Insulin is a hormone, everyone needs it to live. People that don't have diabetes are usually unaware of it's going on inside of their bodies. Every time a non diabetic person eats, their pancreas secretes insulin to help facilitate the absorption of glucose into their cells to be used or stored as energy. It is like a key that opens the cell wall to allow passage, without it, people can't clear glucose from their blood.
Type 1 diabetics don't make insulin. This is typically due to an autoimmune response or pancreatic damage. So, type 1 diabetics have to supplement their natural insulin production and essentially start doing all of the calculations their pancreas would normally do via checking their blood glucose and using insulin injections, insulin pumping, and now there are even inhale-able types of insulin, to clear the glucose from their blood and allow it to be utilized by their bodies. Type 1 diabetics are encouraged to eat a well balanced diet to avoid other health problems and to keep them from also becoming insulin resistant, but no amount of diet and exercise will "cure" type 1 diabetes.
Insulin resistant individuals still make their own insulin but their cells become stubborn and don't want to allow the insulin to work effectively. Normally insulin resistance will also accompany other hormone imbalances that may in turn make the resistance worse, making the hormone imbalance worse, and so on in a vicious cycle. Insulin resistant individuals will continue to make more and more insulin until their cells finally give in and allow the insulin to work. When this happens, the person's blood glucose levels will typically go from the highest peak, which can be in a normal range or can be in a high range depending on the level of resistance and the speed of insulin production of each individual; and then drop rapidly causing low blood sugars after eating meals that are high in sugar or starch content. Eating a balanced diet and exercising can help this condition in most people. It may not "cure" it but if a person changes their lifestyle it can be controlled most of the time via healthy food choices and less sedentary lifestyles.
Type 2 diabetics typically start with insulin resistance and work their way up to type two diabetes, this is not always the case but it seems to be a going trend. Type 2 diabetes usually develops if a person doesn't take the necessary steps to better their eating and exercise habits while in the insulin resistant stage. Type 2 diabetics still make insulin but have become so insulin resistant that they need medications to make their cells more sensitive to insulin. In some cases type 2 diabetics will become so insulin resistant that the medications alone won't work, and may require extra insulin on top of the naturally produced insulin to help keep blood sugars under control. Eating a balanced diet and exercising can help this condition in most people. It may not "cure" it but if a person changes their lifestyle it can be controlled most of the time via healthy food choices and less sedentary lifestyles.
Double diabetes develops most often when a type 1 diabetic becomes so insulin resistant that they are also considered a type 2 diabetic. Less frequently type 2 diabetics could also develop type 1 diabetes also resulting in double diabetes.
A well balanced diet isn't only encouraged for people that already have health issues. It is the first defense we have against eating our way into poor health.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Plexus is a Tool
Plexus has done so many wonderful things for so many wonderful people. I would like to talk about it for a little bit.
Everyone starts their quest for better health with different goals and at different stages in their lives. Some people are completely dependent on prescription medications to keep their bodies from turning against them, some people have changed some things in their lives but aren't sure how to obtain the things they are looking for, and others still are looking for a way to be able to get even healthier despite their appearance being flawless.
I am in the middle group, only because I was in the first group and decided I couldn't live that way any more. I changed everything I knew to change and it wasn't enough, it wasn't easy, but it was something. I heard about Plexus and decided to use it to help me feel better. Little did I know how much better I would feel. I currently only use three products, Slim, ProBio 5 and Bio Cleanse, but these products make me feel a little more like I suspect normal people feel. My stomach and muscles were once stiff and unwilling, now the pressure in my stomach is gone, I am able to move about more freely and I don't get winded as easily as I once did. I want to get up and fill the day with adventure, but my body doesn't know how to keep up with the the want to. So that is the incentive I was looking for to start exercising a little bit to get my body back to a functioning state.
Plexus is a tool. Advertisements may accidentally lead people into believing that this is a miracle cure all. It has helped people get out from under some pretty terrible health conditions. Those people in the center of themselves wanted to so they did. When your health is on the line there is no trying, you can only do. Even if it is a small effort, you have to start somewhere and somewhere can be anywhere.
One question I have gotten several times since starting to promote Plexus..."Will the weight come back once I stop using the Plexus." well the answer is just brutally honest - but, if the only change you make in your life is adding plexus then you take it away, yes, if you lose weight, it will probably come back. Why? Because Plexus may help you to curb your appetite and it could motivate you to have more energy, both of which can help you to lose weight and feel better, and if you don't have something there to keep that going, you can slip into the rut you were in before.
This is why dieting is a big no no. Going on a "Diet" implies there is an end in sight, a going off the diet and back to what you were doing. This was hard for me to grasp for so many, SO MANY, years. If it wasn't working the first time, and I had to try the diet, why would it work if I went back to it?! DUH it sounds so silly in writing. If the changes that you make help, the changes need to be kept. The trick is finding the changes that help, that you can live with and doing it at a pace that will make it easier for you to transition to. Some people can just flip a switch and go from full on eat everything in sight mode to eating perfectly healthy and be fine, I am not one of those people.
Plexus helps give me the push I need to move on to the next step, I don't know if or when I will stop using Plexus products, but I don't see a time in my near future that I would want to. It helps people in different ways, if you use it how does it help you? If you don't use it, what do you think it could do for you? What are some other things in your life that help you keep yourself on track and give you the push you need to keep yourself healthy?
py.myplexusproducts.com
Everyone starts their quest for better health with different goals and at different stages in their lives. Some people are completely dependent on prescription medications to keep their bodies from turning against them, some people have changed some things in their lives but aren't sure how to obtain the things they are looking for, and others still are looking for a way to be able to get even healthier despite their appearance being flawless.
I am in the middle group, only because I was in the first group and decided I couldn't live that way any more. I changed everything I knew to change and it wasn't enough, it wasn't easy, but it was something. I heard about Plexus and decided to use it to help me feel better. Little did I know how much better I would feel. I currently only use three products, Slim, ProBio 5 and Bio Cleanse, but these products make me feel a little more like I suspect normal people feel. My stomach and muscles were once stiff and unwilling, now the pressure in my stomach is gone, I am able to move about more freely and I don't get winded as easily as I once did. I want to get up and fill the day with adventure, but my body doesn't know how to keep up with the the want to. So that is the incentive I was looking for to start exercising a little bit to get my body back to a functioning state.
Plexus is a tool. Advertisements may accidentally lead people into believing that this is a miracle cure all. It has helped people get out from under some pretty terrible health conditions. Those people in the center of themselves wanted to so they did. When your health is on the line there is no trying, you can only do. Even if it is a small effort, you have to start somewhere and somewhere can be anywhere.
One question I have gotten several times since starting to promote Plexus..."Will the weight come back once I stop using the Plexus." well the answer is just brutally honest - but, if the only change you make in your life is adding plexus then you take it away, yes, if you lose weight, it will probably come back. Why? Because Plexus may help you to curb your appetite and it could motivate you to have more energy, both of which can help you to lose weight and feel better, and if you don't have something there to keep that going, you can slip into the rut you were in before.
This is why dieting is a big no no. Going on a "Diet" implies there is an end in sight, a going off the diet and back to what you were doing. This was hard for me to grasp for so many, SO MANY, years. If it wasn't working the first time, and I had to try the diet, why would it work if I went back to it?! DUH it sounds so silly in writing. If the changes that you make help, the changes need to be kept. The trick is finding the changes that help, that you can live with and doing it at a pace that will make it easier for you to transition to. Some people can just flip a switch and go from full on eat everything in sight mode to eating perfectly healthy and be fine, I am not one of those people.
Plexus helps give me the push I need to move on to the next step, I don't know if or when I will stop using Plexus products, but I don't see a time in my near future that I would want to. It helps people in different ways, if you use it how does it help you? If you don't use it, what do you think it could do for you? What are some other things in your life that help you keep yourself on track and give you the push you need to keep yourself healthy?
py.myplexusproducts.com
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