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Page 26 | Abby's Magazine - www.AbbysHealthAndNutrition.com Abby's Magazine - Volume 6 Issue 1 | Page 33 Addi onally, when your liver is busy processing fructose (which your liver turns into fat), it severely hampers its ability to make cholesterol, an essen al building block of your brain that is crucial for op mal brain func on. Indeed, moun ng evidence supports the no on that significantly reducing fructose consump on is a very important step you can take to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Root Causes of Insulin Resistance, Pre-Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, and Type 2 Diabetes Type 2 diabetes involves loss of insulin and lep n sensi vity. This makes it easily preventable and nearly 100 percent reversible without drugs. One of the driving forces behind type 2 diabetes is excessive dietary fructose, which has adverse effects on all of metabolic hormones—including two key players: insulin and lep n. There is no ques on in my mind that regularly consuming more than 25 grams of fructose per day will drama cally increase your risk of insulin/ lep n resistance, metabolic syndrome, and chronic diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease, arthri s, and Alzheimer's. It's important to realize that even though fructose is rela vely "low glycemic" on the front end, it actually reduces the receptor's affinity for insulin, leading to chronic insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar on the back end. So, while you may not no ce a steep increase in blood sugar immediately following fructose consump on, it is likely changing your en re endocrine system's ability to func on properly behind the scenes... Another major cause of type 2 diabetes is the consump on of the vast amount of glucose derived from the high carbohydrate diet that has been recommended for the last half century by conven onal medical and media recommenda ons. All carbohydrates that are not fiber will be quickly metabolized into sugar, and it makes li le sense to eat large amounts of sugar to keep your blood sugar lower. The misconcep on of the cause of diabetes may be the biggest problem. Conven onal medicine describes diabetes as a disease characterized by elevated blood sugar. This "dysregula on of blood sugar control" is typically explained as "an inability of your body to produce enough insulin." To control diabetes with that view, it would be ra onal to prescribe insulin or drugs that raise insulin to counteract the elevated blood sugar. The reality however is that type 2 diabetes is NOT the result of insufficient insulin produc on. It's actually the result of too much insulin being produced on a chronic basis primarily from ea ng the high carbohydrate, low fat diet recommended by the ADA and AHA to prevent and treat this. This overwhelms and "deafens" your insulin receptors, hence the term "insulin resistance." It's the chronically elevated insulin levels that make your body "resistant" to understanding the signals sent by the insulin. This also occurs with lep n. It's really important to realize that T2 diabetes is not caused by elevated blood sugar or "insulin deficiency" per se. The root cause is insulin and lep n resistance which is why prescribing insulin is one of the WORST things you can do for type 2 diabetes, as it will actually worsen your insulin and lep n resistance over me. You do not need more insulin. You need to restore the sensi vity of your insulin and lep n receptors by keeping their levels low! If you're s ll having trouble under- standing why taking insulin is a terrible choice in type 2 diabetes consider this; when your blood sugar becomes elevated, insulin is released to direct the extra energy (sugar) into storage. A small amount is stored as a starch called glycogen, but the majority is stored as fat. Therefore, insulin's primary role is not to lower your blood sugar, but rather to store this