What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease characterized by high blood sugar in our body. Symptoms may include frequent urination, excessive thirst or hunger, and weight changes.
A diabetic patient’s fasting blood sugar is beyond 7, or random blood sugar is beyond 11.
There is a stage called pre-diabetes where fasting blood sugar is between 5.6 and 6.9, or random blood sugar is between 7.8 and 11.
On the other hand, blood sugar lower than 2.8 is also not desirable
Occurrence of diabetes can be as high as 10% among adults. This % seems ok. But there may be another 20% of people living with diabetes without being diagnosed. In other words, there may be 3 out of every 10 people suffering from the disease. The % will be more if pre-diabetes are included.
Occurrence generally increases with age and is higher among males.
- Being diabetic increases the risks of contracting other diseases. Being an undiagnosed diabetic increases the risks further.
- Diabetes can harm the kidneys, cause proteinuria, edema, and renal failure and eventually death.
- Diabetes can also lead to high blood pressure, and in turn cardiovascular, cerebrovascular diseases and atherosclerosis.
- Diabetic patients may also suffer from diabetic foot which may also be fatal.
- There are also risks of neurological hazards, such as change in peripheral nerve sensation.
- The disease also causes dangers to the eyes. The fundus of a diabetic is different from that of a normal person. There may be bleeding, aneurysm, and stretch marks inside.
- There is also an impact on the metabolism of protein and fat causing ketoacidosis which may also be fatal. A lot of diabetic patients replace carbohydrates and sugar with protein, too much of which can cause ketoacidosis.
- It can also cause some infectious diseases. Diabetic patients take a long time to recover from infections if any wound is infected. That’s why before surgery, a patient is carefully screened for diabetes.
- In addition, it can also cause other diseases, such as impotence in men, irregular menstruation in women, disorders of lung function, gastrointestinal function, and inflammation of the oral cavity, etc.
These are all related to elevated blood sugar.
? What causes high blood sugar❓
A large amount of energy supply in our body comes from our meals. We absorb nutrients such as carbohydrates, and then convert them into glucose. Glucose is the body’s main source of energy. Amount of glucose in our blood determines how concentrated our blood sugar is.
Where does this blood sugar go? It will eventually go to our cells, and the cells will metabolize it to generate energy. Blood sugar will not go directly into the cells. The cells will not let it in. It needs an intermediate. Like an usher who guide somebody’s way. This usher in our body is insulin. It is insulin that leads blood sugar to enter the cells. Without insulin, the blood sugar can’t get into the cells. Cells need blood sugar, but they just can’t pull in blood sugar, so insulin becomes a very important factor.
Blood sugar rises because:
1. Intake of lots of sugary foods – Our insulin-producing islets are very tired and fatigued. In the end, exhausted islets do not produce insulin. When insufficient insulin is produced, this will cause an increase in blood sugar.
2. Immune reasons cause our cells not recognizing insulin. Obviously, our cells need blood sugar very much, but they don’t recognize the usher that brings blood sugar. They said, I’m sorry, I don’t know you. What you bring (blood sugar) can’t come in. This is called insulin resistance.
The above situations may also be caused by genetical reasons or certain inflammatory response to viral infections.
These two major conditions result in blood sugar staying and piling up in the blood vessels and cannot be metabolized.
When the blood sugar rises to a certain level and breaks through the threshold of the kidney’s acceptable blood sugar rate, excess sugar will be excreted through the urine causing elevated level of urine sugar.
This explains why diabetic patients are often lack of strength and energy.
💡Why NMN can bring revolutionary health benefits to diabetes? It can do so through increasing the level of NAD+. 2 molecules of NMN can form one molecule of NAD+ in our cells.
We need to understand what NAD+ does.
1️⃣ It is the most important coenzyme in our body. It can help improve cellular energy. Scientists have discovered that NAD+ deficiency is a very important risk factor for aging, which itself can be problematic. The amount of NAD+ in the body is in a state of decline from birth to old age. This decline leads to metabolic diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, heart disease, nervous system diseases, cancer, etc.
NAD+ can restore our energy metabolism (especially in the islets where insulin is produced) to a relatively normal state and the level of energy production through consumption of blood sugar can be improved. This can bring blood sugar back to a more normal state.
The process of cell…
2️⃣ NAD+ can turn on 7 longevity genes. Each of these 7 longevity genes has a fixed function.
- # 1 can repair arteries.
- #2 is great for reducing body fat and oxidative stress.
- #3 longevity
- # 4 can fight cancer.
- # 5 can reduce fatty liver and oxidative stress to the liver.
- #6 regulates blood sugar and more.
- #7 is good for the heart.
How does these genes affect blood sugar?
#6 longevity gene can regulate blood sugar and reduce insulin resistance, so that our cells can re-recognize insulin and allow insulin to bring glucose to our cells.
#1 longevity gene can help repair DNA, and keep cell regulation and energy regulation functions at an optimum level.
#2 & #5 longevity gene while reducing oxidative stress, can reduce the occurrence of certain inflammatory reactions to a certain extent.
3️⃣ NAD+ itself can promote cell repair by releasing the necessary 🪛🔧repair enzyme🪛🔧. It is to help our cells repair cells. If you want to repair DNA, you must have the help of NAD+. Gene damage can cause abnormal blood sugar, and if the gene damage is repaired, the abnormal blood sugar caused by the relevant genes can be reversed.
Dosage？
It should be between 600 & 900 mg a day and should be taken in 2 to 3 times.
I would like to reiterate that NMN is not everything. We still need to have a balanced lifestyle and balanced diet to maintain good health. Mental health is also very important.
I wish that everybody can enjoy good food every day and do not have to go on a strict diet as we grow old.
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