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warning you may

never eat sugar again after watching

this video or at least you’ll

dramatically cut down the amount of

sugar that you consume and i think

everyone knows that sugar is bad it

affects almost every part of your body

it causes weight gain

but what i want to do is i’m going to

just take one little thing in your body

and talk about the effects of sugar on

that one thing and that is going to be

the red blood cells in fact the red

blood cell is how they measure

your blood sugars okay and how they even

diagnose diabetes through a test called

a1c a1c is a test that measures

how much sugar is stuck

to the red blood cell

when the red blood cell or at least the

protein part of the red blood cell

called hemoglobin is exposed to sugar

there’s this chemical reaction or

binding that occurs and that’s called

glycation so glycation is the amount of

sugar that binds with that hemoglobin

and then renders it

inactive it can’t work anymore and so

based on how much

sugar you have stuck to your hemoglobin

can determine what your a1c is so let’s

say for example you have an a1c of 5.7

or less

that would be considered normal and so

the term 5.7

just refers to you have 5.7

of the total amount of hemoglobin in

your blood

that is

stuck to this sugar molecule so if it’s

between five point seven percent to six

point four percent you’re a pre-diabetic

and when it gets over six point four

percent you’re a diabetic now what does

all this mean in simple terms

well the red blood cell should normally

be very very flexible it should be able

to hold oxygen and carry oxygen to the

tissues and it shouldn’t be very sticky

it should free flow and carry oxygen to

the body and release the oxygen and then

also pick up the co2 and bring that back

into the lungs where it can be

re-oxygenated so the more that this

protein in your red blood cell gets

stuck with the sugar the more your red

blood cells are going to be stiff

it’s going to be very very sticky and

it’s going to form clumps and so that

increases your risk of getting a clot

but when the red blood cell becomes

stiff it can’t bend anymore

so what happens is the blood flows

through your arteries into smaller

arteries and then

tiny vessels called capillaries they get

stuck okay and so we have the arteries

that push the blood down to

the end of your body like the toes and

the fingers and that’s where the

capillaries are that then kind of goes

in reverse and becomes the venous system

the veins and then brings the blood back

up through the lungs to start this whole

cycle over so the arteries are filled

with this red blood that’s oxygenated

and then as we use the oxygen the return

blood flow to the veins are like a

bluish red because they have less oxygen

but

if your red blood cell

is

not flexible if it’s rigid if it’s stiff

it can’t bend it gets stuck in the

capillaries and then that starves off

the tissues and this is why a diabetic

starts noticing tingling in in the

fingertips and usually the toes or the

bottom of the foot they start feeling an

abnormal uh sensation

like numbness or even pain or

burning what’s happening is the blood

cells are too

stiff and they can’t seem to get through

the pipes and then we start off the

tissues with oxygen we starve off the

nerves with oxygen and they start to die

that is the first change that happens on

the road to necrosis

or gangrene where the tissues actually

die

and when the tissues don’t get oxygen

and they start dying you start having an

increase of

unfriendly microbes it’s called

pathogens and unfriendly

fungus

and so when you have gangrene you have a

lot of infection going on

in the body because certain pathogens

thrive in this low oxygen environment

and this is where you get amputation

when someone’s a diabetic it starts off

as peripheral neuropathy where the

nerves are affected and then you get the

ulcers and then you start getting

necrosis or dying tissue and then

gangrene and they have to start to

remove different sections of your foot

maybe starting with the toe or the ankle

or whatever so the effects of this

interaction between sugar and this

protein

really messes up the red blood cell it

really

brings down the red blood cells ability

to carry oxygen it also reduces the

volume of red blood cells so think about

this if you’re anemic

normally people take iron or b12

but is it really going to work on top of

this problem where your your diet is

very very high in sugar

actually creating or causing the anemia

and then you take some iron is that

going to really help you the answer is

no or another symptom related to not

being able to carry oxygen you’re going

to start climbing the stairs and

getting out of breath easier you’re

going to have a hard time exercising

because you’re not going to have the

wind or the oxygen and so you’re going

to get tuckered out really fast and so

you’re going to start taking things to

stimulate your energy like caffeine and

things to boost your energy when in fact

you just need to fix the red blood cell

so when these red blood cells

can’t fit through the capillaries

the other tissue that affects is the

eyes this is why you have a higher

incident of visual problems

diabetic retinopathy where you actually

can go blind

because you’re basically starving off

the nerves that the eye needs to

function

i mean think about what the retina is

it’s the extension of your brain it’s

all neurological tissue and so it needs

to be fed oxygen through the vascular

system but a lot of different

problems with the eye are related to

this issue of the sugar binding to this

blood cell and the term for it is called

glycation but you have negative effects

to the retina okay so that’s going to be

you’re not going to see as well you’re

going to have problems like glaucoma

cataracts you’re gonna have problems uh

macular degeneration so here you are on

a high carb diet and you start to need

glasses because because you can’t see so

you just keep getting thicker and

thicker glasses

when in reality you need to change your

diet now another area of the body that’s

affected is your gums

um your gums can be more susceptible to

getting an infection it’s called

periodontal disease okay

that is another complication of this

problem with the red blood cells you

also have the kidney okay the kidney is

very susceptible to this high level of

sugar because think about what the

kidneys are

they are these mini little filters that

are filtering blood they’re like a

capillary type tissue so we’re going to

get a lot of destruction in the kidney

and the kidney makes a certain thing

called erythropoietin

which helps make red blood cells in your

bone marrow so if we don’t have enough

erythropoietin then we’re not going to

generate the number of red blood cells i

mean your bone marrow makes like 2

million red blood cells a second so it’s

like a machine that’s cranking out these

red blood cells so with the consumption

of sugar you can’t make those red blood

cells at the right amount so you become

anemic so you’re always kind of tired

and you’re always kind of lacking oxygen

especially when you exercise now the

thing that makes your blood red is iron

okay and so when you have this problem

with glycation

the damage

causes the iron to be released from the

red blood cell and then it interacts

with the inside of the artery i mean

think about

when you expose iron to oxygen it rusts

right so now this iron literally creates

a rusting effect because there’s oxygen

going on and that

causes little holes in your arteries

okay so it increases the permeability of

the artery and that’s where you get

the lesions and the start of plaquing

and clotting

and then what happens is the band-aid is

your body heals it with cholesterol like

a little band-aid and what do people do

they go on a low cholesterol or low-fat

diet is that going to help

no because it’s the high carb diet

that’s creating the whole thing in the

first place so this is why the low fat

diet of the low cholesterol diet

is not workable for removing plaque in

your arteries so now those are some of

the effects that can be created and i’m

just talking about the red blood cell

now i want to give you a little more

understanding of the significance of

this a1c

as it relates to your blood sugars a1c

is actually a better test in testing

your blood sugars because it gives you

an average of your blood sugars for

about

three months okay and you can even buy

uh home testing kits

to measure your own a1c okay so i’m not

endorsing any any units out there but

you can look them up and buy a test to

measure yourself but the problem with

checking your blood sugars every so

often is that it just shows a snapshot

of what’s happening right at that point

the a1c gives you an average of

everything so it’s a much more accurate

test for

what’s happening on average because

let’s say

i don’t know you check yourself on

wednesdays and you always eat good on

wednesdays but then the rest of the week

is crappy

you’ll pick this up on the a1c test now

a normal blood sugar should be you know

roughly about 80 85 okay milligrams per

deciliter okay and

as far as a1c numbers go

that would be a 4.5

percent a1c okay and so you can see

that’s much less than the 5.7 percent

which is kind of the borderline between

normal and pre-diabetes and so as the

blood sugars go up a1c goes up so if

your a1c is 7.0 percent

um your blood sugars are going to be

around 154

but if your a1c is like 13.5

your blood sugars are like over 400 okay

it’s very very high now what does this

mean about the quantity

of sugar that you’re eating when you

have normal blood sugars which is let’s

just say 80 okay 80 milligrams per

deciliter

that is

one teaspoon of sugar

which is roughly about four grams of

sugar

in all of your blood so we have about

seven liters of blood which is about a

gallon and a third of blood and all that

blood one teaspoon of sugar will give

you any reading of 80 okay which is

actually very very small amount of sugar

compared to the amount of sugar that an

average person consumes an average

person in america consumes about 60 to

65 of all of their calories

carbohydrates and these carbohydrates

eventually turn into sugar so that’s a

tremendous amount of sugar that is in

our bodies and so if your blood sugars

are 80 which is normal and you’re eating

a lot of sugar

how can that be well it’s because you

have that hormone insulin that is coming

in they’re working like crazy to rip all

that sugar out of your your bloodstream

as fast as you put it in okay but that’s

going to catch up with you because

eventually it’s going to get

tired the pancreas is going to get

exhausted and then you’re going to have

less and less insulin and that’s when

the sugars start going higher but just

because your blood sugars are normal

does not mean that sugar is not

affecting other parts of the body

because as the insulin goes up and it

rips out this sugar and puts it where do

you think it’s going it’s putting in

other places in the body it’s it’s

turning into a fatty liver it’s turning

into problems with visceral fat now this

other point i want to mention is one

teaspoon of sugar is what’s in all of

your blood which gives you a normal

blood reading of 80 milligrams per

deciliter right well let’s say for

example your blood sugar is

126 okay that’s definitely

above normal

how much sugar would is in your blood to

give that reading well it’s only one and

a quarter teaspoons so it’s not that

much more that is raising it all the way

up to 126

so what you have to realize is it

doesn’t take much sugar to raise your

glucose and create a higher a1c so you

might be thinking well i don’t eat that

much sugar just just a little bit each

day well you’re creating this effect to

the red blood cell so i just wanted to

increase your awareness but when you eat

sugar

and

the following few hours or the day after

and you feel kind of tired or your

vision is off or you get moody now you

know what’s happening your red blood

cells are becoming stiffened and they’re

being stuck together

so i challenge you to do an experiment

okay in the next

week

just cut out the sugar

and notice

how much more oxygen you have

notice how much more energy you have

because now the red blood cells are a

lot more flexible they can fit through

the capillaries they can actually

deliver oxygen to your tissues which is

a really good thing now if you haven’t

seen my video on diabetes which i’ve

done a long time ago

i think that would be a really good

video to watch now check it out i put it

right here

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