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Hi, guys. I had another question from someone that wanted to know why is

having high blood sugars bad for us, okay? It's really two main reasons with a lot of secondary

reasons too. One is that, and I'm going to start with number two, micro-hemaging of the vessels

are basically tiny little leaks, okay? like your blood vessels are leaking blood.

So what's going to happen is your body is going to then try to patch it up

with a type of protein called fibrin.

So you're going to have high levels of fibrigen when your sugars are high,

and that's what gives you sticky blood.

Okay, from that you get clots, clots in the arteries, which create a stroke,

harding of the arteries, high blood pressure because you lose the elasticity, and then loss of vision

where you have the retina being destroyed. You also get cirrhosis of the liver. So we get microhemorrhage,

then the fibrogen, and number three, you can get a fatty liver. So I had

this guy come in one day, and I had him lay on the table, and I'm checking him, and he told me his

hands and his legs just go on completely dead. They're numb. He can't even feel them.

But he's not really concerned about that, because when he sits up and he can just kind of

tap it and it comes back to life. So he says,

what are you eating? Okay, so not only does he eat pancakes every morning, but he consumes an entire

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