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you know I’ve done a lot of videos on

certain indicators from someone’s body

whether their skin or looking at their

eyes or their lips to determine what’s

going on on the inside well today we’re

going to talk about

the relationship between someone’s skin

and diabetes their skin reveals a lot at

the end of this video you’ll be able to

glance over at someone look at their

skin

and pretty much know if they have

diabetes or not and of course you can

apply this to yourself if you have any

of these skin problems I’m going to tell

you what to do but here’s the big

problem I see with diabetes in general

okay

medicine’s goal is to help manage and

regulate blood sugars so you are given

certain medications to help normalize

your blood sugar well pretty much

problem solved if we could just manage

your blood sugars you’ll be okay but my

question is like what do you mean manage

blood sugars well you’re lowering the

blood sugars to a normal level right

just like you would do with high blood

pressure and medication but the question

I have is

where is this sugar going that you’re

managing or you’re lowering is it

evaporating or is it just going from one

place to another and the answer is it’s

going from one place to another it’s

going from your blood

to other parts of your body like your

liver like your organs it’s being

converted to fat as a fatty liver so

it’s not correcting anything it’s just

transferring one problem to another

problem so there’s two main issues with

diabetes in relationship to your skin

one problem with the high blood glucose

directly affecting your skin or even

indirectly and then you have other

problems related to the hormone that is

involved with diabetes called insulin so

let’s start with the insulin part first

insulin is a glucose lowering hormone

okay

when you have high blood glucose you

also will have at least initially a very

high level of insulin to counter this

blood glucose level

not to mention the body will start to

develop insulin resistance which is

going to send information back to the

pancreas saying we need to increase more

insulin to fight or penetrate this

resistance with diabetes and

pre-diabetes you usually always have a

higher level of insulin it’s really

tested mainly the focus in the blood

glucose okay but if they were to test

someone’s insulin it would be higher

until the point where the pancreas

become so exhausted that it can’t output

insulin and then it starts going down at

that point the person needs to start

taking insulin unfortunately but that’s

a different subject so when we have

higher levels of insulin and insulin

resistance

one common uh symptom of that related to

the skin it’s called acanthosis

negrokans This is actually

one of the common symptoms of insulin

resistance and it’s a situation where

your skin is darkening it’s looking

Tanner and it almost has a velvet

texture to it it mainly accumulates in

the different folds of the body armpits

the side of the neck the back of the

neck the different folds like on the

crease in your elbow and this is

occurring because of a cell called the

melanocyte which makes melanin which is

the pigment of someone’s skin insulin

resistance causes an overproduction

of this cell okay so that’s the first

skin problem the Second Skin problem I’m

going to talk about related to insulin

is the skin tags so insulin is an

anabolic hormone and when you produce

too much insulin okay it makes things

grow it makes these mini tumors and so a

skin tag is a benign growth and so

that’s the connection to a skin tag we

have increased insulin increase growth

and by the way if you want to know how

to get rid of skin tags pretty fast I’ll

put a link down below alright the next

skin problem is called digital sclerosis

and this is just a skin condition where

your skin is thicker okay the texture is

rough and you probably have some dryness

you have some flakiness and this is also

coming from elevated insulin in your

blood and so your skin cells have these

little cells called keratinocytes so

insulin affects these cells it makes

them grow in an abnormal way giving you

a thicker or rougher skin and I would

also venture to say that it’s probably

also involved in corns like having a

corn on your skin all right the next

condition that’s affected by insulin is

just acne when you have increased

insulin and this especially occurs in

females okay especially with polycystic

ovarian syndrome where you have this

high level of Androgen which is

affecting the sebaceous plan of the oil

gland of the skin increasing risk of

getting acne

so what’s behind an elevated Androgen is

an elevated insulin so PCOS is really an

elevation of insulin causing the

elevation of Androgen and acne is just

one of the symptoms now another thing

about insulin resistance and blood

sugars as well

is what it can do to the immune system

it can lower the person’s immune system

increasing the risk for infections and

certain type of bacterial infections can

lead to cysts like a Baker cyst for

example and I’ve noticed in practice a

very high percentage of people who have

Baker cyst are also diabetics and so

this involves the relationship between

what blood sugar does to your immune

system now let’s just talk about blood

glucose level when the blood glucose

level goes high you can develop a lot of

problems with circulation to the skin

okay and so when the tiny capillaries

are affected in the lower part of your

legs for example you can develop these

little red or purple dots or blotches

which is called particular or purpura so

particular are the real small little red

purple dots and purpura are the larger

ones

but this is a problem with circulation

because the capillary beds are being

destroyed

and you’re getting this leaking blood

into the tissue so you usually see this

in the lower legs of diabetics where

they have all these different

um black and blue marks it looks like

there’s bruised but that’s just really

coming because the high level of glucose

really destroys both the micro

circulation okay the tiny capillaries as

well as the macro circulations your

blood vessels in general so you’re

losing oxygen and blood flow to the

tissues starting with the peripheral

part of the body first like it happens

in the feet and then the lower ankles so

that leads us to the next condition

which is gangrene which your feet in

your toes start to turn different colors

like green black brown blue this is a

severe diabetic complication from just

basically causing your tissues to die

okay and then it they start amputating

your foot and it starts to spread up

higher and higher and higher too late

could end up amputating the entire leg

and a certain type of gangrene called

wet gangrene has an infection component

to it as well so now we have an

infection all because of loss of blood

flow because the blood glucose is just

too high now you can also get leg

ulcers or ulcers in the foot from being

a diabetic and this too is caused from

poor circulation and an infection

because the immune system is inhibited

when you have this condition another

condition that you can easily observe a

blood sugar problem not just diabetes or

again pre-diabetes but even the

condition that happens before that which

is insulin resistance if you look at the

person’s eyes they look swollen and

puffy and red I’m talking about the

eyelids and I had a bit of this long ago

and I did not have a clue of where that

was coming from you know the eyelids if

they’re puffy could be a kidney problem

but what is the number one cause of

kidney failure it’s diabetes so with

diabetes and pre-diabetes you have a lot

of fluid retention that shows up in the

eyes it can also show up in the lower

legs and feet so I just gave you quite a

few different skin conditions related to

both blood sugars and Insulin but my

question always comes down to boy there

is so much

focus on treating this symptom in

diagnosing these conditions but very

little energy or focus on treating the

diabetes itself the high blood glucose

and what causes that so I don’t know

it’s just it’s wild to me that this

obvious problem of consuming too much

sugar and carbs

is not really dealt with or focused on

it’s just it blows my mind but the more

you think about it it really relates to

medication there’s a lot of money

involved in this condition and if it

really was that easy there would be

entire industries that would not make

nearly as much money both on the

medication end and then also here on the

food end as well so if you want to see

some dramatic changes in your skin if

you have diabetes this is what I would

do immediately okay I would get on a low

carb diet number one I would start doing

intermittent fasting both of those

actions right there will create a

significant difference pretty quickly I

would also start consuming about a

tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in my

water a few times a day apple cider

vinegar has a potent effect on helping

someone with blood sugar issues and

making insulin more sensitive and in the

correction of this insulin resistance

problem and the next thing I would do is

take probably one of the most effective

herbal versions of Metformin like a

natural version of Metformin that you

can take it’s well studied and it’s

called berberine okay now berberine in a

study that I’m going to post down below

had identical effects

on regulating one’s blood sugars if you

compare to metformin but without side

effects and it showed even better

effects on cholesterol regulation

triglycerol regulation improvements in a

fatty liver decrease problems related to

your heart decrease inflammation as well

as Improvement in skin conditions

related to diabetes like acne and

inflammation and it’s cheaper and has

less side effects so keto intermittent

fasting apple cider vinegar and

berberine now since berberine is such a

heavy hitter when we’re dealing with

blood sugars if you haven’t seen my

video on berberine directly I put it up

right here check it out