The advice and informational content does not necessarily represent the views of mother's market and kitchen, mother's recommends consulting your health professional for your personal medical condition. I don't know, I'm Kimberly King, and welcome to the mother's Market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, everything we eat and drink contributes to our health, and it's important to keep your blood sugar balanced, listen close to some great ideas on how to keep that healthy balance, plus later... We'll tell you what's going on around town. But first step, joining us today is a nutritional consultant and certified natural health professional, Valery Hall, Valerie appears in front of thousands of people each year and speaks on a variety of topics, as well as giving many seminars at mother's market, she's such a wealth of health and nutritional knowledge, and we wanna get right to her... Welcome back. Valery, how are you?

I'm doing great, Kimberly, thank you so much for having me back. You are welcome. We're happy to have you... Before we get to today's topic, please fill our audience in a little bit on your background in nutrition, I've enjoyed standing nutrition for 19 years and made some terrific benefits in my own health, the health of my children, my family, and love to share all that with everybody it's such a fascinating study.

My earlier background in college was as a foreign language major and a Biology minor, so I speak fluent French in Spanish, in fact, I'm doing radio shows in Puerto Rico in Spanish right now on nutrition, which is really kind of fine, it incorporates two of my things, but that foreign language major helps me to memorize all the crazy supplement names, so I still use that skill too, and when I started learning about how the nutrition fit in with our own human physiology, and I had such a good background in that I was just fascinated. So well, you can definitely see your passion and hear your passion, and I'm often saying, Well, that's Latin to me, but you probably...

Tabu, you actually know for is do you as she study for not giving yourself the full entire credit, that to me, I'll help you out there.

French and Spanish are the ones I've retained the best bets for sure.

And what were the other two?

German and just English. I Got A Good Old English. It took a lot of English stuff too.

Well, very smart.

So today's topic is all about blood sugar, and we are learning about blood sugar and it's a topic near and dear to your heart... Of course, and we'll talk a little bit about that, you have had type 1 diabetes for 25 years, and you did learn a lot from that personal experience, I always say you can't have a testimony without a test. So let's get right to that. Absolutely, no, I didn't know anything about nutrition. When I was first diagnosed in the 1980s, I was in my late 20s. I had just given birth to my first child, there was no history of diabetes in my family at all, but there is a lot of other autoimmune issues in the family. My mom had rheumatoid arthritis.

So shortly after my baby was born, she was a few weeks old, and all of a sudden I noticed that my new contact lenses weren't working anymore, I couldn't read the clock above the TV, my vision was getting really blurry and I had been fine two weeks before, and then I got really sick, I thought I had the stomach flu. And so I was vomiting, I would go and drink tons of water and I'd go back to bed and lay down, I was exhausted, and I had to call my best friend to come take care of the baby because I couldn't do it. And when my husband got home from work, he said, Do you wanna go to the hospital? I said, No, that could just cut that stomach flu, and finally in a late late at night, I said, Okay, I'm ready to go to the hospital.

So I went there and they were all over me and said, Oh my gosh, are the sickest person in here, the ER doctor smelled a fruiting on my breath, which is one of the signs, and so they got me on an IV drip of insulin right away and I started feeling better right away... At the time, I didn't know anything about nutrition. And the American Diabetes Association was recommending a high carb, low fat, low protein diet, which is absolutely the wrong... Which is the wrong thing to do. And I thought they knew what they were talking about, I certainly didn't know what I was talking about. So I followed their recommendations. I was thin when I was diagnosed, I waited about 120 pounds. I put on seven pounds a year for 11 years in a row, and I never got good blood sugar control, and then I kept having to inject more and more insulin to try to get my blood sugar into control, whereas at the height of my weight, I was just over 200 pounds, and was injecting about 80 units of insulin a day, they told me the 82 and three pieces of bread with every meal, and they said, If you wanna check that cookie, go ahead. I just have one last piece of bread, and that was the end on for elbows, first diagnosed in 88 or like a poster tone.

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Yep, thank heavens. I kind of stumbled my way into nutrition, I was an office manager for Compact IC offices, and the second office I went to work in in the mid-90s was very nutritionally-oriented, and I started listening to the doctor, telling people about various things, and I got very interested and started reading books on my own, and one of them, a couple that really opened my eyes... Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution and the sports pine principle by Dr. Diana shorts, fine, and those books told me, wait just a minute, stop meeting all that green, choose Vegetable carbohydrates, good quality proteins and good quality oils and avoid all starch and sugar. And I said, Oh okay, I can do that.

So I did that and the weight just started falling off, I started losing about four pounds a month pretty effortlessly, and was able to get things back under control, so it's been quite a learning experience, and one of the things that I get frustrated with when I read books on blood sugar is that most people don't have the personal experience, they just read what other people have written before them, chew that up and spit it back out on the page in another form, and they're all recommending whole grains. Whole grains are not your friend, if you've got weight to lose or blood sugar to balance, they turn into blood sugar a little more slowly, they take about two hours, whereas white red or white flower turns into blood sugar in 45 minutes to an hour.

So you still have to deal with it with whole grain, it just takes a little longer, so in my opinion, it doesn't really facilitate our overall health if we wanna lose weight or balance our blood sugar to be eating a lot of green, so neither whole grains or the white, the white red, neither one exactly the type it out and do lots of vegetables a... We need carbohydrates, but use vegetable, sister carbohydrate source and not the sweet starchy ones, and I'll do a little small serving of peas or black beans, some of the start your beans, but a very small serving, I'll do if those... But I'm doing lettuce spinach and kale, and broccoli and cauliflower, and tomatoes and avocados, and celery, cucumbers, all that stuff, greens are fantastic for blood sugar, so those are some of the things that I learned in my personal experience.

What an amazing story. And look at you now, and to me, I do, and you survived and I do the other side, and now you're passionate at Drive.

I absolutely thrive, and so to be feeling so great at 55, it's just, I think a real win and a real plus in the nutrition category for me. Well, congratulations, thank you.

Yeah, and we keep calling on you because you are just... And like I said, your passion is nutrition, and this is what you love to talk about because you... You've lived it and you've come through on the other side, Valerio sugar seems to be an epidemic here in the United States, and really to talk to somebody who has lived it has the best stories because you know it from a personal experience, but now when you have also read up on everything, and you know the latest talk about what are the possible causes of this... Well, you know, there's this epidemic, they called diabetes, which is an obesity and diabetes epidemic going on in our country, they think now that one in three children born today will develop diabetes in their lifetime, which is just a terrible statistic, and many people have blood sugar challenges and don't even realize it yet, a lot of people have insulin resistance and so forth... Let me just talk for a quick second about the Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. I'm a type 1, which is only about 5% to 10% of all diabetics. I'm very much in the minority. 90% or 95% are type 2. type 2 is usually associated with weight, it usually happens later in life, but now they're diagnosing children with it as well from our food supply, and it's more of a wearing out of the insulin receptor site, so people for a long time, they produce a bunch of insulin but it doesn't make its connection in the right place and it doesn't bring blood sugar down properly, so type 2 is a wearing out kind of the system from overexposure to starches and sugars.

Type 1 is an autoimmune where my own immune system killed the cells and my pancreas that make insulin, so they're different diseases entirely, however, the same foods will drive blood sugar for either one, so I really wanna focus on food and a couple of key supplements that can help the blood sugar system to work at its best, so that's really the deal there, so the foods that are driving this diabase epidemic, high amounts of sugar, we used to eat so much less sugar, 100 years ago, it was about five pounds a year for every man woman and child in the country, now it's 150 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the country, it's a lot of sugar as well, we consume and the flower, all of that flower, grain, Starship food with the old food pyramid, basing our diet on grain, telling us to eat six to 11 servings of bread a day... Red vocals, right? Pasta, I can remember reading articles and say past as the wonder food, eat lots of pasta, you want a free food for your diet, pretzels... No, not really princesses all start. It turns into blood sugar, so starch turns into sugar in the blood, then the hydrogenated oils are building on membranes and receptor sites throughout the body, so that's another food that's disrupting our blood sugar, all the food chemicals. And I'm reading more and more articles about the potential toxins in pesticides and commercial body care products that are hormone disruptors, that are disrupting, are production of many different hormones in... Insulin is a hormone.

So we've got this whole attack between food and pesticides and toxins in our commercial motions, so one of the things I always recommend to people is get off of the commercial lotions and shampoos and things and buy them in a health food store, like Mother's where you're getting really good quality stuff that doesn't have all those negatives and just the average public doesn't even realize that... We don't even think about that.

No, it's not common knowledge. It's really not.

So it sounds like food choices and blood sugar balance have a lot to do with overall health, and talk to our listeners just how the blood sugar system works... Yes, when we eat food, it breaks down into blood sugar or glucose, and then the body makes the correct amount of insulin thinks it's going to need for that meal, the insulin has to fit like a key in the lock in this insulin receptor site, and these receptor sites are in all of our cells, and a lot of them on the muscle mass throughout the body, if this connection doesn't get made well, it's called insulin resistance, so people make the insulin but the key doesn't fit in the lock, and then the sugar stays in the blood, instead of being transferred into the cells where it gets burned as fuel or stored as energy, so when we make a lot of blood sugar, we are constantly storing energy, which is accumulating that cells... That's a nice way of saying, we're good at accumulating fat cells, we're good at storing energy. And so that's the way that the system in general works, and for a long time, we can keep blood sugar in a normal range, but insulin is out of a normal range, so an early warning that doctors should do, I think, is test insulin levels, and they don't do it unless you ask.

So if you are already experiencing a lot of weight gain in the middle, ask your doctor for an insulin test and evaluation to see how much insulin you're producing, 'cause if that's way above your normal levels, then you're on your way to a blood sugar problem, but you just don't know it yet, so we can get things under control sooner rather than later for a better health outcome, and hopefully you then start to lose some weight, start to get some exercise. That's another thing, lifestyle-wise, that we wanna make sure that we're doing... Stay active. So those are all very important for helping to keep our blood sugar balance in all ages... Right, all... Absolutely, all ages and us is obviously important for people with diabetes, but what about the rest of us? All of us should be doing this, we absolutely. You know, since this is such an epidemic and since sugar in general is being linked to so many health problems, I even read an article recently that called some forms of dementia, diabetes type 3, where they're linking high insulin levels and high blood sugar levels with brain damage, so high levels of blood sugar and insulin are very hard on the heart, very hard on bones and joints, and skin and brain, and of course the digestive tract and all through the body, eyes, kidneys, nerves tend to get damaged from high blood sugar, so we wanna keep this under control and not venture into that diabetic range, if we can avoid it, staying cognizant about your diet, I really think a good, healthy reasonable carb diet, and I hate when they call it low carb, it implies like we're trying to get below normal in what we're trying to do is get back to normal. We need more carbohydrates than any society in the history of the world, so we wanna go with lots of veggies, good oils, adequate protein, and when we eat anything that's grain-oriented, the higher the fiber, the better, and no more than one or two whole grain products, a day. That's plenty for us. We don't need six to 11 servings.

Well, this as amazing, another great topic here and great information, we'll get more information with dallara just a moment, but right now we have to take a quick free more on balancing blood sugar with Valerie hall, just a moment. Staying with us, we'll be right back.

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And now back to our interview with nutritional consultant, Valery Hall, and we're talking about balancing your blood sugar, and we've of course beyond over-food plans, and I have a question I'd like to find out if what other lifestyle issues should be addressed, Valerie.

Well, of course, exercise, finding something that you like, that keeps you moving is such a good thing, you know, I love to go dancing with my girlfriends and try to coat incorporate that as often as possible. If you have children or grandchildren in your life, teach them how to do the twist, it's a fun I OneNote whole family put on your old ka Tal presents record or to break out the old albums from the 60s, 70s and teach them how to dance. No, thank you, lady. Where they were in high school, going to high school dances that I... It's a fun thing for the whole family, I love dancing, I love yoga, it's a great stretching, core strengthening for your muscles and for lubricating your joints, walking is terrific exercise, even gardening, whatever you like to get you moving is going to be an excellent step in the right direction.

Another thing I recommend is get those healthier body care products, wonderful products at mother's market shampoos conditioners, the odor in soaps, shaving cream, hair, Jeter.

You're looking for it's there. Face creams by Germany are outstanding, I love those. So you've got all kinds of healthier choices, get away from the commercial things, they also have natural make-up, I mean there's a surprising number of toxins and make-up, so they have mineral make-ups and things like that that are quite good at mothers, so you've got a nice assortment of natural product, so that's gonna be a good step to get away from those endocrine disruptors and some of our commercial lotions and things, and by organic. And those of you who shoppers know what a great job they do with providing organic produce, they have a vast percentage of their produce department and on every isle, you've got organics and mothers, organic means not only no pesticides, which is pretty obvious, but also they're not using chemical fertilizers and fungicides and herbicides, they're also not allowed to radiate and genetically modify organic things, so you're spared so much of the bad things that are happening to commercial food, and you're also getting a lot more nutrition, commercial produce is pretty devoid of nutrition because there's not very much minerals left in the soil, but organic produce is a whole different story, you're getting a lot more of the nutrients that you're looking for there in organics, so those are some lifestyle issues that I think could be really supportive for helping maintain and balance our blood sugar, and that's great advice.

I'm sure you've had some supplement support to recommend, but... What have you found most helpful?

Well, one of the top things that I have found is called Alpha-L-POC acid, and Alpha Lapid, your best value in mother's market is the one by doctor's best vitamins. It's a 600 milligram per pill, so you're getting a wonderful big dose... Some people take 100 milligrams, that's not gonna do anything for anybody. You've got to get a bigger dose of a halophilic and 600 milligrams twice a day, gets you up to 1200 milligrams a day, that's a nice big therapeutic amount to really support blood sugar balance. This has a lot of studies behind it on blood sugar because it helps to get the free radicals out of the insulin receptor sites so that that key can fit in the lock that insulin can fit in the insulin receptor site and brig blood sugar down properly.

If you inject insulin, monitor carefully because you may not need as much when you start to take out elope acid, I was able to decrease my insulin dose by around 25% within three days because it just got so much of the gun out of the insulin receptor site said that was able to connect a lot better, and this was a great starting point in this... A couple of key supplements and the food that I started to change to allowed me to switch and the way that was losing in the exercise I was doing has allowed me to go from injecting 80 units of insulin a day down to 20 units of insulin.

So just an amazing shift that I've been able to achieve in my own body, so alfalfa, very helpful for those insulin receptor sites, it's also an excellent antioxidant, protecting your body from a lot of different types of damage, so it's a really good supplement for us if we have blood sugar challenges. The next one I'd like to recommend is cinnamon, cinnamon is the top herb out of 40 different herbs that have insulin-like activity, so Cinnamon, use it on your food by all means, but supplements will often have a much more concentrated amount of Cinnamon then you can possibly get in food.

So I like the one also, my doctor's best vitamins called Best cinnamon, because they use a raw material called single pf that had some of the best study results of any cinnamon ever tested when it came to lowering elevated blood sugar, it's also good at lowering triglycerides by the way, so that's the single PDF type of cinnamon by doctor's best. There's one that no one has heard of called Bentham... No, that sounds awesome then, so timing is a fat-soluble precursor of vitamin B1 is sometimes referred to as a super thin...

I don't think mothers carries this, but You could special order it from them, it's made by doctor's best vitamins, and it protects against Sugar damage in the body, so I think it doesn't really affect the blood sugar itself very much, but it's a terrific protector against sugar. So it helps to protect all of those areas that tend to get damaged from sugar, things like the eyes, the kidneys, the nerves, the brain, so we wanna really help to protect our body from the damage of sugar, sugar creates a specific type of free radical damage called Protein location or glycosylation, and this is the binding of sugars and proteins together, just like sugar on your fingers, feel sticky, sugar in your blood is sticky as well, and when it starts to gum up the works in our little capillaries, those areas of micro-circulation, it can really be damaging to those tissues, so the areas that get damaged from high blood sugar are all areas of micro-circulation, eyes, kidneys, brain, veins, arteries, cardiovascular and nerves, all areas of micro-circulation, so we wanna protect against this binding of sugar and protein together. Ben voting has been used for a long time in Europe for just that reason. Excellent supplement for us to take... For someone who has a blood sugar challenge already, I recommend 600 milligrams a day, I take 300 in the morning and 300 at night of the venation, that is the very first I've ever heard of it.

It's a cool one.

Yeah.

So it's very popular in Europe. Wow.

And then lastly, there's something called PG-X, which stands for poly-glycol ex... Thank goodness, they just call it PTS, and that's by natural factors, this is a super fiber, it comes in powder, it comes in pills, it comes in the individual packets of powder, it comes pre-mixing protein drinks.

So you can get this a lot of different ways, and it's an expanding fiber, so when you take this with water before your meal, it expands, it's like a sponge, it soaks up that water and expand, so it takes up room in your stomach and slows down your appetite, it's almost impossible to overeat, if you take your PDX a half hour before your meal, next, it mixes with that food and slows down the impact or the whole meal on your blood sugar, so it gets people off of the big up and down swings of blood onto a much more even keel. The way we're supposed to be, so fiber and protein and oils are all good moderators of blood sugar, one of these PDX pills has about the same amount of fiber that you would find in five or six bolts of oil, it's an expanding fiber, so it really behaves much differently than phylum or flexed fiber or open or any of those other fibers. It's a really interesting one.

So I'm a big fan of The PDX when you're looking at blood and weight loss is a sanitary of you, right? And if any of you out there are wanting to achieve some weight loss, start by paying attention to your blood sugar, it's hugely connected, as I found out from personal experience with my weight gain and subsequent weight loss just by the foods that I was eating and the blood sugar, I could see a huge difference in that blood sugar as well, so those are some of the top nutrients and supplements that I recommend to really help support the whole blood sugar system.

No, that's fascinating information. Again, as usual, Valerie, thank you. My pen is just going in my...

I like that you're making notes the Ateneo job. Well, it sounds like a good plan to support healthy blood shaker balance, but do you have any last words of wisdom here... Last words of wisdom, if you have a blood trigger challenge, don't ignore it, test often... The test kits are very inexpensive now, you can probably pick one up for 15 Andrus any drug store and any company will send you one for free because they make their money on the test strips, the least expensive test strips, if you're paying out of pocket or by true track, I've found... So there can be quite a variation in price of test strips, so the company called True track has some of the better prices out there in the pharmacies, so test often eat the right food. Pay attention, don't ignore it. Take some supportive supplements, use Stevia as a sweetener instead of sugar that can satisfy your sweet tooth and your tapes will change to acclimate to really like Stevia, it doesn't take that long a week or two of getting off of sugar and onto Stevia, it's gonna taste better and better, but just use a few drops because it's much sweeter than sugar, so those are some excellent tips for lifestyle and diet to really help our whole blood sugar balance.

Wonderful.

Again, thank you so much, this is great information, and again, from someone who's been to one side and climbed up the mountain, and I came down the Ohio speaks with passion about health and nutrition.

Valerie Hall, thank you for your time.

We really appreciate your knowledge and we look forward to having you on again, but in the meantime, you can get more information on Malory and on her website, Valerie Hall, nutrition dot com, and learn more about her natural approach to making us all healthier and happier. We look forward to your next visit. Thank you so much, cable. Might put that on my business card. Nutritional mountain here. I like it.Climb one step at a time.

Yeah, that's right.

Thanks so much, man, you bracket. The advice and informational content does not necessarily represent the views of mother's market and kitchen mother's recommends consulting your health professional for your personal medical condition, E.