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GABA, toxins, hormones, autoimmunity – encore of The Diabetes Summit

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Brain Mowll is host of the 4th season of the Diabetes Summit and here are all the speakers and topics in the encore replay line-up (including yours truly).

TRUDY SCOTT, CN: Understanding Anxiety: The Connection to Diabetes

  • Learn about the link between diabetes, anxiety, and depression
  • Understanding the root imbalances underlying anxiety
  • Natural solutions and supplemental support for anxiety 

We may need to look at low serotonin as well because we’ve got two kinds of anxiety when it comes to neurotransmitters, the low GABA, which is the physical anxiety, and the low serotonin, which is more the ruminating thoughts, the worry in the head, the reprocessing, the negative self-talk. So we often have low GABA, and we often have low serotonin as well. And both of those have a corresponding amino acid that helps to raise it. With low GABA we use GABA. With low serotonin we use tryptophan or 5-HTP. And we’re going talk about that one in a second. But the interesting thing is I was really excited to see that there’s some really new research on how GABA has some pretty promising benefits in terms of diabetes support as well.

Read some additional snippets from my interview: Diabetes, anxiety and GABA

 

RAZI BERRY: Using Naturopathic Principles to Prevent Diabetes

  • Learning from Razi’s health experience and journey
  • How toxins in our environment can disrupt metabolism
  • Natural solutions to improve blood sugar and overall health

Read some snippets from her interview here: Anxiety, phenibut, toxins and cold showers for detoxification

 

ANNA CABECA, DO: Creating Hormone Balance to Optimize Metabolic Health

  • The keys to balancing hormones to burn fat and control sugar
  • Understanding the connection between menopause and metabolism
  • How to optimize hormone levels

Dr Cabeca shares this about the ketogenic diet (for women), going keto-crazy and being like a witch when eating too low-carb:

…if you’re working on a ketogenic diet and lifestyle, check to see your urine. And you’re most likely acidic. But now, get that pH up into an alkaline range, and you’ll see your neurotransmitters will balance. You’ll feel calmer. You’ll sleep better. You’ll start to melt fat away which is huge. And that made all the difference in the world, combing those two.

Read some additional snippets from her interview: Menopause: insulin, cortisol, and oxytocin (an interview with Dr. Anna Cabeca)

 

TOM O’BRYAN: Autoimmune Disease and the Connection To Diabetes

  • Understanding what drives autoimmune disease
  • Exploring various toxins that inundate our lives
  • How to balance the immune response to allow proper healing

 

SAYER JI: What the Evidence Reveals About Reversing Diabetes

  • What the peer reviewed, medical literature shows
  • The best natural strategies to reverse diabetes
  • The role of supplements and helpful nutrients

 

BJ HARDICK: Sugar, Detox, and The Brain: Natural Strategies For Healing

  • Understanding damaging foods and how to remove them
  • How to properly structure a detoxification program
  • Type 3 diabetes and how dysglycemia effects the brain

 

SACHIN PATEL: A New Model for Medicine, Diabetes, and Blood Sugar Health

  • Re-evaluating the healthcare model and redefining our roles
  • How to be empowered to control your health as a patient
  • A new model for caring for the body and optimizing health

This aspect of why we eat is seldom addressed and it’s profound:

When you are living a life that is on purpose – that requires you to be eating healthy because you’re going to do whatever it takes to eliminate things that are going to impact that purpose.

I also love the analogy of the right fuel in the car but driving in the wrong direction (like hating your job or not having a purpose):

When you are living a life that is on purpose – that requires you to be eating healthy because you’re going to do whatever it takes to eliminate things that are going to impact that purpose

 

NIKI GRATRIX: The Mind-Body Connection to Metabolic Health

  • How to tap into your internal abundance of energy
  • Understand ACE (adverse childhood events) score and how childhood events impact health
  • Natural techniques and strategies to let go of limits

 

PETER OSBORNE: The Autoimmune Connection to Blood Sugar and Diabetes

  • The connection between autoimmune and blood sugar
  • How to test and treat autoimmune disease effectively
  • Natural solutions to reduce inflammation and heal the body

 

MICHAEL MURRAY, ND: The Four Types of Blood Sugar Problems in Diabetes

  • Understanding a natural medicine approach to diabetes
  • Dr. Murray’s four types of blood sugar problems
  • Natural strategies to address the specific blood sugar issues

 

JOEL KAHN, MD: A Plant-Based Approach to Heart Health and Blood Sugar Health 

  • Sorting through the confusion about dietary strategies
  • Understanding the importance of plant-based foods
  • Key nutrients and supplements for heart health

I’d like to add that while I respect Dr. Kahn’s cardiology diet expertise, I am an advocate of quality animal protein and have found that many people with anxiety and depression typically don’t do very well on a vegan diet. His discussion was professional and very respectful and I do wholeheartedly agree with this:

I think whether grass fed beef, free range, omega 3 rich eggs are healthy or not, and that’s probably not possible to solve that question completely, the data’s here, there, or frankly there’s not enough data, just always add these organic brightly colored fruits and vegetables to whatever you’re eating

He also acknowledged Dr. Hyman’s coining of the term, the Pegan diet, which combines the best of a Paleo and vegan diet saying

It’s a useful term. It’s another way to say eat a very clean, very vegetable rich diet with a little wiggle room [i.e. the addition of quality animal protein]

We really do need a study comparing a real foods diet with feedlot meat and farmed fish – with a real foods diet with grass-fed meat and wild fish!

Here is the link to register for the Diabetes Summit if this is the first you’re hearing about it. You can still sign up to listen!

Enjoy these encore day replays!

Anxiety, phenibut, toxins and cold showers for detoxification

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Anxiety, phenibut, toxins, cold showers for detox and more. All of this and more is being covered on the upcoming online Diabetes Summit.

Starting Monday March 20th

I’m really pleased to be a speaker on this summit this year. I cover the anxiety diabetes connection. Anxiety is very common in diabetes – some research shows it’s as high as 25%, and women with diabetes are twice as likely to be affected with anxiety and depression. I also cover how and how GABA helps reduce physical anxiety AND how new research shows GABA is also a promising treatment for diabetes!

Dr. Mowll asked me about using phenibut instead of GABA:

I’ve seen a number of papers that talk about tolerance. I’ve talked to practitioners who’ve said they’ll rotate. They’ll have people be on Phenibut for five days, two days off. And I’ve seen some really scary drug forums where people are using Phenibut as a sort of mood enhancing and performance enhancing drug. They are using very high doses and there are protocols on how to safely taper off Phenibut.

So when I see things like that it concerns me. I’ve had a handful of people, who’ve had some pretty bad side effects from Phenibut. So with someone who’s going through anxiety I just don’t want to add anything else into the mix that may cause problems.

The concern is it does seem to work really well for anxiety and sleep, so that’s why I think a lot of practitioners are drawn to using it. And it may be that they’re not recommending the GABA/ Gamma Amino Butyric Acid sublingually. And they may not be doing a trial to find the optimal dose [so that’s why they are not seeing the results they’d hope to see]. So I would steer clear of phenibut.

We also cover the following (all relevant if you have diabetes AND if you don’t have diabetes):

  • doing a GABA trial and the blood brain barrier controversy
  • benzodiazepine tapers and nutritional support during a taper
  • rooibos tea for metabolic support and adrenal health

On day 2 of the summit, Razi Berry shares this about the toxins in our environment and the impacts they have on our health:

Out of the 80,000 chemicals that we have in our world, we have barely studied any of them. A couple presidents ago, the Environment Protection Agency was supposed to study the first 300 of these 80,000 chemicals. And so far they’ve only studied one, which is BPA. And BPA is all around us

She had to get rid of the toxins in her environment to help her fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

I had to stop using the body sprays that I love from Bath and Body, and the perfumes

I got rid of everything fragrant. And I didn’t use essential oils at first either because you still want to use them judiciously and in the right way. So I switched to everything unscented. And I found a lot about beeswax candles. Beeswax candles are so not only beautiful, and they have this honey like scent to them, but they actually neutralize odors and toxins in the air. They don’t just cover it up. So you actually can clean the air by burning beeswax candles. For centuries churches could not burn tallow or paraffin. They could only burn beeswax.

She covers tons of other everyday toxins we are exposed to and how we can safely avoid them. And then importantly, how we can detoxify from these toxins. One approach she covers is hot and cold showers or hydrotherapy (very powerful and very easy to do at home):

Hydrotherapy is a really old technique. It became really popular in the last turn of the century, the late 1800s, early 1900s. And it’s this use of water and/or temperature to help prime your body to get rid of toxins.

So one of the ways that you can do hydrotherapy at home is through what’s called a constitutional hydrotherapy shower. And it’s basically taking a hot and cold shower where you alternate. You start with the water as hot as you possibly can handle it. And you do that for like 12 seconds. Then you turn it to as cold as you can take it.

And the first switch from hot to cold is the most important because it really creates this pump in your lymphatic system, the hot, cold, hot, cold, and really helps to move toxins through your body so it can be eliminated by your kidneys, by your liver, through your respiration.

As you can see there’s plenty to learn from these experts!

Here are just a few of the topics being covered (general topics and applicable if you have diabetes):

  • How food allergens can trigger blood sugar problems, and how to detoxify the body safely
  • Understanding the stress continuum and how children trauma, adverse life events, and daily stressors can lead to diabetes (all of this is applicable to any health condition)
  • Natural strategies to balance blood sugar including new supplement recommendations, essential oils, and using food as medicine
  • Breaking down various eating strategies including the ketogenic diet (vegan diets and raw food diets are also addressed but I must add that I don’t endorse this way of eating if you do have anxiety)
  • Menopause and blood sugar issues (insulin, cortisol and oxytocin)
  • How to get your sleep right to balance insulin and blood sugar

And some topics taking a deeper diver into very specific diabetes areas (if you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes):

  • Developing a deeper understanding of peripheral neuropathy – how to test for it and how to treat it, naturally and effectively
  • Important strategies for those dealing with type 1 diabetes in themselves or a child 
  • Autoimmunity and diabetes

I hope you’ll join us to learn from these experts on the online Diabetes Summit.  My friend and diabetes expert, Dr. Brian Mowll, is hosting this life-changing event for the fourth year, and this year’s event looks amazing.

You can register for this online event here.

Feel free to ask questions in the comments below.