Learning how to control blood sugar naturally has more to do with controlling the stress response. Food choices that are made, including the quantity and quality of the food eaten do influence blood sugar levels. But, blood sugar is repeatedly, continually, released for a bunch of other reasons.
That is, the stress you encounter on a daily basis, impacts your adrenal glands. In turn, one of the main functions of the adrenal glands is to increase glucose in the bloodstream.
Therefore, controlling your blood sugar levels comes down to learning how to control stress, and it’s impact on your body. Because increased stress will result in an increased blood sugar release.
What makes learning how to control blood sugar so difficult is the variety of stressors that impact the body. Physical stress, mental, and emotional stressors are all stressors on your body, that also impact your blood sugar levels.
Even stressors like infections, emf/wifi stress, and chemical stress. Or cognitive stress, like what you think and do, impact blood sugar levels as well.
The stress you experience, over and over again, can really become overwhelming. Causing the body’s stress response, the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis to repeatedly fire.
When it does, cortisol release causes glucose to be broken down and used for energy.
Increasing your blood sugar levels. Over time, with repeated daily stressors, you can quickly lose control of your fasting glucose. Climbing up, ever so slowly.
This is what’s known as “metabolic syndrome”. A climbing epidemic that can quickly become a tsunami, if we don’t start solving the problems ASAP.
That’s why it’s essential to learn how stress impacts your blood sugar levels if you have any hope on controlling your blood sugar levels naturally.
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