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so let’s talk about the highest

blood sugar

ever recorded

in history

it was recorded in 2008

by a type 1 diabetic a child

named michael patrick

boonikor now think about what normal

blood sugar is okay it’s like 80

milligrams per

deciliter his blood sugars were 2

656

milligrams per deciliter i mean this is

like astronomical i mean i’ve heard

people having blood sugars of 300 400

500 and 600 but that’s when they usually

go into a coma so this just blew me away

of how high a blood sugar could actually

get now realize you have insulin that is

constantly buffering the sugar it’s

taking the sugar out of your blood

constantly and he was a type 1 diabetic

so he didn’t have any insulin obviously

he didn’t take his medication so his

blood sugars just went

you know kept going higher and higher

now ingesting one gram of glucose okay

will raise your blood sugars about

roughly

five milligrams per deciliter so just

think about how much sugar someone would

have to consume

to raise their blood sugars over

2 000 milligrams per deciliter but again

you have to take in consideration

insulin because insulin’s gonna come in

there and take it out of the blood but

if you have insulin resistance or you’re

pre-diabetic or diabetic that’s going to

be a problem because with insulin

resistance

you might be pumping out all this

insulin but it’s not working to lower

your blood sugars this is why the blood

sugars start increasing now today i want

to talk about something very very

interesting that relates to blood sugars

it’s not just sugar that will raise your

blood sugars it could also be stress now

let me explain when you go through

stress your body needs quick energy

so your liver is going to start making

glucose okay and it has nothing to do

with your diet

you can be eating

healthy foods

but your liver will start converting

like protein

fat

ketones into glucose and that process is

called gluconeogenesis

now there’s a really really good test

that could be done

which measures

an average blood sugar over two to three

months it’s called a1c

and a1c

basically measures

how much of the protein your blood

is glycated or damaged from sugar so

when the sugar goes up in the blood it

destroys the protein and this process is

irreversible okay it’s permanent so you

have to now wait two to three months

before that red blood cell has been

dealt with by the body so a1c is a

really good

measurement

of the average of your blood sugars over

you know roughly three months

and it’s a really good way to determine

if someone is

cheating on their diet too because

let’s say you’re doing great through the

week and you’re checking your blood

sugars each day and everything comes out

real good but then on the weekends you

go off the program

well with a1c you’re measuring this

average for three months so you’re gonna

pick up those times that you cheated but

let’s say for example

you’re not cheating and you’re not

eating sugar and you’re eating really

good you’re on the keto plan you’re

doing intermittent fasting

but your a1c is not coming down in fact

it’s going up

well it could be

stress

because like i said before cortisol is

another thing that can cause your liver

to start producing sugar

even if you’re on the ketogenic plan and

not eating any sugar so your body can

get sugar from the diet or it can make

it when you’re under stress

so unfortunately when people go through

stress they smoke they take drugs

they eat poorly

they drink alcohol and of course none of

these things lower blood sugar they just

make things worse so if this is your

situation let’s say you cleaned up your

diet but your stress is too high and

that is affecting your blood sugars or

you wake up in the morning and your

blood sugars are high

despite not eating any sugar

a real simple remedy would be to

exercise

okay

one good workout every single day

will usually handle this excess amount

of sugar that’s being produced because

of stress

i’m talking about not just a tiny

workout but you know at least a half

hour to 40 minutes of a workout

exercise reduces cortisol exercise helps

your sleep

exercise also lowers your blood sugars

directly because it’s burning up that

extra sugar in your blood but also i

want to mention this if you do physical

work

around your yard or even in your house

that can even be a better form of

exercise because you’re

handling a lot of the mental stress

sometimes even more than

getting a treadmill which you’re just

you know mechanically walking so

depending on the exercise you do a

really big part of this is taking your

attention off the mental stress

now i want to mention two additional

things that are really really important

if you’re sodium deficient if you don’t

consume enough salt

that can keep your cortisol going higher

cortisol does help control

sodium

and so this is why when people go

through stress they might crave salty

foods if you are on a salt restricted

diet

um that could be one reason why your

cortisols tend to go higher and that can

also indirectly affect your blood sugar

so i’m just bringing up this point about

sodium because a lot of times people

don’t consider sodium beneficial to

helping reduce stress

and one common symptom

of a sodium deficiency would be weakness

and fatigue as in keto fatigue

aka

adrenal fatigue

so adrenal fatigue is the same thing as

keto fatigue and really both of those

are a sodium deficiency because a

person’s not consuming enough salt

and of course make sure you have the sea

salt now one last thing i want to add to

that

you should also add potassium to that as

well a good amount of potassium because

potassium can not just lower cortisol it

can lower your blood sugars it actually

helps insulin resistance so salt and

potassium and exercise are a great way

to keep your stress low and keep your

a1c low if you want a really good

recommendation of how to get

enough potassium i put a link down below

in the description now i think a really

good video for you to watch next is the

one that i did on sea salt check it out