Dr Chalmers Path to Pro - How to Reverse Diabetes Chemically
This breaks down what really happens in the body when it comes to diabetes and why so many common beliefs about sugar, calories, and insulin might be leading us in the wrong direction. It explains how constantly eating high-sugar foods can cause the body to stop responding to insulin, which plays a big role in the development of Type 2 diabetes.
It also shares how switching to a low-glycemic diet like keto, paleo, or even a balanced vegetarian plan can help the body reset and start using fat for energy instead of sugar. Over time, this can help lower blood sugar levels and improve how the body functions overall.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:40 – Calories vs. ATP
01:28 – How Insulin Works
02:10 – High Sugar Intake & Insulin Spikes
03:03 – Insulin Resistance Analogy
04:22 – Diabetes Development
05:43 – Switching Fuel Sources
07:01 – Low-Glycemic Diet Strategy
08:00 – Brain and Insulin Resistance
09:54 – FDA & Food Pyramid Critique
10:59 – Carnivore Diet Observations
12:18 – Medical System Criticism
13:32 – Rise of Functional Medicine
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So we're gonna go through this real quick. First of all, this is not medical advice. This is just physiology. This is biochemistry, which by definition makes it not medical advise. Anyway, so we're going to go through this, ask questions later. I don't have a whole lot of time to get through all of it. Anyway, the beginning of this is when we're starting to look at diabetes from a chemical standpoint, it's pretty obvious where it is and how it's set up. Now, a couple of different things on this. You have to first get into the idea that I... A lot of the things you've been told are wrong or lies to keep you from being able to fix this. So primarily calories don't mean anything. Your body does not run on calories. Calories are a unit of increase in heat energy. They have nothing to do with what the body runs on or anything. For this instance, the body run on a chemical called adenosine, triphosphate, or ATP. Your body can make it two different ways. From fat, which is the lipolytic system. We'll talk about that later. And from sugar, which the glycolytic. Glucose breakdown system and that's where your problem comes from. So we're looking at what ends up happening is when you eat sugars, not carbohydrates. Carbohydrates include fiber and sugars. Fiber number gets in the body so it doesn't count. Sugars however will raise your blood sugar levels obviously. Well what happens is your body does not want to have high blood sugar levels.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:28] So, as a hormone called insulin, that when the sugar levels come up, The body releases an equal amount supply of insulin, and the insulin moves those sugars in storage. It moves them into the muscles as glycogen, moves them in the liver as glycogen. Whatever's left over, your body turns into fat. Boom, fat stores it for later use. So what ends up happening is your body, if you have lots of sugars all the time, you're consuming large amounts of sugars all the times, your buddy has to make a lot of insulin all the the time to move those sugars function. If you eat high glycemic foods or highly processed foods that are designed to turn to sugars very, very quickly, what ends up happening is your blood sugar goes from, you know, 85, 90 to 170 and your body goes, oh my gosh, we've got to do something massive right now. So it produces a giant amount of insulin to move all that stuff over. Well, so what ends up happening is that when we're constantly consuming these drinks, these foods, these mints, these candies, whatever, we have all this all this sugar going on all the time. And so your body produces all this insulin all the time to move that sugar. What ends up happen is that when your body is constantly being hit with levels of insulin, it kind of quits listening to it. So the best way to explain insulin resistance to you is So if you've ever been baking anything, so let's say you're making bacon, uh, it's in the oven, you know, that whole thing and you're like, I can kind of smell it and you go out to the garage for a minute or two. When you come back inside, you're like, oh my gosh, this whole house really smells like bacon.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:03] Well, what happened was that you were desensitized to it. And so you were not getting the full effect of the bacon. When you left and started breathing normal air that didn't have bacon smell on it. When you came back, you were like, Oh my gosh, there really is a lot of bacon smell. That's a really good example of how your body becomes desensitized to things that are all around it all the time. So what ends up happening is your body quits being able to utilize insulin to move sugar, because it's just there all the times. In the receptors, so insulin's the hormone, it's the key. It goes into the lock that is the receptor, then the receptor makes the tissue do something. So in this case, it makes the tissues suck the insulin, I'm sorry, suck the sugar out of the blood. Well, when your body hears it over and over and over and it's always there, Your body is like, look, this level is 10 units of insulin. I don't even feel that anymore. I don't even know it's there. My tolerance to insulin is way too high. So your body is, like, all right, cool. Well, we'll make 15 units of Insulin. Your body goes, ooh, I'll listen to 15 units of insulin, I can definitely hear that. And then for a while, your body goes man, there's been 15 units insulin in the blood all the time for a long time now. I don't really hear it anymore. So I guess cool, it jumps up to 20 and 25. And then all of a sudden, your body is like, Hey, I can't hear 25 units of insulin anymore. And your body goes, well, I can't make any more than that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:22] And so what ends up happening is we have high insulin and high sugars. And so that's when we finally pull the blood because no one checks passing insulin. That's when I finally pulled the blood and they go out. Your fasting blood sugar is one 20. You have diabetes. All right, cool. So remember body's trying to make ATP because it doesn't run on calories, it's trying to make ATP. And so the easiest way to then back off this is to quit giving your body sugar, thus, radically reduce the amount of insulin. Now this. Quandary we're going to we're not going to spend a lot of time on there's a lot of little things about how you actually reduce the amount of insulin everybody's dealing with there's all sorts of things that are in you know the the ones that the diabetes association loves the russell stover's sugar free full of malt at all which causes insulin spikes that they know and so it's not going to fix your diabetes but it does give you that nice you know i got some sugar stuff Um, or sleep apnea, you know, there's, there're lots of little things that create insulin spikes that you got to deal with. You want to really want to fix this, but chemically, we're just going through that, uh, right now. So what is happening is that, so what's going on is you're eating all these sugars, but your body can't get them into the storage. They can't, get them out of the blood system because your body quit listening to insulin due to its insulin resistance. So what you do is you start using fat as a fuel source.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:43] Again. The shift over require some functionality, but you start using fat as a fuel source. And so as your body moves over to both fat and protein as fuel sources, what ends up happening is that your body doesn't produce all this insulin. And so this insulin resistance over time starts calming down. Just like when you went to the garage or you went out of the room, you breathe normal air. When you came back in, you're like, oh my gosh, there is actually a of bacon smell in the air. So what ends up happening is that over time your insulin receptors heal and all of a sudden your blood sugars come back down where they're supposed to be, your insulin production comes back down, where it's supposed to be and you're fine. So this is one of those big things where we start moving people into a low glycemic or a non-insulin producing diet. This is how you start walking back diabetes and every single person we've done it worth its worth. Uh, so the number one thing that you can do with your diet is go low glycemic, whether it's paleo, whether it is keto, whether its high protein, whether, it's vegan, whether vegetarianism, get off the high glyceamic foods. You can get off high glycymic foods. You can do, you can walk this diabetes thing right back down to zero and you can do it with, you know, a pretty wide diet.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:01] Like we do it, with, you know our big thing was we're trying to find all of the different things that people it didn't have to go without. Cookies, cakes, pies, all that type of stuff. Yes, you will lose fat as you do this. Most people do, but the biggest thing is that it will radically change your chemistry and that's gonna change the way that the whole body works. So this plays into dementia a little bit because if you look at insulin resistance and things you might not know, your brain produces insulin to communicate, to talk to itself, the hippocampus, which is tied to memory, obviously a dementia issue. The cerebral cortex, which is higher, higher function, higher thought. Also, one of those problems we have with dementia, the hypothalamus, which is dealing with, you know, mood and dealing with goal seeking and purpose function and driving your life, that's messed up as is the olfactory bulb and taste and smell. That's what you're about to use this to communicate insulin wise. So if you have insulin resistance, even in the brain, your brain can't communicate very well with the insulin it uses to communicate. Now there's a whole big long spiel about what's actually going on with diabetes and the reduction in how the brain is starving because it can't it's insulin resistant. So it can get in the sugars, but it also can't burn the fats because there's too much insulin system.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:25] So diet dimension is a whole different animal that's a little bit. It's like two or three generations up from just normal insulin resistance. But it's the same idea. You've got to fix the insulin resistance before you fix dementia. This is not taught in medical schools. This is taught to diabetics. This is really not taught to anybody. We don't have clinics running this for diabetcs because when I do it, usually it's two or three months and people know everything they need to know. They go off and within, after I teach them, so let's say usually three to five months, everybody we've worked with is no longer diabetic. And those people don't necessarily come back and keep buying stuff. And that's why that you've never heard of this is because, you know, the powers that be, which is our government, the FDA, the NIH, the CDC, their job is to make sure that as many people as possible are on as many drugs as possible. So the pharmaceuticals make money so they can pay those guys. And so that, you now, everybody else can profit off. That's where we're at. That's why you haven't heard this. That's way people keep telling you that calories are what runs the body. Because if you start actually looking at the chemistry, you find those little tricks that, oh, okay, so our body runs on the news in triphosphate. And if we actually change the way our body makes it, we start looking at foods that we're told to eat. Because the FDA comes out and says, look at the food pyramid that's been there for however many years.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:54] Basically, it's always grains and breads. Things are the highest glycemic we know of. Right. And what did the FDA come out and say? Was it the last year under Biden? They said that fruity petals and lucky charms were substantially healthier for even steak. Well, steak in all meats have zero glyceamic function. So one of the things that I have seen, and I'm not recommending this because this isn't medical advice, but I've seen a lot of people who went carnivore and their diabetes went away. Shocker. So, yeah, so when the government says eggs and steak and, you know, beef products are terrible for you because they're full of cholesterol. Remember that fat system, that lipolytic system? What do you think that system burns? It burns cholesterol. It burns the fat that's in our bodies. It burns, the triglycerides. It burns those things. So by telling people fat is super dangerous and going to kill you, and you should never consume it. We should just consume these high glycemic carbohydrates. Well, guess what happened? The government deliberately and walked you into being diabetic and walked you away from being healthy. So that's really where this comes from.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:59] So we talk about, you know, all my government would never lie to me about vaccines, about this or that. They've been lying to you about how your body works so that you wouldn't figure out how to fix diabetes and dementia for 50 years. Your, your government in the, in the structure of your medical system will do nothing but lie to you if that's what promotes sales of pharmaceuticals. You know, like there's so many things that are, you know, you can't have, you can't get, you now like testosterone, which is one of the most healing, it is the healing hormone can't it without, you know, big prescriptions and bunch of hassle and stuff like that. I mean, even though it replaces the vast majority of, you know, ED drugs, depression drugs, fat loss drugs, you know, all sorts of the sexual sex aids, all sorts of things, replaces all of those completely natural, super beneficial to the body, horribly illegal. Opioids even though they cause an epidemic, you know, we'll just tell people that you know We're sorry for telling everybody that they weren't they didn't cause addiction and that they're totally safe and healthy And we're just kind of glad for the fact that the psychedelics which fixes the addictions that they've known about since the 50s and 60s Those are still completely illegal and they they were in a position where it was illegal to do research on them You weren't even allowed to do search on psychedelics because they were afraid of what you might find.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:18] So That's a. That's kind of what's going on with all these things. If you guys have any questions, drop them in the comments. A lot of the stuff is junk food. You change your diet, you know, you'll get a lot better. It's not all we do because it's the success rate with doing, you everything we do clear in the parasites regenerating the body, you fill the body back with nutrients that can heal and regenerate. I found to be substantially more beneficial overall as a holistic method. Um, but if you've got diabetes and you don't want it anymore, check your glycemic function and drop it. I would highly recommend that you guys work with somebody who knows what they're doing on this. Um, unfortunately, if they've got medical doctor or MD in their title, they probably don't have a clue. Uh, they're not taught this. In fact, they are taught the exact opposite of this because they're taught to sell drugs. There's nothing wrong with those people. They're great human beings. Their education was designed to sell. Drugs, not that like heal people. Um, so. Again, not their fault. They're still great human beings. It's the NIH, the CDC, the WHO, the FDA, those guys creating a level of education directly centered around selling pharmaceuticals, not getting people better. That's really where we're at.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:32] So this functional movement thing that you're starting, the functional medicine movement thing you're seeing, that's really where we're starting to get some of that stuff back. These doctors are starting to realize that what they were taught was a bunch of trash and so they're starting to go into the functional medicines stuff that the chiropractic, the natural space has been promoting forever because they finally decided that they wanted their families to get better and so that's what they started looking into this stuff. If you guys are trying to figure out what's going on with your health, if you guys were trying to figure out, what's wrong with your diabetes, if you're trying to figure out like why you're not losing the fat, why you don't gain the muscle, why you are still sick, I would start looking deeper into your chemistry. And unfortunately, you're not going to be able to get a whole lot of health out of the medical community for this. So, if you guys have any questions or anything, hit us up, questions@ChalmersWellness.com, drop them in the comments. But that's more or less how you do it. I was trying to do this as short as possible, and I still went five minutes out. All right, you guys have a great day. Thanks for your time.
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