THE SUGAR TRAP ! HOW SWEET HABITS FUEL TYPE 2 DIABETES

At it's very core type two diabetes can be understood as a disease caused by too much insulin which our bodies produce when we eat too much sugar .Framing the problem this way is incredibly powerful because the solution becomes immediately obvious. We must lower our insulin levels by reducing our dietary intake of sugar and refined carbohydrates (a form of sugar).

Imagine your body is a big sugar bowl .At birth the bowl is empty but over several decades you continue to eat sugar and refined carbohydrate and the bowl gradually fills up .When you next eat, sugar comes in and spills over the sides of the bowl because the bowl is already full.

The same situation exist in your body when you eat sugar your body secretes a lot of insulin to help move the sugar into your cells where it’s used for energy. If you don’t burn off that sugar sufficiently then over the decades, your cells become completely filled and cannot handle any more .The next time you eat sugar insulin cannot force any more of it into your overflowing cells, so it spills out into the blood. Sugar travels in your blood in the form of glucose, and having too much of it is known as high blood glucose is a primary symptom of type 2 diabetes .

When there’s too much glucose in the blood insulin does not appear to be doing its usual job of moving the sugar into the cells . We then say that the blood has become insulin resistant, but it’s not truly insulin's fault. The primary problem is that the cells are overflowing with glucose high blood glucose is the only part of the issue not only is there too much glucose in the blood there’s too much glucose in all the cells. Type 2 diabetes is simply an overflow phenomenon that occurs when there is too much glucose in the entire body.

In response to excess glucose in the blood, the body secretes even more insulin to overcome this resistance. This forces more glucose into overflowing cells to keep blood levels normal.This works, but the effect is only temporary because it cannot address the problem of excess sugar. The body has only moved the excess from the blood to the cells making insulin resistance worse at some point even with more insulin being made the body cannot force glucose into the cells.

Let’s think about packing a suitcase, at first the clothes go into the empty suitcase without any trouble. Once the suitcase is full, however, it becomes very difficult to jam in those two last shirts until you reach a point where you cannot close the suitcase, you could see the luggage appears to be resisting the clothes. This is similar to the overflow phenomenon of our cells in our body.

Once the suitcase is full, you might simply use more force to shove those last T-shirt in. This tragedy will only work temporarily because we have not addressed the underlying problem of the overfilled suitcase. As you force more shirts into the suitcase, the problem let's call it luggage resistance only become worse. The better solution is to remove some of the clothes from the suitcase.

What happens in the body if we do not remove excess glucose, first the body keeps increasing the amount of insulin it produces to try to force more glucose into the cells.But this only creates more insulin resistance, in what then becomes a vicious cycle .When the insulin levels can no longer keep pace with rising resistant blood glucose spikes .That’s when your doctor likely is going to diagnose type 2 diabetes.

Your doctor may prescribe a medication such as insulin injections, or perhaps a drug called metformin to lower blood glucose, but these drugs do not get rid of the excess glucose until we we try to fix our lifestyle and try to eat healthy nutritious food .Together only they can go hand in hand and help us fix the underlying issue.

At Crabtree Health we believe managing type 2 diabetes shouldn’t mean a lifetime of insulin injections and daily medication’s .There’s a better way that goes beyond just controlling blood sugar and instead focus on reversing the disease at its source

Type two diabetes again isn’t caused by lack of insulin . It’s caused by bodies inability to use it effectively a condition known as insulin resistance. The good news we provide is ,insulin resistance can not only be improved, but in many cases can be reversed by targeted lifestyle and nutrition strategies combined with the right medical guidance.

Our approach is different. We work closely with you to restore your metabolic health. We would use your need for medication and when possible help you stop insulin entirely .This isn’t a quick fix .It’s personalized science-based process that addresses the underlying cause of your diabetes not just the symptoms.

If you have been told you will be on insulin for the rest of your life, know that there is hope and there’s help. Keep reading our blogs to learn how our team supports real change ,real results and real freedom from type 2 diabetes.