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Diabetes and High Blood Pressure – Are You Falling Victim?

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Diabetes and High Blood Pressure are the end results of long term insulin resistance. Both conditions are associated with a group of other health problems that are caused by a metabolic disfunction. Taking a look at why this metabolic process goes wrong will help guard you against developing it, or what you need to do to reverse the problem.

The truth that diabetes and high blood pressure are by-products of bad eating habits is well sounded. But are you taking note of it? Could you be facing these serious health problems? What does your diet consist of?

Out of all people who suffer from diabetes, 75% have type 2, and then around 50% of them will further develop high blood pressure with far reaching implications.

Weight gain, elevated triglycerides, decreased HDL cholesterol, insulin resistance, usually occur before diabetes and high blood pressure are diagnosed. This group of symptoms are known as Metabolic Syndrome X. The cells of organs involved in this cluster of conditions, are affected by a metabolic processing that goes wrong through the habitual eating of high glycemic foods.

Glycemic foods make glucose. Those that cause a high level are white bread and rolls, sugar, chips, baked potatoes, white rice, broad beans, most breakfast cereals. These are just a selection, but they are common foods that people world wide consume regularly.

The Symptoms of Insulin Resistance

Even if we eat high glycemic food, the remarkable pancreas can function quite efficiently. It`s an amazing organ. The insulin hormone released from it`s beta cells, will stimulate “gateways” (cell receptors) to receive glucose (sugar). It all functions perfectly. Insulin will also stimulate your liver and muscle cells to store any excess glucose as glycogen when too much is produced, and that reserve will be used when the glucose levels dip, maintaining a regular level of 70-110 mg per dl.

If you habitually eat a diet of glycemic foods, that`s when problems will begin to surface. Glucose levels will be too high in the blood too often, and your beta cells will continue to supply extra insulin to off-set the load. The results are damaging to those liver, muscle, and fat cell receptors. When that occurs, then the beta cells will work even harder to produce more insulin, trying to force insulin into the cells. More cell receptors are destroyed and the cycle of destruction repeats.

Your cells at this phase, become insulin resistant, with Diabetes and high blood pressure looming as a real threat, along with the other metabolic syndrome X symptoms.

After the cell receptors become insulin resistant, it has an affect on the metabolic processes within those cells. Take the fat cells for example. When their receptors become insulin resistant, triglycerides break down and are released into the blood stream, raising the level of fat. What about the muscle cells? When they become insulin resistant, their contribution of taking up glucose is greatly reduced which elevates the amount in the blood further. And what is the effect of liver cells when they become insulin resistant? Only some of the excess glucose will be able to enter the cells to be stored as glycogen, adding even more to the saturation of glucose in the blood. Now your condition is diabetic. Blood pressure begins to rise due to the defective insulin metabolism, and if you do not already suffer from the following health problems, you are at high risk of developing them.

Hardened arteries
Damaged artery walls
Narrowed blood vessels
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
Weight gain
Switched off fat burning mechanism
Kidney damage

Your pancreas, that was so efficient is now weakened by the over-production of insulin. It`s beta cells are rapidly burning out, and before long you will need to rely on insulin injections in addition to all the other problems you now have to cope with. But I hope all this hasn

Lower Your Systolic Blood Pressure Without Pills – Here’s How!

Do you have a high systolic blood pressure and need to lower it? It is the top number of your bp reading. Here is how you can lower it naturally without pills.

Millions of people, struggle with this on a daily basis. For many, it is something that is supposedly hereditary. You know, when you go to the doctor and they ask for family health illnesses/conditions, there is that little box for high blood pressure.

Well, the one big key to winning this battle is to control what you can control. You can’t control everything. For instance, I played college basketball, and one year when we had our physicals, the trainers took my bp and it was high, more specifically my systolic pressure. They took it again 5 minutes later and it was normal. So things like stress good or bad, excitement, etc. can effect your blood pressure. Also, there is history of high blood pressure in my family, so that may have contributed to it.

But you can control your lifestyle, which is the biggest factor between having high and low bp.

My mom has struggled with hers for years, it has been times that it was crazy high, so high that she had to get on medication.

She didn’t want to take pills and she knew she had to make some lifestyle changes. The first thing she did was change up her diet, she began eating healthier and drinking more water. She then became more active, walking more and doing more outdoor activities. Fast forward two months, she has lost over 20lbs, and her blood pressure has dropped! If not yet, she will be finished with taking those pills soon!

So the keys to lowering your systolic blood pressure is simple, follow a system that promotes healthy and TASTY eating, strength and cardiovascular exercise 3 to 4 days a week, and a active lifestyle.

There is no big secret, these are the simple steps to getting it done without pills.