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hey dr. Berg here in this video we’re

going to talk about blood sugars okay

very very very important yet very

misunderstood if you have diabetes if

you have hypoglycemia which is low blood

sugar if you’re concerned about

preventing those you want to watch this

video now here’s how it works the law of

the body is that no matter what the body

must maintain a certain level of sugar

in the blood okay so the blood sugar

level will call it glucose level should

always be right around 100 now if you

want to know the unit’s I think it’s

milligrams per deciliter but don’t worry

about that but there’s blood testing

units that you can test your blood and

it should be right here now it does

range between 80 and 110 but if that

blood sugar goes too high okay that’s

called hyper

glycemia that means that’s diabetes okay

if the blood sugar is too low that is

called hypoglycemia okay so the goal for

the body is to maintain blood sugar of

100 so it’ll do everything it’ll tear

the body apart it’ll turn it’ll break

down your muscle protein with one goal

is to maintain normal blood sugar so

everything that almost everything you

eat eventually breaks down into glucose

or sugar okay even foods that are not

sugar even protein and fat will break

down and then you’re going to build it

the body will build it back up into

sugar so sugar is used for fuel and

nourishment to the cells so the way it

works is this you have this huge organ

here called the liver the liver is on

the right side of your body it’s about 3

and 1/2 pounds the size of a football

and then we have this tiny organ right

here which is called the pancreas and

that’s right right here on the right

below the left ribcage now these two

organs

reciprocate and what I mean by that is

they they have a mutual relationship

they coordinate they kind of control the

blood Sugar’s okay but the liver is the

most ignored piece of the puzzle in

diabetes which we’ll get into simply

because here’s how it works the liver

controls blood sugar when you’re not

eating and the pancreas controls blood

sugars when you eat all right and they

go back and forth and back and forth so

what the pancreas does is it makes a

hormone

it’s called insulin and it basically

what it does is it gets the sugar out of

the blood okay so it takes it out it

reduces blood sugar okay so there’s

hormones that lower that sugar all right

that’s when you’re eating because you

just ate and you’re flooding the blood

with sugar even if you don’t eat sugar

because everything turns out into sugar

eventually now when you’re not eating we

need to kind of raise the sugar so your

liver will put sugar in to the blood

okay so it goes in alright so and it

does it through a hormone that’s very

similar to insulin but it does the

opposite and they call that insulin like

growth factor

so it’s an instant like one but IGF it

don’t even worry about that right now

just realize there’s the hormone that

basically and where it gets the sugar is

it gets the sugar from two sources one

is the muscle and the liver okay and

that that’s basically stored sugar okay

so in other words your body has stored

sugar and the word for that is glycogen

that’s basically a bunch of sugars

that’s stored in the body so you can use

it

okay and it also gets it from fat

alright so those are the two sources

that you’re tapping into so obviously

that’s the goal is to be able to lose

fat or tap into fat but that’s the

purpose of fat is to act as a storage so

you can use it when you’re not eating

okay or starving or exercising or

fasting those things so the lever

basically takes that fat and it converts

it into sugar and it puts all this sugar

back in the blood to keep that 100 but

first it goes after the store sugar so

this is number one and this is number

two so in the presence of any stored

sugar or any sugar at all this fat will

not be used at all the body does not

like to burn fat in normal situations

unless there’s no sugar there okay so

the way it works simply is the pancreas

regulate sugar it put pulled sugar out

when you’re eating and then when you’re

not eating the liver starts kicking in

there and puts the sugar back in and

starts to take this storage and start to

put it back in the blood to maintain a

sugar at 100 now let’s talk about

briefly what happens when that sugar

gets pulled out of the blood when

insulin goes up

okay so there’s three situations that

occurred number one that energy of that

sugar could be used as energy immediate

energy let’s say you’re exercising so

you’re going to be using up your energy

or doing a marathon the person’s eating

sugar and it’s kind of burning up or

number two it’s being stored as sugar on

that stored sugar in your liver and in

the muscles so we want that to happen

because if it’s stored then it’s not

converted to fat okay so I’d rather have

stored sugar than fat right because

stored sugar is just gonna use for

energy but we don’t want too much so

this certain amount of sugar that’s

stored in the body but in order to store

this sugar right here what happens is

that you need potassium alright

without potassium you can’t store sugar

so for every sugar a little molecule you

need one potassium molecule like that so

potassium is like the glue to hold

together so with low potassium levels

the person will start craving sugar why

because they can’t store sugar so they

crave sugar why because the sugars are

going down and the body’s telling you

give me that sugar so the symptom of

cravings means your body has a low blood

sugar and it’s really low potassium so

what does have what happens in people

crave sugar they go eat sugar right what

they should consume is potassium now the

problem that most people have is they

don’t really know how much potassium

they need on a daily basis an average

body needs 4700 milligrams

that’s a lot in fact one banana is 400

so you’d have to have 10 bananas that’s

not going to work so we really need our

bodies need 7 cups minimum of vegetable

every single day now if you’re doing one

cup or two cup it’s not going to cut it

and if you’re taking a pill it’s like 40

milligrams you have to have like a

hundred of them so we want to do the

vegetable so you can do the kale shake

for breakfast as part of it and have

your eggs whatever and then for lunch

have this huge salad for dinner have

some more vegetable but we really want

to shoot for 7 cups and if you’re at all

interested in managing or improving your

blood sugar issues this is a must

especially if you have diabetes okay so

we want to store sugar and then and also

if there’s too much sugar to be pulling

out and that sugars not being used as

energy and you don’t have potassium

guess what it goes right to fat so it’s

being converted to fat so that is one

relationship between potassium and fat

if you don’t consume enough vegetables

or potassium you tend to gain more fat

all right so that’s just those are the

three things that occur with where the

sugar goes after you consume sugar and

the spike of the hormone insulin from

the pancreas now the next point has to

do with what is diabetes diabetes is a

condition where your body has no longer

been able to regulate the sugar in here

and it comes from consuming obviously

too much sugar that’s the

common cause but here’s the thing

diabetes type 2 is a less serious

diabetes type 1 is a more serious type

type of diabetes so type 2 is really a

problem with the liver because what

happens is the they take a drug called

glucophage or another name for metformin

and what all that does is it makes the

cells in the liver more receptive or

receiving more insulin so they work on

the receptors in the liver

ok receptors so they increase the

conductivity of insulin so each receptor

in the liver for insulin becomes

magnified and there’s 200,000 receptors

for insulin for every liver cell that

you have so if you could imagine really

what diabetes type 2 is it’s insulin

resistant resistive whatever you want to

call it so I guess the best analogy

let’s say you had a bunch of

telemarketing people call your house

over and over and over every day for a

year you’re not gonna pick up any more

okay you’re not going to keep picking up

every time they call you’re going to be

a bit resistive to that communication so

that’s what diabetes type 2 is being

very resistant resistive to insulin and

then they take this drug called

glucophage which basically makes it more

it picks up the phone a lot more so then

now we can receive that insulin

communication and thus lowering the

blood sugar okay so diabetes medication

lowers the blood sugar so usually

because these diabetes it’s a high sugar

state and the problem is that if you

ever have a low blood sugar and you take

these medications it’s going to make it

worse because you’re going to go even

lower so you don’t want to take

medication if it’s too low or normal

only when it’s too high and the problem

when the blood sugar goes low many times

people are taking sugar pills which

basically make the problem worse because

now you’re going to spike listen to hi

we’re trying to avoid that situation

now type 1 diabetes is not a liver

problem it’s a long-term chronic problem

of the pancreas and now the cells of the

pancreas that make insulin are exhausted

and they pretty much just stop working

so there boy therefore no insulin is

being produced

therefore the sugar goes higher and

higher and higher and higher and so then

now they need insulin injections to

lower the sugar and they have to keep

taking through the day they have time

release and all sorts of things so that

is the difference between these two type

2 is the liver type 1 is the pancreas

problem this is worse because now you

don’t make any insulin type 2 you do

make insulin but it doesn’t work on the

liver so that’s the relationship between

the two and then the real underlying

cause our bodies are not designed to

consume a hundred and forty-nine pounds

of sugar per year our bodies are not

designed to consume as much sugars we’re

eating I mean even baby food is loaded

with high fructose corn syrup you have

all this juice that the kids are fed and

what we consume the sodas and all that

we have way too much sugar and the cells

just are not designed to handle that and

it puts it right into an exhaustive

state so you have a lot of people going

around in diabetes but you need to

understand where the source is and so

the next part I’m going to show you some

even deeper information on that little

cycle okay now check this out we talked

about the liver and the pancreas and the

hormone in the liver and the hormone the

pancreas what’s fascinating is that this

hormone is a hundred times bigger than

insulin as far as quantity of hormone in

other words the ratio is a hundred to

one as far as the work that’s done the

majority of work of establishing blood

sugars is done by the liver yet very few

people emphasize the importance of the

liver and maintaining blood sugars it is

this one of the most important things to

keep healthy when you’re trying to

establish blood

simply because the quantity of work that

the liver does is is a hundred times

bigger than insulin but everyone focuses

on insulin now why well how did that

happen why don’t doctors know about this

why don’t they make this more available

because if you and I found this I looked

at the units that they measure this

hormone in the liver

it’s called IGF the units that it’s are

different than insulin so in other words

they measure this hormone what’s called

nano grams and this hormone by micro

moles so they’re completely apples and

oranges so you cannot see this hundred

to one ratio in other words is kind of

like measuring metric versus inches or

what is it

Celsius versus Fahrenheit or gallons

versus ounces you have when you’re

measuring two things that work together

they have to be the same units and if

they’re not the same units you’re going

to miss the fact that this liver is a

hundred times more important than the

pancreas everyone’s know what’s the

significant of that how can we use that

information well all we have to do

simply if we want to improve the

function of the blood sugars and correct

diabetic conditions is increase the

liver if you just increase the liver by

20% you basically you take 80% of the

stress away from the pancreas you you

create an tremendous relief from that

blood sugars and so the member of the

insulin cells that are actually

exhausted are overworking because all

the sugar coming in there so what we’re

trying to do is reduce the stress on

that cell to salvage that so the

significance is all you have to do is

improve the liver by a little bit to

take a lot of pressure off this pancreas

here simply because this is where this

needs to do its lion’s share and so that

leads to what most people have is liver

damage but it won’t show up on a blood

test so later in life so when you damage

the liver by consuming too much alcohol

or too much cook foods or junk foods or

even not enough vegetables because the

the way to repair the liver is through

raw

and that is why I start everyone out on

the liver enhancement in my book chapter

10 because if you improve the liver

function you actually can help a lot of

different problems also age every decade

you get older and you reach the age of

50 you lower this hormone called growth

hormone now some of you have heard that

the relationship between growth hormone

and anti-aging

well growth hormone is a major trigger

for the liver to release this hormone

right here that regulates blood sugars

so really I GF insulin-like growth

factor is an extension of growth hormone

they’re both almost identical and

function so growth hormone does a lot

for regulating blood sugars so we want

to keep this high and so let’s say

you’re not eating a lot of sugar well it

could be that you’re just getting older

to the fact that liver is not receiving

that growth hormone as much so there are

things you can do to improve it but the

fact that is the growth room when that

goes down you have to be even better on

your diet because you don’t have the

full capacity of that regulation of that

liver function see growth hormone does

three things it burns fat because it

really mobilizes fat for the blood

sugars it also helps you it’s anti-aging

and it it’s it protects your proteins so

it’s called a protein spare hormone and

what that means is that it prevents your

protein from turning breaking down into

sugar and use for fuel okay so it

protects your protein what protein

collagen so you you avoid getting this

loose skin sagging belly all that and

also it protects your cartilage in

collagen in your knees and your

shoulders and these other joints so it’s

a very important thing in protecting

muscle protein breakdown that’s

occurring from the cortisol from the

stress remember that cortisol hormone

which is very destructive on your cells

when you go through a lot of stress that

will break down your muscle protein

especially in your thigh muscle in your

legs that’s why you can’t get your thigh

muscles toned because you have too much

of this darn destructive cortisol and

not

for that so we’re trying to reverse this

process so how do we do it

number one intense exercise is very good

but that would be interval training very

important to keep growth rolling up and

I’m talking like short little tiny

workouts maybe 30 seconds resting for

three minutes back and forth every other

day versus the treadmill that will

actually enhance growth hormone unless

you’re really really stressed and you’re

not sleeping you’re gonna have to walk

but eventually want to work up to

interval training okay and then number

two sleeping you need to sleep seven

eight hours to keep this growth roaming

really high and then the next thing is

you need to get your liver healthy you

need to do the liver enhancement you

need to really protect your liver and

prove it and so what are the foods that

will improve the liver

my favorite is you guessed it kale

everything comes back to that kale

doesn’t it we’ve talked about that in

every single video and kale is one of

the super foods to heal and protect your

liver because the liver loves the bitter

vegetables and it’s low sugar and it’s

is a lot of properties to restore liver

function and when you have that Cal

shake in the morning the the liver will

improve and you’ll get a lot of

potassium and you’ll get more growth

hormone and you get less insulin and

you’ll crave less and you’ll be able to

maintain your age better and prevent the

protein breakdown and I’ve had lots of

people improve their blood sugars by

taking kale so I hope this video helped

you understand some of the basics of

blood sugars and apply this information

and I’ll see you in the next video