Diabetes – Managing Your Sugar

by drmays | Mar 23, 2024 | Diabetes, Nutrition, Weight Loss

DIABETES

and it’s, MANAGEMENT?

Every day, in the United States, more than 2000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed. Type II diabetes, the most prevalent form of diabetes worldwide, often shows few or even no symptoms!

After eating, food is broken down into what is known as glucose, a sugar carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Using a hormone known as insulin, made in the pancreas, cells process glucose into energy.

Because cells in the muscles, liver, and fat do not use insulin properly in the body of a person with type II diabetes, they have problems converting food into energy. Eventually, the pancreas cannot make enough insulin for the body’s needs. The amount of glucose in the body increases, and the cells are starved of energy.

BUT

the body needs SUGAR…

This starvation of the cells, paired with the high blood glucose level can damage nerves and blood vessels. This leads to complications such as kidney disease, nerve problems, blindness, and heart ailments.

There are a lot of factors that can help to attribute to diabetes cases – lifestyle, environment, heredity – and those who are at risk should be screened regularly to prevent diabetes. Those that are already diagnosed with diabetes should aim to keep their glucose level under control.

But how do you know if you have type II diabetes? After all, it has few symptoms, often no symptoms in some patients. However, if you notice an increased thirst or hunger, a change in weight, or blurred vision, getting tested for type II diabetes is necessary, as only your doctor will be able to help you find the treatment steps necessary to being able to manage your life with diabetes.

Simple changes such as eating right, managing your weight, and keeping your blood sugar level under control may be enough. However, you doctor may prescribe diabetes-regulating medications to assist you in controlling your type II diabetes.

Diabetes is a serious issue with severe consequences if it isn’t treated properly. But if you follow your doctor’s advice and maintain both your lifestyle and blood sugar levels, you can help to prevent the more serious consequences from occurring.

– Dr. Clifton Mays | Director

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Stress – What Is It Really?

by drmays | Mar 16, 2024 | Fitness, Hormones, Nutrition, Weight Loss

STRESS

what is it, REALLY?

In common use, the word “stress” covers a lot of ground. It carries at least three, closely related yet different meanings, depending on the context:

1. Stress sometimes means a collection of things that are happening in your life to throw you out of a “normal” state of balance or security. It constitutes those situations or conditions that pull you out of your physical, mental, and emotional comfort zones—or even threaten your survival. In formal language, these “things” are called “stressors.” Examples of stressors are worry, repetitive motions, fear in dangerous situations, job loss, strength training, the excitement of riding a roller coaster, getting a job promotion, or falling in love. Please note that the first four examples are what we usually think of as negative stress or “distress,” while the last four are normally considered to be positive stress, or “eustress.”

The important thing to remember is that when stressors touch our lives, the body cannot recognize the difference between distress and eustress. It responds in the same, automatic ways—as in #2

2. In common usage stress also means your body’s automatic reactions to your being pulled out of your physical, mental, and emotional comfort zones. This type of stress is the closest to your conscious awareness, and closest to the classical definition in Hans Seyle’s original book, Stress and Distress (Seyle was the founder of stress theory). This is the stress you can often feel. Here, your body is calling on its chemical and energy “reserves” to deal with both distress and eustress. These reactions are your body’s physiological protectors. If you have enough reserves, you’ll get along quite well. More details shortly.

AND

finally STRESS…

3. Finally, stress is sometimes taken to mean your body’s innate compensation for dealing with those situations where the reserves of #2 simply fall short. Here we’re talking about what happens to the body when the reserves of #2 are simply not enough, either because they have been depleted from earlier attempts at rebalance, or because the stress load is just to large to handle even for someone with good reserves. That’s why some call this condition overstress. Overstress can and does “build up” and lead to things such as insomnia, exhaustion, premature aging, weight gain, and many more conditions too numerous to mention. If unattended, stress buildup can seriously damage physical health, psychological well-being, and relationships with friends, family, and coworkers. When it builds enough, the result must be disease, infirmity, or even death.

In reality, death is the body’s final compensation for stress buildup. Stress has won, as it always does, because that’s nature’s way. But those with high wellness I.Q.s don’t throw in the towel early. They find that life is much too valuable to be spending years or even decades mired in illness or feeling poorly. And they know they have a choice through intelligent self-care.

So, to put these three shades of “stress” into perspective, it goes something like this: With meaning #1, you might say, “There’s a lot of stress at my workplace.” With meaning #2, “I feel stressed when I’m at work.” And with meaning #3, “I’m stressed from work and need to take a vacation so I can recuperate.” It’s good to notice these shades of common usage although they usually won’t cause too much confusion in conversation. People catch the drift.

You are the ultimate controller of how you deal with stress and it’s effects on your life. If you allow stress to become the focus – you will always have an uphill battle for control of your health and wellness. If you understand that you can control your RESPONSE to stress – you will be on your way to a healthier life.

– Dr. Clifton Mays | Director

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Benefits Of Paleo

by drmays | Feb 23, 2024 | Diabetes, Gluten, Nutrition, Weight Loss

Benefits Of Paleo

The Benefits

of a PALEO diet

The advantages of the Paleo Diet have been researched and proven in numerous academic journals. It is amazing how changing what we put in our mouths can cause dramatic changes in our quality of life.

Some of the benefits we can experience include.

LOSING FAT– Though the Paleo diet is designed as a weight loss plan people inherently lose weight. The foods that make up the Paleo diet are what we call fat burning foods. In fact, the Paleo diet allows you to eat large quantities of delicious food while restricting calories. The result is a lean, fit body.

FIGHTING DISEASE

– The Paleo diet is proven to help prevent diabetes, Parkinson’s avoid Parkinson’s, cancer, heart disease and strokes.

IMPROVES DIGESTION– Many digestive problems such as, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease and indigestion can be avoided.

COMBATS ACNE– Eating the Paleo way means avoiding the foods that cause acne. When sebum is overproduced or obstructed the sebaceous glands enlarge and form pimples. Foods in the Paleo diet do not cause the insulin spikes that cause a sebum boost. As a result, you can expect smoother, more attractive skin.

FEELING GOOD– Not only does the Paleo diet help people healthier and look younger it also makes you feel better. Paleo supporters swear by the caveman lifestyle because it just “feels” right. The only way to find out the energy and confidence they experience is to try it for yourself.

Diet Basics

People assume the Paleo Diet is complicated and is difficult to follow. On the contrary, it is actually quite simple. Eat real foods. For a guideline on portions, 56–65% of your calories should come from animals, 36–45% from plant based foods. Keep proteins high at 19-35% carbohydrates at 22-40% and fat at 28-58%

What

to EAT

Eating a Paleo Diet is more about experimenting than limitations. Mother Nature provides a large variety of delicious foods to explore. Instead of settling for a box of processed macaroni and cheese, feast on a meal that excites your taste buds and your energy level

So choose foods that fit in the basic profile of the diet, and enjoy. You can add animal and plant foods that are your favorites and still benefit from the “fat-burning” properties of Paleo. Eating should be enjoyable and if you enjoy what you consume – you’ll stick with it over the long term.

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FINAL THOUGHT

At Dr. Mays Wellness, we tailor our programs to fit you health needs. If you are wanting to learn more about the benefits of a Paleo Diet and how it fits in your health regime, give our office a call and we’ll set you up for a time to speak with our doctors and coaches.

– Dr. Clifton Mays | Director

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Gluten Free Food Preparation

by drmays | Dec 8, 2023 | Gluten, Weight Loss

Culinary endeavors typically involve navigating various dietary restrictions, among which has gotten increasing focus in the last few years: the requirement for a gluten-free diet regimen. Gluten, a protein common in flour items, sets off negative responses in a substantial section of the population. For these people, a gluten-free diet is not a choice, it is a vital requirement.

Totally Gluten free cooking does impose many limitations and often makes it quite tough to appreciate something the large bulk of us take for granted-dining out. The good news for those who need gluten free cooking is that an increasing number of restaurants are beginning to acknowledge this condition and provide some selections that are gluten-free. It takes time, just as it was with the low carbohydrate craze, for the demand for these items to make it worth the sectors while to make modifications in their way of preparing foods.

While on the one hand it is irritating to not have the alternative option of dining out, there are also some challenges to locating brand-new and delicious foods and mixes for cooking every single evening without falling under a rut of the usual foods that you recognize – you can eat without concern. Think about food preparation gluten free as a challenge as opposed to a job and you may find that the procedure is far more satisfying. You could even come to the conclusion, that you appreciate the meals you have actually striven to prepare more enjoyable because of the excellent feeling of accomplishment.

There are several sources of readily available foods for those who require to consume gluten free items. There are even more and more ‘convenience’ or prepackaged foods that are designated for gluten free cooking. This implies that those with the only choice of producing their meals from the ground up, do now have the occasional faster way offered to them. We are also enjoying the presence of cookie and cake blends that are currently gluten free in order to delight in the food stuffs that would have been entirely denied just a couple of short years ago.

Modifications are being made and resources are being shared through the Internet that assist not only adults that need unique gluten-free food preparation and diet regimens but additionally there are more and more options for the parents of youngsters that must have gluten “complimentary” diets. Cooking for youngsters in the very best of scenarios is usually difficult. It is even more challenging when there are too much dietary constraints that commonly eliminate the possibility of our kids appreciating youth faves. That is why it is so crucial to look for the many resources and recipes that are offered for totally gluten free cooking.

If you need a gluten cost-free diet plan and have no idea where to begin or what you ought to be cooking you ought to look into the many internet sites and blogs online that resolve the issues and requires that are encountered by those requiring gluten limitations. Another helpful resource is this site and our Dr. Mays Wellness programs. We’ve currated quite a library of dietary options. You will most likely be amazed at the wealth of details that is readily available. Likewise, if you have an Trader Joes or Whole Foods shop in your location, most of them either offer or will certainly locate gluten free items for your cooking needs.

Gluten complimentary cooking does not have to be the job that many of us think it could be and all gluten free food doesn’t taste like cardboard. Put in the time to be familiar with the terrific gluten free dishes that abound and incorporate them one at a time into your cooking arsenal. You will certainly be astonished at how fantastic you feel in addition to how wonderful the food tastes.

To learn more about options and how you can add this to your lifestyle – schedule a time to speak with our doctor and learn the options we have available to help you get on the road to an enjoyable healthy and possibly gluten free lifestyle!

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