The news has been for years that poor diet and lifestyle lead to diabetes. There is an undeniable link between lifestyle and diabetes risk. This is similar to the battle with obesity, especially since obesity and diabetes have many common roots — especially insulin insensitivity. Diabetes is less visible to the public than obesity because the diabetic could have a normal weight (about 10% to 15% are such invisible diabetics). That does mean that 85% to 90% of diabetics are overweight, showing the common roots of both conditions. We also have to consider that about 38% of adults have pre-diabetes, meaning that they have significant insulin resistance but are not (yet) diabetic. And we are talking primarily about type 2 diabetes, which is much more common than type 1.
With so many people being diabetic or pre-diabetic, we clearly have an epidemic. Someone with diabetes could be dealing with many factors, and some may be very hard to manage. So realize that you can take major steps to prevent or reverse the disease — this is a message of hope.
What path will you take?
If you are dealing with diabetes, or obesity for that matter, you have to decide if you want to avoid or reduce the drug trap. It’s not a fun trap to be in. You have a problem, and you are in the majority if you just choose the drug route — the “easy” path. But if you aren’t ready to throw in the towel, or you want the towel back, look at what is possible to do naturally. There is no downside to taking natural steps toward good health — the only danger is if you are taking drugs and don’t take their side effects into account, such as when taking insulin medications and then jumping into a fasting protocol. If your metabolism is not skewed by drugs, you can be quite aggressive with diet and exercise; but if it is, you may want expert advice to craft your natural program. For that matter, everyone can profit from good natural health coaching, because health conditions can be quite complex. That’s because the body is quite complex.
We can and should deal with the physical aspects of a condition. This is totally appropriate because the environment is what drives your body to change. But the environment that your cells see includes your brain. That master control center can have an even greater impact on your health than your physical environment. Of course, your brain itself is very sensitive to the environment, and lifestyle affects brain health and function, so some of the environmental impact on your body goes through your brain. Regardless, your brain is a huge factor in all aspects of your health. Diabetes is no different, because the brain can trigger insulin resistance.
Sugar on my mind…
Research studies can measure this. In one study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers from the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany conducted a study with normal weight participants split into two groups: one group was fed a normal, healthy diet (the control group), and the other was fed additional high-calorie, highly processed snacks for one week. Then the high calorie junk food was removed, and both groups ate their normal diet again. During the first week, the high calorie group was showing increased insulin resistance and build up of fatty liver. It was expected that a return to the normal, modest calorie diet would return the insulin response and the liver reaction to normal. It didn’t. A test one week later showed that both responses were still acting like the participants were still eating the junk food — the insulin sensitivity was depressed and the liver was still accumulating fat. Their dietary environment had returned to normal, but their brains were still signaling that it hadn’t.
Boot camp
The researchers noted that this sustained pre-diabetic reaction was common with obese people, but they were surprised to find it with normal weight people. This probably won’t be a surprise: our bodies take the path of least resistance. They like the easy path. Highly processed, high calorie foods mean easy-to-get calories. We like the easy path, and so do our brains. Training our bodies to live on easy calories takes no effort. Training them to live on the food they really need requires effort. A little “cheating” on a good diet may quickly train them to rely on easy calories, and it takes some time to train them back to a proper diet. What happens when we spend years eating the standard American diet? If we then switch to a great diet, will our bodies just accept that right away? It will take a little time to push our brains and metabolism to accept the new paradigm. If we instead go to prescription drugs to raise our insulin levels, and we don’t change our diets to a low calorie, raw or at least minimally processed version, our bodies will stay stuck in the same rut — and make the rut even deeper.
Still not enough?
So you try eating right, and you stick with it so your body knows that you mean business. You don’t cheat. You try this for a few weeks — maybe even a few months — and you are disappointed with the results. Environmentally, you have done all you can do. Now you figure it just isn’t going to work for you and give up. You go the drug route, because there you can see results. Remember that your brain is in control however. There still is a reason this isn’t working for you. Besides the standard American diet, what else is prevalent in society today that would impact your brain? There is one obvious answer: stress.
Sure enough, stress is linked to diabetes risk and insulin insensitivity. In a review study published in EXCLI Journal, researchers looked at the strong link between stress and insulin resistance. They found that stress can impair glucose metabolism through at least six molecular pathways: beta cell function from over activation of the immune system, negative effects on lipid metabolism, inflammatory responses due to immune system reaction, hyper activation of the automatic nervous system leading to dysregulation of glucose management, hyper activation of the renin-angiotensin system disturbing normal insulin signal transduction, and endocrine abnormalities including higher cortisol and lower sex hormone levels. Stress causes immune system impairment, inflammation, hormonal changes, circulation issues, digestion issues, and of course direct cellular signaling — all from the brain. Since stress is responsible for many diseases, it is no surprise that diabetes would be included.
Now you see that diabetes and obesity are not just due to physical factors alone. Diet and exercise are crucial, but you could do well with both and still have insulin issues. Your brain is in control of your entire body, and it can signal health or disease. Can you expect to be in control of your brain? You aren’t even aware of most of your thoughts, because they are subconscious. They aren’t your fault, but they can be changed. The groundwork for health-damaging thoughts which cause ongoing stress was laid even before you were born and during the first few years of your life. They need replacement. So, if you have pre-diabetes, full diabetes, or weight management issues, do work on all the physical steps needed to improve your blood sugar management, but don’t forget the mental aspect as well. A diet based upon raw leafy greens and low sugar vegetables, high in good plant fat, and low animal protein (which, despite conventional thought is actually diabetes-promoting) is vital and will make a huge difference over time. But you also need to reduce stress, and one of the most important stressors is subconscious stress programming. Special imaging and therapy can isolate negative subconscious thought patterns and replace them. Action going forward is in your control. Now that you understand the challenge, use that knowledge to change your health for the better.
Dr. Nemec’s Review
Your brain secretes insulin. Glucose and fructose pass the blood brain barrier. Your brain uses primarily glucose to fuel its activity: it is the most metabolically active organ in the body weighing only approximately 2% of the body weight yet requiring 20% of the energy.
High brain insulin or sugar produces big problems because the brain controls the body, and if you inflame your brain, you throw the signals to your body off. So the worst organ to inflame in the body is the brain. And once the brain is inflamed, it can cause long-term dysfunction, even disease in the body.
The nature metabolism article stated this clearly
In the study, they had the people eat a high caloric diet with processed foods and refined carbohydrates, so their blood sugar went up as well as their insulin levels, including brain insulin. Also, the liver was starting to accumulate fat, which is a sign of liver degeneration. Then, once they stopped the poor diet and reverted back to a normal diet, they assumed everything would go back to normal because it was only one week of eating poorly. But to their surprise, elevated brain insulin and the fatty liver continued as if they were still eating the poor diet.
The conclusion is that the most sensitive area in your body to excessive sugar is your brain, because excessive sugar increases inflammation — and inflammation starts to damage cells. If you damage brain cells, then you alter the normal signaling from your brain to your organs, glands and tissues of your body. This is where you can have permanent dysfunction and produce disease from two pathways. Not only that, but high brain sugar causes brain cell death and this greatly increases risk of memory loss, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.
First pathway
Since the brain controls all cells in the body, if you damage brain cells, you damage the communication to your body, so that’ll produce altered cellular function at the organ, gland, and tissue level. Not only do you damage the brain-body connection, you damage the brain itself, which provides cognitive function, memory, and emotion production.
From a life point of view, brain death (stopping of brain function) is considered more definitive than a heart stop (cardiac arrest), as the brain is the control center for consciousness and all life functions, and once brain activity ceases, there is no possibility of recovery.
So as we can see, the most important area in your body is your brain — for your life and for your health. This is why we want to guard it very carefully, so when you put sugar in your body in excess, not only with refined sugars and carbohydrates, but just higher glycemic carbohydrates, including rice, potatoes, bread, pasta, corn, beans — all these have a substantial sugar load, meaning your blood sugar goes up significantly, and these are related to increase chances of not only diabetes, but inflammation of all the cells of your body, most importantly your brain.
Second pathway
This is the body-brain connection. So when you eat these higher glycemic index foods, you’re inflaming every cell in your body, including your brain. The brain is the most important area that we want to protect, but the higher glycemic food damages every cell in the body. That’s why we saw fatty liver after just one week of a higher carbohydrate diet. And this fatty liver did not reverse when a person went back to a normal diet. But it would reverse if the person went to a very anti-inflammatory living and raw plant diet, so no damage is permanent unless it’s been there for a while.
What makes the most sugar in the body? Stress
When we are stressed, the metabolism in the body naturally raises the blood sugar to handle the stress to be able to run or fight. This is a natural sympathetic autonomic nervous system response. But this is short term. This was never meant long term — only for 10 minutes or less.
The majority of the patients we’ve seen at Revolution Health & Fitness over the last 40 years that have any significant health challenges also have stored subconscious programs written into the neural tissue — into the brain tissue and neural pathways of this stress. This stress programming is found with 3-D brain imaging, and then it is corrected or rewritten with an advanced protocol to release stored subconscious programs written into the brain tissue and then rewrite those programs without stress, meaning to regrow neurons and neural pathways with messages that don’t produce an inflammatory response in the brain or in the cells of the body. This is foundational in our treatment and teaching program because in over 40 years of seeing patients never have we seen one without the subconscious stress programming stored on the hard drive of the brain. Without this being cleared, no matter what the symptom, condition, or disease is, it will not heal no matter what else is done. This is clear evidence that the brain rules all the cells of the body. Because you can change your diet, you can change your lifestyle. You could do everything perfectly — physically — yet still have stress molecules secreted by your brain and your body because of this stored subconscious programming that began early in life and was programmed in that early life by the stressors perceived at that time of life.
Treat the brain, treat the body
The only way to heal from diabetes, obesity, or any other condition is to balance the brain first, and along with doing this balance the body. The brain is balanced when the 3-D brain imaging is balanced. The body is balanced with Seven Basic Steps to Total Health. We’ve been treating people all these years with our brain protocol, and with these seven basic steps — combined, they are transformational.
