You know, I've done a lot of videos on certain indicators from someone's body,

whether their skin or looking at their eyes or their lips to determine what's going on on the inside.

Well, today we're going to talk about the relationship between someone's skin and diabetes.

Their skin reveals a lot.

At the end of this video, you'll be able to glance over at someone,

look at their skin, and pretty much know if they have diabetes or not. And of course, you can

apply this to yourself. If you have any of these skin problems, I'm going to tell you what to do.

But here's the big problem I see with diabetes in general. Okay. Medicine's goal is to help

manage and regulate blood sugars. So you are given certain medications to help normalize your blood sugar.

Well, pretty much problem solved. If we could just manage your blood sugars, you'll be okay.

But my question is like, what do you mean

manage blood sugars? Well, you're lowering the blood sugars to a normal level, right? Just like you

would do with high blood pressure and medication. But the question I have is, where is this sugar going

that you're managing or you're lowering? Is it evaporating or is it just going from one place to another?

And the answer is it's going from one place to another. It's going from your blood to other parts

of your body, like your liver, like your organs. It's being converted to fat as a fatty liver.

So it's not correcting anything. It's just transferring one problem to another

problem. So there's two main issues with diabetes in relationship to your skin. One problem with the

high blood glucose, directly affecting your skin or even indirectly. And then you have other problems

related to the hormone that is involved

with diabetes called insulin. So let's start with the insulin part first. Insulin is a glucose

lowering hormone. When you have high blood glucose, you also will have, at least initially,

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