Much of what you have probably heard about diabetes may be incorrect. Type 2 Diabetes is NOT a Disease of Blood Sugar but a disease of faulty insulin and leptin signalling.
Leptin: Is It the Missing Link Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes?
Leptin is a hormone produced in your fat cells. One of leptin's primary roles is regulating your appetite and body weight. It tells your brain when to eat, how much to eat, and most importantly, when to stop eating. Leptin tells your brain what to do with the energy it has; either burn calories at a normal rate or slow things down. Leptin is largely responsible for the accuracy of insulin signalling and whether or not you become insulin resistant.
When your blood sugar becomes elevated, insulin is released to direct the extra energy into storage. A small amount is stored as a starch called glycogen, but the majority is stored as fat. Insulin's major role is not to lower your blood sugar, but rather to store the extra energy as fat for future times of need. Insulin’s effect of lowering your blood sugar is merely a “side effect” of this energy (fat) storage process.
This is why diabetes treatments concentrating merely on lowering blood sugar can actually worsen, rather than remedy the problem of metabolic miscommunication.
Taking insulin is one of the WORST things you can do for type 2 diabetes, since it will actually worsen your insulin and leptin resistance over time.
Medications & supplements are NOT the answer for Type 2 diabetes; restoring your sensitivity to insulin and leptin is what’s needed. The only known way to re-establish proper leptin (and insulin) signalling is through a low carbohydrate diet. This means limited or no sugarand carbohydrates that rapidly cause elevated blood sugar levels including bread, biscuits, cereal, pasta, rice and potatoes.
Most people are not aware that grains are a high source of a sugar called maltose, this is broken down by enzymes in the small intestine into glucose. One cup of cooked rice or pasta is equal to 10 teaspoons of table sugar and an average slice of bread is equal to 3 teaspoons of sugar. Grains also contain lectins which gain access to your blood via the small intestine and block leptin signalling.
Be prepared for the side effects because choosing to eliminate sugar and grains from your diet will inevitably cause you to: • Normalize your weight • Increase your energy • Lower your blood pressure • Lower triglycerides • Feel better than you have felt in years
Most Type 2 diabetics have no idea how to reverse their disease and many don’t even realize that they can. They believe their fate has been sealed and all they can do now is “control” it. Unfortunately, by following conventional advice, you could be putting yourself on the path toward life threatening health problems—and even premature death.
Type 2 diabetes is at the beginning a less serious disease;however, it probably causes more heart attacks, strokes, and amputations than Type 1. These complications of Type 2 proliferate, no doubt, because it is initially milder and is often left untreated or treated poorly.