Dr. Diane Mueller explains how high blood sugar damages nerves through inflammation, causing numbness and tingling. Fasting insulin is a better early marker of blood-sugar problems than standard glucose tests. She recommends checking fasting insulin levels, targeting 5-12 μIU/mL, when investigating unexplained numbness.
Hey everybody. Dr. Diane, chronic illness expert here, talking today about blood sugar and numbness. Now these two things are very related. Part of the biggest thing with blood sugar and numbness and tingling is too much blood in your system for too long, meaning more like hyperglycemia or diabetes. Now just because you have not been diagnosed with diabetes does not mean you don't have blood sugar abnormalities. So if you have numbness and tingling, I definitely invite you to stick around for this whole video. Video. Also, this has been the numbness and tingling month. We're getting ready to wrap that up over the next week here. So make sure you go back and watch the videos from the past month where we talk about all different causes as well as solutions for numbness and tingling. So essentially what's happening with blood sugar is, that is when we have elevations of blood, of sugar in our blood, what can happen is that sugar can actually damage our nerves. It can go and it can create something called an advanced gland glycolated end product, which is essentially just the molecule that is a sugar derived molecule that can go and attack our cells and cause inflammation. One of the things that we've been talking about all month is a cause of inflammation or a cause of nerve like situations. Numbness, tingling and even pain can be due to neurological inflammation. So I mentioned that blood sugar is oftentimes not detected, meaning you might not have a diabetes diagnosis. You might be told you're totally fine. But here's the thing. Fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1C are the top two tests that most people are getting ordered when it comes to blood sugar. Fasting insulin, however, is not typically ordered and it is oftentimes an earlier marker of blood sugar abnormalities. And so you typically want a fasting insulin most of the time between about 5 and about 12 or 13. If it's higher than 12 or 13, then that's a sign that you sugar is not getting into your cells fast enough, that it's staying in your blood too long and could be leading to some of these problems. And many times we see fasting insulin change and go up before we see the subsequent blood sugar changes. So if you really want to figure out if this is a contributing factor, make sure to get that fasting insulin run and not just that fasting glucose and not just the hemoglobin A1C. So, so that's it for this video. Remember, we have masterclasses every month where we go through a wide variety of topics and you can join and ask me questions and we can put you in hot seats to figure out what's going on with you in April. Coming up, we're talking about the link between chronic illness and emotions. So we're talking about how to work with the nervous system and the emotional body. Chronic illness is, in fact, a trauma, and it can really lead to situations that are very similar in presentation as ptsd. So that's what we're going to be doing in April. I hope you'll join my next masterclass. Please do subscribe. Please do share this with your friends and family. Don't keep me a secret. It really helps me get the word out and helps more people just like you that need my help. All right, everybody, we'll see you in another video.
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