Diabetes and blood sugar conditions such as insulin resistance and hypoglycemia are commonplace in the discussion of health in modern society. We are barraged by products, magazines, websites and books that attempt to teach how to “manage” or “live with” your diabetes as if it was something you owned or cared for. We’ve long taught that Type 2 Diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes) is reversible with diet and lifestyle changes. And these same changes can radically speed your journey to Super Health and to your optimal body weight.
Today in our SuperHealth Podcast, Monica and I continue our special series on my new book
The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need! In
The Super Health Diet, I explore the connection between blood sugar and weight optimization which we discuss today. Discover how you can use strategies and tools from the diabetic “community” to help accelerate you to Super Health!
KC Craichy
Audio Transcription
KC: Welcome to Living Fuel TV. I’m KC Craichy. This is my wife, Monica. So, what’s the big deal with your blood sugar? Does it really matter? Well, those of you with diabetes, or metabolic syndrome, or hypoglycemia, it matters to you. But why should it matter to the rest of us? Well, there’s an implication of blood sugar and longevity, and blood sugar and weight optimization that we want to talk to you about today.
Monica: Now, you’ve said before that everybody should treat themselves as if they were a diabetic, meaning what they eat and their lifestyle choices.
KC: Yes, they should treat themselves as if they were a diabetic in the proper manner, not the manner that conventional medicine talks about. It is not okay to eat a piece of cake and just offset it with insulin or diabetic medication. It is not okay if one is hypoglycemic to just eat sugar. It is really a very kind of a barbaric idea that’s wearing people out, frankly.
Monica: So what are some of the things that people should do as if they are treating themselves as a diabetic with their diet choices? What do you mean by that?
KC: Well, I’m talking minimizing the sugars. I’m talking taking the sweet drinks really out of the equation, the sweetened drinks that are carbohydrate or sugar-sweetened drinks. To actually not eat all the time, the contrary, the six meal a day thing that we talk about all the time is that six meals a day will cause your endocrine system to work, and your adrenals to work, and multiple insulin surges a day. You don’t really allow your body to do what it’s designed to do. I mean Grandma really did get it right, three square meals a day and no snacks.
Monica: Okay. In your new book, KC, Super Health Diet, on page 199, you say for one of the 14 new reasons for losing weight, reason number 12 says, “Lifestyle changes can prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes.”
KC: I am fully convinced that diabetes is reversible through diet and lifestyle. The literature suggests it. I have seen numerous cases happen. So, you should have hope. If you’re dealing with Type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome, you should have hope.
Monica: Or even hypoglycemia and all those other blood sugar issues. Yes.
KC: All the blood sugar issues, even Type 1 diabetes. You can optimize your blood sugar levels and not overuse insulin, which will shorten one’s life. There’s a huge connection here between diabetes and all these blood sugar issues and optimal weight as well as longevity and energy levels and the whole thing, so getting this under control. This system that we outline in the Super Health Diet is a diet that will clearly optimize blood sugar in most people. If you stay with the live foods and the four corners of super food nutrition and you have the right levels and the kinds of proteins and so on, you really will make a radical change in your life. I have seen people lose 50 and a 100 pounds following this kind of program that their main issue was diabetes. So, in diabetes it’s high insulin levels all the time. High insulin levels store fat signals in the body. What you really want is to start out with lower blood sugar. As you eat have the blood sugar levels rise and fall over an optimal period of time, which is five or six hours. Then after about three hours, glucagon rises and starts the maximum metabolic mode. That’s a lot of detail. We outline this in the book. You can read more about it there. But the net of it is, allow your body to work how it is designed, and you will have a radical change in your life.
Monica: Okay. Something else I want to bring up from your book on page 196. In your point number eight of 14 new reasons for losing weight, you say, “Type 2 diabetes in young adults.” Let’s talk about that for a second.
KC: This is a huge issue. Children are running around with things that they perceive as healthy. Some of you parents even think they’re healthy. They’re drinking sports drinks and juices and juice boxes and soft drinks. They are so loaded with sugar.
Monica: They’re not really drinking water anymore, even.
KC: Which is one of the keys to health, frankly. So this is on top of eating all the pizza and school lunches and things like that. It is a huge problem, bringing a disease that was often known as an adult-onset problem into children, which is really setting them up for a lifetime of disease. The good news is that this is reversible. If we have to go back to the fundamentals of health, we lay them out clearly in the Super Health Diet. We’re going to go over the details in how to do a lot of this stuff over the coming weeks. If you want to read ahead, the book is available everywhere books are sold or at livingfuel.com.
We just hope this was helpful to you and we hope it inspires you. God bless you, and have a great day.
