You can prevent a declining health cascade by keeping your blood sugar on an even keel. Here are some tips to aid you...

Steady metabolic fires are the key to so many better health goals: reducing your fatigue, having energy when you need it, faster healing times, reduced cholesterol, better hormone balance, healthier blood vessels, less blood clot risk, a healthier heart, achieving weight loss and gaining weight control, decreasing risk of kidney damage, lowering brain fog , to name a few.

But more and more of us in this modern age suffer blood sugar dysregulation in its various forms: hypoglycemia (blood sugar crashing) hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) insulinemia (high blood insulin levels), diabetes, and insulin resistance, to name a few.

Yet the basic design of your body is self-governing. In other words, your body is designed to automatically correct imbalances and heal itself. And a steady blood sugar throughout the day and night is central to that process. How can you support that innate process of self-regulation, and promote your better overall health and well-being?

Here are a few tips to aid you:

1. The more protein and vegetables you eat, and the fewer carbohydrates, the better of you'll be in supporting your body's blood sugar self regulation.

2. In choosing the carbohydrates you will consume, stick to those with a low glycemic index. A glycemic index is a number assigned to a food that measures how fast any particular carbohydrate increases the sugar (glucose) circulating in your blood. Want to check the glycemic index of foods you eat? Search the internet for 'glycemic index of foods'.

3. When you do eat carbohydrates, combine them with fiber or other foods that slow down the rate of absorption. This helps prevent those damaging blood sugar spikes.

4. Engage in regular, intense exercise. This is especially important if you don't want to take the drug Metformin, the only drug that the American Diabetes Association recommends for the 'prevention' of type 2 diabetes. While it is true that studies have shown that “Metformin reduced the development of type 2 diabetes by 31%”, it is also important to understand that the benefit was not as great as with diet and intense exercise. *

The side effects of this drug are many - among the more common, according to drug.com, are abdominal or stomach discomfort/ cough or hoarseness/decreased appetite/diarrhea/ fast or shallow breathing/fever or chills/general feeling of discomfort/ lower back or side pain/muscle pain or cramping/painful or difficult urination/ sleepiness

And, of course, diet and exercise have no side effects.

5. Never never, never consume anything with corn syrup in it. Why? Because corn syrup (regardless of the name by which it is called) kills the beta cells of the pancreas. These are the insulin produing cells that are key to regulating blood sugar. So read every label to check for these names, which are currently being used instead of 'high fructose corn syrup': maize syrup/ glucose syrup/ glucose/fructose syrup/ tapioca syrup/ dahlia syrup/ fruit fructose/ crystalline fructose/ glucose-fructose (in Canada) and isoglucose in Europe. (Source, click here. )

6. Many blood sugar problems are caused by parasites, so consider a parasite-cleansing protocol with the help of a qualified health professional.

7. Increase your raw food consumption. Many experts recommend that you consume a minimum of 30% of your diet from raw foods. Why? Because, among other things, they supply the enzymes your body - and especially your pancreas - needs to function well.

8. If you need more than that to get your body's inherent self-regulatory mechanisms working, use the assistance of a holistic health practitioner who can recommend specific strategies for your particular body. In addition to checking for parasites, they can recommend which dietary strategies are best to you. They also know a variety of whole food concentrates and herbal supplements that can return your body's power to regulate itself back where it belongs.

For example, out of three people with basically the same blood sugar dysregulation symptoms and diagnosis, one may need GTF Chromium (GTF stands for 'glucose tolerance factor'), a second may have that aforementioned parasite issue, while the third may need the herb Gymnema ( used for over 3000 years and called the 'sugar destroyer' in Aurvedic medicine). Modern science has now demonstrated that taking Gymnema over 18 months can actually help regenerate the beta (insulin-producing) cells of the pancreas.

The point is, blood sugar problems are symptoms, not causes. Getting to the cause (or causes) not only can resolve them, it can also sidestep that long list of downstream health problems and set you on the road to better health all around.

* http://www.medicinenet.com/insulin_resistance/page6.htm.
** http://hsionline.com/2013/01/31/spot-high-fructose-corn-syrup/#sthash.ELnDyj5v.dpuf

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Portions of this article were excerpted from the Natural Female Hormone Care online lesson series. For more information, and to receive a complementary self-questionnaire you can use to assess female hormone balance, go to www.naturalfemalehormonecare.com
                                                                               
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Pamela Levin is an R.N. and a Teaching & Supervising Transactional Analyst. An R.N.51 years, she has worked in most hospital settings and then in her private health improvement practice 45 years. She has 500+ post-graduate hours in clinical nutrition, herbology and applied kinesiology. She is an award-winning nutritional journalist and author of a number of books on better health of body and mind.

Pamela Levin, R.N., T.S.T.A.
July 27, 2015

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