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Nutritional Plan to Reverse andPrevent Diabetes.

Treat Your Diabetes Without Medication

Diabetes Series – No. 02

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Treat Your Diabetes Without Medication

To begin examining how type 2 diabetes can be healed, we need to look at how it

developed in the first place. As mentioned, the heavier you are, the greater your risk of

developing type 2 diabetes. For some people even a small amount of excess fat on the body

can trigger diabetes.

Your body's cells are fueled primarily by glucose. Insulin is the hormonal messenger

produced by the beta cells in the pancreas, which induces glucose uptake into the body's

cells. Glucose cannot pass into the cells unless insulin opens the gate. However, as little as

five pounds of excess fat on your frame can interfere with insulin's ability to carry glucose into

your cells.

When you have excess fat on your body, insulin does not work as well, and then the glucose

has difficulty entering the cells. Fat on the body interferes with the action of insulin through

multiple mechanisms. Free fatty acids released from the fat cells is one of the mechanisms

promoting insulin resistance in liver and muscle in a phenomenon known as lipotoxicity.

The excess of circulating fats in the bloodstream also blocks insulin binding on the outer

membrane of cells and interferes with normal muscle cell function and energy production.

When cellular energy production is slowed, more insulin is required.

This lipotoxicity can affect the heart as well, promoting an irregular heart beat and increasing

susceptibility to heart failure.

Fat cells also produce binding proteins that attach to the insulin hormone blocking its activity.

Some of these fat cell produced molecules also cause muscle cells to be desensitized to

insulin. If that is not bad enough, when our cell membranes are impregnated with dietary trans

fats and saturated fats, the insulin-binding sites are distorted, impairing insulin from binding to

the docking station on the cell membranes, making insulin less effective at enabling glucose

uptake. To overcome all these issues, your pancreas must produce additional insulin.

With significant weight gain, the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas become

dramatically overworked. In short, type 2 diabetes is a disease of heightened insulin

resistance, not one of absolute insulin deficiency.

Insulin works less effectively when people eat fatty foods, overeat, eat low-nutrient foods, or

gain weight. So when people are overweight, they require more insulin, whether they're

diabetic or not.

But giving overweight diabetic people even more insulin makes them sicker by promoting

further weight gain, causing them to become even more diabetic.

How does this process work? Our pancreas secretes the amount of insulin demanded by the

body. People of normal weight with about one- third of an inch of periumbilical fat will secrete

a certain amount of insulin. But what happens when they gain twenty pounds of fat?

Their bodies will now require more insulin, almost twice as much, because the fat on their

bodies interferes with the uptake of insulin into the cells by the various mechanisms

mentioned.

Body Fat Deactivates Insulin and Raises Blood Glucose

• Free fatty acids circulating in the blood have a toxic effect, inhibiting energy production from

muscle tissues, which then demand more insulin.

• Fat cells produce pigment epithelium-derived factor, causing cells to be desensitized to

insulin.

• Fat cells produce retinol-binding protein, which prevents insulin from activating glucose-

carrying proteins.

• Trans fats and saturated fats can stiffen and distort membrane-located insulin receptors,

interfering with efficient binding.

When people are significantly overweight or obese, with more than fifty pounds of excess fat

weight, their bodies demand huge loads of insulin from the pancreas, even as much as ten

times more than people of normal weight require.

What do you think occurs after ten or more years of overworking the pancreas so hard?

Of course, it becomes exhausted and loses the ability to keep up with the huge insulin

demands, and less insulin is produced.

Eventually, with less insulin available to move glucose from the bloodstream into the cells, the

glucose level in the blood starts to rise, and those people are diagnosed with diabetes. In

most cases, these people are still secreting an excessive amount of insulin, compared to a

normal-weight people, but just not enough for them.

As time goes on, even though the overworked pancreas may still pump out much more insulin

than a thinner person might need, it won't be enough to overcome the effects of the disease-

causing body fat. I call it pancreatic poop out. Some severely overweight individuals have a

large pancreas beta cell capacity, so they can produce high levels of insulin without becoming

diabetic. These high insulin levels in the blood are a strong predictor of heart attack risk and

life span. So whether these people are diabetic or not, their high insulin levels are still

dangerous. In fact, insulin level is a better indicator of a future heart attack than cholesterol

level. Often people will be in an emergency room with their first heart attack and be told for

the first time that their sugar is elevated.

These heart attack victims never knew they had diabetes. The first sign of it was the heart

attack from years of having a heightened insulin level. Damage was building up before the

elevated glucose became apparent. In most cases, the pancreas's ability to produce insulin

continues to lessen as the diabetes and the overweight condition continue year after year.

Unlike type 1 diabetes, total destruction of insulin- secreting ability almost never occurs in

type 2 diabetes.

But the sooner type 2 diabetics lose the extra weight that is causing the diabetes, the greater

the likelihood they will be able to maintain a functional reserve of insulin-secreting cells in

their pancreas. What this means is that typical type 2 diabetes is caused by excess weight in

individuals who have a smaller reserve of insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas. As the

statistics are showing, type 2 diabetes is a growing epidemic.

But what is surprising is that people suffering can range anywhere from ten pounds

overweight to significantly obese. It is important to say here that in individuals who are

susceptible, ten to twenty extra pounds can lead to diabetic symptoms.

No matter what the number is, losing the excess weight enables these individuals to live

within the capabilities of their body. Most type 2 diabetics still produce enough insulin to

maintain normalcy as long as they maintain a favorable body-fat percentage.

Simply put, since the level of insulin in your blood is a good indicator of your risk for heart

attack, and since a tape measure around your waist is nearly as good an indicator of insulin

levels as a blood test, it makes sense to remember the ancient saying, "The longer your

waistline, the shorter your lifeline.

"Following a nutrient-rich, lower-calorie diet—a nutritarian diet—coupled with a good exercise

program is the most important change you can adopt to extend your life span.

It has been known for years that intentional weight loss improves blood sugar, lipids, and

blood pressure in diabetics.

Gastric bypass surgery and lap-band procedures are risky, lead to malnutrition, and most

often produce only temporary results. Nevertheless, overweight individuals who go through

gastric bypass surgery and become too uncomfortable to eat much often also resolve their

diabetes.

Over the years, as the stomach stretches and the weight returns, these individuals can

become diabetic again. Unfortunately, they did not learn enough about nutritional excellence.

A recent study documented a significant increase in life span, with an average of 25 percent

reduced mortality, when diabetic individuals dropped their body weight by just twenty to

twenty-five pounds.

Imagine the results when a program of nutritional excellence achieves the weight loss and the

body's cells are flooded with micronutrients that fuel cellular repair. Scientific literature shows

it is not just the weight reduction that enables diabetic reversal and recovery but also the high

level of plant-derived micronutrients and phytochemicals that can fuel the body's own

remarkable self-healing properties.

The results you can achieve with a nutritarian diet are predictable and remarkable, but it takes

some effort and time. There are lots of diet books and exercise plans written for diabetics, but

this nutritarian diet is designed and proven in clinical practice to be the most effective for

losing weight, lowering cholesterol, and reversing diabetes. It is the gold standard, written

specifically for people who want to do what is very best for their health and give it their all to

become nondiabetic.

A nutritarian approach is all about superior nutrition, not just moderate improvement in diet.

Moderation doesn't work. But not to worry—as already mentioned, nutritional excellence will

make your taste buds happy and you will be more than satisfied with the amount of food you

can eat. But we will get into that later in the book.

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Diabetes Series – No. 02

by Edgar Ortega M. Editorial