Will eating a slice of bread cause your body to become irreparably damaged for the rest of your life?!?
No, it won’t…
But eating bread and other carbohydrates as a core part of your diet, every day, WILL cause damage that CAN’T be repaired.
Read on…
What Causes Blood Vessel Damage?
It has been known for quite some time that long term elevated blood glucose levels cause damage to blood vessels [1]. More simply, too much sugar in your blood causes the blood vessels in your body to stop working properly, and then to stop working entirely.
Many scientists have observed that people suffering from diabetes commonly encounter complications due to this destruction of the blood vessels [2], and the complications are not exactly trivial. They include:
- Kidney failure
- Blindness
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Damage to the feet, requiring amputation
- Erectile dysfunction in men
- Reduced sexual sensation in women
Research has identified many of the specific mechanisms that directly cause the long term blood vessel damage, all of which are caused by persistent elevated blood sugar levels.
Unfortunately, many of these same scientists haven’t quite connected the dots back to carbohydrates as the root cause.
If you’ve read my post “Your Body Doesn’t Need Carbs“, then you know that your body IMMEDIATELY converts carbohydrates into glucose and glycogen. And whatever glucose can’t be immediately burned for cellular energy is stuffed into every available cell in your body by insulin. Blood sugar regulation is critical, and your body takes it VERY seriously.
You should too.
Now, these same scientists that observe that long term elevated blood glucose levels are the CAUSE of this blood vessel damage have attributed the SOURCE of the problem to diabetes itself. More specifically, to the body’s lack of insulin, or resistance to the effects of insulin.
But what caused the diabetes in the first place?!?
What You Eat Causes Insulin Resistance, Which Causes Diabetes
Conventional wisdom tell us that diabetes is linked to obesity, and to some extent, biological predisposition passed down genetically. Conventional wisdom ALSO tell us that FAT is what makes us obese. (Go read Fat Doesn’t Make You Fat if you haven’t already!)
So the line of reasoning that is being followed by modern science is as follows:
- Blood vessel damage is caused by elevated blood sugar
- Insulin regulates blood sugar
- Diabetes causes insulin to not be produced, or to stop working effectively
- Obesity causes diabetes
- Fat causes obesity
- Therefore, FAT causes ELEVATED BLOOD SUGAR
Are you seeing the MAJOR disconnect in this reasoning?
Even the American Diabetic Association would have you believe that FAT, which by definition contains ZERO SUGAR is causing your body to have persistently high BLOOD SUGAR.
It’s madness.
How to Cure Type 2 Diabetes, IMMEDIATELY
Your body uses insulin to regulate blood sugar levels. I know, I’m beating the shit out of this dead horse, but stick with me…
Meat contains ZERO carbohydrates. ZERO sugar. If you eat meat (or more generally you eat a ZERO carb diet, which CAN be done without meat, but to pretty poor effect), then your body will not have any excess sugar in the bloodstream. Therefore your body won’t require insulin to be produced to correct your blood sugar levels.
And Voilà! Your Type 2 Diabetes is gone!
Ok, that’s a bit of an oversimplification, but it’s ESSENTIALLY TRUE. Type 2 diabetes is a more serious evolution of insulin resistance, which is your body becoming less capable of regulating its blood sugar levels with insulin.
Remember how I mentioned that insulin tries to stuff excess glucose into any cells it can find? What do you think happens when you’ve been consuming so many carbohydrates for such a long time that nearly every spare cell in your body is STUFFED full of glucose? Do you think your body’s insulin might not be as capable of finding places to stuff the extra sugar?
And when your body is pumping out insulin all day, every day, do you think it’s possible that the biological materials that produce that insulin might become exhausted, and less capable of producing insulin AT ALL?
But yeah, it’s probably the FAT with NO SUGAR in it that’s causing the elevated blood glucose…
You know, because fAt Is BaD fOr YoU!1!!
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[1] http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/how-high-blood-sugars-damage-blood-vessels/
[2] https://healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/Complications-of-diabetes
Additional sources:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110129081530.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3348526/
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