We all know that Type 2 diabetes is an epidemic. Almost a crisis if you do those weekend newspapers, talking about obesity and diabetes. Rates of heart disease has declined since the escalation of margarine in 80 years, but diabetes has come to fill the void and start an epidemic
Here's my ultra-simple explanation of the insulin / blood sugar / diabetes type 2. The pharmaceutical industry does not care about you and is not in this business for the love of life. If this were the case, the drug would be much cheaper. The "tax" of our public health, have to think in public health, but also have to be careful not to step on toes of the social concern of some, but not if the economy keeps
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When you eat your body digests the macronutrients: carbohydrates, proteins - in fact, many different amino acids - and fats. (Anything that can not digest, like alcohol or fiber or toxins, or pass to direct the bloodstream and is filtered by the liver).
We measure these macronutrients in grams and calories, but your body works in terms of fuel. If you eat more fuel than your body needs - which is most people - the body is forced to store this excess. This ability to store excess fuel was an evolutionary imperative in a world that was in a state of "constant feast or famine" 50,000 years ago.
In terms, humans have become experts in efficient storage of fuel and were able to survive the rigors of a hostile environment and pass these genes to us. Thank you!
Keep in mind that each type of carbohydrate you eat is converted into a simple sugar called glucose directly in the intestine or after a brief visit to the liver. The truth is that all bread, pasta, cereals, potatoes, rice, fruit, desserts, sweets and soft drinks you eat and drink eventually cuts glucose. While glucose is a fuel, is also very toxic in excessive amounts, unless that is being burned inside their cells ..
He does so in the liver and muscles store some of the excess glucose as glycogen. This is the fuel of muscle aerobic exercise requer.Células pancreatic beta feel the abundance of glucose in the blood after a meal and secrete insulin, a peptide hormone whose function is to allow glucose (and fats and amino acids) have access to the interior of muscle cells and liver.
But here's the problem: since these cells are filled, mostly with sedentary people, the remainder of the glucose is converted into fat. Saturated fat.
Insulin was one of the hormones in living things to evolve. Virtually all animals secrete insulin as a means of storing excess nutrients. It makes sense that in a world where food was often scarce or nonexistent for long periods of time, our bodies become extremely efficient. How ironic, however, that there is the fat that gets stored as fat - it's sugar. And that's where the insulin insensitivity and all this kind of problem like diabetes 2 is confusing for most people, including their own government.
If we go back 10,000 years or more, we think our ancestors had very little access to sugar - or any carbohydrates. There was some fruit here and there, some berries, roots and shoots, but most of their carbohydrate fuel was locked inside a very fibrous matrix. In fact, some paleo-anthropologists suggest that our ancestors consumed, on average, only about 80 grams of carbohydrates per day.
Compare this to 350-600 grams per day in the typical diet today. The rest of their diet consisted of varying degrees of fat and protein. Since food was limited to carbohydrates, their effect on increasing insulin was minimal. In fact there was so little carbohydrate / glucose in the diet of our ancestors that we evolved in four ways to store them and only one way to get rid of excess we consume!
Today, when we eat too many carbohydrates, the pancreas pumps. But if the liver and muscle cells are already filled with glycogen, these cells begin to become resistant to insulin's appeal. The insulin "receptor" on the surface of these cells begin to decline in number and in efficiency.
The term is called "down regulation". The glucose can no longer enter into muscle cells or liver, it remains in circulation blood. Now the sensitivity of the pancreas feel there is too much toxin in the blood, then pump more insulin, which causes the insulin receptors on the surface of these cells become more resistant, because excess insulin is also toxic ! Eventually, insulin helps the glucose finds its way into fat cells, where it is stored as fat. Again - because it's worth repeating - not the fat that is stored in your fat cells - is sugar.
Over time, as we continue to eat diets rich in carbohydrates and do less exercise increases the degree of insulin insensitivity. If we do not take drastic measures to reduce carbohydrate intake and increased exercise, we developed several problems that will only get worse with time - and the drugs will not fix it.
Ready for this? Come on:
1) levels of glucose in blood is longer because the glucose can not play inside the muscle cells. This glucose is like toxic sludge into the bloodstream clogging the arteries, and forcing a binding protein for harmful form AGEs (advanced glycated end-products ) and causing inflammation. Some of this excess glucose contributes to an increase in triglycerides, increased risk of heart disease.
2) more sugar is stored as fat. Since muscle cells are getting less glycogen (because they are becoming resistant), and since insulin inhibits fat burning with the enzyme lipase, now you can not even burn the fat stored easily. You continue to gain weight until finally the fat cells become resistant.
3) It only gets better. Elevated insulin is longer because the pancreas thinks "a bit, not working, more would be better." Wrong. Insulin itself is very toxic at high levels, causing, among many other diseases, the buildup in the arteries (now rather because diabetics have heart disease) and increased cell proliferation in cancer.
4) Just as insulin resistance prevents sugar from entering muscle cells, but also prevents entry of amino acids. So now you can not build or maintain their muscles. To make matters worse, other parts of your body thinks it is not enough sugar stored in cells, so they send signals to begin to cannibalize your muscle tissue to gain the most precious - sugar!
You get fat and lose muscle. Woo hoo!
5) Your energy level drops, which makes you hungry for more carbohydrates and less willing to exercise. Do you really want more of the poison that is killing you.
6) When your liver becomes resistant insulin, which can not convert the thyroid hormone T4 into T3, so you get these mysterious problems of the "thyroid", which makes your metabolism slower.
7) You can develop neuropathy (nerve damage) and pain in extremities, such as damage caused by excess sugar destroys nerve tissue, and you may develop retinopathy and begins to lose his vision. It was fun.
Eventually, the pancreas is so weary that it can no longer produce insulin and you end up having to inject insulin to survive. And much, since they are resistant. Congratulations, you graduated from Diabetes Type 2 to type 1 diabetes.
That's the bad news. . But the good news is that there is a way to avoid it.
First exercise has an important impact in improving insulin sensitivity since muscles burn the stored glycogen as fuel during and after training.
Muscles that have been exercising desperately want to glucose in and "regulate the receptors' of insulin to accelerate the process. This is an exercise of reason and is so critical for type 2 diabetics to regain insulin sensitivity. It is also the reason why endurance athletes can eat 400 or 600 grams of carbohydrates per day and remain lean - they burn everything to make room for more.
The strength training appears to be as effective as aerobic activity, but a mixture of both is the best . And because you are now more "sensitive to insulin," you do not need a lot of excess insulin, which "regulates itself" and the fat-burning enzymes in order to burn the fat stored at a much higher rate during the day. Important amino acids and other vital nutrients have access to the cells when insulin sensitivity is high, then you're building or maintaining lean body mass (muscle) weight loss and fat loss or better.
Secondly, a cut in carbohydrates, especially sugars refined is absolutely essential . Make fresh vegetables as a base of the pyramid alimentar.Eu think completely ridiculous when I see a food pyramid that looks like it does not evolve, and suggests 60% carbohydrates. This is ridiculous, bordering on criminal. Think about what is good for human health from a perspective of the "primitive," Look at the genetic map. Look at the statistics and studies, if you like - or simply watch what is happening around you in cinemas in restaurants, cinemas and bars, in school - and you begin to understand the implications of a power out of tune. The proof is nothing short of overwhelming: intake of refined carbohydrates, sugar is extremely stressful for the body.
Not only diabetics should limit their intake of carbohydrates - all should. We are all in an evolutionary sense, be predisposed to become diabetic.
The general opinion is, of course, partly correct in that sugar does not necessarily "cause" diabetes - increasing scientific evidence demonstrating that genetic susceptibility plays a huge role in the potential of individuals to developing diabetes.! The basic argument comes down to this: the sugar does not cause diabetes, it is genetic. I could not agree more.
Let me just say that our shared genetic susceptibility to insulin resistance, inflammation, cardiovascular disease obesity and shows that any type of sugar or grain is the last thing that humans should eat. Studies indicate that we are not destined for consumption Açúcar.
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