about insulin

[Guest guest]

I am just thinking out loud here. Dr. Bernstein recommends not to take more

than 500mg of Vitamin C per day, because it interferes with getting correct

glucose levels when using a glucose monitor. What it is, taking more than

500mg of Vitamin C per day, actually does is cause the glucose reading to

be falsely elevated or higher than what your real glucose level really is.

The glucose molecule looks very much like the Vitamin C molecule, which

explains why the glucose monitor shows a higher glucose reading than is

actually there, when one supplements with higher doses of Vitamin C per day.

Of course humans are among the very few mammals that do not produce their

own Vitamin C, so humans must rely upon outside sources of Vitamin C in

order to boost their immune system.

I wonder what would happen if a person took high doses of Vitamin C per day

after one has established a basal level for several weeks or months of what

the glucose level is without taking Vitamin C. Of course one would expect

to have a higher glucose reading with a monitor, but will this cause an

actual drop in the amount of insulin required or not? Given a constant

carbohydrate gram comsumption per day, what is the least amount of insulin

required to make glucose available to the individual cells in the body to

function normally in humans?

Insulin converts excess glucose in the blood stream into fat, which is

stored in the body. This may mean that excess glucose requires excess

insulin. So, now I ponder this question, does Vitamin C supplementation in

high doses cause higher insulin production by the pancreas? If not, does

this mean that the body can recognize the difference between a Vitamin C

molecule and a glucose molecule?

These are just a few questions I would like to have answered. I love

science, and I wish I possessed the skills and knowledge to test the

questions I pose above. I love dooing research.

Vitamin C is made

directly

from glucose and actually has a similar structure; they compete for one

another.

It has been known for many decades that sugar depresses the immune system.

It was only in the 70s that they found out that vitamin C was needed by

white

blood cells so that they could phagocytize bacteria and viruses. White blood

cells require a fifty times higher concentration, at least inside the cell

as outside, so they have to accumulate vitamin C.

There is something called a phagocytic index, which tells you how rapidly a

particular macrophage or lymphocyte can gobble up a virus, bacteria or

cancer

cell. In the 70s Linus ing knew that white blood cells needed a high

dose of vitamin C and that is when he came up with his theory that you need

high

doses of vitamin C to combat the common cold.

But if we know that vitamin C and glucose have similar chemical structure,

what happens when sugar levels go up? They compete for one another upon

entering

the cells. And the thing that mediates the entry of vitamin C into the cells

is the same thing that mediates the entry of glucose into the cells. If

there

is more glucose around then less vitamin C will be allowed into the cell,

and it doesn't take much glucose to have this effect. A blood sugar value of

120 reduces the phagocytic index 75 percent.

Here we are getting a little bit further down into the roots of disease. It

doesn't matter what disease you are talking about, whether you are talking

about

a common cold or cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis or cancer, the root is

always going to be at the molecular and cellular level, and I will tell you

that insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not totally control it.

What is the purpose of insulin?

As I mentioned earlier, in some organisms it is to control their lifespan.

What is the purpose of insulin in humans? Your doctor will say that it's to

lower

blood sugar, but I will tell you right now that that is a trivial side

effect. Insulin's evolutionary purpose as is known right now, we are looking

at

other possibilities, is to store excess nutrients.

We come from a time of feast and famine when if we couldn't store the excess

energy during times of feasting, we would not be here because all of our

ancestors

encountered famine. We are only here because our ancestors were able to

store nutrients, which they were able to do because they were able to

elevate their

insulin in response to any elevation in energy that the organism

encountered.

When your body notices that sugar is elevated, it is a sign that you've got

more than you need; you're not burning it so it is accumulating in your

blood.

So insulin will be released to take that sugar and store it. How does it

store it? Glycogen?

Your body stores very little glycogen at any one time. All the glycogen

stored in your liver and muscle wouldn't last you through one active day.

Once you

fill up your glycogen stores that sugar is stored as saturated fat, 98

percent of which is palmitic acid.

So the idea of the medical profession recommending a high

complex-carbohydrate, low-saturated-fat diet is an absolute oxymoron. A

high-complex-carbohydrate

diet is nothing but a high-glucose diet, or a high-sugar diet. Your body is

just going to store it as saturated fat, and the body makes it into

saturated

fat quite readily.

Insulin's Other Roles

Insulin doesn't just store carbohydrates, by the way. Somebody mentioned

that it is an anabolic hormone, and it absolutely is. Body builders are

injecting

themselves with insulin because it builds muscle and stores protein.

Magnesium

A less known fact is that insulin also stores magnesium. But if your cells

become resistant to insulin, you can't store magnesium so you lose it

through

urination.