How to STOP Prediabetes Going Into Diabetes
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
How can you stop prediabetes from developing into diabetes? Let’s talk about it.
There is something that occurs before prediabetes called insulin resistance. This is a condition where your body is resisting high levels of insulin. High insulin levels are created from consuming a high-carb diet.
Insulin resistance will keep your blood sugar levels appearing normal until you develop prediabetes. However, you’ll still experience symptoms of insulin resistance.
Eventually, though, the beta cells that make insulin will not work as well, and you’ll develop prediabetes. If no changes are made, prediabetes can become diabetes very quickly. At this point, you have insulin resistance and high blood glucose (diabetes).
Symptoms of diabetes:
• Frequent urination
• Brain fog
• Feeling tired after eating
• Frequent eating
• Cravings for carbs
• Tingling sensation in the hands or feet
• Vision problems
• Kidney problems
• Fatty liver
• Belly fat
The typical treatment for diabetes is medication. However, the dietary consumption of sugar and carbs is often overlooked.
The best ways to prevent diabetes naturally:
1. Replace the carbs in your diet with fat and protein
2. Do intermittent fasting
3. Consume low-starch vegetables
4. Get plenty of trace minerals, B vitamins, vitamin C, and vitamin D
5. Exercise
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| 0:00.0 | So how do you stop this pre-diabetic state going into diabetes? Well, it's not that hard. |
| 0:08.1 | Once you understand the mechanism, there's something that happens before pre-diabetes that you need to |
| 0:13.9 | know about, and that is a condition called insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a condition |
| 0:19.8 | where your body is putting up resistance |
| 0:23.0 | against too much insulin because there are too many carbs in the diet. To understand this, |
| 0:28.7 | all you have to do is understand what normal blood sugar really means. Like how much sugar do you |
| 0:34.8 | have in your body to produce a normal sugar level? If we just take a look |
| 0:39.1 | at normal sugar being 80 milligrams per decilator, it's really only a tiny bit. It's like one teaspoon |
| 0:45.1 | for all of your blood. You have about a gallon and a half to maybe even up to two gallons of blood in |
| 0:49.8 | your body at any one time. And there's only one little teaspoon that would make your blood sugars 80 milligrams |
| 0:54.7 | per deciliter. So how could it be that your consumption of sugar could be so high, like an average |
| 1:01.5 | person has at least 31 teaspoons of sugar every single day. How could you have normal blood sugars? |
| 1:07.8 | Well, it's because of the insulin resistance. The insulin resistance is created |
| 1:11.7 | to protect you against the toxicity of glucose. And the term for that is glucotoxicity. So too much |
| 1:17.9 | glucose to the body is poisonous. So the body has to protect that by shutting down the insulin |
| 1:23.8 | receptors because insulin regulates glucose. Insulin allows glucose to be absorbed. So if we can |
| 1:32.0 | shut down those receptors, we can decrease the amount of sugar that kind of goes into the cells. |
| 1:37.8 | And so if someone has insulin resistance, which a lot of people do, all that means is you're |
| 1:42.2 | eating too many carbs and your body's trying to protect itself |
| 1:44.8 | against too much sugar. Think about this. If you were to talk to me right now and I had earplugs, |
| 1:50.9 | right? You would shout because I'm like ignoring you. Same thing happens with insulin resistance. |
| 1:55.7 | It's like these little earplugs in the receptors for insulin. Now the pancreas actually has to shout and its communication |
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