With a recent article by the shills at Medical News Today, we’re back to beating (flogging) that old dead horse of carbohydrates. Yet, this is a really important issue, especially since the fake pseudo-science of modern medicine and nutrition twists and invert everything. Also, they tend to stick labels onto every little issue without even understanding it, as in diabetes for example.
This time, MNT recently published an article with the headline, “Diabetes-related health complications can lower life expectancy,” which of course sounds like a no-brainer. However, here within lies the deception, that of diabetes. My brightest readers and followers have likely figured it out already. But for the new readers, and those looking for more information and some nuggets of wisdom, let’s look at what they write, and I’ll explain and correct them along the way.
“Researchers estimate that about 529 million people around the world are living with diabetes, with 90% to 95% of them having type 2 diabetes.”
Those are some shocking numbers, I know. And they’re increasing rapidly. However, it is much worse than what these numbers display, and let me explain why.
First, we need to understand what “type 2 diabetes” is. According to medical literature it is a “chronic” metabolic disorder as defined by two “malfunctions.”
- Impaired insulin secretion: The pancreas produces insufficient insulin, or insulin secretion is impaired, leading to inadequate glucose uptake by cells.
- Insulin resistance: The body’s cells become less responsive to insulin, making it difficult for glucose to enter the cells, even when insulin levels are normal or elevated.
And once you show symptoms and blood glucose levels are above >7 mmol/L or 126 mg/dL, what is called ‘hyperglycemia,’ they label you as a type 2 diabetic.
Impaired insulin secretion can be determined by measuring insulin secretion in the blood in response to a glucose load or by looking at C-peptides in the blood, a byproduct of insulin production. If these are below average, it is assumed that the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin in response to the toxic glucose broken down from consuming carbohydrates.
And insulin resistance is a construct, it cannot be measured. These are simply cells that have taken so much damage from being continuously oversaturated by glucose from the consumption of carbohydrates that they no longer can store the toxic glucose without dying.
Keep in mind that our natural state as humans is to be in ketosis running on a fat metabolism where we produce the perfect amounts of glucose through gluconeogenesis that some tissues need on a daily basis — as well as for replenishing glycogen stores during and after activity, as in storing glucose in cells. In this natural state, your body will never produce more glucose than what is needed and your cells will never have to store more glucose as glycogen than what they are constructed for.
However, when you go against your natural diet and consume carbohydrates, blood glucose rises far above normal levels that could ever be achieved through gluconeogenesis — and as glucose is extremely toxic to blood vessels and soft tissues, it has to be managed immediately. And the only way to do this is to either use the glucose as fuel and/or to store it in cells as glycogen. This means that every time you consume carbohydrates, you do not only do a great deal of damage to various sensitive tissues, you also oversaturate the cells with glycogen. Think of the cells as balloons. If you inflate a balloon past its limits, the structural barrier keeping the air inside will take damage, and eventually the balloon will burst. That is what is happening to your cells. They simply shut down the uptake of glucose as a survival mechanism, or they would implode. And that is what “insulin resistance” is. Your cells are so damaged that they can no longer store any glycogen. And this is something that will start happening quite early and will not be noticeable until a lot of damage has accumulated and you walk around with very elevated blood glucose levels for very long periods of time.
And this takes us to the problem with definitions such as “diabetes.” You do not go to bed perfectly fine one day and wake up the next morning with diabetes. The damage done to tissues and cells is something that starts the moment you begin to consume carbohydrates regularly, and then it accumulates. Depending on other lifestyle factors, some will reach the stage of bodily destruction that is defined as “type 2 diabetes” by the medical community, as in failing fasting plasma glucose and oral glucose tolerance tests while showing a lot of disturbing symptoms, while others might not really reach that destination, but come very close. They might not be “diabetic” per definition, but they are still extremely unhealthy but they believe that they are fine. The important thing here is to understand that no matter the definition, damage is being made every time you consume carbohydrates and it accumulates on a linear scale. It builds up with time and exposure, and that damage can manifest in many ways, not only as diabetes, but especially as cardiovascular disease.
“People with diabetes have a higher risk of developing serious complications including heart disease, nerve damage, kidney disease, gum disease, dementia, mood disorders, and eye problems.”
Actually, all these complications are caused by elevated blood glucose, thus they all begin to build-up the moment you start to regularly consume carbohydrates, as in regularly inflicting damage by elevating blood glucose from breaking down those carbohydrates. And herein lies the danger with all these labels and diagnoses. As long as the average person is not being diagnosed with a disease or disorder, as in ‘diabetes,’ they believe that they are fine — that they are healthy and out of danger. However, that false security is the real danger and the sinister deceit of the medical community. It is all very simple, if you consume carbohydrates, you are doing damage to your body with every single bite, and that damage accumulates. And a lot of the complications may not be noticed until they are very severe, and in worst case, non-reversible.
“If a person with diabetes has more than one of these complications, they are referred to as multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs).”
Actually, every single person that has been consuming carbohydrates regularly for a few years qualifies for being a MLTC, as in pretty much every single person in today’s backwards modern society — as elevated blood glucose damages all these tissues, leading to these conditions. It’s only a matter of accumulated damage and how to measure it. The difference is that in someone that has accumulated so much damage that they can be diagnosed with diabetes, also have accumulated so much damage in other areas of their bodies that they have begun to show a multitude of symptoms and thus easily can be labeled as MLTCs.
“Now, researchers from Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom report that not only does diabetes accelerate the onset of MLTCs by 15-20 years, these MLTCs result in significantly reduced life expectancy in people with diabetes.”
No, it’s not the diagnosis of “diabetes” that accelerates the onset of MLTCs. It is the lifestyle of these people. They consume way more carbohydrates than they can handle. While some carb-junkies exercise and are more active, as in having a lot of spontaneous movement, using up a lot of that glucose as energy, those with an early diagnosis of diabetes tend to be less active and also expose themselves to more toxins by even worse food choices (more ultra-processed and chemically-enhanced food stuffs.)
Again, it’s not a diagnosis that drives the onset of other health problems and conditions, it’s the accumulated damage done by a constant onslaught of glucose and toxins by consuming food rich in carbohydrates.
In other words, that statement should read as, “over-consumption of carbohydrates accelerate the onset of MLTCs by 15-20 years.”
Multiple long-term conditions by age 50 in diabetes
“Upon analysis, researchers found that by the age of 50, about one-third of study participants with diabetes had at least three MLTCs. Conversely, those without diabetes did not reach having three MLTCs until ages 65-70.
Scientists also found that the average onset age for at least two MLTCs was 66-67 years for participants with diabetes. Additionally, the younger a person was diagnosed with diabetes, the more severe their levels of MLTCs would be as they aged.”
Again, diabetes is only one of the symptoms, or conditions, caused by continuously flooding your blood with glucose. What damage will manifest first, second, third, and so on, all depends on a myriad of factors such as what tissue takes the most damage, what your body might be able to heal from time to time, where toxins accumulate, and how much of it you can detox.
Still, the common nominator is that of excess glucose and a high toxic load, and that comes from consuming the wrong kind of foods, as in plant-based garbage and especially the garbage that contains a lot of carbohydrates and/or seed/vegetable oils.
This study, as many others, just confirms this if you understand the physiology behind it. It’s all about your diet and lifestyle. Humans are obligate hyper carnivores. We are constructed to consume animals and their produce. Anything else is toxic. And since we are built to run on fat and be in ketosis, adding exogenous carbohydrates that break down to glucose will inflict a lot of damage. Most of these carbohydrate-rich foods we see today never existed before the industrial revolution and all kinds of fruits, berries and even vegetables did not exist in the past as they have all been genetically modified.
In the past, some plant-based foods could be used as emergency food when you could not get enough animal-based foods. And in such a scenario, when you are starving and have been fasting for a few days, the little carbohydrates that were naturally found in these plants you could scavenge (perhaps 30 grams total in a day) was just enough to keep us going so we could find real food. We were never meant to consume any of them daily, and especially not carbohydrates, and absolutely not in such quantities as found in today’s modern food items.
This is simple logic.
And with this, MNT continued their article listing the issues with all these different MLTCs. However, that is unnecessary to cover, as my main point was that of labeling and diagnosing disorders such as diabetes — as it is all about accumulated damage; and that damage begins the moment you strife away from our natural species-appropriate diet.
Just because you have not (yet) been diagnosed with a disease or disorder, according to the medical standards and their threshold values, does not mean that there is not a lot of damage within your body — and if you continue as you do, that damage will one day manifest, not to mention how many years of your life you have cut off by doing so.
This is the real danger of “healthcare” and the medical establishment. They love to put labels on every little symptom (while ignoring the big picture) and prescribe some useless drug that mitigates that symptom so you can continue to do damage to yourself all the way to your grave while lining their pockets with money, instead of actually doing something about the real problem, which in this case simply is your diet and that of carbohydrates.
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