De focus die bij het onderzoek naar suikerziekte ligt op bloedglucose: is er eentje met een ongekende tunnelvisie. De scope zou verlegd moeten worden naar de gezondheid van de bloedvaten, het bindweefsel, de longen en de zenuwen en de nieren. De mineralen en stoffen chroom, magnesium en leucine zijn bijv. erg belangrijk voor veel suikerpatienten om te helpen de oxydatieve stress en de cytokinestormen waarin suikerpatienten terecht komen het hoofd te bieden.
Pharmacist: Here's a shocker: Your blood sugar numbers don't matter much!
Posted: Saturday, January 2, 2016 12:00 am
By SUZY COHEN
When you think of diabetes, either type 1 or 2, the possibility of complications affecting your eyes, heart and kidney come to mind. But you never really think of your lungs having problems as a result of blood sugar abnormalities. That’s unfortunately a little-known fact.
Diabetes (diagnosed or not) spawns a ton of oxidative stress throughout your body. Lung tissue gets affected by poor blood sugar dysregulation and all the free radicals killing the innocent cells just trying to breathe.
Lung tissue has an extensive network of blood vessels, especially the tiniest ones called capillaries. Capillaries allow blood cells carrying oxygen to march through their vessel walls but only one cell at a time, kind of like soldiers marching one by one behind each other. Capillaries are fragile because they are so thin.
Your lungs are also made up of large amounts of connective tissue. Capillaries get destroyed when excessive glucose molecules attach to them and cause stiffening. They can’t bend anymore due to the formation of AGE or “Advanced Glycation End” products. A lot of inflammatory cytokines form too. It’s the same case in your eyes, heart, kidneys and nerves. That’s why diabetic complications occur.
This leads to swelling and scar tissue, which builds up in the air pockets and airways of your lung tissue. The capillary tissues fill up with inflammatory cells and fibrin. This process depletes your antioxidants like glutathione and SOD. There are more problems if you have an SNP that slows production of either of those. It gets harder to breathe, you’re tired and you develop shortness of breath with little or no exertion. Forget about exercising now. To boot, your new sedentary state causes weight gain and that taxes your heart, increasing cardiovascular complications from diabetes. It can apparently be addressed, if only partially.
In a July 2015 study, researchers tested the lung health of type 2 diabetic rodents demonstrating that if they they gave the critters some chromium, zinc and leucine, the animals’ lung health improved. They tried the nutrients separately and in combination. In all scenarios, the antioxidant status improved and lung inflammation reduced. In some cases, it diminished entirely.
Chromium, zinc and leucine also protected the fragile capillaries and connective tissue from the cytokine storm, while improving antioxidant status. In other words, nutrients that reduce complications of diabetes are as important as those that reduce blood sugar.
In November 2015, new research focused on type 1 diabetes and mineral status. Scientists measured blood levels of chromium, zinc and magnesium, and they were reduced in all participants. In fact, the most poorly controlled diabetics seemed to have the worst deficiencies. The research confirms that chromium, zinc and magnesium may be useful for people seeking to reduce complications.
So many of you are focused on the blood sugar number, and you only judge your success by the numbers shown on the glucose machine. But I’m warning you that it’s more important to focus on capillaries, connective tissue and inflammation chemicals. We know certain herbs and minerals support healthy nerves, capillaries, eyes, kidneys and airways. This reduces complications. If you’re taking a supplement but not seeing the numbers go down, it may still be working. You’d never even realize it if you’re just evaluating your progress with a blood glucose machine.
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