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1. A Visual Demonstration on What is Type II Diabetes? (with Insulin
Resistance as well)
2. What is Insulin Resistance and how does it affect your body?
3. Artificial Sweeteners - Why they are not good for you.
4. Way to Support Your Immune System
5. How You can Avoid the Dangerous Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Drugs
What is Type II Diabetes?
We found this video on YouTube showing how the insulin works and then doesn't work resulting in Insulin Resistance and then in Type II Diabetes. (Disconnected)
For more information about Diabetes go to http://www.mcvitamins.com/diabetes.htm
What is Insulin Resistance and how does it affect your body?
There are 17 million diabetics in the United States and 80 million more who are in some stage of insulin resistance. A diet high in carbohydrates and lack of nutrition are the two main factors in creating insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a "pre-diabetic" condition, which, when it gets extreme, becomes type 2 diabetes. Below are two doctors clarifying how this condition develops and its effects on the body:
For more information go to Hypoglycemia, Insulin Resistance and "Pre-Diabetes go to http://www.mcvitamins.com/insulin-resistance.htm"When cells become resistant to insulin, the receptors on their surfaces designed to respond to insulin have begun to malfunction."
"It simply means that the receptors require more insulin to make them work properly in removing sugar from the blood. Whereas before they needed just a touch to lower it, now they need a continuous supply of excess insulin to keep blood sugar within normal range."
"As time goes by, blood sugar rises higher and stays up longer after the carbohydrate meal despite the enormous amount of insulin mustered to lower it. Bear in mind that were your doctor to check blood sugar during this stage of developing insulin resistance, your blood sugar would be perfectly normal. The major silent change taking place is the ever-growing quantity of insulin needed to keep it that way."
excerpted from Protein Power
by Doctors Michael and Mary Eades
"The liver becomes resistant first, then the muscle tissue, then the fat. What is the effect of insulin on the liver? It is to suppress the production of sugar by the liver.
"The sugar floating around in your body at any one time is the result of two things, the sugar that you have eaten and how much sugar your liver has made. When you wake up in the morning it is more of a reflection of how much sugar your liver has made. If your liver is listening to insulin properly it won't make much sugar in the middle of the night. If your liver is resistant, those brakes are lifted and your liver starts making a bunch of sugar so you wake up with a bunch of sugar.
"The next tissue to become resistant is the muscle tissue. What is the action of insulin in muscles? It allows your muscles to burn sugar for one thing. So if your muscles become resistant to insulin it can't burn that sugar that was just manufactured by the liver. So the liver is producing too much, the muscles can't burn it, and this raises your blood sugar.
"Well the fat cells become resistant, but not for a while. It is only after a while that they become resistant. It takes them longer. Liver first, muscle second, and then your fat cells.
"So for a while your fat cells retain their sensitivity. What is the action of insulin on your fat cells? To store that fat. It takes sugar and it stores it as fat. So until your fat cells become resistant you get fat, and that is what you see. As people become more and more insulin resistant, they get fat and their weight goes up.
"But eventually they plateau. They might plateau at three hundred pounds, two hundred and twenty pounds, one hundred and fifty pounds, but they will eventually plateau as the fat cells protect themselves and become insulin resistant.
"As all these major tissues, this massive body becomes resistant, your liver, muscles and fat, your pancreas is putting out more insulin to compensate, so you are hyperinsulinemic [having an abnormally high level of insulin in the blood] and you've got insulin floating around all the time.
"Insulin floating around in the blood causes a plaque build up. Insulin causes the blood to clot too readily. Insulin causes cells that accumulate fatty deposits. Every step of the way, insulin's got its fingers in it and is causing cardiovascular disease. It fills it with plaque, it constricts the arteries, it increases platelet adhesiveness and ability of the blood to coagulate [clot]. Any known cause of cardiovascular disease, insulin is a part of."
"If you want to know if insulin sensitivity can be restored to its original state, well, perhaps not to its original state, but you can restore it to the state of about a ten year old."
"You can increase sensitivity by diet and a lot of supplements."
excerpted from a talk at the Designs for Health Institute given by Dr. Ronald Rosedale, noted Diabetic Specialist
Banning Artificial Sweeteners from your Diet
Are artificial sweeteners something that you should use instead of sugar, or do they create problems of their own?
Ways to Support Your Immune System
Here is a list of things to do that will help your immune system and then, of course, your overall health.
http://products.mercola.com/immune-support/
How You can avoid the Dangerous Side Effects of Pharmaceutical Drugs
Pharmacists are walking encyclopedias of knowledge about the dangers of drugs and know the truth about how dangerous these drugs can really be to your health. There is a new book out on how you can avoid the dangerous side effects of drugs and even learn how to replace dangerous drugs with safe, natural and far more affordable health supplements.
Suzy Cohen is a licensed, practicing pharmacist who has served tens of thousands of customers in her professional career.
In her book she talks about drug robbing your body of essential nutrients that prevent disease and enhance your health. (Without a sufficient supply of these nutrients in your body, you eventually begin to show even more symptoms than you had when you started taking the drug in the first place!)
She reveals hundreds of drug safety warnings and tips. If you are taking drugs for any medical reason, her book is an important books to read. It's the drug safety manual.
Find out more here at Drug Muggers: How To Keep Your Medicine From Stealing the Life Out of You
Chemo Induced Neuropathy, or Neuropathy for Some other Reason?
I was diagnosed with colon cancer two years ago. I had chemotherapy for six months. The kind of chemotherapy given to me, left me with severe numbness in many parts of my body. It has been seventeen months since my last chemo treatment. I was told the numbness may never go away. I just would not give up.
I was looking at the Mayo Clinic web sight. I found at the top
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I have more strength in my body, a lot of the numbness has gone away, my hands
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being is such a blessing to me. I can feel the difference in my whole body. I
have taken this product just over a month. I cannot believe how this has helped
the pain I had.
Janet in North Carolina
"A few years ago, I burned the bottom of my feet. About two years ago, I noticed pain in my feet. My feet felt swollen and felt like they were on fire. I spoke to my doctor and he just said 'Neuropathy'.
"The pain became so severe I could not sleep as the spasms and burning sensation became very intense. I researched Neuropathy, and found your nerve product. I ordered one bottle to try. I started taking two capsules twice a day. In just two to three weeks I noticed that the burning sensation had become very minimal, and the spasms had subsided. The swelling sensation has also decreased dramatically.
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From Jonda in Arizona
Find out more successes: http://www.mcvitamins.com/WSN/NSF_Success.htm
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