Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Why can’t people with diabetes burn sugar?

What Most Don’t Realize:
Why can’t people with diabetes burn (metabolize) sugar? Every cell has many mitochondria. They are the “furnaces” of each sell providing cellular energy (ATP). The mitochondria of people with diabetes don’t burn sugar as they should because these “furnaces” are never given the “spark” by enzymes produced in the LIVER. When the Liver of a person with diabetes is turned back on, the cells get their needed energy, and the complications stop. It is that direct.

View our site at American Diabetes Therapy Center

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Diabetes "In Just 10 Years"

In just 10 years, by 2020, over one half of all Americans will have diabetes or pre-diabetes. This is more than an epidemic, it is a pandemic.

Why do people have high blood sugar? Medical experts all agree, it is purely because their bodies are not able to process (metabolize) sugar properly.

With this prevalence (52% by 2020), statistics prove that we are losing our ability to metabolize sugar because our bodies cannot adequately adapt to the many types of pressures on our pancreases.

What is not often talked about is the primary and first job of insulin is to stimulate the LIVER! This is where the diabetic and pre-diabetic inability to metabolize carbohydrates (sugar) starts

View our site at American Diabetes Therapy Center