Archive for Type 2 Diabetes
Stress and Pregnenolone Steal
Posted by: | CommentsWe are a stressed out society, we don’t relax enough, and we are running our bodies into the ground. Sometimes those effects are obvious to us, sometimes they are not, and other times, we just don’t care. Lets examine one small facet of hormones and see the effects upon our bodies.
Cholesterol(which is very important to survival) is converted into Pregnenolone. (Pregnenolone is pretty much a super hormone, from which all steroid hormones are derived.) From this point the body has a couple of choices, first is to convert it to Progesterone, which leads to Cortisol(think stress hormone). Second is to convert it to DHEA, which leads to Androstenedione, which in turn goes to Estrone, Estradiol, Estriol and Testosterone. The body is very intuitive and realizes that if the body is under stress it needs more Cortisol, the stress hormone. The side effect of this is that it will diminish the DHEA production, which effectively ends sex hormone production. The other side effect of this is the suppressive nature of Cortisol on insulin receptors on our cells, which tells the body to secrete more insulin(think insulin resistance—>Diabetes). This results in hyperinsulinemia and you get the negative effects of insulin from this. Eventually though the Cortisol production will drop from adrenal exhaustion. Then we lose the effect of Cortisol to return low blood sugar levels back to normal which will result in hypoglycemia. Think about your stress and your symptoms and see where you fit in this puzzle.
Dr Stafford
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Charles Stafford, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Keeping Your Blood Sugar Stable for Your Type 2 Diabetes
Posted by: | CommentsBlood sugar instability plays a big role in the management of your disease, reduction of your symptoms, and reversing your diabetes.
The following are good rules to stand by when it comes to keeping your blood sugar stable:
- Eat a high-quality protein breakfast: Mom was right! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
- Eat small amounts of protein every two to three hours: Nuts, seeds, meat, or protein shake are some examples.
- Find your carbohydrate tolerance and stick to it: If you feel sleepy or crave sugar after a meal, you’ve eaten too many carbs.
- Never eat high sugar foods without some fat, fiber or protein.
- Do not eat sweets or sugary foods before bed.
- Avoid all fruit juices.
- Avoid all Adrenal stimulants: This means coffee, energy drinks, and sodas.
- Eat a well-balanced diet consisting mostly of vegetables and quality meats and fats.
- Eliminate food allergens and intolerances.
10. Eliminate parasites and toxicities.
We can help you find out what your food allergies are through a simple test. This is part of our comprehensive management of you as a whole person.
Dr. Jade Malay, DC
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Article by Dr. Jade Malay, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Diabetes and Thyroid Disease-The Common Link
Posted by: | CommentsWhenever a patient I am consulting with a patient who tells me that they are also on thyroid medication, my ears perk up and immediately I suspect that the thyroid problem is also causing the Type 2 Diabetes…the two go hand in hand. One will never get the Diabetes under control until the thyroid condition is under control. Many times patients who present with both have something called Hashimoto’s Autoimmune Thyroid Disease where it’s actually the immune system that is the culprit. Until the immune system is dealt with the thyroid problem AND the diabetes problem will continue to get worse. A simple blood test can be done to confirm Hashimoto’s Autoimmune Thyroid. This blood test is typically not ordered by your MD, simply because there is no drug for Hashimoto’s. Several steps can be taken naturally to treat Hashimoto’s. If you have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and have a Thyroid problem or any other autoimmune disease, the cause for your Type 2 Diabetes may be autoimmune.
Dr. Jade Malay, DC
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Article by Dr. Jade Malay, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Intense Treatment Hopes for Diabetics Dashed
Posted by: | CommentsA recent study has found that type II diabetics that are taking additional drugs to lower blood pressure and fats saw no decrease in heart disease.
“Adding drugs to drive blood pressure and blood-fats lower than current targets did not prevent heart problems, and in some cases caused harmful side effects.”
You can read the article here.
The study reveals that the fat and cholesterol lowering drugs had no effect on lower heart disease. Important finding in this group was that though men saw a slight bump, women actually got worse. Lets read that again, taking cholesterol lowering drugs increased the rate of heart attacks in diabetic women. Now would be a good time to talk with your doctor and evaluate that statin drug you are taking.
The blood pressure lowering drugs revealed roughly the same results, which means no decrease in heart disease. The only ray of light in the study was that strokes saw a slight decrease with the blood pressure lowering medications. So you have to ask your doctor and yourself, are these drugs helping?
Probably the most disturbing fact of the whole study: The intense blood sugar lowering medications were stopped three years into the study when they noticed that heart disease was INCREASING and not decreasing.
The best alternative for diabetics is to get to the bottom of the problem and see why they have diabetes, and ask why are they just treating symptoms.
Dr Stafford
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Charles Stafford, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Functional VS Pathological Blood Chemistry And What It Means To Diabetes
Posted by: | CommentsTo really address the diabetes aspect of this statement, we have to evaluate what functional vs pathological blood chemistry even means. The trend for years has been to look at our blood work from a on or off proposition with very little gray area. Physicians look at the numbers and if nothing is out of the pathological range, it is just a wait and see attitude. Now this wouldn’t be the worst part of it, if the values for what is considered normal were not averaged by the growing population of sick people. What this means is, that as our society becomes sicker, the qualifications to get into this crowd becomes more difficult. So by the time a disease process is caught, it can be a long time into development.
The functional ranges are more stringent and therefore easier to discern what is going wrong with the body. The patterns for disease process are evaluated as a whole and the “gray areas” are what we are looking for to assist people from a pre-disease state to a healthy state.
What does this mean to my diabetes? First, with functional blood chemistry it is possible that you could have avoided it in the first place. Second, it means that there are tools to help you understand why your blood sugar is out of control. And finally, it means that there could be a solution to getting your blood sugar under control and avoiding the horrible outcome that diabetics face as the disease process continues to destroy the body regardless of medications.
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Jade Malay, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Does Eating Healthy Cost More?
Posted by: | CommentsSeveral times in the last couple of weeks the topic of eating healthy and costing more has come up with patients. I wanted to examine this with all of you so we have an understanding on a very important part of our overall health picture.
Lets break this discussion down to two types of cost: Time and Money.
Time. This is the hardest for us to handle. Eating a healthy diet requires more time than money. We have to plan meals, grocery shop, prepare meals, clean-up, etc. This is a lot of time. Do we have this time? Can we make this time? The answer to both questions is yes. We cannot put a price on how important our health is to us. By trying to shave time off of this we are killing ourselves, then looking for the miracle drug to lower our cholesterol, blood sugar, increase our thyroid production, and on and on.
You have to determine where you want to spend your time. Do you want to spend the extra 30 to 40 minutes a week making a menu and planning for meals or do you want to spend the tail end of your life at the doctor and in the hospital?
Money. As I counsel patients on healthy eating I have determined that most patients are really unaware of what that means. Theses are people that supposedly were told by their physicians what to eat. One of the key components of this is portion size. Do some foods cost more than others, absolutely. But the key here is, are you eating the right amount? Once you balance out what you are supposed to be eating and in the appropriate portions the cost works itself out.
Again we have to determine where we want to spend our money. Do you want to spend the extra $30 eating healthier foods or do want to spend your retirement savings on multiple medications and hospital bills just to live the extra year.
Is this really what we want? I would have to answer this emphatically, NO. And, yet we seem to keep spiraling this way. The only way to make this change is to be conscious in what you are doing on a daily basis.
Dr. Charles Stafford
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Charles Stafford, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
You Diet, You Exercise, But You Still Feel Lousy And Your Blood Sugar Won’t Go Down!
Posted by: | CommentsI hear this all the time from patients…that they are doing everything their doctor tells them working out, watching carbs, eating less…and their blood sugar continues to be all over the place. They can’t get the weight off….they are just miserable! Does this sound like you? One patient told me that his doctor recommended that he get a gastric bypass! Even though he was hardly eating anything! With my methods, I tell my patients NOT to exercise! Bet you’ve never heard that before. I’ll give you a little hint….it has to do with stress. You see, stress whether physical, chemical, or psychological is PERCEIVED by the body in the exact same way. And when you are stressed out….your blood sugar rises! Exercise…even though is a good stress for the healthy non-diabetic person, may not be so good if you have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. First thing first…you got to get the blood sugar under control and stabilized….and when that happens, then we can think about exercise. If you’d like to learn more about our solutions for Type 2 Diabetes give us a call, we’ll see if you qualify for a consultation.
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Jade Malay, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Is Your Doctor Doing Enough To Help You Lower Your Blood Sugar?
Posted by: | CommentsMost Diabetics find out the first time that they have high blood sugar after their doctor runs a simple blood test and tells you, “You have high blood sugar…You are diabetic, take this prescription.” Your doctor may have also told you to watch your diet and to exercise….that’s pretty much how Type 2 Diabetes is “managed” with Western Medicine. The rest is pretty much left up to you to figure out. You feel lost, but you do your best to “watch your diet and exercise,” but the next time you go to get your blood sugar tested again, your doctor wants to increase your medication or add another medication. I’ve had patients walk in with lists and bags of medication. The lists of medications can be as long as 27 different medications! That’s a full time job on its own. I talked with another patient whose doctor had placed a dialysis portal in this patient “preparing” him for dialysis. Am I the only one…or is this just nuts?! You need a doctor on your side that is dedicated to finding out the cause of your high blood sugar and doing everything possible to help you REVERSE it, not just artificially control it with medication. Don’t accept another medication as the answer to this disease. If you feel your doctor isn’t doing enough to make positive changes toward health, you may be a good candidate for our treatment.
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Jade Malay, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Stress, Blood Sugar, & Relaxation
Posted by: | CommentsStress, it is everywhere, physical, emotional, families, jobs, etc. We can’t seem to escape it. This stress starts a very vicious cycle in the body. One, that if not corrected can create havoc on your blood sugar.
Let’s examine the stress response in the body so we can better understand it. When your body triggers the stress response, it stimulates the adrenal glands to release cortisol. The function here is to get the glucose in the blood into muscles and other cells to use. Now as time continues the stress has a long term effect on the adrenals. They start in the alarm reaction, if the stress is prolonged it goes into the resistance stage, and ultimately if left uncorrected it goes into exhaustion.
Once your body has been under the stress response long enough the cortisol will down regulate insulin receptors. So now we have a situation in the body that produces more insulin from the pancreas, and more glucose in the blood, but cells that cannot respond to it and thus we have elevated blood sugar levels.
Now if you are in the modes of adrenal resistance and exhaustion, you need to help the body out of this response. Along with correct supplementation here are some tips for better relaxation:
- Exercise. It always comes to this. Exercise is very important to the body and healthy exercise reduces stress and improves cardiac function as well.
- Progressive Relaxation. There are many different ways to do this, but the concept is very similar. You think about a specific muscle group, contract it, relax it and move to the next group. This is best done in a quiet environment and can be a great way to go to sleep.
- Breathing Exercises. Sit or lie down, uncross arms and legs. Take in a deep breath and exhale fully, in through the nose, out through the mouth. As you exhale relax all of your muscles. Do this at least once a day and for 5-20 minutes.
That is it for today. Try these tips and get ready to feel the reaction, because your life will be better for it.
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Jade Malay, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
If this headline describes you, then you must realize that your Diabetes is not under control and the disease is still causing havoc to your body. Many people are holding on to the false sense of security that if they take their Diabetes medication, then their Type 2 Diabetes is under control…don’t be fooled into believing this! If you don’t feel good, have no energy, can’t sleep, can’t lose weight no matter how much exercise you do, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides and your doctor’s solution is to your Diabetes is to give you more medication….then the startling truth is your Diabetes is active destroying your body and your problem is getting worse. The definition of insanity is to continue the same behavior over and over and to expect a different outcome! If you are tired of taking pills, worried that you will eventually succumb to the terrible complications of Type 2 Diabetes, and you want a change…the change starts with a decision you must make…keep doin’ what your doin’ and get the same result…or decide to change your life and get your life back….Knowledge is Power…you decide.
If you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes and need help getting it and keeping it under control, please fill out the form to the right and we can help get you the information you need.
Article by Dr. Jade Malay, Type 2 Diabetes Professional, Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
