Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Warning, you may never eat sugar again after watching this video, or at least you'll dramatically cut down the amount of sugar that you consume, and I think everyone knows that sugar is bad, it affects almost every part of your body, it causes waking, but what I want to do is I want to just take one little thing in your body and talk about the effects of sugar on that one thing, and that is going to be the red blood cells. In fact, the red blood cell is how

they measure your blood sugars, and how they even diagnose diabetes through tests called A1C. A1C is a test that measures how much sugar is stuck to the red blood cell. When the red blood cell, or at least the protein part of the red blood cell called hemoglobin, is exposed to sugar, there's this chemical reaction or binding that occurs, and that's called glycation.

So, glycation is the amount of sugar that binds with that hemoglobin, and that renders it inactive that can't work anymore. And so, based on how much sugar you have stuck to your hemoglobin, can determine what your A1C is.

So, let's say for example, you have an A1C of 5.7 or less, that would be considered normal, and so the term 5.7% just refers to you have 5.7% of the total amount of hemoglobin in your blood that is stuck to this sugar molecule.

So, if it's between 5.7% to 6.4%, you're at pre-diabetic, and when it gets over 6.4%, you're at a diabetic. Now, what does all this mean in simple terms?

Well, the red blood cell should normally be very, very flexible. It should be able to hold oxygen and carry oxygen to the tissues, and it shouldn't be very sticky. It should free flow and carry oxygen to the body and release the oxygen.

And then also pick up the CO2 and bring that back into the lungs where it can be re-oxygenated.

So, the more that this protein in your red blood cell gets stuck with the sugar, the more your red blood cells are going to be stiff.

It's going to be very, very sticky, and it's going to form clumps, and so that increases your risk of getting a clot.

But when the red blood cell becomes stiff, it can't bend anymore.

So, what happens is the blood flows through your arteries into smaller arteries, and then tiny vessels called capillaries, they get stuck, okay?

And so, we have the arteries that push the blood down to the end of your body like the toes and the fingers, and that's where the capillaries are that then kind of goes in reverse and becomes the venous system, the veins,

and then brings the blood back up through the lungs to start this whole cycle over.

So, the arteries are filled with this red blood that's oxygenated, and then as we use the oxygen, the return blood flow to the veins are like a bluish red because they have less oxygen.

But if your red blood cell is not flexible, if it's rigid, if it's stiff, it can't bend, it gets stuck in the capillaries, and then that starves off the tissues.

And this is why a diabetic starts noticing tingling in the fingertips, and usually the toes or the bottom of the foot, they start feeling an abnormal sensation like numbness or even pain or burning.

What's happening is the blood cells are too stiff, and they can't seem to get through the pipes.

And then we start off the tissues with oxygen, we start off the nerves with oxygen, and they start to die.

That is the first change that happens on the road to necrosis or gangrene, where the tissues actually die.

And when the tissues don't get oxygen and they start dying, you start having an increase of unfriendly microbes, it's called pathogens, and unfriendly fungus.

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