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Diabetes Symptom Awareness

by drmays | May 30, 2024 | Diabetes, Fitness, Weight Loss

DIABETES

Symptom Awareness

When it comes to Diabetes, all too often we get sick but disregard the signs and symptoms we might be experiencing, shrugging them off as result of a cold, stress and anxiety from a job, or just not really feeling well.

There are certain symptoms that shouldn’t be ignored if they become apparent. These signs and symptoms might result in loss of sight, amputation of limbs, coma or even fatality.

Signs and symptoms of Type 1 diabetes usually come on unexpectedly and are significantly dramatic. The stresses of Type 1 diabetes can cause something called diabetic ketoacidosis..

Symptoms of ketoacidosis might consist of nausea or vomiting, which may likewise cause dehydration and severe issues with the blood concentrations of potassium. When the body’s potassium levels are out of range, it can bring about a diabetic coma and if left untreated can ultimately become fatal.

Various other symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes can consist of severe tiredness. Now understand that most of us can be tired at times, yet diabetes activates a more serious level exhaustion than just being tired. If you are experiencing periods of fatigue and you just don’t understand why, then it may be time to check your body’s blood sugar levels.

IS IT

my WEIGHT?

Individuals with diabetes might also run into unforeseen weight reduction. This occurs as a result of their lack of ability to metabolize a considerable section of the calories they ingest. The loss of sugar and water via urine can speed in the decline in weight.

Depending on the individual, this can also work in the reverse. Since the body is unable to process sugar correctly, the sugar remains in the bloodstream and the body ultimately converts it to long term storage, or basically – fat.

So if you are having issues with unexplained weight gain, or unusual weight loss, it’s important to have your labs evaluated to determine if processing sugar is part of the issue. Diabetes can manifest many long term health issues, so it’s important to get a handle on it early.

Extreme thirst is one more sign and symptom of diabetic issues. Diabetes develops high blood sugar levels and the body attempts to compensate by thinning down the blood, which equates to our bodies becoming dehydrated.

With this sugar increase, our body starts increasing urination. It is an additional means our bodies have of removing the additional sugar in our system. But this can likewise bring about dehydration.

Among the most distressing signs and symptoms that we see with long term diabetes issues is poor injury healing. Wounds heal slowly, if it all. With this delay in healing, there are times when people are more prone to long term injury and can be more prone to infection. If the person with diabetes expereinces infections that go either untreated or just take longer periods to heal, simple wounds can progress to abscess and can ultimately lead to loss of limbs

Processing suger in the body is extremely important, and when there are issues with how the body processes suger – you can have diabetes. Don’t wait until symptoms become out of control, a simple blood test can help you on the path to managing your Diabetes.

– Dr. Clifton Mays | Director

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ENERGY IN YOUR DIET

by drmays | May 3, 2024 | Chronic Fatigue, Diabetes, Fitness, Nutrition, Weight Loss

ENERGY

in your DIET

Understanding Energy In Your Diet

I have had this article for quite some time and thought it would be appropriate to add to the site: According to the energy balance equation, your body gains energy when you intake more energy through your diet than you expend through physical activity. That’s why the main point of most diets is to limit your energy intake through counting carbs or calories.

It seems like a few years ago all of the diets were about counting calories and now they’re all about limiting carbohydrates. But you should you limit carbs or calories? And, if they’re both units of energy what’s the difference? This article will discuss the difference between carbs and calories, how they impact your diet, and how or why you should watch them.

Calories Are Energy, Right? Yes.

To set the record straight, carbs and calories are not both units of energy. We’ll start with calories and talk about carbohydrates in a little bit.

Calories are the units of energy, not carbs. A single calorie is the amount of energy that it takes to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. This is a very small amount of energy, so when you read the nutrition label on your food, what they call “Calories” (with an upper-case C) is actually the number of kilocalories (that is, one thousand lower-case c calories). That doesn’t mean that the food companies are trying to lie to you and get you to eat more calories.

They do it because it would be tedious and useless to try to count actual lower-case c calories. Don’t worry about keeping track of whether we’re talking about calories or kilocalories in this article though. Because we’re talking about calories as a unit of energy, it doesn’t really matter which scale we’re talking about, as long as you understand what calories are and why they’re important.

Carbs Are Energy,

Right? NO!

As mentioned above, the carbohydrate is not a unit of energy like the calorie is. The carbohydrate is a class of nutrient, along with proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats are all called “energy-yielding nutrients” because the body can break them all down to release calories.

Of the energy yielding nutrients, proteins and carbohydrates both release one 4 calories per gram, while fat releases nine calories per gram.

So Why Are Carbs So Special?

You might be wondering, if fat contains more than twice the calories per gram, why do all of these diets have us watching carbs? And that’s a good question.

The first reason is that the average person has much more carbohydrates than fat in their diet. We tend to think of carbohydrates as coming from grains, like pastas and breads. These are sources of carbohydrates, but carbohydrates also come from sugars. Grains are a source of complex carbs, which your body breaks down over time. Sugars are a source of simple carbs that your body doesn’t have to break down.

Sugars are naturally occurring in sources like fruits, but they’re also added to just about everything. If you put a store-bought sauce on your pasta, you’re putting carbs on carbs.

If you put jam or jelly on your bread, you’re putting carbs on carbs. And don’t even get us started on sources like soda and junk food.

When you eat whole grains, you’re not just getting carbs. You’re getting fiber, vitamins and minerals. All of these nutrients can also be found in other foods that don’t have as many calories, like vegetables, which often have no carbs at all.

Fat, on the other hand is far scarcer in our diet and its benefits cannot be found elsewhere. We usually don’t think of fat as being good for us, but it’s in every cell of our bodies, and is very important to the nervous system. While some fats are better than others and you should be careful about how much you get of each kind, carbs are simply more expendable in our diets.

Hopefully, this article has helped you to understand the difference between carbs and calories, as well as why most diets these days have you counting carbs. Remember, however, that a balanced diet and plenty of exercise is better for you than a diet that tries to eliminate fats or carbs or calories and promises a quick solution.

– Dr. Clifton Mays | Director

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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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