I am Dr Veller. I will reveal to you the four most common mistakes that people make with diabetes and that prevent them from controlling their blood sugar. These errors are made by both patients and doctors.
By avoiding them, you can begin to improve your pancreas function and insulin resistance in a matter of days. In addition, I will tell you the three most effective secrets to prevent your pancreas from continuing to be damaged and inflamed and thus lead a much healthier and complication-free life. Mistake number one.
Not knowing the power of water. This, alone, is capable of reducing blood glucose levels quickly in a matter of hours, and this is more than proven. Notice when you have a lot of sugar circulating in your blood, this causes internal dehydration that damages your cells, altering the functioning of all your organs.
Additionally, the excess glucose that leaks into your kidney makes you urinate more, both day and night , which dehydrates you even more. The result of this is very thick and concentrated blood . And when you measure your sugar, it gets very high.
Sometimes more than 200. Try starting today to avoid the serious mistake of drinking water only when you feel thirsty and follow this simple advice and drink more water throughout the day. How much should you take?
Well, the key is to take it little by little. I suggest you start the day with a glass of water on an empty stomach. If you want, you can add half a squeezed lemon and then drink a glass of water every hour and a half, two hours or at least two liters per day.
When you do, you will notice that in a few hours your glucose will begin to drop. Your urine will become clearer. And if you have any headache symptoms, blurred vision will also improve.
Now is there any natural remedy that you can add to the water to further enhance its effects? Of course. I'll tell you about it.
Mistake number two, be very careful, not knowing what to have for breakfast. Or worse yet, not eating breakfast. But why is this so serious for those who have diabetes?
Well, unlike what many believe, skipping breakfast does not help control this disease. On the contrary, it can even increase your blood sugar . This is because when we do not eat for a long time our body releases a hormone called glucagon whose effects are opposite to that of insulin.
Additionally, skipping breakfast can make you feel hungrier during the day, increase cravings, and cause you to eat unhealthy foods. But on the other hand, eating a good breakfast has enormous advantages if you have diabetes. First, you will have greater control of blood sugar precisely because you control the release of your hormones.
Second, breakfast is a great opportunity to ingest nutrients or substances that increase the function of your pancreas and improve insulin resistance. And third, you will have greater control of what you eat for the rest of the day. So why not take advantage of this?
But I'll tell you a secret. The key here is not only to have breakfast, but to know how to do it. The ideal breakfast for a person with diabetes should be high in fiber, protein, rich in healthy fats and low in refined sugar.
Let's look at four examples. The first option is Greek yogurt, which is high in protein and probiotics that improve your digestive health, along with nuts such as a handful of almonds and walnuts or some fruit with edible peel, apple, pear, peach. Did you not like this option?
You can prepare a scrambled or boiled free-range egg, eat it with the yolk and everything together with a slice of toasted whole wheat bread spread with half an avocado. Or if not, mix half a cup of oats together with yogurt or skim milk with flax, chia, sunflower seeds and sprinkle this with a little cinnamon. And here I'm sure many will tell me dairy is bad, it's prohibited.
This is a myth. The important thing is that what you consume contains quality nutrients. And the 4th option is an egg along with a fruit and green leaf smoothie.
Red fruits, apple, peach, pear with peel and everything and some celery leaves, spinach and you take it unfiltered. You will have a detox juice against diabetes that improves the health of your intestine and protects the heart. Put this into practice every day along with the other tips I am going to give you.
These combinations nourish you, make you satiated and control the glucose and insulin spikes in your blood. Now for breakfast bad that inflames your body and damages your pancreas contains sugary cereals, filtered fruit juices or without their pulp, white bread, cakes or fried products. That is, little fiber and protein and a lot of refined sugar and bad fats.
And is coffee good for this disease? I will soon reveal this to you in details. Mistake number three.
Not knowing how to improve insulin resistance quickly. This is the key to reversing years of health lost due to this disease and avoiding complications. Look, every time you eat your pancreas releases insulin into the circulation so it can use the sugar that comes from food.
Your organs such as muscles and the liver need this hormone precisely to absorb sugar and use it to form energy. But diabetes causes two big problems. On the one hand, the pancreas little by little stops working, it becomes damaged.
This causes you to release less and less insulin and that is why glucose increases in your blood. There are natural remedies to improve the function of this organ and I will tell you about them. But in addition to having less insulin, there is something else that aggravates the situation even more.
The organs themselves become resistant to this hormone. Imagine insulin as a key that opens the doors of your cells so glucose can enter. Only in these cases the lock is damaged and this key does not fit properly or requires much more effort to do so.
The consequences of this are that glucose accumulates in your blood many times silently until it is too late. But there is excellent news, insulin resistance can be quickly improved with these two very simple tips to apply. The first ten minutes only of intense exercise every day or at least four or five times a week.
Intense exercise means exercise that increases your heart rate, your breathing and makes you speak with some difficulty or prevents you from having a conversation due to lack of breath. For example, running, swimming intensely, dancing, playing sports such as soccer, tennis. Another option is to do 20 to 30 minutes of moderate exercise four or five times a week.
These also increase your heart rate, your breathing, but you can talk more easily while doing them. Examples: brisk walking, slower dancing, practicing yoga, pilates, climbing stairs. And pay close attention to this because it is one of the most powerful pieces of advice that exists.
These exercises, added to good hydration, can lower up to 30% of your blood glucose quickly and in the long term reduce the risk of complications by up to 50%. Now, the type of exercise depends on each person. You have to adjust what I told you to your life.
And what about weight lifting? Is it true that it is bad for those over 50? This is false.
Even if you are older than this age, it is very important, since strengthening your muscles causes them to release anti-inflammatory substances throughout your body to control and accelerate your metabolism. And the second way to quickly improve insulin resistance is by adding quality to your sleep. Sleeping well and without waking up at night for at least six and seven hours is as important as all of the above.
Try to improve this habit and measure your sugar in the next few days. You'll be surprised. All of these tips will also allow you to burn visceral fat, the fat that accumulates in your belly, between your organs.
This reduces inflammation and controls diabetes even while you are sleeping. Mistake number four is not knowing how to improve the function of your pancreas. From the natural point of view this is done in two ways.
The first is to avoid consuming everything that is toxic, damages and inflames the organ. The main ones are foods with fried bad fats, refined sugar like sugary drinks, junk food and many don't know it, but sugar in the form of pure fructose present in filtered fruit juices can also cause this. Everything that is ultra-processed and, of course, alcoholic drinks.
Red meat consumed in excess, this means more than 300 grams per week, and cold cuts, salamis, sausages, and mortadella are also harmful to this organ. They destroy it slowly and silently. That's what you should avoid.
Now there are foods, juices and even spices that increase function of this organ and help you reduce inflammation. First, foods with fiber, vegetables and fruits with peel, whole grains. Always give preference to whole grains, like rice, for example.
Legumes such as lentils, beans, and chickpeas should be part of your diet every day. And a lot of attention. It is a serious mistake to believe that people with diabetes cannot consume these foods.
Of course they can, but it's not just about eating them, but about knowing how to make them so that they work as natural remedies. This is the key to being able to heal. The secret is to consume them as natural and whole as possible, without removing their edible parts or processing them.
In addition to fruits with peels or whole grains being healthier, they will keep you less hungry during the day, help you control cravings and also reduce weight. The second option is detox juices that improve the function of the pancreas made with green leaves. You can mix celery, spinach, a piece of carrot or apple with peel as you like, add a piece of ginger, half a squeezed lemon and drink it every day .
Try to mix at least three different colors of fruits and vegetables daily. Nuts and seeds contain good substances and fats that also improve the pancreas. You can add almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, flaxseed, chia, sunflower directly to your ready meals every day .
In the case of nuts, you can consume them between meals when you have a craving. And listen to this regarding spices and seasonings. Did you know that a teaspoon of cloves has more antioxidants than blueberries?
You can add two or three cloves every day to your ready meals, whole or grated, and eat them. And don't forget about turmeric, consume it every day either in powder form or grated in your salads, in your ready dishes, mixed with a little black pepper to activate it and really don't cook it for more than ten minutes to that it does not lose its effect. Well, now I am going to reveal three secrets that if you put them into practice, along with everything I told you previously, you will be able to completely control and in many cases reverse this disease.
The first secret is the three most important vitamins and supplements for diabetes. And here we have magnesium. Five out of ten people do not consume enough and may be deficient.
Consume natural sources of this mineral every day, present in legumes, nuts, seeds and the other foods that I mentioned. Helps improve insulin resistance. But if you have difficulty consuming them, you can take supplements.
The best are threonate, gluconate, citrate or malate. You have to do with which one your body adapts best to. Secondly, we have vitamin D.
Taking supplements not only makes insulin work better, but it reduces the risk of complications from diabetes and improves pancreatic function, especially in people who have low levels of this vitamin in their blood. blood. And I warn you, it is difficult to know who has low vitamin D because this does not cause many symptoms.
That is why it is good that you measure it at least once a year. If you want to quickly increase your levels naturally, I recommend sunbathing for 15 to 20 minutes a day, at least four or five times a week and consuming egg yolk, fortified dairy products, and fatty fish such as tuna, sardines, and anchovies. And the third supplement is curcumin.
Before I told you how to use turmeric naturally as a condiment, but you can also use curcumin supplements, which is its active ingredient, and take between 500 and 2000 milligrams every day. Secret number two to improve the function of the pancreas is to drink tea or infusions of the most powerful antioxidants against this disease every day . The three best are oregano, bay leaf and cloves.
But why are they so good for diabetes? Oregano contains thymol, carvacrol and rosmarinic acid. All of them have powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.
The tea is prepared with a teaspoon of its leaves in 200 milliliters of water. Bay leaves contain eugenol and caffeic acid, which are natural remedies. It is a serious mistake not to consume bay leaves, Throw them away or put them to the side of the plate.
You must swallow them. For this, you can use it as a seasoning in powder form in your ready dishes, or make an infusion of its fresh or dried leaves. Its active ingredients protect the pancreas and improve insulin resistance, and cloves are also a source of eugenol and other very powerful antioxidants.
The infusion is prepared with a teaspoon of cloves and 200 milliliters of water. You can drink any of these infusions once or twice a day. Now there is an even more powerful drink that we all have in our house, but few know its medicinal effects against diabetes.
I mean coffee. Consuming two or three cups a day protects the pancreas, improves your metabolism and also the action of insulin, even in those who do not yet have diabetes but suffer from prediabetes reduces the risk of the disease advancing by 30%. With caffeine it is better, but you can also consume it without.
And secret number three is very curious. Did you know that you can control diabetes by consuming fat every day? I'm talking about good fats that protect your heart, reduce inflammation in your body and pancreas, and improve circulation.
The Omega three. You can get it from its natural sources or take supplements. The foods richest in omega three are egg yolk, avocado, olive oil, fatty sea fish such as salmon, tuna, nuts and seeds.
Vary these foods throughout the week. And if you want to consume Omega three supplements, make sure they contain the fatty acids EPA and DHA. A big greeting.
