very flexible it should be able to hold oxygen and carry oxygen to the tissues and it

shouldn't be very sticky it should free flow and carry oxygen to the body and release
the oxygen and thenalso pick up the co2 and bring that back into the lungs where it
can be re-oxygenated so the more that this protein in your red blood cell gets stuck
with the sugar the more your red blood cells are going to be stiff it's going to be very
very sticky and it's going to form clumps and so that increases your risk of getting a
clot but when the red blood cell becomes stiff it can't bend anymore so what
happens is the blood flows through your arteries into smaller arteries and then
tiny vessels called capillaries they get stuck okay and so we have the arteries
that push the blood down to the end of your body like the toes and the fingers and
that's where the capillaries are that then kind of goes in reverse and becomes the
venous system the veins and then brings the blood back up through the lungs to start
this whole cycle over so the arteries are filled with this red blood that's oxygenated
and then as we use the oxygen the return blood flow to the veins are like a bluish red
because they have less oxygen but if your red blood cell is not flexible if it's rigid if it's
stiff it can't bend it gets stuck in the capillaries and then that starves off the tissues
and this is why a diabetic starts noticing tingling in in the fingertips and usually the
toes or the bottom of the foot they start feeling an abnormal uh sensation like
numbness or even pain or burning what's happening is the blood cells are too stiff
and they can't seem to get through the pipes and then we start off the tissues with
oxygen we starve off the nerves with oxygen and they start to die that is the first
change that happens on the road to necrosis or gangrene where the tissues actually
die and when the tissues don't get oxygen and they start dying you start having an
increase of unfriendly microbes it's called pathogens and unfriendly fungus
and so when you have gangrene you have a lot of infection going on in the body
because certain pathogens thrive in this low oxygen environment and this is where
you get amputation when someone's a diabetic it starts off as peripheral neuropathy
where the nerves are affected and then you get the ulcers and then you start getting
necrosis or dying tissue and then gangrene and they have to start to remove different
sections of your foot maybe starting with the toe or the ankle or whatever so the
effects of this interaction between sugar and this protein really messes up the red
blood cell it really brings down the red blood cells ability to carry oxygen it also
reduces the volume of red blood cells so think about this if you're anemic normally
people take iron or b12 but is it really going to work on top of this problem where your
your diet is very very high in sugar actually creating or causing the anemia
and then you take some iron is that going to really help you the answer is no or
another symptom related to not being able to carry oxygen you're going to start
climbing the stairs and getting out of breath easier you're going to have a hard time
exercising because you're not going to have the wind or the oxygen and so you're
going to get tuckered out really fast and so you're going to start taking things to
stimulate your energy like caffeine and things to boost your energy when in fact
you just need to fix the red blood cell so when these red blood cells can't fit through
the capillaries the other tissue that affects is the eyes this is why you have a higher
incident of visual problems diabetic retinopathy where you actually
can go blind because you're basically starving off the nerves that the eye needs to
function i mean think about what the retina is it's the extension of your brain it's
all neurological tissue and so it needs to be fed oxygen through the vascular
system but a lot of different problems with the eye are related to this issue of the
sugar binding to this blood cell and the term for it is called glycation but you have
negative effects to the retina okay so that's going to be you're not going to see as
well you're going to have problems like glaucoma cataracts you're gonna have
problems uh macular degeneration so here you are on a high carb diet and you start
to need glasses because because you can't see so you just keep getting thicker and
thicker glasses when in reality you need to change your diet now another area of the
body that's affected is your gums um your gums can be more susceptible to
getting an infection it's called periodontal disease okay that is another complication
of this problem with the red blood cells you also have the kidney okay the kidney is
very susceptible to this high level of sugar because think about what the kidneys are
they are these mini little filters that are filtering blood they're like a capillary type
tissue so we're going to get a lot of destruction in the kidney and the kidney makes a
certain thing called erythropoietin which helps make red blood cells in your bone
marrow so if we don't have enough erythropoietin then we're not going to generate
the number of red blood cells i mean your bone marrow makes like 2 million red
blood cells a second so it's like a machine that's cranking out these red blood cells so
with the consumptionof sugar you can't make those red bloodcells at the right
amount so you become anemic so you're always kind of tired and you're always kind
of lacking oxygen especially when you exercise now the thing that makes your blood
red is iron okay and so when you have this problem with glycation the damage
causes the iron to be released from the red blood cell and then it interacts with the
inside of the artery i mean think about when you expose iron to oxygen it rusts right
so now this iron literally creates a rusting effect because there's oxygen going on and
that causes little holes in your arteriesokay so it increases the permeability of the
artery and that's where you get the lesions and the start of plaquing and clotting and
then what happens is the band-aid is your body heals it with cholesterol like a little
band-aid and what do people do they go on a low cholesterol or low-fat diet is that
going to help no because it's the high carb diet that's creating the whole thing in the
first place so this is why the low fat diet of the low cholesterol diet is not workable for
removing plaque in your arteries so now those are some of the effects that can be
created and i'm just talking about the red blood cell now i want to give you a little
more understanding of the significance of this a1c as it relates to your blood sugars
a1c is actually a better test in testing your blood sugars because it gives you an
average of your blood sugars for about three months okay and you can even buy uh
home testing kits to measure your own a1c okay so i'm not endorsing any any units
out there but you can look them up and buy a test to measure yourself but the
problem with checking your blood sugars every so often is that it just shows a
snapshot of what's happening right at that point the a1c gives you an average of
everything so it's a much more accurate test for what's happening on average
because let's say i don't know you check yourself on wednesdays and you always eat
good on wednesdays but then the rest of the week is crappy you'll pick this up on the
a1c test now a normal blood sugar should be you know roughly about 80 85 okay
milligrams per deciliter okay and as far as a1c numbers go that would be a 4.5
percent a1c okay and so you can see that's much less than the 5.7 percent which is
kind of the borderline between normal and pre-diabetes and so as the blood sugars
go up a1c goes up so if your a1c is 7.0 percent um your blood sugars are going to be
around 154 but if your a1c is like 13.5 your blood sugars are like over 400 okay it's
very very high now what does this mean about the quantity of sugar that you're eating
when you have normal blood sugars which is let's just say 80 okay 80 milligrams per
deciliter that is one teaspoon of sugar which is roughly about four grams of sugar in
all of your blood so we have about seven liters of blood which is about a gallon and a
third of blood and all that blood one teaspoon of sugar will give you any reading of 80
okay which is actually very very small amount of sugar compared to the amount of
sugar that an average person consumes an average person in america consumes
about 60 to 65 of all of their calories carbohydrates and these carbohydrates
eventually turn into sugar so that's a tremendous amount of sugar that is in our
bodies and so if your blood sugars are 80 which is normal and you're eating a lot of
sugar how can that be well it's because you have that hormone insulin that is coming
in they're working like crazy to rip all that sugar out of your your bloodstream as fast
as you put it in okay but that's going to catch up with you because eventually it's
going to get tired the pancreas is going to get exhausted and then you're going to
have less and less insulin and that's when the sugars start going higher but just
because your blood sugars are normal does not mean that sugar is not affecting
other parts of the body because as the insulin goes up and it rips out this sugar and
puts it where do you think it's going it's putting in other places in the body it's it's
turning into a fatty liver it's turning into problems with visceral fat now this other point
i want to mention is one teaspoon of sugar is what's in all of your blood which gives
you a normal blood reading of 80 milligrams per deciliter right well let's say for
example your blood sugar is 126 okay that's definitely above normal how much sugar
would is in your blood to give that reading well it's only one and a quarter teaspoons
so it's not that much more that is raising it all the way up to 126 so what you have to
realize is it doesn't take much sugar to raise your glucose and create a higher a1c so
you might be thinking well i don't eat that much sugar just just a little bit each day
well you're creating this effect to the red blood cell so i just wanted to increase your
awareness but when you eat sugar and the following few hours or the day after and
you feel kind of tired or your vision is off or you get moody now you know what's
happening your red blood cells are becoming stiffened and they're being stuck
together so i challenge you to do an experiment okay in the next week just cut out the
sugar and notice how much more oxygen you have notice how much more energy
you have because now the red blood cells are a lot more flexible they can fit through
the capillaries they can actually deliver oxygen to your tissues which is a really good
thing now if you haven't seen my video on diabetes which i've done a long time ago