Is the ultimate low-carb diet—the ketogenic diet—good for you?

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 these days, several of my patients have inquired about the ketogenic diet. Is a ketogenic diet safe for weight loss? Would you advise against it? Despite the present hoopla, a ketogenic diet is not always a novel idea. We have been utilizing it in medicine for for a century to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, particularly in children. Dr. Atkins made his extremely low-carbohydrate weight loss strategy, which started with a very stringent -week ketogenic section, popular in the 1970s. Over time, a similar weight loss strategy was incorporated into other fad diets. What exactly is a ketogenic (keto) diet plan? The body releases ketones into the circulation as a result of a diet, in essence. Most cells opt to use blood sugar, which is derived from carbs, as the primary source of energy for the body. When blood sugar from meals isn't present in the body, we start converting stored lipids into ketone bodies (the method is known as ketosis). Maximum cells will utilise the ketone bodies in...

Type 1 Diabetes Causes, Symptoms, Treatments, and Explanations

  

Only 5% to 10% of people with diabetes have Type 1 (insulin deficiency), while 90% to 95% of people with diabetes have Type 2 (insulin resistance) or adult-onset diabetes. Despite being more dangerous, Type 1 diabetes is much less common. Even though Type 1 Diabetes is sometimes referred to as Juvenile Diabetes, it can occur at any age, but it is more frequently diagnosed in children.


The meaning of insulin

Food (carbohydrates (or sugars)), oxygen, toxins, and poisons are all present in your blood. In addition to receiving their oxygen and nourishment from the blood, cells discard their waste there as well. Your body has a system in place where your cells only need to hunt for one Digestive Hormone: Insulin. This prevents your cells from eating the incorrect things and dying. This simplifies the already complex tasks that each of your cells must perform, leaving the cell to rely solely on Insulin to obtain food (sugar).

All insulin does is send a hormonal signal between a sugar molecule (carbohydrate) and a cell, allowing the cell to locate and consume the sugar in the blood. There are numerous types of sugar, some of which contain certain vitamins and nutrients, while others do not. Insulin therefore serves many critical roles for your body, including removing the complex confusion that the cells would otherwise have to deal with. Additionally, not all sugar molecules reach every cell; insulin ensures that sugars containing particular vitamins and nutrients reach the appropriate cells. Not every sugar, vitamin, or nutrient reaches every cell. Vitamins are frequently reserved for particular cell types.

Your blood sugar levels are not lowered by insulin itself; rather, they are lowered by your cells as they consume the sugar, which they are unable to do without insulin.

The cell transports the sugar molecule to its mitochondria, where it binds it with oxygen with the aid of another enzyme to produce energy and cause the mitochondria to chemically vibrate. This process occurs after the cell receives the hormonal signal to ingest the sugar connected to its outer surface. The mitochondria's chemical vibration sustains the life of the cell. If the sugar molecule also contained a vitamin or other nutrient, then that vitamin or nutrient transforms that energy into actual functional work inside that cell by initiating a complicated series of chemical chain reactions in response to that energy burst.

Fruits and vegetables always include some type of vitamin or nutrient in their sugars. Refined sugar is the culprit for this. Eating refined sugars is similar to driving a car without transmission fluid and running it on gas; while the heater may function, the car won't move or accomplish many significant tasks. Making the process of producing that energy a massive waste of oxygen, enzymes, and insulin.


Glucagon explanation:

Type 1 diabetes not only results in impaired or destroyed insulin production. In Type 1 Diabetes, not only is the hormone Glucagon damaged or destroyed, but also the synthesis of insulin is. Another crucial digestive hormone, glucagon, is released by your pancreases in response to a low sugar event. This hormone instructs your liver to produce more sugar from your body's fat reserves. If this hormone isn't created, your liver won't get the signal, which might cause your blood sugar levels to fall to risky lows. You are also as dead if your sugar levels fall too low as if Keep in mind that you cannot digest oxygen without sugar. And those who are incapable of metabolizing oxygen are known as dead people. Since ingesting a sugar tablet, candy, or piece of fruit cannot be obtained when having a low blood sugar attack, Type 1 diabetics are occasionally also given emergency glucagon injections. Which is possible because the brain can malfunction when sugar isn't there, making it impossible for the victim to consume food or liquids.


Type 1 diabetes 

The widespread belief is that diabetes is brought on by eating excessive amounts of sugar. The body needs glucose to utilize oxygen, contrary to the common misconception. In actuality, sugar is the only source of oxygen you are currently breathing to maintain your life. You wouldn't need to breathe oxygen to stay alive if you didn't require sugar for energy. The disease's symptom, rather than its underlying cause, is the inability to metabolize glucose. The causes of diabetes and lung cancer are not mutually exclusive.

Type 1 diabetes has IMMUNE RESPONSE DISORDER as its main cause. In order to defend your body, your immune system unintentionally produces an antibody to kill the invading virus or bacteria with antigen attacking antibodies that also attack and kill islet cells in your pancreas, just because they happen to have a common antigen code that matches the anti-body produced by your immun system. Most Type 1 Diabetics develop this disease about two weeks after recovering from a serious illness, usually the measles, the flu, food poisoning, etc. So an immune system that isn't working properly can result in Type 1 diabetes by killing the islet cells in your pancreases that produce insulin. However, it frequently also destroys the islet cells, which also generate the Digestive Hormone Glucagon as well.

As insulin resistance worsens, TYPE 2 DIABETES (Insulin Resistance) might initially lead your pancreas to generate 32 times more insulin than in a non-diabetic person. And if left untreated for a very long period, it can eventually damage your pancreas' capacity to generate insulin, making you both a Type 1 and Type 2 diabetic. However, Type 2 Diabetes has a different cause—it is brought on by a duodenum that isn't working properly. If the duodenum is fixed, Type 2 Diabetes and Type 1 diabetes—if it was brought on by Type 2—can both be cured. However, if any of the other Type 1 factors listed below were implicated, the Type 1 might not go away. even if the Type 2 did go away.

PANCREATITIS can potentially result in Type 1 Diabetes by killing the islet cells in your pancreases, which make insulin and glucagon. Additionally, your pancreas creates digestive enzymes that often don't become active until after they've passed through your pancreatic duct and into your duodenum. These enzymes are ordinarily inactive while remaining in the pancreas. However, these digestive enzymes strangely activate early while still in your pancreas when you have pancreatitis. Your own digestive enzymes enter your bloodstream when your damaged pancreas bleeds and begins to breakdown your body after being digested by your own digestive enzymes, which causes your pancreas to be broken down. By performing a blood test and identifying certain digestive enzymes, doctors can identify pancreatitis. If this is discovered quickly enough, you might avoid developing Type 1 Diabetes or possibly prevent your pancreas from being completely destroyed. Every flu symptom is also a symptom of pancreatitis.

Type 1 Diabetes can also be brought on by pancreatic cancer; if you lose your pancreas to the disease, you will develop the condition, but you will also start to lose your capacity to digest food and begin to lose a lot of weight. The treatments that aid in digestion have drawbacks and adverse effects, thus life expectancy is also not very favorable. Additionally, as pancreatic cancer advances, it has the potential to spread throughout your body.


symptoms:

Type 1 diabetes can strike you suddenly, and you frequently have only a week or two to figure out what is wrong before you are in serious difficulty.

One of the symptoms of type 1 diabetes is MASSIVE WEIGHT LOSS, not weight gain. The ketoacidosis that results from your liver going crazy is what causes this. When you have Type 1 diabetes, your body is stuffed with food, but your cells are starving to death because there isn't enough insulin to assist them discover their food in the blood. Your liver and nervous system work closely together. When your liver receives a warning from your nervous system that your nerve cells are starving to death, it freaks out and releases ketones to drain all the fat from your fat cells so that the liver can turn it into sugar. However, the liver is unaware that the issue is with insulin and not blood sugar levels. As a result, your blood sugar levels continue to soar while your fat cells are being drained of their fat.

The blood viscosity will rise in the presence of HIGH BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS. Since your blood normally contains 70% water, typical blood sugar levels of 80 to 120 mg/dl should result in blood that is as thick and viscous as water. However, if it reaches 180 mg/dl, the viscosity is equal to that of Wesson Oil. Additionally, your blood viscosity increases as your blood sugar levels rise. The microscopic capillaries in your body have a difficult time allowing this more viscous blood to pass through them. The blood backs up in the capillaries as a result of this obstruction, which worsens the situation by raising your blood pressure. This strains the capillaries in your eyes, which can harm them or even result in blindness. It can also harm your kidneys, liver, and heart. Your body applies intense pressure on the capillaries in your feet, making it even more difficult for blood to travel through those broken capillaries. As a result, people with diabetes constantly experience foot issues and frequently lose their feet to gangrene or walk with very sensitive feet. High blood sugar levels also suggest that your cells are famished and losing the ability to digest oxygen since they aren't ingesting the sugar. You will feel incredibly sleepy and exhausted as a result of this, especially right after eating. Your body is stuffed with food, but your cells are going hungry. Your cells begin to consume near the end of digestion, therefore if they aren't, you haven't actually eaten. But increasing food consumption is not the answer; the approach is to address the insulin manufacturing issue.


ALWAYS SLEEPING AND TIRED

URINATION ABOUT ONCE EVERY HALF AN HOUR. as a result of your kidneys' detection of the danger posed by high blood sugar levels and their attempt to reduce blood sugar levels by eliminating the sugars. This in turn harms the kidneys because they are not meant to get rid of food; rather, they are meant to get rid of toxins and poisons.


FIXES

Injections of insulin are the solution, but figuring out the proper dosage is nearly as difficult as trying to navigate rapids in a sailboat. Before the invention of insulin in 1927, most persons who developed Type 1 Diabetes would pass away within a few weeks. ideally sooner. Therefore, insulin injections appear to be the cure now compared to before 1927. But it's not; it's just a repair. Because insulin is a digestive hormone and digestive hormones are specialized protein-polypeptides that send messages between a sugar molecule and a cell, they can only be administered intravenously. In other words, if you tried to eat insulin, it would be destroyed in your digestive system and never enter your bloodstream as actual insulin, only as protein molecules that had been broken up or as amino acids.

The best fix is an INSULINE PUMP. The amount of insulin is tightly controlled when your pancreas is functioning properly. When you manually try to calculate your insulin levels, you either get too much, which results in blood sugar levels that are dangerously low, or too little, which results in blood sugar levels that are not low enough. But as insulin pumps improve, they come equipped with a blood sugar monitor and a regulated insulin pump that more precisely injects the right quantity of insulin on a regular basis, just like your once-functioning pancreas used to. Although some human controls are still necessary, the accuracy and autonomy of these insulin pumps continue to increase with time. But be warned that these pumps can be extremely pricey; yet, as technology develops, their cost will decrease over time.


CURE FOR TYPE 1 DIABETIC:

ISLET TRANSPLANTATION is only performed on Type 1 diabetics who are terminally ill from the disease, which is uncommon. Most Type 1 diabetics successfully regulate their blood sugar levels through diet, exercise, and insulin, hence they are not candidates for islet transplantation. Islet transplantation can take one of two main forms: either the pancreas from a non-diabetic donor is transplanted into the pancreas of the diabetic, or islet cells are injected into the liver. Injection of islet cells into the patient's liver is preferred if they are prone to pancreatitis. Once injected, islet cells automatically begin to create controlled amounts of insulin in your blood. 

The bad news is that you will probably need to take immune suppressants for the rest of your life because this organ transplant involved a foreign organ. You must therefore be prepared to exchange your Type 1 Diabetes for medically caused AIDS. Immunosuppressive medications are quite expensive and require lifetime use. 

Only 43 clinical facilities worldwide carry out this surgery, which is still regarded as an experimental treatment for desperate Type 1 diabetics. Only 471 Type 1 Diabetes patients have gotten islet transplants to yet.

As you can see, the treatment has a lot of undesirable side effects and will require you to take pricey medications for the rest of your life. Therefore, only the most rich and in need Type 1 diabetics may apply.

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