Determine Your Burn or Store Mode
Our bodies rely on the consumption of calories for energy production. The hormone insulin determines whether calories are burned as fuel or stored as fat. All calories do not stimulate insulin equally. Carbohydrates stimulate insulin to far greater extent than proteins or fats. The massive increase in sugar (carbohydrate) additives to our food supply over the past few decades has produced a dangerous overproduction in insulin, exacerbating the condition of insulin resistance or Type 2 diabetes. Excess carbohydrates are stored as trigylcerides and LDL cholesterol (the “bad’ fats). Addressing insulin resistance has been a key subject of research and clinical practice in natural medicine for decades.
In his boldly titled new book, Lies I Taught in Medical School, How Conventional Medicine Is Making Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Life, Robert Lufkin, MD, asserts that Type 2 diabetes (aka insulin resistance) accounts for 90% of the cases of diabetes now.
Lufkin advocates for the reduction of sugar, sweeteners, low-calorie diet foods and sodas, as these increase insulin levels.
 “Sucralose raises insulin by 20% despite the fact that it contains no calories and no sugar… Despite having a minimal effect on blood sugars, both aspartame and stevia raised insulin levels higher than even table sugar… Artificial sweeteners may decrease calories and sugar, but not insulin. Yet it is insulin that drives weight gain and diabetes... Insulin causes obesity and obesity causes disease. In addition, artificial sweeteners also alter the gut microbiome.”
Since virtually all cells have insulin receptors, insulin resistance creates numerous negative effects including weight gain/obesity, kidney failure, blindness, stroke, heart attacks, infertility, nerve damage and dementia.
Another complicating factor is that most people with insulin resistance maintain nearly normal glucose readings in standard blood work. Dr. Lufkin details research on a metabolic switch called mTOR. Among other functions, the chemistry involves the switch between “Feast” (storage), versus “Famine”, (burning storage) Inevitably, the search is on for novel synthetic chemical compounds to flip the mTOR switch.
However, the research is missing a crucial element. The focus remains on chemistry instead of energy; yet changes in energy precede changes in chemistry. These energetic changes remain undetected by conventional diagnostics and bloodwork. Pathology appears late in the process, after tissues have lost their energetic and metabolic balance. Our autonomic nervous system (ANS) toggles between the Flight/Flight mode and the Rest/Restore mode. The state of the ANS directs the production of the chemistry, determining efficient energy production or insulin resistance causing caloric storage as fat.
The BioIntegrative Health Analysis (BIHA) provides a measurement of the efficiency of energy production. BIHA measures the degree of efficient cellular metabolism of all sugars, carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Testing determines the degree of electrical charge of minerals suspended in the spaces around the cells and the extra cellular matrix. This electrical charge stimulates energy ultimately powering cellular function.
The BioIntegrative Health Analysis utilizes objective, valid, reliable, reproducible measurements to identifying the specific stressors of modern life. Testing and measuring are indispensable in identifying the effects these stressors have on our bioenergetic and physiological wellbeing. Adjusting these conditions helps the body utilize its self-correcting, self-healing mechanisms more efficiently.
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