Sunday Chat: Health and Wealth Bytes Issue 4
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Health Bytes
Optimal Nutrition – How to prevent sugar spikes
Our diet is a major determinant of how well our body will function and repair itself. TNJ has shown very clearly how vital TNJ Nutrients are to healing and repair, performance and recovery, full integrated function of both brain hemispheres, handling stress properly, DNA protection and repair, protection from environmental and internal toxins. TNJ does even more that we have yet to define.
Diet provides not only NUTRIENTS to activate physiologic system function it provides SUBSTRATES for Energy and Building. We eat Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, DNA encoded Nutrients, natural and synthetic Chemicals (not encoded in our DNA blueprint), and Water. These function in our bodies not only in enzymatic and chemical (volumetric) mechanisms but many also have quantum physics/electromagnetic properties and mechanisms.
Our Modern Lifesyles and Modern Diets have created many problems for our physiologic systems. The vast majority of us if we drink a Soda, eat a Sandwich, snack on chips or crackers, or eat a dessert or any othe rapid digesting carbohydrate (high glycemic index) will experience a surge of blood sugar in 10 to 20 minutes. The pancreas will respond with a burst of Insulin, overshoot the sugar level and drop the blood level below normal. The body will call on the liver and other sources to boost blood sugar into another high spike. A second Insulin burst makes us Hypoglycemic again. The body responds with a 3RDÂ blood sugar spike and 3rd drop below normal before levelling out in normal range. This standard pattern, described by Dr Somogi in 1930 just 9 years after Drs Banting and Best discovered Insulin in 1921, happens to us several to many times every day.
Insulin is linked directly to 18 or more major regulatory hormones in a chain. Wiggle one wiggle them all!
The Somogi Response creates a 3 wave tsunami down our regulatory chain affecting Brain, Liver, Pancreas, Gut, Muscle, Hypo-Thalamic/Pituitary/Adrenal Axis, Thyroid, Growth Hormone, Leptin, Ghrellin, Gallinin, Cholecystokinin, Cortisol and Corticosterone, Prolactin, Testosterone, and Endorphin/Enkephlin neurotransmitters, plus several more hormones you have never even heard about. Insulin Resistance with constantly elevated levels of Insulin, disrupts this regulatory chain to cause The Pre-Diabetic or Metabolic Syndome (Syndrome X).
Complex Carbohydrates are natural, unprocessed, combine carbohydrate with various forms of fiber and digest in 1 to 3 HOURS not 10 to 20 minutes. Slow digesting complex carbs (low glycemic index) create a smooth uniform rise in blood sugar within normal range without spikes and rebound hypoglycemia. Eat a 50 gram (200KCal) serving 4 to 5 times a day (that’s about 1/2 of an 1800 KCal Diabetic Diet) for 2 weeks while avoiding rapid digesting carbs and oils (short chain oils are used to fry chips and crackers), and the battered regulatory hormones and organs become calm and effective again. Now a can of Coke for example at 10 AM (after a good slow digesting breakfast) creates a small bump in blood sugar, not the Somogi Response.
You are now ready to add SOME rapid digesting carbs to your diet as long as you eat 4 or more servings of Low Glycemic Index Carbohydrates daily. You can find lists on the Internet of both High and Low Glycemic Index foods. Fruits, Vegetables, Beans, Heavy whole grain breads, nuts are the basics.
The Mediterranean Diet is heavy in fresh fruits, fresh or steamed vegetables, salads, olive oil, fish poultry, dairy, pork, lamb, poultry and dairy. It avoids excess refined sugars, bleached flours, and processed foods (MSG and other Excitotoxins). This dietary pattern dramatically reduces inflammation in joints, blood vessels, and other soft tissues AFTER the 10th WEEK then continuously. This works well for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus (SLE), and should work for Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetes mellitus and many other conditions.
This is the dietary pattern plus regular TNJ recommended by AskDrRichardWilliams.com for everyone and particularly for those with health challenges.
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Here’s wishing you a blessed Easter and Happy Spring!
April 12, 2009 :: Chapter: Quotable Quotes, Sunday Chat :: Comments (1)
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Hello Sir, do you know if Noni will help varicose veins. I have good diet and have lost weight which I think first cause varicose vein. Now my weight is same as eighteen, I am 52. But varicose vein not better.
Comment by Kanlaya Thip-Ard — April 13, 2009 @ 2:03 am