sowen8989 wrote:My friend was shocked when he saw me put so much sugar in my juice and said I would get diabetes if I don't stop eating so much sugar.
Diabetes is a condition in which the release of insulin is out of wack.
When your blood sugar or blood protein level goes up, extra insulin is secreted.
The body does this because the insulin enables the uptake of glucose and amino acids in the brain.
The body also does this to take excessive sugar from the blood, and store it as spare-glucose (glycogen) in the liver and muscles.
So, when you eat a lot of sugar (or protein), the insulin will store the excess energy.
Your body may store about 400 kcal in the liver, and about 1200 kcal in the muscles.
So far, so good.
Its perfectly natural, essential, and healthy.
So, when does it become a problem?
If you consume more energy while that energy cannot be stored as glycogen.
That will happen when the glycogen depots are completely filled up, and you keep on eating (sugars or protein).
In that case, insulin will be released to store that extra energy, but that is impossible because there is no more room.
So, the extra sugar and protein remains in the blood, which keeps on triggering the release of insulin.
And this insulin release keeps on being ineffective, as it cannot evoke the extra energy being stored.
Hence a cycle of ineffective insulin release and failed storage.
Until all that excess energy is gradually (slowly) converted into fatty acids and glycerol, and subsequently stored as bodyfat.
Only then that problem is solved.
Until you again consume energy while your glycogen depots are already filled up.
If you repeat that often enough, for many years, eventually, the release of insulin will be less in tune with its trigger (excess sugar and protein in the blood).
That is called insulin resistence.
And if that issue is not properly addressed, that may lead to diabetes.
So, diabetes is not caused by eating a lot of sugar (or protein),
but by eating sugars and/or protein at times when your glycogen depots are full.
So, its caused by eating when there is no need for energy.
As long as you need the energy, there is no harm in consuming a lot of sugar.
Simply because that sugar is rapidly stored as glycogen, due to insulin.
It is a well-oiled machinery, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Unless you overeat when not needed.
I really am running out of reasons what is causing my problems.
We do not know what causes your problems.
We need to find out.
It may still be an allergy.
We dont know that.
So as long I take the sugar with oil and I drink for example 2500ml of OJ with 200g of sugar there's no problem?
The oil is an extra safety measure. (fatty acids to enable the storage of sugars as bodyfat. Even if excess energy is consumed, this excess energy may rapidly be stored as triglycerides when sufficient fatty acids (from oil) are available)
But normally, you dont even need that.
You dont need that if you do not overeat - if you do not consume energy when you do not need it.
the 200g of sugar and 3tbs of OO is a safe ratio?
Yes, in my experience 200 g is no way too much.
now I drink 500g of plain OJ with 1tbs of OO and them I drink the 2000ml of OJ with 200g of sugar and 2tbs of OO and my stomach doesn't say anything.
The oil creates a fatty lining in your stomach, which is protective regarding (fruit-)acids.
still my allergy or what ever it is is caused by some unknown thing.
So that is still something you need to experiment with, properly. (as i had previously suggested)
Recently my oranges have had seeds in them and I don't have time to put them out unless I see them so I just juice them. That's funny to say. Anyway are they harmful?
If you would destroy the seeds and drink them with your juice, it would be harmful.
Using a citrus juicer, that is not going to happen though.
I spend 1-5hrs In front of warm heat mixed with hot oil ... if I spent to ouch time in front of it my face gets holly and red. Holly means I get holes in my face. Or it just gets very red. And I look horrible.
That is the pores opening.
And that is the blood in your face trying to get rid of the heat.
My friend asked me where do I get my vitamin a from and as I looked at the calculator I got only 600mcg from 1000mcg that I needed everyday. Is this ok?
"needed" is not the proper word. It is the RDA.
Vitamin A is also composed from beta-carotene ('pro-vitamin A'), which is plenty in fruits.
When I look at other people eating rubbish and have clear skin, I really feel miserable.
I know.
I have been there.
Just keep in mind that there are always reasons to envy other people.
This experience is a valuable life lesson. You learn about yourself. About your vulnerability, and your mental strength.
Usually, when you are young and seemingly flawless, there is always something else to be insecure about.
And if not, you grow up without learning how to deal with insecurities or frustrations, which will hit later in life sooner or later.
Ifyou learn to deal with this condition mentally, it will make you a lot stronger.
My friends keep saying that I should stop it that it's dangerous for a long term
There is nothing wrong with a spike in insulin.
As long as it is there for the right reason (to store energy),
and not because it is the result of a cycle of ineffectiveness (due to overeating).
Insulin resistence is the result of the insulin system being wrecked.
Not the result of the insulin system being used properly.
besides maybe the sugar
Of all nutrients, sugar is the most essential.
Without sufficient sugar in the brain, you faint immediately.
Your body can cope with sugar extremely efficiently (through the insulin system).
Sugar is only dangerous if you overeat regularly.
But that is equally true for protein.
when I eat my fish in the evening I watch this TV pro called man vs food which they show some guy doing food challenges. I feel vicarious satisfaction from his eating large, huge amounts of junk food
. And I like to eat junk food with my three senses. Nose, eyes and hands. I smell the food and feel satisfaction and I look at food and I crush the food with my hands or squash it just to feel how my mouth would do it. Well I don't buy the food to do this, just when I get free food and no one else wants it I do this. I look very pathetic don't i?.
It is a training session.
It is a method to uncouple the effects of the actual eating and all the actions that come with it.
Very interesting that you do this intuitively.
Very smart, subconsciously.
Last question after drinking my juices I tend to study but I get so sleepy and I can't concentrate. Because working hard or sugar crush?
Adrenalin (epinephrine) keeps you alert and focussed.
Sugar has the opposite effect when it replenishes your energy; adrenalin goes down.
This effect is stronger if much adrenalin was secreted all day.
So, you can diminish that effect by consuming more energy during the day.
Where is my hero RRM
Im sorry, i was busy.