Don’t go chasing waterfalls

Actually don’t go chasing blood sugar levels

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Ever since I went to medical school and Big Pharma started direct to consumer advertising, we have been taught to closely monitor blood glucose levels, otherwise known as blood sugar levels, otherwise known as sugar levels.

Gee, I wonder if Big Pharma advertising has any effect on medical education or treatment decisions…..

It seems like elevated blood glucose/sugar levels are as evil as blood cholesterol and blood saturated fat.

Psst:

Blood cholesterol is not evil nor is Saturated Fat.

Blood glucose/sugar levels are very helpful in determining metabolic health. So if your Blood glucose/sugar is elevated it is a strong clue that something MAY be out of balance.

What I find interesting, I’ll use the word interesting to be nice, is that the mainstream healthcare system does not seem to be too interested in determining the origins of WHY blood glucose/sugar is elevated NOR what happens to the blood glucose/sugar when diabetes medications are used to bring down their levels.

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Do you think that if you take a pill to lower your blood glucose that the glucose just goes POOF, and disappears?

Spontaneous disappearance??

Nah!!

Blood glucose/sugar doesn’t disappear with diabetes meds.

Where does the blood glucose/sugar go with Diabetes medications?

Usually the blood glucose/sugar gets moved from the blood where it was measured as elevated to your fat cells (where it gets measured as extra weight on the good ole office scale) to be stored as future energy. So with Diabetes medications you get less blood glucose floating around in your blood but you gain weight because it is now in your fat (adipose) cells. Since excess weight is probably one of the main factors in developing Diabetes, I’d say moving glucose from blood to fat probably isn’t the best long term solution. There are real medical studies that say just that so…..

There is actually one Diabetes medication that gets you to urinate out excess glucose.

It’s nickname is “sweetie pee”.

Actually not but if the name fits….

So if you use “sweetie pee”, the glucose goes from your blood thru your kidneys and gets urinated out of the body. Sounds OK but we really don’t know if this is safe yet long term.

I’d think that if removing excess sugar through the kidneys was healthy that evolution would have provided this off ramp for excess glucose.

Off ramp for excess glucose. I can’t believe I came up with that phrase.

What about insulin?

Insulin is known to lower blood glucose levels. It does so by moving the excess blood glucose/sugar from the blood into the fat (adipose) cells. Again, if you are an Adult Onset Diabetic (Type 2 Diabetic) and use insulin along with diabetes pills, expect to steadily gain weight if you do not control your diet.

Since the process of gaining excess weight is one, if not the biggest risk factor for developing Diabetes, using medications to move excess blood glucose/sugar into fat cells and the weight gain that results, well, that just doesn’t appear to make much sense. I think they call that rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. How did that work out?

So what to do?

Well, I’ve used the word EXCESS a whole lot this substack, and for a reason.

If we avoid Diet and lifestyle choices that cause EXCESS blood glucose, then perhaps we can improve our metabolism and even REVERSE the process that caused elevated blood glucose and Diabetes.

Yes I believe we can improve your blood glucose levels and even reverse Type 2 Adult Onset Diabetes if you understand WHY and HOW it developed. You know kind of understand the root causes and triggers.

So when I work with Diabetics, Pre-Diabetics and Pre-Pre-Diabetics, we don’t go chasing blood glucose/sugar levels or waterfalls, yes the waterfall means you are urinating out more sugar. Instead we work on the root cause triggers and monitor other areas of metabolism including liver and pancreatic function as well as fat cell biomarkers, all of which are part of the Institute for Medical Wellness (IMW) Advanced Wellness Tests (AWT).

I could write more on those but I think I wrote enough for today.

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Dr. Horvitz and the Institute for Medical Wellness (IMW) are now licensed in Florida and are now accepting wellness patients virtually. More info about the IMW can be found at www.drhorvitz.com

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