From the Desk of Dr. Karl R.O.S. Johnson, DC.....
10 Prevention Steps To Take to Minimize Alzheimer's Disease Risk Due To Poor Sleep
Posted by Dr. Karl R.O.S. Johnson, DC on Mon, Nov 11, 2019
Topics: exercise, Brain Health, Sleep, Alzheimer’s disease
Don't Eat Yourself Sick - A primer on Insulin Resistance and Disease
Posted by Dr. Karl R.O.S. Johnson, DC on Tue, Apr 17, 2018
The road to chronic disease — from arthritis to heart disease — is paved with sugar and refined carbohydrates. It’s a freeway that leads straight to insulin resistance syndrome, given the right conditions, most notably being overweight and inactive.
The devastating chain of events that leads to chronic disease goes like this:
- Carbs and sugar break down in the digestive tract to glucose that the body uses for energy.
- Beta cells in the pancreas make and secrete insulin into the blood to ferry any glucose you don’t use to muscle, fat, and liver cells for storage.
- Given the right conditions and more glucose than your cells can manage at the moment, the call goes out for even more insulin.
- Beta cells keep the insulin flowing but eventually the body’s cells can’t absorb it or the glucose building up in your blood stream. That’s called insulin resistance.
- Eventually the beta cells can’t keep up and insulin levels plummet. Now your bloodstream is flooded with glucose, which damages nerves and blood vessels, causes inflammation, and leads to a host of chronic diseases.
Topics: insulin resistance, Heart Disease, Obesity, Hypertension, High Blood Pressure, Dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, Prediabetes and diabetes, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Pancreatitis