10 Alarming Signs Your Blood Sugar Is Too High

hello health champions today we're going to talk about some common signs and symptoms of high blood sugar and we also want to understand how this works and how to catch it early because you don't ever want to develop any of these signs and symptoms coming right up hey I'm Dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if you want to truly master health by understanding how the body really works make sure you subscribe and hit that notification bell so you don't miss anything the reason this stuff is so important is that first of all high blood sugar insulin resistance and diabetes are sweeping the world it's an epidemic but a lot of people don't even know that they have this stuff because you can't feel it until it's gone too far so even though we have millions and millions of diabetics 25% of the diabetics are undiagnosed they don't know they have it and as much as 90% of the people who are pre-diabetic don't know it so that's a ticking time bomb and pre-diabetes means that if you don't change the way you're eating if you don't change your lifestyle then you'll probably have diabetes within 5 years so we're talking hundreds of millions of people and you never ever want to let it get to where you have these signs and symptoms but you still want to know about it so that you can keep an eye out and maybe help some other people as well so number one weight gain now that's an early sign it's very very common okay even though it takes a while to develop this it's not something that's a really severe pathology and you have plenty of time to do something about it but weight gain is primarily caused by high blood sugar because high blood sugar drives insulin and insulin resistance drives weight gain and especially the central obesity the the belly fat number two increased or frequent urination if you go to the bathroom all the time if you're losing a lot of fluid that way then that could be an indication of high blood sugar because if you can't control your blood sugar if it just gets through this roof then the only way the body has left to get rid of it is to get it out through the kidneys to pass it out through the urine and now that sugar takes a lot of fluid with it the sugar and the fluid that's kind of an osmotic pressure there so you lose them together you get rid of some sugar but you also lose a lot of fluids so now you get dehydrated you get thirsty and another part of dehydration a very common symptom of dehydration is headaches so increased urination increased thirst and headaches they all go together because you're losing a lot of fluid now if we add a fourth thing to this if we add hunger this is a more severe case of untreated undetected type 1 diabetes so if you're super super hungry you're eating your body is absorbing it your blood sugar goes up but there is no insulin there to take the sugar from the blood into the cells now your cells are still starving okay they don't have any energy there's plenty of blood sugar but it can't go to where it needs to be that's called starvation in the midst of Plenty so with that you're gonna have hunger you're gonna have increased urination but at the same time you're gonna have weight loss because none of that food you're eating can make it into the cells and build new tissue number three sign of high blood sugar is blurry vision so there's a tendency where there is a lot of high blood sugar we talked about here that the blood and the water go together so the sugar is going to hold liquid to it and you can have a swelling of the lens in the eye so when you change the shape of the lens you can get blurry vision this is different from the long-term problem of retinopathy that's when the retina the find blood vessels in the retina get destroyed by neuropathy and is the leading cause of blindness but that's further down the road the short term is blurry vision because of the swollen lens number four sign is nausea vomiting confusion and these are pretty serious things this is associated with something called diabetic ketoacidosis and a lot of people are scared and a lot of people are trying to scare people doing Kido and saying that ketoacidosis is a bad thing so you shouldn't do the keto diet well these are totally different things the diabetic ketoacidosis happens because the blood sugar runs into the hundreds but there's no insulin to take the sugar out of the bloodstream and into the cells so the only thing the body can do is to burn the fat and this is why you're also losing weight in the middle of all of this and when you're burning fat you're making ketones and in the absence of any insulin when the body is only burning fat then that creates a pathologically high level of keto acids and these can cause swelling of the brain and it can cause all of these nasty things and untreated it can lead to death but that's very very different from a nutritional ketosis because when there is some insulin present then you will never get the levels as high as those pathological levels that's and nutritional ketosis is actually a very very stable and very healthy level of ketones that's how humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years anytime that there is less food we make ketones and we just fine number five common sign would be recurring and frequent infections and high blood sugar depresses your immune system but it also feeds all of the pathogens all the opportunistic pathogens in your body so if you have yeast infections for example the most common reason for that is excess sugar because the yeast thrives on that sugar sign in symptom number six is fatigue and poor focus and this is one of the strongest correlations one of the most commonly found things with high blood sugar and with diabetes they even call it if diabetes fatigue syndrome but even with that being that common they still don't know exactly why it happens they don't understand the mechanism that just know that it happens and if it happens after you eat it's especially common right after you eat and then it can be because your body is busy converting that glucose into triglycerides because if your insulin resistance and you have high blood glucose then the cells don't want the glucose so the body has to do something else with it and that's where the glucose turns into triglycerides and that's a costly it's an energy demanding process sigh number seven is slow healing a lot of diabetics a lot of people with high blood sugar they notice that they get a cut and it takes forever and it just won't heal very very common number eight teeth and gums same thing there's slow healing they get inflamed they get swollen and bleeding you get cavities and this is thanks to something called the bacterium called streptococcus mutans and guess what that little bugger likes it loves sugar it loves carbohydrates and even if you don't eat sugar if you eat carbohydrates those start breaking down already in the mouth so it doesn't have to be even though sugar is worse because it's concentrated the any kind of carb will feed that drip to caucus so that causes the cavities and it also causes the plaquing on the teeth so if you go on a keto or low carb diet you will notice that the plaquing and your teeth is reduced dramatically number nine is any form of skin changes all right so if you have dry itchy skin then that could be high blood sugar if you get blisters they look like burned blisters but they don't hurt like burn blisters they could be itchy but they're different they're associated with diabetes as well skin tags especially in the folds of the the neck and elbow and armpit and so forth very very common with high blood sugar and diabetes and also something called a cam dosis nigricans which is a darkening of the skin it looks kind of like a dark soft leathery appearance of the skin again particularly in skin that that folds and number 10 is neuropathy and this is very strongly associated with diabetes and high blood sugar so if you have things like tingling and numbness especially in the feet and the hands because it's the furthest away it's a distal body part so the circulation is poorer and then when circulation is decreased because of diabetes and high blood sugar then it is it happens there first and you want to watch this especially if it is bilateral meaning if you have it on both sides so you could for example have a little bit of a musculoskeletal structural imbalance but then it's more likely that you just have a problem in one hand if it's in both then you want to start thinking that it's more of a metabolic issue and you want to start thinking blood sugar and neuropathy can happen in many places so it can happen in in distal body parching yet numbness and tingling but you can also have more severe neuropathy where you lose sensory and motor control so you can have something called shark owes joints which is where the whole joint breaks down and degenerates because you don't have the proper sensory feedback another form of neuropathy is what we talked about with the retinopathy it's the most common cause of blindness because the nerve swells from all that blood sugar and it just doesn't work as well but one more thing people don't think about often is gastroparesis that means paralysis of your stomach and intestinal tract so this is because the vagus the vagus nerve is cranial nerve number 10 and it walks all the way from the brainstem down into your gut into your intestinal tract and it supplies the innervation it sends all the signals that coordinate and regulate your digestion and your motility the movement of your intestines and of the food through your body so if the Vegas gets neuropathy if it gets compromised and inflamed and swollen now the intestinal contents don't move the way they're supposed to and you can get things like constipation you can have if it really gets stuck than anything you eat comes right back up you you vomited back up so this can have many many different expressions you can have pain it could have irregular bowel habits etc so virtually all of these different signs and symptoms they're expressions of a few common mechanisms and those mechanisms are that blood sugar and insulin increases inflammation in the body it decreases circulation that's where you have the the slow healing and so forth it increases swelling which is with the blurry vision and the neuropathy it decreases the immune system it reduces the immune function at the same time that it feeds the pathogens so high blood sugar is a really nasty thing because all of these things can happen and will happen if you don't control it but now there's two different thoughts of controlling it on the one hand you can take a drug to try to push the blood sugar down something like metformin or insulin etc or you can reduce the cause you can undo the cause which means you start eating less sugar and carbohydrate and which one would be the better way well let's think about this if you watch some of my videos you know some of this already but let's quick recap that if you have a high carb diet you get high blood sugar you get insulin resistance and then you treat the blood sugar you reduce the blood sugar then you're helping the body get the blood sugar out of the bloodstream and into the cells which means you're promoting the storing mechanism you're promoting the clogging mechanism and now we're pushing the body into metabolic syndrome and what is metabolic syndrome it is a cluster of conditions including high blood pressure cardiovascular disease insulin resistance diabetes stroke etc so if you maintain the high carb diet and you treat to lower the blood sugar you're moving the body toward metabolic syndrome so it's like you're out of the ashes and into the fire the other way of dealing with it is to reduce the sugar and the carbohydrates to take away the thing that caused the problem in the first place I know that's a novel thought but believe me it works now if you take a low sugar low carb diet now you're gonna lower the blood glucose you're going to lower the insulin the body will be restored to health so I'll let you pick which model you prefer but I don't think it takes rocket scientists to figure that one out but what if we do something even smarter what if we don't wait for any of these to happen what if we decide that I'm not going to wait 20 years for these problems to develop I want to do something today to make sure that they never happen all right and that is so simple it is so simple you measure your blood sugar how about that and it's amazing to me that we have millions of people with diabetes and prediabetes who have no idea and all it takes is a little prick in the finger little blood drop and you can measure and you can find out exactly where you're at and if you measure it now you can save decades you don't have to go through this you don't have to watch any of these steps develop you measure your blood sugar that you can do for yourself you go to the lab you measure your a1c and your fasting insulin and now you have a picture now you know exactly where you stand in relation to this and if you don't have a problem then make sure you don't develop one if you're starting to get a problem then learn how to develop a low carb diet lifestyle so that you can reverse these changes before they turn into these terrible signs if you enjoyed this video make sure that you take a look at that one also thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video

Channel: Dr. Sten Ekberg

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Length: 17min 21sec (1041 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 20 2020