Alzheimer's Information | The Time Line

The Time Line

So let’s put this time line in perspective. Our ancestors have been around for approximately six million years and for over 99.99% of that time they consumed a diet of completely natural foods.

Now suddenly over the past two centuries we’ve suddenly and dramatically altered our diet.

Today we consume much more carbohydrate than our ancient ancestors and the nature of the carbohydrates we’re now consuming has radically changed also.

For evolutionary purposes these dietary changes have occurred far too quickly. Two centuries may seem like a long time but when it’s viewed against the backdrop of six million years of history – it’s a tiny fraction of one percent.

It’s important to note that the process of evolutionary adaption progresses at a snail’s pace. From an evolutionary viewpoint the span of a few centuries is but a mere blink of an eye, far too brief a period to even begin to allow our bodies time to adapt to our radically new way of eating.

By consuming these new refined carbohydrates we’re in effect throwing a monkey wrench into a finely tuned metabolic system. And this disruption damages our health in a host of different ways.

If you purchased a shiny new luxury car – what kind of fuel would you use? Would you fill your tank with turpentine - or how about some lighter fluid or perhaps some cheap vodka?

No, of course you wouldn’t do that. Instead you’d read the owner’s manual and use the fuel listed there. After all, that’s the fuel the engineers designed the car to burn. If you used anything else it would certainly damage or destroy the engine.

Your body is in a similar situation. It’s evolved over 60,000 centuries to digest and metabolize natural foods and now we’re forcing it to run on something very different.

Use the right fuel in your car and consume the right food for your body and both will give good, reliable service for many years.

CRH Effects

Chronic Reactive Hyperinsulinemia or CRH means you have too much insulin in your blood. Chronic means the problem is not temporary but instead is of a long lasting nature. Reactive means the problem is a reaction to something you did in the past. And hyperinsulinemia means that the condition involves too much (hyper) insulin (insulinemia) in the blood.

Why are our insulin levels so high? Over the centuries our bodies have adapted to our ancestor’s diet – a diet made up of natural proteins and fats and rarely a natural carbohydrate such as those found in fruits and vegetables. Our bodies simply can’t handle the new refined carbohydrates that make up almost half the diet of most Americans.

Refined Carbohydrates are Metabolic Poison!

Because they’re a much more concentrated kind of carbohydrate, refined carbohydrates badly disrupt and unbalance our sensitive metabolic system. Our bodies simply have not had enough time to adequately adapt to this new class of high-powered carbohydrates.

As a result when we consume refined carbohydrates our bodies struggle to keep our blood sugar level from rising so high it might cause blindness, kidney failure, stroke or the amputation of a limb, or worse a fatal heart attack.

In contrast protein and fatty foods have little or no effect on blood insulin levels. Consuming a refined carbohydrate now and then won’t hurt us but when we consume them regularly particularly if we consume them with each and every meal, our blood insulin level rises to an abnormally high level and remains permanently elevated. This is CRH.

There’s nothing evil about insulin. Insulin is a hormone that has several hundred different functions in a healthy human body provided the level of insulin circulating in the blood remains within a normal, healthful range.

But when the body becomes saturated with far too much insulin, this normally healthy hormone becomes extremely toxic.

Excessive Insulin Can Be Extremely Dangerous

If your insulin level should shoot up for a brief period it probably won’t cause you any real trouble. But when the level of insulin in the blood stays high over long periods – years or even decades – the body slowly but steadily develops a tolerance for it. Gradually insulin loses it’s impact and can no longer help sugar enter into the cells where it can provide badly-needed energy.

Over the years insulin loses more and more of it’s impact and becomes less and less efficient at escorting sugar from the blood into cells all over the body where it’s badly needed for fuel.

In response the pancreas increases it’s production of insulin in an effort to compensate for insulin’s waning influence. Eventually insulin becomes impotent and can no longer perform any useful function. At that point disease sets in.

Researchers call this “Insulin Resistance” and its this resistance to the normal role of insulin that’s so very dangerous.

Over long periods excessive insulin directly causes or contributes to a wide range of chronic degenerative diseases including heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, sleep apnea and even male pattern baldness!

And studies have shown that these diseases are linked together. A study conducted by Doctor H.B. Posner of the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia Medical School found that diabetics with high blood pressure were six times as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as compared with diabetics with normal blood pressures.