Here are the Details of this New Alzheimer's Discovery:
Scientists discovered that when the level of
insulin circulating in the blood climbs too high, in response to the
excess, over time cells all over the body become more and more
insensitive to insulin’s usual effects.
Under normal circumstances insulin performs a
role as a gateway hormone. Insulin allows the sugar in your blood to
enter into your muscle cells where it’s consumed as fuel to produce
energy.
But when the muscle cells become insensitive to
insulin, less and less sugar is able to flow from your bloodstream into
your muscle cells. You experience fatigue because your muscle cells can
no longer get the fuel they need.
Worse yet as the sugar backs up in your
bloodstream, your blood sugar levels rises excessively which is very
dangerous. Ask any doctor (or any diabetic for that matter) and they’ll
tell you how terribly damaging a high blood sugar level can be.
Eventually after three or four decades, your
muscle cells become so insensitive to insulin that it can no longer
fulfill its normal role. Your blood sugar climbs so high your doctor
gives you an official diagnosis of type II diabetes. (A fasting blood
sugar level of over 125 is how doctors diagnose type II diabetes.)
Remember, it’s the slowly accumulating insulin
insensitivity of your muscle cells that’s the root cause of type II
diabetes. And the root cause of this insensitivity is the overproduction
of insulin which is the result of the excessive consumption of refined
carbohydrates.
You
May Be At Risk…
Most Americans have too much insulin in their
blood. This is a stealthy problem as you can have an abnormally high
level of insulin in your blood and as a result be at a dramatically
increased risk of suffering from a long list of life threatening
diseases – and yet have no symptoms at all!
Tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of
millions worldwide will suffer and die from the diseases excessive
insulin causes including Alzheimer’s without having any warning signs
whatever.
Not only does excessive insulin damage your brain
and dramatically increase your Alzheimer’s risk, it also accelerates the
rate at which you age. Simply stated - the higher your insulin level
the faster you’ll age.
I recently attended a high school class reunion.
Perhaps you’ve had this same experience. What astounded me was how
little some of my old friends had aged. A few looked just as they did
way back when.
But then there were others who looked much, much
older. Some looked twenty years or more older than their chronological
age. Their 50 year-old faces were etched with the lines and wrinkles
you’d expect to see on the face of an 80 year old!
According to the scientists, even a slightly
increased insulin level can substantially increase your risk of disease
and at the same time dramatically accelerate the rate at which your body
ages.
Unfortunately few doctors are aware of how
damaging excessive insulin can be. They routinely shrug off elevated
insulin levels as
“high normal”. Exhibiting a casual attitude toward something as
dangerous as excessive insulin does their patients a great disservice.
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