Beating Metabolic Syndrome and Getting Control of your Blood Sugar Levels

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Adapted from Dr Al Sears, M.D.
Doctor's House Call Newsletter.
Used by permission.

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If you're concerned about your blood sugar, here's something you need to think about:

• Your blood sugar spikes from foods that are high carb and high glycemic.
• You produce more insulin to move sugar into cells, which will use it for energy.
• Your body compensates by producing more and more insulin.
• Your body becomes resistant to insulin.

We call this metabolic syndrome. 

While metabolic syndrome is not a disease, your body is telling you to get a grip.  Promoting normal blood sugar is appropriate for immediate care.  But, you need a strategy that will help maintain normal blood sugar levels and increase insulin sensitivity.

Managing metabolic syndrome with exercise

Exercise is a great place to start.  Anytime you exert yourself, you help your body bring blood sugar into your cells.  And that's exactly what you need to reverse metabolic syndrome.  In fact, one study found that a single high intensity workout temporarily restored insulin sensitivity.  However, you should avoid long-duration exercises, like aerobics and cardio.  Research shows that shorter, more intense workouts are better for supporting normal blood sugar and promoting insulin sensitivity.  So, once you've switched to shorter-burst workouts, you'll be well on your way to attaining insulin sensitivity.

The PACE^® Program: designed with just this in mind

A good workout for people with metabolic syndrome or blood sugar concerns is one that works the leg and back muscles — your biggest muscles.  Working them demands more energy, which helps to lower your blood sugar.  Here's how to begin:

• Plan your workouts to last 15 - 20 minutes.  Try walking, cycling, swimming —or any other activity that you enjoy.
• Switch between periods of rest and periods of high-intensity bursts.  Remember, intensity is subjective.  If an activity gets your heart rate up — making it difficult to breathe and speak at the same time — then you're working at a high intensity pace.
• Do two minutes at an easy pace, and then raise the intensity for 30 seconds to a minute.  You should feel yourself working. 
• Then, rest for two minutes and repeat the cycle.

Supporting PACE^® with the right nutrients

And, here's a great way to complement our PACE^® program.  My friends at Health Resources have an easy and effective way of promoting normal blood sugar levels — and helping your body respond to insulin.  They use the same powerful nutrients I use in my own practice, and I want to make sure you know about them.

Here's just one of the six nutrients you'll find in their safe and easy-to-use blood sugar formula.  It's called gymnema sylvestre.  For more than 2,000 years, people in India have used this herb to support normal blood sugar.  In fact, practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine, India's ancient system of healing, prize the leaves of this climbing plant.

Gymnema sylvestre is also called "gurmar", which, in Hindi, literally means "destroyer of sugar".  This name describes the way that chewing the leaves interferes with your ability to taste sweetness.  Because this amazing herb decreases the sensation of sweetness in many foods, it may reduce your cravings for sugary snacks.

I've seen the powerful effects of these herbs and minerals first hand.  They work.  They get results.  And I highly recommend you give it a try … especially if you're concerned about your own blood sugar.

To find out how to get them, visit Why conventional wisdom about blood sugar and your health is wrong, wrong and wrong again!

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD