.24\00:26:09.17
say, you know I'm
gonna try a lifestyle change.
00:26:09.22\00:26:11.20
I want to be letting you
know, what my blood sugars are
00:26:12.48\00:26:14.27
as the blood sugars come down
00:26:14.48\00:26:16.06
stay in touch with your doctor,
so he can adjust your insulin,
00:26:16.52\00:26:19.23
so that your blood
sugars don't go too low.
00:26:19.69\00:26:22.49
You want to keep
in touch with him,
00:26:22.84\00:26:24.39
so that you can make
those adjustments as needed.
00:26:25.02\00:26:28.98
And, as you make these
changes what should occur,
00:26:29.66\00:26:33.81
what you should be watching for,
00:26:34.03\00:26:35.17
is blood sugar
should be dropping,
00:26:35.38\00:26:37.21
blood pressure
should be dropping.
00:26:37.49\00:26:39.03
You would need to keep
your doctor apprised to those,
00:26:39.52\00:26:41.54
so that if needed he can adjust
your blood pressures down.
00:26:41.61\00:26:44.76
Weight should be dropping,
00:26:45.96\00:26:46.96
cholesterol levels
should be dropping,
00:26:47.06\00:26:49.01
and again it would be good
00:26:49.34\00:26:50.52
to keep a check
on your cholesterol,
00:26:50.53\00:26:52.01
because if you're on
cholesterol medicines
00:26:52.09\00:26:53.75
you do have a good chance
00:26:53.80\00:26:55.08
of being able to get off
your cholesterol medicines.
00:26:55.09\00:26:58.20
So you want to keep in touch
with him, keep him appraised,
00:26:58.79\00:27:00.90
so that you're not
over medicating yourself.
00:27:01.56\00:27:03.59
These are things
that God has given us,
00:27:05.24\00:27:10.90
the plant-based foods,
which can strengthen the body.
00:27:11.13\00:27:14.41
In many cases, reverse and heel
00:27:14.48\00:27:16.83
the body even after
many damage has been done.
00:27:16.84\00:27:19.42
As we move back
to the original diet
00:27:19.99\00:27:23.27
that was given to us
in the Garden of Eden.
00:27:23.37\00:27:24.83
We find that many
diseases and illnesses
00:27:25.17\00:27:27.59
can in fact reverse and improve.
00:27:28.06\00:27:30.86
So, I encourage you
to take a challenge,
00:27:31.50\00:27:35.40
try some of
these lifestyle changes
00:27:36.42\00:27:38.76
and I wish you God's
blessing and His health,
00:27:39.46\00:27:44.69
for He does desire
you to be in good health.
00:27:45.12\00:27:47.89
We thank you for listening
00:27:49.04\00:27:50.16
and we hope that you
can experience the health
00:27:50.75\00:27:57.47
and strength that
God desires you to have.
00:27:58.06\00:28:01.25
Again, thank you for listening.
00:28:01.98\00:28:04.28
We hope you'll tune in
again next time for more talks.
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