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Millions of people are navigating the challenges of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes—often wondering why blood sugar rises, why managing weight can feel so difficult, and how everyday food choices affect the body's metabolism.
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Part-1: How type-1 diabetes became an epidemic?
There was a time when type-2 diabetes was taught to be a long-term and progressive disease, like a life sentence with no escape.
Once you're diagnosed with the disease, the only treatment is to increase insulin levels over time—which will make your disease worse, but never a cure.
But is it really so?
Today we face a global epidemic of diabetes.
But a bit of history shows that type-2 diabetes was an extremely rare disease until the middle of the 20th century.
So how did it become the biggest threat to the health of billions of people around the world in just a few decades?
The Big Bang of Diabetes:
Twentieth century Of late, the prevalence of type-2 diabetes has become alarming.
It has also spread like wildfire in Asia, South America and the Middle East.
Diabetes is not a common illness; It is a silent killer that destroys every part of the body from within.
Diabetes causes serious complications such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.
Now the question may be,Why can't we control this disease despite all the advances in medicine?
This is because we are not treating the root cause of the disease but only chasing its symptom—that is, lowering blood sugar.
The historic misstep of 1977:
The diabetes epidemic began in 1977, when the US government published its first official Dietary Goals for the United States.
Decisions are made on this principleTo prevent heart disease, fat should be reduced from the diet and the majority of the diet (about 50 to 60 percent) should come from grains and white carbohydrates.
A new business environment was created after this announcement:
Fat-free but sugary foods: Food processors reduce fat from foods, but they add a lot of refined sugar to maintain taste.Or started adding refined sugar.
Carbohydrate overload: People began to eat more bread, rice, cereals and low-fat processed foods as they thought they were healthy.
The result is just the opposite. Heart disease did not go down after fat loss, instead people started gaining weight and at the same time the number of type-2 diabetics increased at a geometric rate.
Failure of the 'calorie in, calorie out' concept:
For decades Nutritionists believed that calories were the main culprit behind weight gain and diabetes. According to them, the subtraction of the calories you take in and the calories you expend through exercise determines whether you'll be fat (Eat Less, Move More).
But this idea is completely wrong and scientifically flawed. The body is not a simple scale of an engine; The body is a complex biological system that is regulated by hormonesis conducted.
100 calories of broccoli and 100 calories of Coca-Cola—both have the same number of calories but have completely different reactions inside the body.
Broccoli doesn't raise blood sugar levels or insulin, but Coca-Cola creates a blood sugar tsunami and floods the body with insulin hormones.
Type-2 diabetes is not a calorie problem or just a blood sugar problem. It is basically high insulin hormone(Hyperinsulinemia) problem.
When we eat carbohydrates and sugar, our pancreas releases insulin. The main function of insulin is to transport energy from food into the cells and store the excess as fat.
But when we constantly eat carbohydrates and processed foods throughout the day, blood insulin levels are constantly elevated.
When the body is exposed to high levels of insulin for a long time, the cells function of insulinbegins to resist—which is called Insulin Resistance). And this insulin resistance is the key to type-2 diabetes.
So to put it simply-
The cause of the type-2 diabetes epidemic is our faulty diet, which has reduced fat and encouraged carbohydrate and sugar intake.
The conventional theory of reducing calories by eating less and exercising more has failed to prevent diabetes.
Cure diabetes Or to prevent it, we need to stop counting calories and focus on eating foods that regulate the insulin hormone
Part-2: Difference between type-1 and type-2 diabetes
In the world of medical and nutritional science, two completely different disorders are lumped together under the name diabetes-
One, type-1 diabetes and two, type-2 diabetes.
Many people are confused about the main difference between these two diseases.They think that since both diseases increase blood sugar, their treatment should be almost the same.
But the truth is—type-1 and type-2 diabetes are not only two different diseases, they are the exact opposite of each other.
Type-1 diabetes is a deficiency of insulin. Type-1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. In this disease, the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreasthrow away
In type-1 patients, the production of insulin in the body stops completely or decreases to very negligible levels. In the absence of insulin, glucose from food accumulates in the blood, but cannot enter any cells. As a result, the cells in the body starve for lack of glucose or energy.
Blood glucose levels skyrocket, weight is lost rapidly, and the body breaks down fat for energy to produce toxic ketonesby—called 'diabetic ketoacidosis' or DKA. It can be extremely fatal.
The only major treatment for type-1 diabetes is exogenous insulin delivery. Before the discovery of insulin, type-1 diabetes meant certain death. Insulin is the elixir of life for these patients.
Type-2 diabetes is an excess of insulin which is called Insulin Resistance / Hyperinsulinemia. On the other hand, type-2 diabetes A completely different story. It is not an autoimmune disease, nor does it destroy the pancreas. In fact, type-2 diabetes begins not with a lack of insulin, but with an excess of insulin.
When we eat too much refined carbohydrates and sugar, the pancreas produces more insulin than usual to remove sugar from the blood. This is called hyperinsulinemia.
In the blood for a long time Excess insulin causes cells in the body to stop or reduce their response to insulin. It's as if the cells are saying—"We don't have room for more sugar or glucose, stop!" This is insulin resistance.
To overcome insulin resistance, the pancreas secretes more insulin to remove sugar from the blood. At some point, blood sugar also starts to rise due to the fullness of the cells—what we call type-2 Say diabetes.
Since type-2 diabetes is a disease caused by hyper-insulin, extra insulin from outside does not solve the problem; Rather, it exacerbates the underlying problem.
Dr. Jason Fung uses a wonderful metaphor to explain insulin resistance:
"Think of the cells in your body as a cup. Normally, insulin is the key that opens the cup and lets glucose in.gives
But when you've been eating excess sugar and carbohydrates for years, that cup is overflowing with glucose. Glucose is now overflowing from the cup.
But the cells are not refusing to take up insulin; The fact is that the cells are so full that there is no room for one more drop of glucose to enter.
If you forcefully inject more insulin from the outside, that forces the glucose up even morewill try to push into the full cell—creating even more severe toxicity inside the cell.
In conventional medicine, both type-1 and type-2 are considered simply as "High Blood Sugar Disease".
In type-1 diabetes there is a lack of insulin, so it is perfectly right and logical to give insulin there.
But in type-2 diabetes, the body already has more insulin than it needs. But even there when doctors blood sugarIf extra insulin or insulin-boosting drugs are given to reduce blood sugar, the patient begins to gain weight quickly and his insulin resistance becomes stronger.
It is as grave a mistake as allowing a patient with alcoholic liver disease to consume more alcohol for treatment!
So to put it simply-
- Type-1 diabetes is a disease of insulin deficiency.
- Type-2 diabetes is an excess of insulinDiseases of insulin resistance.
- Although both diseases involve high blood sugar levels, their underlying causes are completely opposite.
- To cure type-2 diabetes, insulin levels in the blood must be lowered—insulin cannot be increased.
Episode-3: The Whole-Body Effect
Type-2 diabetes is often seen as a simple blood sugar problem. But in reality it is not a disease of any particular part of the body; It is a systemic Disease.
When excess glucose continues to circulate in the blood for years, it destroys almost every organ, every tissue and blood vessel in the body from the inside out.
Medically these damages are divided into two main categories:
Microvascular (damage of small blood vessels)
Macrovascular (Macrovascular - large blood vessel damage).
Body parts that have very fine blood vessels or Capillaries are the first to be damaged when blood sugar levels are high.
Retinopathy (eye damage): The delicate blood vessels in the back of the eye, the retina, become weak and brittle due to excess glucose.
Blood and fluid drain from them, blurring vision and eventually leading to blindness. Type-2 is the leading cause of adult blindness in the developed world Diabetes.
Nephropathy (kidney damage): Kidneys are the body's main filters. Billions of glomeruli in the kidney are damaged due to diabetes. As a result, toxins cannot be removed from the body and protein starts to be excreted in the urine.
At some point the kidney becomes completely useless and the patient has to rely on dialysis or a kidney transplant.
Neuropathy (nerve damage): Extra Sugar not only damages the nerves, but also closes the delicate Vasa Nervorum that supplies blood to the nerves. As a result, the nerves begin to die due to lack of oxygen & nutrients.
It begins with numbness, tingling, or burning pains in the hands and feet, and eventually complete loss of sensation.
When sugar and fat begin to build up in the large blood vessels or arteries, the consequences are more direby:
Heart disease and heart attack: Patients with type-2 diabetes are three to four times more likely to die from heart disease than the general population.
Stroke: A stroke occurs when an artery supplying blood to the brain is blocked or ruptured, causing permanent paralysis or death.
Peripheral artery disease and gangrene: Small cuts or sores do not heal easily due to reduced blood circulation in the legs.The patient also does not feel pain due to neuropathy. As a result, feet or toes have to be amputated to save life from gangrene and infection.
Dr. Fung explains in his "The Diabetes Code" how glucose combines with proteins to form Advanced Glycation End-products (AGEs).
Simply put, when you cook meat or bread over fire, it browns and hardens (Maillard Reaction). Also inside the body due to high blood sugar The exact same thing happens—our blood vessels, proteins and collagen become stiff, brittle and dysfunctional. As a result, the arteries lose their normal elasticity and blood pressure rises drastically.
When blood glucose levels become too high, the body converts the excess glucose into a type of alcoholic sugar called sorbitol.
Sorbitol accumulates in nerve cells, eye lens and kidney cells. But the problem is, these cells Sorbitol cannot be easily excreted. Accumulated sorbitol draws excess water from the outside into the cells, causing the cells to swell, burst, and be permanently destroyed.
The most eye-opening part is the results of some famous clinical trials (eg: ACCORD, ADVANCE, VADT).
Doctors used to think that if blood sugar levels could be brought close to normal with drugs or insulin,But it will be possible to stop heart disease or death. But the result was just the opposite!
In the ACCORD trial, those who were forced to lower their blood sugar with additional drugs and insulin, had an even higher death rate!
Dr. Fung explained it very simply like this, it's true that insulin reduces blood sugar, but where does that sugar go? Insulin forces that extra sugar out of the blood and into the liver, heart, kidneys and Pushes into the eye cells.
As a result, blood tests show "normal" sugars, but the body's internal organs begin to decay faster from the underlying glucose toxicity. It's like hiding all the dirt under the carpet to make the floor look clean with a broom!
Then I can easily say-
Type-2 diabetes is not a single organ disease, it is the whole body Attacks the circulatory and nervous systems together.
Lowering blood sugar isn't the real goal; The only scientific way to save organs is to completely remove excess sugar from the body and cells.
Episode-4: Diabesity-Calorie Illusion
Type-2 diabetes and obesity are not only closely linked; Basically they are two different manifestations of the same physical disorder. These two togetherIt is called "diabesity".
If you have diabetes, chances of you being overweight are high. And if you are overweight, your risk of developing type-2 diabetes also increases hundredfold. But the question is: What is the reason for this deep relationship between diabetes and obesity?
Health and nutrition experts have long claimed that obesity and diabetes are the root cause"Intake of excess calories". But this idea is a complete illusion or Calorie Illusion.
Misconceptions of the calorie model:
For decades the mantra of weight loss and diabetes management has been:
Calories in - calories out = weight gain/loss
According to this theory, if you reduce your calorie intake and increase calorie burn through exercise, you will lose weight and get better at diabetes.
butDoes that actually happen?
Studies have shown that in 99% of cases, calorie-reduction diets alone fail in the long run. Why? Because our body is not a mere calculator; It is a complex hormone based live system.
Not all calories are equal
The biggest weakness of the calorie theory is that it assumes—all calories have the same effect on the body.
If you eat 200 calories of broccoli, that's your blood sugar levelWill not increase and will not secrete insulin hormone.
On the other hand, if you eat 200 calories of Coca-Cola or candy, it will immediately raise your blood sugar and cause the body to produce large amounts of insulin.
Although both contain 200 calories, their hormonal response in the body is completely opposite.
Insulin controls whether our body stores or melts fat.
When you eat food, it is in the bloodInsulin levels rise. Insulin tells the body, "There is energy now, so stop burning stored fat and store new fat."
When you fast, insulin levels drop. Then the body takes out stored fat and uses it as fuel.
If your insulin levels are always high (which is caused by eating processed sugars and sugary foods), the body will never freeze.Can't burn fat. No matter how few calories you eat, if insulin is high in the blood, the body will store fat.
Now you may be wondering, low calorie diets fail.
When you not only reduce your intake (reduce calories), but continue to eat foods that raise insulin, the body faces an emergency. Without getting energy, the body reduces its Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).
Take your body 2000 calories per day.
You cut your intake to 1500 calories.
After a few days the body will reduce its consumption to 1500 calories to save itself.
As a result, you will not be able to lose weight even if you eat less than before, and will feel tired and weak.
After that, whenever you go back to normal eating, the weight will increase faster than before due to the slowed metabolism (known as Yo-Yo Dieting).
Diabetes and The key to overcoming obesity isn't counting calories; Rather, lowering the level of insulin in the blood.
Forget counting calories. What you eat is more important than how many calories you eat.
Reduce insulin-stimulating foods. Sugar, refined carbohydrates (white rice, flour, processed foods) directly raise insulin. They must be stopped.
Consume natural fats and proteins: These do not raise insulin.
Fasting orfast Fasting is the best way to give the body a break from insulin, which helps burn stored fat and eliminate insulin resistance.
Simply put,
Fat gain or type-2 diabetes are not the result of excess calories; It is the result of hormonal imbalances—specifically excess insulin.
Controlling insulin is the only way to combat type-2 diabetes and obesity by overcoming the misconception of calories effective way.
Equip yourself with the knowledge to have better conversations with your doctor and make informed decisions for your future.
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