Hypoglycemia: the overlooked and misunderstood phenomenon in promoting chronic disease
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Release Date: 03/28/2017
Today, we are going to explore some more ideas and concepts relative to diabetes. After all, we’ve figured it out, right? I mean, diabetes is chronically elevated blood sugar, and that’s bad, right? We have documented the effects of this chronic high blood sugar – the retinal damage to the eyes, the damage to the kidneys that happens in diabetes – leading towards dialysis dependence, the tendency towards gout, the diabetic ulcers that happen as a result of insufficient blood flow due to capillary damage of glycosylation- whereby sugar damages the various proteins in your body, and in terms of blood vessels, then that impairs blood flow. This can lead to amputations and all sorts of damage to the body. So, obviously this must mean that sugar is bad for you, that carbohydrates are bad, that it’s only when you eat carbs you see your blood sugar go up to super high levels – it’s so obvious - and all the health professionals who state that you should eat according to the food pyramid must be bought out by the large food conglomerates who are just pushing carbs onto the public because there’s some sort of conspiracy designed to make us sick and then force us to use their diabetes drugs……wow, there’s a lot to unpack there!
All of this talk about high blood sugar overlooks perhaps the more damaging effects of something happening more or less subtly in all of us, for years at a time ---- low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia. Well, I want you to sit back and allow me to explore this phenomenon with you and see if I can paint a coherent picture about low blood sugar, how it is likely affecting you EVERY SINGLE DAY, and then of course what you can do about it.
Let me first start by adding a bit more color to last week’s show about toxins in our environment. We talked a lot about the role of pesticides, and how that contributes greatly to your health and how you can see all this through the fundamental health equation I painted out for you.
YOU + YOUR ENVIRONMENT = YOUR STATE OF HEALTH
References:
Cellphone Radiation Exposure Fact Sheet Draft Released By California Health Officials
read: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B14R6QNkmaXuRmJlZDRWME5lN2M/view
Hypoglycemia an 'Underutilized' Risk Factor for CVD, Death
Hypoglycemia a Greater Threat Than Hyperglycemia in Elderly
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/825483
Let’s discuss all of this from a whole body, systems point of view --- looking at the big picture, what the science has to say about the cause:
http://www.functionalps.com/blog/2012/11/26/ray-peat-phd-on-low-blood-sugar-stress-reaction/
Example of how this relates to neurodegenerative disease:
Glucose deprivation in the brain sets stage for Alzheimer's disease, Temple study shows
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/tuhs-gdi012717.php