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2. High Blood Sugar and Your Metabolic Health
3. Things that Slow Down Building Healthy Nerves
4. The Root Cause of Gout
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The Truth About Fentanyl Booklet
Two factors make fentanyl dangerous and deadly. One is its incredible potency. It is as much as 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. As little as two milligrams of pure fentanyl, which is only a few grains, can be a fatal dose.
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High Blood Sugar and Your Metabolic Health
High blood sugar as part of the metabolic syndrome is increasingly common, with dietary habits often contributing to weight gain and insulin resistance.
Understanding High Blood Sugar and the Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic health refers to how well your body converts food and stored energy into cellular fuel.
Your metabolism creates high blood sugars by allowing glucose to be absorbed from the gut and enter the bloodstream, thus causing blood glucose levels to rise. In response, your pancreas produces insulin, which helps the cells absorb glucose from the blood, lowering the blood sugar.
When metabolic dysfunction creates ineffectiveness of this process, it can contribute to raising blood sugar leading to insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.
How does blood sugar provide insight into your metabolic health?
Metabolic disorders affect how your body obtains energy from food. Blood sugar problems occur when the body either becomes resistant to insulin or fails to produce enough insulin, each resulting in high blood sugar. Over time, elevated blood sugar can lead to complications.
The Metabolic Syndrome : This is a cluster of conditions—high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, excess abdominal fat, and abnormal cholesterol levels—that together increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
The Role of Diet in Managing Blood Sugar and the Metabolic Syndrome
You thus want to make informed nutritional choices that may prevent or manage these conditions.
Research affirms that diet is key in managing and even preventing blood sugar and the metabolic syndrome. Here are practical dietary strategies and supplements to restore to your metabolic system:
Whole Foods over Processed Options
Choose whole foods like fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and healthy fats, which are nutrient-dense and lower in added sugars and unhealthy fats which results in stabilizing blood sugar and reducing insulin resistance by avoiding processed foods.
Fiber-Rich Foods
High-fiber foods help slow sugar absorption, prevent blood sugar spikes, and support weight management. Fiber also promotes fullness, which may help prevent overeating and improve weight control, an important factor in metabolic health.
Incorporate Healthy Fats
Healthy fats from sources like avocados, nuts, seeds, and olive oil can improve insulin sensitivity and reduce inflammation. A balanced fat intake supports metabolic function and hormone health.
Balanced Meals
A well-balanced meal should include a healthy combination of carbohydrates, protein, and fats. For instance, a meal with grilled chicken (protein), and a side of steamed broccoli (fiber & carbohydrates) can help maintain stable blood sugar. Find menus that include balanced meals, eat slowly, savoring each bite, and being aware of hunger cues can help you avoid overeating and improve digestion.
Hydration
Staying hydrated is essential for metabolism, digestion, and nutrient absorption. Replace sugary beverages with water or herbal teas. Staying hydrated can also curb cravings that may interfere with blood sugar control. Eat slowly, savoring each bite, and being aware of hunger cues can help you avoid overeating and improve digestion.
In addition to dietary changes, you should make lifestyle adjustments to support metabolic health:
Physical Activity: Regular exercise enhances insulin sensitivity, lowers blood sugar levels, and supports weight management.
Sleep Quality: There is role of quality sleep in blood sugar regulation, as poor sleep can increase cravings and hinder metabolic function.
A Practical Path to Healthier Living
Start with small, achievable dietary changes and lifestyle modifications. Healthy choice, no matter how small, brings you closer to a future free from the complications associated with the metabolic syndrome. Make gradual, sustainable changes.
Addressing the Metabolic Syndrome and the Gut with Nutritional Supplements
Pure Life Care+ is a formula that works at the cellular level to improve metabolism and gut health (your microbiome) and will thereby reduce insulin resistance and inflammation. Due to the quality of food available today, most people are deficient in the vitamins and minerals needed by the body for optimal health.
With all these positive nutritional effects of PureLife Care+ you will notice a difference in your health.
Things that Slow Down Building Healthy Nerves, and Slow Down Symptoms
Things that You Can Do to Lessen Neuropathy Symptoms
While working with clients to help them build healthy nerves, we’ve learned some things that can lengthen the time it takes to see an improvement.
One of the things we found is that some people are unknowingly creating a vitamin B deficiency as a result of their daily activities.
B vitamins are vital for healthy nerves.*
For example, some of the things that cause a B vitamin deficiency are heavy drinking of coffee, tea and soft drinks. This includes de-caffeinated coffee, tea and soft drinks. These beverages act as diuretics that cause the loss of both water and water-soluble B vitamins from the body.
Also, heavy smoking or drinking of alcohol, taking antibiotics, taking birth control pills, and stress can all burn up B vitamins. Smoking reduces blood flow and oxygen to your nerves, while alcohol interferes with nerve signaling and metabolism.
Sugar also burns B vitamins. Sugar also lowers immunity.
Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, said that the amount of sugar consumed by the American public is too high.
“It’s just about impossible,” Hu said, “to know from food labels what kinds and amounts of sugars are in a product.” That’s why he thinks the FDA should require food companies to list those amounts on all food labels so people know what they’re eating, in what amounts they’re eating it, and what amounts are safe.
In other words, don’t eat processed foods, or anything that contains sugar. When building health, sugar is detrimental.
The nervous system can be negatively impacted by sweeteners and additives contained in diet soda and processed foods such as MSG and aspartame, etc. If you need a sweetener, stevia is recommended.
And there are many prescription medications that list nerve problems as a side effect and this will slow down building healthy nerves. Paresthesia, neuropathy, numbness, tingling or any symptom of unhealthy nerves listed as a side effect is something you want to avoid.
If you are taking one or more of the medications listed below, it can greatly increase the amount of time to build healthy nerves. If you are taking any of these medications, you should talk to your medical doctor to see if he can find an alternative.
The following blood pressure medications are known to cause neuropathy as a side effect:
Aceon, Altace, Hydrochlorothiazide (HCT), Hydrodiuril, Lisinopril, Perindopril, Prinivil, Ramipril, Zestril.
The following cholesterol medications are known to cause neuropathy as a side effect:
Advicor, Altocor, Altoprev, Atorvastatin, Baycol, Caduet, Cerivastatin,
Crestor, Fluvastatin, Lescol, Lescol XL, Lipex, Lipitor, Lipobay, Lovastatin, Mevacor, Pravachol, Pravastatin, Pravigard Pac, Rosuvastatin, Simvastatin, Vytorin, Zocor.
You can also check any medication you may be taking to see if nerve problems are listed in the side effects. You can check on www.rxlist.com or drugs.com.
Many people have unhealthy nerves, you can build healthy nerves but knowing what can slow it down will help you get healthy nerves faster.
To understand what is needed for healthy nerves go to What it Takes to Build Healthy Nerves
*Studies & Research on Nerve Health
The Root Cause of Gout
If you’re battling gout, you’ve probably heard all about avoiding "trigger foods" like red meat or seafood. But here’s the truth, while some people with gout experience attacks after drinking beer, eating shellfish, or consuming sugar for most people, gout isn’t caused by a specific food trigger at all.
The real issue? High uric acid levels in your blood.
Here’s the thing, uric acid is a NORMAL byproduct in your body. Everyone has it.
But you need to be able to filter it out of your body. If you can’t get rid of it then you get symptoms.
If you’ve ever had gout, you know how PAINFUL it is but gout is only ONE of the symptoms of too much uric acid. Most people with too much uric acid DON’T GET GOUT.
High Uric Acid is linked to high blood pressure, heart disease, and even memory problems. So, keeping your levels in check is essential for more than just your joints.
Now, if you have a history of gout attacks, you need to know it’s not just about what you eat (even though food does play a big part) It’s about how your body works.
Why Do Uric Acid Levels Get So High?
There are two main reasons:
1.Your body makes too much uric acid.
2. Your body doesn’t get rid of enough uric acid.
You may be surprised to learn that for 90% of gout sufferers, the problem is the second one.
They can’t excrete uric acid properly and that causes painful crystals to form in their joints. The result? Inflammation, pain, and those dreaded gout flares.
What’s Stopping Your Body From Flushing Uric Acid?
In most cases, it comes down to insulin resistance.
When your insulin is high, your kidneys reabsorb uric acid instead of flushing it out. This keeps uric acid levels climbing and puts you at risk for gout.
The Secret Weapon: Water
Drinking more water can make a big difference.
Why? Because it helps your kidneys flush out uric acid every time you pee. Studies show that drinking at least 3 liters of water daily can significantly lower uric acid levels.
But remember, if you’re going to drink that much water, make sure you’re also getting enough electrolytes (like potassium, magnesium, and salt) otherwise, you risk flushing out key nutrients your body needs.
Fixing the Root Problem: Insulin
Since insulin resistance is a big reason for high uric acid because it stops your kidneys from excreting it, lowering your insulin levels can help.
This means you must improve your metabolic health.
(FYI - Rapid weight loss can temporarily trigger a gout flare if uric acid levels are high. Don’t give up—stay the course!)
Let’s summarize…
1. Fix insulin resistance.
2. Drink a lot more water.
3. Take electrolytes.
4. Build muscle
5. Avoid dehydration since it triggers a surge in uric acid.
Dr. Martin
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