More on Diabetes, Exercise & Ketosis
About exercise, I just saw a video where a nutritionist explains that exercising for ten minutes every hour is more beneficial that exercising in one 30-minute session per day:
https://youtu.be/MXqVRPF9lrg
A good indicator of the level of exercise intensity you need is sweating. It doesn’t really much matter what kind of exercise you do, as long as it makes you sweat. The skin is the largest organ in the human body and one of its functions is as an organ of elimination. Water-soluble toxins are eliminated in your sweat.
I go for a morning walk about 0900 hrs to the laundry or kedai runcit/supermarket daily and also for another walk between asar and 0630 hrs. If it rains, I sweat it out in my FIR sauna.
In my experience, the single-biggest factor in determining my fasting blood glucose is nutrition, not just what I eat but how much of it. Next is exercise or movement. Next is medications and last is supplements and herbal remedies. If I have known this a year ago, I could have saved thousands of ringgit on supplements. Be very wary of MLM distributors - they will recommend all sorts of expensive and unnecessary stuff of dubious efficacy. When you complain got not results, they will say have to take for minimum six months before can see any results.
For immediate results, I have done coffee enema at Pure Detox in TTDI. The first time I did it, so much fatty gunk came out of my liver, selonggok macam nasi lemak bungkus. It was a congealed mass of fatty substance. I know its fat, as it wasn’t water-soluble. It took me ten minutes to hose it down as it wouldn’t dissolve in water.
Another treatment modality with immediate results is bekam or wet cupping. I do this at Akubekam, also in TTDI. It is particularly effective at removing uric acid. If I have a gout attack and can’t even walk, I get relief 45 minutes into my bekam session. The first thing I notice is that movement in my fingers are flexible and supple, from stiff and rigid. By the end of the session, not only can walk, but I feel lighter and sprightly. If I have elevated liver enzyme levels, I do both bekam and coffee enema. One session of each is sufficient to normalise elevated levels of uric acid and liver enzymes.
Both have contraindications, so best to have a consultation before starting on either.
I am very open about my health challenges and write about them publicly on my foodscape FB page. One downside of this, is that I become a prospect of every MLM distributor in town. At first, I was naive and gullible and bought chromium picolinate lah, and almost four thousands of ringgit of Unicity products. Dah serik so last week, when an Amway distributor started prospecting me, terus aku block.
You can also do a free online clinical course on diabetes from the University of Copenhagen at:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/diabetes-essential-facts
This course is a gold mine of information, with lectures and interviews with leading experts and researchers on diabetes from around the world.
At the end of the day, the best investment I made in my health is education. Understanding what’s going on, cures you. Why? Because not only you will learn what to do, but more importantly why. Its the why that will motivate you, to stop giving excuses and prevent procrastination. I’m very aggressive in trying new treatment modalities. I was very gung ho with nutritional ketosis (aka LCHF) diet until I learnt that it only works in the short term (3-6 months) and I got diabetic in the first place because of keto. You see, the cause of insulin resistance is lipoprotein (fat) overload. The lipoproteins block the insulin receptor sites at the cellular tissue level. When the sites are blocked, insulin is unable to unlock the pathway to allow glucose into the cells to be metamobolised and provide energy for muscle contraction.
This results not only in elevated blood glucose but also in elevated insulin levels as the pancreas keep producing more and more insulin. Insulin only has a half life of 4-7 minutes, this is hard to detect. But in the long term, the dangers of elevated lipoprotein, glucose and insulin levels outweigh the short term benefits of a keto diet.
Can you imagine how shocked I was to learn that it was keto that caused my diabetes in the first place? I did keto to reduce my weight. Ended becoming diabetic. Celaka betul. Luckily, there is a plant-based, whole food (60% raw food -ulam) insulin resistance reversal diet.
I was such an advocate of keto, but keto is only half the picture. I would really advise all keto advocates to study the facts as presented at
http://www.masteringdiabetes.org
to see the big picture. It will be a life-changing (and life-saving) experience. Some of the material appears counterintuitive, its only when you learn and understand the micro-details that you understand exactly why.
You really need to invest your time to study this. Luckily, the resources are freely available at no cost!
Copyright 2003-2011 Azlan Adnan Legal Notice Copyright 2003-2011 Azlan Adnan. This blog post is sponsored by The Green Party of Malaysia
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