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Program Code: BB000005S
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00:27 Greetings once again, this is part five of an eight-part
00:30 series called Body Battles. 00:32 We are talking about our health and the war that we are in 00:35 between our body and diseases that just surround us. 00:41 How to get over the hump on these things, how to live longer 00:45 how to be healthier, happier, save money, and just be able to 00:49 be useful and be with our families and our loved ones 00:53 for as long as possible. 00:54 So, this is again part five and I want to start out with 00:57 a Bible verse in Psalm 103. Psalm 103 verses 2 to 5. 01:04 The Bible says bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not 01:09 His benefits. Who forgives all your iniquities, or sins, 01:14 and who heals all your diseases. Who redeems your life from 01:19 destruction and who crowns you with loving kindnesses and 01:23 tender mercies. Who satisfies your mouth with good things 01:27 so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. 01:31 I'm here with Jack Mcintosh who's my guest for this series, 01:35 he is a Health Educator 01:36 he's been on the radio, on television, he's dedicated 01:38 his life to understanding the body and Jack before we 01:42 get into this topic, which, by the way, is called Reversing 01:46 dia...not diabetes but Diabesity 01:50 So Jack as I look at this text, this passage in the Bible 01:54 talks about healing diseases, God healing our diseases 01:59 saving us and redeeming us from destruction. 02:02 We have a lot of forces of destruction, we have a lot 02:05 destructive habits around us in things that we do... 02:08 And then it also talks about our mouths, a lot of that is 02:12 connected to what we eat and what we put in... 02:14 And it says that God satisfies our mouth with good things. 02:18 So, Reversing Diabesity, that's our title and I think 02:23 about the word diabesity, I've never heard that word before. 02:27 I've heard of diabetes and I've heard of obesity, 02:29 is that a word that you've made up? Diabesity? 02:32 No, actually a very smart researcher, I guess it was 02:38 at UCLA made up that word. 02:39 Okay. I don't recall his name right now but it's essentially 02:44 what it's trying to communicate that word is that diabetes 02:49 and obesity are related. 02:51 They're part of this syndrome that we call metabolic syndrome, 02:59 this cluster of disease risk factors, hypertension, diabetes, 03:04 high cholesterol, obesity, they tend to cluster in people 03:09 and some people will only have one of those and some people 03:13 will have two or three, or have all four. 03:15 But these risk factors tend to drive disease and it turns out 03:20 that diabetes and obesity are... in fact, they have common 03:25 causes and they lead to both diabetes and obesity. 03:31 And how big of a problem is this? 03:34 I mean we're talking about weight, how big of an issue 03:37 is this? Well of course in terms of being overweight 03:42 we know that somewhere between 65/68% of us are overweight. 03:48 We know that the problem of insulin resistance which is 03:55 what really drives type 2 diabetes... 03:59 The latest figure I saw or heard from for instance 04:04 Dr. Wes Youngberg was that it's somewhere between 80 and 90% 04:10 of them are insulin resistant right now in this country 04:13 so it's a huge problem. Insulin resistance is the pre-cursor 04:18 of diabetes, it leads to diabetes and we'll talk about 04:23 some of the reasons for insulin resistance. 04:27 I kind of think they tie into topics that we've already 04:30 covered like exercise, eating too much food and not getting 04:36 enough energy out through exercise, that leads to the 04:40 build-up of the sugar that doesn't get into the cells 04:43 and then it stays in the blood stream and then we have lots of 04:45 problems. Lots of problems cascade from that problem 04:51 of the high blood sugar but... 04:52 The high blood sugar is really the symptom, it's not the cause. 04:58 The cause is insulin resistance. The problem in America 05:04 is that just about all of the medical interventions try to 05:12 control the blood sugar and the blood-sugar is a symptom. 05:16 But insulin resistance is what's under there that's generating 05:21 the blood-sugar problem. 05:23 And just explain in a simple way what is insulin resistance? 05:27 Okay, so well, let's talk about Type 2 diabetes first, 05:35 what it is and what it is not and then we'll talk about 05:38 insulin resistance and what's the root of the Type 2 diabetes 05:43 problem. What Type 2 diabetes is not is high-blood sugar. 05:49 This is what most Americans believe, they say I have high 05:53 blood sugar so I am diabetic. That's not it at all. 05:57 It's also...Type 2 diabetes is also due to an absence 06:05 of pharmaceuticals... You know when you go and you're diabetic 06:09 and you're diagnosed, you would think that in order to solve 06:12 the problem, you would get to the root of what is causing 06:15 the diabetes which in insulin- resistance. 06:18 Instead, they give you medication to increase your insulin so that 06:22 you can manage your blood- sugars. 06:24 Well, that's not the answers to the problems so Type 2 diabetes 06:29 is an insulin-resistance problem and insulin-resistance 06:33 is caused by essentially what they call what's referred to as 06:40 intramyocellular. That means that animal fats 06:47 that are eaten in excess in the American diet 06:53 tend to gum up the mechanisms that cause the insulin receptors 06:59 that cause sugar to move into the cell. So all of us know 07:04 that in order for sugar to move into the cell, it requires 07:10 the hormone, that hormone is insulin. 07:13 So think of insulin as having the key to the lock on the cell 07:19 the insulin-receptor. 07:20 And the insulin comes from the pancreas...From the 07:25 pancreas, released from the pancreas... 07:27 So we eat our food and whether it is starch or too much 07:30 complex carbohydrates, too much sugar, it gets into the 07:34 body and then the pancreas put out insulin to get that sugar 07:40 into the cells. Into the cells, right. They just kind of links 07:43 with it and tries to get it in but it can't get it in 07:45 so it stays in the bloodstream, that's where you have 07:48 high blood sugar. That's right. So the high blood sugar is 07:51 the symptom, the problem is the intramyocellular fat that's 07:55 gumming up the insulin receptors... 07:56 So the insulin can't get the sugar into the cells. 07:59 So you have to solve that problem before you can really 08:03 do anything. So that's a problem. Secondarily 08:09 we have stages in terms of the diabetes problem. 08:15 We have pre-diabetes and then full-blown diabetes. 08:20 Wo for instance American Diabetes Association defines 08:25 pre-diabetes as fasting blood sugar of a hundred or more 08:31 100 to 125 you're pre-diabetic, let's say you are going for a 08:39 blood test tomorrow morning at 7:00 and they'll say to you 08:43 okay, we want a fasting blood sugar so that means you don't 08:46 eat anything after 7:00 tonight. So, when you get to the lab 08:51 you have been fasting for 12 hours at least and so that's 08:56 a fasting blood sugar level and if that's 100 or 105 you're 09:00 pre-diabetic. Now when you go to the lab if your blood-sugar 09:06 levels turn out to be 126 or more, you're officially diabetic, 09:12 that's according to American Diabetes Association. 09:16 The other marker that's used is the hemoglobin A1c. 09:20 Now that's an interesting marker because it has to do 09:25 with something called glycated hemoglobin. 09:28 How much glycated (meaning sugar) how much sugar is 09:31 attached to your hemoglobin? 09:33 Your red blood cells get glycated, sugar attaches 09:40 and it turns out that when your hemoglobin A1c gets to be 09:48 six or more, between six and seven you're pre-diabetic. 09:53 When your hemoglobin A1c is seven or higher, then you are 09:58 officially diabetic. Now the hemoglobin A1c is a three month 10:04 average, the average red blood cell last about 90 to 120 days 10:09 and it dies, it's replaced. Normally when you breathe in, 10:15 your lungs transfer the oxygen into the hemoglobin that's 10:22 flowing through the capillary system there and the hemoglobin 10:28 locks on to the oxygen and takes it to the cell and releases it. 10:33 And the cell uses the oxygen and the sugar that's coming in 10:37 to make energy, ATP, the energy that we run on, that's how it 10:41 works. The sugar comes into provide the energy and combined 10:45 with oxygen, it produces the energy that we run on, 10:49 this ATP. Okay, now when it comes to the red blood cell 10:58 becoming glycated, in other words, the sugar attaching, 11:02 it turns out that when the regular oxygen exchange takes 11:08 place, it's a reversible reaction where it releases 11:12 the oxygen goes on its merry way comes round back to the 11:17 lungs picks up more oxygen and then goes down to the cells 11:21 and releases it. So it's reversible, here's the problem, 11:24 when your red blood cells pick up sugar and lock on to sugar, 11:28 we're done, it never releases it, it's irreversible. 11:33 So what has to happen is that red-blood cell has to die 11:39 in 90 days to 120 days in order for you to get rid of that 11:42 glycated hemoglobin and that problem with glycated hemoglobin 11:46 is that it is toxic, it tears up your arteries, 11:50 it causes heart disease. In fact the number one killer 11:54 of diabetics is a heart attack. And the reason is because 11:59 glycated hemoglobin, sugar attached to your red blood cells 12:02 accelerates arterial damage, really accelerates it 12:08 and so it causes heart disease, number one killer of diabetics. 12:13 How does it do that? 12:14 Well because it's a free radical, it causes the 12:19 endothelium, the lining of the arteries it compromises it, 12:25 tears it up basically damages it. 12:27 So you want your blood sugar to be lower so that you don't 12:33 cause hemoglobin to attach to your red-blood cell because 12:38 when your blood sugars are high, that's what happens. 12:40 A lot of sugar in your blood stream. To much sugar attaches 12:43 to your red blood cells and that's toxic, free-radical. 12:46 Goes and starts compromising your arteries, damaging your 12:51 arteries at an accelerated rate, don't forget that. 12:54 It accelerated damage of the arterial lining and so 12:58 the problem is that high-blood sugar is creating the problem 13:05 with the heart disease for the diabetic and it is the 13:08 number one killer of diabetics. 13:10 So what we have to do is lower the blood sugar in order to 13:16 stop that problem. But in order to lower the blood sugar 13:19 you can either treat it with drugs which is to make the 13:22 pancreas produce more insulin, but that's not really 13:25 solving the problem. Hold on, if the pancreas produces more 13:30 insulin with the medication, does that more insulin force 13:36 the sugar into the cells and out of the bloodstream? 13:39 It's a way to try to force it yes and more insulin will 13:42 make more sugar go into the cell, but here's the problem, 13:46 the more insulin you have, the more fat you store. 13:49 Insulin increases fat storage so the more you take those 13:52 drugs, the fatter you get and the more you resist your own 13:56 insulin so you see you're doing like this, you're going down 14:00 and down and down. Pretty soon you've gone from 14:03 oral medications, Glucophage, Glyburide you know all those 14:09 and pretty soon you're getting more and more resistant to your 14:12 insulin and then the doctor says okay, now we have to put you 14:15 insulin shots. So now you've gone from oral medication 14:19 to shots but you're getting fatter and fatter and fatter 14:22 and so you are just resisting your insulin more and more 14:25 and more you're going down and going down. 14:28 So, as far as our whole title of this whole series 14:31 with your Body Battles, there's a battle going on inside between 14:36 the insulin and the sugar and the cells and the fat trying to 14:40 get the sugar into the cells and then like we talked about 14:43 in the last program, exercise if that's probably a 14:47 key component of this isn't it. Absolutely key component. 14:52 Getting in too much food which then turns into sugar 14:55 but we're not moving around as much then the cells really 15:00 don't need that sugar because the part of the sugar that 15:05 is converted to...the body converts it into energy 15:10 in order for you to move and if you're not moving then you 15:12 don't need it. You store it as fat. 15:14 Yeah, it just stores into fat and then you're...the clogging 15:18 increases and so and then the insulin can't get it inside 15:22 and it's a vicious cycle. going on right inside 15:27 of the body. 15:28 Alight, so now let's get solution oriented. Yes. 15:30 Let's talk about how we solve this problem, 15:33 we don't...and again I want to say carefully that diabetes 15:39 is not caused by an absence of medications, and it is not 15:44 a blood-sugar problem, it is an insulin-resistance problem. 15:48 So, we must solve the insulin- resistance problem, 15:51 how do you solve it? 15:52 The first thing you have to do is start moving, 15:55 and the reason you have to start moving is because when 15:59 you start to move, the body req...every time you take a 16:03 step, these large leg muscles require sugar in order to move. 16:10 So it's requiring sugar for me to do this? 16:12 Yes. You got to get sugar into the cell in order for this muscle 16:16 to move and to do what... So what you have to do is 16:19 place a demand on the large leg muscles of the body because 16:23 they are voracious when it comes to sugar, 16:26 they require a lot of sugar, a lot of energy. 16:28 So what you want to do is get moving. 16:31 Now, here is what happens when you get moving. 16:33 When you get moving the muscles realize, you know what? 16:38 this ain't working, you got to have more sugars. 16:41 So guess what it does? It puts out brand new insulin receptors 16:45 to accommodate the need for more sugar into the muscle cells. 16:49 I got it. And then you start to burn up intramyocellular 16:53 fat that is clogging up the receptors...It get converted 16:57 back into sugar the insulin brings it into the muscles. 17:01 So you are solving the insulin resistance problem by moving 17:06 because by moving you create a demand for sugar in the 17:09 muscles. That is the answer to the insulin-resistance 17:12 problem, it's not medication. 17:15 And even though some people do require medication 17:18 the largest majority of people if they will get out and walk, 17:23 now here it is, this is what most people don't want to do 17:26 they want to take the meds. Thirty minutes twice a day 17:29 this is how you reverse insulin- resistance in Type 2 diabetes. 17:33 Brisk walk 30 minutes twice a day, you create that demand 17:38 for sugar in the muscles and when you create that demand, 17:42 what happens is you put out brand new insulin-receptors 17:48 on the muscle cells, millions of them to move the sugar in, 17:52 right? And you also start to burn up that intramyocellular 17:56 fat again that's blocking the receptors and so now you start 18:01 to fire on all eight cylinders, you're not firing on two 18:05 cylinders anymore. And so those new receptors 18:07 that are created they are not clogged, right? 18:11 They're moving that sugar... That sugar can go and the 18:13 insulin can bring it in without running into a wall of fat 18:16 because this is a new receptor, it's been created by demand. 18:21 Created by the demand. I'm just going to keep my legs 18:24 moving so I can... Oh yeah, absolutely. 18:26 So I can increase my receptors. So that is the key, then of 18:30 course you need to make the dietary changes. 18:33 You need to go on a, what we call an Eden diet, 18:38 what everybody out there calls the plant-based diet 18:41 because that diet is high in fiber and causes a slow release 18:47 of sugar which means you don't need as much insulin, number one 18:51 and if you are not eating large amounts of saturated fat, 18:56 you don't gum up the system... You don't block the receptors. 19:00 Exactly. So eating foods that come straight from the hand 19:06 of the creator...our design to keep up healthy and prevent 19:11 disease and so when you do that the combination of the diet, 19:15 the Eden Diet, and the walking program is extremely powerful 19:21 one potentiates the other, one makes the other more powerful. 19:25 I see, so just by eating more natural foods that grow in the 19:30 ground that you increase your diet of whole foods, 19:35 whole natural foods that have the fiber in them so the sugar's 19:40 released more slowly, it doesn't have the saturated fat... 19:45 From the animal products right? So the receptors aren't clogged 19:49 and if you're moving you're creating more receptors and the 19:53 the food gets in and there is not as much clogging. 19:56 Right. I think I can wrap my mind around that. 19:59 So you really have in essence the solution to this problem? 20:08 But it is a very difficult thing to get people to understand 20:13 that you can reverse diabetes in the absence of pharmaceuticals. 20:20 Right, rather than just manage it with drugs. Yeah, managing... 20:24 managing blood sugars is what they're doing, 20:26 they're not even managing insulin-resistance 20:28 which is the cause, they're managing the symptom 20:31 blood-sugars, because you are producing more insulin 20:34 and again, we get fatter and fatter 20:37 so we really have to look at that problem. 20:42 Now, one of the other problems that we have is that the 20:49 refined carbohydrates that people are drinking sweet drinks 20:52 that do so much to drive obesity. 20:55 Part of the problem is that they are loaded with fructose 21:01 and fructose really drives obesity and drives that 21:05 fat connection there that we talked about. 21:09 In fact Dr. Richard Johnson, University of Colorado 21:16 I think he is the head of the Renal Division there of the 21:19 hospital, he talks about some- thing called the fat switch 21:24 and that's where fructose is metabolized differently 21:29 from sugar. Sugar requires an insulin response, 21:33 fructose does not require an insulin response, it does not 21:37 stimulate insulin, it's metabolized by the liver 21:41 so when you are getting lots of fructose in the diet, 21:45 what happens is that because you're not stimulating 21:50 any insulin, you don't also stimulate Leptin which 21:54 controls your appetite. So these people who are taking 21:57 large amounts of these sweet drinks, high fructose corn syrup 22:01 drinks, they don't know when to stop because they're not 22:04 releasing Leptin. Leptin controls your appetite... 22:07 It tells the body I'm done. Yeah. 22:10 And I don't need anymore. But Leptin is released by 22:13 insulin, it's stimulated by insulin so when you're not 22:19 utilizing insulin in the proper way, and it's being metabolized 22:24 by the liver and you're not getting any insulin response 22:27 guess what? You don't get any Leptin response and the 22:30 result is, you keep going and you get fatter and fatter 22:34 and you resist your insulin more and more. 22:36 So high fructose corn syrup is one of the drivers of diabesity 22:43 also. I see so...That's a problem there. 22:47 We just have a few more minutes left, just kind of wrap this up 22:49 and tell everybody the simple practical steps to solve this 22:55 problem, to reverse this problem and to help the body 22:58 not to have this killer disease. 23:02 So, in conclusion, and in summary there are three things 23:07 that you need to do to reverse diabesity, the first is to 23:11 get on a walking program, 30 minutes twice a day 23:14 brisk walk, that will create the demand for sugar in the 23:20 muscle, to power the muscle, it will put out the brand new 23:23 insulin-receptors and you will begin to move the sugar into 23:27 the cell and guess what happens to your blood-sugar level? 23:29 It goes down. It starts to come down gradually 23:31 and this happens very quickly. In three days your blood sugar 23:36 can come down dramatically. So for instance, if you are 23:39 taking medication you better talk to your doctor because 23:42 if you are walking 30 minutes twice a day for three days 23:45 you're going to require a lot less medication than you were 23:49 before so you need to communicate with your doctor. 23:52 Doctor I'm getting on an aggressive walking program 23:55 and we're going to have to bring down, titrate my meds 24:00 and bring them down. So that's the first thing, 24:02 the second thing is to start to use the Eden diet, unrefined 24:07 complex carbohydrates, fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and 24:13 grains, beans, avocados, things like that, natural fats, 24:17 walnuts in your diet, things like that and that of course 24:22 takes away the animal fat that's gumming up the system. 24:27 And removes that and of course you are getting all of the 24:31 phytonutrients. The third intervention 24:34 is to drink water, the beverage of Eden. 24:38 If you're drinking high-fructose corn syrup drinks and you can't 24:42 understand why you are so diabetic You need to stop that 24:46 you need to go to water, that's the beverage of Eden. 24:49 Learn to drink water, learn to stay away from high fructose 24:53 corn syrup drinks that turn on the fat switch. 24:57 You know in the mitochondria they make you fatter 25:00 and more resistant to your own insulin so these are 25:06 the three steps that we need to take in order to overcome 25:11 the insulin-resistance problem and I'm afraid that many many 25:16 physicians are not counseling their patients... 25:19 You know, we've only been talking about 25 almost 30 25:25 minutes perhaps. It doesn't take that long to educate 25:29 the patient. All right and I hear ya and if you want to add 25:33 a fourth thing and that's to pray. Absolutely. 25:37 Because a lot of times people don't have the will-power 25:40 don't have the hut-spa, the strength, the decisiveness 25:45 to make those changes in their life and that's why we need help. 25:49 That's why we need God... God gives us...That's right, 25:51 that's where the Bible comes in, that's where prayer comes in, 25:54 where the promises come in. This book gives us promises 25:59 that will help us to make those body battle decisions to improve 26:04 our health and protect us. Key changes. That's right, 26:07 I'll finish up again with Psalm Bless the Lord, 26:10 We need the Lord, we need His power. Oh my soul and forget not 26:15 all His benefits. He's given us wonderful things to eat 26:19 and He's given us a lot of information 26:20 He forgives our sins, He heals our diseases, He redeems our 26:24 life from destruction, He crowns us with lovingkindness and 26:27 tender mercies. He satisfies our mouth with good things, 26:31 things that He gives us so that our youth is renewed like the eagles. 26:36 And that's what we hope for you and for the two of us so 26:40 We'll be back for part six of Body Battles. 26:43 Stay tuned. 26:45 We hope you have enjoyed this episode of Body Battles 26:49 before you go, these health resources are available from 26:53 White Horse Media, first our book End Times Health War 26:56 which is loaded with life- changing information about the 26:59 secrets of health and how you can supercharge your health 27:02 by adding sprouts to your diet and by drinking organic 27:06 fresh juices. 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