So let's talk about what sugar does to your arteries and probably the biggest damage

from high amounts of sugar in the blood with the diabetic is done to your vascular system.

And I want to talk about what occurs in that state.

So you have two things.

You have the macrobascular system and the microvascular system.

So the large vessels and then the small capillaries.

In the large vessels, you have the coronary artery.

That's the artery that supplies the heart muscle.

And then you also have peripheral arteries throughout your body.

And then you have the microvascular system which goes to the retina of the eye.

Or the kidney.

If you think about it, what does the kidney do?

It filters your blood.

So you have the entire vascular system that gets filtered through the kidney.

So you have a lot of capillaries in the kidney.

Then you have these tiny nerves in your feet or your hands.

Okay, so when you have high levels of sugar,

you can create these damages called peripheral neuropathy where your bottom of your feet

or the fingertips become numb or painful or burning pain.

And that progresses to a situation when you have more and more damage to the nervous system.

And it could potentially get necrosis or literally like the tissue is rotting.

And that's simply because of this, sugar rusts out your vascular system.

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