Diabetes: Reverse Your Diabetes With a Clear and Concise Step by Step Guide

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Excessive thirst, frequent urination, blurry vision, tiredness, tingling sensation in your extremities, wounds that take too long to heal – you notice these symptoms, visit your doctor, are advised some blood work ........and then .......a sad reality dawns on you!

You! Of all the people....you have been impacted by diabetes!

You are scared because you have heard that diabetes is irreversible. You know about friends and family who are struggling with diabetes and trying to live a normal life.

How did this disease find you? You never wanted it!

Well, if you or any of your family members are struggling with diabetes, then you understand these symptoms very well. You would have also heard that diabetes is irreversible.

Now, here is the deal – Diabetes can be reversed and this book will teach you how.

It will require a great deal of effort from your part in order to fight and reverse your diabetes. It is a battle that you should be ready to fight. And if you are willing to put in the effort, you will receive a huge reward towards the end – a healthy life without diabetes!

Before we go further, let us try and understand diabetes.

WHAT IS DIABETES?

Diabetes is a chronic health condition in which your body demonstrates a reduced ability to remove glucose from your blood and into its cells after eating or drinking anything that contains carbohydrates. This reduced ability leads to hyperglycemia or elevated blood glucose level.

It is often referred to as the ‘silent killer’ because many individuals do not even know that they have it.

Your body uses a variety of enzymes to breakdown the food that you eat. Food is broken down into macro and micro nutrients which in turn are used in different parts of the body for different jobs. As an example, the fat is used to facilitate brain health whereas the carbohydrates are used to provide energy to the body.

The carbohydrates are the complex sugars that are broken down into simpler forms referred to as glucose. Glucose is then released into your blood stream for immediate release as energy or for storage to facilitate later use.

In order to store and use glucose, your body produces a hormone called insulin. This is manufactured by the beta cells in your pancreas. These cells are sensitive to the concentration of insulin in your bloodstream and can release it on an as needed basis. They monitor the amount of blood sugar in your blood stream to elevate or decrease the production of insulin. The beta cells in your pancreas need to release more insulin in order to deal with the elevated blood glucose level. Now, as this insulin is produced, the enzymes activate other cells in your body telling them to accept glucose as energy. This