CRAVING SUGAR... STORING FAT ‘Tid-bits’ of Health
T he fat we wear is not the fat we ate!
The fat we wear is the fat our muscles didn’t burn. It’s not about calories. It’s not about exercise. It’s not about dieting. It’s all about hormones!
Hormones are the messages our cells send and receive. Our organs and cells are constantly using their “cell phones” to call or text each other; so what do “cell phones” have to do with storing fat? The brain sends a message to the muscles to “burn fat.” If the muscles receive the message, they turn on their engines and burn fat for fuel. If the brain says, “burn sugar,” the cells turn on their engines and burn sugar.
An example of organ messages would be when the kidneys are doing their job of cleaning the blood and they start running out of water. They send a “drink water” message to the brain. At the same time, the bad candida bacteria in the intestines are sending a message to “eat sugar.” The two messages combine and we end up drinking our favorite sweetened liquid. When the liquid reaches the kidneys, they cry, “Are you kidding me? We’re supposed to clean your blood with this sticky stuff? You don’t use sugar water to wash your table. Do you really expect us to clean your blood with this? Our heart isn’t going to be very happy.” They repeat the message, “drink water” and add “please!”
Thousands of messages are flying all through our body every second. If the messages have no interference, communication is smooth and effective. If they do receive interference, something doesn’t happen like it’s supposed too. What kind of interference do the messages run into?
We know that cell phones don’t work very well inside metal buildings. The metal in plaster walls can interfere with Wi-fi signals. Radios don’t receive good signal under high tension electrical wires. Where is there metal in our body?
Almost everyone has a mercury filling in a tooth somewhere. The filling is a metal that fumes and gasses tiny particles of metal into the mouth, food, or drink every minute. When we chew or brush, the fumes increase. These fumes go through the body to every cell. The tiny particles land on the cell walls and interfere with the hormone messages that are trying to get through to the inner workings of the cells. If interference happens at the hypothalamus (command central endocrine gland in the center of the brain), the message to “burn fat” may not be sent correctly. The cells in the muscles don’t receive the message. They keep on burning sugar, and the body ends up in a state of craving sugar and storing fat.
We can go on all the diets we want, do all the exercise we can and count all the calories we put in our body, but if the hormone messages are screwed up at the cellular level, nothing really works for long.
When we crave sugar, we eat sweet things. Sugar travels through the pancreas on the way to the liver. In the pancreas, sugar picks up the hormone insulin. Insulin’s job is to tell the cells to “open the door.” Sugar-fuel is ready for delivery. If the cells don’t hear the message to “open the door,” they can’t let the sugar in. The sugar will pile up in the bloodstream, and we end up with high blood sugar. After a few years of this, we are diagnosed with diabetes.
Sugar also causes inflammation. When it doesn’t get inside the cell’s engine (mitochondria) before it starts burning, it burns the cell wall where the hormone receptor sites are located. Then the cell can’t hear messages.
One solution we’re given is to increase insulin so the cells can hear the message. The increase in insulin’s message sounds to the cells like shouting. They increase their reaction by opening the doors as much as they can. The cells can’t let too much sugar in or the inflammatory fires will come inside and damage the mitochondria walls. So the cells stop opening the doors. This is called insulin resistance.
Another solution is the help the cells burn up the sugar by making them more active. This is called exercise. It’s like having a box full of wood, ready to burn. Exercise gives more room in the box by burning the wood that has been stored. This makes more room for another load of wood. If the sugar you brought in yesterday doesn’t get burned, there’s no room to put today’s sugar. It ends up in storage.
The good news is that we can learn how to solve this problem. First series of classes will begin next Saturday, Jan. 27, at Family Helm Health Center from 1-3 p.m. Join us!
Until then … Take charge! … Sylvia