Take These 5 Vitamins to STOP Diabetic Complications Now

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today I’m going to share five vitamins that can help with the complications of diabetes.

High blood glucose affects four main tissues, including:

1. The eyes

2. The arteries

3. The nervous system (including the brain)

4. The kidneys

However, the damage to these tissues can lead to a myriad of health problems.

Glycation is a combination of sugar and protein in the body, and it can lead to this dysfunction of tissues. An A1C score is basically a number that represents glycated hemoglobin (a protein in red blood cells) to help tell how bad someone’s diabetes is.

Glycation can also occur when someone consumes a combination of sugar or carbs and protein or fat.

When glycation occurs, it can build up into advanced glycation end products (AGEs). With AGEs comes a lot of free radical damage, inflammation, and oxidative stress.

The good news is that there are natural things that can inhibit glycation.

Vitamins that inhibit glycation:

1. Benfotiamine

2. Vitamin C

3. Vitamin D

4. Vitamin E (tocotrienols complex without tocopherols)

5. Vitamin B6

Other natural glycation inhibitors:

• Alpha lipoic acid

• Green tea (EGCG)

• Aged garlic

• Bitter melon

• Quercetin

• Curcumin

• Fasting

• Exercise

DATA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19409...

https://www.e-pan.org/journal/view.ph...

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0:00.0	So what is the big deal about diabetes anyway? Okay, so what? You have high blood glucose.
0:05.8	What damage is that going to do for your body? Well, there's really only four tiny tissues
0:13.5	in the body that can be affected by this high sugar. And if you can actually get really these
0:18.4	complications, you really wouldn't feel that bad from even having diabetes. So it's like having
0:24.7	high blood glucose, but without any major symptoms, okay? So I'm going to show you how to get rid
0:30.8	of those complications. And then if you want to get rid of the cause of this problem, you can do that
0:36.7	too. But today I'm going to show you five different vitamins that can get rid of the complications
0:41.7	of diabetes. All right, so you have this high blood glucose. What for tissues does it affect?
0:47.7	Well, it affects the eyes. Okay, it affects arteries that go to your heart and other organs.
0:55.2	It affects the nervous system, including the brain. And it affects the kidney. Okay, other than that,
1:01.9	it doesn't really affect anything else. Now, what can it do to the eyes? Well, it affects the retina.
1:08.2	Now that's the main nerve tissue that extends outside the brain. And it's picking up information
1:14.5	and it's bringing into the brain so you can actually see. If you don't get rid of the complications
1:20.4	from diabetes related to the eye, you can go blind. Okay, you can also have macular degeneration.
1:27.2	You can also get cataracts. You can even get glaucoma. You can have a lot of problems with the eye.
1:32.7	The next problem is the vascular system, the artery. Okay, you have this layer. It's called the endothelial
1:40.8	layer inside the arteries. It's highly susceptible to high blood glucose. And so the complication
1:48.7	of diabetes is plucking and clots, okay, which obstructs blood flow to the heart muscle.
1:57.4	Or it can actually obstruct blood flow to your brain. So if you have high blood glucose
2:02.5	flowing through your arteries in your brain, that can lead to dementia or even Alzheimer's
2:09.1	or Parkinson's or other types of degenerative brain problems. But also not just the nerves in
2:16.7	your brain, also the nerves in the rest of your body too, like the bottom nerves on your feet.
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