It’s a natural thing, we tend to reach for the sugar, that’s what we want to do, the energy forming foods because we’re looking for that energy and we get the energy again that we get to the end of the day, we get the crash, we feel that crap, we can’t sleep and we crave more sugar and this is what i call the blood sugar roller coaster ride and it really is no fun place to be. Carolyn says that she’s certainly has experienced the blood sugar roller coaster ride and she’s still fighting it now and then, getting better mainly just that time of the month and yes thank you for sharing that Carolyn, i think the women especially around our cycle time, we do tend to get more cravings for sugar, we can manage it and I’ve certainly learned to, <inaudible> magnesium intake at that time of the month is really important and there are other ways as well, I’ll share those on the blog at the later stage but this is something, this blood sugar roller coaster ride is really something we want to get under control because i find that it’s a much more pleasant place to be when we have sustained energy throughout the day and we’re not getting these blood sugar high’s and low’s and that is when we can get our blood sugar <inaudible> range.

That doesn’t mean we don’t still get peaks and <inaudible> we do, it’s natural that when we eat we do, our insulin does get raised because it’s the job of insulin to bring down our blood sugar into the tight range that our body keeps that balance in but we don’t end up getting those huge peaks and drops, we just get a slow wave throughout the day so this means that energy is all sustained. simply speaking, it’s kind of a fair lazy equation in a way when we eat healthy food it equals normal blood sugar that equals weight loss and fat burning because we’re not shutting down certain parameters in our body so all about hormones are functioning correctly that means we feel great and that means we have energy to go all day, pretty simple equation, not so easy to get right a lot of the time i know. we have so many influences around us in the world and society and that is biggest challenge for us to really focus on the needs of our selves, the needs of our bodies rather than constant messages, constant feedback that we’re receiving from our environment, from the stores we go in, from the things that are around us and that’s a very challenging thing, so we need to keep working on that and focus back on to our own. Our own goals, i guess and our own inner resolve to achieve better health and feel great on every day basis. so <inaudible> insulin a little bit more, insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that is central to regulating metabolism of carbohydrates also known as sugar and to a lower extent, fats as well in the body, mainly carbohydrates so the pancreas has a neuro network and along with that in the gut, that coordinates insulin release and blood sugar is the biggest influence or i should say carbohydrates is the biggest influence of the release of insulin.

Fats and amino acids to a lower extent, do produce insulin and so do other hormones such as cortisol, which is our main stress hormone actually pushes out insulin up as well so stress is also another area we need to look out for weight loss, but we won’t go into that right now. so in a proper functioning body, insulin does its job by helping to control and remove that excess sugar from the blood and our blood sugar is really very important, its kept within a very tight range in our body because insufficient blood sugar or even excess is actually life threatening. we say largely in conditions like type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes so type 1 actually have to have insulin  injections to maintain that blood sugar without it they essentially will die and with type 2 diabetes which is a predominantly lifestyle driven disease, it can be very life threatening too and  with both of them there’s also complications, serious complications, cardiovascular issues, oxidative stress issues, eye and kidney problems and blindness and peripheral nerve problems, i mean these things are <inaudible> to be taken lightly and yet we see them growing in epidemic proportions in society today and that’s why it’s really good to have a good graph on these things and focus on the reasons why we’re doing things.

I find that if i learn more about why, it helps me to focus more on actually maintaining those things on an everyday basis because it’s not like, oh I’ll just have to eat healthy but there are really important reasons why i want to do the things that i do every day and that is to avoid many of the common diseases that are out there, certainly doesn’t mean that we won’t get dieses all together we certainly can depending on genetics and all that type of things, that there is a lot prevention in diet and lifestyle. We’re going to talk about insulin <inaudible>, veronica and <inaudible> it’s not too technical, veronica’s asked but how about hyperinsulinemia, we just, when basically insulin is over producing and it actually occurs before a type 2 diagnosis, a type 2 diabetes diagnosis. so insulin resistance which all go into right now and talk about what that actually is but just to answer your question and all kind of incorporated into the discussion that I’m just going to end just a moment that insulin resistance occurs first and then hyperinsulinemia, that was fun that to pronounce, comes after when our cells have become resistant to the call out of insulin and then our insulin is actually trying harder and harder to deal with the blood sugar load and then once that eventually fails, we  can no longer produce enough insulin, so let me cover it to the beginning. we develop an insulin resistance as a result of sugar-insulin overload, so what happens in normal body when we eat sugar, insulin will get activated and what our body can’t use its energy and essentially out liver is dealing with that, it then stores some of it as glycogen in both the liver and the skeletal muscles where the use of energy laid up. So this is when our cells are working optimally and it’s with that <inaudible> insulin. with excess sugar and the lack of activity that most people are doing today, no activity these cell in our liver and our muscles already have full storage of that glycogen and its never getting activated and it never gets used and so what happens is these storage cells becomes resistant to the call of insulin thus insulin receptor <inaudible> that’s on the surface of those cells decrease in both the number and the efficiency of what they’re doing and so that means that that sugar is staying in the blood stream and this is where hyperinsulinemia comes in veronica. So the pancreas actually begins working extra hard, pumping more insulin because it’s trying to get the body back in balance. so this is a point in your body even if you have insulin resistance where your pancreas is actually functioning properly, it’s just over producing insulin, but there’s a problem with these is that the over activity of that insulin actually makes the insulin receptors more resistant, so its contributing to that insulin resistance and the insulin resistance prevents that glucose from entering the cells. But interestingly enough, it also prevents other things from entering cells too, like amino acids leading to building the body. so when you get insulin resistance, you may find yourself loosing muscle, may find energy levels drop, that hunger increases, you can crave more sugar, <inaudible> can start to dysfunction and maybe thyroid hormones can’t be converted properly and when that happens metabolism might slow down further because remember with these hormones, it’s a cascade of events that occurs not just one thing. so insulin resistance is like a precursor to type 2 diabetes and that at first our pancreas is actually producing insulin that’s functioning properly rather its hyper, meaning its working too much and eventually it can’t do that, it fails and that’s when our blood sugar actually is found to be in a very high range, it’s basically when our pancreas, our insulin can’t keep up with that high blood sugar load. So we can actually bring this back into balance and normalize our blood sugar again. Some people who’ve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes have managed to get their blood sugar back to its exactly normal. We can do it through diet and we can do it through activity because we need to get those insulin receptors in the liver and the skeletal muscles throughout the body using that glycogen stores and activating those insulin receptors, so activity and diet are the two biggest things. So essentially the insulin surge tells your body to store fat and i hope that answered your question and it makes sense veronica. Sometimes my brain gets all mottled so I’m still getting much better at talking and presenting these ideas, great, I’m glad that that makes sense. So the insulin surge tells your body to store fat that’s what insulin is there to do it, it’s our energy storage hormone.