Avoid insulin resistance and control diabetes, naturally

Insulin resistance is when the cell (particularly liver, muscle, and fat cells, with the liver losing sensitivity first, then muscle, then fat cells) loses its ability to respond to the insulin receptor site. Your body adds more and more insulin to store fat. Over time, the pancreas gives up and leads to type II diabetes.

In type II diabetes, your body doesn’t make enough insulin and/or cells are resistant to insulin, causing too much sugar to remain in your blood.

Insulin is necessary for your body to use sugar. Sugar is the basic fuel for the body’s cells, and insulin moves sugar from the blood into the cells.

A fasting blood glucose level greater than 100-125 mg/dL is not indicative of diabetes, but may be indicative of insulin resistance and is above normal levels. The optimal range for serum glucose is 80-95. Fasting serum insulin levels should be below 10.

Controlling your insulin levels with diet/nutrition, lifestyle modifications, exercise, and supplementation is a powerful anti-aging strategy and a necessity for health, vitality, longevity, and fat loss.

Symptoms and conditions of insulin resistance:

• Brain fog and inability to concentrate
• Elevated triglycerides. Optimal range: 70-110mg/dL. (40 to 60% of total cholesterol). This can only be determined with a fasting test. Triglycerides are a component of fat stored in tissue. Low HDL with elevated triglycerides is a more significant indicator of heart disease risk than total cholesterol above 200 mg/dL. Triglycerides are often increased with dysinsulinism (Syndrome-X/Metabolic Syndrome), alcoholism (GGT/GGTP is also usually increased), and diabetes.
• Excess fat around the midsection or shoulder blade area
• Hypertension
• intestinal swelling
• Low HDL levels. Optimal Range: Men – above 55 mg/dL. Women – above 60 mg/dL. Must be > 25% of total cholesterol. The most effective way to > HDL is to > exercise.
• Drowsiness and fatigue
• type 2 diabetes

When glucose (sugar) builds up in the blood instead of going into cells, it can cause problems:

• Increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease (in diabetes, hyperinsulinemia doubles the risk of AD compared to people without diabetes).
• obesity
• Over time, high blood glucose levels damage the eyes, kidneys, nerves, or heart.

ALL hormones work in synergy with each other. The hormone you have the most control over is insulin. This is regulated by your diet.

What causes insulin resistance and diabetes?

• a sedentary lifestyle
• Calorie restriction, skipping meals, diet pills, and a shitty diet of fast food, boxed, canned, or microwaved food. Unbalanced meals, rich in carbohydrates, sugar and low in fat and protein.
• Drink soft drinks and fruit juices.
• Elevated lipogenic (fat storage) enzymes and decreased lipolytic (fat burning) enzymes
• Lack of quality sleep.
• Stress and altered hormone levels. Years of high levels of adrenaline and/or cortisol due to poor diet and lifestyle habits.

DIET AND NUTRITION for insulin resistance/type II diabetes:

• Fruits allowed in moderation include: tomatoes, avocados, berries, grapefruit, lemons, limes
• Avoid agave syrup, HFCS, Nutra Sweet, and aspartame products as they can trigger diabetes and obesity.
• Reduce carbohydrates and increase protein. Eat a diet of organic protein, non-starchy vegetables, and fats (fats slow down the insulin spike)
• Eliminate all boxed, canned, and microwaveable foods.
• Eliminate all refined carbohydrates, grains, dairy products, fast-acting sugars (fruit juices, sodas, high-glycemic fruits, and starchy vegetables), hydrogenated fats, alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco).
• Lemon and lime juice lowers the insulin rate of food due to flavonoids.
• If it doesn’t run across the field, swim, fly, or isn’t green, don’t eat it!
• Small mini meals 5-7 times a day. Include smart fats and protein at every meal.
• Sweetened with stevia, an herb, instead of sugar. Stevia will not raise blood sugar levels.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRIENTS for insulin resistance/type II diabetes:

• Vitamin D – Bio D Mulsion Forte
• Chrome
• R-alpha lipoic acid (reduces glucose levels by up to 30%)
• Omega-3 Fish Oil with 400 IU Mixed Tocopherols
• Bio-Glycozyme Forte (use with hypoglycemia)
• fiber
• GlucoBalance (use with elevated triglycerides and ‘blood sugar’)
• ADHS (consider with increased glucose or triglycerides, hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex.
• Research and clinical feedback indicate that 7 Keto-DHEA is often effective in helping to improve elevated glucose levels. Also, 7-keto DHEA will not convert androgens to estrogen.
• resveratrol
• Silymarin, an antioxidant that can improve liver function (especially insulin-resistant liver cells) and blood sugar levels, has shown great promise in the effort to fully restore insulin sensitivity.
• Deficiencies of zinc, magnesium and potassium lead to insulin resistance.
• Improves insulin sensitivity: CoQ 10, L-Carnitine, Taurine, L-Arginine, Glutathione

SUPPLEMENTAL BOTANICALS for Insulin Resistance/Diabetes:

Fenugreek/flax seed potion for diabetes and insulin resistance:
Take on an empty stomach first thing in the morning
1 tablespoon freshly ground fenugreek seeds
1 tablespoon freshly ground flax seeds
1 tablespoon liquid chlorophyll
16 ounces of water

• Gymnema Sylvestre before meals helps repair the pancreas and damage to the liver and kidneys. Studies show that it can help repair damage to the pancreas, as well as reduce the amount of insulin that many diabetics need to maintain normal blood sugar levels. There is also research showing that it can lower triglyceride levels and help with weight loss.
• bitter gourd
• Banaba Tree Extract
• grape seed extract
• Cinnamon: Add to coffee with organic heavy cream to make it more insulin sensitive. Coffee has polyphenols that protect you from diabetes.
• Tea: Green tea, Pau d’arco, Astragalus, Burdock, Fenugreek

LIFESTYLE protocol for insulin resistance/type II diabetes:

• Ensuring a healthy intestinal flora. Consider CDSA (Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis).
• Go to bed at 10 pm and get up no earlier than 6 am Sleep deprivation alters the lipid profile, glucose metabolism, androgen production and blood pressure, the immune system and memory.
• Glucose levels are influenced by carbohydrate intake, stress, and glandular and liver function. Serum glucose: Optimal range – 80-95 mg/dL. 105 and > = adrenal problems
• Check blood glucose levels at least 2 times a day and before meals. If you are exercising, you will need to check your glucose levels more often.
• Obtain fasting serum glucose and insulin levels.
• Rule out food allergies with increased or decreased blood sugar.
• Discard loads of heavy metals, pesticides, other xenobiotics and inoculations. These may be loci of pancreatic dysfunction resulting in diabetes or hypoglycemia.
• Take care of your eyes: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness. It can cause retinopathy and other eye problems such as cataracts.

EXERCISE protocol for insulin resistance/type II diabetes:

• Start some kind of exercise routine. Walking is excellent for diabetes. A daily brisk walk of 3 mph lowers the risk of diabetes by 50%!
• Strength training is far superior to consistent aerobic exercise in preventing obesity and improving insulin resistance. Steady-state aerobic exercise ‘cortisol levels than ‘insulin levels.
• The power of being active should never be underestimated: from a short five-minute walk to forty-five-minute strength training sessions, everything counts towards reducing and eliminating prediabetes syndrome (insulin resistance).