October 26, 2016
‘INSULIN’ is a very important word. One you must understand more of if you are to achieve the health you desire. The 12 most important healthy habits control the release of insulin beautifully and, therefore, if established will significantly improve your health.
In a previous post, I talked about how intermittent fasting alone or intermittent fasting coupled with Fatty Coffee will bring about many health benefits to your life, like a cleaner and more detoxed body, fat loss, a sharper brain, and more energy.
But if most of your lifestyle is composed of not so healthy habits, the benefits of intermittent fasting will only go so far.
In order to induce your body to completely heal you from the inside out so that you can lose all of the unnecessary extra fat, heal autoimmune conditions, get rid of aches and pains, acquire glowing skin and boundless energy, you’ve got to change your lifestyle all around.
in short, in order to have that amazing health and vitality you are looking for, you’ve got to establish keystone habits (habits that will have a positive effect in almost all areas of your life) that will reduce the amount of time – in your entire lifetime – that your body is dealing with an insulin response.
In general, you can assume that the more insulin responses your body has, the unhealthier you will become.
In other words, the more sugar you have hanging out in your bloodstream (dangerous situation), the more insulin your body will pump out to take care of that sugar.
After all, insulin is there to protect us and to grab that sugar out of the bloodstream and stick it inside our cells. If your sugar store is already filled up (glycogen store located in the liver and some in our muscles) the body can only do one thing with that extra sugar: turn it into fat!! (we have unlimited fat stores)
If sugar keeps flooding your bloodstream for years on end, your body gets overwhelmed and tired, until one day it stops responding to insulin giving rise to diabetes type 2. Your dear body is pumping out that insulin to help sop up that sugar but your it is not responding to the insulin any more. The result? Your bloodstream acquires a very high concentration of sugar most of the time, even in the fasting state.
This is a very dangerous situation for two reasons:
First, a high concentration of sugar in your blood almost all of the time means you are on your way to all kinds of health complications including type 2 diabetes.
Even if you haven’t yet been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes per se, that high blood sugar is most certainly causing your body to store lots of fat, preventing you from losing fat, causing your brain to degenerate on the way to dementia, inducing your body to create an incredibly high amount of AGEs: Advanced Glycation End-products (makes you age super fast inside and out: think wrinkles, cataracts, dry lacklustre skin etc.), and is helping your hypothalamus to set your ‘ideal weight’ higher than you ever thought possible.
Second, an excessive amount of insulin being pumped out by your body but not actually being used (because your body is resistant to it) is not good for you at all. High insulin is thought to inhibit Leptin, the hormone that signals satiety – possibly making you more hungry and having you eat more than what you body needs.
So, the most important healthy habits that you must establish are the ones that will consistently reduce the amount of sugar in your blood immediately and over time and that will, therefore, reduce the amount of insulin your body releases to take care of that sugar.
There are a few specific habits that, when well established, will effectively target the reduction of insulin release inside your body (directly or indirectly) and will also create such a wonderful biochemical environment of well being that your body will begin responding immediately, giving rise to the timely improvement of your health.
So, What Are The Most Important Healthy Habits?
- Meditation: curbs cortisol release, which in turn curbs sugar and, therefore, insulin release. Not to mention the plethora of other AMAZING health benefits a daily meditation habit will bring to your life.
- Swapping grains for vegetables: this will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the number of lifetime insulin responses by your body.
- Stop eating wheat based products: I know I have mentioned grains above already but it bears emphasizing the removal of wheat: the most dangerous of all grains. Wheat causes MAJOR insulin effects and brain effects in your hormonal status. This, in turn, causes stress, more cortisol release, and therefore, more insulin responses.)
- EFT- The Emotional Freedom Technique: what a powerful technique this is! And so very easy to learn and do on a regular basis. EFT will unblock so much negative trapped energy from your body and will significantly help reduce stress, anxiety, depression etc. – this, in turn, will reduce cortisol, and consequently, reduce insulin circulating in your body.
- Daily journaling: as you write down what is in your mind, you will begin to become aware of where you are in life and where you really want to go – this, will incredibly release a huge amount of stress. When you become aware of who you really are and what you really want, instead of looking at what other people want for you, you will feel an incredible sense of power – and this power will translate into a sense of peace: less stress hormone/less insulin/more health.
- Eating lots of good fats: almost all of the cells that make up your body are made up of a fatty membrane. This fatty membrane controls what comes in and out of the cells plus other important chemical reactions. If you eat rancid and toxic fats, your cells will be made from bad fats and, therefore, will not be as healthy as they could be – this could definitely be extremely detrimental to the detection and processing of sugar and insulin in your body.
- Taking a probiotic/eating lots of fermented veggies: good gut bacteria directly affects the brain – especially neurotransmitters which, in turn, have a major effect on well being: depression, moodiness, stress response. Good gut bacteria will reduce inflammation and stress inside your body – and less stress, less insulin.
- Moving lots throughout the day and Exercising:
- Taking important supplements ( it is almost impossible ) – lots of vitamins and minerals affect how the body processes carbohydrates and most people are deficient.
- Juicing on a regular basis
- Getting lots and lots of sunlight
- A ketone based diet: teaching your body to reach for fat stores when it needs energy NOT carbohydrate stores. Not only does your brain prefers ketones for energy, it thrives on it. In addition, your body will have a significantly lowered amount of insulin being released overall.
REFERENCES:
- The Obesity Code
- Grain Brain by Dr. Perlmutter
