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so let’s talk about what sugar does to your arteries and probably the biggest

damage from high amounts of sugar in the blood with a diabetic is done to your

vascular system and I want to talk about what occurs in that state so you have

two things you have the macro vascular system and the micro vascular system so

the large vessels and then the small capillaries in the large vessels you

have the coronary artery that’s the artery that supplies the heart muscle

okay and then you also have peripheral arteries throughout your body and then

you have the micro vascular system which goes to the retina of the eye or the

kidney if you think about it what does the kidney do it filters your blood so

you have the entire vascular system that gets filtered through the kidney so you

have a lot of capillaries in the kidney then you have these tiny nerves in your

feet or your hands okay so when you have high levels of sugar you can create

these damages called peripheral neuropathy where your the bottom of your

feet or the fingertips become numb or painful or burning pain and that

progresses to a situation when you have more and more damage to the nervous

system and it could potentially get necrosis or literally like the the

tissue is rotting and that’s simply because of this sugar rusts out your

vascular system it creates all sorts of oxidation and you can think about like a

an old car that has rust on it the same thing happens inside your arteries they

start to oxidize and you start seeing damage the layer of the inside of the

blood vessel is called the endothelium and the endothelium controls the tone of

the blood vessels it prevents certain things from invading the blood vessel so

it acts as a barrier and it’s highly sensitive to too much sugar so high

levels of glucose mimic inflammatory initiators so glucose creates

inflammation in the arteries and that’s the very beginning stage of a sequence

of events that end up as a blockage in your artery it starts with an oxidation

damage inflammation cholesterol will come in after the fact so people are

focused on the cholesterol but that is just trying to heal this inflamed

damaged endothelium layer the oxidation has both direct and indirect effects I’m

not going to get into all the technical things about it but it creates a lot of

serious effects and inside the body they you don’t really know are happening

until you have a problem later in life it’ll also start thickening the inside

of the blood vessels creating stiffness and then from the

high sugar you develop insulin resistance which starts to create a

decreased blood flow and a lot of the neurological damage that occurs from

having diabetes or high sugar comes from the damaged blood vessels that starve

off the nerves that’s really what happens another effect that sugar has in

the arteries is it creates these called AGEs

advanced glycated end products and this is a very toxic thing to the arteries

and to the rest of your body to the nervous system to the brain to the

pancreas and then another thing that occurs when you have hyperglycemia high

blood sugar is that you start to develop excessive amounts of sorbitol now

sorbitol alcohol that’s what it’s called start to build up in the cells and

starts accumulating fluid and starts to damage the cells in the retina this

leads to cataracts in the retina which can eventually lead to blindness and

then to the myelin sheath which destroys the nerve and that’s why diabetics get

the peripheral neuropathies in the feet in the hands and it starts spreading up

this way because it starts to destroy the vascular system and the nervous

system and if you can’t bring in oxygen and nutrition to the tissues it starts

to die you get necrosis other than that you’re perfectly fine also realize that

your body has the ability to make its own sugar if needed

it’s called gluconeogenesis and so does this same thing happen

when your body makes sugar no it doesn’t because your body also makes

antioxidants that protects against the complications of high sugar and these

are the antioxidants that it makes because with glucose comes oxidation

comes high levels of free radical damage okay this is another reason why you

should eat food high in antioxidants versus buying some pill that has an

antioxidant you should eat lots of food with any

accidents you should beef up no pun intended your

vegetable levels to prevent some of the complications of this high sugar

situation this is why diabetics that are eating healthier that have additional

antioxidant support have less complications from the diabetes another

really good thing to take for some of these conditions has been thought to

mean it’s a that side will be one that can definitely protect the peripheral

neuropathy from the complications of high sugar and also the kidney to a

certain level and also the retina but fYI

to be totally transparent the research on these two were mainly done in animals

not humans but I personally used benfotiamine with a lot of clients for

peripheral neuropathy and have seen amazing amazing results

so in summary learn from the mistakes of others learn from this knowledge of what

happens to your body when you eat too much sugar and don’t wait for these

conditions to happen because a lot of the symptoms that occur with this don’t

show up for years until it’s to the point where it might be too late for

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