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crash diet cure for diabetes, hello, i'm dr. emerson, i'm medical directorat eden valley lifestyle center. i wanted to sharewith you today some concepts about diabetes. our's is continuing on the talk we've donepreviously. and in that talk we discovered that diabetesstate can actually
be brought on fairly quickly with oils andanimal fats. dr. sweeney did this in with six medical students.they were able to induce the diabetic state in about two days. he was unable to do thesame thing with high sugar, or a high starch diet.we found that this has been confirmed in human studiesand animals studies since then. at this time we'd also like to look at someother aspects that can effect insulin resistance and diabetes.what we found initially was that when you take a sugar or starch,its a review, your blood sugar would go up, the pancreas would sense that, release insulinand insulin
would act as a little key, which would gointo the cells of each of the doors, open up the doors,allow the sugar to leave the blood and go in the cells and be burned.this will bring your blood sugar down. and that's the way it's suppose to work.we found as the animals products, the fats, the oils will tend to go in to the body whenthey're ingested and then plug up those insulin receptors.so that now when you take a sugar or starch, blood sugar goes up, insulin is released,can't get in the key holes, doors are shut and the blood sugars rise, because they havenowhere to go. and, that was essentially what we covered.that's how insulin resistance can be induced
actually fairly quickly. there are some otherfactors that we now know effect diabetes as well.among those are understanding of what fiber does for us,fiber in the plant foods, also something called the glycemic index of foods, in carbohydrates.and also, something found in grains, that whole grains have,which help protect us against diabetes, but refined grains do not have. so, firstlywhat, what does fiber do to protect us from diabetes.actually one of the things fiber does is it acts as a sponge.it, when it's eaten with sugars or carbohydrates, it hangs on the fluid and sugar, and thatfiber helps release
the sugar into the blood stream from the gutslowly, overtime. when fiber is not there,we tend to get a rather severe jolt of sugar, which is released in the blood stream fairlyquickly. this is illustrating some tests done withapple juice and apples what they found is that if a person eats anapple, which has the sugar with the fiber,the sugar is in the gut and it's absorbed by the fiberand it's released into the blood stream fairly slowly.the sugar rises, the pancreas senses this, releases a normal amount of insulin and thishelps
slow the rise and helps prevent the bloodsugar from going too high. if it gets to stays belowand then it starts coming back down and as the sugar drops,the insulin levels drop as well and the sugar plateausat about or or so and does not drop too low. and this is the way it's supposed to work.if on the other hand, we take that same apple, the same calories, same caloriesand take it in the form of apple juice. we find is,when that's entered into the gut, the sugar goes intothe blood stream very quickly. there is no fiberto slow it down. the blood sugar starts to
go upfairly quickly, fairly dramatically. the pancreas kind of overreacts, releasesa lot of insulin to prevent the blood sugar from going toohigh. while the insulin load goes into the blood,it starts, the sugar coming down again. this time the sugar comes down, but as itapproaches say normal at a or , there is no more sugar in the gutcoming into the blood stream, because its come in so quickly,there is nothing left. so, the sugar supply to the bloodis cut off, but there is still a lot of insulin in the blood and that drives the blood sugartoo low.
this will make a person hypoglycemic maybein hour or two hours after the high sugaring meal.and this is where they may get hypoglycemic, have a hypoglycemic reaction, get shaky,tremor-y and at that point they feel a need tohave a coffee break. and, this is where the o'clock coffee breakcomes in people needing to get something to get theirsugars up again. they will take many times a caffeinated beverage,which can stimulate blood sugar rise even without sugarand then they have a sugary meal which sends the blood sugar up again. this causes a bloodsugar
drop again and the cycle is repeated.and this is a cyclic problem then, that happens around noonor o'clock in the afternoon after they have a sugary meal at lunch,they get another spike and drop. then at o'clock they need another sugar fix,things go up, they come crashing down around o'clock, you have to have meal.and the meal is another sugary meal, it causes blood sugar to go up and aroundo'clock it comes crashing down. you've to have anothersnack and then you go to sleep and hopefully youcan make it through the night without having another sugardive.
i experienced this in college and it occurredto me in college i said this is strange, you know,i used to be able to go from breakfast to lunchwithout having to have a o'clock sugar fix. and, when i went back to a high fiber diet,plant-based diet without the sugary spikes, i was able to go from breakfast to lunch withouthaving a hypoglycemic episode or needing the coffeebreaks. another factor in foods that can helpeven out your blood sugars, especially if you are diabetic is a concept of a glycemicindex. glycemic index is how fast sugar goes fromyour gut
into your bloodstream and if this happensslowly, you have a low glycemic index food.if you have a high glycemic index food, the same calories will go into your bloodstreamvery quickly and cause a sugar spike and you're at riskfor that hypoglycemic episode again. high glycemic index foods, sugar, table sugarhas about the same high glycemic index as refined whiteflour. potatoes, white potatoes have a high glycemicindex. the low glycemic index foods which are thebest especially for people coming off of the diabetic statewould be the
lentils, beans, peas, these are the legumefamilies. they release their sugar into the bloodstreamvery slowly over a long period of time. even sweet potatoes have a low glycemic index.and, you can actually go to nutrition books and get tables of food with different glycemicindexes. they have shown that... we've experiencedthat if you want to even out your blood sugars.if you have large bowl of beans or lentils for breakfast,one or two bowls, you will find that you are able to lastfrom breakfast o usually about o'clock in the afternoon,without getting hungry or having those crashes.
it's very effective for diabetics and helpingthem control the blood sugars. another aspect offoods that can help prevent diabetes are the wholegrains. they have found that whole grains can decreaseinsulin resistance. they also reduce your riskof diabetes and your risk of heart disease. and this is independent of the fiber that'sin the whole grains so, we believe that it has something to dowith the phytochemicals that are in whole grainswhich are removed when you take out the bran and thegerm.
in processing foods, the grains, the bran,the outside covering of the grain, as well as the germare many times removed and those have over percentof the phytochemicals. and these chemicals are chemicals your body uses to helpprevent diabetes and also help prevent cancers. this strengthens your immune system,you can't get these phytochemicals from animal products, they have to be obtainedin your foods. and, whole grains are one of the best sourcesof these, and we believe that's one of the reasons whywhole grains can prevent diabetes. we want to talk another, about another conceptin diabetes now.
if you recall, dr. anderson was able to getdiabetics who were on their pills, about percentof them off their pills on a plant-based diet. if they were taking insulin, he was able toget about percent of the patients on insulin off theirmedications. the question is, why wasn't it a percent?was there something else going on which was preventing that small percentage from beingable to be come off their pills and the answer is yes.there is something that we now understand is called beta cell burnout. beta cell burnoutis when the beta cells in the pancreaswhich produce the insulin start burning out.
they stop being able to produce and releaseinsulin. they've found that unless you have beta cellburnout, the insulin resistance will not progress todiabetes. in other words, in order to get diabetes,you've got to have insulin resistance, plus this beta cells burnout. now we are again,we are talking about type diabetes. they did some baboon studies to illustratethis. they took some normal healthy baboons,they gave them nicotinic acid, which causes marked insulinresistance in the doses that they gave them to these baboons.but, the baboons responded by just increasing
the amount ofinsulin they released and they overcame this insulin resistanceand, this allowed them to prevent their blood sugarsfrom going too high. next, they took some baboonsand this time they destroyed half of the pancreas with a special poison. now their pancreaswas only half there. now when they gave them the nicotinic acidthe insulin resistance rose, the pancreas tried to compensate by releasingmore insulin, but was unable to do so, because half of itwas missing and they went on to develop diabetes.so they needed the both components to develop
diabetes,insulin resistance plus beta cell burnout. they have also observed that in humans thereis a particular rare genetic dysfunction which causesa severe insulin resistance. but, many times these patientsdo not develop diabetes because their pancreas is able to just produce more insulin and compensatefor it, so the blood sugars can stay in the normalrange. what they have found with beta cell burnoutis that it occurs, or starts to occur years before the diagnosisof diabetes and, this is also where you can findinsulin resistance starting to increase.
what they are finding is that for about yearsbefore the diagnosis of diabetes, until after about years they are then diagnosedwith diabetes what happens as the insulin resistance increasesinitially is the pancreas just releases more insulinto compensate for it. so insulin levels actually go up,up, until the time of diagnosis, say at years after the start of this process.during that time of increasing insulin resistance beta cell function is continuingto drop. now beta cell function, god has produced uswith a big reserve, so that they may, a normal person maybe ableto produce
maybe say times as much insulinas they would really need. but by the time of diagnosisof diabetes, that beta cell function is percent, it may only be able to produce maybe fivetimes as much insulin or somewhere in that neighborhood.and at this time, the insulin resistance however has increased to a point where itmay need that much more insulin to keep the blood sugarscontrolled. so after years the pancreas can no longerkeep up with the insulin resistance and now the blood sugarstarts to rise. and, now the doctors say oh, your blood sugarsare rising
and you get diagnosed with diabetes.what causes beta cell burnout? well there are many theories,some thoughts were that well high blood sugars would be toxic to the pancreatic cellsor there are some glycosylation of pro teins or sugarswere combined with the proteins in the pancreas and that would cause damage or amyloid deposition.but all of these processes required high blood sugars.and, as we noted, this beta cell burnout occurs years before the diagnosis of diabeteswhen the blood sugars are normal. so, they had to understand or find a differentmechanism and they found that the mechanism was mostlikely
is what they call lipotoxicity.when you have insulin resistance, two things happen,your triglycerides go up, that's the fat in the blood and insulin levelsrise. now insulin not only drives sugar into cellsto be burned or stored. it not only drivessugar into those cells to be stored, but insulin will also drive fat into fat cellsto be stored. it will drive fat into liver cells causingfatty liver, but it can also cause dry fat into pancreaticcells which can cause beta cell burnout.it could be toxic to those pancreatic cells.
what we found also is that this has beenconfirmed with the pima indians and caucasians. what they found is that if they give a highfat diet to these groups of people, very soon,the beta cell function starts decreasing. and it's related to the fat in the diet,the insulin resistance and the high triglycerides and the increase in insulin that is beingproduced, causing that lipotoxicity in the pancreas.well, many patients want to know, how do i know if my pancreas is working,or how well it's working? if their pancreas is working well,if they are producing enough insulin, then if we just get rid of the insulin resistance,we would expect to be able to get them off
the medications.however, if their pancreas is working at a very low level,where they are not producing much insulin at all,even though you get rid of the insulin resistance, you still have a second problem where you'renot producing enough insulin and they still need insulinto maintain their blood sugars. so, how do i know, howdo i know? well, there is a test called c-terminal peptide,which you can ask your doctor about. you can obtain, it's just a simple blood test.what happens is insulin is, starts as proinsulin and it's protein and to turn it into insulin,one of the ends is broken off, that's called
thec- terminal peptide end, it's broken off and kind of thrown away into the bloodand what's left is your insulin, the insulin goes outand does the work it's suppose to do. but, the c-terminal peptide floats aroundthe blood stream and its level can let you know how much you'reproducing. now, if i inject insulin there is noc- terminal peptide in the insulin i'm injecting. so, even if a patient is taking insulin,we can measure their c- peptide and it will tell ushow much insulin that person is making, even apart from the insulin they are gettinginjected.
so, what's normally done is we give a sugarymeal or something to drive the sugar up above .this will stimulate the pancreas to release as much insulin as it can.and then once the blood sugar is above we draw a blood test and we measure the c-peptidelevel. if a c-peptide level is four or above,that generally indicates fairly good pancreatic functionand you would have a very good chance of getting off your medicines, if you were to changeyour diet and get rid of the insulin resistance.if on the other hand it's two or less, chances are not as good,chances are less likely that you are going
to be able to get offyour medications even if you get rid of the insulin resistance,because you're still going to need to produce more insulin and that may take sometime tocorrect. well the next question that wouldfollow is beta cell burnout reversible? and the good news is there is evidence thatyes it is. there are some drugs, tcd's they are called.they're a class of drug which helps decrease insulin resistance, as well as decrease triglyceridelevels. and, these two factors tend to increasethe function of the beta cell if the medicines are started soon enough.they can increase and some tests have shown
as much as % increase in beta cell functionin as little as months. the problem with these is that they are someside effects and they will cause usually to poundweight gain during that time period. something most diabetics would like to avoid.on the other hand, if you move to a plant based diet,you can also drop your triglycerides, decrease insulin resistance and beta cellfunction can increase. it may take , months, months,it may take sometime for that beta cell function to increase.but if a person persist on it, this is something that they can hope forand actually measure and follow
and see if the pancreas is indeed gettingbetter. the nice thing about a plant based dietis it doesn't cause the weight gain that the tcd's will cause.in fact it can cause in general a weight loss, and that's something that again mostdiabetics are looking forward to. well, at the beginning of our first talk ondiabetics we described a lady who came into our officeand i wanted to tell you the rest of the story. if you remember her name is tony,and she came into the office she rolled in, in a wheel chair. ft , she is actuallypounds she was blind from a diabetics she was on units of insulin a day.she had high blood pressure, she had high
cholesterol.and, as you now know this is all part of the insulin resistancesyndrome. its part of the insulin resistance that shehas and it was causing all of these problems.she had... the blindness was from a diabetic retinopathya common side effect of diabetes. well, i shared with her basically the thingsthat i shared with you and she did something very strange, very unusual,something we weren't really excepting, she actually did everything we asked her todo. she was in a wheel chair, she wasn't ableto exercise
or get around much at all, but she moved toplant based diet. no calorie restriction in a wheel chair,no real exercise. but within about months, her blood pressure started coming down.and as the blood pressure comes down, we had to start taking her off her blood pressuremedicines or it would go too low. in about months,she was off of her blood pressure medicines not needing that anymore.she continued on her program and we had to start decreasing her insulinlevel, her insulin doses because her blood sugarswere starting to go too low. her blood sugars started coming downand also we followed her cholesterol levels,
her cholesterol levels started coming down.at the end of one year, her cholesterol had droppedso low that we had to take her off of her cholesterol medicines.and at the end of a year she was off of her insulin.she's gotten off of her insulin. she was just on some oral medications at thattime. the other amazing thing we found was thather weight started dropping. she went from down to in years.that was approximately a pound a week with no calorie restriction, no exercise,she was in a wheel chair and just by changing to a plant-based diet.she was then able to get a knee surgery
from orthopedic surgeon and she started walkingagain. and as long as she stayed on the program,blood sugar stayed good, blood pressure stayed good,cholesterol stayed good. if she strayed off the program,started having animal products again. blood sugars will start to rise, cholesterolrise, blood pressure would rise, weight would rise.she had to come back on track to even it out again.and, she did very well as long as she stayed on the program.so, the take home message is that, what we found is that on a animal based diet,american diet, lot of fats will go in
and plug up those insulin receptors.so that when you take a sugar starch blood sugar goes up, insulin is releasedcan't get in the key holes, doors are stuck and the blood sugars rise,that's insulin resistance. when this happens the pancreas compensates by releasing moreinsulin. that insulin tends to drive fat into fat cells,making people heavy, drives fat into liver cellscausing fatty liver, drives fat into pancreatic cellscausing beta cell burn out. and with time the beta cells will start toburn out, you have decreased production of insulinand with time then you'll have both beta cell
miss function,not enough insulin being able to be produced to compensate for the insulin resistancethat the american diet has. if you choose like tony did, to go on a plantbased diet this can reverse.insulin resistance generally reverses within or days,sometimes a week or two, usually or days. beta cell function on the other handmay take , months or longer before it can recover and recoup.so, for patients who are on diabetic medications, wanting to make a change,we encourage you to work with your doctor, say, you know i'm gonna try a lifestyle change.i want to be letting you know, what my blood
sugars areas the blood sugars come down stay in touch with your doctor, so he canadjust your insulin, so that your blood sugars don't go too low.you want to keep in touch with him, so that you can make those adjustments asneeded. and, as you make these changes what shouldoccur, what you should be watching for,is blood sugar should be dropping, blood pressure should be dropping.you would need to keep your doctor apprised to those,so that if needed he can adjust your blood pressures down.weight should be dropping,
cholesterol levels should be dropping,and again it would be good to keep a check on your cholesterol,because if you're on cholesterol medicines you do have a good chanceof being able to get off your cholesterol medicines.so you want to keep in touch with him, keep him appraised,so that you're not over medicating yourself. these are things that god has given us,the plant-based foods, which can strengthen the body.in many cases, reverse and heel the body even after many damage has been done.as we move back to the original diet that was given to us in the garden of eden.we find that many diseases and illnesses
can in fact reverse and improve.so, i encourage you to take a challenge, try some of these lifestyle changesand i wish you god's blessing and his health, for he does desire you to be in good health.we thank you for listening and we hope that you can experience the healthand strength that god desires you to have. again, thank you for listening.we hope you'll tune in again next time for more talks.
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