Diabetes isn’t just about blood sugar it’s about how the body controls it. Insulin resistance occurs when the body stops responding to normal insulin levels, forcing it to produce more and more. This imbalance not only affects blood sugar regulation but also plays a major role in conditions like dementia, often referred to as Type 3 diabetes. Chronic inflammation, poor diet, and stress all contribute to this cycle, making it harder for the body to function properly.

By reducing inflammation, adjusting diet, and managing stress, insulin sensitivity can be restored, lowering the risk of long-term complications. Addressing Type 2 diabetes early can significantly reduce the chances of developing dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. Understanding and managing these metabolic processes is key to maintaining overall health and cognitive function.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 – Introduction

00:50 – Understanding Diabetes & Insulin Resistance

02:06 – The Problem with Increasing Insulin Levels

04:25 – Type 1 vs. Type 2 vs. Type 3 Diabetes

06:44 – Causes & Solutions

10:56 – Preventing Dementia by Managing Diabetes

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] Uh, just go back from, uh, the NLP master prac, uh, my first breakthrough was amazing. It was fantastic. It’s really awesome. Um, however, when I was there and I was talking to some people who have been watching my videos, they, uh, they told me they were great. And they love them, but they don’t really understand what I’m saying. So I’m going to try to start describing these things in a little less technical manner. So I want to kind of start back on diabetes. So this is the first piece we’ve got to fix. while we’re fixing, uh, dementia, uh, and other neurodegenerative diseases where the brain starts kind of dissolving and falling apart. Um, so I want to go back through diabetes real quick. Um, when we start talking about diabetes, what we have to understand is that the easiest way to explain this is your body’s so diabetes isn’t really a blood sugar issue. It is a blood sugar control issue. Um, and so that means it’s an insulin issue. Um, and this brings up the term insulin resistance. Uh, and so the easiest way to explain insulin resistance is so when I was in college, I had a buddy named Richie and Richie lived in an apartment next to railroad tracks. Um, and I remember being over there one day and the train came through and I was like, man, that is really loud. And he looks at me and goes, what’s really loud. And I was like the train. Oh, I don’t even hear it anymore. And I was like, Oh, okay. He was, yeah. So the train comes through all the time. He was like, the first couple of days I was here is like, it was really loud is, but is over the course of time. He was, I’m just kind of gotten so used to it. He was like, I don’t even recognize it anymore. I don’t even hear it anymore. Um, and so that’s kind of like what insulin resistance is. So your body is so used to a certain level of insulin that that just doesn’t get the job done. And so you’ve got to turn it up and turn it up and turn it up and turn it up.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:06] So for instance, if the train was to crash and like derail, I’m sure Richie would hear that. But the constant normal sound of it, he so used to that’s not enough to for him to recognize that there’s something there. So a normal amount of insulin that a normal person would produce safe seven, eight, nine units of insulin. isn’t enough. Your body is like, I don’t even recognize that there’s insulin there. Like you need to turn the volume up. So your body goes, all right, cool. All right. So it produces 10 units of insulin, and then 11, and then 12, and then 13. And it keeps going until you’re like 1718. You that’s insulin resistance, where seven should be working. But now your body’s producing 17. And the reason that this is bad It’s because. your body is actually designed and set with specific parameters. And within this little box, everything over here works within this little box, everything over here works. And so what ends up happening is that as we start having this insulin resistance, as we start having the need for higher and higher and higher levels of insulin to achieve the same goal of moving sugar from the blood into storage into the muscle tissues and the liver and into fat. As we start producing more. ends up happening is that systems that weren’t supposed to be getting activated start getting activated. And so one of those systems that gets activated, this is specifically in dementia and and the processes that start to erode the brain. There’s a transport mechanism, say a bus or a ferry carrying multiple busses, uh, called a glut one. And what that does, the glut one ferry or transport move sugar from the blood around into the space around the brain. Okay. So the space around the brain is called the cerebral spinal fluid that we’re going to not use that term right now. It’s just the space around the brain. And so what ends up happening is that the normal amount of blood sugar, sugar that’s in the blood. That’s okay is 80 to 100 the amount that’s supposed to be around the brain and the area around the brain is 55 to 60. Okay.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:25] So you got 90 being totally cool here and 55 being totally cool here. Well, the problem is, is that if we start producing way too much insulin all the time because we’re in insulin resistance. So in order to move things around in the blood the way it’s supposed to instead of producing seven, we’re producing 17. What ends up happening is that we might be able to get the blood sugar to go where it’s supposed to go. But the problem is that now we’re starting to move sugars from the blood, not just into the muscles, not just into the liver, but now we’re moving it into the space around the brain. And so if you increase the amount of sugar that’s around the brain that creates problems around the brain. So that’s what we talk about. That’s the danger with insulin resistance. And that’s the issue with, that’s why we call dementia and Alzheimer’s and things like that type three diabetes. So type one is where your body just doesn’t produce enough insulin. We can still work with that. There’s tricks around that so that you don’t have to do. There’s, there’s metabolic tools you can use so that you, that’s not an issue, you don’t have to take insulin and things like that, but it’s a little bit more difficult. Type two diabetes is the one that is like 90 or 95 percent, depending on the research you read, of what we have in the United States. That type two diabetes is typically not always, but typically associated with more fat, more less energy, and more long term, a lot more long term consequences, dementia being one of them. So that is that is a hallmark of insulin resistance, right? where you’re producing insulin, it’s just for you’re producing so much insulin, your body has just gotten kind of tired of listening to it, that we start having issues with it working. So we see a lot of these people who are producing, you know, 10 1520 units of insulin when they should only producing seven, because everybody’s just not listening to it as much as it used to. The other great way of thinking of insulin resistance is If there’s a lot of static going on, like this, let’s say you’re at a concert and you’re trying to have a conversation, but the music so loud, you have to scream at somebody for them to hear you.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:44] That’s another great way of listening and looking at it. Because when we start talking about inflammation, what happening is that the tissues are so aggravated and inflamed and just, they’re, they’re just so busy. They’ve got so much chemistry going on that they can’t function normally. And so you have to keep ratcheting up the amount of insulin you’re using to get the tissues to do what they’re normally supposed to do. Um, so that’s how this thing works. And so what we have to do is we have to start bringing down the insulin levels, um, and in fixing the entire system. So let’s say you’re at this concert and you’re trying to get everybody to hear you, you know, you can either talk a lot louder or you can go somewhere where it’s quieter or you can just turn the volume down. You know, if we can turn the volume down around the body, which is that’s the analogy for decreasing the inflammation and decreasing the extra chemicals that aren’t supposed to be there. If we can calm down the stuff around it, then your body becomes more insulin sensitive. And so it will start using insulin at a much better rate. And so we can produce less and less and less to get the effect we actually want. And so that’s the first part of dementia is Figuring out. Okay. How much insulin is the body supposed to produce? Let’s say it’s seven. How much is it producing? 17. Okay, what do we need to do to calm everything down, quiet the system down, so the body can now stop producing 17 and start producing seven again. Because again, like I said, that little fairy that carries sugar from the blood to the space around the brain, if you have too much insulin, it’s gonna start moving sugar into places it’s not supposed to. Or in ways that we don’t want it to or just way more than we wanted to move So these are the type of things that we’re actually trying to focus on so You know, there’s a lot of things that cause this Typically when I walk through somebody’s diet and I walk through what they’re doing, you know We can we can pick these things out but that’s the that’s the first thing we’ve got to do is Correct the amount of insulin that their body is producing and that first mechanism.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:56] So Again, like I said, there’s multiple different ways that you can go about it, which is always a good thing, because the more the more reason something happens, the more levers we can pull to affect change. So let’s say that we have too much inflammation. So it’s really, really loud, we can turn that down. Let’s say that, you know, we have the diet has way too many things that are producing insulin response, we can take those things out. So the body is not producing. not getting that response requiring a higher level of insulin production. So that’s great. Stress, stress and cortisol. When you get stressed out, your body produces specific hormones. Those hormones change the way that your body uses energy. And so as we change the way the body uses energy, it changes the amount of hormones that are going on, the sugars that are around. And so we can start dialing that one back. And so the more options we have to start reducing these issues, the easier it is to get things to function. So that’s what we usually will do when we start is we’ll say, okay, we’re going to start dealing with the dementia stuff, but we’re going to start with diabetes. And so, you know, that’s the type of thing. So what we’re going to try to do is, like I said, reset that calm, turn the music down so that we can hear a little better so we can drop those levels of 17 insulin down to seven. and that’s gonna have a major, major effect on the overall function of what we’re trying to do. The other thing we’re gonna try to do, and I’m gonna go into this later because it’s gonna take me a minute as well, is we reduced what’s called lipid peroxidation. Think of it this way. Think of lipid peroxidation this way. It’s like rust. And so we have this big steel beam that’s really strong and sturdy, and as it rusts, it becomes really weak and you can crush it and crumble it with your hands. That’s lipid peroxidation. And that’s what’s going on with the, with the cholesterol in your body and your brain is made of that stuff.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:56] So if we don’t fix the damage to the steel, we can’t rebuild the structure. If that makes, if that makes any sense, hopefully that tracks, um, but those are the two big first steps and the big, the reason I went into a little bit more on diabetes is because what’s worrisome is that like I said, we’ve got type two, which is that insulin resistance leading into type three, which is dementia. If we can stop the type two diabetes, if we can arrest the problem there, then the chances that it’s going to turn into dementia or Alzheimer’s or any other brain. is a lot less. And so that’s why if we can stop the type two diabetes, we’re gonna be a whole lot better off. So hopefully that makes a little bit more sense. Um, but, uh, that’s, it’s a really, really critical step in what we’re doing. So if you have diabetes, if you know somebody with diabetes, we know some with dementia, haven’t get ahold of us and we can start helping them walk this back. If it’s metabolic, if it, if it’s, if it is the typical standard, what we see from Dementia, the normal presentation of dementia, which is type three diabetes, which is extremely diet and extremely lifestyle tied. We can walk that back. Um, yeah. Haven’t given us call and we’ll get it knocked out. If you have any questions, hit us up [email protected] or drop them in the comments. Thanks for your time.

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