Day 39 - Understanding Type 2 Diabetes (Part 1)

If it was an infectious disease, passed from one person to another, public health officials would say we're in the midst of an epidemic. This difficult disease is striking an ever-growing number of adults. Even more alarming, it's now beginning to show up in our teenagers and children.

18 Million Americans have it.

20% of those over 65 have it.

1 in 3 people who have it don't know they have it.

90% of those cases are PREVENTABLE.

It costs $132 Billion dollars a year to "treat" it.

Glucose (a.k.a blood sugar) is the fuel that provides energy to the 10 Trillion cells that make up a human being. When we eat, carbohydrates are converted into glucose, the glucose then moves through the bloodstream to feed the cells. It's important to have the right amount of glucose in the blood, so your body has some fairly complex "machinery" to get the job done. Anytime your glucose levels rise, your brain tells your pancreas to produce insulin. Insulin is a chemical messenger that rings the "dinner bell" for your cells. When the "dinner bell" rings, your cells come running to get their glucose.

It is important to understand that carbohydrates come in two forms natural (complex) and man-made (simple). The man-made carbs are found in processed foods such as white table sugar, candy, sodas, high fructose corn syrup, and white bread. Eating man-made carbs causes sudden and sustained spikes in your glucose levels. The brain interprets this enormous rush of sugar as trauma and signals the pancreas to produce insulin.

This constant over-stimulation of the pancreas, year after year after year, causes your "machinery" to wear out. In some cases, the pancreas gets tired and can't produce enough insulin. In other cases, the "dinner bell" rings so often that the cells get tired of hearing it, and stop running to get their glucose. Either way, when this happens, the health care industry declares that you have type 2 diabetes. And yes, for only a few hundred bucks a month they can keep you alive.

Natural sugars, like the sugars found in fruits and other whole foods, are known as complex carbs. Your body was designed to ingest them. They are much larger molecules and cross the blood brain barrier very slowly. They do not cause those sudden and sustained spikes in glucose levels, so your "machinery" can last a lifetime. It really is that simple.

In tomorrow's message, we'll tell you what The Harvard School of Public Health recommends for preventing type 2 (adult onset) diabetes.

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