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Prepare to have your health questions answered here on Safe, Effective, Natural Solutions

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with Dr. Todd Binkley, owner of Binkley Healing Center in downtown Ventura.

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Now, here's Dr. Todd.

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Good afternoon.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley, board certified non-force doctor of chiropractic and practitioner of

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functional medicine.

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I identify conditions other doctors miss by doing tests that most doctors don't do, often

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because your insurance company doesn't want to pay for them.

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They only want to pay for disease, treating disease when you already have it.

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If you want to prevent something or reverse it with a safe, effective, natural solution,

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then you're usually going to have to pay a little bit out of pocket and manage that yourself.

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With my help, I'm here to help.

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It does cost a little bit of money out of pocket, but a lot less than you probably think,

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especially when you factor in all of the costs involved when you are sick from work or lose

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time from work or just are debilitated, the factor in the cost of just not feeling like

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you should all the time.

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It's a lot more affordable than you might imagine.

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So today's topic is diabetes.

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After the holidays, everyone's been shoveling cookies, cakes, pies, all that sweet, wonderful

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stuff from the holidays.

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Here's a perfect time to learn why it's really important to not get diabetes in the first

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place, but also if you have diabetes, you can often reverse it.

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I'm going to describe a case study here at the end of the show where a man was severe

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diabetes at the point of requiring insulin, been on metformin, oral most common medication

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for diabetes for a long time, and it's getting worse and he's about ready to be put on insulin.

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He doesn't want to end up having to inject himself with insulin for the rest of his life,

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so he came in and I was able to completely reverse, almost completely eliminate his diabetes

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in four months.

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Why is it so important to know about diabetes?

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Well, diabetes causes a lot of problems.

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It damages high blood sugar resulting from diabetes, damages blood vessels and nerves

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throughout your body, and it starts on the ones that are the most sensitive or the smallest

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or the most distant from your heart, so your eyes, your kidneys, your feet.

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5.3 million Americans have diabetic retinopathy.

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They basically are looking through these cloudy, splotchy fogs that block their vision up to

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60%, over 60% of type 2 diabetics will eventually develop diabetic retinopathy.

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21% have retinopathy at the time of diagnosis.

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It is neck and neck with macular degeneration as the leading cause of blindness, and over

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8,000 people lose their sight from diabetes each year.

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How many people know someone who's had to have part of their foot, their toes or their

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foot amputated because of diabetes?

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86,000, over 86,000, these are statistics from 10 years ago, lose parts of their feet,

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statistics from foot amputation because diabetes causes damage to the blood vessels and the

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nerves to the feet, and if you can't supply nutrients and can't feel when you're cutting

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or hurting your feet, you end up with ulcers that get infected and you end up having to

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have parts of your feet cut off.

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Not pretty.

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Up to 40% of type 2 diabetics suffer from kidney failure, and the time from when kidney

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damage first shows up to when your kidneys fail completely is usually about 5 to 7 years.

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So over half a million Americans have end-stage kidney disease and over 87,000 die each year,

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and over 100,000 are currently waiting for a transplant, and this huge, fast-climbing

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incidence of diabetes has reduced the number of potential donors because so many people

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have diabetes that even when they die from some other cause, their kidneys aren't useful

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anymore to be donated to someone because they've been damaged by diabetes.

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Well, you may have heard you can just go on dialysis if your kidneys stop working well.

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Four hours a day, three times a week, strapped to a machine, it costs something like $25,000

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a month.

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Dialysis is not fun.

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Plus the diet, here's the diet you have to do if you have to go on dialysis.

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Use fluid intake to avoid swelling, avoid high potassium foods, and avoid high phosphorus

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foods, and eat as much protein you can.

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So basically eat a high protein, high carbohydrate diet with little vegetables, little fruit,

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and little dairy.

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How long do you think you're going to survive on a diet with no vegetables and a bunch of

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starch that's just going to make your diabetes worse, by the way?

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Not everybody ends up with this, but it's certainly a motivating factor for some people

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to take better care of themselves.

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Erectile dysfunction, diabetes damages blood vessels and nerves throughout the body, including

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the ones that are necessary to have keep working to establish an erection.

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So if someone you know is not performing like they want to or should be, that is a sign

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of diabetes and a sign that they should get checked.

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Fifty percent of men with diabetes will suffer from erectile dysfunction within 10 years

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of diagnosis.

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Long before you have kidney failure or blindness, one of the first signs of the nerve damage

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that diabetics notice is diabetic neuropathy.

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Usually in the feet, pain, tingling, numbness in the arms, hand, legs, or feet.

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It's usually in the feet.

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You can also have muscle loss.

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It can contribute to carpal tunnel syndrome and plantar fasciitis.

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Loss of nerves anywhere in your body, causing indigestion or diarrhea, difficulty swallowing,

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poor absorption of nutrients due to impaired blood flow to the intestines.

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And it can increase your risk of infections, especially the ear, nose, and throat, lungs,

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urinary tract, and the female reproductive organs.

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Nearly a third of diabetics will have severe periodontal disease, gum loss, eventually

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resulting in loss of their teeth.

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And here's perhaps the scariest one of all as you get older.

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Even mild, this is from the Journal of Neuropsychology, even mild diabetes, well controlled, impairs

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mental function.

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Diabetics diagnosed before 65 have more than double the chance of developing Alzheimer's

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disease.

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It also increases your cancer risk.

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You're 30% more likely to develop and die from cancer if you have diabetes.

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And because of the constant damage to blood vessels and impaired neurochemical control

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of the blood vessels, it causes high blood pressure and damages the blood vessels themselves

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with all the inflammation that's caused by high blood sugar.

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So having diabetes dramatically increases your risks of heart disease, the number one

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cause of death, even pre-diabetes.

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As research has shown, the long-term damage to the heart and circulatory system is occurring

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during pre-diabetes, and you're 34% more likely to die from cardiovascular disease

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if you're just pre-diabetic.

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Well, half the US population is pre-diabetic or diabetic.

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And the standard testing that most doctors do and the recommendations they make after

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they do those tests is sorely lacking, and the evidence of that is all around you.

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50% of Americans are pre-diabetic or have diabetes, and what's being done about that?

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Well, I'm going to explain to you what you can do about it if you'd like to avoid that

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fate.

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And it starts with the testing.

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So most doctors diagnose you with pre-diabetes and say, we need to start monitoring this

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if your blood sugar is above 100, consistently above 100, and if your A1C test, which is

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a measure of your blood sugar levels up and down all day long over a three-month period,

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if your A1C is above 6, some labs are lowering that to 5.6.

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And if your A1C is above 6, definitely, or possibly even if it's above 5.6, doctors will

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tell you you're pre-diabetic.

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If your A1C is above 6.5, that is a diagnosis of diabetes.

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If your fasting blood sugar, morning fasting blood sugar, is above 125, that is also a

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diagnosis for diabetes.

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And that's when they'll start putting you on medication, usually metformin.

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And they put you on metformin for a while, and you do nothing different.

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You don't change your diet.

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You don't exercise anymore.

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And eventually, that stops working, and they put you on more medications.

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Well, guess what?

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Guess how long that's going to work?

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How long do you really think you're going to survive?

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What happens when you just take more insulin?

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You keep eating starch and sugar that spikes your blood sugar, and you just keep taking

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more insulin to force it into muscle cells and fat cells?

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Well, let's start right there.

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That's insulin's job.

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It shoves sugar that you eat into fat cells and muscle cells.

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Well, if you're exercising, fine.

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Have a Snickers bar before you go run a marathon.

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Your body's going to burn all that sugar immediately.

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No problem.

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But if you're not exercising, if you have a sedentary lifestyle, like most Americans,

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and you just keep taking insulin to force sugar into fat cells and muscle cells, if

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you're not using your muscle cells, guess where it's all going?

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Into fat cells.

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Insulin makes you fat, makes you fatter.

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That's not much fun.

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So if you're already diabetic and you're on medication for it, you're probably already

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aware of some of these problems.

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And if you want to reverse diabetes and get off of those medications, you usually can

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if your glucose is not over 300 or 400 with the medications that you're already taking.

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And if you're not already on insulin, for almost always, you can reverse and completely

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eliminate it with better food, exercise, and supplements.

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Well, what if you're not diabetic, but you know a lot of people who are, maybe in your

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own family, and what if you're part of that huge percentage of the US population who are

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pre-diabetic and don't know it?

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Well, number one, get checked, get your A1C levels checked, and find out if they're above

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5.6.

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That's included on every blood panel that I do.

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And more importantly, here's the big missing factor from the way, well, again, most doctors

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don't really practice prevention of any kind, but even the ones that say they do or followed

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the standard guidelines by the American Diabetes Association, for example, they just say to

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check people's glucose levels and their A1C levels.

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And if it's pre-diabetes, tell them to eat a better diet and exercise a little bit more

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with no specific recommendations typically.

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And then wait till you have diabetes and give you medications to treat the diabetes.

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Well, here's the big missing from that.

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Here's what people should be testing.

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Everyone who wants to prevent diabetes should be doing another test.

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Everyone who wants to prevent diabetes should be getting their fasting insulin levels checked.

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Fasting insulin levels.

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So just like you fast before you get your fasting glucose levels checked first thing

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in the morning, if you don't eat for several hours and then get your insulin levels checked,

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your insulin levels should be really low.

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But the medical range is roughly 2.5 to 25, which is ridiculous.

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Nobody's insulin, especially if they're not diabetic, no one's insulin should be 25.

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No one's insulin should be above 10.

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Many authors recommend it should be below seven if you're not diabetic, maybe even below

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five, somewhere between 2.5 and five, somewhere between three and seven.

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Different authorities recommend different ranges.

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But the bottom line is it should be way lower than the standard medical range and even lower

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than some functional practitioners recommend.

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Most functional medicine practitioners recommend that your fasting insulin levels be maintained

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below 10.

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Personally, I think it would be better to maintain it closer to something below seven.

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Again, if you're not already diabetic, if you keep it that low when you're diabetic,

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that can be dangerous depending on what medications you're on.

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And fasting insulin levels, if you're already diabetic, is a test that is sometimes used

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by endocrinologists to see if your pancreas is still making any insulin at all, because

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then you know you need to start taking it.

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If your fasting insulin is below 2.5, then you're pretty much going to become dependent

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on insulin because your pancreas isn't making anymore.

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But you can identify the risk of becoming diabetic much earlier if you test your fasting

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insulin levels.

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This test costs, I don't know, something like $11, $15 maybe.

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It's very inexpensive.

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The only reason your fasting insulin levels go up is because you're eating too much grains,

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starch, and sugar.

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And doing that is eventually going to destroy the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas.

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So if you identify this earlier and improve your diet and exercise more to burn off those

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calories, then you can keep weight off without starving yourself, and you'll also end up

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with lower inflammation, more energy, and reduce your risk of chronic disease.

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Reduce damage from diabetes to the blood vessels and nerves in your feet and your kidneys and

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your eyes and your sexual function, and especially your heart.

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It'll dramatically reduce your risks of heart attacks and strokes.

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So insulin resistance doesn't happen overnight.

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When most of your diet is empty calories and an abundance of quickly absorbed sugars, liquid

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sugars like fruit juice, soda, beer, any kind of sugary drink, those are the worst.

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Those are going to spike your blood sugar the fastest.

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And then the second worst are carbohydrates that turn into sugar almost immediately after

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you eat them like bread, rice, potatoes, pasta.

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And so your cells slowly become resistant.

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When you do this, it spikes your insulin, and then your cells eventually become resistant

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to insulin.

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Well, why would your cells become resistant to insulin?

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Does that even make sense?

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I mean, insulin is essential.

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Insulin escorts essential glucose into the cells of your brain, into your muscles, into

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your fat cells if you're not burning it.

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But insulin is essential.

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So why would your body become resistant to anything that's essential for life?

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Well, water is essential for life.

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Can you imagine your body becoming resistant to water?

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Well, what if someone sticks a garden hose in your mouth and turns it up on full blast?

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Your body would become resistant to that pretty quickly, right?

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So the only reason your body would become resistant to something that's essential for

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life is if you're doing something that's causing it to produce too much.

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Your body becomes resistant to insulin.

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And when you read medical literature on what causes diabetes, if you can look it up anywhere,

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Mayo Clinic website, Cleveland Clinic, good sources for information, it'll say, oh, diabetes

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is just caused by resistance to insulin.

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Your body just magically stops becoming sensitive to the effects of insulin.

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Well, there's no mystery behind that.

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When that happens, it's always, if you're type 2 diabetic, which is 90 plus percent of

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diabetics, type 1 diabetes is a whole separate issue.

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It's a genetic condition, an autoimmune condition that usually starts in childhood.

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But most diabetes is caused by just eating too much grains, starch, and sugar.

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If you stop eating too much grains, starch, and sugar, and exercise more when you are

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having any of those things, then you don't get diabetes, and you can reverse it if you

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get it.

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But if you wait too long, this becomes very difficult.

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The higher your insulin levels, the more your cells become resistant to insulin, which then

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causes your insulin levels to become higher, which then causes your body to become more

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resistant to insulin.

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And around it goes, and your body starts to age and deteriorate.

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And insulin is one of the most important things that can lead to premature aging, and heart

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disease, and stroke, and dementia, and cancer.

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All forms of cancer are worse if you have high blood sugar.

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And dementia is now being called type 3 diabetes because high blood sugar destroys cells in

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your brain.

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And unfortunately, most doctors just don't test this until you show up with signs of

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diabetes, if you show up with increased thirst, or increased urination, or other classic signs

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of diabetes.

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So I recommend early testing, having your fasting insulin levels tested for almost anyone

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over age 50, definitely anyone with a family history of type 2 diabetes, anybody with central

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abdominal weight, in other words, anyone who has a fat gut, anybody with abnormal cholesterol,

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or any other risk factor for insulin resistance, even in children.

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So here's the other thing they don't tell you when they just put you on medication for

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diabetes.

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It does nothing.

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It's not a cure.

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There's no drug that can restore the ability of your pancreas to produce insulin properly

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again.

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There is no drug that can reverse insulin resistance.

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All that sugar just gets shoved into fat cells.

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So even when you're on the best medication available for diabetes, the stress on your

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pancreas, your kidneys, your liver, your heart, your blood vessels, and your nerves will continue

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until one day one of these organs or systems just can't take it anymore.

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So how do you prevent this?

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Well, most people just say, most doctors will say, eat less fat, exercise more, avoid sugar,

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and take these drugs.

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That's what they've been recommending to people for decades.

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How's that going?

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It's not going very well.

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One popular explanation is that maybe it's genetic.

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Maybe there are certain genes that make you predisposed to have diabetes.

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Well, genes take a long time to change.

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The incidence of diabetes has been doubling every 10 years.

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What changed in the last 10 years?

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The genes didn't.

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So all forms of carbohydrate cause excess insulin production every time you beat them.

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The worst ones break down into glucose faster, faster than your body can burn them unless

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you're vigorously exercising.

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But all carbs eventually become glucose.

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So if you consume more than a modest amount on any given day, even whole grains and brown

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rice and beans can cause excess insulin production, over-stimulate insulin receptors, and become

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fat.

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Even more egregiously, for years, for decades, the American Diabetes Association has been

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telling people their food pyramid, up until very recently, the bottom of the food pyramid

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on the American Diabetes Association website is breads, grains, and other starches.

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In the text, it says, eat 55% to 60% servings of grains, beans, and starchy vegetables,

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basically more than any other food.

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Well, they have recently changed that.

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Now they have a plate method, and now they only recommend that you eat 25% grain, starch,

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and sugar.

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But that's still stupid advice.

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No diabetic should be eating 25% of their diet in starch and sugar.

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So why do they keep recommending this?

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Well, medical doctors, nutritionists learn in medical school that your brain requires

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a continuous supply of glucose to function.

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So therefore, you must eat some kind of food that's going to turn into glucose.

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No, you don't need to do that.

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Your body can convert protein into glucose.

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If your glucose levels are insufficient, your body can convert chicken, or fish, or nuts

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into glucose.

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And, of course, your body can also burn fat directly for energy.

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That's why it's much healthier to eat more protein and healthy fats, and very little

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grain, starch, and sugar for anyone.

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And that's why diabetics should eat almost no grains, starch, and sugar.

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No one needs any grain, starch, or sugar to survive.

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Guess which part of your body is made from pancakes, and waffles, and cakes, and cookies,

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and soda, and fruit juice?

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Zero parts of your body are made from any of those things.

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Zero cells in your body are manufactured from carbohydrates.

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Carbohydrates are just fuel.

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All of the cells of your body that you actually need nutrients to heal and repair are made

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of proteins and fats.

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So the structure of your body is mostly collagen.

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The structure of your bones, and your skin, and the scaffolding that your organs are made

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out of, your hair, and your nails.

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Most of the structure of your body is made from protein.

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And your cell membranes down on the cellular level, your cell membranes are made from fats,

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your steroid hormones, your sex hormones are made from fats.

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And then you need minerals to fuel all the reactions that heal and repair all of these

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tissues.

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And you need vitamins, like vitamin C, vitamin D, to make your immune system function, vitamin

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E, et cetera.

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But no one needs any grains, starch, or sugar to survive.

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It's fine for most of us to eat some of those things.

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But diabetics should eat hardly any of them if they want to reverse or eliminate diabetes.

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Unfortunately, this has become much more popular now.

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For three decades, since the 70s, up until a few years ago, we were told to count calories,

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cut fat, eat low fat this, low fat that.

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Don't eat anything that says low fat on it.

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Don't buy low fat yogurt.

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Get the full fat Greek plain yogurt and put your own berries and nuts in it for flavor.

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Don't buy low fat milk.

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The words low fat on anything you see in the grocery store basically means high sugar.

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What do you think they substitute when they take the fat out of something to make it taste

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good?

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What do you think they put in instead?

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Sugar.

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So don't eat low fat anything.

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Eat healthy fats like olive oil, avocados, nuts, seeds, fish, and healthy proteins, whatever

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kind you like.

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Most people know how to find healthy proteins.

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I've helped scores of diabetics over the years get off of medication and go back to just

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eating better food, exercise, and taking a few supplements.

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Very few supplements.

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There's not that many supplements that actually work well for diabetes.

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There's a lot of them that are on sale on offer, but it's basically just about reducing

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grain, starch, and sugar and exercising a bit more.

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So for example, the most recent bad diabetic I can think of off the top of my head as a

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guy that's about 48 years old, his fasting glucose levels were running 300 to 400.

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His A1C was 12, which is really, both of those are really bad.

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And in four months, we got his fasting glucose levels back down to under 125 back into the

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pre-diabetic range and his A1C level down to 7 point something.

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That is fantastic results.

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That is basically reversing diabetes completely in four months.

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Almost anyone can do that.

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I'm Dr. Todd Binkley.

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If you're feeling numbness and tingling in your feet, if you have persistent weight gain,

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if you already know that you have pre-diabetes or if you know someone, you love someone and

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you'd like to get them off of medications for diabetes, have them give me a call.

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I'd love to help you or someone you love reverse or eliminate diabetes.

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Have a great weekend.

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See you right here back Friday at four o'clock next week.

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Have a fantastic weekend.

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