Nowadays, two approaches of diabetes, prediabetes, and other metabolic imbalances prevail. The first one, the ‘all-medical’ approach, chiefly deals with endocrine and metabolic processes: calorie intake, insulin metabolism, enzymatic processes and all the neurotransmitters involved in homeostasis, i.e. the regulation of our blood sugar level. It promotes a treatment aiming to ‘chemically’ restore these mechanisms. The second – and most…
- 23 September 2015
OUR METABOLISM IS DESIGNED TO BE ABLE TO MAKE GLUCOSE FROM ANY NUTRIENT.
As glucose is the body’s major fuel source, our metabolism can make it from the carbohydrates in our diet, obviously, but also from dietary proteins or fats. This was a useful asset for our chronically underfed forebears. In our bountiful modern world, it has become more of a liability, as our organism keeps endeavoring to transform ‘everything’ into glucose without…
- 19 September 2015
THE BRAIN RULES EVERYTHING.
Although our “metabolic” body obeys its own rules, the brain decides almost everything… except in the event of brain death: then the “body’s rule” takes over, as when brain dead patients keep on breathing when their respirator is removed.