Stabilizing high levels of insulin is not an option but a must for everyone, including people with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Why is this important? Because having high insulin levels, which are caused by eating too many carbohydrates, is the starting point for excess body weight that leads to obesity and other chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, etc.

I thought I was doing everything I learned correctly, which I was, not ever missing my prescription medicine or five insulin injections every day. However, after two long and painful years, I started to rethink about all of the information I believed, since I was getting worse instead of better. For example, the ADA guidelines given to me with regard to eating was to average four to five carbohydrates per meal. That was it. I even had a chart with pictures depicting the foods that contained the carbohydrates and how much each had in them.

However, no one brought up or attempted in explaining how important it is not to have high insulin levels. This included the nurse who taught the class, this included the many doctors that I saw and visited over a two-year period, and this even included the many other suffering diabetics that I met. My wife and I did and still do appreciate how we were taught to recognize and calculate carbohydrates; but from there, I found myself on the diabetic hamster treadmill wheel. What that means is when a diabetic with wrong advice keeps doing that same thing repeatedly, it does not accomplish any more than keeping him or her as a diabetic addicted to medication.

First, carbohydrates include pasta and sweets, but they also include fruits and vegetables. When carbohydrates are eaten, they are broken down into simple sugars and enter into the bloodstream as glucose. High levels of blood sugar triggers insulin secretion from the pancreas. However, the fiber content in the carbohydrate, if there is any, will not be broken down into simple sugars, therefore will not have any impact on insulin.

White starches, such as pasta or potatoes, and grains, such as bread, may have little or no fiber content, thereby will quickly enter the bloodstream as glucose and immediately raise insulin levels. However, broccoli or an apple, which have fiber, will take longer to break down before entering the bloodstream, reducing stimulation of the pancreas to secret insulin.

The way it works is that glucose or blood sugar, is carried by the insulin to mainly the muscle cells for energy. However, if there is too much or a high level of insulin along with too much glucose due to too many carbohydrates consumed, then the muscle cells quit accepting them. What happens is that the leftover glucose or blood sugar is stored in the fat cells until needed by the muscle cells. When the next meal or snack comes, this process starts all over and eventually more glucose or blood sugar starts accumulating.

Within a short time, normal weight people get heavier and heavier. In my case, after I became obese, it led to type 2 diabetes; and eventually developed into a chronic kidney disease. One thing that made it worst for me was I also developed insulin resistance, which meant my cells refused to accept the glucose from the start. Therefore, when the stored glucose was called upon by the muscle cells for energy, the insulin inhibited it from being released. While all this was going on I kept adding fuel to the fire (sort of speak), with five insulin injections every day.

Trust me, it is very important to stabilize and then reduce your insulin levels. My life depended on it.

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