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so this video is primarily for diabetics

especially type 2 but if you have a type

1 you can watch as well we’re talking

about the diabetic brain there’s some

interesting things that you need to know

number one the brain uses 20% of all the

energy generator in the body yet it only

makes up 2% of the tissues so it’s an

energy hog so that’s the first thing I’m

gonna come back there in a minute but

there’s a thing called diabetes type 3

which is Alzheimer’s so Alzheimer’s in

reality is diabetes of your brain

because the effects of high blood sugar

cause atrophy of certain parts of the

brain this part called hippocampus in

the frontal lobe and there’s also other

parts too like the temporal lobe and

that’s going to cause a loss of memory a

loss of your brain GPS the ability to

locate yourself in space so you’re

walking outside looking for your car I

can’t quite find that but the problem is

Alzheimer starts way back over here like

20 to 30 years before you start

developing the major symptoms so it

starts small and it’s brewing in the

oven and then it gets worse and worse

and worse now the other thing I want to

bring up is that when you destroy this

part of the brain you lose your memory

but there’s a treatment called nasal

insulin delivery which you basically

blow insulin up to your sinuses it gets

right up to the brain and that has been

shown to enhance your memory right so

right there you can see that insulin is

involved insulin is involved with blood

sugars but insulin also has some other

purposes of the brain that go beyond

regulation of blood sugars as well but I

don’t want to get sidetracked on that

right now another interesting point is a

healthy brain has four times as much

insulin and ten times as many insulin

receptors which means that when you have

diabetes obviously you have an insulin

deficiency as in insulin resistance okay

however they still haven’t figured out

where this is is it in the blood-brain

barrier is it insert

the brain they don’t there’s a lot of

unknowns with this but all we know is

that we need the right amount of insulin

in the brain for it to work correctly

the other very interesting thing about

the brain is that it does not store

glycogen like your liver does and your

muscles do so it doesn’t have a glycogen

reserve like ojen is this storage of

glucose okay so it doesn’t store

glycogen it’s dependent on glucose from

your blood now the glucose in your blood

could be coming from glycogen in other

parts of your body but the point is we

don’t have this glycogen reserve like

the muscles do which the muscles can

grab glycogen really fast your brain

can’t it’s totally dependent on what’s

happening with glucose okay let me take

it one step further

your fat breaks down into fatty acids

which can be used for fuel except the

brain the brain can’t use fatty acids

and guess what 60% of that fat turns

into fatty acids the heart can use this

the muscles can use it but not the brain

thank goodness we have the 40% ketones

your brain can run on ketones in fact it

loves ketones better than glucose in

fact if you have glucose and ketones

together in your blood the brain will

always pick ketones first over glucose

so ketones can act as an antioxidant in

the brain has anti-inflammatory

properties it increases oxygen and

bypass some of the damaged neurons and

feed the brain directly so we have only

two fuel choices we have glucose and we

have ketones so obviously you want to

probably run on ketones right well the

problem is you’ll never do it unless you

bring your carbs down below 50 grams and

the average person in America is

consuming almost 300 grams of carbs okay

that is the problem if we take a

diabetic a lot of times diabetics are

consuming even more that’s why they have

diabetes diabetes is a disease

of high blood sugar so why would you

want to add more carbs to this this

problem so in order to run your body on

ketones and this is what I’m

recommending you want to get your carbs

down at least below 50 grams I put a

link down below of exactly how to do

that but I really wanted you to

understand why you should be writing

your body on ketones because the more

you’re dependent on this glucose you’re

constantly going to need food every 3

hours you’re getting a snack your blood

sugars come up and down and up and down

and then you start losing more and more

insulin the brain then you start getting

clacking in the brain and atrophy other

than that you’re going to be perfectly

fine alright thanks for watching so if

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