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Hello, I'm Kimberly King.

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, Dr. Lee Aaron Canale talks about diabetes and what we can do to prevent it in ourselves and our children, she'll explain what to eat, and perhaps more importantly, what not to eat to make sure you stay healthy. Then in our healthy living segment, Tiffany in our vitamin department, talks about what to look for in a good supplement and how to strike a balance while eating the right types of foods, plus later will tell you what's happening around Orange County and give you a way to save some money at mother's market, but first up, we're extremely pleased to welcome back one of the four most authorities when it comes to the health of your body. Lee Aaron Canale, MD. Has been practicing medicine for almost 25 years, she's the founder and medical director of the Center for New Medicine, located in Irvine, California, and is the Medical Advisor for perfectly healthy products.

When you wanna know about putting the right things into your body and taking care of yourself, you go to Dr. canale and we welcome her to the mother's radio show, Dr. Kinney, how are you?

Great, it's wonderful to be here, Kim. For those of our audience members who may not be familiar with your mission and your work, why don't you tell our audience a little bit about what you do and what your mission is?

Well, our mission, because it's not just me, because I have myself, I'm the Medical Director, as you said, for the Center for new medicine, but we have many other practitioners, but our goal is to educate and empower people to live their maximum intended lifespan. Feeling great, high energy and full of vitality, and the perfectly healthy organic route, and I love your philosophy because it also has to do with your mental state, and that's pretty much where it starts, as I've been finding out from you.

Today, we're talking about diabetes and a condition that affects the body's ability to use blood sugar for energy, and according to the American Diabetes Association, 8% of the US population has diabetes, and that is over 23 million people, which is staggering, plus 15 million people aged 20 or older will be diagnosed with diabetes each year, so this is such a very serious condition, and Dr. Canale, with you on the forefront of this, we have so many questions. And where do you begin? What is diabetes? And how do you get it?

Well, first of all, let's clarify some of those statistics, that is true, but 50% of the people out there who have diabetes don't know they have it, so that 83 million is really about 20 million com because a, Yes, because patients are not adequately screened or they don't go to the doctor, or the doctor may not do the right test because we don't wanna wait until we're in a diabetic coma to be diagnosed with diabetes, but for our listeners, there's type one diabetes and Type 2 diabetes, there's type 1, which usually happens as a child, and you're basically your pancreas, which is the organ which makes insulin, it's the glam that makes insulin, and it just completely doesn't make insulin anymore, so that's what Type 1 is, and Type 1 is you need to take insulin and insulin injections in order to maintain proper blood sugar levels.

Now, type two is that your pancreas makes some insulin, those little cells make some insulin, but they don't make enough, and then you have a condition that's kind of related to diabetes and it's called pre-diabetes, so you may not be fully in the diabetic numbers, which we'll talk about it in a second, but you are heading towards diabetes, so they call it pre-diabetes and that's probably 70% of the population.

Yeah, I would imagine a lot of us have pre-diabetes symptoms and those symptoms... What do people need to know about that right now? And knowing that we're headed for the wrong direction, well, one of the biggest symptoms of high sugar is you are tired, hisar makes you tired, you just don't have the energy now that can replicate many other diseases, but you're tired. Let's say you don't ever feel hungry and up and you have a craving for sugar, you may have dizziness, you may have blurred vision, you may have numbness in any one of your extremities, you may be able to unable to lose weight, you just keep trying, but it's impossible to lose weight.

Anybody who has a lot of weight around their middle for sure, has either pre-diabetes or diabetes or what we talked about insulin resistance. You're gonna have mood changes when you have high sugar, you don't move your moody, and you maybe have cravings for different kind of foods, usually high sugar foods because you're on a roller Coster with your sugar, so those are just the signs of pre-diabetes now, if you're in full-blown diabetes, well, you may have those symptoms, just multiply those by 10, and then the worst and result of high, really high sugar as a diabetic coma, so you are in a coma, so you can imagine the different degrees you're kinda an amino sugar.

Wanting I was gonna ask is, how often do people get to that diabetic coma, what is it gonna take for us not to get to that diabetic coma for real...

I find that about 70%, maybe even a little more, Kim, have pre-diabetes or diabetes, and they're always shocked, Oh, oh my God, I just went the doctor and he told me my blood hikers perfect. And I said, Well, the difference is, is I do a certain blood test, let's go over that.

If you come in in the morning and they took you to come in fasting, what's your blood... Sure. Are gonna be great because you eat... What are they capturing? They're capturing a minute of your bludgeon, your blood... Correct, and that's for any of your blood test, they're capturing that minute... Right. Well, the two test and sometimes three tests that I do is I do a mean blood sugar, which is an average of your blood sugar over 15 days, well, that's a lot more information.

Absolutely, then the other blood tests that I do is a hemoglobin A1C I... Hemoglobin A1C is a reflection of your blood sugar for 90 days, so what do you want... I always give patients the analogy, do you want the commercial of the movie or do you wanna see the movie... I wanna see the movie. Right, so the hemoglobin A1c is the movie of what's going on with your blood sugar, let's just say on your blood test, you have a fasting blood... Sure, that's what that test that that doctor does. It should not be over 99. so it used to be higher. Now, everything's getting tighter and tighter, you know how cholesterol 250 was fine. Now you gotta be 150. so we've gotten tighter and tighter on these blood sugar, so we're discovering now the effects of higher blood sugar are very, very serious at very low levels.

Let's just say we did that blood test on you came and you were perfect, then I'd say, You know what, you're perfect, I wouldn't check you for years, but I would at least know that... I would at least know exactly. You can't change anything if you don't know anything about it. Exactly, so this... And you don't know how many children that I have are already pre-diabetic and they're three years old, they're five years old, there's 10 years old that I do.

What is this high sugar due to... You okay?

On a child, what does it do? damages their brain, they're calling now diabetes, it's Type Three diabetes, maze MERS now, because it affects your brain so much and bring in IQ and dementia. So we must do something, we must do something about this for anyone, no matter how old they are, their ramifications of high sugar, and I tell patients, I go, I'm just the messenger in its... You didn't make it out, I didn't make this up. And it's just the things that I have studied because that's my job is to impart the most perfect information to you so you can live the best life possible. That's my job, that's why I'm a doctor, is to educate you, teach you and empower you to the road and journey of health, and the damaging effects of sugar are vast, there is not a cell that is spared when a patient has diabetes or pre-diabetes, it damages every cell, the kidney, the heart, the liver, the brain, your blood vessels, everything. So that's why it's so critical. And now the statistics are showing that every child born from 2000, 1 and 3 or diabetic, gosh, we have must change our ways, we must focus on health, Restoration, and every single person in the world.

So why is diabetes so common, is it because of the amount of sugar that is available out there yet too much to it, the sodas and then all of our food is processed to serve all the value of all the nutrients and what it takes for your body to break down, if it breaks it down instantaneously, then it's... The Sugar is released. But look at our diet, we were talking about what people eat people each sugar for break, which is a candy bar, and then what do they do at lunch time, the average kid brings a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with Pringles in a juice box... What is that? That's all sugar. And then they come home and they have a snack, cookie snack, right. That's sugar, and then at dinner, they have macaroni and Geez, all they Bethesda. And then what do kids do? Kids don't go on play anymore, right, they're on the computer.

On the computer.

Video game.

Exactly, and they're sedentary. Physical education is not mandatory and big in schools today, but yes, we are eating too much sugar and we're sad and Terry, and then there's toxins that are damaging the pancreas, the Pancras is one of those organs, I think that's very vulnerable because believe it or not, I have many patients who eat well, who exercise and have pre-diabetes or diabetes, so I don't want those people out there thinking that, Oh, I eat grade, I exercise an hour every day, everything is wonderful, that they don't have pre-diabetes or diabetes. There's one very powerful force that has to be reckoned with, and that is the presence of environmental toxins because it is causing a multitude of disease in problems.

We're gonna talk more about what health issues are associated with diabetes, and you have such great advice, we'll be right back with more from Dr. Lee Erin kennel MD, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back, dot com.

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And now back to our interview with Dr. kaali, we're so interested. We're talking about diabetes and what you can do to prevent it, as you're talking about this, what do you say to the mom, the grocery shopper that's out there that says, I don't know where to start to get healthier food, starting right at the home, and of course, as we talked a little bit about preparing foods ahead of time and getting that going, but where do we go? What do we do?

Okay, what do we do? Well, the most important thing is you have supermarkets like mothers, that you can go and get healthy foods, for example, for breakfast, and it's interesting, I always have these children that come with their mom and I'll go, Okay, what do you eat for breakfast? Zero in on go. Oh, Okay, well, is there anything else that you like besides zero? And I said, for example, Do you like X?

Oh, I love X, and the mother looks at me and she goes, You like it, and I'm like, Okay, are we living in the same motion... Got in the Kindle. I love eggs. Okay, X is a wonderful by organic ex... It's a wonderful protein. To start the day, I tell mothers that they can boil 12 eggs on hard on the weekend and have two X... Let's just say if it's a crisis, okay, let's talk about string ESE, strings is a great FATA, great protein. A wonderful way you can do that, grab a string cheese, an apple. Okay, how difficult is that?

Right, you can put a protein shake together, maybe in two minutes, three minutes, raw milk, or maybe you're gonna buy organic regular milk with some berries and maybe a little two tablespoons of wheat germ and protein powder, and you have a meal to go in less than two minutes, and these are the kind of recipes that I have, the other thing that my kids love is I make oatmeal, how inexpensive is a male... They usually cost 69 cents about now, 99 cents pound at mothers, and you buy Oma, and what I do is I put vanilla protein powder in there, I put a little applesauce, I put a little organic... I mean, I put wheat germ in there, they have a perfect meal and then I put organic butter on it, they love it. Every kid almost would like that there's hardly anybody... Then there's cut is cheese, organic, low fat cuts, cheese, maybe cut is cheese and fruit, maybe go cheese on a piece of Ezekiel bread with some organic strawberry marmalade.

There are things something, maybe you get a corn tortilla spread reprimands on it, put an egg and maybe a piece of healthy bacon. Okay, can do that. Everyone likes a little burrito in the morning... Right, sure.

But you have to have food that is of substance, there's all kinds of great things, you can have a yogurt par face up yogurt, nice healthy organic yogurt with berries and maybe a teaspoon, not a lot teaspoon or so of Genoa and look what you just did, you just open up a whole new world.

And the other thing, how important, because we're talking about breakfast items, how important is that the most important meal of the day... We always hear that, Well, you're right. What they used to cut when I grow up, you eat like a king or breakfast, a queen for lunch and a paper for dinner, but it's the most important meal to start your day out is with breakfast, 'cause breakfast rules and run your day and direct your day correct.

So if you don't eat breakfast, you basically... It's you influencing how the day is gonna go, I always give the analogy, if you put sugar water and your guest tank, you ain't going anywhere. You see, gasoline, so it's the same way with our body, if we want energy, we get energy strictly from one source, what we're putting in our mouth, You Are What You Eat, camps... Absolutely true.

The health issues that are associated with diabetes, it's so important, and it starts at such a young age that we could prevent this... What are we talking about?

Well, you're saying What are the complications of diabetes can... Well, there's lots of complications and for example, I had mentioned earlier that elevated blood sugar damages every cell in your body, so it kinda goes through stages, like for example, cancer or heart disease, if you have those diseases, those are chronic diseases, and from one cancer cell to tumor formation takes 10 or 12 years. Well, the same thing with diabetes, let's say you get diagnosed when you're 40, well, if you do not maintain healthy blood sugar levels, you will have complications like losing your eyes, blindness, not being able to see, and that's why diabetics must get an annual eye exam, they must go yearly to the ophthalmologist to get an eye exam, and you may not feel it until it's too late.

I was gonna say, if that alone doesn't scare you and think about, Okay, let's get a handle on this at such an early age, blind... What about losing a limb? Cam.

Oh my gosh.

And you don't hear a baton... Yes, yes. You don't hear about it. That's what's so sad. Losing a limb, your toes or your leg or your feet... Please.

You talked about numbness. Would that be like the first signers?Ene.

Exactly, and you can have that very early on, I had a patient yesterday who's 63, he's not that overweight, maybe 240, and he goes, Oh gosh, I told him, I said, You're diabetic.

Oh my god, or can really hope is that being... I'm like, well, it can be... This is the facts. And it goes, well, you know, now you mentioned it, I didn't mention this to you before, but I do have kind of some tingling in my hands and feet, and I said, Well, there you go, you didn't pay attention to... You're not paying attention to the signs of your body now, if you say you cut yourself and it doesn't heal well, that's a sign that you have high blood sugar, then there's a test that we always check on diabetics, we check for protein in their urine that's evaluating their kidney function. Well, you know people on dialysis, right, why are they on dialysis 'cause they're diabetic, right. And there is no treatment for re-buying and restoring the kidneys, so you must keep them healthy now, you don't wanna wait until you hear dialysis or you need a kidney, I contrast because it's not easy because once you get a kidney transplant, Okay, you're taking all these drugs and all those medications predispose you to many, many other complications, so don't think you can just go get a kidney transplant and everything is gonna be fine.

No, it's not. And kidneys, there's no drugs to restore the function of the kidneys, so that's another thing, heart disease, you have high, higher heart disease and more complications with elevated blood sugar, dimension Alzheimer's you have because the high blood sugar damages the brain cells, so there isn't anything that's not affected with any organ or any body part, your liver is affected, so there are lots of short-term, long-term, serious, serious complications.

Let's talk a little bit about the breakdown of supplements for diabetes.

Well, the most important thing, just like I mentioned in the heart, when we talk about heart disease and prevention of heart disease, Cam is essential fatty acids, that's the most important thing, and let me explain to you one, 'cause I talked about how the blood flows, but how... Essential fatty acids help in diabetes and pre-diabetes, you have trillions of cells in your body, and the cells have a wall, they have a cell wall, and what happens is that cell wall is made up of essential fatty acids.

Well, if you don't have them, then you don't have a good sell long... Well, what happens when you don't have a good cell wall, all the little magical components of the cell are being damaged slowly but surely, also the hormone insulin that controls the blood sugar lands on the cell wall, which is the essential fatty assets. And if you don't have healthy essential fatty Asan insulin can't work, so you must take essential fatty acids, either in a fish or veteran, now, there's a lot of wonderful nutrients to help stabilize blood sugar, chromium and zinc, Venu, Greek, seamen, poi acid, these are all... And I would recommend that we find a product that has all of them, or you could simply start with essential fatty acids and chromium, you also need great vitamin D levels to maintain healthy blood sugar levels, so we have wonderful supplements that help maintain healthy blood sugar levels and we were talking about mother's market, are these all available at mother's market and are these also good for kids to be taking... I guess on a smaller level.

Yes, all these vitamins are well-known, well study, well-researched and are available at mother's market. Now, you talked about children. All my mother's asks, Should kids be on supplements... Absolutely, they absolutely need to be like if it's a baby, I give them liquid vitamins and essential fatty acids, minimally, those are the minimal things that a child should be on and should be on those regularly, just like an adult, but in a children's dosage. And then for adults, absolutely, you must do... Everybody needs to be on a good multivitamin with minerals, and as I've said, the essential fatty acids... Those are absolutely mandatory.

The other thing you talk about and how important it, no matter what health issue you're dealing with, but diabetes, exercise, yes.

Exercise is absolutely mandatory, and children are not getting it in the school system, either they have a partial program or no program.

Right, and then, like you said, a lot of them are now in front of a computer or a video game, the children need to get outside, enjoy the fruits of nature and also exercise their body, they can walk, they don't have to be... They can be in a program, they can do sports, which is absolutely wonderful, and I think all mothers and Daddy should encourage their children to be involved in this sport, but not every kid wants to do sports, but you can walk, you can walk, you can go bicycle you can walk on a treadmill, you can get a recumbent bike, you can... There's all kinds of ways to get exercise and incorporate exercise, and exercise is a phenomenal way to reduce the blood sugar levels and keep them stable, so exercise is absolutely essential for maintaining healthy blood sugar levels. Well, thank you so very much for your time, Dr. kaali, and we look forward to having you on again. But in the mean time, you can catch more of Dr. Canale on her radio show, healthy wealthy and wise on XM channel 170, or visit her online at perfectly healthy dot com and learn more about all of her wonderful things she's involved with. We look forward to our next show with the website for your special savings.

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