Dear Virginia, You write: > I have hyperinsulinism and the doc recommends I use something like > this..
Hyperinsulinism may have an organic cause or contributing factor, such as the liver parasites or other pathogens some people are suggesting. It is something worth looking into. That said, the main reason your insulin is high is because you are eating enough carbohydrates often enough that it triggers an almost continuous insulin response. That's the job of insulin, to keep your blood sugar low by causing the body to move it into the cells and out of the bloodstream. The insulin not only helps transport glucose into the muscle cells, but also to transport lipids into the fat cells. High triglyceride levels are yet another response of the body to high carbohydrate intake. Insulin stores away that extra fat, as well. That's why we gain weight on a high carb diet. After routine consumption of unhealthy levels of carbohydrates, your body becomes de-sensitized to your own insulin, requiring the pancreas to produce more and more of it in order to achieve sugar control. That's why they also call this condition "insulin resistance syndrome." The body has absolutely no essential need for carbohydrates! The small amount of glucose it needs for the brain and a handful of other organs can be synthesized quite easily by the liver from dietary protein. It all becomes a question of how much carb you can afford to eat and stay healthy, not how much you *need* to eat to be healthy! As long as you're eating carbs, your body will burn them up first to get energy. It does this for a reason: High levels of blood suger are bad for you! If you ever stop eating carbs long enough for it to burn up all the stored and circulating reserves of sugar, your body *will* switch over to it's PREFERRED fuel, FAT! All those triglycerides? Yep, them! I have seldom felt better than when I managed to resist my addiction to carbs long enough to get into fat burning mode and stay there. More energy, stamina, everything works better. I could go all day without a stop and hardly ever feel hungry. I was running on my own fat stores along with whatever fat I ate. You'll want to eat protein, yes, in whatever amounts your body needs to build and repair itself. Your main energy food is fat. Eat healthy, good quality fats in adequate amounts and you'll not be hungry, nor will you gain weight -- as long as you're NOT running with an insulin response every day! The moment you do, you'll be switched back over to storing fat and burning sugar. Veggies, then, add bulk to your diet and give you the many vitamins, minerals, and enzymes you need in addition to the fat and protein. Fruit is an occasional treat. That's the secret of all the carb restricted diets. It is, in fact, the way we were meant to eat. There were very few concentrated carbohydrates routinely available to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, plus they were always active enough to burn off whatever starches they did consume so they could quickly get back to burning fat. The bulk of their energy came from fat in the wild game they hunted and trapped, plus whatever nuts, seeds, roots, and the like that they could gather. In the fall, the tribe could gorge on fruit, leading to an insulin response which would help them store some extra fat away for the lean months of winter. The trouble with trying to eat this way today is the animal fat and protein most easily available are corrupted by our insistance on feeding livestock on grain instead of grass. The veggies we get are less nourishing due to soil depletion and artificial fertilizer use. Nearly everything we can buy is processed to death... literally until it is dead. Cheap vegetable oils are anything but safe to eat. And there is a never ending supply of flavorful high carb foods tempting you to have "just a bite!" <sigh> I don't know that carb blockers are going to help us change the habits that are killing us. They may help you get into fat burning mode. Whether that translates into something you can then sustain, I can't say. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
