Not exact matches
This approach could eliminate the
need for old - fashioned
insulin shots and make managing the disease far
less risky.
When people talk about being more
Insulin sensitive, that means you
need less Insulin to fit into the receptor site to pull that Glucose into the cell to utilize it
for fuel or store as fat — one of the two, right?
First of all, the
less of any sweetener you can use, the better... if you can slowly over time adjust your taste buds to enjoy the natural taste of foods and drink without the
need for heavily sweetening them, you'll see many benefits
for your body including maintaining more stable blood sugar and
insulin levels, managing your body weight, and reducing inflammatory effects of too much sugars and artificial sweeteners.
K is
needed for insulin to be released from beta cells, so if
insulin is on board more K is
needed by the body — >
less is excreted.
That's right: they produce
less IDE, perhaps suggesting that, as hunter - gatherers presumably with a much lower carbohydrate intake, they may have produced
less insulin, and thus have had
less need for the enzyme that degrades it.
At our retreats, in
less than 4 days, 100 % of our participants lower their fasting and post-meal blood glucose, and reduce their
need for insulin.
This is very important because fig leaves decrease the demand
for insulin hence diabetics may
need less insulin injections.
Dietary modification (if you can convince the cat to change) is useful even if the cat
needs insulin, as the higher protein content of diabetic diets
for cats means
less work
for the
insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.
Although we would still apply the same protocol
for those on
insulin - we had to watch a bit closer to make sure that our beneficial changes did not require that
less insulin was
needed.