How Long Before A Diabetic Goes Blind? – Dr.Berg On Diabetic Retinopathy | DrEricBergDC

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so I wanted to do this video based on a

question that someone had how long does

it take before a diabetic goes blind or

loses the limb so let’s talk about that

and I’m not saying that that’s gonna

happen to you if you’re a diabetic but

you should know this data okay normally

it takes ten years of exposure to high

blood sugar before you see some pretty

serious complications to your nervous

system to the eyes you start developing

infections to the kidney to the even

even the brain with loss of memory so

some of the complications are numbness

in the fingertips in the toes

definitely infection you can get

infections anywhere because it lowers

your immune system your kidney starts

leaking protein because there’s

destruction in the kidney and then the

nerves of the eyes get destroyed and the

way it works is this so high levels of

glucose combined with proteins in your

tissue and they create this situation

called glycated proteins which I’m not

going to get into that in this video it

just basically makes the the protein

sticky it starts clogging up the

vascular system especially to the

nervous system so the nerves in your eye

like the retina is fed through the

vascular system so if the if the blood

vessels to the nerve can’t flow blood

anymore the nerves die and that’s what

causes the diabetic to go blind

it’s called diabetic retinopathy so

there’s certain tissues in your body

that are influenced with this high sugar

more than others the eyes are at the top

the list the nerves are affected the

arteries the inside of the vascular

system is affected that’s why it affects

the heart so when your blood sugars are

over 200 or your a1c is over eight

that’s the type of exposure that I’m

talking about

normally a fasting blood glucose is

between 70 and 90 a pre-diabetic is

anywhere around 100 to 125 and then a

diabetic is over 125 all right guys so

here’s the real big problem you go to

your doctor and the main focus is to

keep your blood Sugar’s within normal

range okay using medication now my

question is if you’re taking the sugar

out of the blood

where is it going is it just evaporating

is it disappearing no you’re basically

shoving that sugar in to other places in

the body you’re creating other problems

so you’re switching one problem lower

blood sugar for another problem so that

sugar now is being crammed into other

places it’s going into the liver it’s

going around the organs as visceral fat

it’s going inside the organs creating

damage and these are some of the

problems that are not addressed the

other thing that it’s not addressed is

the high levels of insulin that you have

would type 2 diabetes okay type 1 is not

enough insulin but type 2 is a serious

problem with insulin resistance where

you have high levels of insulin but the

doctor never checks that they’re

checking the blood glucose but here’s

the other point I want to bring up high

levels of insulin is just as damaging if

not more than high levels of blood

glucose this is why your body develops

insulin resistance because it doesn’t

want that much insulin and in your body

so it actually creates a situation where

the receptors don’t absorb it into the

cell anymore as a protective mechanism

and it’s gonna be really hard if not

impossible to ever correct this problem

unless you get the amount of

carbohydrates out of your diet all right

so now the question is if you already

have gangrene or you went blind can you

reverse it I have no idea I guess it’s

possible but I have no idea it could be

too far but I would definitely try and

what would I do basically go on a

healthy keto plan and guess what in a

minute fasting I have a link down below

to show you how to do it for those of

you that are new to this so really

there’s two things I want you to focus

on one is getting the carbohydrates out

of the diet okay that alone is very

therapeutic so we want to lower the

carbs that’s gonna lower the risk of all

of this right here and number two we

want to increase the nutrients in your

food why because it’s the nutrients in

the food that protect against the

complications of high sugar that way you

can kill two birds with one stone

and lastly start eating foods that are

nutrient dense

to minimize the complications from the

high sugar alright thanks for watching

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