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By Ray Schilling, Author:"Healing Gone Wrong, Healing Done Right" Sugar is needed for your brain metabolism, your muscle metabolism and to a certain degree for your liver metabolism. The problem occurs when you consume too much sugar from soft drinks, from sugar hidden in processed foods like energy bars, cakes and cookies. You can also suffer from a sugar overload when you eat too much pasta, bread, potatoes and other starchy foods. Starchy foods are broken down into sugar and this is absorbed into your blood. The end result is an increased insulin production from your pancreas. This causes hardening of the arteries, heart attacks and strokes, Alzheimer’s disease and even cancer. Ray Schilling's answer to How do the production and consumption of sugar affect our journey towards a good life? The overproduction of insulin is also what causes hypoglycemia, which robs you of energy. When you cut out refined sugar and starchy foods, you will notice that you no longer ...

A lot of money has poured into diabetes research in this century, because of the increasing prevalence of diabetes, as well as the rising burden of its complications on healthcare systems. New classes of medications are in development by large pharmaceutical companies, some of the newer ones include GLP-1 receptor agonists and DPP-4 inhibitors. New types of insulin are also being developed, for example some of which have pharmacokinetic profiles that reduce the risk of nocturnal hypoglycemia. In the works is also an ‘artificial pancreas’ - which is basically a closed loop insulin pump/sensor system that can maintain blood glucose levels within normal ranges dynamically and with minimal human input required. If you (or a loved one) is dealing with diabetes this is well worth reading as well: REVERSE DIABETES TODAY The field of epigenetics (which was a direct result of the work carried out at the human genome project) has shown us that while the DNA in our make-up remains fix...