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hey guys in this video we’re gonna talk

about the different effects from

diabetes type 2 medication okay and this

is based on someone’s question they

wanted to know the different effects

this lady was on different medications

and she wanted to know what they were

doing to her body so I said tell you

what I’ll just create a little video on

it just to give you the overall picture

alright so now we have pancreas that

makes the hormone insulin insulin is

traveling through the blood it responds

to carbohydrates okay and it actually

even protein - it’s its goal is to lower

the blood sugar so the pancreas releases

insulin it travels through the blood and

goes into an insulin receptor the

insulin receptor then receives it and

then creates an effect one being lowered

blood sugar and then another of being

storage into either glycogen which is

stored sugar or cholesterol or fat

so there’s mainly three different

effects that certain medications create

in this scenario one is there’s certain

medications that increase the production

of insulin being outputted right through

here okay so there’s this little cell

called a beta cell that makes insulin so

what are the medication that is very

very popular is called sulfonyl urea so

this medication actually increases the

amount of insulin being produced by the

pancreas now if someone has type 1

diabetes and they don’t produce any more

insulin this will not work so this just

enhances what’s already there all right

the problem with this medication is that

they also use it for an herbicide yeah

because it blocks the certain amino

acids in plants so I’m like wow that’s

interesting so is it safe for humans

well I don’t know there’s some

definitely some side effects

one being increasing risk of

cardiovascular disease and death that’s

right that’s the warning on the label so

here you are trying to regulate your

blood sugars but then it’s increasing

your chance of dying from a heart attack

okay not good all right another a

mechanism is works on the receptor

the insulin receptor people with

diabetes type 2 have insulin resistance

so their receptors are not receiving

that hormone very well this is going to

create a failure of the return feedback

loop to the pancreas so we’re not gonna

get this shut off like the turn off

because it’s an incomplete communication

so the more that the receptor is blocked

or resisting or downgraded the more the

pancreas is going to produce more

insulin so we’re gonna have a situation

we have a lot of insulin but it’s not

really working in the body so if you’re

gonna take this medication that can

actually just add more insulin to a body

that has too much insulin problem it’s

not working over here so you’re not

getting the effect but you’re getting a

lot of the side effect of having the

high levels of insulin so metformin when

there’s other names from it Foreman

increases the sensitivity of insulin so

it allows the insulin to be received

more okay and there’s actually a black

label on metformin that talks about one

of the side effects being lactic

acidosis which is a pretty serious

condition because the pH goes way way up

one of the real natural remedies for

lactic acidosis is about mb1 the problem

is metformin also depletes b1 so it kind

of prevents the the countering of that

lactic acidosis so it is a concern a

problem but the way that metformin works

is by opening up this receptor right

here okay so then therefore the pancreas

can actually lower the amount of

production of insulin being pumped out

okay then the other mechanism is just by

giving someone more insulin so a lot of

diabetics type 2 are also given more

insulin on top of it just straight

insulin so it’s not necessarily causing

the pancreas to make more it’s just

giving you more insulin well here’s the

problem

in type 2 many times the pancreas is

already producing too much insulin

because of the insulin resistance not

creating this feedback loop does turn

off so again we’re dumping too much

insulin into the system for

purpose of keeping the blood Sugar’s

regulated in normalized at the expense

of increasing cardiovascular risk

because that’s another side effect from

taking more insulin is you increase risk

of heart problems right there

weight gain and hypoglycemia okay so

because what happens we have this push

down blood sugar situation now you’re

irritable now you have they tell you to

eat more you know sugar or carbs to

raise the sugar and then we start the

cycle over again so in summary we have

several mechanisms one is to produce

more insulin from the pancreas another

is to just give more insulin and the

other is to increase the absorption of

insulin all right so what’s missing from

the picture okay what’s missing from

this picture is focusing on the root

cause of why the body has high sugar in

the first place and that is because

there are too many carbs in the diet

this is ignored alright guys well thanks

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